southsamurai

Sorry mate, there is no current way to eat without eventually needing to poop and remain healthy.

Best case scenario, you can figure out an IV nutrition regimen and end up not pooping poop, while your intestines are damaged through non use. You’ll likely suffer immensely if you ever decide to eat again.

Even then, things will still come out of you. Patients with extreme starvation, regardless of cause, still produce some intestinal mucosa. That stuff can and will eventually come out in small amounts.

See, the gut atrophies when it isn’t being used. It takes a while to reach that point, but it’s inevitable, no matter how well you keep up with IV feeding

In terms of smoothies, there’s ways to feed people through a tube when they can no longer eat. The products that are used for that minimize waste, but there’s still poop of some kind. So any smoothie you make yourself is also going to contain enough content that’s indigestible that you’ll poop eventually unless you take care to balance the soluble and insoluble fiber in the smoothie, you’ll end up with smoothie poop. In other words, it comes out in a very similar state of fluidity as it went in. It takes some effort to build a smoothie recipe that doesn’t have skewed proportions of fiber.

And if you want to have a healthy body, you can’t just let the intestines atrophy at all. The inflammation and other secondary issues that come with gut atrophy can’t be called healthy by any stretching of the term. So even IV feeding isn’t healthy, no matter how well done it is.

I’m trying to remember exactly how far into IV feeding you run into atrophy issues though. There was a fairly famous case of a man that was on an IV feeding plan to lose weight, but with the recent discovery of wegovy and related drugs for weight loss, there’s too damn many hits to sort through to find any of that info. But his case did include intake of low/no calorie intake orally to prevent that atrophy, I just can’t remember the details of what did happen to his gut health. I know he had at least a few months where he had trouble after resuming eating, but I’m damned if I can remember any details.

I’m fairly certain you could minimize pooping with oral nutrition that lacks any products that would form waste in the digestive tract though. It wouldn’t be a smoothie, since that’s pureed food; and it wouldn’t be healthy long term for all of the above reasons regarding the gut. But you might be able to work with specialists and figure out how to keep things from becoming so detrimental as to be inherently harmful. You’d definitely need a team though, I don’t think any single specialty in medicine would cover all of the knowledge necessary to make it work long term.

Dammit, yet another question that I spent too much of my life on.

It comes down to nerves and tissue (cell, not paper) types.

The outside of your nose and the tissues of the anus are not the exact same. There’s a different concentration of “nerve endings”, and different types in different concentrations.

I doubt you want the full Monty of it, but if you look up the term “sensory receptors”, you can do the deep dive very easily.

The short version is that we have specific types of “nerve endings” (that’s what they’re called colloquially, hence the quote marks, but I’ll stop using those at this point). They detect pressure, temperature, pain/injury, etc.

The concentrations of them (as in how many per square inch), and the assortment of them (as in how many of each type in that square inch) varies across the entire body. The easiest way to demonstrate the relative principle is to touch your fingertip to your nose, your lips, your genitals (seriously), and your leg.

You’ll find that your brain interprets the signals in an interesting way. It’ll filter the less intense signals. You touch your finger to your lip, what your brain “says” is that your lips are being touched by something, and the signal from your finger takes the back seat. You touch the same fingertip to your thigh your brain says the finger is the primary sensation, and you feel the thigh via the finger rather than the finger via the thigh the way the lips worked.

Give it a try on whatever parts of your body you want. There’s going to be a shifting perception of whether it’s your finger touching something ( where emphasis is placed on the signals from the finger), or it’ll be the section of the body being touched by the finger (signal from the touched location being emphasized).

The anus and the nose have different jobs. The anus, mostly, needs to detect pressure, injury, and some degree of chemical contact the nose needs less pressure sensitivity, but more motion sensitivity. So you’ll get a different overall sensation with any given substance that’s pushed against either, and when the same substance is moved across either. The difference may end up being minor. But both are sensitive enough that most people can tell a difference between paper tissue products blindfolded.

