Teacher here. It's made-up-nonsense. I don't give a shit what gender or sexual orientation a kid is and im CERTAINLY not going to try to convince anyone to change anything about themselves.

That said, I'm going to acknowledge that gay/trans people exist in authorship and literature as it arises. You can't read someone like Whitman (Leaves of Grass, arguably America's greatest poet) and not come across references to sexuality either implicit or explicit. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45472/i-sing-the-body-electric

It becomes relevant in passages like this:

5
This is the female form,
A divine nimbus exhales from it from head to foot,
It attracts with fierce undeniable attraction,
I am drawn by its breath as if I were no more than a helpless vapor, all falls aside but myself and it,
Books, art, religion, time, the visible and solid earth, and what was expected of heaven or fear’d of hell, are now consumed,
Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play out of it, the response likewise ungovernable,
Hair, bosom, hips, bend of legs, negligent falling hands all diffused, mine too diffused,
Ebb stung by the flow and flow stung by the ebb, love-flesh swelling and deliciously aching,
Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow and delirious juice,
Bridegroom night of love working surely and softly into the prostrate dawn,
Undulating into the willing and yielding day,
Lost in the cleave of the clasping and sweet-flesh’d day.

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Maybe a conversation like:

"'Love flesh swelling' like he's in love with some woman and they...he...?"

"Probably not, he didn't have any serious female relationships as far as I am aware."

"But the title is 'The female form'"

"Well, it's possible, but it's not likely the case that he was talking about himself being in love with a woman. This poem is in the text but he wrote many other pieces about he-himself falling into and out of love with various men and we have letters documenting those relationships with his male significant others. Although, I'm not sure what to call them because gay marriage would have been illegal at the time. He's likely writing the poem in a way where he appreciates the female form and sees men who are drawn to it like the way I appreciate watching bees act obsessively driven to the middle of flowers. I like watching Bees in action, but that doesn't mean I'm going all pollen crazy, still I appreciate it for what it is."
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This is an example of how discussion of sexuality would come up in my classroom as I imagine it. Note how I'm not trying to convince the kid I'm talking to to turn gay like it's a big game of rainbow-red-rover or something. Nevertheless, knowing the author's sexual preference in this instance informs our understanding of the piece.


My own personal theory?
The people railing against things like this are the same shitheads that can't be bothered to read ANYTHING and instead giggle and guffaw at "hurhurhurhur he hadd'a boner" where I get to live an early stage of Idocracy.

Also, I agree that the "funky stuff" shouldn't be just avoided altogether. For goodness sake, just let teachers have the difficult conversation that everyone is avoiding. Reminds me of when Peggy Hill was struggling to say "Penis" when she was assigned sex ed.

Biden’s poll numbers are better than Trump’s despite the disaster he inherited from Trump. Duh.???????????

Polling at 39% is terrible. Yep 60% of Americans think Biden is not good.
disaster inherited ?> Things are worse today then the day Biden took office.

Border crossing was under better control.
American finally had energy independence.
Gas was at least a buck less.
Really spending extra 20$ a tank is "better"
Inflation running between 4 and 6 %.


These are all bad for Americans. Biden policies created these failures.


4.2% unemployment is awesome. This will still great until Democrats mess with cooperate tax rates then the ship will slow back down.

I'm not even going to blame Biden Admin for more covid deaths under his watch ( even with vaccine) than Trumps. Its a loose cannon with ebbs and flows.

Not blaming the Chineese for this death cannon is his and the UN fault. Just goes to show how paid off people are on a global scale.

2022 will be the judgement of this administration.

Really? Can you offer a comparative American/Russian timeline of computer telecommunication innovations, or are you just assuming? Be sure to focus on pre '68 era, before American socialism was applied in large part (public funding/monopoly busting).

And for some unknown to you reason China is beating the ever loving pants off America lately....so what's your point? Certainly not that Capitalism always beats socialism, I hope you aren't that deluded. Both have strengths and weaknesses, both ebb and flow. Neither are the sole determining factor for inventiveness, neither has a monopoly on invention.

Russia beat America into space even with their near poverty level economy at the time, and despite the fact that their scientists definitely didn't personally profit from their myriad of inventions required to make it happen.
I'm not arguing which is better, that's like arguing over which color is better....better in what way? I'm arguing against your contention that ONLY personal profit drives invention or innovation. That's clearly a mistaken assumption imo.

