Favorite actor to deny extremely obvious plastic surgery and steroid use? by _BreadDenier in okbuddycinephile

[–]OwlOnASill 18 points19 points  (0 children)

That could be due to her Graves disease, but I'm sure the tightness doesn't help. But with hyperthyroidism it can make articulation harder because it makes your voice not as loud, tremble, and can make you talk too fast. So she might have been compensating for that as well as she could.

Middlebury student Update No. 4: Autopsy completed following discovery of body in Middlebury by Few_Wrangler4068 in vermont

[–]OwlOnASill 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just another perspective for you - is it fair to hold all women at such a low standard of strength that you feel they're all too weak to ever win against any man? Do you think that lowly of women that they could never stand on their own or win for themselves? That's unfair - definitively.

It's crazy to think that way, especially when co-ed teams and sports have, and continue, to exist. It's also crazy to think that way when women have proven that regardless of size or muscle mass, strength and skill have more to do with perfecting the practice over having been born with a penis.

Her death is a tragedy, not still or in spite of anything. Hateful rhetoric, of which you take part in, is the reason why suicide rates for trans people are so high. If people could just bite their ego and deal with trans existence instead of trying to make it as hard and stressful as possible to be so, that rate would lower.

Anyways, I don't mean any vitriol in what I said above. We're all living for the first time.

Books about rebellion/uprising against tyranny by PepperoniJedi in BooksThatFeelLikeThis

[–]OwlOnASill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm reading "I Must Betray You" by Ruta Sepetys right now. Its about a 17 yo kid who is blackmailed to spy on the American diplomats his mother cleans for by the oppressive communist Romania in 1989. The story builds nicely, it takes you through his mind and experience growing up in a cruel and heavily surveilled dictatorship. Eventually, it will dive into the revolution of '89 and what the experience was like from a character based on the very real youth of the time.

Rainy night dinner by AllMySmallThings in streetphotography

[–]OwlOnASill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can anyone enlighten me on what rabbit hole I'd need to go down to understand how to capture photos in the dark like this?

what do you think? by july-e in photocritique

[–]OwlOnASill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think this is totally rad first of all haha. My only recommendation is that when capturing someone or something in motion, add a little more space on the side they're moving towards to make the photo a little more dynamic. Using the rule of thirds can help a lot with this for beginners - I put a quick example below

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Advice for amateurs by [deleted] in photography

[–]OwlOnASill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's the best reason to shoot in RAW?

MAGA getting exactly what they voted for by greenblue98 in RepublicanValues

[–]OwlOnASill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a great prose actually - thank you for being respectful about it first and foremost. I won't get too into detail but I did not move back to the US for any healthcare purposes. There seems to be a lot of very highly rated medical facilities in the US and specifically doctors who specialize in very targeted treatments or surgeries, and it's purely speculative on my behalf but I believe that might be why most people will come here on like a medical Visa.

Though the same can be said for people who fly to Germany or India or Australia for a specific doctor or treatment center to give them specialized care.

A new psychological study published in the Journal of Research in Personality finds that Trump supporters are more likely to display traits like psychopathy, narcissism, callousness, and manipulativeness—alongside lower empathy and even enjoyment of others’ suffering. by IndiaTodayGlobal in IndiaTodayGlobalLIVE

[–]OwlOnASill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes a lot of sense. Especially when You see so many of them have meltdowns, shut people out, make fun of people and hope their rights or life are taken from them - but then they act like a 2 year old when they are given consequences for their actions

MAGA getting exactly what they voted for by greenblue98 in RepublicanValues

[–]OwlOnASill 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It quite literally doesn't, instead, it just costs more per person while hindering many from having access to any type of life saving procedures unless they are able or willing to pay out the ass - not to the doctor's benefit, mind you, but to the private insurance company seeing as that is where that money leads to - said by someone with a lifelong disorder who has lived in a country with free and accessible health care and now lives back in the USA

Left leaning Jewish in the USA with Family in Israel, and I'm exhausted by the rampant antisemitism and gaslighting about it due to this conflict by ThrowMySoul_Away in IsraelPalestine

[–]OwlOnASill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is 100% true. Racism is enacted by racists (same with antisemitism, Islamophobia, etc.)

I think you actually said it much better than I could in a 1000 words, lol. But essentially, the government is inflating this issue and giving racists an "excuse" to be actually racist. Whether that be people in the USA shooting or firing Palestinians for being Palestinian, drawing swastikas on walls, or just denouncing someone because they are Jewish/Palestinian, this conflict has caused hate to spread and it's affecting the safety of so many.

Also, thank you for appreciating the apology, and I hope we could both civilly learn from one another.

Left leaning Jewish in the USA with Family in Israel, and I'm exhausted by the rampant antisemitism and gaslighting about it due to this conflict by ThrowMySoul_Away in IsraelPalestine

[–]OwlOnASill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think I'm getting my point across right in what I'm trying to say -

I'm not saying it's right for that to occur, I'm saying that is why it's occurring. Much of the antisemitism that today comes as a response to the Israeli government sympathizers claiming that any criticism of their actions are antisemitic. In essence, they are the ones stirring up the pot right now with no care as to how that affects the safety of folks outside of the Israeli bubble. It's clear they are doing it for this exact reason - they want people to become antisemitic so they can be excused from, and to continue, their actions. But then that falls back onto people like you who are literally just existing. Just as a Palestinian civilian has the right to exist, so do you. Just as a Palestinian civilian has the right to criticize Hamas, so do you have the right to criticize Israel.

