PugJesus @ PugJesus @lemmy.world

Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

---

Read more

Posts

1,525

Comments

4,183

Joined

2 yr. ago

I wish I had well-wishes to give. But Biden losing the republic because of his own hubris makes it difficult to care what trials and suffering lay in his future.

As soon as the trolley was invented, it was all over 😔

I'm fine with dying, eventually. It's aging I don't want to go through.

oh god oh fuck

Nah bro, I'm past the big 3-0. My knees are still good (though I've got plenty of other aches and pains to make me feel ancient), but I've got friends already complaining. We're all getting old and decrepit. Big RIP to youth 😔

Most of the works were copies to begin with - the loss of the Library of Alexandria is a loss of a possible source of transmission for literally hundreds of thousands of ancient texts. Considering how many priceless pieces of literature have survived by only a single copy, mourning the (multiple) burnings of the Great Library is far from mourning a nonissue.

The whirr of a fan is regular and unchanging, which helps drown out irregular noises. Irregular noises are hell.

It's broader than that - it also forbids comparisons of the Israeli government to Nazis. You may say that that's just an issue of tone that doesn't prevent serious discussion, and you aren't wrong - but I have no interest in getting tone policed on a fucking genocide either, regardless of German law.

It was astounding and unexpected. I'm still not the biggest fan of irregular sounds, but not having to refocus on them every time they happen is amazing.

On one hand, I get .org's admins' reasoning, and don't disagree with the core of it - no one wants a fucking police visit to their house over a hobby project.

On the other hand, it's a strong reason for me to not use Feddit.org (separate from Feddit.uk) comms at all, regardless of the comm's individual position on the ongoing Palestinian genocide.

Knowing was slightly helpful, in a "Well, now at least I know what's lacking and that it's not laziness, but focus."

On the other hand, getting medicated has been... I hesitate to say explicitly life-changing, because at this point in my life it's not really changing anything essential about how I live my life... but it has greatly improved my quality of life. Little things, being able to tackle everyday chores without massive executive dysfunction, or being able to focus on tasks for longer. And my sleep is actually restful now. That's fantastic too.

And the lack of misophonia when I'm medicated is heavenly. Never knew what it was like to not despise every little irregular sound around me. They're still bothersome, but not to the point where I want to bash my skull in against the edge of a table after hearing people indistinctly chattering for more than ten minutes.

Found out I was within the last year. Explained a lot about my childhood, and adulthood for that matter. I slipped through the cracks for so long because I was never 'hyperactive'.

PugJeSuis

Pretty sure it’s calling for the displacement of all the Israeli people there.

"It's just ethnic cleansing" isn't really a great counter.

It owns the libs, therefore, it's good, obviously.

Deficient, juvenile, and narcissistic. And they make all the marginalized groups they claim to defend suffer for it.

"It couldn't possibly get worse"

Fuck's sake. I want to cry.

"At least the filthy libs are losing"

One thing caught my attention though: what did they scrape oil off the skin with? I must see this ancient tool!

The Strigil!

Depiction of an athlete cleaning himself with one, though oftentimes they'd have someone do it for them.

The Emperor Hadrian once came upon a veteran in the public baths scraping his back against a wall. When the Emperor asked him why, the veteran replied that he had no other way to scrape his back. Hadrian, moved by the relative poverty of the veteran, gifted him a slave (look, the ancient world was shitty) and money to maintain himself.

The next time Hadrian went to the baths, there were numerous men scraping their backs against the wall. Hadrian called them all over to him, and then had them pair up and scrape each other.

Also, related to olive oil, there's a kind of simple pancake that the Romans fried with olive oil, and I can attest that it's delicious and easy to make.