OK. World Cup (no relation to right wing journo SE Cupp) is over. Can we get back to the when the fuck are they going to release the full Epstein Files record??
The loin police have the young boys covered on this. Hence the rise of the Icel and Manosphere
movements. The Christos have created an acculturation and value system that nurtures, propagates, and encourages not only sexual disfunction , but other gender demonization & blame for their own sexual inadequacies, failures, and incompetence.
I used one when I had a business to clean small parts. And now I use one to clean my bite splint and retainer that I have to wear for the rest of my life to prevent grinding my teeth and crooked teeth.
I bought an ultrasonic “denture” cleaner with UV lights to kill cooties from AliExpress for $30ish; the exact same thing from a local place was $120.
I had one that my ex-MIL got me from The Sharper Image. I loved using it to clean my vape (I put 90% ISO instead of water in it). It gave out a few months ago and I've been just using q-tips and alcohol and it is NOT keeping up with my use. LOL
We got sex ed in 5th grade, but all it was really about was our menstrual cycles. No birds & bees. But our parents apparently got a letter asking them to educate us on that point at home. My mother assigned the job to my sister who was 10 years older than me, so one day my sister walked me home from school and told me everything. I can take you to the very spot on the very sidewalk on the very street where the penny dropped. I said "That's gross! I'm never doing that! Boys have cooties!" My sister replied "One day you'll change your mind." I was adamant that I wouldn't. She was right, of course.
10th grade Biology class was much more informative, as was the book "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid To Ask)." I checked it out of the library when I was 16.
My mother was born in 1914 when most people had home deliveries, and she believed that the doctor brought the baby with him in his black bag, because there was no baby before he arrived, but there was a baby when he left.
My dad had a copy of "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid To Ask)." It was a great reference when I was like 13 or14. By the time he had a formal discussion with me I was pretty well informed, but played along. I knew he was doing one of his jobs as a parent.
I was born in 1958 and I was a home delivery. And, apparently, impatient, because I arrived before the midwife could get there.
My daughter chose not to try that, and it may have saved her life. Because she had to have an unplanned c-section which I suspect most midwives aren’t prepared to perform.
When I was 16, I came across a very helpful book called "Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Sex* (*But I'll Tell You Anyway)." Among other helpful information it provided, I learned that condoms could be purchased at condominiums.
Shocking that this administration is obsessed with teen pregnancy, teen-aged girls’ sexuality, testosterone and the need to try to control male urges, feminine worth tied to virginity, mostly teen-aged girls getting pregnant.
I think that birth control should be free for everyone, semiannual STI testing should be free for all ages over 16, and comprehensive, secular sex ed should be mandatory in public schools, including charters.
age appropriate sex ed– bodily autonomy, anatomy, consent, what isn’t okay for someone to do to you– should start as soon as kids can talk and parents should not be allowed to prevent their children from knowing what things are called and that no one is allowed to touch them without their consent
100%. I don't think this idea should be able to be opted out of.
I am a hard liner. I don't think we should allow home schooling for religious purposes. For others, maybe, but not to keep your kid from knowing how the vast majority of humans operate.
Home schooling in this country is largely used for nefarious, anti-social, social-contract-shredding purposes.
I agree, but I foresee arguments about at what age the secular sex ed should be mandatory. I'm 70 years old, and we got it in 5th grade when we were 9. Girls are unfortunately getting pregnant at 9 and 10 these days, so I'm not sure when this should start.
Part of the mandatory sex ed should be a module about CONSENT.
For K it's enough to say "Ther eare private parts and no one should touch them or look at them other than you or a doctor" or whatever is the "best practices" now.
I can definitely see an argument for that. I guess I might say - testing should be *available* for 12 and over, but things like, say, public ad campaigns encouraging testing should probably focus on older kids.
"Do remind them that Melania Trump's father was an officially registered Communist in Slovenia. Trump made him a US citizen. I guess some Communists get a free pass."
Google and Tesla shares plunge as AI spending rattles markets
...
Shares of Google and Tesla plunged on Thursday as investors were spooked by the ever-increasing amounts of money being spent on artificial intelligence (AI).
Google's parent company Alphabet saw its share price drop by more than 7%, while Elon Musk's electric vehicle-maker Tesla saw its stock fall 13.5%.
...
As major tech companies race to capitalize on a new wave of AI technology, investors are wondering when financial benefits will show up.
