It’s more of a 180 on rhetoric than action. Obummer was vicious to migrants, trying to win over the gop by displays of brutality. Or it was just Obama being Obama, i don’t really have a good grasp of how self aware the man is or what his actual political goals ever were.

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My ideal type is one of those eu approved authentic micro-region things, but I like the knock-off from wisconsin.

How are they planning to beat em again when they’re not willing to fire a shot and the cccp isn’t around to do 80%+ of the dying voting?

The media was talking about it right up until the start of the war, or at least right up to 2014. Can’t remember which. There’s some memes out there showing the abrupt shift from the same papers.

It’s contextual.

Chinese, afaik, was simplified because the thousands and thousands of ideograms were far too much and too unwieldy for many people and made both writing and printing difficult.

English would be extremely difficult to simplify. For one, it’s already a more or less phonetic alphabet language. You mostly don’t need to know how to spell something as long as you can stick the right phonemes together. People might make fun of you but they’ll usually figure out what you’re trying to say.

For two, English has more exceptions than rules. As an unholy bastard stapled together from a dozen different languages the “rules” of English are full of contradictions, bits of grammar from other languages, deliberate choices made by the speaker, and deliberate subversion and breaking of rules for effect. I’m told English is a nightmare to learn because the rules are so bizarre and inconsistent. Trying to create any kind of consistent or coherent system out of it would be a fool’s errand, you’d be much better off just trying to get everyone to speak another language or build a conglang.

I am once again calling for death to the academie francaise.

Second Life, Ultima Online, VRchat, countless others. In UO people used to just hang out near the banks and talk to each other for hours as people came and went to deposit items or retrieve things. It was a very social experience, people would chill with their friends, roleplay, talk about life. All they really needed was cool clothes, ridable llamas, a neat environment, and an excuse.

Get a second opinion. They shouldn’t be giving you a Bipolar I diagnosis without evidence of at least one full-bore manic episode. Bipolar II is harder to diagnose and certainly shouldn’t be diagnosed casually.

For me, hypomania has the following symptoms

• i have too much energy. I need to be in motion, walking around, pacing, playing with things. This goes beyond adhd distraction or stimming. There’s a strong nervous energy and a compulsion to stay on the move.

• pressured speech. I want to talk, constantly, about whatever is on my mind. It’s more than just interest in a topic or excitement. I feel a strong pressure to just keep talking and talking and get agitated if i try to hold it back. Holding back speech requires conscious effort. My excitement and constant flow of speech is usually noticeable to friends and family.

• hypersexuality - i’m thinking about sex constantly in a way that isn’t normal. I have to consciously remind myself not to txt all my friends and invite them in to bed. I think i’m the sexiest person alive. I’m aware that this is abnormal and it requires continual awareness and effort to keep under control. When i’m experiencing hypersexuality i’ll go to bed with almost anyone who asks nicely.

• related to that, but not directly connected, i’ll flirt with everyone. I really enjoy wordplay and clever innuendo and the increased confidence and perceived competence, combined with the broad increased interest in sex and need to speak, brings this out strongly. I use a lot of overwrought speach in general during hypomanic periods.

• lack of perceived need for sleep. I sleep less and perceive myself to be more awake and alert than I am. This often gives way to anxiety as the effects of sleep deprivation catch up. I’m often up all night and well in to the morning

• i feel like the coolest, smartest person in the room. It’s never gone as far as grandiosity or delusion, but i feel very cool, smart, handsome, and capable in a way that is not normal confidence in my abilities or appearance.

• lack of patience and low frustration tolerance. I have adhd so this is a thing normally. Hypomania takes it up several notches. People speak too slowly, loading screens in games are too slow, people move too slowly on the sidewalks. Anything that’s not moving at my too-fast pace feels frustrating.

• impulsive spending. I buy stuff i don’t need, often just things I think are cool or that strike my interest in passing. I buy restaurant food more often. I buy large amounts of groceries thinking i’ll make new dishes, or because I misjudged how much I needed or was appropriate.

