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Please be careful. Our brains are plastic. Our actions and beliefs can actually change our brains. It's not all one-way.

That's not what you wrote. You made an absolute statement. So no, it wasn't exactly what you said. People in treatment attempt and commit suicide too. I provided an example. Nice backtracking, though.

Talking to strangers is difficult for some people, suicide hotlines have been known to hang up on someone who needs someone to talk to who isn't intending immediate suicide, and helping someone so depressed that they're suicidal is an ongoing project, which all means that a hotline is not always the solution. But it's just as incorrect to say suicide is due to untreated mental illness or to imply well off and successful people have no reason to be unhappy. That letter Kim Jonghyun wrote that I linked above is directed (though not by name) to his psychiatrist. People don't choose their brain chemistry. This level of ignorance about suicide and mental illness hurts rather than helps people who are depressed and suicidal. If suicide is so selfish then suicidal people have even less reason to reach out and disclose their true feelings. Sorry suicide prevention has to prioritize the emotional needs of the suicidal person, not their friends and family and telling them they're loved when they don't feel lovable and won't believe you isn't an answer.

That's irrelevant. See subsection (d)(2), which makes the term of the rights regarding existing artworks coextensive with copyright protection. Because of intervening changes in copyright law, we'd need more information to determine when that expires or if it already expired.

Other than as it relates the question of whether the escort can finish, I find the concern over how many others an escort sees in a given day odd. Isn't part of the point that there are no strings attached? As long as he leaves sufficient time between appointments so that people aren't bumping into each other, it's all good.

Are there really that many people unfamiliar with the concept of depression? Wow. It can make achievements and fame seem like ashes. Read the (translated) words of Kim Jonghyun, main singer of K-pop group Shinee, also a successful solo artist, lyricist and composer and one of the few K-pop stars to reach out to the LGBTQ community, who committed suicide last December at age 27: https://www.soompi.com/2017/12/18/jonghyuns-dear-friend-nine9-reveals-final-letter/2/

This may seem like a double entendre, but isn't a boat a hole in the water into which one pours money?

It's probably individual. I fart less than I used to. Go figure.

True for me after lunch, not dinner. It takes me awhile to be hungry in the morning, so I don't usually eat a big breakfast and sometimes it's awhile before I have it.

Jungkook isn't even the best-looking member of BTS (that would be Jin, although there are some people who think it's V), but he's the most built. Kai, Chanyeol and Sehun (I think I have that right) are the best-looking members of EXO. As a bonus: ten minutes of subtitled mayhem from Jin (in the middle), Jungkook (on bed on left) and Jimin (front, right) in which Jin and Jungkook bicker and drive Jimin crazy at the same time. Jin's windshield wiper laugh shows up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHS9UcgBw60

before and after kookie got everyone pregnant source These are screenshots from American network TV. His name is Jungkook, but the other group members, all of whom are older than he is, call him Jungkookie, which fans shorten to Kookie. Even though he's the youngest (he'll turn 21 in international age in September, 22 in Korean age), he's the "muscle pig" of the group and the main vocalist (we'd call him the lead singer) and good at pretty much everything, from arm wrestling and athletics to drawing to dancing to videography.

Kylie Jenner's bodyguard, Tim Chung. source

On this Vintage Monday, let us mourn the passing of the Classified Personals in our little daily newspapers. Opus has mixed feelings about it. source

Nothing to see here. https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/999315346166353920?s=09

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When your dog takes fetch very seriously. https://twitter.com/CuteEmergency/status/1002360393002618880?s=09

Unexpected guests for breakfast. https://twitter.com/activepuppie/status/1002378592687230979?s=09

Dog on a vacuum cleaner. I swear, the main purpose of these robot vacuum cleaners is to serve as transportation for pets. https://twitter.com/CuteEmergency/status/1002571766269652995?s=09

From Twitter: antarctica is set to have its first ever pride event and my heart is warm... happy almost pride month y'all https://twitter.com/harleivy/status/1001985699279724544?s=09 (worth looking at for the photo of a penguin looking at a Pride flag alone)

Sleeping kitty. source

Cat on a treadmill. Probably not what you expect. https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens/status/1004796505272848385?s=09

Apologies to @WilliamM for further hijacking this thread, but it makes the most sense to post this in the same thread as Holland's "Neverland" above. K-indie rock band Hyukoh's latest song "Love Ya," which is entirely in English, is about love in general. The MV includes same-sex and opposite-sex couples kissing and showing affection as well as affection between family members. What makes this even more interesting is that Hyukoh is signed to a subsidiary of one of the Big 3 record labels/music agencies in South Korea and the very first comment on YouTube is from Holland himself. As far as I know, no one in Hyukoh is or has been rumored or speculated to be LGBTQ.

Irrespective of what he looks like, he became considerably less hot to me after he was accused of domestic violence.

When a Kpop group traveling from Seoul to Las Vegas via LA are carrying harnesses of various kinds to wear during their debut performance at the Billboard Music Awards, where they also won Top Social Artist for the second year in a row over the likes of Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, it seems safe to say harnesses have gone mainstream as a fashion accessory. In addition to Jin in leather pants, the video features a couple of flashes of Jungkook's abs.

Yep, that's it.