ever gotten the output of a PostScript program that you wrote tattooed onto you? :)

atax1a said:
tbh after years of transgender hormone replacement therapy, a little bit of ink seems almost trite
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The first gender “detransitioner” medical-malpractice case to go to trial resulted in a $2 million dollar verdict against the medical professionals who approved a gender reassignment surgery for the plaintiff. Many more to come.
 
loveydovey said:
The first gender “detransitioner” medical-malpractice case to go to trial resulted in a $2 million dollar verdict against the medical professionals who approved a gender reassignment surgery for the plaintiff. Many more to come.
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There is a lot of abuse in the system, in all directions. While there are (a lot) of cases which are misguided, there are also cases where this is the correct way. The question is where you draw the line, this is a spectrum. And even when I personally don't get why single cases do this, I can only get out of the way when they make an informed decision. Many of these cases are, no doubt, Münchhausen By Proxy, and I fully support throwing the book in these cases.

But we are a technical place, so I would suggest we leave it at this for the time being, OK? Yes, this is the off-topic. No, the flame away arena is some place else.
 
Don't link stuff from Nazi publications here, thanks. Also, you clearly posted this to address who OP is, not to discuss the subject of OP's post. Don't.
 
I still don't understand the purpose of doing so. I was talking to a guy at a tire store once who told me he had tattoos up his arm and down his body to show his journey through his rough life. I wanted to ask him the same question. Why? Nobody could see it under his shirt so what purpose did it serve?

There was a delivery girl at my door who had this tattoo on both her calves. Only one was completed. I asked her how much it cost her. One calf was a thousand dollars! Her job was a delivery driver for Amazon so I know she wasn't rolling in dough (which was obvious from her car and clothing). I just don't see the point.
 
drhowarddrfine said:
I still don't understand the purpose of doing so. I was talking to a guy at a tire store once who told me he had tattoos up his arm and down his body to show his journey through his rough life. I wanted to ask him the same question. Why? Nobody could see it under his shirt so what purpose did it serve?

There was a delivery girl at my door who had this tattoo on both her calves. Only one was completed. I asked her how much it cost her. One calf was a thousand dollars! Her job was a delivery driver for Amazon so I know she wasn't rolling in dough (which was obvious from her car and clothing). I just don't see the point.
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It's an art form, a way to express yourself. But it's invasive with possible immune system side effects. And also a mirror of the mind.

A psychology professor in one of my psych classes said that there's also research that shows people who get tattoos on their faces are actually psychiatrically unwell, statistically. The only people I've seen with tattoos on their face are usually pictures of gang members who look unhinged. There are just some things you don't do if you are mentally with it. Even some women who tattoo their eyebrows on look disturbing. I am pretty sure it's not just the location of tattoos but the substances of tattoos as well that statistically correlates if your mind is sick.
 
blackbird9 said:
I need a freebsd sticker for the lid of my thinkpad...
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I ordered a couple from a Polish guy a couple of years ago. Lemme have a look see.

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That's too bad. Good quality stickers and decals (not only FreeBSD). You may have some luck googling further, I didn't, despite hints from https://www.reddit.com/r/modelm/comments/1mbmma1/ibm_model_m_square_silver_badge_replacement/ - though I haven't tried the suggested gmail contact yet.
 
drhowarddrfine said:
I still don't understand the purpose of doing so.
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To have a symbol attached to your permanence. Something to remind you of something that you always carry with you, like an extreme photo in a wallet type of thing.

I'm not into that kind of stuff, not 'politically' against, just not into it. Apart from hygienic and biological problems, every time I had an idea for a tattoo, the next day I would remember it and cringe real hard. And yes those ideas included various FreeBSD/UNIX/nerd stuff across the chest.
 
skill issue to celebrities tbh. all of our regrets have to do with missed opportunities and bad interactions, personally.
 
drhowarddrfine said:

Oxford English Dictionary

The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.
www.oed.com www.oed.com
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yes, we understand what the word means, but repeating the same question does not help me understand what you mean by that. we handwrote postscript and rendered it and had someone stab us until the rendered postscript was embedded as ink in our skin, and the question is "why?"? wasn't aware that we needed a reason!
 
well, let's turn this around then: why is it important for you to hear a reason? what's up with that?
 
i mean, it's often taken as a truism that everything happens for a reason, but we simply don't agree. thus, the question of "why did we get this tattoo" doesn't make sense in this context and is unanswerable as posed.
 
unitrunker said:
sometimes there is no answer beyond "No reason".
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Well, actually, and I won't carry this on any further, all of the things in that clip do have a reason but I don't feel like going into it (though the "no reason" things aren't explained in a film is because they aren't important to the story being told).
 
drhowarddrfine said:
Well, actually, and I won't carry this on any further, all of the things in that clip do have a reason but I don't feel like going into it (though the "no reason" things aren't explained in a film is because they aren't important to the story being told).
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there was no reasoning. the thought entered, fully-formed, into our head, and we executed on it. sorry if this concept doesn't fit your worldview, and that the answer doesn't fit the question.
 
is it? it has no explanatory value, it's just a description of events. it boils down to "why did i do that? because i did it."
 
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