Several reasons. One, they're sticking a metal thing in there, and that can be painful, especially if they don't use enough lube. I remind them to use a lot. :) Two, you may be having a lot of anxiety and tightening up all your muscles (I know I do!) so that makes it harder for them to insert the thing--hence, they tell you to take breaths and try to relax. Also, I always try to go to a woman gynecologist. I'm more comfortable with someone who knows what it's like and they're usually much nicer, so that helps.
i.e., "Is it possible for someone not to follow or give a shit about sports?" Why yes. Yes it is.
He certainly checks the AntiChrist boxes, including how he's fooled all the "christians" to believe he was sent by God. I don't know if he's specifically denied God but he did say he didn't need to ask God for forgiveness because he hasn't made any mistakes.
Re the 4 horsemen with Hegseth as War and Little Bobby Brainworm as Pestilence:
Musk is Famine, he shut down US Aid and millions have died and will die as a result. Not all from hunger and malnutrition, but disease as well (HIV, TB, malaria, etc). But little
I'd put Dump as Death since everything he and the other 3 horses do leads to death. He started the Wars, DOGE cuts, Huge Hideous Bill leading to loss of SNAP and healthcare, his ICE Gestapo and their concentration camps killing people, appointed THREE SCOTUS whose rulings have led to death (loss of reproductive care and deaths of many women) and giving him immunity to do all those things. etc etc etc and he even looks like Death itself.
Of course he is.
Harder and harder to say “Vote Blue No Matter Who” with that boot up your throat.
Obviously we're way past "Vote Blue no matter who" now. That effort was the last ditch attempt to stop fascists from taking power. If it had worked, it might have been possible to enact safeguards to protect the democratic institutions of the Constitution. Or might not, as it was probably already too late. But it was the last chance we had to prevent the fascist regime and try to salvage anything.
Obviously it failed, and fascists/grifters/looters/christian nationalists/oligarchs now have complete control of the government. They'll do anything to hold onto that power. We'll know for sure in November, but working within the democratic election system to change who's in power is basically futile at this point.
So yeah, it's nice to see that people have finally started supporting progressive candidates in many states and a lot of them are winning their primaries--but sadly it's too late for that now. It's what needed to have been done well before now, starting during Dump 1.0 at the latest, which was the final wake up call. But not enough people gave a shit until it was too late, and most still don't.
Then why do they call it rogue
Marketing.
This fucking piece of slimy stinking shit, will it ever die? 😩
The AI food on the poster looks absolutely horrifying, especially that "slaw" and "pulled pork". Why would anyone think people would find that appetizing or draw anyone inside? Even if it didn't look fake like plastic toy food, people want to see photos of the actual food you are selling, not a bizarre "concept" of the food. Huge mistake but the fact that they still don't understand why people reacted negatively is not a good sign for their business.
"What a weird stick I just landed on, what is this made of? *bite* Oh shit, it's an animal!" *flies away*
Yeah, but those select few are given access for a specific need, like to be able to give you health care or pay your salary, etc. If even just a few randos could see whatever stat they want about all of us for no reason than their own wishes, I'd definitely consider that a violation of our privacy, even if they kept the info to themselves and even more so if it was something they could exploit. But all this is getting away from the spirit of the question.
I read somewhere that the Senate wants it to be Standard instead of DST, which I agree would wind up being better for most locations (not all). So they'll probably fight over it and nothing will happen. We'll see. At this point I just want to stop having to change the damn clocks.
I used to favor permanent DST because I'm not a morning person, but I realize most people aren't night-owls like me, and by now there's been a lot of evidence presented that it's healthier to be in sync with sunlight and more important to get good sleep, especially for kids. Of course a lot of this also depends on which side of your time zone you live on.
Between the two positions, for a long time I favored permanent half-DST, which is setting clocks halfway between so the offset isn't that bad for health and both sides of the standard vs DST debate could live with it. There was even a bill proposed to do that, but I recently read an article listing a few drawbacks to being on the half-hour compared to most other countries--mostly that it would be "confusing" which isn't that strong of an argument IMO. I still think this would be a good solution if a bunch of other countries also did it. A few countries already are offset a half-hour from us and no one complains because they're not major economic forces.
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