I am old so I don't know what's going on schools these days, but is there no sex-positive sex education? Why is it all NO NO NO NO NO? That seems stupid.
It’s really just a ‘Murica thing because Puritanism is a stubborn habit to break. Western Europe and Canadia are looking at us from their nude beaches taking bets on when burkhas will be required by executive fiat. Germany in particular is like “shit, they plagiarized Paragraph 175” and that’s why they perpetually repent for their shameful history. The US is like “it never happened; even if it did, it’s a good thing; and it was such a good thing that never happened that we should do it again.”
They fuck but they’re not supposed to admit that they like it. In fact they’re not supposed to admit to liking anything, because temporal pleasures distract from giving glory to God.
I would think/hope that people stopped taking seriously anything the RCC had to say about morality when it turned out there were storerooms’ worth of multivolume phone book encyclopedias of kiddy diddlers who’d joined the priesthood. My father’s well-connected parents had one such man of the loincloth as a drinking buddy on speed dial. He had the nerve to harass my mother for being a “bad wife” because she worked outside the home. Lo and behold his name shows up in the Boston Globe one day and not as an op-ed byline. Yeah, IDGAF what the Adobe Acrobat class says about divorce or gays or anything. You touch kids. DIAF.
Just by suggesting this, your net worth is now greater than the combined value of a decade's worth of 200 factory workers' annual incomes. However, that's only if you don't spend it. You can, however, take a loan out against the value of your net worth and thereby also bypass capital gains; again, so long as you do absolutely nothing with your fictitious capital and await a leveraged buyout from the first person who suggests it would be a good idea to collateralize your debt and merge it with a SPAC that's financed by someone who is looking to diversify their Trump six-pack trading card.
That’s brilliant. Except you have to create a financial tie-in to the Squeaker’s Covenant Eyes app. And claim it’s overseen by Agentic AI. Then you will leverage synergy and move the needle on a positive vector!
I remember when my cousin Rosemarie came to stay with us one summer. I was 14, she was 12, and she attended a Catholic school on Long Island run entirely by nuns. The year was 1970. Rosemarie told me she had been told that a girl gets pregnant by French kissing. I figured I better educate her before she accidentally got pregnant, so I did. Her mother, my aunt, was FURIOUS that I taught her daughter sex education, but my mother gave her what for about this nonsense.
I was always told that my Italian immigrant grandmother, who at age 14 married a man she met for the first time at the altar, was unaware that she was 5 months pregnant with her first child until a neighbor mentioned it to her. She had no idea how women got pregnant, did not even know why she had a menstrual cycle, because her mother had never taught her ANYTHING. In fact, she told my mother that on her wedding night she thought her new husband was trying to kill her. That was 1901.
On top of that, the Catholic Church told her that it was a sin to refuse her husband's sexual advances, which is why she had 14 children in 20 years and eventually died of uterine cancer.
AND that's what some right wing people want us to go back to.
OK. World Cup (no relation to right wing journo SE Cupp) is over. Can we get back to the when the fuck are they going to release the full Epstein Files record??
The loin police have the young boys covered on this. Hence the rise of the Icel and Manosphere
movements. The Christos have created an acculturation and value system that nurtures, propagates, and encourages not only sexual disfunction , but other gender demonization & blame for their own sexual inadequacies, failures, and incompetence.
time to get cracking on “queer sex for fun and profit: a field guide to living for pleasure” and direct mailing it to every address in the country
billboards with the url
wheatpasting
OT: Just ordered an ultrasonic cleaner for my vape because I have not been able to get it clean enough.
I used one when I had a business to clean small parts. And now I use one to clean my bite splint and retainer that I have to wear for the rest of my life to prevent grinding my teeth and crooked teeth.
I bought an ultrasonic “denture” cleaner with UV lights to kill cooties from AliExpress for $30ish; the exact same thing from a local place was $120.
I hope yours works as well as mine have!
I had one that my ex-MIL got me from The Sharper Image. I loved using it to clean my vape (I put 90% ISO instead of water in it). It gave out a few months ago and I've been just using q-tips and alcohol and it is NOT keeping up with my use. LOL
We got sex ed in 5th grade, but all it was really about was our menstrual cycles. No birds & bees. But our parents apparently got a letter asking them to educate us on that point at home. My mother assigned the job to my sister who was 10 years older than me, so one day my sister walked me home from school and told me everything. I can take you to the very spot on the very sidewalk on the very street where the penny dropped. I said "That's gross! I'm never doing that! Boys have cooties!" My sister replied "One day you'll change your mind." I was adamant that I wouldn't. She was right, of course.
