Kitathalla

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[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 2 days ago

Aye, there's a pattern of breathing named after him. In respect to the possibility of him being its 'discoverer,' there was a greater demand on physicians to be more than medicine dispensers back then. While these days you have a pretty clear divide between MDs that treat patients and MDs that do research, it wouldn't surprise me if a physician in the late 19th century was formulating his own medications to test, and might have a hobby of experimenting with materials that didn't pan out as medication.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was extremely happy when we replaced the carpet in the bathroom. Walking into a carpeted bathroom is one of those moments when you just shudder uncontrollably.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's double-speak, right here 41 years later for your aural pleasure.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 10 points 4 days ago

Wait until my date sees me bust out the five toe socks to go with 'em.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 5 points 5 days ago

Post-hoc explanations. They're super common once you start looking into people's everyday actions.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes. In fact, there's a very old joke about fucking one goat... People often focus on one thing to the exclusion of others. Ask the average american to name 10 trump atrocities, and they likely can't, despite thousands of (documented!!!) episodes of ugliness.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't die for your sins, like my famous kin,

but if you got a little sister then there's room at this inn!

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago

His best buddy was super hung. You can't tell me the J-man didn't know about his fellow J's swinging.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 8 points 1 week ago

I'm sure I'd be screwed. Just by the nature of the internet, someone in the various posts would find something that would enrage them enough to hunt me down and throw a cocktail at my house. Even if only one person in a million is insane and bent on revenge, overall I have enough posts that they'd come in contact with it. I'd for sure lose my job, since we have seen it happen on social media sites with folks' real names attached.

Luckily, most of the comments I've made have been on sites that have permanently shut down, so I would escape the worst of my years becoming public knowledge.

Now, if it wasn't just me, I'm sure I'd be lost in the relatively blase nature of my comments.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 11 points 1 week ago

Wait until you hear the real shenanigans. Remember the cards against humanity fricassee with elon musk's company down near the border? It's not all that uncommon. I lived in an area with less people than cows for a few years, and there was a famous (true) local legend of a construction company that had put heavy machinery (I think some sort of road roller) in front of a farmer's front land/gate, then refused to move it when asked. The farmer stacked about 30-50 round bales of hay around said piece of equipment, and told them just what would happen if they tried to 'steal' his hay. 6 years later, that equipment was still sitting there, and I'm betting it still is.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago

I think it was something like $30 out of my brother's wallet. Boy did I get in trouble for that one. In my defense, he had just left it lying on top of his bed's side table! You can't expect a five year old to not steal $30 out of a wallet just lying on a side table in a room with a closed door!

I don't even know what I spent it on, thinking back. Probably those little styrofoam airplanes you could put together from the little store out in the country that was nearby.

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

People revel in their stupidity. I have to hold conversations with several family members regularly where my jaw hits the floor as they refuse to put even the slightest thought into the things they do everyday. Just today I tried to explain the simplest of ideas of a browser and they won't even listen.

STAR, or even the simple approval voting? They fall into the 'but one vote!' statement so fast that it leaves a crater.

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