For a “winner” he’s doing a lot of losing

Section 28 in the UK which banned the “promotion” of homosexuality in schools fucked up a lot of kids in the 90s including me. Thankfully it was repealed.

Don’t let America go that route. You’ll cause more harm by restricting discussion of sexuality.

As a young teen I thought my attraction to my classmates meant I was a paedophile. It resulted in me cutting, burning and hitting myself whenever I wanked to anything gay as a form of ‘DIY conversation therapy’.

I still have the scars at 40 and I only properly came out as gay at 38 after years of self hate.

All I would have needed is a person in authority like a teacher or parent to say “same sex attraction is normal” or “fancying your same sex mates doesn’t make you a pedo - you may just be gay”.

I know it sounds fucking dumb to hear as an adult but as a confused, angsty, pubescent teen who grew up pre-internet* it made sense that I was perverted, evil and broken.

*The internet doesn’t necessarily make it easier for teens to confirm themselves. They could just as easily fall into the same mindset as me due to misinformation rather than ignorance.

I’ve heard Germans say it’s terrible in German too.

Wouldn’t if I was you.

American democracy was an interesting experiment. Well done for lasting this long. Glad I’m not you guys. I shall continue watching the car wreck.

I think it’s French for new.

So…noo-vo

It’s also a Metallica song

Fuck your duck! I raise you my 🐦

When you remember where the buttons are they’re fine to navigate. The average keyboard that meant people can type on without looking has less physical feedback (2 small bumps on f and h).

Brother are good but I got a Kyocera about 6yrs ago and have never had to change the toner. I’ve been through about 2 blocks of paper in that time. Prints great.

Plug & Play on Windows and Linux

Holy fucking shit balls. I contemplated seeing up an instance on a £5 VPS. Hmmmm, I think my scale is a bit off.

Sounds a lot like homeopathy.

I don’t understand their use of the term “log cabin”. Is there something gay about log cabins?

Diazepam, yes (~100hrs). Xanax, no(~5hrs). Clonazepam, mid(~20hrs)

Obsidian + private GitHub repo hosting

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Kiss at my old high school died of meningitis which caused an emergency vaccine roll out. Mid 90s, UK.

It only hit local news back then. Weird to see an outbreak in Africa make it international though.

I wonder if the lemmy.ml users will burst in here too brigade this story into the ground.

Last time I suggested Nicaragua had a poor human rights record I got banned from the instance.

…In the US.

I ask my mate in Shenzhen what he thinks of China and Xi.

He hates Xi and so do most of his friends. His wife is even a member of the CCP.

If you don’t fully commit to the party line and pay increasing fees you don’t progress in the CCP. Sounds a lot like Scientology tbh and they see it as more of a tax. Because leaving is a huge no-no. She wishes she never joined.

I take his (Chinese) opinion of China much more highly than a bunch of angry Zoomer kids on Lemmy.ml posting puff-pieces by the CCP.