How many universities will abandon free speech rights for 10% of their budget?
All of them. Of course they’ll frame it like “to enable our storied institution to continue performing our vital work, we are temporarily putting a moratorium on non-pre-approved meetings. Thank you for your understanding.”
Today many of you will learn a new word.
A kynodesmē (Greek: κυνοδέσμη, English translation: “dog tie”) was a cord or string[1] or sometimes a leather strip that was worn primarily by athletes in Ancient Greece and Etruria to prevent the exposure of the glans penis in public (considered to be ill-mannered) and to restrict untethered movement of the penis during sporting competition. It was tied tightly around the akroposthion, the most distal, tubular portion of the foreskin that extends beyond the glans. As depicted in Ancient Greek art the kynodesme was worn by some athletes, actors, poets, symposiasts and komasts. It was worn temporarily while in public and could be taken off and put back on at will. The remaining length of cord could either be attached to a waist band to pull the penis upward and expose the scrotum, or tied around the base of the penis and scrotum so that the penis appeared to curl upwards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kynodesme (includes photographs)
In the context of the OP joke that would be a: jynodesmē.
On that page you will also see links to learn about Kotekas (penis gourds) where you’ll learn:
Yali men favour long, thin kotekas that help hold up the multiple rattan hoops worn around their waists, whereas Lani men wear double gourds held up with strips of cloth and use the space between the two gourds for carrying small items such as money and tobacco.
and Nambas (penis sheaths):
Two tribes on Malakula, the Big Nambas and the Smol (Small) Nambas, are named for the size of their nambas.
whatever was between Digg and usenet
for me, it was a mix of Slashdot and a bunch of discussion boards.
A government’s purpose is never to generate profit. It’s to make use of the common wealth to improve the lives of its citizens.
I bet those DOGE bros could stare at that statement for an hour and it still wouldn’t make sense to them.
but still struggle to socialize. I often find it hard to keep conversations going, and honestly, I sometimes feel bored even when I’m talking to people.
I suspect there’s something there. It may be nothing, or it may be just a lack of maturity (nothing wrong with that, you’re still young), or it may be a defense mechanism, or it may be a lack of empathy of some kind. There’s a bit of a skill to really finding interest in other people. If you talk with someone long enough, you can usually find something interesting about them. But it can be a skill to build rapport and to have genuine empathy – if you force it, you can sound “fake” or like you’re interviewing them. I’ve had some friends who were great at this, they could hold a conversation with basically anyone, I’m not a natural but I just watched them often enough that I try to do what they did. You may want to look around for some kind of social skills training or counseling if that’s available.
I’ve also faced rejection from women about 4-5 times in a row, which I know is mostly my fault because I come off as desperate or just don’t know what I’m doing.
There is so much benefit to having a platonic girfriend. Someone socially competent who you have zero interest in hooking up with but you’re good friends with. Then you can say: I have no idea what I’m doing wrong, I went up to (whoever) and said (whatever) and I think I just came off as desperate! And then your platonic girlfriend will tell you what you’re doing wrong.
Well there are two issues there.
You forgor to remove the outliers.
Your post will probably get removed. You may want to go look at [email protected] instead. There’s a sticky post there with useful links too. Personally I favor https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/ because they’re organized locally and perform targeted demonstrations e.g. to get a specific congressional rep to act a certain way.
Yeah we’re like waves in an ocean that break, recede, and are re-formed. I do kinda miss my dead family members tho.
So there’s a formal/professional approach and there’s an informal approach.
Formally, there are fields like Risk Management aka Risk Analysis; in these fields there are various frameworks and approaches for things like threat models and risk assessments. This is more than most of us need.
Informally “this is what I want to protect myself against” is indeed a good way of thinking about it. You can write something up for yourself, or you can just think it through. If the threat model helps you use your time / resources wisely, then it’s a good threat model.
Gaze not into the abyss
Reminds me to check out lynx again.
I don’t know much about billionaires, so I just kind of assumed that they had kids with, like, royalty or business family heiresses or A-list actresses. Not with their employees and/or whoever is left at the cocktail party after the A-listers have gone.
If cats gave Nobel Prizes you’d surely get one.
tbh I’d probably leave but notify someone who works there so they can call an ambulance or do first aid or something. and even if the cougher wipes the blood up, the floor there should be disinfected.
If her reaction to seeing someone suffer is: “leave”, then anon is better off without her.
Trump supporters feel insecure about the world. By bullying someone, they feel better.
That’s why they never turn against Trump when the policies inevitably backfire. It just makes them feel more insecure, and therefore even better about bullying someone. And there are plenty of us to bully.