My only issue with batocera is that GameCube was broken out of the box and I haven’t had the time to figure out how to fix it

I’ve converted to metric as an adult. Including Celsius. Does it piss my wife off? Yes. It’s better though

I will say that when you have body image issues you can wind up weird there. I’ve got a difficult relationship with my perception of my own weight (I’ve never been heavier than overweight, and rarely am even there). This has persisted through years of everything from sex clubs (yeah it’s similar to nudist beaches in body variety), non sexual nakedness with nudist friends and nudist experimentation in college, and just generally not finding fat people unattractive (I’m not a chubby chaser either, I just don’t care). I’ve had times lying in bed next to an obese woman I was in love with and wildly attracted to and I was feeling the need to scramble and put a shirt on after sex to hide the fact that my stomach felt less than flat and I was insecure about it

Also “that looks awesome on you” says you and the outfit both look good.

This. When I was consistently hovering around a pound from middle of healthy weight I could feel fat because my stomach or bladder had something in it and so my stomach wasn’t perfectly flat anymore.

That really depends on closeness and your personal experiences. If you’re looking for things to help yourself I can talk about that. I have a history of weight based dysmorphia and at times have been unable to look at my stomach while at exactly the middle of healthy weight because my organs felt like fatness. I also have complicated relationships with other aspects of my body as well, but not at risk of disorder or anything, but insecurity nonetheless plays a role.

A casual acquaintance in normal circumstances: “that sucks buddy, honestly I think you look fine/great/whatever but not a lie” You can’t help beyond being the choir of “we aren’t thinking negatively about your body”.

Anybody else, you can relate it to your own experiences with it of yourself or a loved one. A loved one of mine has a history of anorexia, so sometimes I’ll relate to people on that rather than talking about my experiences if I don’t feel comfortable with discussing it with them.

Ultimately, you need to understand where the person’s insecurities and discomfort come from and to be someone they’re open to help from to really help. Partners will often struggle to help beyond just showing avid attraction, but at the same time, I’ve had my fair share of sex with my shirt on or refusing sex because it would involve exposing my stomach.

I will say that having a friend give unusual compliments did help my self esteem in other ways. And having trusted friends give compliments can be valuable. But at the same time, unsolicited compliments about common locations of insecurity are generally not warranted and if you don’t know they are they’re better not said. However if someone you know is overshooting their goals to the point of concern like becoming underweight you can say something

Your mom needs therapy. I’m certain of this because my mom needed the same therapy. It’s insecurity in attachment and feeling like she’s not succeeded as a parent. My mom wasn’t nearly as bad though, she just had a rough life in the whole being loved department

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I don’t. Preferences set one up for disappointment. I simply use what is offered or whichever has more clean.

Forks for ice cream fresh from the freezer though, they break into it better

Ok that convinces me. That man sings so well

Exit to Eden. Terrible rotten tomatoes score, but it’s awesome and loved by the bdsm community. It’s a 1990s film adaptation of the Anne Rice novella of the same name, which is more or less just classic her style erotica, this one of a man going to a femdom island retreat and falling in love with and impressing the head lady there. Cliche whatever, but pretty good representation of kink despite the outlandish setting. But some executives or someone involved in the movie had a brilliant idea: buddy cop b plot with Rosie O’Donnell. This takes it from a bold and interesting decision that would probably be well regarded by a small group of people, to a movie that’s just kinda fucking nuts in a fun way. The b plot keeps the movie silly and light.

So yeah, if this sounds up your alley I highly recommend it.

Huh, I wonder if the fact that I dropped acid a few times at the stage of my life where I was starting anxiety meds and doing CBT was a factor in their success

Yeah it’s not like I do it all the time, but I do it from time to time. It’s a skill that I think is worth learning

Caesar salad in honor of the ides of March

My buddy had a manic episode and bought an above ground pool because our friends’ parents were out of town for a week when we were teenagers

Because international commodities don’t work that way. They’re priced according to supply and demand, with cost of production and transportation as a limiter on supply. The supply of middle eastern oil has been drastically reduced to Europe, which means there’s more demand for the oil you do have, one major supplier being Norway.

Ramping up production in response to high prices is slow, expensive, and risky. They’ll likely slowly increase production if the state of affairs continues for a long time, but it’ll be like the situation when sanctions on Russia began

Y’all get cubicles‽

I’m rooting for the civilians

Alternatively ethical defense lawyers often do so because even the horrible and unsympathetic people deserve the fundamental protections we all are entitled to.

I hear family law is particularly brutal though as the saying goes criminal law is bad people on their best behavior and family law is good people on their worst behavior

A good lawyer always tells the truth professionally. At least in common law countries like mine. I’m going to generally speak USian, but our northerly neighbors are likely similar as are the brits, kiwis, and aussies. I’m not certain a prosecutor in my country could do well without lying at all, but that’s an entirely different problem of cultural collapse.

A defense lawyer defends both innocent and guilty as their zealous advocate. Their job is to poke doubt in the prosecution’s narrative and possibly provide a counter narrative, but generally challenge everything the prosecution can’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt. They may also just be pleading for lesser sentencing. That’s part of how plea deals became so common here. They also don’t say the client is innocent, they state that the client is pleading guilty or not guilty. People can be not guilty and have done it as well, so long as they either have a lawful reason to do the action, or are incapable of legal guilt such as by insanity. They also have a lot of things they aren’t allowed to speak on and are supposed to just say that instead of lying. Copaganda has attempted to convince the masses that these people are lying scumbags who get bad guys on the streets instead of defenders of liberty who force the government to actually prove people did what they claim they did.

A prosecutor’s job is to take the evidence and build and reinforce a narrative that can withhold the defense’s scrutiny. It should be wholly truthful to the best of their knowledge. The goal is to convince the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty and then advocate for a sentence they feel is fair.

Then you’ve got all sorts of other lawyers. Cause lawyers like human rights and environmental lawyers largely argue over interpretations of laws and whether actions violate them. These people ought to believe what they say. Business and corporate lawyers don’t even have room to lie, they’re just building contracts and such.