Back in the day, I wiped asses for pay. The only patients I had that couldn’t tell the difference between brands of TP had medical issues that interfered with nerve signals. Do a test for yourself. Find a buddy to hand you tp or facial tissues and keep a log (heh, he said log while talking about butts). There’s a very good chance that every single one will feel different. You’ll probably be able to tell which brand is which if you’ve used that brand before.

You can probably even tell the difference with your fingers tbh. But you wouldn’t likely be able to if the same products were placed or rubbed on your back

You’d also notice that different objects will feel different when just placed on an area and pressed gently into the skin vs when you wipe the area with it.

Skin is an amazing thing. It’s armor, a sensor array, a biological filter, sunscreen, and a temperature regulator all in one! Plus other functions tbh, but shit like that gets overwhelming to read for a lot of people

You’d be amazed what you can discover with just an hour sitting around and touching things to parts of your body.

I got into a bit of drama back in the late nineties.

I knew a guy that had goats. One of them died, and I requested the remains to deflesh and use the bones.

I also had a bunch of supplies left behind by an ex that was into making their own clothing.

I set up a nice little scene in the front yard with the goat bones laid out in a pentagram made with lights making the lines glow. The cloth got draped over wire frames to roughly resemble robed human figures. So it basically looked like an animal sacrifice. Wasn’t even that good tbh, I didn’t have enough wire to make things very stable, so shit would be falling over every time the wind picked up.

But, apparently, the church down the road had a problem with it. Complaints were made, got some nasty letters shoved in the mailbox, and the preacher dropped by to tell me my immortal soul was in danger, and that I was to take it all down.

I’m not fond of random assholes coming to my house for anything. I’m less fond of zealots. I’m even less fond of being essentially ordered to do much of anything at all, much less by some random asshole of a preacher. He was rather surprised that I would tell him to go fuck himself.

There were attempts to get cops to do something about it, which didn’t work because nothing was illegal. And a couple of assholes that didn’t know I’m an insomniac tried raiding the yard and fucking it up. They failed, I had a good laugh when they ran off, and that was pretty much that.

Real minor drama, overall.

Wait until you run into stepmother boards.

There’s two types. The first are the evil stepmother boards that make you do all the hard work.

The other is the good stepmother board that gives you handjobs or takes your virginity

I used to know a dude that would have gotten hard at your written description here. No bullshit. Dude was obsessed with feet, and what he called “real feet” were his particular favorite. Feet that had seen some life, had been used was one of the few things he would talk about. Literally obsessive about feet.

I guarantee he is not the only one. The only question is if there’s enough like that to make any useful money out of a feet only business.

There’s something about foot fetishists that’s extra obsessive compared to any other fetishists I’ve run across over the years.

Afaik, there’s no apps that do that. You’re likely just going to have to block individual accounts

Being real though, I often have more than 20 comments a day. It really isn’t that difficult to rack up if you’re bored and have the time. I’m not much of a poster, but 10 a day isn’t too far outside of feasibility for a person that’s into memery. So you’d end up filtering out people that would likely be good to have access to over time, even if it’s rare. If you do figure out a way to do it, might want to bump your threshold up a little.

Dammit, now I have to try this

If it’s deletable, it’s fine. On iOS and Android, you have to jump through serious hoops to be able to delete something that would make the OS break, and if you’re asking this, you haven’t jumped through those hoops.

The hardware won’t be damaged by removing software or files. Worst case scenario, any faulty hardware might give up the ghost while deleting things, but if the device is that far gone, it would happen no matter what you were doing. It’s kinda like driving a car with a bad belt; idling at a stoplight isn’t going to be any more likely to make the belt snap than idling at home.

You deleting a file is no harder on the device than making a phone call or using an app. Same with uninstalling something. If something like the RAM is going to die, it doesn’t matter what you’re using the memory for, it’ll go when it goes.

Radio tech is used already. But the NFL limits who can use it during games. Iirc, it’s one player on offense, and one on defense, plus the coaches. You wouldn’t really want every player having coms. It would just be a confusing mess during a game; you really don’t want your receiver hearing an offensive lineman grunting while they’re supposed to be focused on catching a ball. Radios were originally banned, and it took a decade or so for the NFL to allow them.

