If you've ever wondered why people in Hawai'i hate tourists, try to wrap your mind around the fact that there are CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, tourists sipping martinis and looking at fish within swimming range of the fresh corpses of local people who couldn't escape the overnight destruction of their entire town.
Try to comprehend that there are fully functional, high capacity boats passing through the waters in front of an area full of survivors who are stranded and in need of supplies, refusing to help. They are hosting snorkeling tours.
Really think about, try your best to actually picture over two thousand people unhoused and in need of shelter, with nothing but the clothes on their backs and nothing to return to. Understand that the island, stolen land, is littered with hotels full of air conditioned of rooms with beds and showers and toilets, each fully equipped to host hundreds of families for weeks, turning these people away because they're booked up with tourists who refuse to leave.
And understand that these tourists were offered free transport to return home or be hosted on other islands. Free. Courtesy of local tax dollars. 4,000 wealthy tourists were offered free flights shelter on Oahu and begged to leave the island, BEFORE the survivors were given shelter.
And enough still insisted on remaining and carrying out their vacations that people are left without shelter and resources while they enjoy "their stay in paradise".
[Edit]: This current situation, and this type of tourist behavior is horrifying beyond words. In other circumstances, the tourism situation is much more complicated, and I need to ask that people do not add on to this post unless they are local.
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You know ... I did already make a joke post about how DC should give us an event dedicated to the Batkids beating Bruce's ass.
But with the way things are going so far ... maybe DC will actually deliver????
Cause the sheer amount of fucking rage Dick showed while pounding Bruce's face in for what he did to Jason ... ngl, that was hella delicious.
Crossing my fingers DC isn't gonna pussy out and have Bruce defeat all the Batkids again iswtfg
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none of you understand how much i need someone to bring julie and the phantoms back
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When you're given the needles for injection HRT, you might be given two sizes for needles, or two sets.
A draw-up needle is what you will use to draw up the medicine into your syringe, and often you will use the larger of the needles in order to draw up the medicine if you're given two differently-sized gauged needles. When I first started testosterone, I was given a set of 18G needles and 20G needles, so I would use the 18G to draw up and the 20G to administer the medicine.
Remember that a SMALLER number is a LARGER needle, and a LARGER number is a SMALLER needle. An 18G needle is LARGER than a 20G needle, and so on. If you need clarification about injection, ask whomever is prescribing your medication to clarify which needles are intended for draw-ups and which will be administered into the body.
This might seem pretty arbitrary, but a smaller-gauged needle will feel differently than a larger needle. Now, I inject with a 23G needle, and I barely feel it compared to a 20G, and that can make it so much easier to take your medicine.
I wanted to make this post because I have seen many people have misconceptions about how an injection is supposed to hurt, and part of what can make an injection painful is the needle you are using.
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i don't want anything to hurt tommy. i don't want anyone to hurt tommy, even buck, and the fact that he's going to because it's inevitable, because he doesn't even have a choice in the matter, because the choice to fall in love with eddie was made long ago before he even realized he was making it, makes me so fucking GRUMPY, man !!!! like. having to choose between my three children, one of whom is completely traumatized but healing, one who needs to be chosen, and the other who's just trying to do and be good to make up for the harm he put into the world (y'know. presumably), all the while KNOWING i will ultimately choose buck/eddie and their happiness makes me completely want to kill a man. i am so serious. like
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BRADY SKJEI
November 7, 2023 | © Josh Lavallee
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it's like. the most horrific thing lestat does TO ME is his speech on the train to claudia like that is truly the scariest part of the whole show that is the horror, lestat's ability to control louis and claudia without lifting a finger to them when they know he could, he can, he has, and he will if they don't stay in line
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