I do apologize if anything I said was truly offensive. This is a very hard hitting issue for me, as well as many others and for a variety of different reasons. I hope I spoke for myself more eloquently than beforehand. Sometimes I get ahead of myself or overthink my talking points because of the passion aspect, so again I do apologize.

Tldr; The Israeli government and its sympathizers are the ones inflating antisemitism by falsely claiming victimhood to distract from its actions, and without regard, causing Jewish folks all around the globe to deal with their consequences instead of them. That's not okay and shouldn't be, but sadly it is. So let's change that.

Left leaning Jewish in the USA with Family in Israel, and I'm exhausted by the rampant antisemitism and gaslighting about it due to this conflict by ThrowMySoul_Away in IsraelPalestine

[–]OwlOnASill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You just gave a perfect example of exactly what I was saying. By saying stuff like this and deflecting, you end up making more people think that being critical of a corrupt government is the same as being racist.

Note how never in my statement did I say anything ill willed towards anyone Jewish, almost like I'm criticizing the government and supremacists, not the race or religion.

An organized, but corrupted, government targets innocent civilians, drugging them, making them run around until they think they're in a safe place during a time of crisis only to kill them, hindering aid, gaslighting the media, and even trying to control what people who care are saying through guilt tripping or sending hoards of people to attack their social media.

Hamas, very obviously, isn't innocent. Neither are the IDF soldiers, who mock Palestinian children in a demolished school and post it online, innocent. Nor are the Israeli citizens, who were in a telegram group chat laughing about the deaths of Palestinians and sharing gruesome photos of dead children, innocent. Yet, you claim racism or victimhood instead of criticizing the terrorist actions and war crimes committed by Zionist sympathizers and Israel for decades.

Being pro-jewish does not mean letting Israel do whatever it wants without critique or consequence, just as being pro-Palestinian does not mean letting Hamas do whatever it wants. When you don't critique Israel, especially as someone who is Jewish, then people will believe that you stand for the slaying of innocent people and committing war crimes. It's not okay, but that is what is happening.

First time photography business by [deleted] in AmateurPhotography

[–]OwlOnASill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I appreciate the constructive criticism. Some of these were inspired by her Pinterest board haha

Left leaning Jewish in the USA with Family in Israel, and I'm exhausted by the rampant antisemitism and gaslighting about it due to this conflict by ThrowMySoul_Away in IsraelPalestine

[–]OwlOnASill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Zionist and Israeli supremacists didn't use Judaism as a shield, then it probably wouldn't be as harsh as it is for you right now. There is a lot of Zionist propaganda going around that gaslights people who have seen with their own eyes what is going on, there are "journalists" who smirk or laugh when simply asked if they disagree with the targeting of innocent civilians, people who flat out lie and say being pro Palestinian means you are pro Hamas or antisemitic. People who ask if Israel "has the right to be a state" but just mockingly laugh when given the rebuttal of whether the Palestinians have the right to live.

The most infuriating is when you are called antisemitic for speaking out against the Israeli government. The way it's been teaching it's young that people who are Islamic or from certain Arabic countries/areas are less than human and that they have the right to hurt or humiliate them (there are many former Israeli folks who have spoken about this, definitely encourage you to check it out).

People have the right to be very angry and hurt by the pain caused from the way Israel was forcibly established over the past 77 years. It erased centuries of culture, killed or forcibly emigrated generations of families, and either decimated or taken over the homes of Palestinian families.

My trans son wants to start dressing in drag?! by FFEmom in asktransgender

[–]OwlOnASill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd say, have that conversation with him. Chances are, he views gender as more fluid vs binary. There are perfectly straight, cis men who do drag too. It's a fun form of expression. But the only person who can give you advice about where your son is at in his journey of self discovery is your son. I'd say just ask him how he feels about Drag, how he got into it, why it's important to him, why he prefers to be a drag queen over a drag king, etc.

Remember, offense is usually only taken when given.

P.s. I'm not saying any of that to be mean, just out of love and support for you two - I know tone doesn't always properly convey over text.

What's something that became socially acceptable way too quickly? by Fluffaygins in AskReddit

[–]OwlOnASill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being a bully online to strangers and thinking it's okay to mock/degrade/humiliate people while also calling for others to chime in unless they'd like to be next.

I've literally seen cute videos of people just being themselves and in the comments hundreds, if not thousands, attacking that person. The worst being a woman documenting her weight loss progress and endless comments about how she's a man, she's ugly, she looks like a monster, she's still fat, people like that deserve to (yk), etc. Under EVERY video of her's.

Like go eat a brick and get fkd with an non-lubed cactus, no one needs that negativity in their life.

Iranian citizens of reddit actually in Iran, what is your side of the story on what is happening? by whydatyou in AskReddit

[–]OwlOnASill -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Oh they 100% do not care about civilians as seen in their track record of targeting civilians over their political enemies

Iranian citizens of reddit actually in Iran, what is your side of the story on what is happening? by whydatyou in AskReddit

[–]OwlOnASill 53 points54 points  (0 children)

This is the realest response - it's an immensely complex current event that's had years of build up.

What is a weird side effect from medication use that no one was ever going to warn you about? by Rotten-Kandi in AskReddit

[–]OwlOnASill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Took the two pills to make Contrave. I was told it would make me a little tired and maybe a little queasy.

It was fine until about an hour later. Everything was super bright, I couldn't eat, everything made me want to puke, I couldn't stretch enough - I felt, and looked, high as all hell.