It's a difficult thing to really justify or demonize because sex is a head game, a dance but also a match of submissiveness versus dominance; it can become violent and abusive through the ebb and flow of permission and denial. One moment I'm smacking her ass during sex, after a year of smacking her ass, she needs to be spanked before sex even begins, and now 10 years later there's whips and clamps and shackles. It all started with a mildly amusing smack to the ass that over time became a mutual fetish.

All of that extreme abuse porn is a matter of course, just like the secret fetish in a relationship starts with something innocent then leads to something semi-professional. This is the end result of a fetish that started with Deep Throat in the '70s opening the world to oral sex. Now it's facial abuse. She doesn't need a deep throat, now she just needs to undergo a hazing.

Will regulation change an industry piloted entirely by desire and sex starved user demand? Or would the culture simply evolve around the regulations?

Japan blurs out genitals, so what happens? The culture evolves around the restrictions and now we have a thriving bukkake subgenre. You want cum in eyes? Niche. Cum in hair? Niche. Cum on teeth? For real though, the focus is on teeth. We don't even need genitals now! Just pick a spot on the body and then ejaculate in mass! What a phenomenon.

Niches form and when they trend, that's when you end up with a popular site like facial abuse.

But hazing porn exists in the reverse and is also quite popular. Pegging? Come on, where's my face sitting fans? Hey now, there's also a lesbian variety of big assed Brazilian women who abuse skinny blond girls. I don't know what they're saying, but clearly it means something along the lines of dig that white caucausian nose further up my brown latin pussy. One woman is empowered, the other not so much, but she likes it, so... empowered? But who watches it? Men? Surely not women. Well, I know several women who watch the shit out of lesbian domination porn.

I had the absolute pleasure to sit with some really open lesbians and watch lesbian domination porn where the women wrestle each other, and the winner gets to fuck the loser in humiliating and abusive ways. I mean... the topic of empowerment is tough here. If you do porn just own it. Damn. Come on, it's just sex. People just like giving each other a hard time and they're always worrying about the next generation, even though they know humans are all dirty, filthy, sex craved fiends.

I think the most abusive porn I've watched (was sort of forced to watch) was a man having his penis hit with a hammer by a very mean woman. He liked having his penis hit with a hammer for some odd reason.

The thumbnail image for this video has been updated - thumbnail added by oritteropo.

I can only see her name as "E-bone", not "ebb-uh-nay".

Fewer and fewer Americans are willing to pay for a performance or a skill commingled with artisanship. The reason may lie somewhere between the homogenization of culture through programming from an early age and the cheapening of a creative livelihood being replaced by covetous material gain in the form of disposable goods and services, music, art, etc. Entertainment/infotainment marketed to crass, low-ebb robots being created by a society in overall decline.

I blame media, damaged standards of education, and those who would hijack personal freedoms to control the world mind through disinformation and economic subjugation.

Mmmmm, ice cream cones..

OH, and you can be DEAD certain that every single prison guard, warden are masochistic low-ebb, base human garbage (broken humans) as well. All were abused and are abusers, none are without fault.

Here's thoughts for the 'let's be nice and fairs': Silence often connotes consent.-yarmo has not appeared to defend himself and may not but he sure haunts 2 of about a gadjilllion YT channels to slap-em up over here.

I've been the victim of the 'mob' here and this ain't it (though check this: How now, does yarmolenko offer ANY defense with his account nixed? He can't, which points-out a fatal flaw in the process here in that a unilaterally banned or as in this case, a ban-team attack on an alleged violation offers the accused no recourse for defense.

Happened to me 3 times ofr dissimilar infractions but when I was banned, I had to create sock-puppets to get back in the fucking building.

ALWAYS have thought this aspect of mob rule (and there have been mobs of 2-3 with douchebag as their influential character traits) on the sift a fatal flaw.

In all cases with myself, I was left to lurk and read the bullshit spewing from the mouths of douche after I was run outta town on rails.

It's fucking retarded, low-ebb, base human bullshit to me-Look what happened when we let blankfuck back?? He came, was awarded gifts and praises, he shit, he's gone. What a shining example of the human experience.

None of the above.

The #OWS must next evolve, and I think it will.

