@stylishdawg I never fully understood the 6 month thing because the passports still in date and if you have a return or continuing flight, then what’s the problem?
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Abba Dabba Do
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@lina1888Almeida @xevekiah I cut her off for years and only recently reinstated contact. We’re on good terms now but I wouldn’t describe our relationship as mother/daughter.
I’m trying to forgive and move on for my benefit but the resentment will take time
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What changed me was watching my dad beg my mom not to leave after 14 years of marriage, and said she never really loved him. only to find out there was already someone else.
Months after they separated, he admitted he had known for a long time that there was another person. He just stayed quiet because he didn’t want our family to break apart.
One night he said, “If I didn’t have children, I would’ve ended my life already.”
That sentence never left me.
And yet somebody would still easily tell us “That’s still your mom.”
Fuck that.
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@bladeedge861 @cavesofsteel Hindsight’s a bitch. I cringe when I think about how I acted as a teen. I thought I had all the answers
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@cavesofsteel I despised most of my peers during my adolescence both because of the bullying and because I saw most of my peers as shallow, low IQ idiots. To be fair I was right about some of them, but was blind to my own shortcomings and had serious Dunning Kruger Effect at the time.
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I was bullied throughout my whole school life. A lot of it, specially when I was younger, was just people picking on me because I was weird. But then as a teen I had become pretty arrogant (I thought everyone else was stupid because I learned everything so quickly) and didn’t
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@wirmgurl Unfortunately that’s my mum (minus the second hand). She loves babies but the minute I grew up I frustrated her, she loved me but didn’t like me.
It took decades for me to get over the mental abuse and over a decade of no contact before we found some semblance of relationship.
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The worst parent I know was so careful and diligent when her children were babies. Stayed at home, exclusive breastfeeding, no cry-it-out, everything organic, nothing second hand etc.
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@avaluciarevilla I went to see a licensed physio for ankle issues and they had a chiro in the building. In the waiting room they had a screen showing all the staff and their qualifications. They called the chiro ‘Dr’ immediately followed by showing they held only a bachelors degree.
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my first time getting called for jury duty i was hoping for a simple dispute or traffic thing but i got assigned an estimated three year lawsuit where a chiropractor paralyzed a millionaire from the neck down and ended his job and apparently all lower function so his marriage too
Creepy.org@creepydotorg
In June 2022, 28-year-old Caitlin Jensen went to a Georgia chiropractor for a routine neck adjustment. Shortly after the procedure, she became seriously ill and was rushed to the hospital, where doctors found four dissected arteries in her neck. The injuries triggered a stroke, cardiac arrest, and a traumatic brain injury. Caitlin lost her pulse for about 10 minutes before doctors were able to revive her. She survived, but the damage changed everything. She was left paralyzed, with limited movement, and can no longer speak.
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@conorjrogers Mounjaro fixed my food addiction, I came off after five months and find it SO much easier to control and track my eating!
I feel fuller easier and it’s easier for me to say no to take out and treats. I’m saving so much money!
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GLP-1's:
-Solved my post-Covid mystery inflammation problem after 4 years
-Lowered my persistently high blood pressure
-Fixed chronic fatigue and low energy levels
I ✨do not care💫 if you think they are "cheating" because you want people to have to starve themselves
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@202accepted I recently came of Mounjaro after 5 months - it broke all my bad habits and addictions. It even fixed my hormones and it’s allowed me to continue my weight loss off the meds without the urge to constantly eat out of boredom
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you also have to understand you can then quit ozempic
like this isn’t a lifelong thing you have to be on, once you fix your metabolic disorder you can eat healthy or not a standard american diet and be 100% fine again
it’s genuinely a miracle
Peter Hague@peterrhague
You have to understand something about all the Ozempic scare stories - the entire weight loss industry is in meltdown right now. They made bank selling crap that didn’t work which you kept buying because it didn’t work and you blamed yourself. A one shot medical fix ruins them.
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@KKrigskriminell @SecondRingSZN In the end, but during their peak they were fierce
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@SthAus1297 @SecondRingSZN Egypt was the conquered, not the conquerors
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Growing up around "if we had enough nutrition we would be tall" propaganda well guess who's right
molson 🧠⚙️@Molson_Hart
The world is not ready for how tall Chinese young people are.
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@cosmicspidrman I really wish they’d done a better job of Zuko’s scar in the Netflix series. The actors great but the scar looks like a black eye. The eyebrow is meant to have been burnt off and the skin shouldn’t be so pristine.
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I know a lot of Shouto fans hate the Zuko comparison but personally I really wish Horikoshi took after Zuko’s burn design and showed Shouto’s eye damaged
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@HumbleFlow @realMaalouf It was interesting reading Herodotus because his stories basically show women as the cultural enforcers because they’re the ones teaching the children etc.
It’s very deeply engrained in the maternal role
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@realMaalouf I don’t think many people realize this, but Muslim women aren’t always just passive victims
They are actually deeply committed to the ideology and play a role in supporting and sustaining it
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The traditional gavage practice of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania is a custom that forcibly fattens girls aged 5-15 for marriage.
