“freindzone” is a self-inflicted wound. Nobody can make you cower in the corner waiting for your “opportunity”. Nobody made you look at friendship with the opposite sex as something that must be suffered so as to be due a reward.
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I don’t understand why your complaining. Haven’t your consumer goods fulfilled you to the point of bliss? What’s wrong with you?
Oh, and with niche exceptions, “technology is better now than before” has always been true throughout history even before capitalism was invented. If Adam Smith had only been satisfied with what he had…
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I get Scandinavian DNA, but where does Spanish DNA come from?
35·19 days agoThose DNA kits work differently than what you might expect. When they say “you’re 20% German”, what they mean is that you’ve got 20% of the genetic markers they’ve identified in modern people who identify as German.
This might not seem like a big difference, but it is because genetics doesn’t respect political boundaries. Ancestry will not tell you that you’re 60% Texan because “Texas” isn’t a recognized biological origin. Even though people have been there as long as they’ve been in Mexico.
You also have to accept that 20th Century Germans who’ve participated in DNA testing is the absolute standard for what a “German” is.
Nonsense. The idea of “national DNA” is incoherent leftovers from race-theory.
I don’t understand why people drag on sugar-babies like they’re the stupid ones in the situation.
The reason circumcision is common in the US has more to do with people like RFK jr. than it does with people like Epstein.
yesman@lemmy.worldto
Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•I fully read/watch all advertisements on a webpage to earn the privilege of viewing its content.English
14·1 month agoHave an upvote you lunatic.
Gary Webb killed himself. He was divorced, unemployed, and his professional reputation was ruined. His reporting on the CIA importing cocaine was retracted after it was fact checked, and his editor would not stand behind the reporting.
But his article was published and is still available to read. The idea that the CIA assassinates people 20 years after they “spill the secrets” stretches credulity. Makes since he’d punch his own ticket.
The idea that he was shot twice “in the back of the head” is a myth. He did shoot himself twice, but that’s not so unusual. 42% of gunshot and penetrative wounds to the brain are survivable.
This meme irritates me because it depends on the misinformation that suicides are unusual or suspicious. Suicides are common as dirt. To the tune of like 40K people/ year in the US. It’s a major public health crisis but gets ignored because of taboo and because it’s a gun issue.
yesman@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution?
71·1 month agoBecause WWII is the only history in America. And we’ve forgotten 3/4 of that.
What you’re being distracted from is the fact that rape and sexual assault, especially of children is normal and accepted in our society. You may be confused by all the hate and demonetization pedophiles get, but like all rape, the status of the perpetrator matters most.
Until 1971, married men were immune from charges of raping their wives. And several States protected them after that. For every 100 rapes reported to the police, only 18 charges will be filed 1. And of course their are incompetent pigs and timid prosecutors. But it’s also the public at large who won’t convict rapists. (because nobody believes women)
Epstein wasn’t hiding anything. And all those people around him knew what he was up to.
But forget about Epstein. What powerful men are snatching teenagers off the street today? Nobody cares.
The Epstein scandal is about embarrassing powerful men. Nobody gives a shit about raped little girls.
- Here is a reference to that figure, but for some reason, the referenced study isn’t on the DOJ’s website anymore.
Who you gonna shoot? I’m serious. Stalin was a bankrobber. Haitians drove Napoleon’s army into the sea with machetes. The Black Panthers took several pigs off roll-call. What’s your plan, revolutionary?
yesman@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Little quick question: what do you think of advertising from a Marxist perspective?
6·2 months agoAdvertising adds cost but no value. Advertising, along with profit are the largest capitalist inefficiencies.
The tragedy of a potential customer being ignorant of a product is something must learn to cope with…somehow.
Kid Rock is music for dudes who can only see their kids on the weekend, but don’t.
Miss Rachel is not a radical activist, that’s Zionist propaganda. Portraying her that way, even as a joke, makes Mossad laugh.
The American war for Independence is a pretty sad example of revolution.
Think of the average American, how much did their material conditions change? Now compare to the French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and Bolshevik revolution.
America by comparison, was just an “under new management”.
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Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?English
24·2 months agoPeople on a budget can just slow the fuck down. Speeding tickets are not cheap.
yesman@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter?
2·2 months agoBecause most people have a parasocial relationship with media personalities so it kinda feels like it’s happening to people you know.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide?
44·2 months agoIt’s not obvious to people who like evidence. What you describe is called suspicion.
Suspicion is a reason to start look for evidence, not a reason to stop.
Your opinion is that secret assassins killed a man in prison. And you aren’t interested or even curious to back that up with anything.
I’m not going to just buy “secret prison assassins” without any evidence that they even exist. Especially when ‘jailbird kills himself’ is reasonable and likely.
yesman@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide?
148·2 months agoWhat you should take away from this is not that suicide is difficult in prison, but rather that suicide is so common they have specific policies in place.
It makes 10000% perfect sense that Epstein would kill himself. He just got busted down to the justice system tier for mortal Americans and his life was over. People killing themselves in this situation is so common that it’s a trope in media.
The idea that some CIA-Mossad-Legion of Doom joint operation to assassinate him is the claim that’s short on evidence.
Gnome get’s up and out of my way. 9/10.






I read somewhere that there was an app developed by some organisation in a big city to track ODs and help addicts avoid known areas where drugs are adulterated. They had to shut it down when addicts would actually seek out the OD causing drugs using the app like yelp from the upsidedown.
Econ101 does not apply to addiction.