I was a curious kid and can do this for a long time. I found out later that this is an established yoga technique called “Khechari Mudra”.

There is even a Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khecarī_mudrā

I can get my tongue inside my nose from the inside. Helps cleaning out the nose and nasal passages.

Blocked most furry and trans communities. I’m not against it, not into it and its overrepresented here for obvious reasons.

Hier fehlt das Wort Neuwagen.

This. Did a seminar on these techniques during my it security degree. Porn sites invented that to detect people that use competing sites.

Same boat buddy. Same boat.

An interesting addendum to your question: this is not a exclusively US based phenomenon. In Germany there are the Reichsbürgers they have similar ideas.

They think legally the state has no claim to rule and most people just don’t know they still live in the German Reich still.

So they have their own king selling them passports and they have pretty aggressive group think to try and enforce their claims.

My wife’s dad is one of them. The main thing I recognize comes from a pathological need to know better than everybody else. It’s very tightly coupled to their sense of worth and identity. They are better than everybody else because they have seen the light.

Pretty culty behavior and just enough pseudo truth to keep simple minds saying “yeah there might be something there”. Like “vaccination causes autism, they just don’t want you to know”.

Makes a loser in societies eyes, but a superhuman in their eyes. And yes, they still run into a wall and just keep trying to adjust their angle to hit that sacred sweet spot. Because now they need to prove how they are better and as they already have sacrificed so much they can’t be wrong to continue. (Just like a gambler who already lost a lot.)

So it’s a few psychological dynamics that grip into each other like gears and that ratchet them ever so tightly to their belief until there is no turning back.

Write them a letter, make sure they get it. Tell them you wait until they are ready and old enough to meet you without their mother’s approval. Also talk to the mom, offer to watch the kids sometimes, in my experience moms love “time off”.

I have that exact scenario looming over me at the moment. I’m very scared of losing my bio children (3) over my mentally unstable partner choosing the alcoholic best friend over living with me. She has already refused any touch for more than a year. the only one hugging me are the little ones and I don’t know who i am without taking care of them anymore. Had a bad panic attack for the first time in my live.

I wish you all the best.

Funnily enough I have written a system to do exactly that as a bachelor’s theses for IT security.

Places client certificates and a client inside the initrd and requests securely the key to unlock.

The sever waits for you to approve the request before providing the key. The key is only held in memory during boot.

I had a version that included for a hidden key provider and planned for a version that included time based auto unlocks etc.

I was planning to package that and release it as open source.

Still might do that.

Thats pretty solid, thanks :)

Already throwing him under the bus I see. That was as quickly as expected.

Not yet. Any specific benefits come to mind?

Each year they reduce the max payable amount in cash. They are on their way to inscribe a right to pay with card as we speak and each ATM tracks the serial number of every paper money piece it gives you. Whats delusional about that?

Same here, but it’s probably an eroded feeling is safety due to relationship troubles with kids.

They are coming for cash next. Just wait

Organic maps imports all business locations from google maps Afaik. Just import your own kml file to drop the pins. Even supports multiple different location markers. Live position tracking included and navigation if you ever want to return. No self hosting required at all.

Davx5 for sync of calendar, contacts, tasks. Aurora store instead of google play. Freeotp+ for dual factor authentication. Signal for secure communication Gadget bridge for privacy preserving workouts.

This is not illegal in the EU. There are no patents on plants in the EU.

This world does not deserve me. Be better kids.

Sometimes that’s regional. Are you located in Bavaria? I don’t know any German man that use makeup at all.