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For anyone else who doesn’t want an account but wants to read the article.

Seeing you post this in response to multiple posts is the highlight of my day.

Trauma that can give the same responses.

That’s me! Early in therapy for CPTSD, we spent some time trying to determine if I’m autistic or just have autistic tendencies due to CPTSD. Turns out it was the latter.

Your comment nailed it. I just switched a couple of weeks back and it really wasn’t awful. There is a bit of a learning curve, mostly around setting up your system the way you want it, but there are so many good text and video tutorials available.

Now I have a system that just works, has improved my laptop’s battery life by over 20% (the fan is no longer cranking the whole time it’s on), and actually has greater functionality than when I was on Windows without all the shit I don’t want.

100%. I still enjoy reading Asimov and Heinlein despite them being bigots. I just don’t support the behavior and call it out for being bad when I see it.

You can also track aggregate up and down votes per user! You’re a solid +13 for me, you’re cool.

Anecdotal evidence is worth less than nothing.

Or build up in the sewer with shit and grease. President Fatberg.

I bet they loved Iron Sky.

Dog, I think we’re way past that point.

It’s true. I used to be a red blooded, conservative American, but that all changed when I showed up as a counter protestor at a Tesla dealership. A woman launched herself at my face, pussy first. I ingested some of her pussy juice and got estrogenized. Now I read books for pleasure, treat women like equals, and I became a vegetarian.

That’s just a fantasy.

Fuuuuck. That’s disappointing, but I’m glad you told me.

But his memory will always live on in our penises.

Good luck! I always wondered if driving was a factor as it was only on my right side and driving requires a surprising amount of iliopsoas activity.

I had mystery testicular pain for years. It was crippling and no doctor could figure it out. I saw literally dozens of doctors, had several MRIs and CT scans, and nothing turned up. Then I went to university and learned all about human anatomy and thus I learned most urologists are surprisingly ignorant of the topic. Certainly every one I saw was.

It was two issues: I have a connective tissue disorder which led me to strain my cremaster muscle through daily activities, and I had compression of the genitofemoral nerve due to tight iliopsoas from working a desk job. I’ve included my protocol if you want to give it a try. It cured me and has helped a few gents I’ve corresponded with online. I’ve been mostly pain free for over a decade now, with it only recurring when I get lazy and don’t adhere to my system.

Cremaster strain: wear an athletic supporter with a plastic cup whenever possible. It needs to be tight enough to immobilize your testicles. After the pain starts to abate, stop wearing it in bed for a week or two, then for gentle walks, increasing in duration as tolerated. Eventually cease wearing it altogether, but still keep it for recurrences.

Bonus balls exercise: the cremaster muscle is originally a part of the obliques. For some (but not all) men, bicycle crunches with a hard “crunch” of the obliques at the end will result in contraction of the same side’s cremaster muscle. You’ll know if this is the case as your testicle will rise, as if by magic. Obviously do this exercise after the pain has started to resolve. This is also one way to see if the muscle is your issue: it may hurt when or after it contracts, but this isn’t always true

Genitofemoral nerve compression: firmly (but not too firmly) stretch your iliopsoas twice a day for 30s each. No more, no less. The “blaster pose” in this video is what I do.

Additionally, strengthen the same muscles doing the exercises found in this video.

That’s it! I hope this helps. Feel free to ask questions, I’m an open book.

Sure thing. It’s Tara Pellegrino from mypassporttoitaly.com . Good luck!

Good luck! If your granddad was Italian and you need any help getting the required supporting documentation, I know a great genealogist.

It has 60 days to be approved by parliament and there’s a lot of squawking about it being unconstitutional by immigration attorneys. As gross as it is, the more nationalist fucks are also against it for fairly racist reasons. They can’t stand the idea of Muslims getting citizenship before anyone else 🤮

I’m hoping if it does pass, it’ll still leave a route to citizenship for Italian descendants. We were literally getting ready to file when this dropped.

I expected better, i.e., she didn’t spend a single moment looking into Trump as a candidate and just believed everything he and his cronies said.