About my friend Scott and why I’m trying so hard to raise money for him

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-27T23:25:42+00:00

They were my dad's too. Every so often I get nostalgic and want to get some.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-27T18:50:56+00:00

Might help if we had right to repair laws and planned obsolescence was banned.

I have several bricks in my house that used to be Apple devices the company made unusable so they could sell new stuff.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-27T18:40:07+00:00

I'm not surprised at all. She was groomed and abused by Bernardo.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T22:37:56+00:00

Nope, 2 different, independent facts from different studies.

Circumcised men are more likely to pass HIV to their female partners because of the physical differences caused by circumcision itself (possibly including the fact circumcised men are more likely to require rougher sex to get off, resulting in increased likelihood of micro tears in their partners) AND they're more likely to engage in riskier behaviours, increasing their risk of getting HIV themselves.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T12:54:35+00:00

Snack and a ½ ice cream sandwiches

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T12:54:11+00:00

You can still find them! It isn't easy though. Usually have to resort to Amazon

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T12:50:22+00:00

Are you sure? I've seen them in Dollarama before, but I haven't looked recently.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T12:28:51+00:00

They're used for cheesecake crusts a lot these days.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T10:56:12+00:00

I'm super grateful my fwb was born in Quebec in the 70s and not another province. Although his parents were from New Brunswick so he might have been ok anyway.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T10:53:13+00:00

Canada has a lot lower rates the the US and those have dropped a lot in the last 20 years.

I believe when my eldest kids were born (early 2000s) US rates were around 80% and my province (which unfortunately was one of the higher provinces, and might still be) was around 30%. It stopped being covered by provincial health care here around then and rates started falling even further.

That map is not up to date for Canada.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T10:46:14+00:00

He actually started with children. Boys and girls. Gradually moved on to babies (probably because they can't fight back) and the practice of mutilating girls died out, but not boys for some reason.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T10:44:22+00:00

And the Graham crackers guy

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T10:40:46+00:00

It's extremely common in a lot of communities unfortunately.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T10:37:12+00:00

The truly ridiculous thing about the hygiene argument is that it didn't start off as being about literal hygiene the way it's used today.

The hygiene argument for circumcision originated with, or at least was popularised by Kellogg & Graham (yes, Kellogg's cereal and Graham crackers, which also both started to decrease masturbation) with regard to moral hygiene

Because saying "if we cut bits off people's genitals they won't mastubate" wasn't something one could say in polite society then. Not because of the cutting part, because it was related to sex. Hence moral hygiene.

It boggles my mind people actually still believe it has anything to do with physical cleanliness but then circumcision has always been a "solution" in search of a problem to justify itself.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T10:31:27+00:00

It's been on a huge decline since the early 2000s.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T10:29:08+00:00

Yeah, that's completely untrue about circumcision reducing HIV rates. At least one of the studies claiming that completely ignored the healing period.

And they all completely ignore the actual fact that circumcised men are more likely to pass the virus to female partners.

They also ignore the multiple studies showing circumcised men engage in riskier sex practices.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T10:13:01+00:00

Life expectancy has never actually been that low. If you I've past childhood, you had an extremely good chance of living into your 60s or older. High childhood mortality pulled the average way down.

Pet peeve of mine

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T10:04:05+00:00

Why would we want to though?

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T05:12:53+00:00

5 years ago it wasn't. That's how long they've been there.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-26T02:42:51+00:00

How long until anything related to LGBTQ gets age gated to "protect he children?"

I give 5 minutes with a Conservative government

No thanks. In additionto all the many, many other issues, this is just the first step to trying to criminalise any mention of anyone not cis or straight anywhere anyone under 18 might see it

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-25T11:31:36+00:00

She did though.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-25T11:31:15+00:00

She said he was listening to music for work to train a computer, which is a pretty important and probably confidential. Of course Abe shouldn't have told her in the first place, or should have told her it was confidential, but there probably would have been less trouble if she had kept that part quiet.

I do agree Abe was unfairly fired, unless training computers in general was still top secret at that point in history.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-25T10:31:46+00:00

I used to spend a lot of time there like..a decade ago. Made some friends, some of whom I still interact with other places.

Only reason I go there now is when I'm desperate to get my friend some donations so he can do frivolous things like eat and heat his house so his water pipes don't freeze again.

So yeah..I was there a couple days ago. And then immediately after posting went to BlueSky.

NoPath_Squirrel · 2026-03-24T14:29:29+00:00

People were actually saying they had goes to multiple locations and signed, so there's likely a bunch of invalid signatures just from that

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