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[Naturegirl1999]

Wait, optic cables are susceptible to lightning damage?

I saw a lot of what seemed very horizontal lightnings yesterday I was driving when it arrived.

Most things are susceptible to fire, especially when it comes in at 50K degrees.

50 Kelvin is -369.67F, or -223.15C, so I’m thinking you mean 50,000 degrees of something, do you mean Fahrenheit or Celsius?

[MaxTheFox]

Wait, optic cables are susceptible to lightning damage?

I saw a lot of what seemed very horizontal lightnings yesterday I was driving when it arrived.

Most things are susceptible to fire, especially when it comes in at 50K degrees.

50 Kelvin is -369.67F, or -223.15C, so I’m thinking you mean 50,000 degrees of something, do you mean Fahrenheit or Celsius?

K can also mean thousand so he meant 50000F or 50000C (I don't think it matters at that amount).

As for my mild sad: Reading about SJW meddling in video games. Hell, most games they boycott aren't even offensive. They should attack actually racist video games, there are plenty of those. They just come across as idiots and/or attention whores. They undermine their own cause and make activists who aren't awful be associated with them and thus look like clowns.

[dragdeler]

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[Reelya]

One that takes the cake is the campaign to take out the Playstation 2 survival horror game Rule of Rose. Most of the outrage was based on non-existent claims about the game. but it was enough that publishers got cold feet about it and got pulled by a number o publishers and from a number of markets, effectively killing the game. However if you actually managed to buy a copy you can now sell it for big bucks.

[Eschar]

I've been itchy all over for about a week. No discernable cause.

[ChairmanPoo]

I've been itchy all over for about a week. No discernable cause.

💁‍♂️Could be many things: allergies, mites, myeloproliferative neoplasms...

[wierd]

Occam's razor doctor.

Check for changes in the tapwater pH first. It is possible that your city has upped the chlorination levels to combat summer algae and bacterial blooms.  This causes dermatitis in some people.

[Dunamisdeos]

Itchy, sure. But is it tasty?

[Rolan7]

That happened to me with Tide, IIRC.  I was constantly itchy-congested and lived with it for a while - clothes are a blind spot, I assumed it was a matter of diet.  I've had it happen in hotels too, from sheets.  It's probably some nice-smelling additive, blech.  Anti-allergenic Arm&Hammer seems to work, so I stick with that now.

[hector13]

Itchy, sure. But is it tasty?

I approve this reference, like a master of unlocking.

[Egan_BW]

Would you say that it was a tasty reference?

[Eschar]

I'm wondering if it is in fact a detergent thing, since the itching seems to be concentrated in upper arms and upper legs, so affected by shorts and short sleeves. Also face, but it could have been spread there - especially once the initial itching on face started.

[Bumber]

I've been getting occasional rashes since I was in college. Not sure if it's the Gabapentin (which I started taking for back pain and mood disorders,) my body wash, or deodorant/antiperspirant.

I stopped using the antiperspirant about a week ago. Waiting to see if the problem recurs.

[Iduno]

I'm wondering if it is in fact a detergent thing, since the itching seems to be concentrated in upper arms and upper legs, so affected by shorts and short sleeves. Also face, but it could have been spread there - especially once the initial itching on face started.

Maybe reduce the amount of detergent (not sure how much you're using, but about half of what the instructions say), and also make sure it's rinsed properly.

[JoshuaFH]

I'm really bothered by this train of thought today. I don't want to acknowledge it, and I want to distract myself from it, but I can't concentrate on anything else. I can't get rid of it, it's just in the back of my head bothering me:

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I'm really bothered by my virginity. I was reading the recent discussion in the Ameripol thread, which I won't comment on, but the point is is that reading anything about sex or people's sex lives just badly aggravates my feelings of inadequacy. Whenever sex comes up in a discussion, I have to segue out, cause it's just something that requires having common ground, which everyone has, but I don't. I'm not normal. Having sex for people is normal, and I haven't, so I'm not normal.

Why am I virgin after 31 years of life? Well I'm just an inferior human being. I can't look anyone in the eyes knowing that I'm lesser than them. I can't talk to anyone fairly without believing deep down that I'm the inferior person in the conversation. How can I love anyone when I know I don't deserve it, because I'm a second-rate human being?

One of my best friends in the world is someone who I genuinely think is a loser, he's a complainer with an awful attitude and I don't think he'll get very far in the life, but he's a virgin too, and an older one at that, so we share that common ground, and so I can't help but like him and preserve that friendship with him. I don't feel inferior to this man, that may be the only grounds of our friendship.

I honestly hate the world I was born into. I hate other people who I have to feel inferior to. My heart is protected by an armor of hatred. Even if a woman were interested in me, I wouldn't notice, my armor protects me from that. Even if I met a woman I actually like and might want to make a move on, I wouldn't even notice the possibility, my armor separates me from them, and I'm consumed with how to keep defending myself against this person who is undoubtedly superior to me, I have to do everything to prevent them from noticing I'm inferior, or else I'll be at a terrible disadvantage.

I've dated before, but those few experiences just taught me that yes, I am an inferior creature. My attempts just proved that I'm not normal. That I'm outside where everyone else is inside. That my feelings are bad, and I was wrong to feel them, and even more wrong to try to act on them. I was never entitled to my feelings in the first place, I was wrong to be born. Knowing that, trying to socialize is futile, cause the foundation of my social skills is mimicry, to mimic what normal people are like, because I know that if I simply acted on my real thoughts and feelings, all I'd do is harm people, because I'm not normal, I'm fundamentally incompatible with the rest of the world.

I really envy animals, because living their lives according to their innate thoughts and feelings is the only thing they can do. Feeling fake is just not possible to an animal, they're always themselves. I'm always asking myself what a human is, and it always feels to me that a human is an amalgam of experiences that carves the person into a real human being. One of those experiences is sex, and I haven't had sex, so I'm not a real human. Should I ever decide to kill myself, the line of logic that most justifies it, in my mind, that I'm not killing a human being, I'm just turning off a machine, so it can't keep consuming resources while not performing its intended function of being a real human being.

Obviously, I don't apply this logic to anyone else, just myself. I'm clearly malfunctioning. I crave the sensation of being real, and I don't know how I'll ever get it.