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biceps crimes: Apr 12, 2008

smug jeebus posted:

It's what Texas deserves

people complain about californians, but the most awful transplants I've met here were a couple from boca raton. I thought it may just be an anomaly, but I went to their wedding and all of their guests there were just awful, annoying, petty people. I now assume everyone from that area of Florida is like that

# ? Jul 11, 2023 03:31

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# ? May 25, 2024 21:13

anime was right: Jun 27, 2008; death is certain
keep yr cool

Morbus posted:

ah, but that means the nominal price of cars and homes will fall!

haha good one

# ? Jul 11, 2023 03:36

Rock Puncher: Jul 26, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CmeYISne7U

# ? Jul 11, 2023 03:58

RealityWarCriminal: Aug 10, 2016

shrike82 posted:

the irony is that china's aging much faster than the US - i think their median age passed the US recently

soon they will be bankrupt taking care of their olds

# ? Jul 11, 2023 04:18

Junkiebev: Jan 18, 2002; Feel the progress.

biceps crimes posted:

people complain about californians, but the most awful transplants I've met here were a couple from boca raton. I thought it may just be an anomaly, but I went to their wedding and all of their guests there were just awful, annoying, petty people. I now assume everyone from that area of Florida is like that

that's fair

that's more than fair

# ? Jul 11, 2023 04:49

alarumklok: Jun 30, 2012

RadiRoot posted:

usa life expectancy number go down 🤣

# ? Jul 11, 2023 04:52

uninterrupted: Jun 20, 2011

biceps crimes posted:

people complain about californians, but the most awful transplants I've met here were a couple from boca raton. I thought it may just be an anomaly, but I went to their wedding and all of their guests there were just awful, annoying, petty people. I now assume everyone from that area of Florida is like that

can confirm that boca contains the absolute regressive dregs of society. it's all the folks who couldn't make it up north, moved south to be w their loaded parents, and managed to raise some kids and scrape together cash for a house. anyone outside the wildly lucky wealthy got forced out.

there's some dude that's still driving up and down A1A w a car decked out w trump signs

# ? Jul 11, 2023 04:52

Paradoxish: Dec 19, 2003; Will you stop going crazy in there?

I won't automatically assume you're a bad person just because you live in Florida, but I definitely will if you willingly move there.

# ? Jul 11, 2023 04:53

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
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shrike82 posted:

the irony is that china's aging much faster than the US - i think their median age passed the US recently

not if you look at white people / non-immigrants. whites in america have a much, vastly, worse age pyramid

it's onlyt because of hispanic/latino immigrants that it's lower. which libs want to stop

also

RadiRoot posted:

usa life expectancy number go down 🤣

# ? Jul 11, 2023 04:54

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

Having been to Florida multiple times in my life I would infinitely rather live in the eastern Floridian coast than the western. The Tampa suburbs are among the worst places in America.

# ? Jul 11, 2023 05:00

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

not news, old. just thinking about billionaires dying

# ? Jul 11, 2023 05:06

SKULL.GIF: Jan 20, 2017

Real hurthling! posted:

not news, old. just thinking about billionaires dying

there is absolutely no way someone involved didn't nudge the scales here

# ? Jul 11, 2023 05:15

Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

it was me. I cut off the billionaires dick and then laughed about it

# ? Jul 11, 2023 05:17

RadiRoot: Feb 3, 2007

did his dick implode?

# ? Jul 11, 2023 05:19

Mola Yam: Jun 18, 2004; Kali Ma Shakti de!

# ? Jul 11, 2023 05:23

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

the latest chapo on male penis enlargement surgery was very sad. just hundreds, thousands, of dudes permanently disfiguring and breaking their dicks with Penuma implant surgery. some just filled with pus and constantly infected and forming voids

# ? Jul 11, 2023 05:27

Vox Nihili: May 28, 2008

Real hurthling! posted:

not news, old. just thinking about billionaires dying

Thinkin' about that sub...