Go from an "occupy" movement to a "general strike" movement. If we can organize a few hundred people to meet at random and dance to a version of Michael Jackson's Thriller, then we can organize ourselves to make sure 100,000 people coincidentally "call in sick" when and where it is most strategic to our goals.

We can cause more damage to our enemies (I use that word specifically) by choosing not to participate in their exploitive system on a large scale basis. The ultimate goal is to be able to shut down this country at will, until the GOP starts sitting at the bargaining table.

The movement may ebb and flow...but I don't think it's going away.

Too many of us are hurting too badly to pretend all is well.

Austerity is not an option: tax the rich, end the wars, invest in America.

Above all, as Russell Simmons said, get money out of Washington.

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Psychologic & boise_lib
You're missing the point. Bureaucracies are ponzi schemes of power.
You know ponzi schemes don't work, so why invest your power in one.
At least in a free market, there's an ebb and flow of power
So while, yes, the strong can push around the weak; the weak can also gang up on the strong. Two strongs can flank the weaks. One weak can poison the well of the strongs. You get the point, yes?
In bureaucracies, power only moves one way. Up.. away from you.
What if you don't see a return from the scheme and want out?
You truly don't have any recourse then Boise_Lib
~~~
I'll put it this way.
"Free market violence" - for lack of a better term - is random and fair. You can always gain lose or remain neutral in your power.
State sanctioned violence is worse because the power you forfeit for a false sense of security is inevitably be used against you to control your life.
The deck is constantly stacked against you.


People form groups either way.

The world is libertarian by nature, but people tend to form societies because it's stronger than an individual. If that society can't protect itself (from within or without) then it will be replaced by a stronger one. Get rid of government and new ones will emerge (or "annex").

I certainly have my complaints about the various types of governments around the world, but those are critiques of the implementations rather than the idea of government. I'd much rather live under a flawed representative government than whoever happens to amass the most individual power from the vacuum.

I can't help that assholes can get hired as police officers, but I still value law enforcement. I feel that abuses can be addressed without throwing the entire system out. I've known plenty of bad cops, but I've known far more cops that hate people like that and see cameras as a protection rather than a threat.

@Psychologic & boise_lib

You're missing the point. Bureaucracies are ponzi schemes of power.

You know ponzi schemes don't work, so why invest your power in one.
At least in a free market, there's an ebb and flow of power

So while, yes, the strong can push around the weak; the weak can also gang up on the strong. Two strongs can flank the weaks. One weak can poison the well of the strongs. You get the point, yes?

In bureaucracies, power only moves one way. Up.. away from you.

What if you don't see a return from the scheme and want out?
You truly don't have any recourse then @Boise_Lib
~~~
I'll put it this way.

"Free market violence" - for lack of a better term - is random and fair. You can always gain lose or remain neutral in your power.

State sanctioned violence is worse because the power you forfeit for a false sense of security is inevitably be used against you to control your life.
The deck is constantly stacked against you.

OK people enough of the radio crap. Whether or not it's legal for a cop to park in a no parking spot will depend on the jurisdiction you are in. I live in British Columbia, Canada and the appropriate sections of the Motor Vehicle Act of BC are shown below. To summarize, a vehicle is an emergency vehicle if it is operated by a police officer in the performance of his duties (it doesn't have to be an emergency situation) and an emergency vehicle is exempt from most provisions of the act provided it is operated safely and with regard to the nature of the use of the vehicle at the time.

To sum up with examples; parking in a no parking spot while having lunch in a donut shop - not permitted; parking safely on the side of the road in a no parking spot while observing the ebb and flow of traffic and ever ready at any time to pursue blankfist, I mean violators - specifically permitted.

While I'm as much against cops taking liberties or gaining advantages the rest of us do not enjoy, to think that a situation like the one in this video is the first step on some slippery slope is just a tad paranoid.

And the guy in the video is a douche




"emergency vehicle" means any of the following:

...
(c) a motor vehicle, or cycle as defined in Part 3, driven by a peace officer, constable or member of the police branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the discharge of his or her duty;

Exemption for emergency vehicles

122 (1) Despite anything in this Part, but subject to subsections (2) and (4), a driver of an emergency vehicle may do the following:

(a) exceed the speed limit;
(b) proceed past a red traffic control signal or stop sign without stopping;
(c) disregard rules and traffic control devices governing direction of movement or turning in specified directions;
(d) stop or stand.

