Insensitivity Puns

We're reading Brave New World in my 12th grade class, and as part of the historical context, students read an article detailing the social, political, economic, and technological realities of the the 1930's. The article had some choice vocabulary in it, including "malaise," a word which here means no one bothered to look it the F up on their phones they always have out. So, I asked pointedly for someone to define it using any means necessary. The following exchange takes place:

Me: So who can define for us "malaise" as used in the context in your article?

Class: Silence and slobber faces

Me: So..."malaise." Use context clues...OR YOUR PHONE. Let's get an answer here.

Student, raises hand: It's like a fat dude.

Me: A fat dude?

Student: Yeah, a fat dude and a bag of chips: "Don't you touch mah Lay's (malaise)!"

Wildly insensitive? Pun on point? You decide. I laughed (and then everyone clapped ;->) in spite of myself and haven't looked at the word the same since.

I do love to rant at you all about how bad my life is, even though it is not really so bad. So this time I will say good things!

• My sister managed to get bit by a crazy cat (she works at a vets), and almost ended up losing her hand - but then didn't, because of doctors and their terrible sorcery. I have mixed feelings about that. On the one hand (heh), she can still clap and partake in a mexican wave without looking like she is asking a question. On the other hand, I have missed out on a lifetime of being able to make terribly insensitive puns, the most common of which would no doubt have been "Need a hand?"

• In repayment for my terrible brother-ness, I managed to do in my foot jumping over the garden gate, and had to go for x-rays. Apparently there is nothing wrong with it. I say this is lies, but apparently I am wrong, and being a wuss. Which is good news too, I suppose. Anyway, recognising that the universe was wreaking vengeful karma on me for wanting to be able to ask her to tell me what the sound of one hand clapping was, I decided to meet her out of hospital, and brought her dog, who is tiny and looks like Suarez, and she cried, and as every brother knows, making your sister cry is a sign of success.

• I have a line on a job, which may well keep me in whiskey and smokes.

• I have a mostly full bottle of cheap whiskey on my right, a dog on my left, and a good book in the middle.

Sometimes, just sometimes, life doesn't quite suck.

TW: Mental Health, Su*c*de, Self- Harm

I was scrolling through Reddit, Twitter and a few very old threads that reflected on idols' scandals. It was extremely concerning, especially the insane amount of hate against the person that was caught up in the scandal; be it the idol who was accused or the other party.

Somehow, after the scandal is proven wrong/true, the people who were spreading rumours and death threats would somehow disappear and in replacement were people simply discussing it or asking for apologies from the haters/the person who was in the wrong. No apologies from the haters at all, they conveniently disappear. It's disgusting, especially when the haters preach "self-love!" "don't hate on anyone without knowing the full story.", etc.

Eventually, when the idol breaks down/takes a hiatus/commits su*c*de, the community will talk about it for a while and eventually fade back to their old ways, enabling the haters and the bullies who drive idols to unthinkable measures and saying "Oh, they should've thought about the hate when they were an idol." "This is constructive criticism." "I'm an [IDOL NAME] fan but I agree with this."

Idol's mental health is blatantly disregarded and idols are compared to other idols who probably want nothing to do with any of it.

Let's take, for example, Jennie's lazy dancing scandal, or any of the scandals she's been in.

What was the first thing netizens talked about when she was unenergetically dancing? "Oh, she's being lazy." or something to that variation. I sifted through the comments and out of a thousand comments that were compiled, I only saw maybe 10-20 comments asking whether she was okay or if she wasn't feeling well. When it continued on, which means she wasn't feeling well for a period of time, even the comments made in goodwill disappeared, replaced by more hate comments. She was being compared to the other members, to other artists who performed well every day under horrendous conditions but PERFORMING WELL UNDER HORRENDOUS CONDITIONS SHOULD NOT BE THE STANDARD. IDOLS ARE ALLOWED AND SUPPOSED TO SAY NO AND NOT BE CRITICIZED FOR IT OR ASK FOR BREAKS. No one is the same when it comes to mental health.

