Working people paying for the mistakes of the ownership class. What else is new?

Nobody calls it the SS for that reason

One of my core values is that people get to decide for themselves what to believe. And it sounds a whole lot like you’re disrespecting your parent’s agency.

Imagine the thread: My son is talking like an atheist, how do I make them change?

Maybe your talking about Rick Sanchez, Sherlock Holmes, or James Bond because the asshole genius is a trope in media, not real life.

In real life they’re just assholes.

Conspiracy theories are a trick by big Dumb to make people think less.

You must have been of Microslop for a while if you think frustrating issues on update is a Linux thing. Just last a couple weeks ago, Microsoft released a security update that locked people out of their “C” drive. (In Windows, this is bad)

Browser integration with password managers is overrated. It’s a lot of trouble, breaks all the time, and has security issues. Plus you’re trusting your logins to a third party which makes me sad.

I use a vanilla encrypted DB (KeePass) and just save the logins manually and copy/paste to log in. It’s not that hard.

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.

“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.

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…

Those 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.

Have 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.

Because 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.

1. 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?

Advertising 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.