(2) The driver of an emergency vehicle must not exercise the privileges granted by subsection (1) except in accordance with the regulations.

(3) [Repealed 1997-30-2.]

(4) The driver of an emergency vehicle exercising a privilege granted by subsection (1) must drive with due regard for safety, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including the following:
(a) the nature, condition and use of the highway;
(b) the amount of traffic that is on, or might reasonably be expected to be on, the highway;
(c) the nature of the use being made of the emergency vehicle at the time.

Isn't there another clip where they kick off and the crowd becomes incredibly bored as the teams pass it around aimlessly?

Most of the current games in the World Cup have been like that - unfortunately. But that's a lot to do with them being early group games featuring underwhelming sides.

Still the cultural difference between the U.S.A and the rest of the world is fascinating. Regular scoring of some sort is very important for the former while the ebb and flow of a football (aka soccer apparently) match is appreciated in other respects as well - skill, commitment and style.

@ qwiz and rottenseed.
i think maybe my point got lost in my rant.
so let me clarify:
i never agreed with choggies tactics,i found them to be abrasive and confrontational,but i did agree wholeheartedly on his intent.
which was to promote discussion by way of stirring the wasps nest.
i had told him that may be a counterproductive tactic but that was him..meh../shrugs.
so please do not take my rant as a "choggie is my savior".
it is not.
i just liked him and his quirky ways.
i am also not diminishing nor marginalizing those who have had bad experiences with choggie.the private messages and enflammatory comments directed at a particular person.that was their experience and they feel the way they do based on those experiences..who am i too judge the validity of their emotions?
what i WAS addressing however was how i was watching,and not for the first time,people putting blame on the chogster for certain trends and tendencies of this site.
that is a falsehood.
many good people.interesting and unique people left not due to choggies antics but rather the ever-increasing group-think that has permeated this site more and more.
you may disagree and that is your right but it also another discussion and one i welcome gladly.i think i could make a pretty strong case.
i totally agree with you qwiz on the points of popularity and the ebb and flow of users.
you will get no argument from me but that wasn't my point.
while the sift still retains a colorful dynamic that dynamic is nowhere near as diverse as it used to be.
because the group-mind sees any deviation from what they perceive as true and righteous as an affront to their sensibilities.
so anybody with a different voice,opinion or view is quickly pounced on and berated.
that me be done politely,even cordially but it is still done and it is usually done enmasse.
what i find so sad is that many here dont even realize this.
they dont see it.
i am not pointing this out not to be confrontational.
i am just stating an observation..not a judgment.
THIS is what choggie was fighting against.
detest his methods but understand his motivation.
i engage in a different way...
i vote up a video that i know the groupmind will ignore totally.i may not,and many times do not,agree with the content but if it offers a different voice..a different perspective then i will vote it up..even promote it if i have the PP's.
choggie fought against a collective myopia.
others..and we are few..(you know who you are)do the same but use different tactics.
so what if he sounded like don rickles on a crystal meth bender,at least he was entertaining and original.
but a deal is a deal and choggie broke that deal.
ok...those be the rules.
and rottenseed is spot on.
choggie has to be choggie and some here are far too sensitive to look past his abrasive nature (hurtful PM's aside)because they have no understanding the reasons for his words and actions.
this is why i stated "look to yourself before you place blame on another".
because just like you felt attacked by choggie on your posts or on your page many and i mean MANY felt the same way when they tried to share their religion,or their politics or philosophy.
all it takes is that first person to start in and the rest chime in like parrots,sqawking the same line.
just because you may not have been as vitriolic as choggie or abrasive and confrontational does not mean the very SAME results occured to them as choggie made YOU feel.
and there lies the hypocrisy.

as i stated in my previous comment.
i love this place and that still remains true.
i came to this site for three years everyday until i finally decided to share and archive.
i do not regret that decision.
there are some great people here.interesting and unique.even the members who,in my opinion,are part of the collective i like..i may disagree with them and the mental coma i perceive them to be in..but i still like them as people.
choggie was nemesis.
i wonder how many here who villified him will find that dynamic something they will miss?
real easy to think you are right when nobody is punching holes in your premise..
choggie drove a truck through.
i will miss my friends voice here on the sift.