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Reminds me of a Buddhist parable, but I'm driving so I'll post it in a bit. Lol.

Found it. Not exactly the version I remember. Iirc, the one I heard was from Vivekananda, but same general story. Here ya go

[ Monk was walking alongside a stream when he saw a Scorpion struggling in the water. Knowing that scorpions cannot swim, he quickly plunged into the water to rescue it.

Carefully, he picked the Scorpion up with his fingers and walked to the bank. Just when he was about to set the Scorpion down, it turned and stung his hand. The Monk being in pain drew his hand back and as a result the Scorpion was flung back into the stream.

When the Monk realized what happened, he went back into the water and picked up the Scorpion once again. But just as the Monk was about to set the Scorpion down, he was again stung on the hand by it. This scene repeated several times until the Monk finally saved the Scorpion.

A little boy was playing by the stream when he witnessed this whole incident. Being confused, he asked the Monk, “Excuse me. Why do you keep trying to save that Scorpion? It stings you every time you try to rescue it.”

The Monk replied, “Dear boy, just as it is the water’s nature to make me wet, so it is the nature of the Scorpion to sting. And just as it is the Scorpion’s nature to sting, it is my nature to save.”

](https://screeble.com/blog/2016/12/16/meaningful-story-monk-scorpion/#google_vignette)

What's weird to me is that Riker isn't really my type, but almost every one of these could get it

Okay, cool! I thought you meant those toe shoes at first. What makes them "barefoot" shoes? Is it just the wide toe box?

For me, I actually go up a full shoe size when I stand vs when sitting. I got my feet sized all through childhood and my 20s and always had horrible pain in shoes, and ended up learning this when I went to a podiatrist. My feet squish out like playdoh when I stand up. Lol. I've been treating my podiatrist shoes with kid gloves for years now because I lost the food insurance lol

Link to the shoes?

Such a fucking boss move, honestly.

Shoes are fucking horrible. There is no reason we should be shaping our feet to match our shoes. It's like a way less extreme version of Chinese foot binding, but it's so common it's insane. Bunions and foot pain aren't normal, they're normalized. Wide toe boxes! We need wide toe boxes!

Thank you for attending my Toe Talk

I can't find it right now, can't remember the name. But she looks exactly like this asshole YouTuber a family member watches.

As a dachshund dad, I would wear this daily.

Firstly, that would be awesome, but imagine the spam.

Secondly, I'm a proponent of thorn, I get it. But ð was almost exclusively used medially and terminally in English. In addition it didn't last nearly as long, and is much less recognizable as a letter in English. Þ was used initially, and is far more commonly seen in English. I get that you're using them for voiced and unvoiced like in Icelandic, but that wasn't so much the convention in English. I'm not against it, I'm asking to be sold on it. Lol. Sell me on why I need eth instead of just using thorn for both voiced and unvoiced, please? I'm willing to be converted.

And third, I'm having trouble finding it, was eth on it's own ever used as a single letter spelling of the, or is that your own addition? I like it. When writing (by hand) notes or things only I'll be reading, I use the þe shorthand that looks like an e cradled in the crook of a y, like was common in colonial America.

I can imagine a world where only teen girls are in power. A teen girlocracy. It would either be amazing, and there would be no hunger or homelessness, or absolutely horrific. It depends on which clique got elected first, I think.

friendtopia could be truly horrifying

Fucking love seagulls. Grew up at the beach, gulls everywhere. They used to dig in our trash cans and we had to put heavy weights on the lids. Still fucking love em. They're awesome, amazing trash birds who give zero fucks. I have seen gulls fully steal food from people's mouths. I've seen them sit on windshields and refuse to move so you can drive, including just allowing the wipers to fwap into them repeatedly.

Seagulls aren't cunts. Seagulls serve cunt, and I love them for it.