AFTER she talked about her ankle being injured, there were still a lot of comments asking how she could perform alright at Coachella or for her Solo performances. The thing is that Coachella was extremely important. They needed to perform very well or else they would be shamed, etc. For her So

Hi,

I am 60 years old and athletic. I had the vaccine a couple weeks ago and have since felt a feeling of discomfort at the bottom of my feet and toes. The best way to explain it is that it is a cardboardy feeling. It makes walking uncomfortable and I wanted to see if anybody also had similar complications with the vaccine! Thank you all for all your help

So I saw a tiktok of a woman who said she was born without a uterus and some people (thank god the minority) were were ribbing at her, making fun of it and an absolute horrid comment was questioning if she was a woman just because she had no uterus.

Is that all we are as half the population? Baby makers to carry on the next generation well goddamn apparently we aren't human ladies pack it up and call the mothership 👽👾

100% every disparaging comment was from a breeder, and you know who helped defend her? US THE CHILDFREE COMMUNITY. I've seen more compassion, selflessness and just overall niceness from this sub than anywhere else. I've seen posts supporting young teens who were getting abortions, older badass people getting their bag/living their best lives and whilst we get hated on we still have dignity and grace.

From a childfree point of view I'd rather donate my uterus to a woman in need or a trans woman, it'll be appreciated much more. From that ladies point of view she was told she's a flawed piece of machinery that can't work and should be tossed out, like garbage and her saving grace was the kindness of the childfree people who told her she was worth more and a beautiful kind woman with her own family (she has a wonderfully supporting husband).

Never change childfree peeps, other than reminding me to get on BC ASAP, yall have taught me a lot about being a good person and undoing a lot of cultural brainwashing.

It's taken me a while to get around to posting this but having just re-watched "Lights out", I need to get this off my chest NOW. Ryder explains he was the victim of abuse to which the guys laugh at the whole situation, telling him how "lucky" he was 😠

Kitty also opens up to Ryder about her experience and yet the subject is never raised and lastly, Brittany explains how someone crawled into her tent at cheer camp giving the impression that she too was also sexually assaulted!

Very poorly executed which left me feeling beyond furious. Sexual assault is NEVER something to be treated so carelessly and lightly 🤬

As a British woman, transphobia is a key component of my national identity - but American and international progressive communities don't seem to understand this???

I've been removed from online communities just for partaking in one of our country's greatest pastimes (doxxing and misgendering trannies on twitter).

I can't believe so called progressives would be so chauvinistic.. and when I protested their nationalist hatred of other cultures I was even labelled with the xenophobic slur "terf"!!!

If you care and respect other cultures you respect my Queen-given right to harass and lynch troons.

In my quest to understand why it should be I have never been able to accept being AMAB I have found clues in my androgen receptor dna and luteinizing dna. This topic is poorly researched because of transphobia. There is Complete Androgen Insensitivity where someone is XY and is totally born looming female. And there is Partial Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome where someone has ambiguous parts. Now there is a new version called Mild Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome that is still poorly understood but means you lack the complete package of androgen receptors even those you may look basically male. In my case I gave some of the later dna and a messed up luteinizing hormone system.

I didn’t just wake up one day and decide “oh I think maybe being female would be cool, I’ll just do that” - I was completely puzzled that people treated me as a male as a child when I thought I was female - until I learned about basic anatomy and understood what they saw. That was even more confusing because it made me feel like I was some kind of deviant and hate myself. Forcing me go into deep hiding scared to act on how I felt. The one thing in my life that has remained constant in my mind is this mixed up gender situation.

I’m starting to see why when E hit my brain it was the best drug high experience I ever had. I lack androgen receptors there and my brain was being poorly fed the hormones it needs to function. I was walking around half dead.

There’s a very profitable transphobia industry of books, conversation therapy and political manipulation that’s well developed now and it needs to be knocked down for the human rights violation it is.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep32819

I've heard INTJs described as cold humans and INTP as warm machines

I'm INTP; for context I'm in my late 60s (pretty old guy for reddit)

How accurate is that statement in the opinion of an INTJ?

Something happened to me that has bothered me greatly - a HORRIBLE misunderstanding with a much younger INTJ (all through DMs) is the best way to say it briefly - though I have to add it in no way was from her thinking I was "hitting on her" or anything at ALL like that. We seemed to be friends - then apparently she VERY abruptly changed her mind.