They are force-fed milk or high-calorie foods several times a day. If they refuse, they are subjected to torture and having their toes crushed.
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@shivlestat Unfortunately it’s common. I worked a wedding where a girl wore a leotard that plunged to her navel in LOOSE flaps and then rode so far up her backside it choked her. She covered her lower half in a completely see through tulle skirt.
Everyone was getting flashed
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@MondoBoof @Videotapezzzz @Aderaido You’re missing the point. Many of those guys were long time friends or boyfriends. They knew the family, had been around for years, and pretended to be something they’re not to gain trust.
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@SthAus1297 @Videotapezzzz @Aderaido Of course. But anyone with any survival instinct and self respect isn’t going to go to someone’s place or invite them over on 1st date or a 2nd or 3rd for that matter.
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The worst part of hook-up culture is not actually the humiliation ritual of a situationship. It's the date rape, or something very close to it, that occurs way more often than most people think. I'd guess something like 1 in 3 women have a story...
ℜ𝔞𝔢@dystopiangf
Casual sex is unironically a huge part of why so many women have become politically radicalized. If you ask a random woman why she hates men, 95% chance it boils down to sexual grievance, accumulated from embarrassing experiences like the OP. In other words, women are the real incels (in spirit). I witnessed this myself in college: one too many bad situationships, and they begin to carry this feeling of being a piece of meat everywhere, projecting it onto “society” despite there being zero material evidence of structural misogyny in the West. The bitter irony is that hookup / situationship culture is a byproduct of feminism; they fought for the ability to be treated like pieces of meat, to be equal to men sexual the way gay men are with each other, but the attainment of this freedom has done nothing but foment an even deeper hatred of their father’s civilization
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@MondoBoof @Videotapezzzz @Aderaido Everyone I know whose been date raped was drugged in casual public settings. (By men pretending to be ‘Christian’s’)
Also, consent matters. Doesn’t matter where you are, if one of the party stops feeling it and says ‘no’, than it’s over.
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@Videotapezzzz @Aderaido Is it happening in a bathroom? A closet? Or at your or their place? If it’s happening at someone’s place, chances are you were planning to have sex or creating a situation where you were open to it then they happened to force it on you.
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@josep_for_grok @26ers_bp115 This was an Aboriginal kid in Australia. Unfortunately our government has been too scared to address the situation and allowed entire towns to be held hostage by crime, alcohol and drugs.
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@26ers_bp115 They are clearly incompatible. They must return to their country.
彼らは明らかに相性が悪い。母国に帰るべきだ。
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@egreghost Assuming these days there is an inheritance. It feels like the nursing home/elderly care system has been set up to drain any form of assets your parents may have. Not to mention they keep increasing the death tax
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@cucumber1bro I don’t understand why anyone would think a foreign government would prioritise them over their own citizens? I know we’ve seen a bit in the West, but Eastern EUR is not the UK/USA/AUS
Yes it sucks and she would have been scared, I feel sorry for everyone who experienced it.
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Foreign male students, who were black, white, brown etc. held us up in the queue before the train to Hungary, because they refused to let women, children and elderly go first. When border personnel gave up and let us go, these fucks took all the seats. That's all I want to say.
Clarinette@chibimnobi
100+ Black people, including me, stood 7pm-6am at the Ukraine/Hungary border. We were blocked while fair skin passed. A soldier cocked his gun at me, threatening to shoot if I didn’t let a Moroccan girl pass because she was closer to white. I still have panic attacks from this.
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@Babygravy9 @DrewPavlou Have you ever looked up how Singapore was founded? Because cheap labour was one of the driving forces.
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Really fascinating piece. Turns out big business has always favoured pliable foreigners who have low expectations, don’t know their rights and won’t fight back, over native workers who refuse to be treated as less than human. There’s nothing new under the sun.
The Spectator Australia@SpectatorOz
In the 1840s, there was a push from Australian farmers to import cheap Indian workers to act as shepherds. Reading the testimony of these pastoralists is striking. They were aggrieved about the unreliability and high expectations of British settlers in a tight labour market. They provided explicit details about just how much cheaper – and tractable – Indian workers were compared with both free settlers and convicts. And they warned of dire economic consequences if their request was declined. Colonial authorities listened – and said no. Authorities Wanted an Egalitarian and Cohesive Australia. This decision was based on a clear understanding of the economic and social impact of cheap foreign labour. It also reflected officials’ insistence that the narrow interests of employers should not trump broader goals. So, what happened to fix the shepherd shortage? Wire fences. Article | spectator.com.au/2026/04/the-jo…
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@EricEatsHTX The secret is Pilates with high intensity cardio! Worked amazing for me with my ankles
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My girlfriend a Pilates instructor. That stuff is not for losing weight if that’s what you tryna do.
Kheumani@Kheumani
I stopped doing Pilates because I feel it only benefits skinny girls.
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