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It took a lot of doing, but I have successfully extracted the essence of uncanny valley. Or, discovered the minimum unit of uncanny valley.
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Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used.
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Who the fuck woulda thunk it
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
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The average US rent is $1234/month.
For rent to cost less than a quarter of income, as suggested, you'd need to make $4924 a month.
At 40 hours a week, that's $30.77/hr.
The federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr
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The reason you teach sex ed to young children is not because those children are having sex with each other, but because it gives them language to say "my father/uncle/priest is having sex with me."
This is why maga sexual predators love to attack sex ed.
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18 year old: I'd like to go $200,000 into debt
Bank: on what?
18 yo: student loans
Bank: excellent, sign right here.
18 yo: can I also get a mortgage?
Bank: absolutely the fuck not
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It's so fucking weird that like 60 years ago scientists were able to make a vaccine for measles, say "it'll stop measles from killing you," and then distribute it so widely that we killed off measles.
And now articles are all "do vaccines stop infections?"
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My mom watches a lot of homesteader/prepper youtube, and she found a weird channel.
All his early videos the guy is a normal rural off-grid dude, showing off his solar panels and chickens, gardening, etc. Usual homesteader stuff.
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Every cop show: damn, this serial killer is crafty, very smart and sneaky
Every true crime podcast: despite dozens of complaints from neighbors, it took over a year for police to investigate the source of the foul odor
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Reminder that debt is sold for pennies on the dollar. John Oliver bought $15 million worth of debt for $60,000, then cancelled it.
Any single billionaire could cancel a huge hunk of student loan debt for pocket change.
They choose not to.
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My mom got a pulse oximeter.
She asked me to put a mask on and check to see how my blood oxygen lowers.
I put a mask on at 98% oxygenation, and it stayed at 98% while I told her that as a former nurse she should fucking know better.
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If you have *ever* had to help an older relative use a computer then you should damn well fucking know that "simply register online" is not that simple or accessible.
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Johnny Cash: My wife is Black and I will shoot a cop on principle
Modern country musicians: I'm so proud of living in a sundown town I could suck off a marine in my ford truck
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The cybertruck has such shit-poor crumple zones that the force of a 35mph front impact, after killing the fragile meatsacks inside, is still enough to snap the rear axle.
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Blake Fall-Conroy made an artwork where you turn a crank to release one penny every 5 seconds or so. If you crank it for a solid hour, you'd earn $7.25, minimum wage.
Those NPC livestreams remind me of this.
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Imagine seeing the horizon darken with a seemingly infinite horde of wild pigs advancing upon you, and never once turning your camera on it to explain why you were apprehensive about wild pigs. That's what this guy did.
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This is the entrance to Jacob's Well in Texas. It looks like a bottomless pit.
It leads to a massive cave system about 5000 feet of which have been mapped out.
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Today's covid denialists are tomorrow's openly eugenicist "these disabled people are a drain on society"
Literally. 13 years after the Spanish flu, the very first people the nazis targeted were disabled people.
What caused a lot of those disabilities, you think?
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Guy stops making videos as frequently, drops off the radar, she hasn't seen anything from him in a while.
Yesterday he was found dead, eaten by wild pigs who had apparently formed an unusually large swarm of over a thousand.
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The median net worth of an American under age 35 is $11,100.
The median net worth of an American 55-64 years old: $187,300
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Boomers are baffled when you tell them places just don't have paper applications anymore and even a job bagging groceries requires a 100 question personality test and video submission or such. Plus 5 years experience
Parents right now are shocked when their kid comes home from college, applies to 300 jobs, doesn’t get a single interview, and then proceeds to give up on life. I dunno, I feel like that’s kind of a rational response? Did Boomers come home from college and face that?
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2016: heh, imagine explaining today's news to someone who's been in a coma for 5 years
2017: heh, imagine explaining today's news to someone who overslept this morning
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It looks like for whatever reason his area had a population boom of wild pigs, which he'd been aware of. He really *was* living through a wild pig apocalypse.
