Apparently, r/enshittification directly links Lemmy.world instead of https://join-lemmy.org/ in its header, and Reddit just really enshittified its mobile site, so there’s an influx of people right now specifically to lemmy.world. Cannot imagine that is helping uptime right now.

I’m a big fan of using those clear plastic soup containers from takeout, if you have them. (I try to avoid plastic where practical, but life happens and they accumulate.) Their transparency means most spiders (or any other creepy crawly I’m trying to gently relocate) don’t see them coming, and their size compared to the target makes for an easy capture job even for fast little critters. Very straightforward solution IME.

I think frogs are one of those creatures who can safely survive any fall because their terminal velocity is low enough to be safe. As long as the rocket firing itself didn’t actually injure the frog, it’s probably very confused but fine. There is no way to know for sure, though, unless someone observed the frog landing. Because of this, I choose to believe the frog is okay.

The down votes tell me this is a meme in poor taste, but I have no idea what this is about beyond that. Would someone mind cluing me in before this post’s probable deletion?

Yeah, that tracks.

There is a portion of the population for whom fairly intense pain is not a “when that happened to me” but a “when that happens to me” and it just really results in developing a pain tolerance skill that I don’t think those for whom pain is understood as the occasional discrete injury really get. There are conditions that can cause that to happen to cis men, but it’s less common than for, uh, the entire rest of the population, and so fewer of them have had to develop that skill.

(Also, really glad you were finally able to get the surgery to help!)

My theory is that people who have had to deal with neither menstrual cramps (let alone childbirth) nor the various trials of gender affirming treatments are a lot less likely to have had extensive periods of just having to deal with pain for a long time. Like, maybe they’ve had some injuries, or other brief episodes, but unless they have some other condition like chronic migraines, I think a lot of able-bodied cis men haven’t had to regularly sit with pain and just deal with it.

It’s understandable that this would happen, but extremely frustrating when somehow that becomes the default cultural view and condescending cis men in positions of power get to smugly decide that they’re manly men with great pain tolerance and anyone who complains about pain is surely just being a baby/whiny hysterical woman.

(There is also absolutely a racialized component here where Black and brown folks tend to receive fewer painkillers, which this doesn’t really account for, but this is not meant to be a comprehensive explanation of disparities in pain management in health care, just my theorizing why cis men on average seem to have lower rates of pain tolerance.)

I keep reading it as “slurp-ink,” personally.

I feel like the only person here who actually thought the voiceover and music presentation was hilarious. I do agree that the full text should have been added for accessibility, though.

Okay but is no one going to take a moment to ask about this person and someone he knows both doing self drilled dental work though? Is this some “yeah dental care in the US sucks even more than you think” thing or??