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@uniporn ah if only that were the logic! sadly i think i this case, it's more like... "we always fix the problems men are having first. but ladies can get the leftovers. sometimes. maybe. if it's convenient!" OTL

@uniporn honestly one would think both would hurt, but i have heard the styptic is "well if you thought he was yelling about being shot before, he IS going to scream REAL LOUD NOW" level ouchy.

i personally hope i never need to know!

unless the styptic they're using is cocaine, in which case, that is fine. (because that is the medical use of cocaine still: ...to stop really bad nosebleeds.) (make your own joke there)

@uniporn something like this still exists in its original purpose in the US army but also if i'm remembering right usually contains a powder that acts as a styptic to immediately help arrest bleeding, but also hurts like fuck and is thus really only used in "OK SOLDIER IT'S EITHER THIS OR BLEEDING OUT GOOD LUCK" type situations!

tampons: Good At Catchin' Blood Wherever You Stick 'Em

@uniporn fun fact if i'm remembering my medical trivia, this is exactly how tampons were in fact invented! they were originally debuted as compact packing for gunshot wounds, but then the red cross nurses in the battlefield hospitals found them seriously handy as well, and ta da there you go! (fortunately they quickly developed the applicator which is nice, lol)

serious business:

"bottoms can't handle spicy food, only tops" wildly inaccurate

ppl who like spicy foods are in fact *all* bottoms because they enjoy their food domming them by causing them pain

this is 100% true.

[fade in, inside of a catholic confession booth]

priest: yes, my child?

me: well, this is my first time here, i'm not sure how this goes...

priest: do not worry, you are free to speak here, go ahead -

me: ok great! i was wondering if i could get this call upgraded to a supervisor, i have some concerns

priest: um

me: i really need to speak to engineering because this 'rotator cuff' feature is entirely too complicated, and this unit sold to me violated Connecticut's 'lemon law' as per -

anyway on a more of a #fibro #spoonie note:

where can i submit a complaint to the design department. shoulders are full of too many little fucking muscles that like to cramp up.

where do i tell the engineering team that this rotator cuff thing needs a serious streamlining

@highsaffron it really is tiring!!! honestly i only really know about this cycle because i did it for so many years - and have my moments of doing it still where i gotta check in on myself.

and holy shit, being angry all the time is exhausting. and it can really wreck your body, too. but i'm biased there with the fibro, i admit, because tensing up muscles out of irritation can become a nonstop pain bonanza pretty quick in my case LOL

but, you'll still have that habit: "i feel bad, i have to go be angry at someone to feel better".

and when everyone else leaves you, guess who is going to be the only one you'll have handy to be mad at? yep, it's you.

you end up handing self-loathing and self-hatred an all you can eat protein shake buffet to become bigger and tougher and ready to pummel the absolute ever-loving hell of you.

and, well, that's not a good coping strategy, if that's what it ends up doing, right?

more immediately, if you use getting angry as a coping strategy, it's one that's almost always going to end badly. if getting angry at something is your comfort food, you're reinforcing those habits of "i feel bad, i have to go be angry at someone to feel better". eventually that takes over your mode of communicating with most people. and your friends will wander off, because they want to be friends with you, not punching bags you unload on.

what i mean when i say 'anger is addictive' is more like 'anger can become a bad coping strategy'. being righteously angry feels good. it feels very good to reaffirm your beliefs and fight for them and to stand up for a cause.

however that anger and fire needs to be directed and used appropriately. if you have it take over your entire life, you're going to end up screwing yourself. i'm not saying all anger is bad - anger is good and useful - but you gotta be careful with it.

@highsaffron i don't know what the fuck kinda shit is going down, but this is a good take.

also, anger is addictive. you can very easily get into a spiral of just being angry all the time, and not actually doing anything useful or worthwhile with that anger, while still giving yourself all the negative effects. anger is useful, but it is like fire - it belongs in a carefully tended furnace or on a candle, not raging to take over your entire house.

dear pec minor:

could you please not do the thing you are doing

y'know, 'rolling in the deep' isn't a complete improvement, but it's better than 'mm whatcha say'

except it was like a rap remix of said mmm whatcha say which heightened the absurdity here significantly

THIS IS EXTREMELY OMINOUS, PRAY FOR THIS WIGGLYTUFF 2K19

ON HOLD WITH THIS STUDENT LOAN PROVIDER AND THEY'RE PLAYING 'MMM WHATCHA SAY'

however i feel it is the very nature of bullies that as soon as they get the smallest dose of their own medicine, or even any pushback, they immediately throw the largest and most tearful tantrum they possibly can.

if your annual income is in the double digit millions, you don't get to cry about being oppressed by big corporations and about how the megacorps should tangle with someone their own size. your competition IS picking on someone their own size - YOU.

honestly, the entire odious nature of pewdiepie aside (this is a very big aside, i am sorry), that whole thing makes me roll my eyes very hard.

when you are raking in several *billion* dollars a year, you are no longer a small-time one-man creator. yeah, we should be aware of how corporations can steamroll and drown out small creators. but if you're posting an annual income of 15 million, YOU AIN'T SMALL.

the situation may still be david and goliath, but pewds ain't david lmao.

does reporting someone's artwork shown to all on splatoon2 reading "sub to pewdiepie" as advertising count for my good deed for the day?

i'm going to say yes.