r/FacePalm - Fellas, is it Gay to be Straight? 🌈

[@TheClick]

ngl, being straight sounds pretty gay

[@Alphaismyname]

Real

[@overarian]

It's the peak of gayness

[@timothyisstupid]

True

[@mariii__881]

Fax

[@JOOPIITR]

The gayest

[@thatslamejehl]

Yes sending your kid to a wilderness camp is a thing in the US. And the amount of abuse in those are as high as you would expect.

[@minestar2247]

Are they like child boot camp?

[@EnbyFranziskaNagel]

​@@minestar2247yes

[@HunBaneTheBest]

​@@minestar2247I heard it's worse.

[@aliejoe5622]

​@@minestar2247 if you're interested look into the ranch. It's the camp Dr.phill would send kids to and had allegations of child abuse before Dr.phill sent the first kid there.

[@fishstyx5945]

@@minestar2247 Sort of. They essentially try to teach discipline through hard labor, humiliation, and near torture.

[@rebekahjonesy4102]

The 9/11 challenge is a tribute to the firefighters who had to run up that amount of stairs in order to save people. To feel just a tiny bit of what they went through that day. It's not about running down stairs or getting away.

[@danielflanagan3325]

And in my gym they often do a fundraiser based on how far you make it, and can even do it in full gear or weight equivalent

[@Ms_Cheesecake]

Adding to this: some of the groups doing the challenges like this donate the proceeds from the events to various first responder/ 9/11 survivor charities.

[@Kartoffelkamm]

A few weeks ago, I saw a clip on Reddit where some firefighters in Hawaii walked up a really long trail in full gear for this exact reason.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

might as well give them the bird as a freebie :/

[@ZoobiethePopplio]

Imagine there was a Titanic challenge where you jump into a freezing body of water during Winter and die of hypothermia.

[@Moonstruck_Arrow]

“Wanting a strong woman is a sign of homosexuality” Me, a lesbian: *You’re damn right*

[@Infernal_Intillectual]

W

[@ThePopo543]

What if you're a giant scary muscle lady who likes cute squishy femboys? Asking for a friend.

[@LesbianImpact]

REALLLL

[@Spooky_Fern]

Me too lol

[@SolTheForager]

Yass

[@shannonspiritwraith9139]

Fun fact. Even the lady who originally invented gender reveal parties is horrified by what they have become. She just wanted to have a fun little party and thinks what they’ve become is awful.

[@msf2399]

Also: her kid? The one she threw that party for? Turned out to be trans.

[@Zelrin04]

@@msf2399 lmao

[@John_Weiss]

@@msf2399 That's an oft-repeated rumor, but I believe it's been proved false. Maybe Snopes has soemthing about it?

[@John_Weiss]

Fun Followup Fact: Her "gender reveal" party was actually more of a, "YAAAAY! We made it to 14 Weeks!" Party. You see, she'd miscarried a number of times and had been performing IVF, all unsuccessfully up until that pregnancy. Reaching 14 weeks was a good sign that the pregnancy had taken and stuck this time. So _that_ is what she was celebrating: A pregnancy that _finally, _*_FINALLY_* took and was still going well. Not a self-indulgent, have-another-celebration-for-us party that they've become.

[@lulul0l039]

@@John_Weiss PinkNews has article, that mentions they have gender nonconforming child. Very cool 11year old afab, rocking a suit, whatever their journey or identity is, it's great that they are give room to express themselves.

[@coffeekat5066]

That "didn't he kill all the first born sons in Egypt" comment absolutely murdered me, and I'm a last born daughter.

[@vxicepickxv]

It would have murdered me as a firstborn son, but I wasn't born in Egypt.

[@MissRandomNomad0o]

@@vxicepickxv XD

[@LamooMcgoo]

It was a beautiful come back. 😂 guess God decided that you must be born for insta death.

[@tpfoxCastro]

I imagine twins in Egypt. You know that half of them survived God's punishment by like 5 minutes, what madlads

[@missnaomi613]

*I'm a last-born daughter, too. *And I'm a religious Jewish mama.

[@MaidMirawyn]

“Timmy, you’re gonna be feral for a week!” The kid wishes he were just being feral for a week. Heat exhaustion, little or no medical care, insufficient food, isolation, emotional abuse, and overwork, for weeks or months. They are absolutely horrible people, and they need to investigate the dad. “I didn’t know” doesn’t fly.

[@ebbenazor7857]

"Didn't [God] kill all the first-born sons in Egypt?" Best comeback EVER.

[@minestar2247]

Yeah, still weird out of context

[@BliffleSplick]

And there's stuff in there about dashing them on rocks 😬 Humans are brutal in very creative ways

[@Alverant]

@@minestar2247 In Numbers, God commanded all the non-virgin women to be murdered. That included the pregnant ones.

[@FrozEnbyWolf150]

See also Hosea. Yes, the whole book, but especially 13:16.

[@arandomkobold8403]

Yeah, and didn't he send down a bear to maul and kill some children who made fun of a bald man?

[@Nostripe361]

It always seems like those family KZbinrs always turn out to be absolute monsters

[@akumayoxiruma]

I mean... good parents wouldn't want to exploit their children for views in the first place, so by default, it's obvious what kind of people truly run the channel.

[@pumkin610]

🤔 they control and depend on the kids for money, what happens when the kid refuses to participate

[@masela01]

@@pumkin610 it's simple. The parents don't let the kid refuse to participate. I've heard of teenagers getting sent to various camps either as punishment or to build their discipline or shit like that. These parents are already near imprisoning their children and it goes about as deep as it gets.

[@AngelusaNobilis]

​@@akumayoxirumavery true. I never put my kid on KZbin. But now he's 12 and putting, at least at first, his voice on KZbin. His choice. I told him about the dangers of giving up his anonymity and he understands. Her kids never had a choice and now the whole world knows their pain and I just think that's sick.

[@axolox8600]

Yep... I mean, not a single normal family will use their children to make content and money.

[@Emisop]

12:45 the woman who popularized gender reveal parties regrets doing so because of all the stupid shit people do with them. (She had hers done because it was a celebration of her finally being able to have a kid so they were even just excited to get to the point where they could tell the gender)

[@LoremIpsum-dp1li]

Also, that same baby from the first gender reveal party ended up being gender non-conforming.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Damn

[@SneakySalamander13]

Ok. So Wilderness Discipline camps are VERY bad. Those are the places that you can pay to kidnap your kid and treat them poorly to "scare them straight" either literally for LGBTQ or figuratively for "troubled teens" who can be anything from druggies to kids who's parents found out they mastribate. Also, the Ruby Franke situation is horrible the kids were in the house with the family "therapist" who's MO is duct taping kids, giving them zero privacy( even in the restroom) and trying to convince them that "God told her" they are horrible people, have done horrible things, and that she needs to make the punishments worse until they "confess" to the things she is imagining them doing. She alao likes to convince wives to leave their husbands and uses societal blackmail to sfop people from coming out. She breaks people. And the Mormon church was reccomending people to her and even paying for their tratment. Super crazy messed up sfuff.

[@shadowwolf7880]

Jesus fucking Christ what is wrong with this world

[@tpfoxCastro]

This is basically a pre-terapist. You pay her to then having to go to another teraphist to treat the trauma caused by this bastard

[@captainhoratiobungleiii7147]

Have you seen any interviews with the niece of the "therapist"? Super dark.

[@PeninsulaPaintings]

Yep. There was a reform school for teens in Maine called Elan. Absolute nightmare of a place! They also legally kidnapped kids from their homes and dragged them to this hell in the middle of the woods. They literally had a punishment called 'The Ring' where the offending kid gets put in a ring of screaming students and gets the shit beaten out of them by other (bigger) students until the staff member decides they've had enough (so tough shit if you get a sadistic staff member). A kid died from a brain bleed whilst in the ring, but it was declared as natural causes because the owner of Elan was stupidly wealthy and got all bad press swept under the rug. The reason that kid was put in the ring? Because they claimed he was 'faking headaches'. They also made students sit in a wooden chair in the corner of a room sometimes for MONTHS at a time. Only letting them leave the chair to eat and sleep on a dirty mattress. It was basically a cult disguised as a school. A large population of the kids that graduated from Elan either became drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals (ironically) or killed themselves. The school ran from 1970 to 2011, only got shut down because of Reddit. Fucking insane. I'm so glad these reform schools aren't as popular anymore. There is no 'one size fits all' method of dealing with "troubled teens", and these places did way more damage than people initially thought.

[@lilik7323]

Also they wraped kids' wounds in plastic foil with honey and cayen peaper

[@spikeoramathon]

The Ruby Franke case is horrific, and it should be noted that she is wrapped up with the therapist Jody Hildebrant, who runs an "addiction" center that punishes men for masturbating (convincing the wives to withhold affection if they "fall off the wagon.") Other little nuggets: when Ruby's SIX-YEAR-OLD daughter forgot her lunch, she refused to bring one to the school and even taped herself saying that she hoped no one else would step up and give the kid food, because she needed to learn "consequences." She also canceled Christmas for two of her younger children because of their "egregious" behavior. For more, look up Mormon Stories Podcast and Jesse Hildebrant's (nibling of Jodi) story. Oh, yeah, and until her arrest, Jodi Hildebrant (whose basement Ruby's kids escaped from) was the go-to therapist for upper-echelon Mormons. It's quite the case and still ongoing (this is actually my field of work, so I've had to dive deep into it).

[@mikochild2]

What happens when the wives masturbate?

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

Some people really don’t deserve to be parents

[@danielcrafter9349]

​@@alicebthegachaweirdo8378- *alive 💁‍♂️

[@dustorm5012]

​@@danielcrafter9349true dat

[@TakioMx]

"Consequences" for forgetting something that is not needed by anyone than the child itself... this is SO stupid. I tend to forget things a lot and to me realising I did forget something and feeling stupid is already consequence enough. The only thing punishing this does is make the child paranoid about whether they forgot something or hide when they did forget. This does not help or solve *anything*, especially if the person is some form of neurodivergent. I hope the children can grow up to be happy and healthy despite her "parenting".

[@snorpenbass4196]

Fun fact: ancient Roman and Greek statues used to be very colorful indeed! They were painted in all possible hues, usually accurate (to real people) or imaginative (for mythical characters, gods and goddesses). The paint was removed by buttheads in the 17th-19th centuries because they thought the paint remnants was "dirt" (and in some cases because of racism). That said, Cleopatra probably looked like someone from Turkey or southern Iran, and wasn't black. Also, Julius Caesar probably looked more like Roberto Benigni than Ralph Fiennes. 😆

[@ruthfischer7615]

Cleopatra was a descendant of the Macedonian Greek Ptolemy I Soter. If I remember correctly there was a lot of inbreeding - no marrying Egyptians - so maybe not so much? More "Greek"? And as far as I know they didn't remove the colors from the statues... time did. There are a few statues with little bits of colors - some kept safe in the ground over millennia. Those statues where also clothed but cloth goes in time even faster if not made from modern plastics.

