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“It happened to me! To me!!!”
Maybe she could have also gone like this every time Kyiv and/or Odessa and/or any and all Ukrainian cities have been relentlessly attacked for the past 500+ days. But just as I’m not expecting water to be squeezed out of a rock, neither am I expecting reason and empathy coming out of these lazy, cruel, mindless savages.
In their mindless tunnel-vision, they have tried their damnedest to dehumanize Ukrainians, and in the process - inevitably - the only ones they have objectively dehumanized are themselves.
Or maybe a more fitting term would be that they have subhumanized themselves. And they have done this over and over and over again, in Georgia, in Chechnya, in Crimea, etc. They are parasitic.
there’s /r/StarWars and /r/SaltierThanCrait over on Reddit
Those two spaces had differing stances.
There also the case of InterestingAsFuck as opposed to DamnThatsInteresting, because why the fuck does “Fuck” have to be in the title?
But then there’s shameless karma-farming duplicates, like ComedyCemetery and ComedyNecromancy.
Damage is minimal, comrade. Jetski destroyed. Bridge will remain closed for the next eight months due to… scheduled maintenance.
Bullseye! I was not expecting such an explosion, nor defensive fire before the explosion. So it must have been a drone that they noticed too late.
In such an environment, what sort of mindless orc squatter still wants to remain in Crimea? They are not wanted there, they are connected to their waterless toilet homeland via a shoddy and vulnerable bridge, the disruption and inconveniences of daily life are constant, their midget mobster in the kremlin has proven to be fallible and crumbling in a Potemkin land where image is everything.
I Can’t Believe It’s Not Twitter! imitation social network spread.
If any of you savage invaders bitch and groan about dying from these cluster bombs in a foreign land where you don’t belong yet insist on soiling and brutalizing:
You can quite straightforwardly avoid getting maimed or killed by these cluster bombs, via a simple enough IRL hack - by going back to your backwards waterless toilet of a… I mean beloved homeland… and staying there.
I smoked for a long time, switched completely to vaping several years ago and still do it. I started at nicotine level 24mg - supposedly the equivalent of a Camel or Marlboro - decreased gradually to where I’m now at the lowest nicotine level widely available in pre-made juices, 3mg.
Remember that nicotine at these doses is not harmful, nor is it a carcinogenic. What it is, is addictive, and the documented harm from the cigarette as a nicotine delivery system comes from the combustion.
With that in mind, I admit that I’m still comfortable with vaping after several years, my health has improved dramatically since then.
I can breathe much better, easier. Now I don’t catch every single throat infection and flu of the season, and if I do catch one, it’s now usually so mild that I don’t even need medication to sleep with a clear nose.
What keeps me on edge is the pervasive anti-vaping sentiment, caused by the anarchic environment of the fledging vaping industry at the beginning, many nicotine delivery systems packaged EXACTLY like candy. A greedy gold rush attitude poisoned the well at the outset.
As an analogy, think Bitcoin and crypto.
Anyone complicit in the invasion of a sovereign nation, who participates in the committing of atrocities against civilians and soldiers defending their homeland, who is a willing gear in the putrid dictatorship machinery of greed and brutality, deserves to live in constant mortal peril and fear.
Hopefully this serves as a message that actions have consequences.
Hopefully this message gets repeated again. And again. And again and again and again…
^EDIT: shifted the position a word, for clarity
It’s a soulless and savage (and ultimately mind-numbingly boring) spectacle, vulgar and cruel. As entertainment, I would put it on a par with dogfighting. By which I mean it should not exist, but there are too many psychotic people in society for it to ever be put out of its’ vulgar, cruel misery.
EDIT: As power politics go, this is like the mafia or drug cartels, with a bunch of short-term clever but long-term stupid pigs jockeying for top position, using each other’s families - their own wives and sons and daughters - as pawns, as collateral damage, as cannon fodder.
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Even if you don’t mind the insidious invasions of privacy that these companies have undertaken with relentless determination:
Because everything these companies touch, they sooner or later enshittify.
Because the past decade has shown that Facebook’s intentions cannot be trusted.
they will at first lure you in with cooking, travel, and credit card tips
Holy crap. I had no idea. We’ve heard of a slippery slope, but this is a slippery sheer vertical cliff.
Like that toxic meathead rogan luring the curious in with DMT stories and the like, and this sounds like that particular spore has burst and spread.
Well shit… that element kind of went over my head.
Kind of? I’d say completely.
But still… Business Insider: ok or iffy, in general?
I think it’s an important reminder.
How much of a reliable source is Business Insider as opposed to… say something like Newsweek? Do they publish hearsay and wishful thinking, or do they corroborate with sources?
I think the people of this country are sick and tired of being told that they are sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Maybe some BBC stuff?
Gardener’s World, the way the show is presented is soothing yet fascinating at the same time. There are a lot of full episodes on YouTube, and it is healthy content for a 70-year old mind… or much younger, even.
You watch this one thing out of curiosity, morbid curiosity, or by accident, and at the slightest poke the goddamned mindless algorithm starts throwing this shit at you.
The algorithm is “weaponized” for who screams the loudest, and I truly believe it started due to myopic incompetence/greed, not political malice. Which doesn’t make it any better, as people don’t know how to take care of themselves from this bombardment, but the corporations like to pretend that ~~they~~ people can, so they wash their hands for as long as they are able.
Then on top of this, the algorithm has been further weaponized by even more malicious actors who have figured out how to game the system.
That’s how toxic meatheads like infowars and joe rogan get a huge bullhorn that reaches millions. “Huh… DMT experiences… sounds interesting”, the format is entertaining… and before you know it, you are listening to anti-vax and qanon excrement, your mind starts to normalize the most outlandish things.
EDIT: a word, for clarity
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Then every time Democrats try and pass something meaningful, but are blocked and sabotaged by republicans who have way too much power because of lazy idiots using “all or nothing purity” as an excuse to not vote, those same lazy idiots - who didn’t bother to even do a cursory glance to see how Senators and Representatives voted on bills - go bOtH pArTiEs ArE tHe SaMe LoL aMiRiTe again. And again. And again.