Hyperreality

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[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Meh. Condoms break and won't prevent crabs or warts.

Then again, I contracted herpes as a never been kissed virgin. Bar or restaurant probably didn't clean a glass properly, so I now occasionally have cold sores as do 70% of the population.

That's life. You can only manage the risks. Locking yourself up on the top floor of an abandoned hotel probably isn't great for your health either.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The idea that gay sex is anal sex is a myth. From what I've heard, it's mostly cuddling, blowjobs, mutual masturbation and a bit of sword fighting. For most people anal takes a lot of prep. Eating, douching, etc.

Remember reading a study which suggested a third engaged in anal sex (semi-)regularly. Ie. plenty of gay men don't have anal sex often if at all. And for those who do engage in anal sex regularly they're mostly using a condom or if not on something like truvada which almost entirely prevents the risk of contracting HIV.

On the other hand, anal sex is also surprisingly common in heterosexual sex. Quick google suggests just under half of heterosexual men have had anal sex. Sexual practices among heterosexual people are also often very poor. I mean, outside the gay community it's unlikely people have even heard of truvada or stuff like that. Gay people actually do talk openly about that kind of stuff.

Is heterosexuality immoral because straight people have so much anal and take so many risks?

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not American, so I don't follow republican also rans much, but DeSantis increasingly reminds me of this guy:

https://i.imgur.com/l4B72Dc.jpg

Don't know if it's the eyes or that he seems increasingly and more frequently angry behind the smile.

Maybe it's covid. Does seem to have given those teetering on the edge, a shove into "Where We're Going, We Won't Need Eyes To See!" territory.

Then again, given De Santis seems to be losing popularity, and the nature of present day conservative politics, that may mean he's not been ritually sodomising enough puppies and is more normal than I think.

American politics sure is interesting though.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, EU expansion was arguably too quick, but as a western European I'm really not going to lecture eastern europe on democracy.

Off the top of my head: Wilders and Baudet; De Winter; AfD; Le Pen's party loans being bought up by a Russian company with ties to the defense industry; Salvini, Meloni, Berlusconi, the Mafia and bungabunga; Farage, Johnson, Cambridge analytica, Russian press barons and Londongrad; the Denmark Democrats, the Sweden Democrats; Spain's Francoist history, seperatism, apologists, and Vox; an Austrian foreign minister dancing with Putin at her wedding; the former German chancellor Schroeder's ties to Russian energy companies, respected experts who turn out to be on Putin's payroll, Ostalgie and AfD, Merkel and Dieselgate; Cyprus, Russians buying passports, Russian owned bank accounts; Malta and murdered journalists; etc. etc. etc.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Here's an actually insane life. Tura Satana from cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Satana was born Tura Luna Pascual Yamaguchi in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her father was a Japanese silent movie actor of Filipino descent, and her mother was a circus performer of Native American (Cheyenne) and Ulster-Scots background ... a stint in the Manzanar internment camp in Lone Pine, California ... just before her 10th birthday, she was reportedly gang raped by five men. According to Satana, her attackers were never prosecuted, and it was rumored that the judge had been paid off ... Over the next 15 years, Satana tracked down each rapist and exacted revenge. "I made a vow to myself that I would someday, somehow get even with all of them," she said years later. "They never knew who I was until I told them." ... Around this time, she formed a gang, "the Angeles," with Italian, Jewish, and Polish girls from her neighborhood. ... Because of frequent delinquency, she was sent to reform school. When she was 13, her parents arranged her marriage to 17-year-old John Satana in Hernando, Mississippi, which lasted nine months. ... using fake identification to hide the fact she was a minor, began burlesque dancing. ... became a photographic model for, among others, silent screen comic Harold Lloyd, ... She claimed that after singer Elvis Presley saw Satana perform at Chicago's Follies Theater, the two began a romantic relationship that some reports say ended in a marriage proposal she declined ... although she kept the ring. ... Satana then starred as "Varla" in the 1965 film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ... created by Russ Meyer ... Meyer said Satana was "extremely capable. She knew how to handle herself. Don't fuck with her! And if you have to fuck her, do it well! She might turn on you!" ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tura_Satana

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

/r/videos used to be a default and supposedly has millions of subscribers, but when I was still on reddit you'd regularly see content with 100 upvotes reach the top of the subreddit and maybe 10 comments. Often this was on bot reposts.

Their numbers should be take with a huge grain of salt.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

What is it with people and snow?

It'd be one thing if they continued driving like it was a sunny day, but some people decide a snow day is the day to start their career as a rally driver.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Feel free to scrape your sagging scrotum along the floor, or hell bend over at the worst possible moment and show us all your grey squirrel roadkill anus, but for the love of the gods please put a towel down before you go sit on stuff.

People who don't put a towel down should be shot.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 74 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Many people would be surprised how many homeless people have (hard science) degrees or used to be very succesful. Bad luck, medical debt, (mental-)health issues, company goes bankrupt due to circumstances beyond your control, etc.

The world isn't fair. You can work really hard, and end up in the oven of a concentration camp, despite what the slogan above the gate said.

Of course, if you're a relatively talentless hack who's won the equivalent of the lottery despite not really deserving it that much, it's nicer to think that you deserve it because of your inate talent. Vanity. It's the Devil's favourite sin.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm frankly surprised that they owe the money to an American bank.

Something similar happened in France with Front National, and the debt was ultimately sold to a company with ties to the Russian defense industry. (Not that it's significantly damaged the far right party's long term chance of gaining power, because ugh.)

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