[@ferretqueen2908]

​@@ruthfischer7615fun fact: Cleopatra only had 2 great grandparents. Most people have 16.

[@kwarra-an]

​@@ruthfischer7615paint was indeed removed in some cases, though obviously time had taken its toll on the statues beforehand. There is an interesting New Yorker article that delves deeper into the topic, as well as modern efforts at more faithful recreations. You can find a few articles in art journals, as well! But they are mostly paywalled.

[@ItRemindMeOfHome]

Cleopatra wouldn't look like someone from modern Turkey, since the Turks wouldn't come to Anatolia until around the 9th~10th Century CE (~1000 years after Cleopatra), she was a Macedonian Greek, so she'd look more like someone from the modern Peloponnese.

[@GnomeCat]

Liking women - is more gay than liking men right now. Fellas, love for the homies. Love for everyone

[@crazcatladeestudios9956]

Kissing the homies goodnight is less gay than dating a woman, you heard it here first lads

[@aaronmccullers384]

The only option for us now is to be so gay that we cause an integer overflow error which will cause us to loop back around to being straight

[@several-cats-in-an-SU-47]

then we'd just be gay squared lol@@aaronmccullers384

[@Lolgun2]

wait, since im bi would that then make me mega gay?

[@aleximarie8958]

​@@Lolgun2Always 😎

[@emilyd8617]

"Didn't he kill all the firstborn sons in Egypt?" I almost died from laughing and that is now my go-to argument. That man deserves a medal.

[@khaleesireyna731]

I'm still cackling at the way that lady just turned tail and ran. Way to admit you're a whiner who can't handle people using your bs arguments against you 😂

[@NathanLundholm]

Except he didn't kill all the firstborn sons in Egypt. He had an angel do that. Not to mention the angel skipped the homes of the Hebrews who had lambs blood on the door, that is how the angel knew which homes not to involve. So no, not all firstborns died. Only the ones belonging to Egyptian families. Not slave ones. Still sad, but part of a divine plan to free God's people. If it hadn't happened I would be a slave in Egypt today. Egypt had to learn how wrong slavery is. Why other countries took thousands more years to learn is beyond me.

[@emilyd8617]

@@NathanLundholm So he killed all the firstborn sons of Egyptians, so that others could live their lives the way they chose to....... Now I don't consider abortions murder, but are we sure that God's against them? God and his followers have not shied away from killing and killing innocents in biblical times. Despite the Christian arguments I keep hearing, I've yet to see anything in the Bible that's explicitly against abortion, despite the fact that abortions very much did exist at the time. If anything, the Bible explicitly state that a fetus holds less value than a living person (see Exodus 21:22-25). WHICH means that God's actions in the Old Testament aren't on par with abortion, they're worse! :D ....also, the slave trade in Egypt ended in 1877. Based on this, I don't think slaughtering kids was particularly effective. I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to prove here(?)

[@patricknellessen2346]

​@@NathanLundholmconclusion: the only way our omniscient god could stop slavery is by ordering a ton of newborns to be slaughtered? To each their own I guess

[@Morten_Storvik]

@@patricknellessen2346 Actually it was the pharao who ordered newborns to be slaughtered. And let`s not forget that the angel of death was the *10TH* plague of Egypt. Meaning God gave Ramses 9 whole chances to let the slaves go before he resorted to killing the first born ( which could be of any age ). Just an example as to why "pride" is the worst of the 7 deadly sins.

[@allisonshockley381]

The "women should have the final say on having children" lady was in a discussion about abortion & she meant that women should have the ultimate say on whether they want to be pregnant. :) It wasn't phrased well and out of context it looks bad, but she wasn't actually saying that a woman should have all the children she wants without her husband's input lol

[@headphonesaxolotl]

"Babe! It's time for the seventh baby!" "Yes, honey..."

[@BubblyRainbows]

I had a suspicion that was the case. It was definitely worded poorly, because it does sound bad, but I got the actual message when I saw it anyway. I was confused for a moment what was wrong with it besides poor wording. I was going to comment that I actually _do_ think that the person who is going to actually carry the baby should always be the final arbiter of whether she does or not. It _shouldn't_ be a 50/50 decision. It's my body and I'm the one that'll have to deal with all the unpleasantness of pregnancy and childbirth. So, if I don't want to be pregnant, it's not gonna happen. But, of course, this is only applicable to the "I don't want to have a baby" camp. If we're talking about _trying_ to have a baby, then of course it has to be a collaborative decision. This is the same reason I'm pro-choice. The government is _not_ going to tell me I have to remain pregnant if it were to somehow happen and I didn't want it to happen (especially since, in my case, as a queer girl, the only way that would happen is if I were victimized again). I don't care what the law says where I live (fortunately, the law here isn't insane on the issue), it's my body, and I alone choose what happens to it.

[@vapx0075]

@@headphonesaxolotl What horror fiction have you written? OMG. 🤮

[@headphonesaxolotl]

@@vapx0075 bro it was a joke XD

[@AD240pCharlie]

@@BubblyRainbows It's also insane to me how many people don't seem to discuss this beforehand. If you want kids but your partner doesn't, or they want kids but you don't, then ultimately you're not compatible and shouldn't be together since your goals for the future don't align. Whether or not to have kids is a pretty massive life decision so it's vital to make sure both people are on the same side, otherwise staying in the relationship is going to make one of them unfulfilled and probably lead to resentment one way or another. regardless of your decision. It's not really something you can compromise on.

[@JohnFleshman]

So about those Roman marble statues... they used to paint them to look more like actual human colors. but Paint doesnt last thousands of tears fully intact.

[@minestar2247]

And that's kind of mind blowing in a way, that those painted statues are so old the paint dissapeared

[@DJF040788]

I know it's a typo but the idea that these statues have cried off their own paint is...terrifying

[@BliffleSplick]

We over-identified with the blank statues to the point that if we saw them as intended, we'd say they're garish, ugly, and need to be redone

[@JohnFleshman]

@@DJF040788 Ya got me there. lol. imma leave it so your comment is not confusing. lol.

[@alicebthegachaweirdo8378]

@@DJF040788 Am I stupid or is there not a typo at all in op’s comment?

[@natashasullivan4559]

Ok the arrest of the autistic girl really pissed me off.. As someone who's an autistic girl. I can confirm we sometimes awkwardly find ways to relate to people in uncomfortable situations. If relating the police officer to get lesbian aunt was how she could make herself more comfortable. In a clearly uncomfortable situation... I just.. it gets under my skin

[@GeckoTech_Engineer]

Police are always on a power trip

[@NaeniaNightingale]

@@GeckoTech_Engineer with that argument of yours then all blacks sell drugs too…

[@gl1tter_cloudz295]

Even if she wasn’t autistic if you find being called a lesbian that offensive maybe you shouldn’t be in a position that offers you consequence-free violence

[@BliffleSplick]

"My daughter got a B" [so I removed what she needs to study and do homework] Facepalm indeed

[@kempolar9768]

"I got my child a phone and demand that they give me text and call updates about everything that happens in their life". Takes away the phone as punishment "why haven't you been calling me???"

[@emmanarotzky6565]

That’s (part of) the joke.. it was a very exaggerated parody of helicopter moms

[@waffles3629]

Yep. I got in trouble for being on the internet too long so my internet privileges were revoked...I was doing online homework. When I failed the assignment (I know, shocker) I was told I would only get my internet privileges back when I stopped failing assignments. Thankfully the admin password was easy to guess so I had to sneak down to the computer in the middle of the night to do my homework. And yes, I told my parents it was homework and they called me a liar because "Who would give online homework in 6th grade?". My father helped my sister with this exact same homework two years earlier.

[@BliffleSplick]

I dunno the "who would give online homework" sounds like "who would give reading homework", like uh that's kind of what we DO? My problem is that I need to have a lot of stimulation so it'll look like I'm doing something else like listening to music but it's what I need to concentrate. What you may be running into is the golden child / scapegoat dynamic, adjusting for age do your parents tend to favour your sister and you tend to be the one at fault even when it's utterly illogical? Being a teen is hard, the main goal is to *survive it* and to not take anything damaging with you into the future. (criminal record, STIs, addiction) @@waffles3629

[@phlagenjoyer]

Long read joke worth reading: Me talking about my snails: 17:46-17:51 “Y’know, there are different ways, to motivate people, in the world. Y’know you can offer people a carrot, …” even though my snails prefer literally any leaf I give them (aside from apple) over carrots and carrot greens. Idk why they do that honestly. Guess they like lettuce, even though it is a leaf made of water pretty much.

[@TarynBeeswax]

As a trans woman, I can confirm that I am indeed gay for wanting a muscular woman to pick me up and kiss me

[@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos]

Yep, everything looks to be in order here.

[@Dekubud]

As a straightish trans man, I highly relate to you on this. We all deserve to be picked up by a muscular woman. Straitish because idk how TF to call being romantically attracted to anyone who doesn't identify as a man.

[@Sly-Moose]

Who wouldn't want a muscular woman to pick them up and kiss em? Cowards I say

[@DrachenGothik666]

If a muscular woman took a liking to me, I sincerely would not know what to do, I'd be so embarrassed at my social clumsiness. 😶LOL I'm a transmale, gay asexual & honestly prefer men, but I consider myself bi enough in that I've been attracted to ladies before. I'd be a bashful, blushing mess if some muscular lady showed an interest in me. 🤣☺😶

[@SewardWriter]

Can confirm, muscular women are knee-weakening.

[@MaidMirawyn]

Story behind the Elf on the Shelf: girl’s mom is the nurse manager, and her coworkers did “surgery” (sewed the arm back on) to make the little girl feel better, and took silly photos and videos.

[@milhousevanhoutan9235]

I'm a trauma surgeon at a level 1 trauma center and an associate department head for EM/Trauma, so at first I was horrified at the waste of time. Then I remember long nights during the first part of my boring ass fellowship were everyone was apparently the safest friggin driver in the world. so I'd go entire shifts without seeing even a serious car accident to actually practice trauma surgery (I know it sounds messed up, but how are you supposed to get better if nobody ever gets hurt), and all the mischief we'd get up to then that was FAR less important than saving a child's view on magic and Christmas (think tossing a football in rolling chairs level of boredom). Then It just made me ashamed at how unprofessional I used to be.

