The likelihood of being sued is the issue. The DMCA has tons of case law behind it making it a powerful tool for the media companies. Not so much for NCII. Also, individuals usually don’t have legal teams.

So as with much fuckery in the modern world, we can use the rules as well as they can. If someone’s image is shared as NCII, they only need flag it as a DMCA violation. Problem being, who is going to know that trick?

Yes, there is a Japanese belief that people have three hearts, each representing a different part of their personality:

• The mouth: The heart that is shown to the world.
• The chest: The heart that is shown to friends and family.
• The secret heart: The heart that is buried deep and only known to the individual.

Also, there’s the Monkeysphere. Some of what you’re after is here:

https://www.cracked.com/article_14990_what-monkeysphere.html

It’s on old article, try to deal with the broken formatting. Easily the best summation of why we treat each other as we do.

Saw a hulking Florida Panther on a lonely creek in NW FL. Wikipedia says there’s only a small population in the very south.

My combat boots were the first thing to come to mind, along with the socks. Bought both 3-years ago and none show any real wear.

I’ve abused hell out of the boots, and they’re stained with oil and god knows what else, but they fit perfectly and don’t have any “mechanical” wear, only cosmetic. I was a little leary of the low price, but damn, they’re a steal. I’d buy them again but I’d have to drop the original pair in a wood chipper to fuck them up.

The socks are still elastic and warm, cushiony, never popped a hole. Wish I could afford another set and I wish I hadn’t looked that up. Just too broke ATM, and will be for some time.

Lately I’ve been on a kick wearing stretch pants. Like yoga pants for men? What are those called? Got a pair at TJ Maxx, went back the next day for another.

One extra step, the judge has to allow it.

Y’all know that’s a flare gun, right?

His mom’s addiction predated fentanyl by a decade or three. Can our cowardly media bring that as a follow-up question?

I’m neither introverted nor extroverted, but I do shit alone every day!

Found a new trail to hike by my house, along with the miles of “wild” trails in the woods here. Just got back from a 4-mile.

Yesterday I kayaked a couple of miles in the local swamp. Saw beautiful things!

Also, I lay in bed and read everyday, even if my wife is there. If she wants TV? Ear plugs, I’m basically alone.

EDIT: Forgot to add: I found these things to do simply by poking around on Google Maps, seeing what was around me. Not “official” places, just looking at geography. It’s free.

Castle or roses.

Best answer here as it touches on inarguable facts rather than feelings. NOTE: Emotions are mainly a mammal thing, though reptiles and birds have a sort-of amygdala, not the same though.

And an interesting bit for OP: Dogs DO smile! At the least we can that we selected for more expressive facial muscles in dogs. In contrast, my pig has about zero emotional indicators, though he seems smarter than any dog I’ve met.

Dogs were shaped during the course of domestication both in their behavior and in their anatomical features. Here we show that domestication transformed the facial muscle anatomy of dogs specifically for facial communication with humans. A muscle responsible for raising the inner eyebrow intensely is uniformly present in dogs but not in wolves. Behavioral data show that dogs also produce the eyebrow movement significantly more often and with higher intensity than wolves do, with highest-intensity movements produced exclusively by dogs. Interestingly, this movement increases paedomorphism and resembles an expression humans produce when sad, so its production in dogs may trigger a nurturing response. We hypothesize that dogs’ expressive eyebrows are the result of selection based on humans’ preferences.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1820653116

Far more out there if you want less technical resources:

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/dogs-faces-evolved-improve-connections-people-study-suggests-rcna22362

Everyone talking about pain so I’ll add this: A person is shitloads more attractive with a straight posture. Shoulders back, head high y’all. Fake it until it’s a habit if you must.

It may well be growing faster as you age. Mine certainly did.

Breakfast Club. I was part nerd, part rebel. Funny how I read comments about how unrealistic the characters are. Guys, that is exactly how it was in the 80s.

Something wrong with inspiring stories?

The chances of that happening to the average person

Pure lemmy right there. Hard work is useless and derided. Only chance determines success. What a miserable way to navigate life. Is there a word for “economic incel”?

Figured this out some time back. Firing a manager is an admission of failure by someone even higher.

$64K isn’t really much these days.

We had the coin op at the local movie theater. Didn’t play much as a quarter was real money and I lost so quickly.

Anyone remember the vector graphics Star Wars game? Man, if I could have any vintage game in my house…

Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself

I CANNOT kill this off my Spotify country list.

Them’s fightin’ words!

Thought this was a joke, but it appears to be exactly what it says it is.

“Break out the 20-gauge Pa! We eatin’ tonight!”