Machinist

I've got a bunch of horror stories that take some detail to explain, but I remember a couple moments of shock in particular.

Was actually a Methodist service, Easter Sunday. it was when they cut a baby lamb's throat and it bled. It was great special effects with a real lamb but children started crying.

Also, the time we all went to see Passion of the Christ, 9:00 or 10:00pm showing. There was a mother smacking the shit out of her toddler for crying when the torture started. I'm a different person now and would put a stop to something like that now.

Edit: 7:25pm 8-2-24. I'm eating chicken fingers and French fries and it may be the best thing ever. I need to not eat too much and see how it goes. Fine motor skills still slightly impacted. Eyes still light sensitive. Made a short drive yesterday and little longer one today. My son says my driving is not impaired other than a little more sway. (It's a 25 year old box truck and you have to steer it going straight down the road.) Still weak but stromger than I was.

We'd probably get along just fine.

Knowing is better. Knowing is always better. All we can do is try and tell others what we've learned and keep trying to grow ourselves. My purpose is loving my people, my little family. Care for them and treat other folks with respect and kindness. To err is human, and we forgive others when we can.

Yeah. I have no clue how the path out of it works.

Lots of disenfranchised young men full of anger and drives, piss and vinegar, see negative messaging for liking the stereotypical things that young straight men like on one side. On the other side they're welcomed with open arms and then drip fed poison while reinforcing their identity.

Here on Lemmy if you talk about hunting, meat eating, etc.; people get all riled up. Think I have at least one troll following me and down voting every post.

The left is failing young men and driving them into the open arms of fascism.

I have no clue what can be done about it.

I recommend a fishing rod with an incorrect fact or figure on the end.

In reality, no clue. I'm looking back on a pattern, it isn't something I sought.

"NDs have less expectations of "normal" in my experience, and are better at communicating what they do expect instead of playing games"

Yes. I hate relational game playing. Very averse to it and is probably the primary cause of anger and strife that I've had in relationships.

I also like the acceptance.

Lawd no. My kind of girl is functional and keeps her crazy in check.

For instance, my wife handles the money. She's better with those kinds of numbers and it makes her feel secure. She likes doing the taxes: which is the good kind of crazy. Does a better job than me on that. I stay out of it. Ask her before large purchases are made.

She expects me to lead on broad strategic decisions after discussion, she fills in details, I execute details. I do most of the physical things, deal with the people stuff and phone calls. She likes the paperwork. It's a pretty pleasant division of labor.

She has learned to hyper focus on her knitting, we have a lifetime supply of dish rags and some truly giant blankets. There's a Blanket based on some sort of Amish pattern that I'm going to have to figure out how to display. She also loves her trash TV. Watches the worst reality TV crap, 90 day fiance, Hoarders, angry cooking shows. She knits and watches TV while doing her remote job. Makes amazing money and uses those things to keep her quota to a reasonable excellent level instead of blowing the curve for her coworkers. I built her a pirate server that pulls any show she wants and automatically plays it for her.

If I buy something for her, I try and get it in pink or with a pig on it. She has an enormous pig figurine collection. I'm taking back her 'pig shelf' as it is a glass and wood cabinet from my family that I want to put in my study.

Inside the house the kitchen is her main room. I try not to cook even though I enjoy it. She rules that room and fixiates on producing amazing food. She's plotting something about clear acrylic shelves to hold her piggies. I'll execute once she has a plan and provides me with pictures or links of what she wants.

In many ways, we have some sort of idealized '50s lifestyle. Idealized, not actual. One of these days I'm going to catch her vacuuming in pearls and heels. She's bi and free to explore relationships with other women, for instance.

She's highly functional and doesn't do mania. I also know how to pet her the right way. It's an easy relationship.

Yup. You get it. The solution is simple, with one exception. Simple doesn't mean easy.

We need socialized healthcare including mental healthcare. That would do a lot, there are almost always signs that a non-gang mass shooter is mentally unwell.

Gang and crime based mass shootings would fall through the floor if we removed the incentive for them, prohibition of drugs. Addiction should be treated as a health problem.

We need to identify these sources of hateful propaganda, the nests of poisonous ideology and root them out through education. We aren't teaching critical thinking, I think that also has a lot to do with it.

You also have many young men that lack good role models for positive masculinity. This is a big thing I'm not sure how to fix. Toxic masculinity has become so pervasive and has infected almost every straight man that can be considered macho. I'm a very masculine man, and proud of it. My zippo says Daddy. My straw hat also has a pride/equality pin next to a Ruger pin. The number of men that I meet like myself is quite low. Met a very macho trans man once that I found had a similar worldview. Have met similar men in the gay leather communities but they tend to cluster in large cities and form insular communities for their own safety.

That's what I hear, but I still like the taste of percolator coffee better than any other. May just be bad taste on my part.

Respect is a big part of it. Another problem is that they aren't seen as actual tools. They're probably more often a male enhancement device than a tool.

They should be viewed as a tool for the production of meat, for the efficient removal of varmints. In the worst case they are a tool for the defense of self or others. That worst case scenario is actually very rare.

Tools and toys can be interchangeable. However: some pretty strict laws govern the use of toys like sports cars.

My shooting tools are mostly polymer stocked or gripped. Plain, cheapest base model I can get. Then I take them apart and work on the mechanisms to make them mine. I don't have a lot of them, just have a few for my particular use cases.

I really like them. I get pleasure from using my tools. I also really like my lathe and my daily driver small truck. I've also taken them apart and worked on them.

I think this attitude should be required if one is going to own and be responsible for such a dangerous tool. There should be an interview process or something to weed out dumb fucks and the mentally unstable. After all, the militia was supposed to be well regulated. It's not particularly complicated.

Donut shop style medium roast in a percolator, add 1 serving powdered Mexican hot chocolate to your cup. Mmm, yeah.

Holy cow! I have my TST card and everything. Kink has been incredibly important to my girl and I building a feeling of community.

Was in the hospital once. My family organized prayer circles and shit and I had to shut off Facebook. Then they tried to do some deathbed conversion shit while I was on heavy opiates. I giggled at the guy they sent to my room and called him an alien. The kink community brought my girl, and our former partner, food and ran errands for us. Ran interference with the hospital over our poly realtionship. The kink community took care of my people when I couldn't.

Like any other community, it has its problems, but has been pretty wholesome.

I bet you and I would get along well.