[@zoesommers2927]

okay since the creepy landlord one is super gross, I'd like to share a similar story of mine that turned out to be really wholesome. I kept having notifications when i woke up that someone had been lurking at my front door in the middle of the night for several hours nearly every night (i dont have ring premium so i couldnt check the footage after the fact). so, being reasonably freaked out, i stayed up a couple nights watching the live security feed to catch them in the act. And I did - my mystery nighttime lurker is a pair of stray cats who for some reason like to chill right on my front doorstep and roll around. I've started leaving treats out for them every once in a while now that i know theyre there.

[@HelloFellowFriends]

Omg, that is so adorable! Cats like hanging out near my place too, maybe because of our huge bush lol Love it when they do that!

[@Echo81Rumple83]

plz tell me they actually have homes or if you at least adopted them afterwards >w

[@zoesommers2927]

@@Echo81Rumple83 naw theyre unfortunately a bit too skittish for me to catch them and take them to the vet, and I can't just let them inside without making sure they're healthy, because I got my own two cats health to think about. There's a chance theyre not even strays honestly since a lot of people around here have outdoor cats (in fact, though I didn't mention it in the first post, there are actually three cats that hang around. the third though usually hangs around the back instead of the front and I've confirmed on nextdoor they're just a neighbor cat). I just leave out treats and catnip for them sometimes when i see them around and I keep a container of water in my backyard for any animals that need it.

[@sarahr8311]

​@@zoesommers2927if you want, you can make a cat box out of a couple of totes and some insulation, for when it gets cold. I have an "outdoor cat" (a stray that glares in the window when the food is empty, but I still can't pet him) that likes his box a lot.

[@Meow4B]

This is the greatest story about an automatic feeder for cats that I’ve ever heard lol

[@LloydTheZephyrian]

About that lady talking about banning abortion, my response would've been as such: "Everything happens according to God's plan, right? Therefore, if His plan is to have a baby aborted, then the baby is aborted, no exceptions."

[@jacobc9221]

Banning abortions doesn't even stop abortion. Birth control and sex education past "Just say no", does.

[@minestar2247]

Or that free will is a thing

[@LloydTheZephyrian]

​@@minestar2247This is true, but my goal would be to beat them with their own logic.

[@CelestialHart]

Yeah a lot of religious arguments tend to fall down the moment you apply their own logic to them. Just have faith and don't question because otherwise we all look stupid.

[@kissit012]

@@minestar2247this is not a thing. It’s an excuse religious people use to deflect responsibility from their god for things that logically disagree with him or disprove his existence.

[@icemaiden9534]

on the cancer thing, i had a friend that would frequently have swollen joints she was 17, i was in 19 i became like a big sister to her, i convinced her to go see a doctor when she next had a flare up, she took my advice but was kinda nervous so i went with her, they gave her some pills to help with the swelling thinknig it was early on set arturitus fast forward 3 years she had a kid at 20 and after the birth her white cell count dropped to dangrously low levels, the doctors didnt know why she ended up having to be isolated an a whole battery of test run, after 2 weeks thay came back with a diagnosis of lupis, they explained that it was likely what was causing her inflamed joints and it had become agressivly active with the hormonal changes during pregnancy, sadly she died a couple years ago, i couldnt go to her funeral cause of covid and i still miss her very much.

[@sonderfulsable]

yeah, no, ruby frankie is a genuinely terrible person. her 6YO didn't pack her lunch one time and she said that she hoped the teachers didnt feed her. her eldest son was sent to live in the wilderness for months because he **pranked his younger brother**

[@deriko11d]

the fact that the last one has kind of a irony 💀

[@JunoGaylord]

Yeah, it's gay to be straight. You could say that it's... straight up gay.

[@Julian0101]

Ba dum tss

[@cycymaca]

Take my like and the door to the left😂😂

[@aaronmccullers384]

@@cycymaca OK (takes the door to the left home with me)

[@tpfoxCastro]

Other people made that joke? Yes! Do I not love you for making it because of that reason? Absolutely not, you are amazing

[@nbridgeman614]

lol my first thought was "it's... graight?" :D

[@PenguinLord10]

Being straight makes you gay. Being gay makes you straight. Being ace makes you a cosmic horror that mere mortals dare not whisper the name of, lest they go mad from the chorus of a thousand silent voices whispering dark secrets of infinite knowledge.

[@Zookiethecrimecookie]

Me being Ace; I agree

[@shroomian2739]

Being bi makes you vibrate incredibly rapidly, the distance of fluctuation growing exponentially. You begin going further and further, until you are moving at such a speed that you are simultaneously omnipresent and nonexistent, a living paradox, impossibility made flesh. You are and aren’t, you are one with the starless night of absolute void, you are the particle that begins the Big Bang, the origin, the annihilator, the unwilling, unknowing god of this world and a billion others for the fraction of a fraction of an instant that you exist, and then the speed grows so great that the atoms are rent apart, and you are dust unto dust that settles on a world of ash.

[@the-gay-mother69]

@@Zookiethecrimecookie honestly same

[@hashbird22]

ok what about bisexual

[@bluefurryman]

​@@hashbird22yes

[@Myder_Dragon]

I had to go to one of those "camps" once. It was more of a Christian education camp than wilderness survival, basically spending all day memorizing the bible and doing boring activities. Kinda turned off to religion. Looking back I remember how sus a lot of the consolers were to some of the kids.

[@John_Weiss]

So basically, a Jeezus-Madrassa of the Christian Taliban. For those who don't get the reference: The Taliban, the one in Afghanistan? They have schools, called Madrassas, where kids do nothing but mindlessly memorize and regurgitate the Quran. Same thing as what the US christianist-supremacists do, but Jesus-flavored instead of Allah-flavored.

[@isiahtrowbridge4720]

yeah for some reason i chose to go to one, but it was luckilly close to my house. i had no clue it was a Christian camp. i am and never was a Christian.

[@IceMetalPunk]

"Christian education" -- well, there's an oxymoron.

[@bombdotcom2168]

I went to one of those camps and it honestly solidified my dislike toward religion. I had friends that I enjoyed talking to, but the casual shaming in the form of 'modesty checking' when I'd wear a tshirt that "showed off too much" or not being allowed to cool down from human interaction at all or even just fuckin' sit out of the sun- They had a rule that everyone had to be with someone, but no purpling or hot pinking or dark bluing (extreme homophobia :D) so you weren't allowed to be with anyone alone- It just sucks. The only summer camp I had fun at was a martial arts one because we literally just kicked shit. It was fun because it wasn't stressful

[@relentless1989]

will go to a devil worshipping camp, see if they treat you better.

[@tzisorey]

"Lol, I don't have preferred pronouns" Why do I suspect that they'd become unreasonably violent if you misgendered her.

[@lukasr5867]

Yeah, even leaving all the third person stuff aside, people seem to forget that "I" and "you" are pronouns, too ... Honest question: Is "they'd" / "her" intentional joking regarding the misgendering or did you mess up?

[@BubblyRainbows]

Pretty sure that was intentional joking. But yes, it's become a habit for me, whenever someone starts complaining about pronouns, to count how many pronouns they use while ranting about pronouns. One of those recent viral rants used about 40 (I'm sure I miss some or maybe overcount by 1 or 2 sometimes, I'm not super invested in the number, so I'm sure I don't always have an exact count). But the record for me so far was my aunt, who used 58 while getting increasingly worked up about how only "self-centered, egotistical, arrogant, woke little sh*ts like you (she was ranting at me) use pronouns. Real Americans (I was born here, but my mom was Chinese) don't need pronouns."

[@asierx7047]

My favourite answer is that caption of "In order for Shadow to not have pronouns, Shadow would have to constantly refer to Shadow in the third person, like some sort of lunatic."

[@tzisorey]

@@lukasr5867 Yes, that was intentional - since it was an honest question.

[@spirit2117]

I seem to prefer all pronouns so I really do not care what you refer to me. I let others worry about it.👌

[@aurizzistic]

I was getting an iron infusion(a shorter lasting one because insurance is garbage) and I hear that a nurse is concerned about a patient that is hypercalcemic (calcium too high) and he's at an 11.4 The insurance wouldn't cover medicine until it was at a 12. She almost was begging the guy to pay the price(which was a lot) then she said "we will see where he is tomorrow and keep charging for blood tests until it costs more than the medicine" to another nurse. Like doctors shouldn't have to go to war with insurance to get the help they believe a patient definately needs. She legit seemed scared for the man's life. That scares me with my parents.... They almost CUT healthcare for the elderly not two weeks ago.

[@bshap495]

12:14 Last week, my brother and his fiance had a gender reveal for their second baby. It was a neat little scavenger hunt where they'd find notes with riddles written on them that would tell them where to look next, until eventually they find the confetti popper that reveals the gender. It's possible to make gender reveals exciting and fun that doesn't involve high-explosives.

[@kylajensen1957]

My aunt ASKED people if they wanted a gender reveal and she just got little bath bombs to mail to people who wanted the surprise. Cease with the high octane explosives, a fun surprise about ur baby's gender shouldn't be dampened by having an entire forest catch fire.

[@BubblyRainbows]

But _any_ party is so much more exciting when you're flying through the air because of the pressure wave of high explosives, or dodging flaming debris raining down from the sky!

[@kawaibakaneko]

Sorry but gender reveal party are only funny if you *at least* destroy the neighborhood, kill one person and burn down a forest. I don't make the rules 💅 Still feel bad for the woman who "created" gender reveal party, she feels way too guilty for other peoples stupidity. The scavenger hunt sounds really funny and the bath bomb is incredibly nice too

[@otakuofmine]

it is still messed up though as it conflates sex and gender. You cant know their gender anyways yet. literally the inventor of those parties regretted it after her kid came out as trans.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

ooh, now THAT'S a sort of fun thing i remember my parents did for me and Sis when we were young; we were so into puzzle games and everything :3

[@CelestialHart]

I know that weight loss post is like five years old now but it still baffles me that people have such a hard on to hate a feelgood post that they forgot mirrors exist.

[@teathesilkwing7616]

I get being confused at first, but going all the way to commenting about it without realizing or at least thinking “weird, I wonder why that happened” and immediately jumping to it being fake is crazy

[@lukasr5867]

​@@teathesilkwing7616 It's actually not that crazy at all. There are tons of fake stories on the internet, designed purely for the poster to gain attention and populatiry for a feat they never did (and we often enough see examples of that on this very channel). My first thought with ANY stark change story is doubt. And any little detail that seems off or a little too convenient will increase the doubt. If anything, it's sad that we are confronted with so much fake news that we get to such high levels of doubt. And just to be clear, I've seen exactly the same kind of post in a similar compilation where it WAS clarly fake and everybody laughed at the poster for posting such a stupid fake.

