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otter, (edited ) in Are there any communities here where I can share NSFW medical images?

You could post it to !medicine, but please tag it as NSFW and keep the discussion focussed on the medical aspect of the procedure (it sounds like that was the intent).

This is a community for medical professionals. Please see the Medical Community Hub for other communities.

Official Lemmy community for /r/Medicine.

Also note that it’s only recently become the parallel community for r/Medicine, and there may be people subscribed who aren’t medical professionals and may not appreciate it (they may downvote it).

If you do find more medical communities then please share. I’d like to add them to the post on the Medical Community Hub

mrmacduggan, (edited ) in What are your experiences with polyamory, first or second hand?

I recently attended a polyamorous wedding where one pair of individuals in the polycule were formalizing their individual bond/commitment to each other (but both still remaining in the larger structure of the 5-6 person polyromantic/polyamorous constellation.) It was cute! All the other members of the group walked the bride and groom down the aisle and gave cute best-man-style speeches instead of a religious ceremony.

I enjoyed the event and they all seemed really happy.

____,

I can’t help but think that this sort of mutual celebration would solve a variety of problems that humans experience.

“I love this person, and I commit not only to them, but to those important to them.”

That makes a great deal of sense to me

thezeesystem, in What are your experiences with polyamory, first or second hand?

Everyone always going to polyamory because of a bad relationship in there monogamous relationship is why there’s so much bad negativity about it.

It’s just consenting adults who love each other.

Still have the same drama and problems of monogamous relationships. But more problems and less problems, yet slightly different ,The same with anything

I shall say this though. DO NOT ADD ANOTHER PERSON BECAUSE OF YOUR FAILING RELATIONSHIP. it won’t work. Ever.

I would want to add more but it’s so incredibly much my brain can’t process and type that much.

LegionEris,

DO NOT ADD ANOTHER PERSON BECAUSE OF YOUR FAILING RELATIONSHIP

It’s insane to me that this apparently must be said by multiple people with massive emphasis. We only considered this because our relationship was and still is so strong. We just met really young and have a lot of love to give. I don’t want to lose my wife or have had only one great romance in my life. She didn’t want marrying a woman to mean she would never experience men again. So we share the incredible bounty of love in which we live.

____,

I’m a bit older than my wife, but your point rings true - we also met fairly young, and went through some stuff. That’s probably a meaningful part of how and why we are who we are.

Meeting my wife fairly young meant that I got the raw, unfiltered version of her feelings and was able to compare/contrast that with my behavior - and improve it. That led to trust allowing discussion of involving others, and an understanding that neither of us is going anywhere / associated trust.

thezeesystem,

My general rules in a polyamorous relationship. Well guidelines as rules are so just off putting. But as long as it’s consensual equitable and pleasurable for all involved, it’s ok.

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While I wouldn’t necessarily go to bed with all of them, there are a number of people who have deeply impacted my life in distinct ways, and from whom I have learned a great deal. Hell, I don’t even like all of them, but that doesn’t mean they’re not a meaningful part of my life.

Agree with your take on adding another person to solve problems - always a terrible idea.

My idea of ‘consenting adults’ has morphed significantly between, say, 21 and… my current age. Even the subsets of ‘consent’ and ‘adult’ have morphed. But at the end of the day, honesty is all that we have.

I adore spending time with my wife - whether we’re ‘doing’ something’ together, or doing individual things we can talk about later.

Poly means never running out of topics of conversation, or ways to understand each other.

‘Why her?’ really means 'Our relationship evolves, as all relationship should, what interest you about her and how can I support you?"

That “how can I support you?” question is critical, and we’ve been married long enough that I never doubt the legitimacy of the question.

Dianoga, in What's a sci-fi or fantasy book or series that you want to see adapted as a movie/television series?

The Scholomance series by Naomi Novak could be great.

Hereforpron2, in Where do you get affordable scented candles?

You can buy some pre-waxed wicks and melt the remainder of tunneled candles to make smaller ones with the leftover wax.

Also, check out Etsy, many more price points available on there than I see in stores.

KISSmyOS, in What are your experiences with polyamory, first or second hand?

I dated a woman who was polyamorous and I was fine with it.
When she found someone else she was also interested in, she asked me if that was an issue, but I was still fine with it.
The other guy wasn’t fine with it.
She chose to stay with him and dumped me.

morphballganon,

Sounds like she wasn’t really polyamorous. She was just dating around.

