That’s correct. I’m an extrovert with social anxiety. I think I just want to be alone, but then I’m miserable. Ideally, I’d just do everything I need to do with one or two friends.

I just looked it up. It sounds awful. I’m sorry she has to deal with that, especially having so little information. I’m frustrated with the level of support I get for my trauma, but at least they can give me some definitive understanding of the mechanics. I really hope they learn more about her condition.

Oof. That sounds awful. I also understand how that would happen. My damaged nerve services the lower portion of my abdominal cavity, groin, and upper thighs, so I tend to have problems dismissing gastrointestinal issues. A couple years ago, I suddenly became super distended. Like a skinny guy with a basketball under his shirt. It turned out that I had an intestinal intususpeption that basically closed off my tract and inflated me like a balloon. I would’ve noticed the pain way earlier if I didn’t have jumper cables on my nuts. Lol

It’s amazing how little neurologists are willing to commit to certainty of any kind. I’ve gone to several, and all I get is speculation and hope. Has your wife had the same experience?

It is. Thanks. It’s improved over the years. Either it’s healing or I’m becoming more tolerant. My neurologist said either is possible, so I’m optimistic.

I have genitofemoral neuropathy. This is a totally accurate description. The location of the pain sometimes causes me to kick into fight or flight without awareness. I take Neurontin just to keep the edge off and reduce the reaction to the pain. Sometimes I think my pain is only a 4 or 5, but my blood pressure reading will prove otherwise. It’s oddly tolerable at times, and “lock myself away from the world so I’m not a total asshole” other times.

Agreed. I also would totally vote for The Derek Zoolander School for Kids Who Can’t Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.

I love the history of the word Cajun. They’re Louisiana Acadians saying Acadian with a southern accent.

John Bobbitt somehow turned that into a low-quality porn career.

It is grammatically correct, just semantically ambiguous. Buffalo is a proper noun, a noun, and a verb.

A semantically equivalent form preserving the original word order is: “Buffalonian bison that other Buffalonian bison bully also bully Buffalonian bison.”

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence in English that is often presented as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs through lexical ambiguity. It has been discussed in literature in various forms since 1967, when it appeared in Dmitri Borgmann’s Beyond Language: Adventures in Word and Thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

It could be simple download requests, rather than MAC or IP address downloads.

I remember hearing the opposite a long time ago. Thanks for the correction!

It’s a shitty rip off from a musical standpoint. I’m glad he has to pay.

Ice Ice Baby has a pickup in the phrase that isn’t in Under Pressure. It’s an easy way to know what’s coming. It’s how Vanilla Ice won against Queen’s copyright infringement lawsuit.

I didn’t list that because it’s unconfirmed. It was just part of Pecker’s testimony regarding the doorman. If it’s true, then you’re right, that’s a fourth commandment.

He was convicted of criminal falsification of business records. He used campaign money to pay Cohen under the guise of employment as a personal attorney. In actuality, he was reimbursing Cohen for laying out the hush money for Daniels. The funds were not allocated for personal use.

An adulterer who lied about it, and stole money to pay someone else to lie about it.

It’s a threefer.

His border policy is certainly more progressive than Trump’s. Trump banned Muslims and “suspected Muslims,” while deporting parents of immigrants and detaining their children to be sexually and physically abused. The legal cases from Title 42 are in the tens of thousands now.

Biden left the border open, while pressing Congress for immigration reform, until sanctuary cities could no longer meet housing needs before restricting entry again. There’s not much else he can do when we have homeless migrants and no federal funding to supplement the overextended states with sanctuary cities.

I completely agree that the US should defend Palestinians, as well as assist in their reconstruction needs. I was talking about amending munitions agreements. In that respect, I think the US should exclusively provide Iron Dome defensive munitions to Israel. They deserve no support in attacking other nations.

It doesn’t matter if you look to the left or the right. There’s always a sickness that allows people to justify killing. It’s loathsome.

What power do Israelis have in uninstalling Netanyahu? They’re protesting in the tens of thousands to remove him. It’s doing nothing. He was elected prior to Oct. 7 and the subsequent genocidal response. My point is, the actions of a government do not represent the entirety of its people.

Netanyahu has a favorability of 32% in Israel.

Trump is currently polling at 42% in the US.