There is an antifertility surgery which uses botulism toxin to paralyze the dartos and cremaster muscles in people with testicles, so that the testes are unable to maintain the temperature range needed for gamete viability. Everyone calls it “Scrotox.”

The Cure fans often disclaim this way, including my partner, so that’s my guess.

It takes at least one generation for ground truth deprivation to render subjects effectively unmoored from reality

RIP Firecracker

We prefer “opportunistic omnivore” but yes

Fair enough, though if dysmorphia is the only litmus, a gym habit could be construed as abuse, so I assume there’s something more implied here — e.g., exceeding clinical guidelines for eating disorder enablement (if the peptide is even capable of that, which I don’t know).

Yeah his grump schtick could use some work

ETA: /s

…and death rides with me!

semaglutid abuser celebrities

Sorry is this a thing or just a joke? I have little knowledge of either fitness pharmaceuticals or celebrity news, but my understanding was that low abuse potential was a standout feature of the new peptides?

Publicly downvoting someone for not announcing where they live is a hilarious way of telling everyone you have the emotional fortitude of a 9 year old.

::: spoiler I don’t think that’s giving American Jews enough credit.

Israel as a bug-out plan for anyone with Jewish heritage is a distinctly Zionist idea, which is far more polarizing these days.

But even if some Jews may be given to such a demonstrably facile us-them disposition — i.e., security-at-all-costs with no sense of irony whatsoever — my impression is that many find it impossible to ignore the apparent gollum of this increasingly explicit mechanized hegemonic genocidal fascist apartheid state somehow laying claim to their worldwide identity.

If I were an American Jew, I would be asking myself “is this what being Jewish means to me?” And I suspect my answer would be outrage to the tune of “no, fuck Zionism” or “no, fuck Israel.” Either way it would consume me utterly. :::

In short, I just find it hard to believe the average Jew is especially ignorant, heartless, or selfish. That to me sounds like actual antisemitism.

ETA: I can’t speak for American Jews but most of the Jews I know are either older and just anti-bibi or younger and openly anti-Zionist. This is in New York for context.

This image won’t load for me. I just want to know if it’s Stannis Baratheon. Can someone tell me?

The particle physics jokes are getting out of hand

Thank you!

Just a heads up that if you want to host full local models, you may want to try LM Studio or vMLX with models straight from hugging-face. Ollama is popular but they privilege their proprietary cloud MCP services and won’t even let you download web-enabled models unless you agree to use their API, which defeats your on-prem threat model.

Miss texting from my pocket while maintaining eye contact.

Can’t we all just… get along?

Concur with diagnosis. My condolences.

Thanks!