Everyone already knows their job, they know the play, and they’re pro players because they have the ability to make good decisions on the field when a deviation from a called play is needed. So all you need is coms between someone on the sidelines with an outside perspective and the job of crafting the overall strategy and whoever is coordinating the team on the field. And that’s true of every team sport.

As a player, you really don’t want to deal with the distraction of a voice in your ear while you’re trying to execute. It’s distracting enough with non radio shouting during play.

As far as AR goes, it wouldn’t be as useful as you’d think. It’s still down to what you actually need and want to have in your senses while in play. And that’s going to be very little. You don’t want an overhead view because that splits your focus. Multitasking always comes with a decrease in effectiveness for each individual task, humans just have limits to what our brains can do.

Even a backwards view in the corner of your eye is of limited use on average because you need your field of view clear to detect movement in your peripheral vision. It might be a benefit when on offense and running the ball, but it wouldn’t work for every player, and you’d have enough that would be reduced in their abilities that it wouldn’t be worth it.

I really can’t think of any sport where ar would be useful where it wouldn’t also defeat the purpose of doing it. Like, archery or shooting where the ar would tell you exactly when your aim is ideal. At that point, you aren’t doing anything except pulling the trigger or drawing the bow. There’s no fun in that, no point in even doing it. Individual sports, you might benefit from coms with your coach, but having done some of those at an amateur level, radio wouldn’t be any better than just having them yell. Combat sports, the only way they would be useful is in grappling, and you don’t want anything physically in your ear when grappling at all. The risk of injury is too high. Ears already take a beating in combat sports.

The kind of coordination you need in the military, it just isn’t beneficial in football, no matter which of the football versions that are played at a level where the gear would not be prohibitively expensive. You might see some benefit in rec leagues where the players aren’t paid to practice the way pros are, but it would be way too expensive at that level.

I’m kinda torn.

On one hand, I actually fucking despise politics in non politically focused communities. It’s a personal peeve.

But. This is one of the types of general communities where it’s not disruptive when the questions are in good faith. The reddit sub was prone to bad faith political posts. This one, so far, hasn’t been. The ones I’ve seen have mostly been genuine questions with few attempts to beat a drum. I’ve even engaged on a few, and I usually avoid politics outside of dedicated spaces.

But damn, I do get tired of the glut of them everywhere as the election gets closer and closer. So if the mods here temporarily banned it, I would not object.

Welll, you have to understand that there’s no way to give a definitive answer to a what if like this. You’re asking for a prediction on something that’s highly individual, and very difficult to find research on to back up any opinion.

Like, I’m kink friendly as hell. Anything between two consenting adults is fine by me as long as I’m not expected to be enthusiastic about it. So it isn’t uncommon for people to end up sharing (over sharing many times lol) details of the how and why of their kink with me. When people find someone that’s either open minded, or at least doesn’t judge them based only on their kink, they almost need to open up about it.

It’s this whole thing.

But scat? It’s so far outside my personal limits that it’s difficult to keep composure when it comes up in person, that even when I’m saying I don’t judge them based on that, my face shows my strong dislike of being pooped on. I used to be a nurse’s assistant, so I’ve been pooped on way more than is fair. It’s hard not to at least wrinkle my nose, you dig?

Which is just me explaining how little good information on the subject of scat fetishes and fetishists there is. There aren’t a ton of published articles. Everything is essentially anecdotal. And even my anecdotes are limited, and I’ve had necrophiliacs plural open up to me about their fetish.

That’s a long fucking disclaimer lol.

So, my opinion? You wouldn’t see much of a shift. There’s already ways to reduce the smell of your feces, and make it worse. So the people that have a strong preference about the smell of it as relates to their kink can already have their poo cake and eat it too

But that’s still only so useful as an opinion because while I would have to take off my pants and have a buddy standing by to count the scat fetishists I’ve listened to about their desires, the buddy wouldn’t even have to take off their shoes. Sorry about that, I’ve been waiting for the chance to use that description, and it’s perfect for this.