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Imagine if the subway stations in China or North Korea had men with automatic rifles conducting searches of every passenger's belongings.
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Hey, do you think twitter removing crop was because it took them 6 months to try fixing the old crop's racism problem and finally went "fuck it, can't crop out Black faces if you don't crop in the first place"
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Consider hookworm. It was endemic in the southern US, estimates are that 40% of the population had it.
Its symptoms included GI problems, fatigue, neurological problems, etc.
They spread by boring into bare feet, traveling to the lungs, then getting coughed up and swallowed.
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This looks like a place of honor for a powerful culture, commemorating highly esteemed deeds with valuable things buried within. I bet even if it were ever dangerous, the danger is not within my own time.
I'm gonna dig it up.
View of a geometric structure covering a demolished uranium mill and its radioactive tailings. New Mexico, USA.
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The whole time, he'd been observing the accumulation of ungodly amounts of pigs around him, seeing wide swathes of destruction left in their wake. For him, the world really was ending in a snorting hungry chaos.
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Oh my God I looked it up. Villeneuve's cowriter John Spaihts worked on Prometheus.
There really *is* a guy demanding more baldness and paleness
I like to imagine there's one bald guy in Hollywood who keeps going "ok but what if he was really, really bald. The most bald. Can we make him balder"
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Fun fact: on average, an american usually gets the flu once or twice a decade. It is extremely unusual for an adult to get the flu once a year, or multiple times a year.
Think about how many people are saying they've caught the flu for the second time this year, in the summer
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Now the weird thing is: in all his rants he'd never *shown* any wild pigs. He did little else but talk about them, but for some reason never just pointed his camera at them and went "see, look, so many pigs"
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Zoomers: what did you old people do for fun as kids?
Millennials: drugs
Genx: drugs
Boomers: well I tell ya, we had a jolly ol time doing all kindsa newfangled drugs
Silent: drugs
Victorian: drugs and orgies, mostly
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People who are not yet disabled are absolutely *convinced* that there exists this whole elaborate parallel reality of support mechanisms for disabled people, which they've somehow just never seen but are sure exist.
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2% of all pregnancies are ectopic, which *inevitably* kills parent and fetus if not aborted by 16 weeks or so.
There are already-existing laws drafted that specifically exclude ectopic pregnancy as cause for abortion.
These openly sentence to death 1 out of 50 pregnant people.
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In the early videos he was like "hey there, today I'm gonna harvest my onions!"
Later videos, he's huddled in his tiny cabin, getting worked up over the imminent threat of wild pigs, looking downright terrified.
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Over time, his videos focused less and less on building chicken coops and gardening and such, and more and more on him talking about his fear of wild pigs.
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More and more of his videos became him discussing the threat of wild pigs, preparing for a wild pig apocalypse, openly distraught.
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The fuck does this genocidal dipshit mean by "after Gaza"
BREAKING| Biden says he wants to see a ceasefire for six weeks.
"We're going into Ramadan and should be nothing happening...", he added, stating that "what comes after Gaza" should be the focus.
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She took tests on this stuff. She had thick textbooks on this stuff. She got hired to know this stuff. She got paid to know this stuff. She worked with people who spent hours wearing masks.
Youtube literally wiped out 15+ years of being a medical professional.
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Reminder that literally one of the very first federal responses to covid was to suspend/cut FDA inspections and audits in food processing.
Guys I would stay away from processed foods and meats for a while
I'm seeing some real crazy shit
If they don't give a fuck about airplanes, they REALLY don't give a fuck how the sausage is made
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Americans: just vote!
Also Americans: we closed every polling location within an hour's drive of you, purged you from the polls, and also don't accept your ID because you have a hyphen in your name. Also you work that day in one of your three minimum wage jobs.
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It's cool that every single company is run by a guy who gets paid $20 million a year to come up with ideas like "let's replace our product with literal dogshit" and those guys never face any negative consequences of any kind. They even get richer afterward
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All of this because budweiser sent one personalized can to one trans person for one 40 second tiktok video.
