Hey regardless how you think about the virus right now don't you find it funny that for about a month in 2020 all the rightoids were going "we gotta prepare for this virus and stop Chinese tourists from coming in" and the leftoids were going "no it's just a little flu why would you lock down" and then it reversed super hard. I don't feel like many people remember that and it feels really pertinent lately.
Here's a lil rap
an it goes somethin like this
Uh
uh huh
uh huh
Yo when a woman come around
Every male bow down
Because you a clown
In the presence of a queen
No...the presence of a goddess
You know what I mean
I'm honest on this
Uh
Uh huh
Uh huh
It's time fo woman supremacy
Uh huh
Uh huh
It's time fo woman supremacy
A big ass strapon
Dat she'll drop yo ass on
Uh huh
Uh huh
Time fo woman supremacy
If you can't do yo taxes don't fret
Yo she'll come around aight bet
Bachelors degree in sociology
*record scratch* AND A MINOR IN ECONOMICS
UH HUH
UH HUH
WOMAN SUPREMACY
(SHE'LL DO YO TAXES)
UH HUH
UH HUH
WOMAN SUPREMACY
*CELL DOOR CLOSES*
talking about mental health topics
I just found out about a pretty interesting study:
“In the pilot study of 49 people with chronic PTSD, all were given a week-long lucid dreaming workshop and 85 per cent showed a significant enough decrease in symptoms that they were no longer classified as having it. […] The lead scientist on the study, Dr Garret Yount from the Institute of Noetic Sciences in San Francisco, called the results ‘truly remarkable and highly significant’. Morley said that in 15 years of working with military veterans and people with PTSD he had ‘never seen such outstanding results’.”
This is probably very relevant to many MAPs if we can assume their rates of PTSD are similar to that of gay people:
“‘He found that gay men everywhere, at every age, have higher rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, incontinence, erectile dysfunction, allergies and asthma—you name it, we got it. […]
We see gay men who have never been sexually or physically assaulted with similar post-traumatic stress symptoms to people who have been in combat situations or who have been raped,’ says Alex Keuroghlian, a psychiatrist at the Fenway Institute’s Center for Population Research in LGBT Health. Gay men are, as Keuroghlian puts it, ‘primed to expect rejection.’”
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/gay-loneliness/
It’s a pilot study so I assume more research is needed and bla bla bla, but since I’ve been planning to compile a list of resources for mental health problems MAPs commonly experience, I think I’ll definitely include it and ways to learn lucid dreaming in it :3
Within hours of reopening MAP Merch Shop with our new payment processor... they have suspended our account. I am appealing, but I'm not too optimistic it'll do any good.
There are a small number of payment processors, and I imagine most of them aren't jumping at the chance to work with MAPs.
I started MAP Merch Shop, because I want to give people the opportunity to show Pride with physical MAP merchandise. I was never in it to make money... and honestly, I've lost money on this endeavor.
For the time being, I can still process certain payment methods through analog ordering. But that's not sustainable for me.
Part of my criteria for starting the business, is that everything has to be automated. I never even got it fully automated, due to accepting analog orders, Monero, and providing customer service. But it was automated enough that I didn't have to monitor the site daily. Now without an automated payment processor... I have to be involved with every transaction, and that's not sustainable.
So I ask the MAP Community:
What do I do?
Hey guys I'm 100% convinced dead internet theory is real the internet is nothing but a testing sandbox for ai now and so since everything is tracked everything glows so I have to detach from screens. I don't trust anything online not to be recorded, at all times, I don't even trust talking around a powered down cell phone. I would only feel 100% confident my conversation was private if we were naked in a room with no electronics.
Fiction/Fantasy
@icedquinn I didn't mean whistling, I meant coming up and putting their arm around a girl and acting threatening while pretending to be a nice guy but you can tell he doesn't give a damn what she thinks he just wants to rape her
Down
Into the deep
The trench