• emotional volatility - i’m prone to getting very upset and either crying or writing angry diatribes. I do not become violent, to myself or others, i just feel negative emotions very strongly. It can go the other way, too. Movies and books become totally overwhelming because any emotional response i feel to them is so strong. I write sappy love poetry to my partners.

• an awareness that this is all wrong. It took years to figure out what was happening, but once I understood what a hypomanic episode was I was able to identify episodes that I’d had going back to childhood, and to identify them when they happened. I can tell when my mood is elevated, when the world has too many colors and i’m talking too fast, and i can mostly tell when that trips over to proper hypomania.

My friends can also tell, and will let me know if they think something is off or my mood is too elevated.

Bipolar is different for everyone, and Bipolar I is very different from Bipolar II. But there are a lot of common and typical symptoms most people share.

aripiprazole can be diagnosed to help with bipolar I depression, but the first-line treatment remains lithium. I’m not a medical professional, just a guy with Bipolar II, but immediately giving you abilify without trying you on lithium first does not sound like the usual course of treatment.

Bipolar, adhd, and autism have a huge amount of overlap in the symptoms they present. But a Bipolar I diagnosis, as far as I know, requires at least one confirmed manic episode, while Bipolar II requires pretty solid evidence of hypomania.

A lot of people diagnosed with bipolar struggle with accepting the diagnosis, that’s a real thing. But the diagnosis is weighed heavily on having had identifiable manic or hypomanic episodes. If you can’t define specific episodes of mania or hypomania i’d suggest getting a second opinion. Mania is almost always very obvious, it’s a very extreme state. Hypomania is less drastic, as people usually aren’t delusional or psychotic and have more awareness and control, but it’s still quite different from normal behavior.

Hypomanic is Bipolar II, which presents differently from Bipolar I.

Three Body Problem is a very silly story.

Spelling standardization was invented by the dictionary companies to sell more dictionaries. I am 100% serious.

Is humanity ever not having penis discourse? In the most remote places, in the most ancient caves, one will find drawings of cocks!

The most common one is, very simply, most vaginas (or bums) aren’t able to accommodate a penis much larger than average. Once you hit seven or eight inches you’re going to run in to problems with hitting people in the cervix. If you’re have a larger than average circumference then penetrative sex might just not be feasible. Some people can certainly enthusiastically tackle a large penis, but its certainly not everyone and can lead to people with large penises having difficult sex lives and relationships. When someone is experiencing difficulty having a fulfilling sex life with their partner, while at the same time being told their large penis is a symbol of sexual prowess and highly desirable, it can be very hurtful and upsetting. It’s dehumanizing and doesn’t acknowledge the difficulties people face in real life.

And there are other issues; If your penis is very prominent when erect than getting an unexpected erection can be effectively impossible to hide, putting you in a very awkward situation. A long penis might need to be held a certain way when sitting on the toilet to avoid hitting the water. You may have difficulty finding comfortable pants and underwear. The world is really not kind to people who deviate too far from the norm.

Pakistan and Turkey aren’t Shia, and aren’t lead by the supreme Ayatollah. There are lots of different schools of Islamic jurisprudence, and lots of scholars and jurists, and lots of Fatwas. Islam is not at all monolithic. What Sunni scholars in Pakistan or Turkey say isn’t binding on Shia jurists in Iran.

I’m about 50/50 on if they’re cyborgs with their brain in a jar.

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Geology is one of the most pure and wholesome of the sciences.

I think it was Greece and I’m like 98% sure that the penises were all of a normal size, like the modal size for penises, and people just have no idea how big penises are any more because dick wiggling has fallen out of favor as a form of cultural celebration.

Large cocks are also psuedoscience as it presumes a galactic standard cock size and no such cock size has ever been empirically established.

That said, much sympathy for large cock comrades as it can be a serious hassle and cause problems of varying kinds and folks should know about that and not objectify people about it.