# ? Jul 11, 2023 05:32

i am harry: Oct 14, 2003

Real hurthling! posted:

not news, old. just thinking about billionaires dying

# ? Jul 11, 2023 05:38

i am harry: Oct 14, 2003

Xaris posted:

the latest chapo on male penis enlargement surgery was very sad. just hundreds, thousands, of dudes permanently disfiguring and breaking their dicks with Penuma implant surgery. some just filled with pus and constantly infected and forming voids

hmm wish there was a reverse glomp

# ? Jul 11, 2023 05:39

holefoods: Jan 10, 2022

Xaris posted:

the latest chapo on male penis enlargement surgery was very sad. just hundreds, thousands, of dudes permanently disfiguring and breaking their dicks with Penuma implant surgery. some just filled with pus and constantly infected and forming voids

the twist that the one guy has a perfectly average penis :shepface:

# ? Jul 11, 2023 06:05

shrike82: Jun 11, 2005

Penuma's a pretty good name lol

# ? Jul 11, 2023 06:13

Xaris: Jul 25, 2006; Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

holefoods posted:

the twist that the one guy has a perfectly average penis

i think it was the same guy who was 6-6.5 inch already and had kids already... like what the gently caress

american males are insanely hosed in the head. just a whole country full of elliot rodgers

# ? Jul 11, 2023 06:16

OBAMNA PHONE: Aug 7, 2002

honestly its so loving funny that people would want to get surgery to have a bigger flaccid dong

# ? Jul 11, 2023 06:46

holefoods: Jan 10, 2022

highly likely that if someone is seeing your flaccid dong that they want to see it even less than you don�t want them to see it

# ? Jul 11, 2023 06:54

Ghost Leviathan: Mar 2, 2017; Exploration is ill-advised.

I'm pretty sure that a shitload of the people with complexes over their penis are at worst perfectly average. The actual size is an irrelevant detail when you got the sheer frothing insanity of toxic masculinity and everything tied up with it.

# ? Jul 11, 2023 08:24

Stereotype: Apr 24, 2010; College Slice

my dick is the perfect size i've heard. for one billion dollars someone can have it though, i'd be fine with a smaller-than-wanted dick

# ? Jul 11, 2023 08:35

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

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Seeing the comparisons were surprising in that we�re under the impression that almost any service we sign up for is going to collect our data, but Meta�s operations, just based on that comparison, is on another scale.

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On a related note, if all that data is with Facebook, what�s to stop it from sharing that data to be used against a user? In 2022, a mother and daughter in Nebraska in the US faced criminal charges for allegedly carrying out an illegal abortion. Their cause wasn�t helped by Facebook, which handed over data, including chat messages, when Nebraska police requested it through a warrant.

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Threads presents another �oil well� of data for Meta, with the Twitter-like app encouraging different behaviors from users, and hence, producing a set of different data points compared to Facebook and Instagram.

And that is extremely valuable for a surveillance capitalist magnate like Meta. Another source of data helps Meta create a more detailed version of user profiles that lead to more accurate targeted ads, which are therefore more valuable to advertisers, at the expense of our privacy.

Threads currently has no ads, but unsurprisingly, there are plans for that. Zuckerberg has expressed that he�d like to reach critical mass before deciding that this could be monetized.

At its current pace, not accounting for launch hype, Threads has the potential to reach that figure, amassing 100 million users in 5 days, and anyone who�s attached to their Instagram account, and made a Threads account on a whim or out of curiosity, are in for the ride, with no realistic choice to opt out.

Meta has said it�s looking to eventually give users a way to delete their Threads account without deleting their Instagram account. When might that come? Business-wise, only when they�re sure users are attached to Threads already.

# ? Jul 11, 2023 09:14

Glumwheels: Jan 25, 2003; https://twitter.com/BidenHQ

SKULL.GIF posted:

69% reduction since previous report.

https://twitter.com/financialjuice/status/1678479418216312840

It�s absolutely amazing the amount of money rich people have still. I�m traveling around Italy and we went and did some shopping, there were ppl people walking around Rome carrying bags upon bags of Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes etc and they were mostly Americans.

Now we�re in Amalfi coast and we went to a Michelin restaurant and sat next to a family of 6 from Virginia. We overheard they were staying at the most expensive hotel in Positano/Amalfi coast for three weeks and they do it every year. Grandpa kept saying they�d be back the next two weeks for dinner. The hotel is at least $4k a night per room so at least 2-3 rooms (grandparents + their family of 4). Outside of a very bling watch and a pair of LV loafers they didn�t come off as super rich.

Tax the loving rich already.

