If you are able to go with someone else there is safety in numbers. Not just from the general public but from your own mind. Buying a swimsuit can easily overwhelm your sense of self worth so having someone who is championing for you is invaluable.

As for style, whatever you feel cute in. Nothing looks better than confidence in what you’re wearing.

I absolutely believe that cats understand more than what they let on.

My parents have two cats, Odin and Honey. Odin is a senior cat now but he’s always been sweet as pie. His default position when someone shows up to the home is that they have come for him and must pay tribute to his belly. Honey is pretty typical, if she smells something funny in the air she’s gone before the dust settles.

So one day I come over to my parent’s house to mind the place while they are away and after successfully tithing Odin’s belly I start to look for a place to set my belongings. Off-hand I remark to the cat that I haven’t seen Honey in a while and he should go get her. Odin leaves and I don’t think much of it, kitty shenanigans or whatever they do. I finish putting away my things and I see Honey trotting down the hall, then I hear her yelp because Odin is hot on her heels nipping at her legs.

You believe what you want to about but I know what I do.

How seriously do you think black-face was considered? Do you think it was the optics or logistics that stymied that thought?

People get upset if you part your hair wrong. Forgetting a name hasn’t gotten me killed yet but stranger things have happened.

I can remember someone’s name after one meeting but when I can’t it makes me feel awkward. I feel less awkward when 9 times out of 10 they forgot meeting me the first time.

First they come for your lawn, then they take your jobs and before you know it they’re turning your boys into girls to destroy the ~~white~~ whatever the small minded bigot in question thinks is the superior race.

/s

The sad irony is I’m being sarcastic but this is the core belief for way too many people out there.

edit: on further reflection of my choice of words I concluded that this is not a white vs black or brown problem, as nationalism and religious nationalism specifically, are not exclusive to delusions of race supremacy in the western world.

Experts on defrauding public services offer insight that public services are easily defrauded but are mum on any solutions that would make it harder to defraud public services. The math maths.

Take it and spread it hopefully further than just the fediverse. Or make your own and pass along the good word

If I had a nickel for every time someone unwittingly became the face of something humorous we can all relate to, well I’d at least have a nickel more than what this job presumably paid her.

Good springboards today. Lemmy is starting to feel more alive don’t you think?

In all seriousness thank you for taking the time for a moral obligation. All things should be tempered and while humor is a great tool to distort the truth it should never completely obstruct it.

At the very least, here’s to trying to draw attention to your comment.

The pictures are sobering. Knowing that you will likely die ugly but proceeding due course is a look that masks can’t hide.

Vaping helped me quit a 15 year- two pack a day habit and for many smokers like myself it is a great smoking cessation tool. That being said, in the five years since I’ve quit smoking and vaping altogether I’ve watched vaping go from a smoking cessation aid to a gateway for non-smokers to find addiction in something new when they would have otherwise not smoked cigarettes.

The problem as always is that the vaping industry is way too lucrative a business. Proper oversight and regulation would cut profits and mitigate the ability for companies like Philip Morris and Juul Labs to create lifelong customers.

Corporatocracy, the new monarchy. That’s what we live in, everything else is just a facade

Time for a new razor. To find why an action was taken, look for who would benefit the most first.