10th grade Biology class was much more informative, as was the book "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid To Ask)." I checked it out of the library when I was 16.
My mother was born in 1914 when most people had home deliveries, and she believed that the doctor brought the baby with him in his black bag, because there was no baby before he arrived, but there was a baby when he left.
My dad had a copy of "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid To Ask)." It was a great reference when I was like 13 or14. By the time he had a formal discussion with me I was pretty well informed, but played along. I knew he was doing one of his jobs as a parent.
I was born in 1958 and I was a home delivery. And, apparently, impatient, because I arrived before the midwife could get there.
My daughter chose not to try that, and it may have saved her life. Because she had to have an unplanned c-section which I suspect most midwives aren’t prepared to perform.
When I was 16, I came across a very helpful book called "Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Sex* (*But I'll Tell You Anyway)." Among other helpful information it provided, I learned that condoms could be purchased at condominiums.
Shit, my sisters were home births in 1979 and 1983.
So I assume you were hatched, then. (/s)
I was a hospital birth and the doctor damn near killed me, so…
Shocking that this administration is obsessed with teen pregnancy, teen-aged girls’ sexuality, testosterone and the need to try to control male urges, feminine worth tied to virginity, mostly teen-aged girls getting pregnant.
I think that birth control should be free for everyone, semiannual STI testing should be free for all ages over 16, and comprehensive, secular sex ed should be mandatory in public schools, including charters.
Guess I'm some kinda damn liberal.
After six and a half years working in The South Bronx, I can tell you that 16 is way too late for STI testing.
age appropriate sex ed– bodily autonomy, anatomy, consent, what isn’t okay for someone to do to you– should start as soon as kids can talk and parents should not be allowed to prevent their children from knowing what things are called and that no one is allowed to touch them without their consent
100%. I don't think this idea should be able to be opted out of.
I am a hard liner. I don't think we should allow home schooling for religious purposes. For others, maybe, but not to keep your kid from knowing how the vast majority of humans operate.
Home schooling in this country is largely used for nefarious, anti-social, social-contract-shredding purposes.
I agree, but I foresee arguments about at what age the secular sex ed should be mandatory. I'm 70 years old, and we got it in 5th grade when we were 9. Girls are unfortunately getting pregnant at 9 and 10 these days, so I'm not sure when this should start.
Part of the mandatory sex ed should be a module about CONSENT.
It should be age appropriate starting in K.
For K it's enough to say "Ther eare private parts and no one should touch them or look at them other than you or a doctor" or whatever is the "best practices" now.
I would say all ages over 12. 12-15 year olds have sex. :( They also need this information and protection.
I can definitely see an argument for that. I guess I might say - testing should be *available* for 12 and over, but things like, say, public ad campaigns encouraging testing should probably focus on older kids.
Good point. It is largely older teens doing it so maybe on demand/available for those ages.
I remain convinced that we Wonkers could solve all the world's problems, given adequate funding.
"Do remind them that Melania Trump's father was an officially registered Communist in Slovenia. Trump made him a US citizen. I guess some Communists get a free pass."
https://bsky.app/profile/iveye.bsky.social/post/3mrdf6aqyfs23
Hey, some people still need hammers. And sickels. Gotta pound things, cut things.
It's all good!
Melonia was also an "illegal." Worked on her tourist visa.
Alleged "Einstein"
You mean her EPSTEIN visa? That one?
they’re going to tell guys that jorking it (their penits) reduces their later fertility?
ohhhh boy
“dont worry we cant get pragnent i cranked it all thru high school”
OT: Talking of rapidly deflating dicks.
======
Google and Tesla shares plunge as AI spending rattles markets
...
Shares of Google and Tesla plunged on Thursday as investors were spooked by the ever-increasing amounts of money being spent on artificial intelligence (AI).
Google's parent company Alphabet saw its share price drop by more than 7%, while Elon Musk's electric vehicle-maker Tesla saw its stock fall 13.5%.
...
As major tech companies race to capitalize on a new wave of AI technology, investors are wondering when financial benefits will show up.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c235n47g8g8o
How about never? Does never work for you?
ha ha
Abstinence only education is a stimulus program for abortion clinics.
