I’m someone who builds up earwax easily, leading to infections.

For the last decade, I’ve been regularly scraping it out with metal spoons. I’m even used to accidentally tapping my ear drum.

Last time I was at my doctors he commented (to the intern in training) that my ear canals are well sloped and naturally clean themselves, and I corrected him. Glad to know he didn’t observe damage I’ve been causing.

A terrible publication and source.

Love a vague headline that tells me nothing about how to think.

Edit: I meant but about how to think, oh well.

Fascists always eat each other.

I don’t know the why but the first thing I said when I found out was “Polonium”.

When I was in my mid 30s, a cute young 24 year old online started hitting on me.

Turned out she had three kids with three different dads and the most recent one was in jail for domestic abuse.

I still almost went for it though. Problem is my life was in the shitter and couldn’t even afford to fly down or for her up to see me.

We were ‘together’ for about six months when I wised up and broke it off.

Probably a lottery where the winner was predetermined.

Daylast, primarily to screw up that stupid “Day ending in a y” joke.

Even on reddit I’d get replies to years old comments. I remember one user watching Breaking Bad and reading the old response threads and engaging with me from there.

I don’t mind at all, especially as I’m trying to be uplifting with my comments.

I’m talking about Lemmy bots in general, on any instances.

I view all and have to block bots fairly often as they’re posting things in languages I can’t read in large amounts.

I think they’re supposed to use language tags and are not, but I just block them because of there being a large amount of unhelpful content.

And let’s be honest, there’s always gonna be a ton of that, hence my filtering. But if the people making bots to post content could make sure the posts are properly marked, I wouldn’t need to block them and would continue to see the content they post that I can read.

None of them do their language settings well.

My point was more that some people did the right thing, not that it’s enough to eliminate a statistical slump.

Some people of the time would think the Chinese were heartless people to do what they did, and some quietly raised their other children, that’s all.

And if even that isn’t true, so be it, as I could have fallen for propaganda and cannot locate the original source, but here is another showing that some people didn’t just fall in line.

While that definitely happened, the thankful reality is that many families raised their daughters unofficially.

Yeah, sorry about that. I work for an insurance company, but not for much longer. (Not that I ever made that worse for you, I am/was in collections.)

Hey, congrats!

That had to have been a huge relief, finally getting the transplant you needed.

I’m seething, but that isn’t all that useful, I need to find a more productive way to be.

Hopefully we will get there. But we have to build before we can break down.

If that victory is won, and I do believe it can be, then we can rebuild better than before.

With climate change and everything else we face, can we realistically pull through? Fuck if I know, but this is literally the fight of our lives and futures. We have to unite, no matter how angry we are at various leftist factions.

Me? I assumed women would unify for their right to bodily autonomy. Since they didn’t I don’t dismiss them but hope to bring them into the fold, because they’re needed and do not want to live as Handmaids, for one example.

Okay, fair. But we need to be allies in this. I don’t know where to start either but I want us to pull out of it somehow.

Help build us up, please, and not tear us down. I apologize for discounting you. We can only move forward if we unify, and the left is goddamned bad at that.

There’s no useful discussion to be had from you. You’re just looking for a fight.

I’m tired of reddit refugees coming here and bringing that attitude.

I’m an American who has never had that bravado, has always voted against this bullshit, and even online we get spat upon when we are the ones who will somehow have to overcome the largest military on the planet.

Fucking hell, try being, I dunno, useful or supportive. If we fail here, you’ll face the consequences. That’s the sad reality.

The Christian Science Monitor is amazing, and from it’s name you’d never expect it.

My grandmother was a Christian Scientist. I respect her but it’s a baffling cultish offshot.

Its basis, though, was in radiacal feminism in the late 1800s. I used to read the Christian Science Monitor when we would visit her when I was a kid.

A large part of why I defaulted to atheism is from the fact that my Dad’s parents were never openly religious, my Dad is a Buddhist, my mom was nominally Christian, her mom we already discussed, and her Dad was a Congregationalist Minister and organ player.

I figured none of them could be right and it was better to try to be a good person without those structures.

Grandma and I never saw eye to eye, unfortunately.

Shit like this fuels the deep state nonsense.

This isn’t a secret Supreme Court, it’s just something public that you didn’t know about before.

They’re just public administrators. It’s how government works.