In hindsight I can see why - I suppose. But she told me I had nothing to apologize for when I sincerely apologized for a transgression. Yet obviously it DID bother her. And she stopped responding - though she always indicated (or so I thought) it was temporary.

Said she didn't block me when later I found out she did. Continually said the reason she wasn't answering messages was she was busy and I understood and didn't expect quick replies if any.

Unfortunately I took to "stalking" her posts to see if I could get some clue as what the real issue was. She knew because I posted in spots. I regret that deeply - but I could not understand why she SEEMED to want to continue talking once she was no longer busy.

Then she posted on reddit that I was a stalker (I suppose I was) but she lied and said I would not stop messaging her even after she told me several times to leave her alone.

Had she said that I most certainly WOULD have stopped -as I have.

OK -she was lying to me for some reason. Maybe not wanting to hurt my feelings? That's odd at best - being so contradictory in words vs actions hurt me (as an INTP driven to understand things.)

Saying "I'm busy" when asking someone for a date is a signal that person isn't interested. Saying it for reddit messages is the same thing? Strange - but then I'm an old guy.

It would have been much better if she were honest all along - at least it would make sense! And if THEN I still messaged her - file a complaint. (Which she did - using one of her "I didn't block you - I'm just busy, that's all" messages as "proof".

OK - so people lie (to themselves as well). But is that an example of me as an intp being a warm machine and her as an intj being a cold human?

Three weeks ago I was constipated and was on the toilet trying to go, but was unable to commit to the deed. I strained and strained and only gas came out. I began feeling sick and started excreting mucus and blood for a week. During this time I found out I can no longer eat oats without regretting all of my life choices for the next 7 hours. I suspected a dairy issue but cut cream and yogurt out and thought it would be fine.

I finally went to the doctor, who had me lay on a table, violated my bunghole with his finger, and found what we discovered to be an anal fissure. It hurts so incredibly bad after the exam I just stood there with the wax of tissues wiping off the blood. I have been unable to go to the bathroom without extreme pain and sudden urges to poo.

Fast forward to Monday night and I wanted pesto sauce with my pasta and leftover steak. I didn’t want to make it from scratch and said “fuck it”, I guess we’ll see if dairy is really a problem. Tuesday I went to the bathroom no less than 10x, doubled over in pain. Again, regretting my life choices.

Yesterday, I had 3 mini York peppermint patties (because I’m stubborn and apparently stupid) but that’s the only dairy for yesterday. Today I’ve been up for 2 hours. Almost had an accident once, had to go, urgently, 2 more times, and the last time I felt like I was going to throw up.

TL;DR: have an anal fissure; flouting the food gods; probably have a food insensitivity; regretting food choices right now

For those who don't know, I've tried twice now to bring to Scopely's attention why the Lunar New Year "celebration" event is not only insulting to Chinese culture, but actually bastardizes it. EDIT: people were jumping to conclusions without reading the links to my previous comments so I've now included the full texts:

1. I will be blunt, as someone of Chinese descent it is absolutely insulting how you're exploiting Lunar New Year to force players to literally buy rewards (by your own store mechanics, spending cores is a form of buying offers). If you truly want to celebrate Lunar New Year, give out some rewards as a calendar like you did with the New Year celebration in January. There is no reason these two holidays should be treated so differently, and I'm disgusted that Lunar New Year is even being associated with such exploitative tactics.
   And just to get ahead of potential comments, I have already seen comments in twitch streams about "Asians want you to spend cores." Jokes or not, that kind of perpetuation of negative stereotypes is absolutely not part of what Marvel (one of the most intentionally diverse and inclusive IPs) should be about. https://www.reddit.com/r/MarvelStrikeForce/comments/ldij9q/welcome_to_shadowland/gm672b1/
2. I will reiterate my comment from the last blog post, PLEASE STOP BASTARDIZING MY CHINESE CULTURE. Scopely, not you specifically u/CM_Cerebro, keeps saying this is supposed to be a celebration of Lunar New Year, but instead of truly celebrating the holiday you continue to use it as a way to exploit your players. Not only that, the event is perverting the practice of giving Red Envelopes and twisting it in players' minds as a practice of payment/spending instead of the giving nature the practice actually represents! I've seen/heard many comments on streams today from people who don't understand the Lunar New Year customs and they are walking away with this twisted understanding instead of what the holiday is actually about. YOU ARE DOING THE OPPOSITE OF CELEBRATING THE CULTURE, YOU ARE PERPETUATING NEGATIVE ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE HOLIDAY. I am trying very hard to keep it civil as per the rules but it is tough when I just want to scream at how you are hurting my culture with this event. It literally pains me to see what you are doing to my culture at a time when anti-Asian racism is

I bought an electric pet collar recently, I was wondering if you could build resistance to the shock (at least the pain) by starting with a small charge and gradually increasing it over time

Jill was very insensitive at some point to almost any dancer who wasn't Kendall on the show, and it's one of the reasons I dislike her so much.

