I’ve shaved blind in the shower every day for years. I just run my hand along my face directly in front of the razor as I shave to feel what the razor is about to run over before it actually gets there. For the sideburn area I put my finger at the edge of what I want to shave and just shave upwards until I bump against my finger. For the lips I just kinda curl them inward to make them as flush with my face as possible. I’ve memorized the contours of my face at this point.

Literally slap-drones from the Culture lol

The voice acting in Hellblade always gives me chills.

I work in a lab. I’ve seen centrifuges try to walk off the counter before.

I think when women self identify as “bimbos” these days they’re usually referring to the purposeful reclamation of hyper feminine aesthetics, interests, and behaviors and not so much the original pejorative. It’s an aesthetic choice. The aesthetic is frequently referred to as “bimbocore” Examples would include lots of pink, heavy makeup, heels, false lashes, bleach blonde hair, etc. It’s sort of a subversion of patriarchal beauty standards since the intent is self expression and not conformity.

I’m also a bimbo, and I’ve decided that if I get plastic surgery, it’ll be only for me and nobody else. I ask myself if I’d still want x surgery even if nobody else would ever see me again. Not that I’ll probably ever have the money for surgery, but I think it’s a good way to test whether surgery is the right option. I’m all for body modification if it’s for self-expression.

I don’t understand how this is a controversial opinion, but maybe parents should actually parent their children instead of expecting the Internet or the government to decide what their kids should see for them? Maybe talk to your kid about safe and ethical sex, the dangers of porn addiction, and not to take anything away from pornographic content instead? Maybe we shouldn’t be giving children smartphones and tablets with unfettered internet access in the first place instead of spending time with them? Wild concepts I know.

I work in plasma, and deferring donors is by far the most difficult part. I had to send three people home just today for having out of range hematocrit. The look of devastation on their faces when they find out they’re not getting paid nearly brings me to tears every time. Sometimes they get angry and yell at me, and I just let them do it until they tire themselves out because I know how desperate they are. I’m just thankful that I’m primarily a lab tech and don’t have to deal with the donor side every day; I don’t think I could take it psychologically.

Bangs almost always look great. They just need to match the rest of the hairstyle and be the right shape for your face.

There is nothing degrading about a woman being nude or semi-nude. If anything the fact that women are still forced to cover their chests when men aren’t is degrading.

I loath the modern obsession with minimalist, utilitarian design. Everything is just a white, black, or grey slab with no artistic thought put into its form. Buildings, homes, cars, clothes, electronic devices. It’s almost like a capitalist version of brutalism. Even the design of user interfaces is usually a pile of flat, washed out rectangles now. It’s like the soul has been sucked out of everything we make, reduced to it’s most basic form. It can feel anti-human at times. Like the world has collectively decided that beauty is a waste of time.

Mine is also only in low light conditions. I have visual snow, phosphenes, and a fuzzy blind spot when I’m in the dark.

I did a weird psychedelic research chemical and gave myself HPPD. Still have symptoms over 6 months later with no drug use. I’ll probably suffer from visual disturbances for the rest of my life.

Replace prisons with compassionate psychiatric hospitals with the purpose of rehabilitating violent criminals who are a danger to the public. People who are not rehabilitatable would still be locked up for the rest of their lives, but they would be treated as humanely as possible. In this case though locking them up wouldn’t be punishment, but rather harm reduction.

There is no utility in punishment. Wanting people who wronged you to suffer isn’t a desire for justice, but a desire for revenge. Dangerous people can be stopped from hurting others without locking them in cages or treating them poorly.

I’m over three years and am just now seeing wispy baby hairs showing up in the corners of my hairline. I never really had a receding hairline though, just a more “masculine” shape with square corners. I solved the problem by just taking the plunge and getting bangs. Now I virtually never see or think about my hairline at all.

The State of the Art and Excession are the two I haven’t gotten my hands on yet. I’m reading Matter right now and am consistently blown away by how forward thinking the author is. All of his work holds up so well.

My favorite fictional universe is The Culture. I think I’m going to be alright lol.

I had no idea about the AvE thing. It’s wild but not totally surprising. I used to be an avid watcher of his content but a couple of years ago I started getting bad vibes from and stopped consuming his content. The dirty jokes started to feel like they were more than just jokes and his sexism wasn’t ironic. I also started to notice him making statements that felt dogwhistley.

I believe that mandatory military service is absurd. Nobody chose to be born in any nation or under the jurisdiction of any government. No one else should be be obligated to support or fight for the ideology or actions or even the right to exist of a government they have effectively been assigned to by complete chance. It completely ignores the right of individuals to have their own systems of belief about what is morally correct.

For example, I am largely in agreement with Buddhist philosophy and only support violence under strict circumstances. I was born and currently live in the United States, and I would gladly go to prison or be executed over directly or indirectly being responsible for the suffering of others at the request of my government. Everything my country stands for is antithetical to my very strongly held beliefs about what is right, and I would proudly label myself a traitor. I believe that if you can’t find enough volunteers to fight for a cause, then maybe that cause isn’t actually worth shedding blood over.