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Don't use your other hand/any external force to straighten your ring finger.

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so many ppl on tiktok will be like 'look at my epic style glow up omg my style used to be so cringe' and it just shows them wearing clothes that were in fashion in 2015 and then clothes that are in fashion now like baby that's what happens when u don't have ur own sense of style

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Seeing as how the Big Beautiful Bill just passed, here's are some websites that offer discounts on medications:

- GoodRx

- SingleCare

- Pharmacy Checker

- WellRx - this one compares prices across different pharmacies

- Cost Plus - thanks to @thedamnqueenofhell for suggesting!

-NeedyMeds - a nonprofit that helps pay for prescriptions. Thank you to @allitdoesispause for the suggestion! They also suggested checking the manufacturers website for a paitent assistance program, which can give you a coupon for free or cheaper meds.

-Ask for a discount card - thank you to @cccshutdown for the reminder!

Stay safe, everyone. Things are about to get much, much worse in the US.

EDIT: if you're worried about doctor/therapy appointments, see if there's a sliding scale clinic near you (and ask your therapist if they offer sliding scale prices)

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people who learned about greek mythology due reasons that DONT involve having read percy jackson at 12 freak me out, like what the FUCK was going on in your life that you found out that zeus turned into a pigeon to woo his wife like HOW

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personally I don't think if you're a kid you should be using your real name on the internet. very easy for people to find out too much about you. instead you should spend years using a different made-up name that becomes part of your persona to an arguably even greater degree than your actual name and then when you grow up and find out you're trans you have a ready-made name to switch to even if it's probably like Leaf or something

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yiddish theatre, yiddish newspapers and other yiddish cultural stuff was illegal in israel for years and actively discouraged and attempted to make obsolete, yiddish lectures were disrupted and the israeli state translated the testimonies of holocaust survivors to hebrew rather than keep them in yiddish (the language spoken by most jewish holocaust survivors) but tell me more about how israel and zionism are saving jews and making jewish cultural identity stronger rather than destroying and devaluing jewish diasporic culture 🤔

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there's no such thing as a medicaid freeloader. everyone needs healthcare. it does not matter if you don't believe someone has a valid reason to not be working or in school- they are still a human being and human beings need healthcare. even if someone IS this strawman ""just lazy"" unemployed person, they deserve healthcare. sorry but i do not believe that the right to medical treatment without financial ruin is predicated on someone's "usefulness" to society. it's depressing that this is apparently too radical a belief.

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mean as fuck why is he doing that

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Everybody needs that one friend who's better at piracy than you so you can ask for links to tv shows or perhaps movies and they just Have them. They're like genies. This is a priceless gift when unfamiliar links scare you when you try to google Watch free online yourself. Very literally it does not have a price. You aren't paying for it

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when u unholster the gas pump and expose its insert and u push it into ur cars hole and feel the hose stiffen with liquid and u hold down on the trigger watching your cars tank fill all the way up until its close to its breaking point and only then do u let the pump slide out and its still dripping and u plug ur car up to make sure nothing leaks out and u dont even clean the pump as u hang it back up for the next car to enjoy

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being the last one to send a message before the chat falls into sudden silence always feels like u just made the worst faux pas of your life and you go sorry guys was that weird and they're all like no sorry I was just looking at a leaf on tbe ground leaf.jpg like oh ok

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My beloved (Ixora)

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wine drunkkk. lords and ladies I don’t think it counts against my vow of chastity if I fuck my squire like it’s not even a big deal

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if you determine in advance that all of reality is to fall into two simple boxes (thesis and antithesis) which will then combine "dialectically" into a third box, you can search hard and find systems which appear to fit this model. However, doing this is not really cognition or scientific analysis. You have not learned anything about the world around you; all you have done is construct a model and willed that reality shall conform to it. The over-simplified conceptualization of dialectics as equivalent to the thesis-antithesis-synthesis triad is a fundamentally metaphysical way of looking at the world and one we must oppose as Marxists. When even the idealist Hegel can correctly reject the thesis-antithesis-synthesis triad as being overly deterministic and unscientific, we as Marxists have absolutely no reason to adopt this framework. The purpose of adopting and using the dialectical framework is that it allows us to conceptualize and understand all the contradictions we find in the world around us - it gives us language for describing them and explaining them to each other. If it fails to help us conceptualize the reality of a system we are studying, or if we feel compelled to warp our analysis to fit the model, or if it mystifies rather than clarifies, it is worthless

It is rare that we find any dialectical system composed of only two pure elements which would not be constrained by the rigid categories of "thesis" and "antithesis." Most non-trivial dialectics like those we encounter through real-world practice are far more complex. Dialectical systems will not necessarily evolve into a neat synthesis of their elements. Sometimes, there exists a system composed of two or more primary elements which is then sublated, consumed, and destroyed in its entirety by one of its own secondary elements which leaves behind the shadow it was previously cast in and comes into itself as a new dominant element. Consider the evolution of feudalism in Europe. Feudalism was defined primarily by the contradiction between the landed nobility and serfs. Alongside these two classes existed a number of other classes depending on the region and the time, but these could include merchants, craftsmen, freedmen, priests, scholars, slaves, and others. From the ranks of the merchants and craftsmen arose the modern bourgeoisie which became economically dominant in Europe, allowing it to join with the new proletariat and the serfs or peasantry to overthrow feudalism and replace it with capitalism. If we assume that dialectics must take the triadic form and we attempt to conceptualize the transition out of feudalism using only that primitive form, we misunderstand how the bourgeoisie came about, with the constraints of the form forcing us to assume that somehow the bourgeoisie arose from some combination of the aristocracy and the serfs, as if a serf + a lord makes a capitalist. We miss the contradictions between those three classes and the other classes of feudalism, and we also fail to understand how those classes might live on in the modern day. Simply attempting to describe the transition from feudalism to capitalism is impossible under the constraints of the simple triadic model. In all of the works of Marx there is, to the best of my ability to locate after much investigation, one singular time where he uses this triad. It is to be found in The Poverty of Philosophy, one of Marx's earliest works, an essay written against the arguments of the anarchist Proudhon... Marx mocks the supposed "Hegelian" triad, using it as a bludgeon with which to bludgeon Proudhon... Marx mocks Proudhon and usage of the thesis-antithesis-synthesis triad, treating it as an overly simplistic structure which only takes the surface-level form of cognition, failing to hold the content of actual cognition. Thus, this thesis-antithesis-synthesis triad is not the Marxist formulation of dialectics. Marxists have no reason to treat this structure as being the whole of dialectics.

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