One smaller example is after Payton started crying because Abby brought back Brooke to the team at the pyramid. Payton broke down in front of everybody, probably because Abby and production completely used her and humiliated her on TV. However, Jill immediately said in the room that she wasn't sorry for Payton at all, and even questioned why Christi felt bad. When Christi responded, "Because she's a kid!", she went on this long rant about how Kendall deserved more special parts.

People overlook this all the time because Payton was edited to look like an ungrateful kid, but that wasn't the reality and it was unnecessary for Jill to say that she wasn't sorry for her at all.

Another example of Jill's snarky behavior was when Brynn was crying to Ashlee after Kendall yelled at her and Jill saw this and left the room saying "Oh look how cute!". This happened as all the moms started screaming insults at Ashlee, including calling her rude names, telling her she looks like a pig, and saying that Mackenzie was scared of her. Yes, this scene could be dramatized for editing, but how can someone be so cruel to a kid crying? Jill was so defensive over Kendall, constantly bullied Brynn and then mocked her for crying. She is a hypocrite for that kind of behavior.

Hi, I'm thinking about moving from Gentoo to a binary distro since compiling everything isn't as fun as it used to be. I was about to choose Debian since I use it at work, but it turns out that it doesn't support case-insensitivity for ext4 and because my home parition is configured to support it, I would not be able to mount it.

I don't know that much about Debian, so maybe there is some unofficial kernel package repository with that feature enabled? Does any of you need it as well and has found some way to enable it without compiling the kernel?

25M (female to male transgender), 205 lbs, 5'9", caucasian, no smoking or vaping, occasionally drink but rarely, taking .5cc testosterone cypionate injected weekly

This is kind of complicated, I'm going to try my best to explain it.

I'm a transgender man (female to male). I started hormone replacement therapy about 10 months ago. I've had a really difficult time with it because I haven't been seeing many of the expected physical changes and I started getting severe depression shortly after starting. I got bloodwork done last week and all of my levels are normal except for my free testosterone, which is extremely low at 22.6 pg/mL (standard range is about 50-250). My total testosterone level is normal at 826 ng/dL, but after doing some research, I've found that free testosterone is even more important than your total, and this could be the reason I haven't been seeing many changes.

I've found that sometimes, this can be caused be an androgen insensitivity, and I'm wondering if this is what I have. I brought all of this up with my doctor who manages my hormone therapy (she's an endocrinologist) and long story short, she completely dismissed me and said that my free testosterone levels don't matter, and that I cannot have an androgen insensitivity because I used to get periods and I also have armpit and pubic hair (however, I've looked this up and I believe this would be complete androgen insensitivity syndrome; I'm suspecting I have partial).

I've since been doing more research on androgen insensitivity and saw that one of the symptoms for men was hypospadias: "where the hole through which urine passes out of the body is on the underside of the penis, rather than at the end." This immediately caught my attention because I have always suspected that there was something wrong with my urethra and the way I pee; sorry if this is TMI, but my pee comes out of my vagina. I'm positive of this, and it's always been like this. After researching, I think this is what female hypospadius is. I didn't even realize this was abnormal until about a year ago, and I'm embarrassed to say I haven't been to a gynecologist yet (I haven't had health insurance since I was 13, and I'm a bit more nervous to go as a trans guy now, but I definitely know I need to go now).

Anyway, after seeing this I'm even more convinced that I could have an androgen insensitivity now. But after spending some time googlin

Hello, just hoping for some guidance or to hear if anyone else has experienced something similar...wondering if anyone has gotten through the same issues.