# ? Jul 11, 2023 09:15

insane clown pussy: Jun 20, 2023

biceps crimes posted:

people complain about californians, but the most awful transplants I've met here were a couple from boca raton. I thought it may just be an anomaly, but I went to their wedding and all of their guests there were just awful, annoying, petty people. I now assume everyone from that area of Florida is like that

uninterrupted posted:

can confirm that boca contains the absolute regressive dregs of society. it's all the folks who couldn't make it up north, moved south to be w their loaded parents, and managed to raise some kids and scrape together cash for a house. anyone outside the wildly lucky wealthy got forced out.

there's some dude that's still driving up and down A1A w a car decked out w trump signs

we need to wall off the acela corridor so it can't spread to the rest of the country. people from the northeast are manageable in their natural habitat but turn into an invasive species let loose anywhere else

# ? Jul 11, 2023 09:52

Rock Puncher: Jul 26, 2014

Rock Puncher posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CmeYISne7U

vox you need to see this its funny as hell!!!

# ? Jul 11, 2023 10:44

sonatinas: Apr 15, 2003; Seattle Karate Vs. L.A. Karate

Stereotype posted:

my dick is the perfect size i've heard. for one billion dollars someone can have it though, i'd be fine with a smaller-than-wanted dick

https://mydickband.bandcamp.com/album/my-dicks-double-full-length-release?from=com-nr

# ? Jul 11, 2023 12:23

UKJeff: May 17, 2023; by vyelkin

Glumwheels posted:

It�s absolutely amazing the amount of money rich people have still. I�m traveling around Italy and we went and did some shopping, there were ppl people walking around Rome carrying bags upon bags of Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes etc and they were mostly Americans.

Now we�re in Amalfi coast and we went to a Michelin restaurant and sat next to a family of 6 from Virginia. We overheard they were staying at the most expensive hotel in Positano/Amalfi coast for three weeks and they do it every year. Grandpa kept saying they�d be back the next two weeks for dinner. The hotel is at least $4k a night per room so at least 2-3 rooms (grandparents + their family of 4). Outside of a very bling watch and a pair of LV loafers they didn�t come off as super rich.

Tax the loving rich already.

Ah yes, those rich people are the worst. Not me though, I�m just an average Joe who travels to Italy and eats at Michelin restaurants.

# ? Jul 11, 2023 12:23

Orange Devil: Oct 1, 2010; Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I'm pretty sure that a shitload of the people with complexes over their penis are at worst perfectly average. The actual size is an irrelevant detail when you got the sheer frothing insanity of toxic masculinity and everything tied up with it.

Dick insecurity to men is what anorexia/bulemia is to women.

Has nothing to do with any actually existing physical properties in 95%+ of all cases and is instead all about self-image, insecurity and/or trauma.

# ? Jul 11, 2023 13:21

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

UKJeff posted:

Ah yes, those rich people are the worst. Not me though, I’m just an average Joe who travels to Italy and eats at Michelin restaurants.

This your first time reading a Glumwheels post? The person is an anti-self awareness generator.

# ? Jul 11, 2023 13:24

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

gradenko_2000 posted:

Deactivating Threads Means Meta Can Still Build Your Profile

Lol

# ? Jul 11, 2023 13:25

Real hurthling!: Sep 11, 2001

tax the roch? dont you know how much VAT they pay on those vacations?

# ? Jul 11, 2023 13:31

Zodium: Jun 19, 2004

Glumwheels posted:

It�s absolutely amazing the amount of money rich people have still. I�m traveling around Italy and we went and did some shopping, there were ppl people walking around Rome carrying bags upon bags of Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Hermes etc and they were mostly Americans.

Now we�re in Amalfi coast and we went to a Michelin restaurant and sat next to a family of 6 from Virginia. We overheard they were staying at the most expensive hotel in Positano/Amalfi coast for three weeks and they do it every year. Grandpa kept saying they�d be back the next two weeks for dinner. The hotel is at least $4k a night per room so at least 2-3 rooms (grandparents + their family of 4). Outside of a very bling watch and a pair of LV loafers they didn�t come off as super rich.

Tax the loving rich already.

lmfao

# ? Jul 11, 2023 13:34

Nothus: Feb 22, 2001; Buglord

gradenko_2000 posted:

Deactivating Threads Means Meta Can Still Build Your Profile

It's still a Zuckerberg joint, yes

# ? Jul 11, 2023 13:46

gradenko_2000: Oct 5, 2010; HELL SERPENT; Lipstick Apathy

so is shrike or Glumwheels richer

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# ? May 25, 2024 21:13

Koirhor: Jan 14, 2008; by Fluffdaddy

Orange Devil posted:

Dick insecurity to men is what anorexia/bulemia is to women.

Has nothing to do with any actually existing physical properties in 95%+ of all cases and is instead all about self-image, insecurity and/or trauma.

wow such thinphobic comments

# ? Jul 11, 2023 14:09

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