____,

That sounds like someone who was exploring, and I offer my sympathy / empathy.

Poly is a choice. Handling disagreement/drama is a choice. Hell, which issues I choose to lose my mind over is a choice.

My model is disclosure and honesty, unfortunately, not everyone behaves that way / is sincere.

I sincerely hope that you’ve found the right types of connections for you and yours.

voracitude, in Excluding the obvious ones such as politics, what topics can't you stand listening to people talk about?

Mate, you’re either gonna hate this or love it: youtu.be/Mq_wZE93ZAY?si=GDsIRT3XyqsPCIqR

Kallioapina, in What's a sci-fi or fantasy book or series that you want to see adapted as a movie/television series?
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Philip Jose Farmer’s Riverworld series could be a fun series/world to adapt to a series, but also infuriating if they cut it short after two seasons.

morphballganon, in What are your experiences with polyamory, first or second hand?

I’ve been poly for over a decade. Met my now-wife at a poly event.

Other partners have come and gone for each of us.

A lot of people like to blame non-monogamy for issues between individuals, but, like, if some people can make poly work, that tells me whatever issues were likely caused by problematic individuals, not by polyamory.

____,

Thanks for the input - I agree that poly isn’t the problem, people are the problem.

This particular person had to learn the hard way how to say ‘I love you, I will not leave you, and with that in mind, I’d like to fuck _____’ More difficult than it seems, but hardly a torpedo to the relationship - barring a random announcement out of nowhere.

MycoBro, in Have you ever come across some sort of container or organizer for anything that ended up being strangely useful?

I bought two pieces of the new Milwaukee Packout tool box/organizer shit. Super expensive. Was a bit turned off at the price but I wanted something that stacked. After a series of mistakes the entire thing flew out my trailer and landed in the interstate going 70+ mph. Mother fucker didn’t dint or come open or anything. Barely a scratch. It didn’t even unstack. I spent $300 dollars on a few more pieces and it’s been wonderful.

www.milwaukeetool.com/Products/…/PACKOUT

intensely_human, in What are your experiences with polyamory, first or second hand?

I was involved in a nonconsensual, clandestine polyamorous relationship once. It sucked, broke my fucking heart.

BaronVonBort,

That’s not polyamory, friend. That’s called cheating.

LegionEris,

It didn’t involve the assistant manager of a cheap motel, did it? I guess if you were the person I know who had that experience, you’d probably recognize my name and story.

intensely_human,

As far as I’m aware in included a fitness instructor and a mechanical engineer. There may have been a motel manager in there somewhere that I just never learned about.

Zak, (edited ) in How are "We" to place trust in the fediverse?
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What do you mean by “trust”?

Do I trust that vanilla Lemmy code doesn’t contain something nefarious, such as code that detects political positions it doesn’t like and reduces their visibility? Sure. It would be hard to hide something like that.

Do I trust that major servers aren’t secretly running software that manipulates content? Mostly yes. I think it would get noticed since there are lots of vanilla servers to compare behavior to.

Do I trust that all the software is well-designed and bug-free? I write software for a living. No software is bug-free and most of it isn’t well-designed.

Do I trust that everyone who runs a fediverse server isn’t an asshole? Absolutely not. Any jackass can run a server. I run a Mastodon server (on which all users are me).

BigBlackCockroach,
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How can people join your mastodon?

Zak,
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They can be my really close friends or family and ask me for an account, which I would actively discourage (join something well-run like .world) but eventually allow if they really wanted to.

mnemonicmonkeys,

I also choose this guy’s Mastodon server

___, in Excluding the obvious ones such as politics, what topics can't you stand listening to people talk about?

Lately, just about everything.

bionicjoey, in What news source or sources are you go tos

CBC is pretty good at covering most topics that are relevant to me.

redballooon, (edited ) in What is the deal with Palestine and Hamas?

If you checked out for mental reasons, do yourself a favor and keep checked out.

If you want to know news events look at a couple diverse news sites. They’ll do a much better job of informing you than social media.

But somehow this post has the vibes of purposefully starting this social media fight again. Too many things you know for someone checked out. Too naively suggesting “something to do with…” that’ll rile up people. I call bullshit. Go back to Reddit!

dohpaz42,
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It’s okay. I got the answers I was looking for here and here.

You’re allowed to accuse me of baiting people, but you should check out my post/comment history before doing so. Aside of some anti-consumerist/capitalist comments, you’d see this is my first political post. :)

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