I didn’t say anything about gender, and I agree with everything in your comment. In addition, I maintain that the original post’s divide-and-conquer victim-blaming is one of the worst possible takes on the fact that accessing mental health care (in the US) is harder than performing esoteric medieval alchemy.

https://obscurebattles.blogspot.com/ - detailed descriptions of historical battles. @PugJesus@lemmy.world you might find that interesting. The guy does it for miniatures wargaming, but he’s former Navy Intel and he seems to know how to put together a brief.

All right, either:

• try to decide what kind of therapist is needed (difficult)
• figure out what kind of therapy/therapists are covered by insurance (time-consuming and stressful, sometimes impossible)
• provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
• look through a list of relevant therapists nearby (usually easy)
• try to identify one that you might relate to or at least be able to deal with (very difficult, sometimes impossible)
• call them up one at a time to see if they’re really accepting new patients (time-consuming and stressful)
• try to find a regular time that works in your schedule for the new therapist and for other obligations (difficult)
• again provide a bunch of private information (time-consuming, difficult, and stressful)
• go meet with the therapist. try to get along with them because if you don’t it’s your fault and you have to start all over (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)
• do all this while dealing with whatever problem you need therapy for (difficulty varies, sometimes impossible)

Or:

• access Paracelsus: https://paracelsus-project.org/ (easy)
• translate: https://translate.google.com/ (easy)
• distill potions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrrbGRIOhCw (easy)

I know the wording’s a meme, but the hell with whoever made the original post. Fuckem.

If you have male genitalia, at least wear a kynodesmē (NSFW educational link) to stop your junk from flapping.

Those were albino iirc.

Yeah you can almost see the real story screaming out in despair between the lines. Some soulless drone working for electrical company got called out to fix a power line, and on the way they saw a block party going on. They think: wouldn’t it be awesome to join that party instead of having to work. But no they go to work and it takes forever and when they finally figure it out, it was just one loose cable. On the drive back they keep dreaming about that block party.

FYI Sinclair Lewis was being satirical when he wrote that, in Elmer Gantry.

Still trying to wrap my head around how a partial ordering plays out here. I think it’s fair to say that for any such nonempty spectrum, there exists at least one person about whom it can be said: “nobody is gayer than they are.” Right? (even if 1 or more people are equally gay…)

https://www.gattidiroma.net/web/en/

It’s in the southern end of the square, there should be a sign and some steps down, looks like it’s open noon-4:30. When I was there in 2019 there were a couple of rooms full of cats being sheltered for various reasons and you could go hang out with them, dunno about now.

There’s also a cat shelter in the Non-catholic Cemetery (where Keats, Shelley, and Gramsci are buried) by the Pyramid of Cestius but that one wasn’t open to the public last I saw. Usually cats wandering in the cemetery tho.

Good for him, but this is pretty much an Orphan-Crushing Machine moment.

I read this meme then went back to sleep, and had a dream that I was freeloading at Cicero’s swimming pool while he wasn’t around and I woke up when I heard his wife Terentia coming home.

(yeah I know Cicero wasn’t involved in the assassination and I dunno if he had a swimming pool but I just had to tell someone.)

There’s also a cat shelter in the excavated area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largo_di_Torre_Argentina

It’s an interesting case… the dryer image looks AI-generated (bc of the weird controls at the top) and the little hamster-outfit also looks generated (bc of the belt ornament) but it looks like several elements were manually edited together:

• the hamster
• the hamster-outfit
• the green outfit in the dryer
• the dryer image

Note the lighting differences in the hamster-outfit and in the green outfit.

CAVEAT: I’m not familiar with the latest AI-generation tools, maybe this is just what it looks like now. Also, I’m not defending this “nurungi hamster” person, they coulda just taken a picture of a dryer.

paid maternity leave

Let me guess… you’re from Europe…

In addition to his native English, he is also fluent in Spanish, Italian, French, and Portuguese, and can read Latin and German.[86]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_XIV

I’m not a huge fan of the Catholic church, but this cartoon is just stupid. The man lived in Peru for over 10 years and is a dual US/Peruvian citizen.

Dunno about the rest of PA, but Pittsburgh’s no walk in the park either.

The equation produced a large number of speedraptors, but only the velociraptors survived over evolutionary time, because the non-velocity-aware speedraptors kept chasing their prey in the wrong direction.

lol fam’s got other stuff to do no doubt. I’m just glad they post as much as they do.

True lore: in one episode, Toby says that he was actually training to be a priest, but he gave it up to hook up with a woman. (who later left him and is now his ex.) Then he just took the first job that he saw. …almost as if he was guided to it by a higher power?

So canonically Toby is in a living hell because he rejected his god to indulge his fornicatory lust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September