Yeah no shit - for half of our voters, those things are all selling points. If we run a man who’s an absolute piece of shit against a woman who’s less so, but still very much a piece of shit, the man will win every time. As I said, sexism is definitely a factor.

If we run a man who’s an absolute piece of shit against a woman who isn’t a piece of shit… who fuckin knows: we haven’t tried that. But Harris’s odds seemed pretty solid until she started publicly supporting Israel’s genocide on Gaza: so she lost a hefty chunk of support from the half of voters who are turned off by evil behavior; meanwhile the bigot’s popularity with bigoted voters remained unsurprisingly steady.

SNAP.

…but for real, fortified short-grain rice, and dried beans are probably single best bang-for-buck you’re gonna find. Mix in whatever’s on the clearance wrack or provided by things like food pantries, and you should have no issues keeping yourself fed. Won’t always be good, but it’ll be dirt cheap.

He should put on the same suite, use the same tone and pose, set against the same background as his the “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” footage.

But say “I did not have have sexual relations with that man.”

Then just let the internet do its thing.

Well, so far the women we’ve run are 1) one of the most hated politicians of all time, and 2) a cop who repeatedly stated her support for genocide.

So… idk if ‘women’ is the issue here. Maybe we should try running one that doesn’t come with decades of baggage / isn’t an overtly horrible person?

I mean, sexism is definitely a factor, but one that has thus far only become insurmountable in combination with a mountain other barriers.

those over-the-counter don’t really do anything for me.

Have you tried the rubber kind? I used a pair of these for a while and they worked great - I also had issues with most earplugs - those foam ones tend to fall out or just sit in a weird position so that sound still gets in.

The tether can be removed from the linked ones - you won’t need it, especially if it’s just for sleep.

They have a little port you can open that will let some sound in, so you can dampen noise but still hear things like an alarm clock.

…speaking of, sleeping through the alarm did happen a couple times. I ended up cobbling together a custom alarm clock with a wall outlet timer and an obnoxiously bright outdoor floodlight aimed right at my head. When it came time to wake up, I’d get blasted with light - 100% effective, no sound needed. …not the most peaceful way to wake up though, lol. Nowadays you can get ‘sunrise alarm clocks’ that do basically the same thing, but with actual gradient transitions in frequency and intensity, so you get complete darkness that phases into that red/orange sunrise color, then continues to phase to full strength white light. I kinda like the 0 to 100 route to instantly jolt me awake, but there are lots of options.

Probably no catheter if it was an orchi - they do those for longer surgeries (current hospital’s policy is expected duration of 3+ hours - dunno if that’s universal) and orchies typically don’t go that long, nor would they need a urethral landmark.

…I think my bladder tissue irritation hypothesis was probably not correct.

Will do!

I hate that we do this, self included: I have an orange shirt that I really liked before Trump started fucking our country up, but now the color orange just feels icky. Same with a scrub cap I used to wear at work pretty often: bright red with white outlines of tropical flowers (think Hawaiian shirt)… coworker mentioned it looked kind of like a MAGA hat, and it’s been stuffed in the corner of my locker ever since - every time I catch a glimpse of that thing, all I see is a hate symbol now.

Maggi seasoning:

The flavor is a little bit like soy sauce, but it has ‘umami’ taste too.

It’s pretty unique, but fucking delicious in things like banh mi sandwiches or stir fry.

A tiny little bit goes a long way - don’t overdo it!

The best way I can describe what the pain feels like right now is when you need to piss like really crazy bad. (I don’t actually have to piss though.)

That sounds like residual sensation from a Foley catheter - basically a straw that runs up your urethra and into your bladder. Once in place, the end of it’s inflated inside your bladder so it doesn’t pull back out, but that balloon puts pressure on the base of your bladder, and that’s how your brain normally knows it’s full of pee.

So, if the Foley was in place for a long surgery, that part of your bladder might have been super irritated - very common when people wake from surgery for them to feel like they urgently have to pee but the Foley was removed just before wake-up or still in place and actively draining their bladder (so we know the bladder is nearly empty either way).

I’ve never been in that type of surgery, so idk if they would have even used a Foley, but if yes, that’s likely the culprit. If by ‘balls destroyed’ you mean complete genital conversion to include the penis, then Foley placement would make a lot of sense since that would act as a marker for the urethra’s location as incisions around that area obscure anatomic landmarks with blood. The irritation and urge sensation would also make sense, since the Foley would have been handled a lot, making your bladder tissue REALLY angry at that balloon.

If they left the penis alone and only operated on the balls, then /shrug.

Good luck with your recovery, and follow your post op instructions to the letter! That’s a high infection chance area, so don’t take any risks!

We’re basically a reverse jelly fish piloting a meat mech.

Set it in stone.

…maybe something more basic like this:

That or posting on mobile while sleep deprived as fuck. Rereading a post made in bed the night prior is always a humbling experience.

Idiots with guns kill people by accident.

‘Accidents only happen because somebody did something on purpose.’

Oh come on, show me a single elementary school classroom in the US that doesn’t have this…

What it does a screen in my fucking fridge do any good for me?

What else are you going to play Doom on?

Buy, post negative review, return.

Nonfatal? …fucker is just one disappointment after another.

Not unless it motivates someone to depose him.

His base doesn’t care, his opposition follows the rules, and the rules don’t apply to him.

Religious freedom can go suck a dick when it harms other people.

According to the Church of the JustPulledANewReligionOutOfMyAss, our Chief Papa Ghost said I need to break your kneecaps then push you onto a busy highway: your sacrifice is nothing personal, but if I don’t do it, I’ll spend eternity being spanked by fire goats. Doesn’t make sense to me either, but Chief Papa Ghost works in mysterious ways, so I don’t have a choice, you see? It’s my religion!

…except if I actually tried that, I’d spend the rest of my life in prison, cuz even religious freedom doesn’t give me the right to kill people ‘because God’.

At least not directly: I can still kill you without consequence by spreading a completely avoidable pathogen to you, but giving that scenario the “wtf?!” treatment is pretty much why OP made this thread, lol.

Now if you’ll excuse me, Chief Papa Ghost had a kid out of wedlock with a lower-dimensional being, and it just so happens that he’s made of BBQ twist Fritos and Rootbeer, so I’m gonna go commune.