King Gizzardbeth & the Elizardbeth Wizard

I think I somewhat misunderstood you previous argument. As the original argument of the post-chain was the comparison of the Allies carpetbombing Germany (resulting in civilian casualties), and the attacks by Israel (which has also resulted in civilian casualties). I understood your post as justifying the civilian casualties behind their beliefs.

While I do not agree with your thought that people who fight against human-rights have their rights revoked. I can at least to some degree understand your point of view. It is my opinion murder should be an absolute last resort, and only in cases where a crime has been committed and no other options are available.

On the point of civilian deaths resulting from any attack (be it the Allies, Israel, Hamas or other). I don’t find it acceptable in any way. And that is why I used the words “twisted logic”. I understood your stance as anyone who thinks differently regarding LGBTQ-rights regardless of any crimes commited should be killed. Which I harshly disagree with.

So would Netanyahu also be considered as hiding behind women and children? He’s out in public, traveling and lives in Tel Aviv.

I’m trans. Doesn’t mean I want everyone who dislikes me to die. Wtf kind of twisted logic is that?

Uncurse the real sword!

(Haha I didn’t expect it either!)

Could you transfer the curse to the nerf sword from the other sword instead?

No, like a REAL sword.

I JUST WANTED MY CHEEEESE

This is really cool!

They had a quiz show about her where a question was if she wore a bra. The answer was she didn’t (technically), she wore a bra top.

Brain rot show but still good lol

Any wasp I see. It’s a fig wasp. Pearly guillotine. It’s a fig wasp. When the harvest’s clean. It’s a fig wasp. It’s a winged machine. It’s a fig wasp.

Not my style of game, but it looks fun! You’ve done a good job!

Sand has what’s called a high thermal capacity. This means it takes a long time to heat up, but also a long time to cool down. Metals such as copper have a low thermal capacity relative to sand. You can quickly heat copper but it also cools just as fast.

The chimneys of fireplaces was often surrounded by pockets of sand or similar material. This meant when the fireplace had a fire going. The heat would travel through the chimney and slowly heat up the sand. Once it became night and you extinguished the fire the sand and stone of the fireplace would slowly release the stored heat. Making sure the house was heated even at night.

The relatively low cost of sand as well as it not having a significant reaction to heat (water would boil for example). Means it’s a pretty cost-effective material for storing thermal energy. Assuming the batteries are extremely well insulated the sand might stay warm for that long.

(It’s been a decade since I studied thermal energy though)

It’s both quite interesting and horrible how he essentially became typecast negatively due to racism.

(Source Wikipedia) Throughout Hayakawa’s career, many segments of American society were filled with feelings of anti-Japanese sentiment, partly from nationalism rising from World War I and World War II.[51] Hayakawa was constantly typecast as a villain or forbidden lover and was unable to play parts that would be given to white actors such as Douglas Fairbanks. Hayakawa stated, “Such roles [in The Wrath of the Gods, The Typhoon, and The Cheat] are not true to our Japanese nature… They are false and give people a wrong idea of us. I wish to make a characterization which shall reveal us as we really are.”[52] In 1949, he lamented, “My one ambition is to play a hero”.

I’m only familiar with the basics of Ancient Greece, but I did notice a lot of fun references that I enjoyed :)

Dealt with (and still do to some extent) being scared of feelings when I started transitioning. Not being allowed to feel things was reinforced in my at an early age and it’s a lot of work to undo it all. I hope todays youth aren’t facing the same stigma when it comes to feelings and being vulnerable because it can really fuck you up. It really is the opitome of toxic masculinity.

It’s not too private at all. I often times find talking about it helps relieve some of that stigma.

To give a better understanding, the background to my anxiety and other issues come from bullying, a verbally abusive father, social isolation, and being transgender (male to female). All of this caused me chronic depression from a very early age. And a lot of issues in dealing with stress, anxiety, stigma & emotion.

When any if not all of those emotions become too much I have no healthy way of dealing with it. I can’t sleep, constantly fidget, extreme negative emotions and thoughts, withdraw myself, & and become suicidal (assuming I have no relief for some time). The way that self-harm comes into this is that it sort of… releases some of those issues. I’m not 100% sure of how it actually works. But when my self-harm was very active, often times the only way to sleep was to cut myself. I couldn’t sleep while all those thoughts and emotions ceaselessly raced through my head.

Of course it wasn’t just for sleep. When things became too much to bare I cut myself then too simply to relieve it. One of the biggest problems with self-harm is how it easily and quickly escalates. Just like how 1 cigarette a day won’t be enough for a chain smoker, you build up a kind of tolerance. You cut more and cut deeper.

Warning graphic stuff!

In essence self-harm acted as a release valve for everything that was bottled up inside me, whatever it may be.

Sorry for the long post. I hope I was able to answer your question :)

It temporarily relieves the anxiety and emotion. The pain and shock from an injury supercedes the stress and emotion giving you temporary reprieve. If you have a tooth ache and stub your toe. In that monent the tooth ache won’t hurt as much because the brain cannot process both equally.

I hope that makes sense.

That sounds like a truly horrible experience to have happen. I’m glad to hear you’re starting to recover, though that is often exhausting on its own.

I avoided alcohol for most of my life simply because I feared becoming addicted to it. Now that I’m in a somewhat better place I’ve carefully joined in on social drinking. And I can definitely see how easily alcohol could become an addiction. It can free your nerves and worries. Not to mention it is widely socially acceptable to drink, as compared to other drugs or behavior.

Hot water melting the ice of a windshield is such a good metaphor. It really gives an understanding of how easy it is to turn to the “easy” solution. Rather than spending 5 minutes scraping the ice off your windshield.

I would say self-harm is akin to restarting your car because it’s making that weird noise again. It temporarily removes the noise but it never fixes the actual issue. So eventually the noise gets worse and you restart more and more until your car gives up and dies.