“an overview of approaches to managing menstrual health concerns, including the advantages and disadvantages of ovarian suppression.”
I, myself, look forward to our new ovarian overlords and being suppressed by them.
Usually I have to pay more for that.
I am old so I don't know what's going on schools these days, but is there no sex-positive sex education? Why is it all NO NO NO NO NO? That seems stupid.
Talk to your Friendly Neighbhorhood Shitbag Republican who has tried to shut this type of education down since the 60s.
sex-positive sex education happens between the West Virginia GOP legislator and the students he grooms.
https://newrepublic.com/post/213410/elliott-pritt-west-virginia-arrested-seducing-girl
I don't think there is. I know for a fact my 15 yr grandson does not know what 'ovulation'
means.
It’s really just a ‘Murica thing because Puritanism is a stubborn habit to break. Western Europe and Canadia are looking at us from their nude beaches taking bets on when burkhas will be required by executive fiat. Germany in particular is like “shit, they plagiarized Paragraph 175” and that’s why they perpetually repent for their shameful history. The US is like “it never happened; even if it did, it’s a good thing; and it was such a good thing that never happened that we should do it again.”
This. We are the only Western "civilized" country with these ridiculous hang-ups.
That last bit is basically The Narcissist’s Prayer.
Because "Christians".
Don't Christians like to fuck? It certainly seems there are a lot of them, and I assume they're making them somewhere.
They fuck but they’re not supposed to admit that they like it. In fact they’re not supposed to admit to liking anything, because temporal pleasures distract from giving glory to God.
Which is what makes lapsed Catholics so much fun.
I would think/hope that people stopped taking seriously anything the RCC had to say about morality when it turned out there were storerooms’ worth of multivolume phone book encyclopedias of kiddy diddlers who’d joined the priesthood. My father’s well-connected parents had one such man of the loincloth as a drinking buddy on speed dial. He had the nerve to harass my mother for being a “bad wife” because she worked outside the home. Lo and behold his name shows up in the Boston Globe one day and not as an op-ed byline. Yeah, IDGAF what the Adobe Acrobat class says about divorce or gays or anything. You touch kids. DIAF.
Man — the only complex nonlinear servomechanism capable of being totally and wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
Yeah but the development cycle took an age. Eons.
When you put it like that all the robot start-ups look really stupid.
I have an idea to take this into the 21st century: crypto-purity-rings!
Put it on the NFT blockchain!
Just by suggesting this, your net worth is now greater than the combined value of a decade's worth of 200 factory workers' annual incomes. However, that's only if you don't spend it. You can, however, take a loan out against the value of your net worth and thereby also bypass capital gains; again, so long as you do absolutely nothing with your fictitious capital and await a leveraged buyout from the first person who suggests it would be a good idea to collateralize your debt and merge it with a SPAC that's financed by someone who is looking to diversify their Trump six-pack trading card.
*golf clap*
That’s brilliant. Except you have to create a financial tie-in to the Squeaker’s Covenant Eyes app. And claim it’s overseen by Agentic AI. Then you will leverage synergy and move the needle on a positive vector!
Let's run it up the flagpole! I'm sure the guys in the C suite can synergize this idea with something from one of the other subsidiaries.
let's table that for now and circle back at an agreed-on date matrix!
I remember when my cousin Rosemarie came to stay with us one summer. I was 14, she was 12, and she attended a Catholic school on Long Island run entirely by nuns. The year was 1970. Rosemarie told me she had been told that a girl gets pregnant by French kissing. I figured I better educate her before she accidentally got pregnant, so I did. Her mother, my aunt, was FURIOUS that I taught her daughter sex education, but my mother gave her what for about this nonsense.
I was always told that my Italian immigrant grandmother, who at age 14 married a man she met for the first time at the altar, was unaware that she was 5 months pregnant with her first child until a neighbor mentioned it to her. She had no idea how women got pregnant, did not even know why she had a menstrual cycle, because her mother had never taught her ANYTHING. In fact, she told my mother that on her wedding night she thought her new husband was trying to kill her. That was 1901.
On top of that, the Catholic Church told her that it was a sin to refuse her husband's sexual advances, which is why she had 14 children in 20 years and eventually died of uterine cancer.
AND that's what some right wing people want us to go back to.