They are telling you they want to be shooting trans people, not inanimate objects, and are busily ramping themselves up into enough of a fervor to do it
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A single billionaire could spend what is to them an imperceptible amount of their money to cancel medical debt for millions of people. Each day, they choose not to.
This is why you tax billionaires: so it doesn't depend on their mood.
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Restaurants that fired workers this time last year aren't really complaining about being able to find new workers.
They're complaining that the former workers they dumped on their asses in a pandemic don't want to return for some strange and inexplicable reason
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One cop screams GET ON THE GROUND.
Another cop screams DON'T FUCKING MOVE
Think about the purpose of contradictory commands.
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And then, when you ask why the orphan-crushing machine even exists, americans act bewildered that the large hydraulic device with a chute labelled INSERT ORPHANS HERE could be mistaken for an orphan-crushing machine
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And this is someone who was *paid* to understand basic shit about human health.
Imagine what youtube autoplay is doing to boomers with no medical degree or experience.
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Dems: cops just need more training
That training: literally how to murder children even faster
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Every story about forgiving others' debt is like this, "millions of dollars worth of debt" turns out to actually cost only a few bucks to buy.
Any rich person could, at any moment, spend some pocket change and do this. Every day they make the choice not to.
The members of Trinity Moravian Church in North Carolina purchased nearly $3.3 million of local residents’ medical debt for just $15,048.
Then, they held a debt jubilee ceremony and burned up the debt, canceling it all.
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It's interesting to consider that the US would not bother, and couldn't, eradicate hookworm nowadays.
In fact, hookworm has started to return after the several generation success of the public health campaign that almost entirely eradicated it.
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If you're under the age of 40 and spend time online, you are aware of a whole bunch of racist and antisemitic dogwhistles that emerged from 4chan and such, that boomers are just totally unaware of.
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The thing is, at the exec level, they do jackshit. They count golfing as work, they include their breakfast as work. Their "16 hour days" are full of bullshit.
Meetings *are* the closest thing they do to work. They end up thinking all actual work is meetings.
Facebook vs Apple’s competing visions for the future of the workplace
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Republican: we are going to kill these people.
Democrat: I see what you're trying to do, but I'm not going to get into a whole culture war with you about this.
Republican: excellent. We will also be killing these other people too.
Democrat, serene: not gonna get in a fight rn
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Her brain is so rotted by nazi youtube that I wouldn't trust her to put a fucking bandaid on a papercut anymore.
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Every cop show: he's a criminal mastermind
Every true crime podcast: the killer turned out to be a retired cop who, on multiple occasions, hung out with the officers investigating the crimes
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As I said before, syphilis made 15th century Italy look like a zombie apocalypse. It was perfectly normal to see people rotting alive on the street, noses and minds both gone, acting erratically.
People have mostly forgotten about tertiary syphilis, the neurological condition.
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It's worth asking: are americans able to express grief?
Like, do americans have any socially acceptable way to express mourning, indicate they are experiencing psychological distress at loss, etc
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Lawrence was decided in 2003. Gay sex became not a crime, in 2003
People under 20 (and let's say 30 due to not really noticing til puberty) have *not known a world where gay sex is still a crime*
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It's wild that 8+ hours a day of youtube can so completely wipe out a *literal career* of medical knowledge. A whole career, just turned into a shit-covered hamster spinning on a wheel in someone's skull.
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The whole *point* of any 2FA is that it acts as a filter for automated, high-volume login attempts.
Hackers can spam a million accounts a minute, actual users might rely on 2FA a handful of times a week.
Almost by definition, the vast majority of 2FA requests are malicious.
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Every cop show: damnit, he is tricky
Every true crime podcast: police returned the victim to the serial killer no less than 5 times, and then disregarded multiple noise complaints about sounds of screaming
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Male Youtubers' wiki articles are so wild, pick a random one and there's almost always a section like "Bestiality charges" or "Hate Crime Convictions" or a section describing how they spend $50,000 a month on mayonnaise
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It rocks that every democrat leader is like 85 years old and keeps waxing nostalgic about how well they used to get along with segregationists 50 years ago, then forgetting how their face works. Very cool, very sustainable, inspiring to see.
