volvoxvsmarla

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Cake day: July 6th, 2023
  • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.eetoWorld News@lemmy.world•Putin ‘wins’ rigged Russian election with 88% of the vote, early results showEnglish
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    6 months ago

    invalidating the ballot. Not not voting. There is a big difference. I am not sure how the terms are in English and whether there is a parallel, but you can “vote against everyone” - your count will count to the total percentage vs your vote is lost.

    And yes, some people were absolutely forced to vote. But make no mistake, even if the elections were “free”, the actual result does not matter at all. Numbers were drawn no matter what happened during the election.

    What actually matters and I am very disappointed to hardly see any coverage in the media - a ton of people showed up to Noon Against Putin. Even in Russia. Navalny’s last wish was for people to go vote on the last day at noon and the lines were impressive. (It is not a meeting, you are literally just standing in line to vote, they can’t arrest you.) If you’re unhappy with the current state of affairs, just show up. Even if you have already voted, just show up on the voting point at noon. And people did. And they saw that there are many.

    Needless to say, with few places you were able to vote abroad, and less persecution to be feared, the lines were humongous. Surely, the Berlin embassy made sure how to cause a disgraceful bottleneck to keep people from voting before it closed.

    Btw, you can see exit polls from Russians outside of Russia made by independent volunteers on voteabroad.info . But keep the bottlenecks in mind and that many people stood in line for 9+ hours and didn’t get to vote, so they are not represented in the results.

  • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.eetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•do you use cotton leggings? would you recommend them?
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    6 months ago

    I use cotton leggings. I have some that are 100% cotton and others that are 99% cotton. But it depends on what you want. I mostly wear them under pants when it’s cold outside or as home wear, but I have one or two pairs that I wear in the summer (sun protection and other reasons). I like them and they work well for me. But my guess is it depends on what you want to achieve with them. If you have one of these butts that make you want to “poing” it with your finger, I’m not sure each model will look like a tight second skin. That you would need to try out. Also the ankle, if you have very thin ankles and want the leggings to be very tight at that point, you should definitely try them on first.

  • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Elon Tusk
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    6 months ago

    I had the same experience and always wondered whether I lived in a weird bubble. Maybe there’s a couple of weird bubbles out there. But no one I know in my generation or the adjacent generations has ever been told or pressured into having kids. Hardly anyone had parents who took it for granted they’d have grandchildren. It was more like school first, career first, stability first, happiness first, self fulfillment first, and then maaaaybe you can think about whether you want a kid in your life but we don’t recommend. All the sex ed throughout school was focused on how to avoid pregnancy and STIs and how to pleasure oneself and your partner (which I don’t want otherwise, just pointing it out).

  • volvoxvsmarla @lemm.eetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Eeewww!
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    7 months ago

    That’s why older porn is so jarring sometimes because of the weird habit of cutting to the guy’s moaning face in the middle of everything. Like, what the fuck was the thinking behind that “technique”?

    So, I am pulling this out of my ass (no pun intended) but I got a theory here. I think the way porn is consumed and its intention have shifted along with our perception and experience of sex.

    Older porn seems to be more like “a movie depicting people having sex”. So it shows the woman and the man having sex, touching, kissing, enjoying. Both are crucial parts of the act. It also appears like the main function is to get you horny, not to get you off. I remember overhearing older people talking about watching porn together before having sex. I know this can still be a thing, but I’d argue that most modern porn is neither made for that purpose nor directed/designed in a way that would work for this.

    Modern porn, in its insane abundance, is to be consumed alone for the purpose to jerk off to, to activate some dopamine receptors or whatnot, and its notorious addictiveness that makes you want more and more intense stimuli. You don’t need people for that, you need bodies.

    The other thing is that sex - maybe because of the oversexualization, social media, internet, being wired 24/7, or maybe because of hookups having become so common, anonymous and risk free - has become somewhat sterile. Almost like an out of body experience. I forgot who said it - something like “we fantasize about fucking our partner while we fuck our partner”. We’re not in touch with ourselves and don’t experience the sex we have while we have it, we are almost disconnecting from the experience. It’s absurd but common.

    You find this “sterility” in modern porn too; perfect bodies with no hair, no shadows, no marks of any kind, almost no body contact except the genitals. Just because there is a cumshot somewhere doesn’t make it less sterile or more intimate. You paraphrased this when you described the guy standing in for the viewer, being objectified even more than the woman, being this background thing doing repetitive motions.

    (Disclaimer: I’m talking about a modern “we” and and older “they” in very broad terms here. Obviously people 30 years ago had disconnected sexual experiences and anonymous hookups and people nowadays also experience concentrated, fulfilling sex in which they are very much in touch with themselves. Definitely porn was used to be wanked to in the 70s just like some couples enjoy watching porn together today. And within its insane abundance you can most definitely find modern porn that is not sterile.)