[@Moon9139]

It‘s like the tiktok trend: "How does the mirror know that there is an object behind the paper"

[@CelestialHart]

@@Moon9139 Those videos were a guilty pleasure for a while. Im sure most were fake but still.

[@BubblyRainbows]

This has been a sore spot with me in recent years... hating on people for weight loss or otherwise "improving" their physical image. I get that criticizing people for the shape of their body is not cool, believe me. And I am always happy if someone is comfortable in their body, whatever its shape, and proud of themselves as they are. But one of my biggest pet peeves on social media these days is people getting called "fatphobic" or "narcissistic" or otherwise getting dragged for sharing their weight loss/fitness progress online. Contrary to what some people seem to think, it's _not_ "fatphobic" to want to change your appearance in whatever way and being proud when you make progress toward that goal. Attacking people for that is just dumb, and I see it too often. "Don't you think it's insensitive to show off your weight loss when you could have followers with weight issues or eating disorders?" No. I do not. For crying out loud, let these people be happy with their gains! (And for clarity's sake, I'm not saying this as a fitness junkie. I'm a stick figure in a wheelchair. I don't have a horse in this race.)

[@Humanresouces]

37:42 Are you serious? If being pro life isn't about after birth care, then it shouldn't be called pro-life. More like anti choice. Edit: Apparently it's called being "pro birth" for some reason, because having a different view than others about caring for children is WAY too empathetic and moderate for these people.

[@voidseeker4394]

Yep, that's intentional manipulation. They call themselves pro-life for that exact reason.

[@04cassius-jake]

No it should be pro birth

[@Echo81Rumple83]

it's called "pro-birth." and the point is the cruelty because they think sex is sinful despite it being an important component not only for reproducing, but a form of (consenting) bonding.

[@Humanresouces]

​@@04cassius-jakePro birth, anti baby.

[@advorak8529]

Pro-life wants to punish women for having sex, especially out of marriage. To them, birth is death, once born, the baby is dead to them. The proper name for them is “forced-birther”. Using words that have generally positive connotations, they give false impressions, intentionally. The best way to reduce abortions is not making them illegal but making them not necessary. But that would not help the “punish women for sex” real motive.

[@randobeantv7712]

As a non-binary bean it's pretty fun to have someone ask "what can I call you that isn't sister but is similar...?" to just have to think about it for a minute before coming up with Sibling... XD we really don't think about non-gendered terms that often...

[@ninawth]

A similar conversation took place at my place of work, where two colleagues were trying to figure out for a while how to replace 'ladies and gentlemen' and a third colleague sitting behind them said drily: "Just 'dear visitors'." I wish we had a word for sibling in my language, because that would be so useful!

[@IceMetalPunk]

Sure, you could go with "sibling"; but you could also go with "tempter of the nine hells, first of their lineage, destroyer of obnoxes", and isn't that so much sweeter? 😁

[@denmark1226]

I personally prefer the term "Chief" as a catch-all. Always works. If a term implying a closer form of endearment is preferred, I'm partial to the term "you little shit"

[@PenguinLord10]

@@ninawth how about "theydies and gentlethems"?

[@ninawth]

@@PenguinLord10 Bahahaha beautiful

[@LRM12o8]

Lol, I had basically the same reaction as Clicky-Wicky to the question "What good do LGBTQ people do for society?" As an LGBTQ* person: I immediately thought: "Well, I work, I pay the salary of an apprentice in their final year worth of taxes and social insurance and I do voluntary youth work. Do you do any voluntary work for your community?" 😂

[@John_Weiss]

We also pay school taxes without, y'know, having any children [usually]. And we help out our siblings with our nieces and nephews. We're also the artists, the thinkers, the dreamers, and traditionally, the shamans and the priest/esses.

[@DrachenGothik666]

The dimbulbs who ask that question: Me: Nobody tell 'em that most of the entertainment & gaming industry is created by LGBTQA+ people.

[@ookamiblade6318]

Ace and disabled person here on raising orphan kitten number 100.... Personally I find that very productive for society as they're no longer going to grow up into feral cats and destroy bird populations.

[@TheGateShallStand]

​​@@John_Weiss Historically, the terribly vast majority of painters, writers, directors, poets, actors, Inventors, preachers, law makers, priests and et cetera are all straight men. This is not bashing you by the way, this is simply true.

[@John_Weiss]

@@TheGateShallStand …or so we're told that they are. Okay, sure, based on _absolute numbers,_ yes, str8s outnumber LGBT+ people … that's why _we're a minority._ But we are _overrepresented_ at a higher percentage than the general population in those fields. _That_ is what I was referring to. Happy?

[@OldKnightSai]

On the subject of inherited tattoos: I though it was an AMAZING idea for a Sorcerer Subclass for D&D where their bloodline power comes from the long history of the inherited tattoos of their people. But not just tattoos, scars as well by the paren't up until their birth. So there's some variations involved. The plot hook is; This particular sorcerer has inherited a demon's brand and is trying desperately to remove it before having their own children and passing git down. Perhaps they got it from their parent? And it's been in their family for a few generations, which allows for a Warlock subclass tie-in. I love this idea and will be building a coffeelock for it ASAP.

[@frankiemillcarek6976]

I could never be a creative writer. I for sure could not imagine things like this and also make it interesting to others. Cool concept!

[@phlagenjoyer]

Paren’t is pare not hehe

[@cole.j02]

I have a guy friend who's Ace, and he is probably the safest guy I've ever met. Not just because he's kind and caring, but also because he's incredibly respectful. He would walk female-presenting people around my university's campus late at night (he even did it for me once or twice). Whenever he did this, he always kept his distance to make sure we felt comfortable with him there. I actually had a lot of conversations with him about safety around campus. He knows a lot because he has an older sister, and he cares enough to learn from female-presenting people as to how he can be better as a person.

[@hopejohnson6347]

Hahaha yeah, the only thing I could think of when he read that post was "Gal has obviously never met an Ace dude before."

[@-Devy-]

I like how it's always everyone else who need to bend over backwards to please the LGBT crowd, as if LGBT people were just automatically made into perfect, flawless beings. All knowing and magically always right about every issue in the universe. (Lest you be branded a [gender/sexuality]-phobe) This insane self-entitlement and self-importance doesn't win the LGBT community any favors.

[@PenguinLord10]

Ace guy here and the only thing she makes me feel is "Wow, what a repulsive personality." The good news for her is that she'll never have to deal with guys because she won't have to deal with anyone spending any time with her at all!

[@PenguinLord10]

@@-Devy- We don't claim a shitlord like her. You should talk with some LGBT people in real life instead. We don't bite, I swear.

[@doodlesyoru2108]

This guy seems to be pretty reliable.

[@DinosaurNick]

To answer Click about what started gender reveal parties: The first gender reveal party was celebrated by a woman had had multiple miscarriages. When she finally carried a pregnancy far enough to see the gender, she was so happy she threw a party to reveal its gender. It wasn't intended to be a gender reveal, it was celebrating the fact her baby didn't die. But other people saw this party and liked it and started doing it to reveal their babies' genders. The woman's child is nonbinary and their mother, who started this to begin with, regrets ever having the party and wishes people would stop doing them.

[@a_d3mon]

2:04 oh it gets worse Cliccy... Rose has other children who TRIED to get their siblings away from her and Rose's OWN siblings knew about her abuse and did NOTHING because "it wasn't their place to interfere with her parenting"

[@deborahvogel1003]

And her husband stood by and did nothing also.

[@phlagenjoyer]

Long 1 min read, and I timed me reading slow. If I was a family friend of them, I would interfere. If my snails (my children pretty much) show signs of stress or discomfort, I will try to make things better. I would never punish my snails, because they have an itty bitty brain (if they have one idk mollusk anatomy) and don’t know better. If I am letting a family member watch them for a while (my vacation), I will lecture them so the snails do well and don’t die, dry out (temporary death), or get other living things in their enclosures. All three happened recently, but I don’t blame the caretaker. I forgot to warn her about to not spray down the takeout container enclosures much bc humidity, the baby snails randomly just vanish sometimes, and we didn’t pick up the snails until the day after we got home.

[@sevenlexar]

the metaverse house guy baffles me. Imagine spending 300k on what amounts to a minecraft house.

[@blizzardgaming7070]

The minecraft house looks better.

[@TevelDrinkwater]

​@@blizzardgaming7070completely true. The irony of the whole Metaverse baloney is that *it already exists*. This was just scammers and corporations trying to sell a locked in interior version.

[@DrachenGothik666]

Every time I hear of some dumb rube with too much money & not enough sense makes some utterly stupefyingly dumb purchases, I wanna tell them, "Bub, if you wanna throw your money away on something stupid, I'll make some silly NFT "art" for you. Just throw that money my way, since I live in poverty." I could live for _years_ in the manner to which I am accustomed for 250K.

[@BubblyRainbows]

@@DrachenGothik666 This. I have had physical issues since I was six. Because of my surgeries, treatments, health care needs and other medical issues, my father has had to sell my grandfather's house, all of his motorcycles, his collectibles, cash out his 401K and go into massive debt just to keep me alive and relatively healthy. Every time I see a story like this, I really want to grab the person and scream at them. As you said, 250K would change my life and my dad's life. Not just temporarily, but forever. It could do so much good for so many people, and this clown spends it on a virtual house...

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

On the other hand, it really shows the mental disconnect with some people treating a basic human necessity as an investment item like a rare Pokémon card. So of course he'd get laughed out of town for spending that money on something that can't function as a house, but of course he was willing to shell out for an nft of a Minecraft house if he was told it would be a good investment. It's a much smaller leap to make if you don't view houses as houses in the first place.

[@kooskoos1234]

American healthcare is basically “pay us a shitload of money, and we’ll do our very best not to pay for your healthcare.” Healthcare companies look for any possible way not to pay for the service *you* pay *them* shitloads of money for

[@PenguinLord10]

Up to and including not paying most of what a service would have cost uninsured. I'm lucky enough to have "good" insurance, and it's weird looking at a $800 bill that I pay $10 for while the insurance covers the rest of the price, AKA the $200 they negotiate it down to. I'm no rocket economist, but it feels like there's something screwy going on there.

[@synthetic_creature]

@@PenguinLord10 it's quite simple, lobbying

[@Lukkaboc]

It also means going to a doctor because of pain so the doctor can tell you you're not in pain and go away.

