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A question most people successfully avoid asking: can institutionalized patients ever have sex? The answer is ‘mostly no, unless they are very good at sneaking past nurses’. They also can’t kiss, hold hands, cuddle, or have any other form of romantic contact.

I worked in a mental hospital where two patients snuck past nurses and had sex once. It was treated as a public health crisis of approximately the same urgency as somebody throwing a bucket of Ebola-laced chimp blood all over the dining room. Both patients lost all their privileges, earned themselves 24-7 supervision by nurses, got restricted to their rooms, and had to go through a battery of tests for every STD in the book. We the doctors got remedial training with helpful tips like “If two patients seem to like each other too much, put them on opposite sides of the unit so they’re never in contact.” -SSC

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Harrison Saunders

I Have But One Egret

Lamar St Bridge over Lady Bird Lake Austin, Texas

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Any day now

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I don't think being of minimal inconvenience in all situations is a wise ideal to strive for,

but I have in fact on many occasions felt appreciation for someone making an effort to make things go smoothly. and reading that just makes me feel kind of sad about all the small invisible kindnesses that make my life a little bit easier but go unappreciated. (for instance, a moment of gratitude to every person who waits for people to get off the bus before trying to climb on). rather than considering them...not a kindness? on account of my failure to appreciate it?

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Girl with tuba at the National Festival of Orchestras in London, 1923

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Shortcut to the Seaside

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This coffeeshop I went to had two bathrooms (labeled by gender) you had to ask for the key for, effectively single user since it locked.

For Reasons I generally use the men's if no allgender restroom is available and so got the key for it, and then it turned out the door was broken, so I went to ask them to help me in and it was REALLY broken.

And so they refused to let me piss at all, even though the "women's" single user bathroom was empty and the store basically empty as well. Had to just walk home.

Would have been really bad if I had had their coffee and so had to shit.

Completely unreasonable levels of cootie believing.

as a person who uses either public bathroom on a toss of a coin i gottta say its kind of ridicuous that people are so attached to them being seperate facilities. youre not usually gonna see anyones dick at the urinal and youre not usually gonna be able to spy on any women. the stalls are the same except one has a little tampon bin. we would lose nothing if all bathrooms were unisex and i'll die on that hill.

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Is there a name for this specific kind of song?

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Intro

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Chorus

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It may be a bad post, it may not be. All I'm saying is it's not unreasonable to consider this tumblr user to have made their post in good faith.

"kung pow penis," a phrase commonly used in reblogs to indicate utter disdain for OP, has twelve letters, each of which (traditionally) must be supplied by a different user. the unanimity of disdain indicated by these twelve unrelated users has strong parallels to the requirement of unanimity for a jury—also traditionally of twelve—to arrive at a verdict. in this essay i will

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Lots of snow, fire, and a sword. ^^

It was brief but I’m happy I was able to get out and enjoy the recent snowfall. Such a winter wonderland.

I hope all you snow lovers out there got to enjoy the weather too. :)

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I understand some of the changes made for heathers west end - blue had to go because it wasn't legibly a message song, similarly they made the teachers less racist because "satire requires a clarity of purpose" etc.

I don't understand why they changed the line in big fun "our folks have no clue of all the shit their children do" to "... half the shit their children do".

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Unique …

Philippe Wolfers (1858-1929), Art Nouveau ‘Glycines’ choker. Gold, carved watermelon tourmaline, carved opal, ruby, garnet; marked Ex: Unique’ for Unique Issue, number 126 of the Catalogue of Unique Items by Philippe Wolfers and numbers 108 and 111 of the workshop Brussels - Designed circa 1900-1901. Fine Jewels Period

Image: © TEFAF 2018

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"I do agree with you, for example, that we shall at some point see Artificial General Intelligence. This seems like a rare predictable fact about the future, even though it is about a novel thing which has not happened before" -- This is like assuming that the medieval people who "predicted" we'd visit the moon had any insight into the processes that actually got us there.

I'm not sure what you're quoting from, but I think the latter argument proves too much: by that standard we couldn't really consider any prediction valid, as no prediction can anticipate the unexpected difficulties that can arise in practice, nor have solid grounds for ruling out things that don't actually happen.

but this doesn't mean that all predictions are equally invalid! for example someone might predict that human flight is possible by observing that birds can fly both by flapping their wings and by gliding, and that humans have harnessed higher energy levels (wind, fire, gunpowder, steam) and that future hitherto undeveloped mechanisms could thus fly.

of course most early predictions of flight got the details wrong, too much emphasis on wing flapping for example and not enough on thrust, but they were reasonable predictions to make at the time, and they led to lines of inquiry that ultimately did work once suitably powerful engines were available -- even though the development of those engines had nothing to do with the early dream of flight.

similarly Turing's theorising came decades before practical computers, and people got excited about neural networks long before they were possible to build at scale, and quantum computers are still largely theoretical even today, but progress has been steady and shows no sign of stopping just yet, even if it is getting pretty expensive.

as with flight, we know that intelligence is possible: birds have it! and we can expect that early attempts at copying them directly will fail in silly ways that seem obvious in hindsight, even as we steadily figure out what intelligence is and how to implement it in ways that evolution never imagined.

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Bebe pepper inside a pepper…🫑²

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"the simurgh didn't do anything league of legends players are just like that" is a joke worm fandom makes about the travelers a lot, because it's correct and true. however i do think this gets applied less to noelle specifically (ime it's mostly levered against krouse and cody, which, fair) and noelle's gamer habits are generally only brought up in order to highlight that she's a good tactician. but i think it's a useful tongue-in-cheek character exercise for her in a number of ways, one of which being that to get good at ransack and games like it, you have to spend a significant amount of time and energy grinding, which is effectively a competition against yourself. competing against herself and holding high standards for *herself* gives her issues in more ways than one. real tragic flaw type thing. competition with herself in terms of what she eats, her ability to fulfill the social role of high school girlfriend, etc. etc. this is also why she and marissa are buds

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X ray of Rose. Dr. Dain L.Tasker. c.1938.