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It's more commonly talked about in bdsm spaces as subdrop, but you can drop as a dom or even just after vanilla sex or masturbation, especially if it was more intense than you normally experience.

A drop happens when you've been building up a lot of those feel-good chemicals in your brain during sex, then suddenly the sex is over and your brain overcompensates in trying to rebalance. You might feel depressed, anxious, regretful, ashamed. It can happen immediately after or even a few days after. This can happen even if you're normally a very sex-positive person.

It isn't post-nut clarity! You're either dealing with internalized shame towards sex in general or you're having a temporary chemical imbalance. Maybe even both! Pamper yourself after. Forgive yourself. The thoughts you're having in that moment aren't necessarily rational ones.

2nd ID: tumblr post by ndiecity reading: “the sun is probably the closest thing we'll ever have to a true eldritch abomination. hear me out here -

Older than recorded history; was here longer than any of us and will be here long after we leave. Has a finite beginning and end but is still incomprehensibly ancient

Burns itself into your vision instantly and can blind you if you look for too long

Further prolonged exposure can cause cancerous growths

Non-humanoid shape floating through space; colossal flaming tentacles angrily lash out on occasion

Sort of just appeared one day and is now surrounded by the corpses of its stillborn children

People used to sacrifice other people to appease it

Pretty sure it screams at us sometimes”

Because publishing houses will not continue printing paper books if libraries are their only customers.

people look at wheelchair users and think "well you're sitting down all the time that doesn't take effort" no actually it does. pushing a manual chair takes a lot of fucking effort, especially without a power assist. repetitive stress injuries are a huge problem manual chair users encounter all the time. going up hills and ramps is so deeply fatiguing.

this doesn't just apply to manual chair users btw. power chair usage can also be really exhausting, especially for people with complex seating needs. going over bumps and cracks can trigger many symptoms such as spasticity, pressure sores are common, even just sitting upright can be exhausting for many people.

Microsoft is sitting on decades of legacy code, too much to make sense of and they don't have anyone with a good enough understanding of the OS to know how to make big changes. Which is why every release since 7 feels like they added/modded stuff weirdly onto the previous version. For instance the aero theme is supposed to not be in the OS since windows 8 but up until very recently it was still part of the installer. And this keeps getting worse.

They don't know how it works, so they can't make actual virtual desktops, and it's why the implementation sucks so bad (take a screenshot of the current desktop before leaving to use as a preview next time when sliding, and quickly show/hide windows, because there really still is a single desktop). Also why when they wanted to redesign the start menu in 11 they had to give up on doing it properly and made it react native instead. And also just notice how in the 6 years between 10 and 11, the only actual changes were rounded corners and a few QOL details.

(more personally, I'm also seeing bugs I encounter several times a day when forced to use windows, that are still here a decade later)

And so as modern silicon valley turnaround does its thing, every piece of shittily added code also becomes part of the pile of legacy code, making the OS harder to work on yet again.

The other side of the dead end comes in 2 parts. First part is how god damn complicated windows is to begin with. I've played with the sysadmin side of it very briefly, and the amount of stuff going on that regular users don't even know exists is baffling. Playing with registry is the top of the iceberg. Second part is just how much legacy software relies on windows being the way it is, for basically everyone using windows in a way that's more advanced than just browsing the internet. Including businesses.

And so in one direction, working incrementally on windows is getting more and more difficult, less and less sustainable. Microsoft can make windows 12 out of modifying 11 like they did from 10 to 11, but it will take a very long time and it won't be good. And in the other direction, they can't just start clean to get rid of the legacy, because this would break 90% of software, and being able to trust that your software works is why most people use windows. All businesses that rely on specific, unmaintained software, would have no reason to keep using windows if they're gonna have to find a new solution anyway. Everyone using software that is being maintained will have to wait a year for everything they need to start working again. At this point I wanna go "lol, they should just make the next windows a linux distro with wine preinstalled" and tbh it feels like it wouldn't be that bad of an idea

There's a saying to the effect of "The code reflects the business that built it" (I believe it comes from Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month) and... yea it's entirely possible there aren't many people in the world who actually know Windows end to end anymore, from an architecture perspective. The number of those nerds who have the kind of political clout within Microsoft to pull off a refactor is probably close to zero.

Not that Microsoft cares, anymore. They don't care about user experience, not like they did back in the days when they were trying to convince businesses to buy computers and make secretaries use them. They do not care about expanding market share. They do not care about the developer experience, they do not care about gamers, they do not care about demographics they used to actively court and spend millions of dollars advertising to. I'm not sure where their money comes from anymore but it's not from you and me.

Regarding economic coercion, that's called having a job. But also I promise you there is a world of difference between trying to buy a person (for the love of fuck will you people ever aknowledge its not only women in porn and work conditions are a concern for EVERYONE involved) and someone making a career in porn.

To help trafficked and coerced sex workers we necessarily must end the demonization of sex work or else you are giving traffickers the literal tools to force unwilling people into it!

One of my family members was sex trafficked. Her case became a part of state legal precedent because her trafficker's conviction resulted in an expanded definition of one of the terms used to define trafficking (kept vague for the sake of my family's anonymity.) You know what one of the biggest barriers was to her getting help?

The fact that everyone she reached out to saw her as a stupid meth head "whore" and not a person who was fucking afraid for her life.

Evidence:

Goggles goggles goggles bandanna goggles

i found this in my google drive and this is GOLD