volvoxvsmarla @ volvoxvsmarla @lemm.ee

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Cut him some slack, it was just a dead brainworm.

Why the fuck have you been downvoted, that's just a reasonable comment.

May I also point out, your funeral isn't for you. You might not care what happens to your body but your close ones do. A funeral is a place for them to find closure, to grief and mourn your loss. The mere fact that people who cannot retrieve their lost one's body feel awfully about it and still tend to create empty graves should show how much this is a very old desire of importance. The way we perform these death rituals can change and maybe it is not about how a body is being get rid off per se, and surely we could change this. That we as a species are aware of what death means and have found ways to cope with it (i.e. rituals as a coping way to deal with the knowledge) is incredible.

Whenever people say something along these lines of "just throw me in the trash" it feels to me like they didn't get that point. It's not about you. It's about everyone else.

Why I have a phobia of them? (Along, btw, with maggots, larvae, caterpillars, etc.) I don't think I can give you a good answer, because, well, there is no rational answer to that. I understand they are harmless to me and even good for the environment. Which is why the thought of a place of earth that is both healthy and worm(-alike)-free is literally a paradise dream to me.

There is no reason for the complete and utter shock feeling. I can't explain it. But I would, for real, rather die than get close to this. I am very willing to chop my arm off to not touch one. I know I was very lucky for the last 32 years to have avoided these situations and I don't know what to do when they will come up some time in the future. But I do stand by what I said and I think and reconsider it on a regular basis. So far I would rather die or chop my arm off. It's not a feeling like a panic attack, it is a constant panic mode, a shock, a feeling of existential threat.

You might wonder why I don't do therapy. The big problem is that I absolutely don't want it to be otherwise. I don't want to not have this phobia, I just don't want the triggers in my life. The thought of looking at a worm and be ok with it is nothing that I feel is worth aquiring. Irrationally, all of you who are just ok with these creatures or tolerate them are the weird ones to me. How does it not make you panic? It feels like the natural and right response to me. At the same time, I know why - because there is no harm. I know your reactions are normal. I just, emotionally, absolutely don't want this to be normal.

PS: I've been thinking for days on whether to reply or not and decided this time to not delete that worm related comment but actually try to tell you. My first reaction on replies when I happen to comment on this issue is to delete every evidence of me ever talking about worms so that I don't end up being further engaged or ridiculed. (I understand the latter, I always try to imagine someone having a phobia of squirrels, which are like the cutest thing.) I also tried my best to spell the words out, which is hard to me. I usually just write ~ when I text someone. Anyway, sorry for the late reply.

Maybe it is going to be solved by a brilliant political activist or leader. Jokes aside, of course it won't be a couple of people who will magically solve something. Strong leaders will however ease the cause by promoting issues best.

So, jokes aside, people eat all kinds of different things, so legit question here: is there any traditional recipe/dish based on another species' semen? Is there any culture who eats that?

I know in Switzerland there is a traditional dish of bull's testicles (which I know from a way too long advertisement on youtube that showed the recipe in promotion of the region, don't remember the region but that ad has been branded into my brain). And that you can also prepare utter. But I am asking specifically about cum here. Just out of curiosity of course....

That reminds me of the girl who was standing in line outside to register for her wedding date in St. Petersburg from 8 pm to 10 am the next morning without moving. It was mid January, day temperatures were at -22°C, and she wore nylon tights and no hat through all of that. I don't even know how she stayed alive.

That's how I handled my high school year abroad. Because I literally came from Germany, I replied to that question with "I am from Germany". Not "I am German", but "from Germany". I was born and raised there and only lived there. Only if it came up (e.g. because of my passport) or made sense in context, I mentioned that I am a Russian from Germany. So basically most people only found out about my genetics five months in. But of course that works much easier when you pass due to looks and accent.

I can't rationalize a phobia away

Thank you for the tip, but tbh I don't want the big crust to be that crispy, then it is just a big dry piece of bread squeaking on my teeth. A soft crust I could kind of swallow but ugh just crust in itself is awful. Usually around here the crust is rather crispy to begin with. I just end up not eating it most of the time.

Wait so you're telling me that there was a time and space on earth without those fuckers? They are my nemesis, my biggest phobia, and just imagining a reality without them is a second of relaxation that I could never convey in its grandeur.

It really depends on what kind of crust you like. I hate crust and delivery always comes with huge crusts. Tk pizza has a thin, crispy crust, so I can eat it easily.

YES God yes. Sometimes I specifically crave frozen pizza and no delivery pizza or restaurant pizza would fulfill the desire. It can be the other way around, too, I might crave delivery or restaurant pizza. But mostly, if I want pizza, I want the frozen stuff. It's good. It doesn't overdo the cheese/fat or toppings, the size is better, it is more predictable, the crust is must better. There's just something about frozen pizza. 9 out of 10 times I prefer it.

I don't think this is what you mean, but it sounds a lot like you want to replace one ethno state with another ethno state by pushing out all the Jews that have migrated to Israel during the last 80ish years as well as their descendants.

I doubt this is what you would want, but I just want to point this out, because it sounds dangerous and might be taken like this.

My guess is that you, just as most people, would not want the "migrants" displaced, but not in power and especially not suppressing the rights and targeting the people who lived there and are still living there. We all basically want them to be a big happy secular family who don't care about each other's background and see the person. (Which is the big problem because this family hates one another.) Yes, a lot of Israel's population has come to Israel somewhat unlawfully, but again: the mess has already been created. Telling a 17 year old whose grandparents migrated Israel from Hungary to please fuck off and go back to Hungary would be not more rightful than displacing Palestinians back in 1948.

So, first of all - I basically agree with you and will be playing devil's advocate a little bit here. But some things I want to point out:

The majority of Jews condemn Israel. Israelis do no represent Jews and thinking so is antisemitic.

Definitely not all Jews or Israelis support the Israeli government as it is. But over 40% of Jews in the world live in Israel, which makes it not the majority, but a very big chunk of Jews. While they might condemn the current government, it is difficult to argue that they condemn the idea of Israel when they are living there. However, a second point follows right from here:

Israelis are oppressor and settlers who are living in stolen Palestinian land. Israel is an illegitimate settler colony that the UN has condemned since its inception and creation

Yes. But also it was created a long time ago. Not too long ago, but long enough so that there are generations of people who have been born into this state as innocent people.

Basically, I dislike the idea of how Israel was created and claiming some birthright to return to a land. Depending on how far you want to go you can always find different peoples living in any region. No one would reasonably argue that we should evacuate Manhattan and return it to Native Americans. And this analogy works in both ways: evacuate Israel to give the land back to Palestine as well as evacuating the region of Palestinians to create Israel. Shlomo Sand once said he is a post zionist because the mess has already been created, maybe that is the take I most agree with, although really, there is no fair or "right" solution to this. Which is why it makes this conflict so complicated and frustrating.

Yeah this conversation definitely happened like that

if you source your meat right you won't be contributing to killing animals

Are you eating roadkill?

What I think is so unfair is that if I actually sit through one ad I don't get rewarded and fast forwarded to the video, no. I'll get a second ad that, if I am lucky, I can skip after 5 additional seconds. Or it's an unskippable one. That's not fair. I could have skipped the first one but I gave you that, I gave you that time of my life, now give me something back!

I constantly see an ad by zeiss (which is a german company but they're in california) and I don't even know what they produce but I swear to God I'll never get a Zeiss product. An acquaintance worked with them for a while and I have trouble taking him seriously now. (They're pretty american in that way but they're also very german)

I fucking hate zeiss after this ad.

It's infinitely better

Thank you! I don't know what I'll put in the middle yet, that's such a big decision