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The parents of one of Jesse Butler’s alleged victims

If he was convicted surely this is legally a victim, no alleged about it?? (If the video explains this I didn’t see it, I don’t watch articles)

I’ve got a lot of anti-Trump thoughts, how much are they paying for them?

ICE can watch this: 🫱(‿¤‿)🫲

I’ve barely kept track of it, but I think it kept getting knocked down by courts?

Oh no, guess I’ll have to not fly even harder 🤷‍♂️

If any problem could be solved by ‘just do x’ it would have been solved already. I grew up in the same sort of environment you did, except the men in my life very much bought into the culture of toxic masculinity. It wasn’t until I started to research my own family history and saw the horrific abuse that my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather experienced and perpetuated that I really made the connection between the cycle of abuse, PTSD, and toxic masculinity.

For people that can just drag themselves out of that mire on their own without any help, great. But some need to be pointed in the right direction and to work through all the trauma that was inflicted on them.

I think you’re oversimplifying when the social consequences for being seen as weak or effeminate have (even in recent history) been so harsh for men and boys. Very often this behavior is abused into boys, with parents (not just dads, but moms too) sometimes going as far as murdering boys they think are gay.

That doesn’t mean men aren’t responsible for their own behavior, but IMO this needs to be understood as an abusive practice foisted on boys from the time they’re old enough to act on their own in any way, a sort of culturally accepted PTSD imprinted on boys. Framing being caught in this cycle of abuse as being somehow weak or unmasculine is itself participating in the abusive structure it is speaking out against.

It’s scary to do, especially if it’s with someone you don’t know very well. But I’ve found every time I opened up other men have been very supportive.

It’s also a little weird to me that the article doesn’t seem to treat women as potentially being supportive, deep friends for men? I don’t think they established a rationale for why it is important that strong friendships be specifically with other men. Any strong friendship should have mental health benefits.

Hat on top of a hat technology. The underlying problems with LLMs remain unchanged, and “agentic AI” is basically a marketing term to make people think those problems are solved. I realize you probably know this, I’m just kvetching.

It’s normal for LA to get less than 18” of rain in an entire year. The ground is harder to saturate when it’s been dry so long, which makes flooding more likely. And along the LA River we have a godawful concrete channel that doesn’t let any water get absorbed once it hits the culvert. Combine that with rain for the next week (up to 6” possible in some areas) and really big recent (<2 years) burn areas, we might also be getting mudslides on top of everything else.

Unfortunately it was on his face, so his thick fucking skull broke his fall.

I’m glad that’s a financial option for you

I’ll take it the way I took his stupid ass signed pandemic check. It’s not gonna make me hate the fucker any less, and I’m not stupid enough to think the amount of money the average person has lost on these fucking tariffs is less than $2000. So yeah, pay me to keep the same opinion of you and your policies, shithead.

If the sandwich did not split, you must acquit!

Did I miss a part of the article that linked voting for Trump and being on SNAP? Or are we just taking a moment to teabag the poor, disabled, and elderly because they live in the US?

The only other thing I’ve found that helped was under Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> Reduce Transparency, the nausea-inducing design decisions really are baffling

If you haven’t tried yet, for your iPad try going Settings -> Accessibility-> Motion, and enable Reduce Motion and Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions. Both helped me, because I hated the blur effects too.

Some people prefer to not cede entire states to fascists.

Super helpful advice for those living in poverty or with community ties that they don’t want to abandon. 👍

“We sent Lexington Police Department out to speak to him, and he refused to do that,” [Sheriff] Weems told NewsChannel 5. “I mean, what kind of person does that? What kind of person just says he don’t care, I’m not taking it down?”

One exercising his right to free speech guaranteed to him by the Constitution, you power tripping whiny fuck.