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"you put orphans in, as the label suggests. It crushes them. It's even named the Orphanhammer 2000."
Only if you're foolish enough to put orphans in it, the american responds.
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I could maybe get a semiliterate shitstain thinking that.
But she was literally a nurse, paid for years to understand things like blood oxygen, blood sugar. Paid to wear masks for hours at a time if necessary.
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And if you ask why they, knowing this, continue to put orphans into the orphan-crushing machine, the american will be baffled at the idea that you wouldn't use an orphan-crushing machine.
"It's right there. Would be a waste if you didn't use it."
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Pleased to announce my new company that makes mental health boxes to give to your friends.
Each box contains $5,000 in cash, a six pack of energy drinks, a pack of cigarettes, a poster of a celebrity cat, a loaded handgun, and the names and addresses of up to 6 CEOs
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Dipping Dots is an interesting company because after they filed for chapter 11, they swung hard into providing cryogenic technology for biotech. Most of their profits now come from secret government research grants rather than the ice cream they sell.
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On the one hand: good advice, absolutely important. Will save lives.
On the other hand: USians literally do not have "a dentist," teeth are not covered by insurance for the rest of the body. This good, simple, lifesaving advice is fantastical to most in the US.
I lost my patient this morning and damn, I felt it. It could have been avoided, please if you have a cavity in your teeth. See your dentist. It can kill. Please.
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Her oximetry reading is about 92%, due to her COPD. If it dips 7% lower she needs to be hospitalized.
She will, absolutely, die when she gets covid. Which she will, because she can no longer understand the germ theory of disease.
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One reason why meat processing plants are big on child labor, is that the average american doesn't really think about how animals become packaged meat.
The actual job is a hell of a lot more dangerous than the mental image of it. It's easy to think of it as a safe job.
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As predicted, "asymptomatic" now means "symptoms your boss doesn't think are a big deal"
The CDC lowered restrictions & this is how it's going.
ER nurse told to come in to work & not to test again bc she might be positive.
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"but doesn't every generation-"
15 years ago, saying "my parents are conservative" did not carry a high chance of them being utterly unable to stop shrieking about the necessity of genocide, buddy.
Take a moment to imagine a boomer buying all kinds of rightwing youtube merch to own the libs. They've got coffee mugs with "defund teachers" and such, weird terf conspiracy shirts, open neo-nazi insignia emblazoned pillow cases, the works.
Imagine them dying.
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Ok, sure so biden did catastrophically fuck up covid response and hire a eugenicist to run the CDC. So he did let abortion rights vanish while barely being able to say the word "abortion." So he did unwaveringly support israel's genocidal behaviour. So he did break strikes. So he
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Every single time a billionaire turns out to be a sex trafficker or collector of used zyklon B cannisters or such, a fuckton of journalists and business leaders etc come out of the woodwork to go "yeah I went there 10 years ago, thought it was weird af"
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It's gone, as surely as if she had alzheimers. It's been replaced with whatever nonsense the last angry guy in sunglasses screaming at his camera from his driver's seat screamed.
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The idf isn't used to actually fighting adults, it's more accustomed to killing children from a distance.
In the exact same way, hasbara isn't used to actually having to wonder if showing a soldier digging through a dead woman's panties might be met with revulsion.
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Other than the complete fucking failure this represents, it's interesting that she, like psaki, has a habit of getting weirdly defensive over questions that assume biden has responsibilities as president.
🇺🇸 2nd biggest wave of Covid Pandemic Jan 2024
“Make your own decisions, that’s not something we get involved in”
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Years ago, she made clear that she no longer believes in evolution.
"But you were a nurse. You know why people need to take a full course of antibiotics. You took tests on it. You saw what happens when people don't. You have seen MRSA."
"that's just micro-evolution."
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I cannot overstate that she was an RN. She took college courses, she got hired, she got paid, to understand the basics of modern medicine. She's smelled C Diff. She's intubated people. She's kept charts.
