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i really think we the U.S. public need to be SUPER FUCKING LOUD about how admirable we think this kind of thing is.
Anytime military members speak up about not liking their orders to be deployed against the american public, or especially REFUSING such orders, the nation needs to hear a great outcry of public support for that act
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“We can’t trust the figures!”
Because you *literally* killed all the doctors and nurses and journalists in Gaza doing the counting.
Economic Depression and Dictators: Crash Course European History #37
The thing about ADHD is that the "lack of reward chemicals in your brain" doesn't just mean that you don't want to do any tasks that don't feel particularly yummy :(, it means that your brain will look at chores and tasks that need to be done like "doing this would be painful and tedious for absolutely nothing to gain from it, Do Not Do That." The same thing that your brain tells you about everything else that would feel really bad and hurt the entire time that you're dying. The part of your brain that stops you from doing the thing is the same part that keeps you from shoving your arm into a wood chipper.
With unmedicated, unmanaged ADHD, "I have to do this assignment or I fail and my life will be ruined and I die" feels like a SAW trap, every single time.
Articles written by neurotypicals will be like “ADHD children find the external motivation of the SAW traps is very effective. Here’s how to build SAW traps to maximize their productivity.”
Listen, I'm having fun playing with the ultra patriotic voice, but after a couple years in blue-collar landscaping jobs, you really do need to phrase things like that.
"I'm pretty sure that fella ain't here legally."
"Well, that ain't your business Chip, it's his."
They hate being preached to. If you pull out words like 'gender wage gap' they'll tell you you're brainwashed by the far left media.
"He's one of them transgenders."
"He got freedoms too, Jimmy."
Also, please understand that SO often the real issue these people have is that they just want to say something inappropriate. They don't like being told they can't say "fag", so they'd say it for a reaction, just like a teenager would.
Shut down the conversation without reacting.
"His dick, not mine" will get you much further to shutting that guy down than "well it's really inappropriate to call someone a slur while I'm the job site".
And that's the point. To shut them up. To make them quit saying shit like that. The first one makes him seem kinda weird for caring about what that guy does with his dick. The second one gives him something to fight against and make a big deal about.
code-switching matters for communicating across cultures of all varieties
LESS movies about the lgbtq experience MORE movies about people who just happen to be lgbtq. is it really that hard to understand
I don't wanna see another story abt a teenage boy coming out to his parents and closed mouth kissing his boyfriend at prom where's my spy thriller action heist movie w a cast made entirely of dykes and femme gay men you know what I'm fucking talkinf about. I'm tired of The Queer Struggle I struggle every stupid day I know what that's all about and honestly none of the coming out stories are cathartic or whatever to me. I don't care. I wanna see a nonbinary person fight a dragon
they don't even know about thai, japanese, taiwanese, chinese and south korean queer love tv industry thriving..
they don't even know that in 2025 just one thai company will release tv shows on youtube for free where a depressed grocery store owner woman falls in love with her bubbly customer, where 6 women will be in a toxic love hexagon with each other, two gay vampires shows, a show where a cancelled male broadcast host gets back together with his journalist ex, where two men are investigating murders together while fighting sexual tension, where a bunch of high school boys are falling in love at first sight and nothing hurts, an enemies to lovers gay story about fashion majors, a dark horny love triangle between male coworkers, a messy show about a group of men sleeping with each other on a theatre play set, a convicted young man falling love with an amnesiac prince whom he found on a beach, a romantic comedy series about two brothers scamming two rich men into shotgun marrying them to get divorce benefits, horror gay romance where a young man loses memories of his suspicious criminologist ex, a story about two boyfriends who work as primary school teachers, an ensemble show that includes: a group of trans friends looking for love, high school enemies to lovers destined to be together and gang rivals falling for each other. then also cat cafe show where a man who can talk to cats has hots for the new cafe owner, a doctor and a man who can see the future having their love bloom while they are in hiding together, crack story about a guyfailure having a gig of searching for evidence that a flight attendant's captain boyfriend is cheating on him, show where a dramatic mafia heir raised on soap operas falls for the guy who gives him an earful about consent and manners, a magical fortune teller offering a failed athlete to be his assistant, a noble man romancing a translator commoner in 1920s Thailand, and a show where a pastor's young protege fights his feelings for the defiant new boy in their seminary. and only two of those 22 shows have the concept of homophobia exist in them