The “good” news? If you hunt around and keep an open mind while being civil and non judgemental, you can find scat fetishists online with a bit of patience.

If you’re interested, I can go into detail about what I’ve been told that leads me to have the opinion that it wouldn’t change, but it’s kinda gross to most people, so I won’t go into it without a request.

Yeah, I’ve used strobe a few times.

The anduril settings make it easy imo.

But, we use it they’re at the house plenty, the strobe. If I’m out in the yard at night, doing some kind of crap in the rain (hello helene, the most recent event that I used it), flipping to the strobe is a quick and easy signal I need help. It lets everyone else stay dry (er, until I need them to come out lol), and means I don’t have to fumble with my phone in the wet and dark.

It’s not an every day thing, and it isn’t meant to be afaik.

It’s handy enough that my best friend and his husband now use the lights I bought them after they saw how well it worked and wanted the same thing.

We’ve also got a sort of awareness of it in the neighborhood now. My using it drew attention, and I explained why I was doing so. Everyone close enough to see the flash now knows that if it’s only on for a minute or so, it’s no big deal, and I know that after word spread, if I leave it going longer, they’ll know I need help, or at least check.

One of the neighbors bought his own wurkkos as word spread. It’s such a good signal at night that it’s likely going to be a thing in the entire neighborhood rather than just our block.

There’s even diffusers you can get for most lights that come in colors, so you could expand the signalling to have different meanings per color, if it became useful to do so.

Seriously, you have no idea how nice it is to not be fucking around in a storm either running back and forth for things, or having someone else just standing around miserable while you work just in case you need help.

It’s kinda niche, but at this point, I’ve got those kind of lights for everyone in the house just in case we need to be coordinated when sound is difficult (like in a freak hurricane lol).

That model of wurkkos is my main light. It really is dead simple to use once you spend five minutes with it.

Great light

No guarantees. Look at Weinstein. Sucker is still in jail.

It’s all about believability vs the crime, with any biases in the jury and judge.

They’re is a fairly common thing where the harder it is to imprison someone based on their disability, the more likely they are to get more lenient sentences, but that’s still not foolproof.

If you’re faking it, chances are that no judge is going to be fooled unless there’s a long history of disability. Juries might be easier to fool to some degree, but you’d still need to convince them that your disability is evidence you didn’t commit the crime to be able to rely on it, and that’s going to be hard.

It’s otherwise rolling dice that are weighted against you.

Yeah, that’s been a thing for ages. All the way back to tapes being copied because my parents had the best double tape deck out of anyone I knew. Vhs tapes of skinamax (skinemax? Idk how that should be spelled lol) movies, or regular ones being swapped around.

I still swap files in the same way. Well not the same I don’t use magnetic tape lol. But yeah, if someone wants something, and I have it, all I need is something to put it on. Since I have a disc burner, it doesn’t have to be a drive, though they’d need a drive to access anything on a disc, which gets less and less common. I don’t loan out thumb drives to just anyone, but I’ll usually be glad to copy files to theirs. Hell, that’s actually my preferred method for swapping files. It’s faster and less prone to hassles than p2p methods.

Me and my best friend serve as each other’s off site storage too. He keeps a drive with important/hard to replace files with me, and vice versa. When we visit, we’ll swap out with a second drive that’s updated. Ends up with triple redundancy, since there will be the last drive at each other’s, plus the second drive that’s being updated between swaps, as well as the original files on whatever device is the main source. I have another drive like that that I swap out at my sister’s.

Most of those drives we swap aren’t media, though there is some of that, what with hard to find stuff being easier to keep multiple copies of instead of trying to hunt down again. The media files, those are open to copy off, so it’s a form of sneakernet in that regard, rather than only being backups of stuff of our own.

But it does influence people, if only subconsciously.

The point of it isn’t to say “look at this weak old man, he could never have committed these acts”.