[@oliviastratton2169]

That's not "healthcare" that's "health insurance". Which, yes, is a complete joke. But if you don't have insurance and just pay doctors/clinics/hospitals for their services directly, I guarantee you they will provide the healthcare you pay for.

[@kooskoos1234]

@@oliviastratton2169 eh word difference, close enough for me

[@ronjonsurfshop7356]

31:40 i can agree. my mother is a teacher and sometimes came home crying from what some kids did. they deserve better pay

[@CelesteMinerva]

I still can't get over the gender reveal that killed one of the grandma's of the soon to be born child. Gotta love accidental pipe bombs.

[@CarinaCoffee]

Wasn't this also how one soon to be dad died? He tried to make one of those pipes in his garage and accidentally killed himself

[@CelesteMinerva]

@@CarinaCoffee omg I forgot about that. Why can't people just do cakes? You already have a cake usually and cake doesn't kill or shouldn't kill. People are crazy

[@kaelin_cherise]

I hate to be that person, but let me guess... it was blue wasn't it? I swear everytime the gender reveal plan is dangerous or is based on environmental destruction ITS. ALWAYS. BLUE.

[@CelesteMinerva]

@@kaelin_cherise It was actually pink I believe.

[@CarinaCoffee]

@@kaelin_cherise I think the grandma one was a girl and the dad one was a boy, but I'm not 100% sure anymore. I really think they should just stop entirely. You can have a celebration of welcoming a new person to your family without all that other shit. It really seems like it's become more about the party and how big you can make the reveal than about anything else. At the end of the day it's a baby, it doesn't matter what sex the kid has or what gender it will be one day.

[@ayajones6069]

the story at 17:10 reminded me of this... My former mother used to always be excessively strict when it came to my image (she was also abusive and neglectful, but that's a different story), especially when it came to school. Throughout all of my school years, from elementary on up, I would get Honor Roll. I averaged all A's and B's constantly. But if I had a B on something, she'd tell me, "There's no reason for that to not be an A." If I got an A, it was "You already got the A, so it should be 100%." When it came to sports (I did a metric f*ck-ton of sports, extracurricular activities, and volunteer work), and there would be an award ceremony, she'd always say how I got "cheated out of" different awards (yes, I did get awards. Yes, my room was covered in medals, trophies, and certificates. Yes, she would say she was proud of me when I got awards. But she always made a point of letting me know that what I got wasn't quite enough). I don't even remember if she ever praised me for getting a perfect grade before. As an adult, I don't speak to her anymore, and I'm pretty sure she was just jealous of me and taking out her feelings on me. "Sometimes our best isn't good enough" is something I remember her often saying whenever I said I tried my best in something.

[@averysspookshowspectacular6205]

Oof, that's horrible! But former mother is a fantastic way to explain the relationship there. I'm gonna tell that one to my wife who grew up with a very abusive mother.

[@SlothDaan]

"Sometimes our best isn't good enough" is the phrase that drives my depressions. And I don't even have this childhood trauma related to it. I'm happy she's your ex-mum now. I hope you've surrounded yourself with loving, supporting people. And if you haven't heard it today: you are awsome!

[@mewmew8932]

By chance, are you Asian? Not offending, just sounds about right from my personal experience

[@John_Weiss]

That's fscked-up. What your mother was putting you through? Yeah that's what a Depressive-Mood-Disorder does to you. I know, I've had a depressive-mood-disorder since I was 7. The disease is constantly telling you you're never good enough, that even your best isn't really good enough. And I want to emphasize: A Depressive-Mood-Disorder _is a mental-illness,_ is a form of insanity. Your former mother was feeding you messages usually found in a Diseased Mind. That's _fvcked up._ I'm glad she's your former mother. You don't deserve having someone that horrible and poisonous in your life, and she deserves to Be Alone. Like I said, the first clear signs of my own depressive-mood-disorder appeared when I was 7. I spent my childhood and teens being a perfectionist due to the mood-disorder feeding me the "not-good-enough" message in an infinite loop. That a _parent_ fed that poisonous message to _their child_ Make. Me. *_Livid._* 😡

[@mgen278]

Hugs from a fellow survivor of a terrible mother❤

[@xylophone_888]

on 36:38 : bbw is an acronym for big beautiful woman so this guy essentially just said the equivalent of "i want a woman with orange hair BUT NO GINGERS!!!" lmao

[@ashalyce421]

The 9-11 stair climb challenge is about recognizing what the first responders did to save those stuck in the buildings. I still think it feels a bit weird, but there is a more wholesome/respectful reason behind the challenge.

[@saskia8567]

Was just about to comment this. I've also seen this challenges with full gear for charities dealing with the 9/11 aftermath. To this day in fact since several first responders are now affected by the asbestos in the rubble

[@TheBntimmins]

The verbiage of the challenge name is a bit misleading or confusing.

[@John_Weiss]

"Challenge" is the wrong word for this. It's more honoring what they did by going through the same thing. I'm trying to think of the right word for it, but it's escaping me. [Damn my aging braaaaiiin! Internet Uncle-Gay 🏳‍🌈's memory is getting flaky.]

[@lyaneris]

​@@John_WeissA conmemmorative event maybe?

[@John_Weiss]

@@lyaneris That's closer… but I associate the word, "commemorative", with plaques and statues. This stair-climb has aspects of honoring the dead, and even some aspects of pilgrimage, almost. Still can't find a word that captures that. "Memorial reenactment?" But "memorial" sounds like a physical monument, and "reenactment" sounds crass.

[@JelenaMajic]

25:38 I'm an extra in a movie, I was playing a pregnant woman and got a fake stomach. to move like the real thing, those are pretty close to it in weight and texture, and BOY that gets heavy when you're carrying it all day! I kept my hands on/around it all the time I was walking because it's way easier that way, and I suspect real pregnant ladies do it too

[@CaitlintehCat]

"hi you little dumb dumb, did you know the world stretches farther than your local Wal-Mart" is the funniest take down I've heard recently, I snorted coffee. Thank you for the laugh !

[@fakenails]

40:05 What was even funnier about the whole imposter at the catwalk incident was that, when he finally got chased and tackled, people still thought it was part of the show and clap cheered.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Lol

[@joshuahunt3032]

30:10 I was gonna say, “a large portion of Bethesda RPGs, now including Starfield, for one thing.”

[@JMPH55]

I'm from Utah and haven't heard of that first terrible situation which is kinda terrifying... P.S. My mom keeps joking that we should be a KZbinr family, now I'm more against it than ever💀

[@TarisLuna]

I think she would have abused her kids regardless. The only "good thing" about the family channel is, that even though it's deleted now, there are clips and even full on videos still somewhere on the internet, where she basically confesses to her horrible abuse by bragging abouts it. There is no more denying shite, once uploaded and seen by millions.

[@DrachenGothik666]

Look up the Ruby Franke case. I guarantee, your stomach will turn over what that monster (& compatriots) has done to her kids.

[@ninawth]

You can find more information online from people who have dug into the family channel's past. I don't know every source, but most of my knowledge on this case comes from the videos made by Fundie Fridays and Rachel Oates. Those videos are pretty comprehensive, I think. It's a rather upsetting topic, though, so keep that in mind if you want to find out more.

[@DrachenGothik666]

@@ninawth Definitely worth all the trigger warnings.

[@hanna.1409]

Those wilderness camps are also known under "troubled teen industry" if you're interested in that topic. It's actually a thing. Lots of teens who are now free are speaking about their experiences, there are documentaries and even movies and some kids even died trying to escape.

[@Echo81Rumple83]

soon as i read that sentence, i couldn't help but thing: "of course "troubled teens" is an industry, especially in America, land of opportunity for predatory hypercapitalists who only adhere to the almighty dollar in the name of profit over people." tax the rich. or. we. 3at. them.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

That doesn't surprise me. They just sound horrible

[@suitov]

There absolutely ARE wilderness discipline camps -- and I have a story to share! My brother was sent to one of these places as an adult (threatened with homelessness unless he agreed to go, I think). This wasn't one of the horrific residential schools for 'troubled teens' that you hear about, and I didn't hear of anything untoward going on (thank frick; kids sent to other places are NOT so lucky), but conditions there were still no joke. This place is based in the centre-westish US, fully out in the desert; bear in mind that we live in temperate, rainy Europe. (This means that, although we did our share of camping as kids, desert wildlife, desert heat, and carrying your own water for the day are not things we're used to.) The attendees, mostly teens, were hiking all day and either camping or returning to the headquarters building. My brother is chronically ill; this was the 'behavioural issue' that the individual who sent him here hoped they would fix. My brother sleeps and rests a lot, and all this hiking was nothing like the low level of activity he was used to. He struggled with the early rising and relatively (not abusively) short sleeping times. There was other batshittery that I won't go into now, because this place incorporated therapy sessions and you might have intuited from the above that the person who sent him there is not the most in touch with reality. That person fed the camp counsellors a load of horse apples about what was 'really' wrong with my brother. Thank goodness they contacted other family members to get a less delusional view of the situation and did not go through with that person's plan of brainwashing my brother into a very detrimental financial deal. My brother struggled a great deal with the activity level and conditions, as I mentioned, but to give the staff their due, I don't believe they were completely inflexible about this. (Again, could have been much worse...) This camp had a kind of narrative for the attendees to follow so that they would 'graduate' at the end, with a ceremony at which they got awarded their 'spiritual names' or whatever and congratulated. I can see this being motivational for deprived and neglected kids who have never received this kind of individual attention from adults, or been made to feel they succeeded at anything. My brother, however, came home and -- shocker!! -- continued to be chronically ill. In my view, the biggest weakness of the progam was that there is no period of rehabilitation that could have incorporated the increased exercise and routine into an attendee's real life once they got back from the desert, and so as soon as my brother got home, he fell right back into his old pattern and none of the changes stuck. He still doesn't eat dried fruit and nuts because they remind him of the trail rations.

[@jakeriley9066]

Always appreciate the r/FacePalm videos. It makes me feel better about my minor mistakes, since I have a bad tendency to be harsh on myself.

[@Nauticalhighseas]

Same

[@aleximarie8958]

Naw fr

[@db_524]

Same, I also my own worst critic myself.

[@Matpit18]

Ever since DaddyOfFive, it just seems like the parent(s) on every family channel turn out to be the most abusive individual(s) that the world has ever seen

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

It's almost like forcing your dependents to adhere to the ridiculous standards and hyperbole that is required to have any success on social media is an inherently abusive behaviour, which fundamentally overtakes every aspect of you and your dependants lives.