please for the love of god give us names I only recognize a couple of the shows in the pictures and none of us can know the company unless you tell us please
@jimmyfury absolutely
1-2 KinnPorsche (mafia boss/his bodyguard, evil mafia heir/his hostage)
3 Jack and Joker (mafia, heist and robberies)
4 Spare Me Your Mercy (a story about ethics of euthanasia, doctor/cop)
5-6 The Sign (two special unit officers who are reincarnated from a mythological thai bird deity and a snake dragon)
7 Petrichor (forensic doctor/cop)
8 Uranus2324 (astronaut and her girlfriend)
9 The Loyal Pin (a princess and a noble lady)
10 Mhom Ped Sawan (two concubines of an emperor)
11 Ayaka Is In Love With Hiroko (office lesbians)
12 Old Fashion Cupcake (a 39 year old office worker and his 29 year old assistant going to dessert cafes)
13 Our Dining Table (food feelings show)
14 Anti Reset (android caretaker falls in love with a human)
15 Love Tractor (farmer boy/big city musician)
16 Word of Honor (ancient chinese fantasy assasins)
17 Couple of Mirrors (a socialite/an assassin)
18 Meet You At The Blossom (ancient chinese fantasy, rich brat falls for a crossdressing assassin who he thinks is a young lady)
19 Love for Love's Sake (a man gets thrown inside a video game to help his favourite character)
20 The Spirealm (a man accidentally signs up for a mystical real life vr horror game)
here is a bigger list of summaries, and where and how to watch, have fun if it works out
the company that will make the described earlier tv shows in 2025 is GMMTV and almost everything they make is free on youtube and has subtitles
On Monday, 26-year-old Daniel Penny was acquitted after killing Jordan Neely, a desperate Black homeless man on the subway, on the grounds that he was trying to protect others. On the same day, police detained 26-year-old Luigi Mangione, who is suspected of killing the CEO of a company that has denied thousands of life-saving healthcare claims.
Penny walks free after killing a man victim to the system. What will be the verdict for Mangione, who is suspected of killing a man symbolic of it?
As many have remarked, Brian Thompson’s tenure as CEO of insurance giant UnitedHealthcare was grisly. Thompson (alongside other higher-ups) allegedly conducted insider trading, selling millions of dollars of stock upon learning that the Department of Justice re-opened an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth. While the company was on an upward profit swing, it has been awash in allegations and revelations of limiting mental health care coverage via algorithm, denying healthcare services needed after hospitalization at drastic rates via artificial intelligence, and denying insurance claims at a starkly high rate.
A gun killed Thompson. Paperwork has killed thousands.
Each case, obviously, is its own. But in each, contradictions of who is human, questions of who merits sympathy, and inquiries of what sort of society we tolerate, ring loud and clear.
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something I keep coming back to is the fact that coercion can be indirect, allowing someone to take advantage of you while claiming not to be coercive.
for example if your plane crashes and you are lost in the desert and I happen to be passing by I might offer you some water and a ride to the nearest town in exchange for all your worldly possessions or a lifetime of servitude or some other clearly unreasonable condition that is only being levied because I know you’re in a state where you cannot refuse.
and yet I’m not coercing you or constraining you, in fact I’m expanding the range of actions that you can choose from! before you had the choice of dying of thirst, now you have the choice of dying of thirst or becoming my slave in a voluntary trade that you enter into freely, a strictly superior situation.
this is closely related to the fresh water scenario, where I have purchased all the fresh water in your area to fill my pool, leaving you with none left to drink.
again, buying water is not coercion, nor is someone refusing to sell you water, and yet in a matter of hours or days you face death as humans require hydration in order to survive.
I could delay filling my pool in order to quench your thirst and in exchange I would merely ask for all of your yadda yadda yadda.
(the water scenario is more common than the lost in the desert scenario and affects far more people in the real world, given that dams exist, rivers are often diverted or polluted, and cities containing millions of people typically depend on water from reservoirs many miles away).
now it’s noteworthy that neither of these scenarios would be possible in the idealised world where the market is infinitely wide and infinitely deep and there is perfect information and transaction costs are zero etc.
if you were lost in the desert, finding you would be an opportunity for profit, and in an infinite perfect market the fee would be instantly bargained down to the cost it took to rescue you plus the smallest possible epsilon of profit.
if you lacked fresh water, that’s another opportunity for profit, and the infinite perfect market would swing into action and provide you with water at cost of delivery plus epsilon profit.
