You know, I don’t think there is such, at least not in the way I think you mean.
And it is a community that could use a lemmy representation. It would likely need to be on one of the blahaj instances just because having admins that are overtly queer focused will help keep things from being bombarded.
Melo as fuck \m/
That’s what she said
Noooooo! Not my waifu!
My favorite type-o song :)
Shorinji kempo?
Damn, haven’t run into that online! (Edit: as in on lemmy and reddit) That’s the version I used to practice
Yup, communities.
Shorthand is often just c/
Something, something, cream all pies
pants heatedly
They’re pretty fucking solid too.
Hard rock, with the occasional harder or softer tracks.
A few of my favorites
Not in any particular order, just a handful from the playlist.
That was my exact thought :)
That’s da rudest thing I’ve seen in years
Truth is that whole wheat just doesn’t rise as much because it can’t.
The whole part of whole wheat is bran. Wheat bran is sharp. Which r is not great for rise since those sharp little bits are poking holes in the bubbles that make bread rise. It’s a pain in the ass.
Best solution I found for true whole wheat that didn’t involve adding things in that would make it a blend instead was switching to a gentler kneading method and not working it beyond the bare minimum needed to get gluten going.
Check out King Arthur flour’s website though, they have whole wheat recipes that work very well because they’ve been built around the reality of it from the begging beginning
My default was always active listening. It took me a while to develop real skill at it, then longer for it to no longer be something I had to turn on.
There’s exceptions of course, but most people that are expressing emotion publicly do just want a chance to vent and be heard, no matter what that emotion is. Anger, grief, confusion, fear, whatever it is, just having someone gently say “hey, I can see you’re having a rough patch, can I help?” Is all it takes usually.
Sometimes, you might have to go further, draw out the personbehind the emotion. Sometimes, they don’t want to be bothered at all, and just couldn’t find somewhere private before they broke. In that case, you’d be surprised how often they still pull themselves together for someone offering real support, and you can then guide them somewhere they can break down alone, if that’s what they really want.
But mostly, just being present, really listening and giving just enough feedback that they know you’re paying attention instead of just being a fencepost, it helps.
But tears? That’s easy. If they’re giving you those tears, you accept them as the gift they are. Especially if someone breaks through the usual barriers with strangers and reaches for physical comfort, you just give them that shoulder and make soft noises while supporting them. If they aren’t in contact, extend a hand, just a hand, to where they can reach it if they want to, but not so far it becomes insistent. Then you just listen and let their tears wash away enough of the raw emotion until they can talk.
At some point, most people wind down a little and start apologizing. When you give them a genuine smile and say something akin to “hey, it’s okay, we all have to look out for each other”, or “it’s okay, we’re in hospital, it’s gotta come out sometime; I’m just glad I was here to listen”. If that’s a genuine thing, if you mean a sentiment like that, it’s like aloe on a sunburn. It doesn’t fix the problem, but it takes the edge off long enough to regather and cope just a little while longer.
I’ve been on both sides of it. Hell, three different sides: patient, family member, and caregiver. There’s no single,perfect path through it, but someone even trying to help and fucking up is still a great balm
Nah, down voting has a purpose that’s totally uncoupled from that.
It changes visibility in some sorting methods. This can serve as a way to filter out bad actors, bad actors trolling, and outright nutters.
It also serves as a partial safety valve. A lot of assholes are lazy assholes, and having them able to vote without interacting further is a very good thing.
Besides, nobody is obligated to engage at any specific level. Voting is a perfectly valid tier of interaction all its own.
It’s me, it’s always me.
It’s about goals.
The whole point of guerrilla tactics is asymmetry. It’s a smaller force with less resources maximizing impact.
In order to work against it, you have to go hard.
Going hard means wrecking support and resources. You know, like dumping agent orange, white phosphor, mustard gas, that kind of war crime level brutality.
If you do that, then if the goal isn’t making enemies and spending large amounts of money, you’re fucked. Because you’ll spend billions and make enemies not only in the target region, but all around it, and for generations after.
Given enough budget and the freedom to destroy everything, guerilla tactics are easy to counter.
Ok so Lenovo is essentially bringing graphene to Motorola phones, and just flew past damn near every other laptop in repairability.
If this is a sign of things to come, I’m going to have trouble not getting hyped. I’m already at half chub for whatever phone happens, and now this t series news comes along. I’m going to jizz my pants soon
I’m stuck in DDD land too. It totally sucks, and you have my sympathy
Wellllll, kinda.
There’s a no, in that retarded has the strictest meaning of being an inborn developmental barrier rather than an acquired one, but it has had so many usages over time that I don’t think that more limited usage matters.
So, it’s a qualified yes.
Animals other than humans can definitely suffer chronic tbi (traumatic brain injury) effects, with symptoms ranging from mild to severe enough it would cruel to not euthanize.
Dogs in particular can develop problems that would match colloquial usage of retarded for sure. I’ve personally seen dogs that took bad hits from cars have worse effects, but having memory losses, apparent cognitive loss, and definitely coordination loss are pretty common with even milder head trauma in dogs and other animals.
However, that’s not to say it always has to be from major trauma. You can have issues with repeated minor injury, in humans and animals.
It’s unlikely the level of play you’ve described would be a problem though. Just running into things on zoomies isn’t likely to cause the kind of bouncing around of the brain it takes to cause neurological deficit. It could, though I suspect it would take longer than most dogs live