[@Scrinwaipwr]

26:30 reminds me of years ago on a bright winter's day with sunlight beaming from the sky and reflecting dazzlingly off the frost on the ground, I was wearing shades and a woman asked me *"why are you wearing sun glasses when it is cold?"*

[@nokitadokuhebi8991]

sometimes I see things and I am so utterly flabbergasted that I become unable to form a thought. at a certain degree of stupidity my brain just shuts off out of self preservation

[@kempolar9768]

If more people had to go through a loading cycle before speaking, I think the world would be in a much better place.

[@BubblyRainbows]

@@kempolar9768 I am a person with Tourette's. I'd trade ten years of my life for a loading cycle before speaking. My internal programming has coding issues. 😂

[@rachelann9362]

That Ruby Franke and Jodie Hildebrandt (an actual trained THERAPIST that was recommended for years by Mormon bishops, and paid frequently BY the church on behalf of members that couldn’t afford mental health care) story is an actual literal NIGHTMARE. The more you read into it and the more you listen to people that have been affected by Jodi Hildebrandts absolutely abusive “treatment therapies” the worse the whole thing gets. JH has a track record of severe abuse, and lost her license for 18 months due to reporting a client’s issues to the Mormon church (HUGE ethical breach.) she has a proven track record of alienating and blaming the male partners for EVERY problem, and will say someone is addicted to self pleasure if they do it like once a month, and lusting after your wife counts as sex addiction in her eyes. She also horribly abused her niece with therapists (another dual relationship that’s completely against therapist code of ethics and is a direct violation.) the nieces case is being reopened in light of the recent allegations and evidence via Ruby Frankes poor kids. Sadly, her case initially wasn’t perused due to JH’s association and recommendations through the Mormon church, and in Utah the majority of officials are also Mormon, and many laws are in full support of Mormon practices, and other things that will complicate bringing on abuse cases. Unfortunately Mormonism itself tends to be quite abusive in ideology, thoughts fundmentalist Mormons are way worse. I believe even before Ruby met JH, she was going off the teachings of that Pearl couple where victim blaming is literally in their handouts to victims, if you don’t forgive your abuser, it’s YOUR fault and you’re the one that cause it. Pearls teachings were in the Shiny Happy People and is followed by many unassociated fundmentalist sects. One of the teachings is “blanket training” an infant. You take a 6 month old, put it on a blanket, and put a fav toy out of reach, if the BABY reaches for the toy the baby is to be physically admonished, and will continuously be admonished until they are given the toy or they are given permission to reach for the toy, This is to teach children to not do anything without permission, that parents are absolute rulers,and is very psychologically damaging. It just teaches kids they can’t trust their parents and makes kids fearful. Unfortunately Pearls teachings are FULL of lessons like this. In the Shiny Happy People, you see some of the Duggar sister talking about their experiences being raised under this culture. One of them wrote a book, and there’s stories that are absolutely heartbreaking. One of the ones, who was adult and married, was trying to get paid for their part in the Discovery Channel show. Jim Bob wanted nothing of the sort. He was literally screaming in her face, and she broke and curled up in FETAL POSITION because of her past trauma with her father and the trauma he further inflicted. The Shiny Happy people goes into a lot of detail about these abusive and neglectful techniques that has been preached in large conferences for DECADES NOW. It is not exclusive to Mormonism, it is not exclusive to the quivverful moments-most attenders are in Christian sects, but there’s others. What’s even worse, the therapist was a therapist for Ruby’s son BEFORE they got in business together and before she “counseled” the marriage between ruby and her husband Kevin. That more than three levels of ethical violations against dual relationship (therapist always has more power due to the nature of talking about your issues, and the therapist disclosing none.) I fully believe abusive parenting “skills” were happening in the household long before JH sunk her teeth in, and there’s a lot of videos out there that prove it. She posted some absolutely vile methods, and if she was comfortable posting that, what was she doing when the camera wasn’t rolling? Nothing good. I also find it striking that the children have NOT been given to any family members or the husband that wasn’t living with them and supposedly had no contact with them for the last 18 months (supposedly under JH’s guidance he had to stay away to save the marriage and family.) Ruby’s sisters and parents are also content creator earns, and at least one of the sister has put out videos in the past about the blanket training. She’s not the only family volgger that’s been thrown in jail over allegations (imo there’s plenty of proof and she doesn’t have a chance at escaping all punishment.) she’s just the most recent. There’s another one that ended up in jail last year after her kids were found tied and locked in a single room (forget her name, but she was somewhere on the west coast, and I know there’s more. There was also the one that where the stepdad or livin “bf or big brother” was doing physical pranks that scared, injured and traumatized the kids. There’s also PLENTY more that the public is suspicious of, and it won’t stop until there’s better laws for these children that are the family breadwinners, much like film and tv industry has to protect child actors.. right now there’s NOTHING to protect these kids, and people calling services are often ignored because the police department is getting flooded and assume it’s a vendetta against their online success and lack physical proof. It’s really quite sad. Don’t support creators that use their children as a money earning prop. It’s only going to harm the children more in the long run. Again, it’s not a Mormon problem, but it’s foundational teachings and indoctrination teachings (especially in more fundamentalist wards) along with the foundation the Pearls parental “guidance” both gave JH and Ruby an easy thing to validate their own sadistic and twisted personalities and allowed it to steamroll to the levels it reached with those poor kids and Jody’s niece. Highly recommend listening to Jessie’s episode on The Mormon Podcast. They speak like a true victim, and I don’t for a moment doubt Jessie’s lived experience. I hope it was not as bad for the kids,but I fear it it was probably worse.

[@PenguinLord10]

"Mormon" Well there's your problem right there.

[@elizabethlee2136]

She's gonna rot in jail for abusing those poor kids😊

[@EthanKristopherHartley]

I'm beginning to think my boyfriend might be the straightest guy I know. Because I'm gay AF... 😁🏳️‍🌈😂

[@lingodelfo5415]

When I was 15, I wanted to melt some butter so that it was spreadable. So I microwaved it. In its package. Made of foil. I put the microvawe on. Glanced at it a couple of moments later - and there was a huge FLAME inside. Boy did I scream, and my dad came to the resque. But the microvawe still worked which is The most amazing part for me! (Please don't experiment though)

[@krankarvolund7771]

One time, I forgot a fork in the meal I was microwaving, fortunately I kept watching for ten seconds to see a huge storm of sparks in the microwave and stop it XD I had to change the microwave a couple of years later because the metal plaque was burned ^^

[@pandakapanda]

If you want a similar but less dangerous experiment, put in a grape cut in half but not entirely (leave a little grape skin between the two halves)

[@lingodelfo5415]

@@pandakapanda Works with boiled eggs too!

[@BubblyRainbows]

It wasn't nearly as dramatic as some, but when I briefly lived with my aunt from when I was 7 to 8 years old. My aunt used to buy lots of things in bulk and then freeze a bunch of it. So, I wanted a sandwich one day and there was no bread left, so I got a loaf out of the freezer and tossed it in the microwave. I was just going to thaw it a little bit. But it never even occurred to me that those little ties they close the bread with have a metal wire in them. The twist tie caught on fire. It was just a tiny little flame, and I shut off the microwave as soon as it happened, so there was no damage or anything, but it sure startled me.

[@ScooterBond1970]

I once tried to reheat a Wendy's hamburger in the microwave. I didn't think to take it out of the wrapper. Which is foil, bc Wendys. Luckily it was only 2 seconds in when I saw the lightning in the oven and yanked it out.

[@AstolfoGayming]

29:30 - You seem upset at the "9/11 challenge" but you're misunderstanding it. It's even clarified in the comments of the reddit post. The challenge is to *CLIMB UP* that many stairs, like the fire fighters did that day. Yes, the name is absurdly cringe, but it's apparently somewhat common for firefighters to train by doing just that already.

[@TheClick]

Aaah that makes more sense and honors the heroes of the day. First impression isn’t great tho

[@wormybobcat3706]

@@TheClick Guess we'll have to put it in the folder of "things that weren't peer-reviewed more in depth" with the bussy the vampire bus.

[@jordanenby9734]

@@wormybobcat3706 I'm sorry the bussy the vampire bus???

[@wormybobcat3706]

@@jordanenby9734 I guess you missed that episode, but yes, it was decorated to reference a (I think) anime about a vampire slayer, their put the word bus as the first part of his name and that was the result

[@jordanenby9734]

@@wormybobcat3706 oh okay! ty!

[@monarchceres6850]

33:52 I love how they reported the “pride symbol” and The Color Purple is right next to it. It really shows how surface level they are and how they don’t even read the books they’re banning. (For those who don’t know, The Color Purple is about a Black queer woman living in the southern US, and her relationship with another woman)

[@CelestialBunnyPaws]

"A concrete box with a view of sand." I lost it. 😂

[@tookitogo]

:D Search for the essay titles “The Idiot's Guide to Art” by Dave Barry, published in the Miami Herald. I suspect you’ll find it as delightful as I do!

[@bekahbabie]

20:40 THANK YOU!! My god, I cannot even tell you how many times I’ve seen people (mostly Americans) listening to kpop and hearing the Korean words that are pronounced “nii-gah” and/or “nae-gah” for the first time, and immediately LOSING THEIR MINDS thinking the kpop idols are being blatantly racist. When in reality, those words literally just mean “I”/“me”/“you” 🤦‍♀️

[@hopejohnson6347]

The rant about anglo-centric censorship is something I really felt. I absolutely hate it, when especially games that have different language options, still only use the same swear word filter on the chats, no matter what language your game is set to... I can't count the instances of harmless words being censored in language settings other than english, making communication about said game unnecessarily hard, because everything is filtered out... even when it's just middle parts of words with an entirely different meaning.

[@bekahbabie]

@@hopejohnson6347 Omg, that must be SO annoying!! And some games are super strict about profanity and might automatically ban you if you get censored too many times, so I can’t imagine how frustrating and upsetting it must be for the many people who inevitably get banned just for trying to communicate in language other than English!

[@molybdomancer195]

It even happens with English words that sound like the N word but are unrelated. Someone in the US lost their job for using the word “niggardly”.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Lol

[@cmginfinity18]

This. I have had to explain this to people before on Twitter, then they would say I'm lying and refuse to google it.

[@nathanbarnes7217]

12:27 honorable mention to the El Dorado Wildfire. Turns out that pyrotechnics and dry weather don't exactly mix well

[@HORRIFICALLYSARCSTICLEMONS]

As a “straight” person with a girlfriend I see being straight as an absolute win.

[@bigjalapeno7061]

Hmm

[@susannairisastarte5192]

Hey, whatever works for you.

