DillyDaily

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[–] DillyDaily 8 points 6 months ago

what sets these two apart is that a bikepacker won't always have to plan for accommodation in advance. A cyclist with a trailer will never.

Am I having a stroke before I even read the main article?

Of all the ways you could structure this line, I feel like the author needlessly went with the most cumbersome.

[–] DillyDaily 31 points 6 months ago (6 children)

My dad and my brother both have passports and travel regularly.

I can't get a passport because my dad refuses to give me legal access to his birth certificate to prove that one of my parents was a citizen when I was born.

Why? Because according to the him, the government shouldn't need that information from our family, so he refuses on principal.

I can't get a passport without that document.

I can try and take my dad to small claims court, but I don't have the money for that, my relationship with my dad is civil and functional aside from this one issue, and getting lawyers involved will destroy the family, all I want is a passport.

He needs a psychiatrist, not a lawyer. Because he makes no sense.

There isn't really enough advice or support out there for children of whack job idiots.

[–] DillyDaily 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A "barn door attitude" is a idiom. I've only ever heard it to mean that you can't keep your opinions together and they're an open and paradoxical mess. Not sure what it means in other contexts.

[–] DillyDaily 70 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The lyrics on Spotify play along/highlight as the song plays so you can read along in time with the song.

This is actually a vital accommodation for the hard of hearing and partially Deaf because we can often hear/feel the beat and sometimes the melody, but we don't know exactly where in the song were up to because the tune of all the versus sounds the same, or vocal breaks of "ooooooh, lalala" can be mistaken for the start of a new line of lyrics.

So if you're just reading along with a static page of lyrics, it takes a lot of mental energy to figure out what's happening with the song, especially if it's a new song you're discovering.

We've had static lyric sheets for decades, you'd unfold the sleeve in your record and try to read along as you listened, never 100% sure you were doing it right unless a fully hearing friend was there to point at the words and be your version of the bouncing ball.

So to have this technology that almost completely solves this problem for a vulnerable community... Then to put it behind a pay wall despite the fact that Deaf people are more likely to be underemployed and socially disadvantaged than the general hearing populous is just callous.

Our experience of music is fundamentally different to hearing people, and yet Spotify will charge us the same rate for a sub par experience.

[–] DillyDaily 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Yes and no, if you scambait hard enough your number can eventually be added to a blacklist for larger scam organisations that bought your data for use in multiple scam attempts.

In my experience that has really cut down on the calls.

In 2020 the department of human services accidentally posted my personal phone number on a list of support services for people experiencing housing or food insecurity. This number was then circulated by every major news source in my state. I couldn't change my number at the time because I had no legal ID (still don't... Can't figure out how to get ID without ID, but I have a new number now at least) at first I didn't really notice the ratio of spam calls to genuine calls for the wrong number (ie, people calling my number because they needed housing/food) . I just remember getting 40+ calls a day at many stages.

But as the actual number for the food relief service was circulated, I eventually stopped getting genuine calls and I was getting 3-5 scam calls every single day.

After a year of scam baiting, I was getting 2 a week.

Now, I'll do something online that requires sharing my current number, within a few hours I get a scam call because my data has been sold, but I bait the heck out of that first call and I usually don't receive any further calls which suggest my number was blacklisted by a larger scam organisation, and I won't be hassled until my data is sold again as a new item.

It's hard to avoid getting your number on scam lists when the largest health insurance company, and the second largest telecommunications company in my country both had major data breaches where millions of customers identifying information was accessed and sold to scammers....

[–] DillyDaily 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nah, I'm just a person with leaky tits.

[–] DillyDaily 80 points 6 months ago (7 children)

You do anyway without piercings.

The nipple isn't technically one hole, it's kind of like a porous sponge. After all, mammary glands are just mutated sweat glands, it's a series of holes connected to a series of ducts.

So a lot of people find when lactating that it can spurt in crazy directions from unexpected parts of the nipple.

[–] DillyDaily 12 points 6 months ago

The number of times I find myself plugging the iron in behind the TV and then holding an old Amazon box against the wall and juggling my pants while I iron because I'm in a rush and that's the available outlet plug and space.

[–] DillyDaily 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's fine, that's what we want you to do.

We use the purely platonic conversation to get a sense of what level of compatibility there might be. Something physical, something more, what are we feeling.

Sometimes the companionship of a conversation is enough and we're both happy to say "this was a lovely chat, bye, have a nice day"

But occasionally.... "thanks for chatting to me, hey I don't suppose you'd want to come over one day and check out the recreation prop kittyhawk my brother and I are building? I'm stuck in the shop alone on Saturday if you'd like to keep me company and tell me more about old airplanes."

[–] DillyDaily 2 points 7 months ago

The first pride was pretty wrathful.

[–] DillyDaily 39 points 7 months ago

The female condom has two rigid rings, one in the sealed end that sits under the cervix, and one at the open end.

The ring at the open end is designed to hold the condom open and give the penetrating partner a nice big safe target to make sure the penis/toy/whatever goes inside the condom and not accidentally between the condom and the vaginal wall. This ring also provides some minor protection to parts of the vulva due to its size.

The internal ring is much smaller by comparison, and is not that much larger than a diva cup. The internal ring of a female condom is a similar size to a "soft cup" menstrual cup, it's a little bit smaller than a contraceptive diaphragm.

[–] DillyDaily 25 points 7 months ago

If it has 3.5 stars on Google, and 90% of the bad reviews are from people with white sounding names complaining of poor service.... You're in for some fucking delicious food from a proper family owned Chinese restaurant!

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