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[Neonivek]

How is "make your own judgement call" guilting you into not going?

It wasn't you guys

[Neonivek]

Ok here is a question

I have a heating pad to soothe my ear right now...

But my ear is really sensitive and hurts if I touch it too hard.

Is there a way to apply a heating pad (it is electric) without pushing against my ear too hard? I can lye down but under my pillow the pad is too hard...

[Frumple]

Laying down actually works if you make a sort of O with your bedding. Or an = or somethin'. Make it so none of the support is coming from your ear, but you're still rolling with enough support around the outer edge of your skull to be comfortable. Then you can adjust things so the pad's sufficiently warming your ear, but not putting pressure on it. Probably worth noting it's easier to manage with a towel or blanket instead of most pillows.

I do something similar quite often with the ear muff whatsits I use to block sound to make it easier to sleep. Y'make a little indentation so the thing's not pressing into your precious skull fleshes, but you still have bedding support.

[Calidovi]

Ok so here is one...

How recent has it been legal (and protected) to say bad things about the government and its rulers/people?

Like... where can we find the first instance of this?

I remembered reading something about this, so I looked it up. This might be the first recorded instance, but I'm not sure.

Some of the earliest cases of freedom of the press occurred in 1733 and 1744, while still under British colonial rule. During a trial against the authors of The New York Weekly Journal by British governor William Cosby, the publication was found not guilty and continued circulation of their publication until 1751. At that time, there were only two newspapers in the US, though the second newspaper was not critical of Cosby's government.

This is the earliest court case in the US (and early enough to be one of the first few instances of the defense of freedom of the press), as far as I know. I'm not well versed in foreign governments' history with the press.

[Neonivek]

It isn't just the press.

For example 15th Century Joseon questioning the King/Emperor was outright a crime.

But then again "Insults" were a crime... Remarrying before the funeral of your wife was a crime...

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Then again in Shakespeare's time... there was LITERALLY a fashion police.

[Calidovi]

Doesn't there continue to be a fashion police in more conservative Islamic states?

Not THE Islamic State, but Iran, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia.

[Neonivek]

Doesn't there continue to be a fashion police in more conservative Islamic states?

Not THE Islamic State, but Iran, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia.

I didn't EXACTLY want to make that reference since one COULD argue that they aren't so much fashion police as they are like School Teachers who measure the length of your skirt.

And I didn't know which ones did it and which ones did not.

[Calidovi]

Yeah, no one gives too many shits about them, but even in name only they are still "fashion police".

[Frumple]

There's still fashion police everywhere public nudity isn't legal :V

[Neonivek]

There's still fashion police everywhere public nudity isn't legal :V

That is decency police not fashion police

[Calidovi]

those are more antifashion police than anything

[Rolan7]

When I eat too many baby carrots I get nauseous.  Not sure if it's only carrots, I just love the crunch so much I binge eat them.
What's up with the nausea?

[Frumple]

Ea... eating too much of anything can cause nausea? Can't recall what the mechanism is for it, but overeating (or drinking) tends to make you fairly ill.

[TD1]

Ea... what's up, doc.

FTFY

[Aklyon]

There's still fashion police everywhere public nudity isn't legal :V

That is decency police not fashion police

Nah, modesty police.