Natalie Wynn supported Biden up until now?!

At home braun silk 5 is amazing. Don’t use this for your face. For face - yeah, this sucks. You’re gonna have to go in and get laser done. It’s worth it but slow and painful. I’m sorry.

Is this because the facial skin is thinner and can get damaged more easily, so a professional grade device with a trained practicioner is needed? If that’s the case are there other parts of the body that should not be treated with an at-home ipl device and should be done with laser by a professional, e.g. armpits, groin, scrotum?

The hair is the worst part, even just shaving parts of my body I feel so much better

Thank you for the response and sorry I took so long to get back to it, this stuff is emotionally daunting to confront and I guess I avoid it and put it off til I have the bandwidth to consider it more.

And I guess lastly do laser and IPL permanently remove the hairs over time, or if people stop doing the treatments for a few years do they grow back? I tried reading some stuff about it and it wasn’t clear; some places said “it’s not permanent” If I’m going to take a risk of going go for an in-person unmasked appointment I’m going to need . Although one article mentioned that laser should be done by a dermatologist, and unfortunately it seems most doctors in my area that I’ve encountered don’t take covid seriously anymore.

Fuck this is all so overwhelming. I imagine in order to get insurance to cover it I’d have to be out to a healthcare practitioner too like my therapist, or see a trans-specific doctor?

the reality is that polls show Gaza is way down the list of voter concerns, even for young voters

Well then fuck those selfish assholes. They deserve Trump.

Just being able to spell “genocide” and recognize that it’s not the new wings-and-mozzerella appetizer at Geno’s Pizza puts a voter well into the 70th percentile of American political discourse.

What a poetic sentence. I love it.

It was a disastrous opening performance for a president whose greatest electoral vulnerability is his age

Not the genocide? Liberal detected ಠ_ಠ

Please no, they hitched themselves to him and supported genocide to boost his ratings, they can’t just jettison him now that they’ve finally realized he’s ballast. They have to go down with him.

This is how Bernie can still win. His good friend Biden will hand pick him as his successor ::: spoiler spoiler but then he’ll lose becsuse none of us will vote for him after he hitched himself to Genocide Joe :::

Yes, which in turn leads them to fascism. It’s unfortunate.

NYT’s business is manufacturing consent. They manufactured consent to invade Iraq. They manufactured consent for perpetual covid circulation, reinfection, and the death and disability that follow. They’ve been manufacturing consent for supporting an apartheid ethnostate in committing genocide.

Nobody should take it seriously as a news outlet.

lmao they really are trying to grasp at straws to malign Jill Stein.

Stein has echoed similar MAGA sentiments

has she really though? Citation needed.

arguing that the U.S. is at fault for Putin’s war.

This is not MAGA shit and is also obviously true to anyone who looks at the situation. It is not possible to look at the history of NATO expansion in Ukraine and conclude otherwise. US Empire apologists keep repeating these buzz-phrases so that nobody even thinks to look at the events that led up to the war.

She has a long history of touting Russian propaganda

But then links to an article where she does no such thing.

and after dining in Moscow with Putin and Trump aide Michael Flynn Apparently politicians aren’t supposed to do diplomacy

she received help from Russian election-meddlers during her 2016 run

I have gone out of my way to pay as little attention to RussiaGate as possible because it seemed so obviously bullshit on its face, but what I did have the misfortune of learning is that 1. every candidate had bots making comments in their favor, 2. it was a small and insignificant amount, and 3. none of the candidates were behind those bots. It’s not their fault if a psyop was attempted using their candidacy. Why is this asshole going after Jill Stein when Hilldawg also had bots botting for her?

She has lied about Biden’s climate laws, Links to a tweet that is true.

lied about his expansion of the Affordable Care Act Links to a tweet that is true.

lied about his immigration policy Links to a tweet that is true.

and accused Democrats of being fascists posing a threat to democracy Where’s the lie?

These are not the views of “radical left liberals. Literally one sentence after talking about how liberals are fascists and are therefore not part of the antifascist radical left.

Do you think the people who write this shit believe their own bullshit?

Simply put: There will be no … President Stein.

There should be. There would be if all the Democratic voters who claim to care about freedom, liberty, justice, equality, and defeating fascism actually cared enough to defect and vote for Dr. Stein instead of for their creepy war criminal senile uncle.

Is there any reason I shouldn’t vote for Jasmine Sherman instead? I like that their platform includes covid mitigations that acknowledge Covid is a current and ongoing threat, whereas Jill Stein’s Covid policy treats it like something that is entirely in the past. Also, Sherman is for straight up abolishing the cops.

I really respect how willing Rania Khalek is to call put the American Empire in its atrocities

You know what fair point. A windows 10 update broke my wireless about a year ago. There’s a gigantic thread on the Intel forums of people sharing tips on what drivers fix it, run by a former Intel employee, but the fix didn’t work on my machine so I use it offline or with Ethernet now.

I may as well find my Windows 10 OEM key and then give Linux a try. Worst case scenario I just reinstall Windows 10. Or, shit, there’s 2 drives in this thing, I could dual boot off the 2nd drive.

I do not have a computer that can officially run W11 and W11 is pushing all sorts of AI malware shit anyway so idk what to do. I’m not abandoning my Windows computer, it was free, is only 7 years old, and still mostly meets my gaming needs. I don’t need the latest and greatest bloated AAA game. Yeah yeah, “put linux on it it’s gotten so much better for playing computer games” but everytime a friend tries they complain about what a pain it is.

Yeah I’ve noticed that with younger coworkers too who are fresh out of college. The STEM grind very easily feeds into fascism without proper political education, too.

Solidarity.

My mom has had Indian store owners be all friendly to her because her name is obviously south asian (one even said “oh that’s my mom’s name!”) but then as soon as they find out she’s Muslim they get hostile and threatening to her and want to argue about it. Not all stores, but she’s had to shop around to find a store that wasn’t run by such overt fascists. And she’s like, hey, we’re in the US, leave the grudges at the border! Her family has AMPLE reason to hate hindu nationalists what with the massacres and needing to flee during the partition but she’d rather leave all that in the past, but the hindutva fuckers want to harass an old woman.

Anyway they’re lucky they’ve never actually physically attacked her, because I would fedpost the store of anyone who fucking touched her.

Well, at least they’re self-aware…

Anyone know if this show (I’m a Virgo) has SA in it? Unconsenting Media doesn’t have an entry for it and I’ve been meaning to check it out but don’t want to go in completely blind.

I’m glad you are still taking covid seriously. Not enough people do. I really would not recommend getting on a plane for that reason. Good luck talking with your uncle, your reasons are all sound so hopefully he’ll respect them. If not, that’s more on him than on you.

Where I am people still mask but proportionally more bipoc people mask than white people and I don’t know why. Why do we understand it better than the white folks? Is it just that we are less sheltered due to systemic oppression so we know that there is no safety, whereas they are used to things just “magically” working out for them?