All of that knowledge and experience is gone.
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She got symptomatic covid, again, a few months after her last symptomatic infection, despite being vaxxed and boosted before either.
But, she gets daily tests, N95's, remote work, etc that the CDC says is unnecessary for *you*
Today, in preparation for travel to Europe, I took a PCR test this morning. That test came back positive, which means I will be adhering to CDC guidance and no longer be traveling on the President’s trip to Europe.
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In 10 years there will be a vast gaping cultural void of basically everything that was ever posted online between 2002 and 2026.
Like a quarter century of media, deliberately turned to dust and ashes.
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Imagine if the CDC said you don't have to wear condoms as long as you are both STD negative.
You'd be like: yeah, technically that is true but in the *real* world we *actually* live in, this advice means people will wear condoms less often and spread STDs more.
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Imagine you work as a cook.
While making a dish, in full view of 3 other coworkers, you spit in it.
You'd only do that if you trusted none of them to beat the shit out of you, or stop you, or report you.
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If trump had won in 2020, covid would have killed over a million people and disabled millions more while the whitehouse botched every level of response. Roe would have vanished, with hints that Obergefell and Lawrence are next.
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@LocalDutchDude
If you can't tell the difference between a bicycle and a car you need to get the fuck off the road my dude
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The force of the impact is powerful enough, due to the lack of crumple zones, to snap the axle at the other end of the fucking car.
What do you think that force'll do to your spine and aorta
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In 5 years there'll be a ton of articles moaning that fewer kids are going into sports, and the kids will be like "I've had asthma since I was 12 because of you, you fucking ghouls"
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It's not because they are having sex with each other, it's because if an adult in their life does, they have a better chance of getting someone to make it stop if they *know what sex is*
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The spanish flu killed 1% of Europe.
It also caused permanent chronic illnesses in tens of millions of people.
Kidney disease, heart disease, developmental disabilities, stroke victims, etc
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Teens are the way they are because around puberty they are suddenly able to perceive and comprehend how unimaginably cruel, ignorant, and apathetic adults are.
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Listeria has a case fatality rate of 25%, salmonella's is less than 1%.
Listeria produces encephalitis and meningitis, it immediately migrates *throughout* the body and your blood-brain barrier freaks out.
LISTERIA OUTBREAK: Do NOT eat, sell, or serve recalled packaged salads.
Brands: Fresh Express, Bowl & Basket, Giant Eagle, Little Salad Bar, Marketside, O Organics, Signature Farms, Simply Nature, Weis Fresh from the Field, Wellsley Farms Organic.
More:
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28 yo: ok, so I paid $100,000 off my student loan and I owe $15,000 more than when I started. I'd really like to buy a home instead of paying 2x more in rent
Bank: absolutely the fuck not, look at how much money you owe us already
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Men divorce their wives who become disabled.
As longcovid really kicks into gear, the divorce rate is going to spike and media will try to blame everything but the fact that men leave their sick wives.
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In 1902, Charles Stiles identified the hookworm in fecal samples of southerners, and discovered how endemic and widespread it was.
Stiles went on a public campaign to prevent hookworm, and doctors mocked him as a biologist rather than a doctor.
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My mom, who is on SSDI and had her foodstamps reduced to $20 a month, recently found out they'd been cut out entirely because she missed a hearing/deadline while in the hospital for her stroke.
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Remember that polio's overwhelmingly predominant symptom was diarrhea.
We don't remember polio nowadays, only longpolio.
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Under the geneva conventions literally *any* use is a war crime, the US made it and gave it to israel knowing its only use is for war crimes
Making a weapon that can only be used for war crimes, then pretending to give a fuck when it is used for war crimes, is firing squad shit
Biden administration "concerned" about reported Israeli use of white phosphorus
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For centuries, this was normal. It provided the stereotype of southerners in general being stupid, lazy, and slow, it fed into racist stereotypes about the very poorest of the poor for whom it was *illegal* to take any kind of mitigations to prevent it.
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