(you might still not be able to afford it, in which case the market takes no further interest in you, but at least if you could afford it you wouldn’t be getting gouged).
however the world we live in is not infinite, transaction costs are not zero, we don’t have perfect information, and the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay dehydrated (dying from an absence of liquidity, so to speak).
you can compensate for these problems by postulating additional entities: maybe you took out an insurance policy to cover plane crashes and interruptions to the water supply, maybe you have a mutual assistance agreement with many other people in your community who are obliged to help you out, maybe if taxes still exist in this world you have a basic income guarantee that automatically scales to cover the cost of a basket of necessities essential to life.
(famines caused by spikes in food prices or inflationary hoarding are also common, as again the human need for food must be satisfied on a shorter timescale than speculative bubbles and market irrationality).
there’s just no getting around the fact that physics is coercing all of us every day, and it’s easy to take advantage of that coercion of others and heighten it for your own advantage without technically throwing any punches or doing violence against them, so basing your society on the idea that violence is outlawed (a truly worthy thing!) is insufficient to deliver a world free from coercion.
Click on it twice. These are your two super powers.
everyone else always seems to fucking get cool shit and i always get like “gel manipulation” and “using dust along w/ your fighting style”
My first one was “poison smoke manipulation” which is acceptable then my second one is “Family Creation” which gives Princess Bubblegum’s candy kingdom as an example, so, I guess I’m making everything I’ve ever drawn into a real thing and if anyone doesn’t like it I’m going to asphyxiate them with gas.
Or asphyxiate your citizens like princess bubblegum! Thats also an option
Oh no, they’d be allowed to do anything they want, who am I to impose rules or morals on them??
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Big bang inducement and unique eyes. Everyone thinks I'm super weak and bullies me until I get *super* pissed.
It is really disturbing how people can lose their humanity and threaten you just because you *checks notes* sentenced their child to death :'(
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One former Cigna executive recalled how the US health insurer used to frequently face threats when claims were denied. "We'd have times when you'd deny proton laser therapy for a kid with seizures and the parent would freak out," said the former executive. Another industry executive said: "What's most disturbing is the ability of people to hide behind their keyboards and lose their humanity."
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So apparently, the parents of children who have been sentenced to death lose their humanity behind screens. As opposed to the people who look at spreadsheets and decide a person should die so they can earn a few extra bucks. Are they even listening to themselves?
The "War of 1812 Scented Candle", complete with miniature White House near the wick, is, I cannot emphasise this enough, AN ACTUAL REAL PRODUCT THAT YOU CAN BUY (even if it's currently sold out).
The candle is funny enough by itself, but the ad copy on the maker's website is gold (and surprisingly astute):
It goes on to add:
We should also note that even though the British Army DID burn Washington, it was only after Americans had burned and looted the capital of Canada, as well as a bunch of other Canadian cities. But no one ever makes a candle about that! (Including us.)
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Reading fantasy again, I've started thinking about how odd it is how in books like that, the non-human races invariably scoff at human frailty and vulnerability, even those that they'll call friends. Like that's mean?? Why would you be a dick to your friend who you know is not capable of as much as you are, and it's not their fault they were born like that. That's mean.
Like consider the opposite: Characters of non-human races treating their human companions like frail little old dogs. Worrying about small wounds being fatal - humans die of small injuries all the time - or being surprised that humans can actually eat salt, even if they can't stomach other spicy rocks. Being amazed that a human friend they haven't seen in 10 years still looks so young, they've hardly aged at all! And when the human tries to explain that they weren't going to just unexpectedly shrivel into a raisin in 10 years, the longer-lifespan friend dismisses this like no, he's seen it happen, you don't see a human for 10 or 20 years and they've shriveled in a blink.
Elves arguing with each other like "you can't take her out there, she will die!" and when the human gets there to ask what they're talking about, they explain to her that the journey will take them through a passage where it's going to be sunny out there. Humans burn in the sun. And she will have to clarify that no, actually, she'll be fine. They fight her about it, until she manages to convince them that it's not like vampires - humans only burn a little bit in the sun, not all the way through. She'll be fine if she just wears a hat.
Meanwhile dwarves are reluctant to allow humans in their mines and cities, not just out of being secretive, but because they know that you cannot bring humans underground, they will go insane if they go too long without seeing the sun. Nobody is entirely sure how long that is, but the general consensus is three days. One time a human tries to explain their dwarf companion that this is not true, there are humans that endure much longer darkness than that. As a matter of fact, in the furthest habited corners of the lands of the Northmen, the winter sun barely rises at all. Humans can survive three weeks of darkness, and not just once, but every single year.
"Then how do they sane?" Asks the dwarf, and just as he does, the conversation gets interrupted by the northland human, who had been eavesdropping, and turns to look at them with an unnerving glint in her colourless grey eyes, grinning while saying
"That's the neat part, we don't."