Whenever I've been with a partner, I barely feel anything with their hands or mouth. When I say barely feel, I'm referring to beyond pleasure; I mean I can barely detect their mouth. I can only accomplish an orgasm myself. Masturbation for me is routine, but I do not feel a lot of pleasure down there either. An orgasm is more of a sort of neurological endorphin/dopamine shot. I've never had penetrative sex of any kind. I also think that I haven't woken up with erections since I'm maybe 14 (currently 21).

For years I've been dealing with this flatness, this dullness, being immune to the physicality of sex. I finally took the step to get answers. After an ultrasound and blood work, my urologist cleared me on a physical level. He suggested this could be psychological or anxiety related. I'm happy to admit that this is the answer, but feel like it's not...as a homosexual, it was such a ride becoming sex positive and accepting myself. Like, damn, I (and I'm sure a lot of you) have been through so much mentally. I would just be really surprised if this was a mental block.

My doctor has prescribed me a sex therapist, Cialis, and a physical therapist. The physical therapy is because I sometimes experience pain around my bum after ejaculation. It's not like I mess around with my rear area at all, but will get this muscular pain around rectum/prostate? Apparently, this could be a muscle disorder called chronic pelvic pain syndrome.

I have not gone to sex therapy yet due to cost and finding the right one. I have not made time to reach out to the physical therapist. I also have not started Cialis yet, simply because I've been so busy with school and work; I want to wait until finals are over.

I wonder if this could be "death grip syndrome." I've preliminarily read online that things like reducing masturbation and introducing lubricant can help. I'm curious if anyone out there can talk about their experience with this, if taking a break was successful, and what that the timeline was like for them. I've started routinely using lubricant, but have yet to make great/any progress? I've also quieted my masturbation, but that's essentially thrown me into total sexual dormancy.

I'm curious about anyone's thoughts in general. Maybe someone else has had this muscle disorder possibility? I'm so sad sometimes at this w

I posted this in the MSFS forum, but figured I'd post it here too in case anyone needs it. Since MSFS fixed the Bravo Throttle heading bug with the last update, a lot of folks noticed the trim wheel is now incredibly slow to respond to inputs. Before, there were essentially 10 key presses to trim up/down for every registered movement of the trim wheel. The trim wheel is not an axis, it's just sending button commands to MSFS. Therefore, when they fixed the 10 degree bug (input press x10), it unfortunately made it so you have to turn the trim wheel an unrealistic number of times to have the desired affect on the aircraft. If you like the trim wheel the way it is now, that's cool, but this is for people who want more responsiveness with each movement of the wheel. This solution uses FSUIPC7, which may or may not seem expensive to you and I'm not here to debate that, but if you have it (I bought it months ago to circumvent the heading bug before it was fixed) and want more sensitivity, please see below:

For those who have FSUIPC, here’s how to fix the trim wheel. FSUIPC is, frankly, way over my head and I’m sure there’s a more elegant solution, but this worked for me this morning after a couple of hours of trying to figure it out:

• Bind your trim wheel elevator up/down assignments in FSUIPC. You may even want to unbind them if already bound, then bind them again so they go to the bottom of the list in the ini file (I think that’s how it works).

• Go to your main FSUIPC7 folder, mine was C:\FSUIPC7

• Open the FSUIPC7.ini file in a txt editor (I use Notepad ++)

• Look in the subsection “Buttons” and scroll through your assignments until you see something that looks similar to this:

63=PB,22,C65615,0 - {ELEV_TRIM_UP} -

64=PB,21,C65607,0 - {ELEV_TRIM_DOWN} -

• Now, the first numbers (63 and 64 in this case) must be sequential through the list, so if your assignments are followed by others you’re going to have to change all of the following ones so there are no duplicates (hence the suggestion to unbind and rebind the trim assignments).

• All you have to do is copy/paste these two lines of code as many times as you want to get the desired number of repeated strokes! For example, before the heading bug was fixed it was likely doing 10 presses for each 1 “press” of the trim wheel. I decided to use 5 repeated presses and it works really well, as I can make relatively large adjustments quickly when extending flaps, but can also fine tune the trim so there are

I get the hunger still wouldn’t be great but you would proably have a massive advantage in some ways in that pain wouldn’t make you go insane, but at the same time, you wouldn’t be as mindful of doing damage to your body.