[@kazkazoodles]

To add on the the tattoos on the woman who lost weight (good on her btw): if you have a tattoo and you lose weight, the tattoo will shrink along with your skin thus, becoming “darker” since it’s not as spread/stretched out.

[@Alverant]

Does a diet make a person's hair darker too?

[@splitintwo_5432]

​@@Alverant No, but hair dye exists

[@kayleescruggs6888]

I thought she just got it touched up, didn’t know that they’d darken on their own.

[@DrachenGothik666]

@@Alverant 🤦🏽‍♂Ever heard of hair dye?

[@mdb45424]

Shrink? Yes for a few pounds but for these adds you tend not to recover the electistity of the skin

[@Parciwal_Gaming]

24:00 a good example for this is also the word "hell". In german, it means a light colour and in a certian slang it means smart/intellegent (someone is "helle")

[@КатяЖукова-р7д]

I once walked with my friend and we were holding hands. I released my hand because i needed to tie my shoe, and i was watching how she continued to walk forward and tooked some womans hand to hold. These 5 seconds were magnificent until this woman said "hello" to her My friend was pretty angry at me

[@kissit012]

Angry at you for their inattentiveness is wild

[@vapx0075]

Generally good idea to mention you need to stop. Like "Ah, my shoe." Or something. One of my ex's got sh*ty at me when I had to emergency brake for an elderly person who was in front of me and needed room and time to manouvre. To this day I still don't have the guts to willfully crash into other pedestrians. Today I did NOT kick/step on a tiny poodle. Don't ask me why some people are so oblivious to the world... they're not daydreaming and they don't even have headsets on. I guess they think if they're not driving on the road they don't need to take in the panoramic view of what other pedestrians are doing. smh

[@EepBleep]

I've only heard horror stories of teens and kids at wilderness retreats being abused and starved/dehydrated for days while having to have open wound's because the whole point of those things are to force children to grow up with severe abuse in horrific weather conditions alot of times

[@PleznTInfinite]

3:51 i love her "oh shit." moment

[@emerythegremlin5727]

42:19 Me and my friend invented a bunch of fake “slurs” as a joke and it was very fun lmao. It was stuff like “moss-covered brick!” and “cupcake-scented candle!” Basically we just named random objects and used them as “slurs” towards each other 😂

[@captain_khaos]

ok but cupcake-scented candle is a fire term for queer people im stealing it.

[@emerythegremlin5727]

@@captain_khaos You do that haha One of my personal favorites was my friend's "single crunchy leaf" lmao

[@elena_eleen]

12:14 imagine being a kid and finding out someone died because your parents revealed your gender assigned at birth 💀

[@penneyreed7316]

Or they started a major wildfire that destroyed people's property and killed some people too

[@Mercury-ok8ie]

"YOO I'm a spawn of satan"

[@BlueSlinky]

The term for two words that sound similar in different languages but mean different things is “false friends”. And they have caused many conflicts and misunderstandings between people from different places.

[@cherubalthz]

petition for click to produce some plushies with scented beads inside so everyone buying them is now guaranteed to smell really nice

[@CaseyTyler357]

This is genius! 😂

[@hollyjollyxmas]

That’s such a good idea omg

[@HeidiGraham1982]

Would Mango be mango-scented?

[@cryochick9044]

I want squeaky toy versions myself

[@harharharharharfreddyfazbear]

I'd sign it.

[@jonman927]

6:11 looks like it's supposed to be a grave stone with a firefighter's helmet on top but very poorly executed lmao

[@mr.cauliflower3536]

A certain gay man codified how computers would work. And he would probably do a lot more if his balls weren't destroyed, leading to him offing himself

[@unapologeticallylizzy]

10:35 I did this quite spectacularly when I was little! I was in a shop and went and started holding hands with this lady who I thought was my mum because height and I swear she was in the place where I thought my mum was. She didn't even have the same skintone but I was a kid and didn't notice until my mum's voice came from behind me like "Lizzy what are you doing?" and this very confused woman in a hijab was just looking down at me like "the fuck-" I was so embarrassed about having held hands with a stranger that I still remember it to this day. Sorry, random lady in the shop.

[@ostrowulf]

When I was in my early 20's in a museum once, I suddenly had my hand grabbed and pulled lightly with the voice beside me saying "dad, dad, look at this." I looked over, as the 10 year old boy looked back, and to his horror saw very much not his dad, me. He looked around, saw his laughing father and gave a very anoyed "Daaaaad." as he walked over to him. Caught me right of guard.

[@missnaomi613]

I don't remember how young I was, but I once grabbed the hand of not-my-dad in a crowd at synagogue! I was horrified when I realized my mistake!

[@XSaltyRamenX]

Y'all are still lucky, my dumb ass hugged a random man at Mcdonald's thinking it was my dad. (the poor man was literally so damn confused)

[@PenguinLord10]

@@XSaltyRamenX Eh, we could all use a hug every now and then.

[@kyokonightstorm5844]

41:30 The trend of "marrying yourself" kind of got skewed in the public perception. It was originally intended as a declaration of self-care, of working on yourself. It was a way of saying you were not interested in relationships because you were "already married". Of course, there is no legal standing over the whole thing, but it was a way of declaring to friends ad family that your focus was on yourself (so maybe they stop trying to set you up on dates). Also an excuse to wear a wedding band to keep pervs away. But since it was no legal, if you decided that you wanted to marry another person, you could. I suppose the "I cheated on myself" part of the post could technically apply if they promised themselves to not sleep with other people, but that's a bit of a stretch.

[@IvysPoison1987]

I'm pretty sure the whole birth in cemetery thing, could count as desecration of a grave.

[@mr.outlaw231]

42:15 Finally, I can discriminate against that one girl in The Bee Movie and no one else. Thank you random person. That girl was a real kaan.

[@slendveny7191]

It's hip to fuck bees

[@migueltales3015]

Man, how offensive, boutta cancel ya 📸📸📸📸📸

[@eason7813]

It just comes to the question of who made these words, is the person who made 'barlo' also the one who made the slur 'kaan'?

[@keiyakins]

Remember when James T Kirk shouted slurs at the top of his lungs?

[@reignbow_official2582]

it seems like it was the same person. which is unusual (everything about Barlo is unusual) because slurs are usually created after the thing they are referencing has been around awhile.But what do you expect from people who fxck bees?@@eason7813

[@chainunchained3221]

My favorite thing right now is the amount of mods for Baldur's Gate 3 to turn male companions female, so gamerbros who are into them for their personalities can romance them without "feeling gay" lmao

[@minestar2247]

Interesting, what are these mods called

[@ida6950]

Really? I would expect these kids of mods for something like Starfield not bg3. The only mods I've personally downloaded for bg3 were a flat trans chest mod and some topless outfits

[@foxross]

With BGii I had Dorne in my party purely for the queer representation (Hexxat was actually a good thief and was there anyway so doesn’t count). I would totally have gay party member mods because I’m thirsty AF so I can’t exactly blame the cishets. On the other hand, Astarion is absolutely enough for me. 😅

[@hmnhntr]

​@@foxrossAstarion is enough for me and I'm a straight man. I hate him so much and yet at the same time.... I always thought people were crazy when they talked about that sort of feeling towards someone lol

[@foxross]

@@hmnhntr heeheeheehee, the next step has been achieved on the queer agenda…

[@rmt3589]

20:10 How I would have a SMM handle this. Rules: 1. Don't use curse words or slurs. 2. Don't use words you wouldn't individually use at church. 3. Make them cry.

[@Laura-mi3nv]

I'm gonna just advocate for these gender reveal parent this time. They HIRED a pilot to fly over and let out smoke or whatever. The pilot and whoever owned and was responsible for the maintaining the plane are the ones at fault. This would have happened regardless of what he was hired to do. The couple had no way of knowing that one of the wings would basically fall off. You can't blame this on the gender reveal phenom. This is a horrible case of workplace negligence that killed a pilot. The owner of the service will likely be dealing with this legal issue for a while.

[@DrachenGothik666]

Indeed. You can see in the photo of the aircraft that the left wing is _folded over the fuselage_ of the plane. Yeah, not gonna be doing any flying with _that_ wing configuration. So sad for the pilot. He got into a plane he ostensibly trusted, & the lack of proper maintenance betrayed him.

[@guywholikesplanes]

They used coloured water from the hopper of an agricultural aircraft. To drop it all at once, they used the emergency jettison function. The weight reduction, combined with the relatively aggresive pullup led to overstressing the airframe. He basically tried to use this crop duster as a waterbomber, and didn't follow one of the core rules of aerial firefighting. In case you're still curious, blancolirio did a video on this crash.

[@amahlaka]

@@guywholikesplanes name checks out. But yeah, i was just about to comment the same thing

[@Llortnerof]

@@guywholikesplanes Which would still give at least partial responsibility. Why did they accept that to begin with?

[@guywholikesplanes]

@@Llortnerof I wouldn't blame the family, if that's what you're reffering to.They're not aviation experts. It's the duty of the operator and/or the pilot to ensure safety. The pilot and possibly whoever did his last structural check(depends if they find stuff like corrosion or fatigue cracks on the wing box) are in the wrong. And also, all that water rapidly falling could injure someone. Personally, I would have found it much safer to do a gentle pass, at a safe altitude, with the area checked for obstacles like utility poles, and drop some coloured smoke, with a simple gentle pullup afterwards.

[@WorldWeaver]

Wait-- we're allowed to do dangerous gender reveal parties, but not get abortions? What I'm hearing here is that the world cares MORE about unwanted, unborn fetuses than actual, living and breathing people with lives and loved ones. I am SO GLAD that Journey was listed as a game that rewards kindness. Abzu also does that, and I think Flower almost does, too.

[@khaleesireyna731]

My immediate thought was Mass Effect (just been replaying the ish out of ME:LE)... on so many levels, choosing to be kind and willing to extend a hand throughout the series ends with you being able to unite almost the entire galaxy against the reapers... and the real Mass Effect are the friends we made along the way 😂

[@NerdAlert42]

Sky: children of the light is by the same people as journey, and is SO wholesome

[@Silvergrove41]

@@NerdAlert42 as a fellow sky player It’s totally wholesome No death or infinite revival 🥲 for sure

[@NerdAlert42]

@@Silvergrove41 it is wholesome tho No man left behind!!

[@jeanfalconer6377]

At 2:45 there is evedince that suggests that the marble (and maybe also bronze) statues were painted. Academics call it polychromy.

