Librarians do have a union - looks like the largest is American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). I don’t know how much protection they really offer though.

You’re taking a shower thought way too literally.

It depends lol

The sex worker is still the one setting the prices and what services she offers in this comparison.

The example isn’t that a rapist is setting the cost of raping a victim.

It’s giving big All Lives Matter energy

Margaret Atwood - Cohabitation

Marriage is not
a house or even a tent

it is before that, and colder:

the edge of the forest, the edge
of the desert 
                    the unpainted stairs 
at the back where we squat 
outside, eating popcorn

the edge of the receding glacier

where painfully and with wonder
at having survived even
this far

we are learning to make fire

My dad picked up bow and arrow hunting for a few years. He never snagged a deer, but I’m sure he spent a lot of pleasant time smoking weed in the woods with his buddies.

My sister and I were chit chatting about our kids and their milestones, etc. Super normal type of conversation, especially for us since we don’t get along well to begin with and we try to stick to topics that aren’t inflammatory. The topic of what age we were when we started menstruating came up.

She stopped me mid-sentence in order to correct me about what age I was when I started my period. Not her age, she stopped me to correct my own retelling of my own personal history because “she remembered better”.

It was one of the only times I told her to her face that she was being rude.

It was on a Saturday.

I’m a woman to start.

There’s two modes I’ve found myself in when not masturbating - I’m either purposefully staying aroused and denying an orgasm to heighten sexual tension and pleasure OR I’m not masturbating because life is busy for whatever reason and my libido diminishes over time.

So it depends. And I think everyone is a little different as well, so you might want to play with not masturbating to reduce sexual frustration to see if it works for you.

Keep our Empire undismembered
Guide our Forces by Thy Hand,
Gallant blacks from far Jamaica,
Honduras and Togoland;
Protect them Lord in all their fights,
And, even more, protect the whites.

Yikes lol

Sometimes our eyes just glaze over certain things! No problem :)

The anonymous puppygirls published the data this week on Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOS), a nonprofit repository of hacked and leaked data. The group told The Daily Dot in a statement that they chose to target Lexipol because there are not “enough hacks against the police,” adding, “So we took matters into our own paws.”

Ah I had seen another comment referencing “beans” on these recent horny posts, so maybe I erroneously picked up on something that isn’t actually happening in the case of referring to women as “beans” reducing them down to their sexual parts.

Calling women ‘beans’ really gives me the ick lol

I’ve never seen that before Lemmy

All two of them?

You were directly talking about Trump and Iran being friendly in your comment, so yes, I presumed you were comparing Iran to the US.

There’s a lot of states in the US that similarly allow child marriage, but I understand your point.

My partner has severe and persistent bouts of depression. We met on Tinder. Went out on a lot of dates together and had a lot of fun. Been together for about five years now.

We also had a lot of talks about what living with depression means, what kind of support I would or could give, etc. What kind of coping methods they use. I’ve grappled with depression myself here and there so I’m incredibly empathetic when they’re feeling particularly bad. We just support each other.

Depression can look really different and present differently in different people.

I don’t love it either in general, but they chose those words very specifically since this was not a criminal case.