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"Hello, I am a human. I was born 15 minutes ago, my expected lifespan is about 30 minutes, and I am going to spend that time trying to fight god."
Richard Feynman admitted in his memoir to activities that would legally be considered rape by deception in a court of law.
Fuck the Green brothers, and anyone who defends them.
Damn. You searched out a reason to hate the Green brothers
And you settled on /this/. Can you explain how Hank has caused any real tangible harm here? Or are we resorting to purity culture.
Not he did something bad. Not he said something bad. Not he defended something bad. But he celebrated the widely known academic success of an academic, without unearthing the little known terrible thing that academic did in their personal life.
I swear posts like these could be Republican plants designed to make the left look unpalatable. Please find somewhere useful to direct your anger. You can just say you don't vibe with them without pretending it's some kind of moral stance.
As well as this the Green brothers have:
created some of the best online educational content for free and run those channels without generating any profit from them
founded three ethically sourced sustainable businesses where all the profits go to charity
funded (together with their audience) the creation of maternal health centre where it was needed the most
put pressure on pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices they charge for tuberculosis tests in third world countries and succeeded
made a video where they in passing celebrate a well known historical scientist without mentioning his little known personal evils.
Given all of the profit they generate from everything they do back to employees or charity (with the exception of book sales)
So to sunmarise both the links:
first one is a fairly unhinged rant at how they didn't tell the story of Judaism the way you would. You got annoyed at the fact they used English names in an English video about characters people their target audience already know the English names of, you got annoyed that they said "many" instead of "most" when giving extremely rough stats, you got annoyed that they started with a completely non-offensive and true quirky fact (because that is how you engage people on the internet), you got annoyed that they didn't explicitly support Zionism,you got annoyed that although he used Jewish sources he didn't exclusively use Jewish sources like
???? None of that is awful. You hate them SO MUCH and you hate them for the smallest possible things. The post could literally have been: "I really hated this video and it made me so angry because it wasn't me speaking my words with my face" and it would mean the same thing. There was no egregious sin they made in that video. They made it differently to how you would. Because they aren't you.
The second post is basically about how when they were emerging very early on in the internet and they didn't know what they were doing they fucked up bad by creating a situation where young fans got very close to other adults and those adults hurt them. And you even say explicitly how Hank apologised for that. And you know what, if you wanna hate them for the rest of time for that that's fair. It is a big fuck up. But hating them isn't gonna change that, and they have never gotten close to fucking up like that again.
So yeah, I'm sorry they are cringe and not in the permissible neurodivergent way but in a non-permissible neurotypical way. The horror. I've also worked with 12 year old kids in an educational setting. No WAY would I find it "very very funny" if one of them shared a post with the rest of the school about how much I enjoy performing oral sex. In fact, if I did decide to just find that very very funny, I would be rightly fired because it is fucked to normalise that way of talking to and interacting with anyone. And if you excuse that behaviour in kids then they become adults who do it. And laughing along with kids when they sexualise you is creepy as fuck.
And that is the thing that just shows how disingenuous and irrational your hatred is. Because you will attack them from either side. He's simultaneously a groomer who is trying to get too close to kids, but also he should have laughed along with the kids when they jokingly sexualised him (even though that's what a groomer would do!!!). Like, whatever they are doing you're somehow FURIOUS about it.
Richard Feynman admitted in his memoir to activities that would legally be considered rape by deception in a court of law.
Fuck the Green brothers, and anyone who defends them.
Damn. You searched out a reason to hate the Green brothers
And you settled on /this/. Can you explain how Hank has caused any real tangible harm here? Or are we resorting to purity culture.
Not he did something bad. Not he said something bad. Not he defended something bad. But he celebrated the widely known academic success of an academic, without unearthing the little known terrible thing that academic did in their personal life.
I swear posts like these could be Republican plants designed to make the left look unpalatable. Please find somewhere useful to direct your anger. You can just say you don't vibe with them without pretending it's some kind of moral stance.
As well as this the Green brothers have:
created some of the best online educational content for free and run those channels without generating any profit from them
founded three ethically sourced sustainable businesses where all the profits go to charity
funded (together with their audience) the creation of maternal health centre where it was needed the most
put pressure on pharmaceutical companies to lower the prices they charge for tuberculosis tests in third world countries and succeeded
made a video where they in passing celebrate a well known historical scientist without mentioning his little known personal evils.
Given all of the profit they generate from everything they do back to employees or charity (with the exception of book sales)