[@gaylewinds4808]

I had a similar experience happen to me in the grocery store as the woman at the concert with a doppelganger. My mother asked me to get ice cream for my father's birthday and as I was picking it out this woman rather abruptly goes "don't get that vanilla. Get the vanilla with the beans in it". When I turned around with the ice cream she was like "oh my God you are not my daughter! I am so sorry!" I passed her again later and she was with her daughter and pointed at me. We did have similar builds and hair. That happened more than 20 years ago and I still get a laugh out of it.

[@IceMetalPunk]

You should have put on a shocked face and replied, "But mother, what do you mean?"

[@sarahr8311]

A friend of mine got her butt grabbed at a party. She turned around ready to deck someone and saw a shocked and horrified man who had thought he was playfully goosing his wife and couldn't apologize fast enough.

[@IanM-id8or]

I'm in IT - a traditionally non-union industry - and my employer (who shall remain nameless) has managed to convince almost all their employees to join a union

[@advorak8529]

Cancer is such a modern thing that the Edwin Smith Papyrus (written about 1600 BCE, likely copying a papyrus from 2500-3000 BCE) has cancer as an illness … In 2016, a 1.7 million year old osteosarcoma was found … modern humans were not even around, but the hominid still got cancer from “plastic” and “seed oils” and “processed foods”, I guess …

[@redjoker365]

Bad bosses make the best union organizers

[@aethersword7823]

Congratz on surpassing the evil triangle woman in subscribers, you're the bigger man now! (sorry if i brought that topic back again, i just wanted to congratulate)

[@db_524]

Yeah. Karma at its finest.

[@RurikDankil]

Utah is currently considering laws to protect the children in those family channels.

[@Alverant]

Just considering?! What's getting in the way, "religious liberty"?

[@RurikDankil]

@@Alverant considering in this sense is that they're debating how far to extend protections and what rules to put in place. Nothing has been proposed yet and they're working out implementation. Once they iron out protections they'll write it down and make the proposal. Basically they're saying that they're not sitting on their thumbs and while we don't see anything yet they're actually working to make things happen. Unfortunately the speed of government moves at a snail's pace.

[@penneyreed7316]

Utah the state who's representative to Washingto D C put his dog on top of the car, and was driving on the freeway.

[@RurikDankil]

@@penneyreed7316In a windshield equipped carrier. (A very stupid idea) Before an old fart like me was even born (1983), and decades before he represented Utah (2018.) He was governor of Massachusetts (2003-2007) as long as he'll end up being representative of Utah (He's not running for reelection.) And the dog got some revenge by getting diarrhea and crapping all over the roof of the car. Now, I don't like Romney, but I fail to see how any of this is relevant to the point at hand.

[@fionafiona1146]

​@@RurikDankil It's pointing out US politics issues, including random unaccountable elderly people with less than 20% electorial suport (getting 50% at 50% voting participation after disenfranchisement and gerrymandering isn't cool)

[@MogamiKyoko13]

The worst with the A/V cables is when the outlet on the back was green, but the plug was yellow. Sometimes they'd have both yellow *and* green outlets and you just had to guess which one the TV was going to work with.

[@vxicepickxv]

I'm only used to seeing Red / White for audio and Yellow for video, or Red for video and White for audio.

[@tookitogo]

Mono audio is usually white or black. Stereo audio is red (right channel) and white or black (left channel). Composite video is yellow. (If you were using red and white for mono audio plus video, you were accidentally using a stereo _audio_ cable instead of a _video_ cable.) Digital audio is orange. Red, green, and blue together are component video (usually YPbPr, sometimes RGB).

[@superior_cream_puff7798]

17:49 Yeaaah the carrot js the best way to motivate me honestly

[@DesMuttYS]

Quick note; BBW stands for "big, beautiful women." It is meant to stand for women who are on the larger side. Curvy, thick, thicc, chubby, or even what would be considered just plain "fat." So, by saying "no bbw women," the guy is saying he wants a woman on the thinner side. It also means he is inadvertently saying "no big, beautiful women women."

[@bluesonicstreak7317]

It also potentially contradicts him saying he wants a "thick" woman farther up, depending on how you interpret that term. MANY women I've seen described as "thick" are clinically overweight even if they carry it well. He'd be better off saying he wants a curvy woman of a healthy body weight.

[@ARCtheCartoonMaster]

@@bluesonicstreak7317 He probably considers “thicc” women to be a perfectly middle-of-the-road body type.

[@lxckystars__]

same energy as "the los angeles angels" the the angels angels.

[@537zun4]

click trying to mirror a picture he drew, realizing its not paint and he just can't is seriously the most wholesome thing I've seen today, and I have given my kittens salami for the first time today, so thats saying something.

[@Jaybird196]

Do cats like salami? Serious question.

[@537zun4]

@@Jaybird196 Very famously so, yes, its not healthy for them because of the salt and their tendency to drink way to few and get kidney problems, but they do love it, allthough I have to admit, not particuarly more than any other food I gave them, but my Kittens are strange in that regard, they steal noodles from me and actually eat them afterwards, they don'T go "uh, I didn't want that." but "I think thats meat, yeah, its probaply meat, I gonna eat it." so I guess since Cats usually are picky eaters that most cats give a more understandable feedback to salami, like for example gulping it super hastly down as if food tastes better if you eat it fast (which I also do so can't mock them for that really). Its a mid famous meme that Bernie Sanders demands that all kitten should have a little salami not just the top 1%, why Salami and not Liver sausage (which is just ice cream for cats if You ask Cats) though is a mystery to me. Pls tell me your question was acutally serious bc I wrote way to much for something that just could have been "yes"

[@Jaybird196]

@@537zun4 Yes, it was serious. It was related to the meme, but I was genuinely curious, if they cared for that kinda thing (I have a cat) . Thank you, for the frankness of your comment, and being informative :) .

[@537zun4]

@@Jaybird196 Well like I said, mine liked it, but weren't that extatic that it would outweigh the salt problem, but they loved wiener sausages, didn't had food their first day, so had to gave them from mine and they basicly inhaled the sausages, but also the salt problem again ^_^"

[@TheOneTrueDuck]

click i stopped watching for not even the entire summer and you already changed your intro.. i love it regardless its rlly cute

[@gabrielesh7916]

As someone who works in the solar department of a utility that provides service to customers in an area where it gets over 110°F (43°C) I can honestly say that the thought that it's temperature and not the amount of light that generates power is, sadly, fairly common... also, where we live, the days start getting shorter in late June or early July, but our peak Temps hit around mid-July to mid-August... I've had to learn so much more about the phases of seasons and daylight than I ever wanted to... just so I can educate people who didn't do their research before dropping tens of thousands of dollars on a solar system...

[@ineffable_eldritch_horror131]

Teaching is weird because the amount I made working as an afterschool classroom tutor (Pretty much a teacher but only worked 3 hours a day, still had a full classroom of 25-30 kids per class) than I would have as a teacher was shockingly similar. I literally followed the lesson plan that their teachers had already made and retaught kids that struggled in their normal classes. I made 5k less than a teacher per year for less than half of the work and I had no requirements or benchmarks to hit with my students.

[@wolf1066]

28:10 - sounds like the lion's aim was off - wrong person got scalped.

[@loganmiles7836]

I regularly apologize whenever someone says they are a teacher. One lady chuckled and then thanked me sincerely, saying no one ever says that. It’s not like I’m being sarcastic or joking either. I’m genuinely apologetic and impressed by what the have to go through on a regular basis. They don’t get paid nearly enough, often living basically paycheck to paycheck, and that’s just supporting themselves, heaven forbid they want to start a family, and then don’t get anywhere near enough funding to actually make their class room an interesting and engaging place to learn. If they want decorations, organizational materials, special classroom events or prizes to incentivize good behavior, etc. it comes almost entirely out of pocket. They get a couple hundred dollars in grant money to buy certain specific kinds of things, and then if they transfer schools or districts, for whatever reason, all that stuff has to be left there and they have to hope they’ll be able to replace it with the next grant without having to dip into their own savings because, ya know, inflation, and these are all basically necessary items for them to teach their class. Any other job that required you to put part of your paycheck back into the job in order to do it properly would incredibly illegal and be under all sorts of investigations and law suits. But they’re teachers, so its fine. Seriously, I’m so sorry for the shit y’all out up with, and thank you.

[@vxicepickxv]

There's a story about a teacher that was 31 and quit to work at Costco and made about 50% more money than as a teacher.

[@John_Weiss]

I swear, we need a nationwide teacher quiet-quitting, where they: 1) Stop spending their own money on supplies; 2) Stop working more than 8 hours; 3) Stop working outside of school, like parents and politicians think happens; 4) Remind the students that they, their teachers, are behaving the way that their parents _think_ they behave, and that it's not anything against them. Do this the month, preferably before one of the standardized tests we force students through. Do it just for a month. Have the students bomb the test and go home crying because their parents so undervalue the teachers that the teachers don't have the time to do their jobs if they only work 8 hour days. Have students go home crying because they failed a test because they had no pen, and the teacher didn't have any pens or paper to give to the kids who didn't have any because the teachers stopped _spending their own money_ on supplies.

[@John_Weiss]

@@vxicepickxv Betcha it was in Texas or Florida. Those deep-red states are the worst when it comes to teacher pay and valuing teachers. Because their right-wing politicians want Indoctrination not Education.

[@PenguinLord10]

@@John_Weiss Take it from me as someone who has been lifelong friends with a family who has had a whole lineage of teaching: most teachers would rather make those sacrifices than leave their kids high and dry. They have a genuine love and passion for helping children, we can't leave it all to them.

[@John_Weiss]

@@PenguinLord10 Yes, I'm well-aware that teachers would never leave their kids high-and-dry. I have in my family and among friends more than a few teachers. I know they would have great difficulty bringing themselves to that. I'm saying, that it's probably the only way we can get through to the ungrateful parents and politicians just what would happen if our teaches _were only giving 100% instead of 350%._

[@NotUnique_]

I'm currently taking the trash out, knowing I still smell amazing despite the fact that the last one exploded on me is so validating I was about to shower but no need to do that now ❤😊

[@persooniemand8346]

Wdym your trash exploded? How does that happen? What did you? ARE THE RACCOONS TAKING OVER???

[@sansgok1740]

the racoons took out the rpg7 to keep the trashcan

[@NotUnique_]

​@@persooniemand8346😢no I just thought it would be a good idea to try to throw the last once basketball ball style and I held it on top of my head and everything went dark and all of a sudden I found myself with a broom and dustpan and wet towels cleaning the mess but that's not the point I still smell amazing 🤩

[@NotUnique_]

@@sansgok1740 we don't have raccoons where I live but that would've been FREAKING AWESOME!!

[@persooniemand8346]

@@NotUnique_ i see, sorry that happened but hey atleast you smell nice~