It’s to hopefully sway a jury into thinking that they’re so old they’re not a threat, and maybe create a deadlock. Then, if that fails, then to hopefully garner a lighter sentence, for much the same reason, that they’re no longer a threat.

It is bullshit, neither of the two you used as examples had any mobility issues before arrest, and any that they might have developed afterwards wood not be as severe as they made it look. Mind you, the stress, the physical demands of processing, the extra travel and such could cause someone to have extra problems. My crippled ass could barely walk to the car on my cane after the last time I got called for jury duty. There’s a lot of walking around on concrete floors and sitting in horrible seats at courthouses. It’ll fuck your back up.

But you aren’t going from walking without a cane to needing a walker in the amount of time that passed. Not without a damn big reason.

But think about it, when you see some old dude hobbling along, is your first thought really going to be “I bet they’re faking it”? Even if you know they are faking it, that image of a weak person plays on prejudices of thought that damn near everyone has. Look at the idiots that scream about “boomers” this and “boomers” that, like everyone over a certain age is flawed. We all have prejudices of thought, assumptions, and it’s damn near impossible to completely control them and ignore what our eyes see.

You might achieve that when it’s fresh in your mind, but the next time you go to the store and see some old lady on a cane, are you really going to be thinking about how she could be doing yoga and pulled a muscle; or are you going to be thinking about how that poor old lady is in rough shape because she’s old, and that’s all you can see until/unless you stop and think about it? Most people, they never see an old person as a threat.

Man, I barely have any gray in my beard, and I’m a fucking sasquatch. I’ve still got arms bigger than some people’s thighs, and just by me using a cane (and I need one, if I want to not fall when my leg gives out), people react very different than when I’m leaned up against a wall with my cane strapped across my back. On cane, they just look away as fast as they can. With it not in use, I get suspicious looks, and adults hurrying away, and the occasional security person asking why I’m just standing against the wall.

I’ve seen it hundreds of times when I’m out with people from my disability support group. You let my buddy Spider get out of his scooter, and him being a small guy with a twisted spine on a cane is still not going to have people walking around him the way they do with the scooter. They’ll give him more room, but not the same. The guys and gals that have less visible disabilities have their own issues with people treating them different when they’re using a mobility aid compared to when they aren’t.

It’s a thing. We all build up these links in our heads, associations with things we’ve experienced that we use to evaluate new things. Ignoring those etched in patterns is hard, even when you’re aware of it.

It’s not going to work perfectly, or every time, but it does happen

I mean, that happens. Bomb makers die when they screw up. The guys that make fireworks sometimes do, and they work under very strict guidelines.

But, even with the kind of home brew, low speed stuff that you can do in your garage, it’s still very dangerous. Shit, you fuck up making some stuff, and even if it doesn’t explode, you can end up in the hospital.

Even dumb shit like dry ice bombs can mess you up bad.

And it isn’t like experience is a guarantee of safety because experience can lead to complacency. And that’s when people really fuck up.

The kind of people that are making bombs as insurgents though, they tend to have a “recipe” of sorts, a way of building their preferred device. That methodology tends to be highly reproducible. They’ll have their supplies, and tools all set up to minimize fuckery. The same thing, built the same way every time, you tend to have less chance of making simple mistakes.

It’s hard to describe how to maximize safety without describing how to build a device, and fuck that noise. But the key is to be precise, and follow the same steps every time.

Now, the pros, like the dudes doing demolition, or mining, they’re usually dealing with stable supplies. They don’t really make bombs in the way I think you mean, though it’s effectively the same methodology to prevent error. You have a plan, you stick to it, and you don’t deviate from safety standards.

If you go digging through old newspapers and such, there’s all kinds of idiots getting hurt trying to blow shit up in their back yard (sometimes literally in their back yard, not even somewhere away from other people). We had an idiot that tried to mix up some gunpowder and metal shavings to make his own fireworks this summer. Took off his hand, and last I heard was still needing surgeries from where he fucked up his face. No idea what he was doing exactly, but it’s an example of idiots idioting and bad things ensuing.

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