Celery man. Everyone tells me it has no taste, but to me it tastes like an entire lawn's worth of grass clippings compressed into a stick. Extremely pungent.
Same with cucumbers. They taste awfully strong and bitter to me.
There's a Johnny Bravo "Do the monkey with me!" joke in here somewhere but I'm not funny enough to make it.
Not that guy, but I have one kid who I love to bits. Got a vasectomy when he was 2 years old cause we would explode if we had a second kid, lol. One is enough for us. We've been incredibly fortunate so we decided we didn't need any more surprises.
The doc who did mine was a military vet who went into urology after serving. I remember reading the pamphlet on the operation and it said the vasectomy only took 15 minutes. I asked him, "It only takes 15 minutes??" and he responded, "Eight."
I like a good speedrun as much as the next guy, but I told him to take his sweet time lol. Ain't in no rush, doc.
Recovery was super chill. Couldn't roughhouse with my son for a week or two, and that's about it. I've got some fun titanium clamps chilling in my junk now, so that's fun. I'm basically Wolverine.
Birth control and STD protection are two wildly different things. Imagine, if you will, a married couple who doesn't want any more kids. They want the former and don't need the latter.
I think that's typically considered the difference between a "politican" and a "statesman" (or statesperson)
Politicians care about winning elections and staying in power, whereas statesmen actually give a damn about the future over getting eternally re-elected on empty promises.
Based on the thumbnail I thought it was gonna say "and here's where I'd put the documentation... if they gave me time to write it!"
In this economy? Better believe I'm looking up the No A Button strats.
Seconding quiche. My wife makes a quiche with spinach, bacon, and mozzarella that's a fantastic breakfast or brunch (or any meal, really).
Definitely not a stupid question! Networking infrastructure is complex. I've been working in IT for years and still find myself scratching my head at times going, "Wait, how does the OSI model work again?"
Connecting to a VPN on your phone while using mobile data basically means the cell phone tower handling your data only sees encrypted data. Whoever your VPN provider is will see your traffic instead of the cell tower.
However, in modern times it's fair to be wary of backdoors and exploits that can compromise your device and render the VPN encryption moot. There's not much that regular people can really do to mitigate that possibility other than not use a phone.
If you're interested in learning more networking fundamentals, I'd recommend starting with the OSI model and its layers.
A handy mnemonic I whipped up with ChatGPT last year for better remembering the order of the layers:
Precise Data Navigation Takes Some Planning Ahead
I run my own wireguard VPN at home and connect to it from my phone when I'm traveling.
Grant's me privacy (but not anonymity) from my mobile carrier. Sure, my home ISP still sees my VPN's traffic, but that's still one less company able to monitor my web traffic when I'm mobile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkNqNYkwhlg