She might be the only young horny and straight woman here outside the porn communities.

Yeah it turns out a job that starts by picking for people too violent for football and gives cte is going to have horrendous participants

A lot of people see those they interact with sexually as lesser for it, especially if they’re ashamed of being attracted to such people. Sex workers in particular get it really bad because a lot of people are ashamed of using porn or paying for sex. But you see the same in people who fetishize fat folks and trans folks for example and it’s a huge thing with racial fetishes too.

This is at its extreme with people engaging in violence towards such people, but a lot of folks are really uncomfortable with the idea that they may be waiting in line at a grocery store behind a prostitute or the idea that a porn star may want to get involved in the pta because they care about their child’s education. Sex workers’ entire existence is reframed through the lens of their job, and their job is given the moral weight of these people’s discomfort with sex that they don’t approve of.

Here, cheap gas and good wages for the workers. I’m on the other side of the country now, but I miss it. Though apparently wawa is now invading ohio as well

Actually those socks would probably go great with my birkenstocks. I’ve been fetishized for being a second generation immigrant from Germany a few times before, why not lean in to it

I don’t understand wall drug either, but to be fair I didn’t stop because I was trying to get through south Dakota as fast as possible

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Do they have meatless options for the vegetarian interested in a heart attack?

I had something similar. I grew up catholic and was very devout until I learned some stuff about myself that made me step away for a while. I expected to come back like a year later and join the episcopalians or something, but I wound up an atheist for several years. During that time I was kinda insufferable about it for a while. Then I started exploring pantheism, earth worship, and ancestor devotion because I’d felt I was missing something without religion and lighting candles to talk to my mom helped me cope with how much of my life she doesn’t get to be there for. Later an acid trip and some exploration would help me delve deeper and find the goddess I primarily pray to these days. Somewhere later I started using the Wiccan holidays because they’re really convenient for solar and seasonal observance and meditation. They also help make it so I don’t wonder where the hell the year went.

So yeah, catholic to atheist to pagan. There are many paths up the mountain, find the path that is best for you and makes you better.

Pacifism is sometimes privilege and sometimes moral ideology taken to its noblest extreme. You have some who are safe no matter what and decry violence, but you also have folks like the victims of the Gnadenhutten massacre, who didn’t fight back because they were pacifists. You also have nonviolent people who do so strategically.

Does openSUSE provide the sandals to go with the socks?

Ok leather socks are something I’d never considered and on one hand: hot, but on the other hand I can’t imagine what shoes I’d wear them with. Obviously the pants would be leather short shorts at the most or a tight leather dress

It’s weird to me how drastically Lenten fasting has decreased in modern day catholicism. If I hadn’t left the religion and already become a pescatarian I’d be doing it old school with pescatarian all season and full fasts on Fridays.

The big two things exercise does for weight loss is it expends calories to build new muscles, and then those muscles increase your base calorie burn because they’re body mass. Weight loss without exercise can consume muscle as well as fat as the body treats excess muscles as a calorie store. At the end of the day, for most people in most circumstances, losing weight as a goal really means losing fat. If someone’s 110 kg and trying to lose weight, many wouldn’t mind being 110 kg with a somewhat thin waist and just being ripped (ok, a lot of women would hate looking like that, but actually doing that is an incredible feat)

I wish I could like running. It hurts and is awkward and just generally sucks. Thank fuck I found bicycles.

So, yeah, for those who can’t make themselves like running, check out Craigslist or a local bicycle co-op to find a reasonably priced used bike and start riding. It’s transportation, it’s exercise, it can be meditation, and it’s easy on the joints.

Ultimately, find an activity that makes you physically exhausted that you enjoy. If you aren’t having any fun you’re likely to give up when life gets in the way, but if you enjoy it, even if you go a year without, you’re likely to want to get back into it, and that’s vital.

And the long trend of decreasing home cooking really gained steam. Homemade food can be delicious, but it is rarely hypersatiable. It’s also more likely to contain things like vegetables (though I’ll admit, I don’t use enough in my household, my wife hates my “could eat it nonstop” veggie and I’m allergic to hers).

We’ve also increasingly been doing jobs that don’t fulfill a meaningful portion of physical fitness, and as such we’re increasingly underexercised

That is absolutely not true to the point that you’re describing a serious disease as health. A healthy body will generally desire only the amount of calories it has been using or slightly more. A healthy body may use excess calories for muscle building or other constructive activities. But if you are defecating digestible calories, you need to speak to a physician (though you’re only likely to learn about this via a stool analysis). This is famously one of the more dangerous symptoms of advanced crohns disease, but it could be an issue of any number of disorders of the digestive system.

The human body has varied efficiencies of calorie absorption, some people have less or more efficient bodies. If you can’t gain weight when honest calorie counting and genuinely increasing your intake, maybe you just have a weirdly variable metabolism, but you may find difficulty doing things that require extra calories like recovering from injury or illness or building muscle.

Romcoms are notorious for it as so many plots come down to a refusal to stop and communicate

Once again a problem solvable by a functional government

Joining the hordes of followers of the beast of the sea because you think that the end of the world is awesome. I suppose there’s a theoretical nobility of choosing hell so others can go to heaven, but this ain’t it chief.

Back when I was Christian I was so confused by these doom cultists. Like, the religion teaches that the gates of heaven are open. It’s not like the saints are waiting in sheol. There’s no benefit to the end of the world happening sooner from a theological perspective, and you aren’t supposed to know when it’s coming