I appreciate the pro-tip! I’m fixed now and she’s had the IUD removed, so hopefully someone else in our position finds this info, because I think it would have really helped us.

Birth control is such a mess, and it seems like there are better ways that are kept from us, as if those in control would prefer we all be breeding for some reason…

I’m so sorry for what you and your family had to go through. I can empathize with the notion of being completely let down by supposed modern medical practitioners. I’ve lost someone close to me because a doctor (and her staff and associates) did not catch an error in proscribed/administered medication. At the end of the day, these vitally important systems are susceptible to human error, and it costs some people everything. I see and hear you – perhaps only because it happened to me as well; it feels like no one else could ever really know – but I do know what it’s like to feel like the only system available has utterly failed you.

We are all we have, each of us individually. I hope the best for you and those you hold dear.

Wife had a similarly terrible experience, and not that it holds a candle to yours and hers, but it was awful for me, too: Sexual intercourse was a guaranteed needle-stabbing-into-the-tip-of-my-dick situation, every time, and when it was brought up with the OBGYN, she dismissively said I was just “bragging about my size.” I was not. No action was ever taken, right up until I got a vasectomy and she had the IUD removed.

I’m sorry that you, and she, and so many others have had to endure what you have endured. I think these IUD’s need to go back to the drawing board, and on a larger scale, that there needs to be some major cultural shift to how male contraception is approached. This could be so much easier for everyone, if religion and money would get out of the way of science.

I’m not even looking it up, sometimes it’s more fun to let things be mysterious

Love the little “safety” rope

Copy errors like that demonstrate a real lack of professionalism, and I’d expected better coming from the originators of the Smash Me Daddy Double Cheeseburger. Their food is supposed to be slutty, not stupid!

Surely everyone can see this is a lie?

It works very similarly to those “Nigerian Prince” scam emails, where most people notice the spelling and grammatical errors and just don’t engage, but the dumbest among us slip through the filter and go right ahead and send that check for $10,000 with the utmost confidence that they’ll be sent back a check for $15,000…

So we just do:

“AI, run the world as a singular government with maximum benefit to humanity, but DON’T do a Roko’s Basilisk.”

I’d recommend Anker’s Soundcore series too.

I was also a Skullcandy fan (still have a pair of their Dime 2 earbuds I like to use when I’m going to sleep). The Anker p31i are my daily drivers now, though. For around $30 on sale, they have active noise cancelling and the batteries last all day – I didn’t charge the battery in the carrying case until a month after I bought them.

Gal Godot Gal-Ga-fucking-sucks.

What a typical, uninspired, cynical lump of redundant protoplasm masquerading as a “creative.” I take what she says every bit as seriously as I do any of the innumerable AI-generated commercials touting AI-generated solutions-in-search-of-a-problem. It stinks of a desperation, the likes of which I haven’t smelled since the brief age of NFT’s. They need you to buy into their grift, or else their investment falls through – and you wouldn’t want that, would you?

(I absolutely would)

“It feels like somebody with a fever is yelling at my pants!”

Alrighty then, enjoy the end of creative people creating things, let’s all find out together how this ends 😐

Ok, fine, but it’s ONLY $13.50, so what are you gonna do? Not buy it just because it looks like it’s actually from actual Hell? I didn’t think so

“Just a sec, I’m doing the paperwork!”

I went looking and found this:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1129381/?page=2

Eight patients were seen within 15 minutes of intranasal self-administration of large amounts of pure D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) tartrate powder. Emesis and collapse occurred along with signs of sympathetic overactivity, hyperthermia, coma and respiratory arrest. Mild generalized bleeding occurred in several patients and evidence of platelet dysfunction was present in all. Serum and gastric concentrations of LSD tartrate ranged from 2.1 to 26 nanograms per ml and 1,000 to 7,000 μg per 100 ml, respectively. With supportive care, all patients recovered. Massive LSD overdose in man is life-threatening and produces striking and distinctive manifestations.

Heh, and also this:

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/woman-took-550-times-the-usual-dose-of-lsd-with-surprisingly-positive-consequences/31154339

A 46-year-old woman snorted a staggering 550 times the normal recreational dose of LSD and not only survived, but found that the foot pain she had suffered from since her 20s was dramatically reduced.

This Frog & Toad meme is based on a true story, apparently.

The shrimp touching the pecan pie 🤢

Twin Peaks is both cemented in a very particular time and also timeless

🎵 We got STARS di-rectin’ our fate 🎵

American here and I instantly recognized him thanks to this video, too. Also, “Rock DJ.”

The US legal system still runs on powdered wigs and good ol boys and closed door midnight meetings. It didn’t catch up to the technology booms during our childhood, and it’s sure as shit not catching up to anything happening now, hence the unbridled tech bro dystopia currently enshitifying everything you can possibly imagine.

Yeah, I’d guess this is non-conputer-assisted failure, too. Here’s the font file, you can see that there are alternative glyphs that could have worked but they just kinda farded and shidded their way through it.