…never stops buffering.

Medical here. “Huh?”

Look for local LGBT+ friendly gun ranges. Some of them offer classes geared specifically to that audience (probably the same material as any other course, just without the usual ‘gun nut’ crowd).

…speaking of, I need to follow up with the one in my area - I’ve been trying get some hours in as a volunteer, but they never replied to my email. Thanks for the reminder!!

We getting into strawman shit, or are you just not paying attention? The suicidal shit came before the military, not because of it. I’ve got plenty of real faults if you want to make a dig at any of them - no need to make shit up.

You’re missing the point - not everyone has the privilege to consider the cause.

Even now as a civilian in healthcare, which sounds infinitely more benign, I’m stuck working for a different flavor of orphan grinding machine in exchange for a paycheck. …but does that mean I should personalize the evil shit this industry does, like refuse care if someone’s too poor, or do provide care but financially ruin them in the process? I’m a surgical tech, soon-to-be nurse: I can’t control any of that shit. Should I quit in protest? Cuz that won’t change anything outside of severely reducing the quality of my own life.

Same is true of the military: you milk a living out of a shitty system. Are there other options? Sure, but the vast majority of those are shitty too.

I left “I’m a fucking idiot” in there for a reason. Had I played my cards better in the first place I wouldn’t have been stuck weighing whether I should kill myself or put myself into that kind of ethical disaster… which probably would have ended with killing myself anyway.

Lucky for me, they made me a medic, so I never had to find out.

Veteran here. It’s more like: “I’m a fucking idiot, but I could use some healthcare, and that college thing sounds nice.”

Plan B was to kill myself, so I don’t feel bad about enlisting - I got what I needed from it.

You’d be amazed how few people join because of cliches like patriotism. That said, it’d be way less fucked if people could get things like healthcare and education without needing to agree to blow themselves or others up.

Bully calls altercation with victim a tragedy caused by teacher that intervened…

Think a drone could get up above it and drop something into the propeller?

…that enormous library is called “YouTube videos”.

I’ve resorted back to piracy, but mostly cuz my taste in music confuses the hell out of the algorithms: I’m a fan of symphonic metal, and seeding one of those songs as the start of a playlist on something like YT music will land you with a combination of heavy death metal and renaissance fair music.

If I ever find one that can actually distinguish sub-genres of metal, then sign me the fuck up!!

Youtube Music is pretty much just youtube with a different UI - the videos are the same. The audio quality is whatever’s uploaded, so it’ll vary a lot song to song.

This actually brings back memories, lol.

So I’m a surgical tech- I set the OR up for surgery before a case with all the supplies and instruments that specific case calls for; am the surgeon’s bitch during the operation; and tear down once it’s all done. When I first started this job, I had to write up a case report on every new surgery I did to show familiarity with the anatomy we were working around and be able to anticipate the types of instrumentation we needed, and getting info for those case reports was kind of a pain in the ass. Everything is either directed at patients (lots of detail on preop, “and then you’ll be asleep for the surgery” and lots of details on postop), or to the surgeon, which goes into WAY more detail than I needed using terminology I didn’t understand.

Enter YouTube. One of the best ways to get that data was to just look up a recording of the surgery on YouTube and just write down what I saw.

I’m also a nerd, so when I wasn’t looking up videos on surgery, I was looking up videos on things like physics or sci-fi.

Turns out that did some weird things to YouTube’s algorithm… it basically poured ‘surgery’ and ‘weird nerdy shit’ into the same cup, and started making some of the most fucked up video recommendations I’ve ever seen… one of which was a video of a guy giving anesthesia to a cockroach with ice water, and then sticking a diode or something into its little roach brain that connected to a circuit board backpack like the one shown in the OP. He could then use a remote to stimulate two different parts of its brain or something, and if he did this while it was running, it would reliably turn left or right, so… remote control cockroach.

Tbh, the pic on the OP might actually be from that same video.

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Harvey Milk, Sacred Band Of Thebes, Stonewall Riots…

Any people or events that showcase gay people taking up arms in some capacity. Basically, confront the stereotype that gay people are weak or fragile.

I mean, the internet is used 1) for cat videos, and 2) to spread massive amounts of misinformation, which has recently caused a surge in popularity of neonazis, particularly among Gen Z according to exit polls, and one of the first things the nazis took aim at was porn sites.

So… OP isn’t even satire - that shit happened word for word.

Ah - yeah that went completely over my head. My bad!!

@[email protected] - Ma’am, I can be a dumbass sometimes. Please do whatever you need to do to take care of yourself, to include NOT arming yourself if that would put you at risk. No hostility intended. Except to the fucking Nazis that are infesting humanity right now - they can go eat lead.

The state doesn’t have to know. Either you never need it and nothing changes, or you actually have to use it, and you’re at least alive to handle whatever bullshit comes next.

If you’re going to carry, ghost or registered, I STRONGLY recommend taking a basic gun safety and concealed carry course first.

Good luck either way!

Memes are brain sneezes.

"Alright, the implantation surgery was a success, now all we have to do is fire up the remote activation. Throwing the switch in three… two…

I mean, if Elon was my dad, I’d probably have some suicidal tendencies too.