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Epic High Five posted:Stockholm Syndrome is, as I understand it, not exactly an uncontroversial theory. It's just basic psychology, people will come to believe the prevailing norms they're immersed in. We're an adaptable, social species and this fact is being constantly used and abused to shape our ideologies and forms the basis of a lot of game design and all marketing to boot.
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Did the american dairy industry and nasty diet also make McDonald’s do the same in Canada, Australia, and for a random pick, Switzerland?
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VideoGameVet posted:Pickup Stix (chinese food chain) has a Tofu dish cooked with Chicken Broth. Isnt that common in asian cuisine? Pad thai? Lots of curries? Fish sauce in everything? Vegetarian for years, you never just assume tofu as protein = veggie.
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Automata 10 Pack posted:Not an alcoholic, but I think quitting alcohol would destroy my social life. Do you know how boring most recreational activities are? How boring the average person is? My partner and I do lots of things without drinking. It’s called “having hobbies.” E: speaking of socializing without drinking, we’re watching cable with our elderly neighbours and there’s a ton of ads for safe gun storage with people talking about suicide/little Timmy having an accident/etc It’s pretty good for US gun culture Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 03:12 on Apr 6, 2023 |
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Looking at my kids trapped in the beating blue heart of a red state, just like Nashville and Memphis, a small bit of optimism is that minority governments never last, even when they “win.” They are long-term doomed even if all of us die off first. Most Americans are far more progressive than most American politicians, even here in the south. We will win.
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Zamujasa posted:"I hope I have secured an imminent plan to leave the country forever". Friend, between me and my wife our family has achieved a mighty four citizenships and a visa for just me to Canada that lasts a decade. We could go to France legally tomorrow if really necessary. Salvation isn’t going to come from moving to fantasy perfect foreign country. It’s the same poo poo or worse, and the few countries that will make your life better conveniently are really hard and expensive to immigrate to. I mean in goon world yeah sure Sweden will prolly take a 100k salary computer toucher to touch computers in Norrköping and pay twice with healthcare but that’s not normal and if it’s even an option, congrats, you’re closer to Elon than to the rest of us Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 08:13 on Apr 8, 2023 |
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koolkal posted:Yeah I'm curious about this too. Is there some kind of jurisdiction difference? 5th circuit is already hearing an appeal on the Texas decision, pretty much as asap as courts go. Nobody is talking about Washington because everyone agrees they made the correct call.
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Velocity Raptor posted:I had seen this story covered by CNN I'm curious as to why they only reinstated Jones to his position. From the CNN article, he was appointed back to his position since a special election isn't for a couple of weeks. But does anyone more familiar with TN state politics as to why only one of the two ousted members were reinstated? Because Justin J. Pearson represents Memphis, which is not the same city as Nashville and thus requires a different group of old white people to reinstate him?
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If sweet and low or Coke Zero is making an appreciable dent in your daily calories, you weren’t going to lose weight anyway. Hell when I’m cutting I don’t even track veggies. Ten heads + of broccoli or 50+ packs of sweetener is what it would take to put my daily calories back at maintenance. Better of teaching Americans that a salad with 500 kcal of ranch is worse than a burger.
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None of these dweebs can respond to Donnie poo poo slinging on his level. Puddin hands, meet Lyin Ted and Little Marco.
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I wonder how becoming the (even more) official trump burg would affect McDonald’s profits. Remember the « we love homophobia » lines round the chik fil a’s?
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Mellow Seas posted:Totally acceptable and appropriate Yes. The famous Nazi book burning photos were the library of Berlin’s Sexuality and Gender Institute. Yet another  for when fash and terfs invoke that analogy
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Zamujasa posted:i cannot even commentate on this because the sheer idea of pulling out a gun and doing a little homicide because you thought someone was stealing, not only not from you, but from a loving faceless corporation, just makes my brain melt My manager at raising canes back in the day worked strapped to “protect us.” Buddy please don’t get me shot for the fifty bucks in the register.
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Zwabu posted:I would think that lying for years on your taxes about hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in income must be a criminal offense? It means they can’t be charged for decisions they make unless they’re found to be committing judicial misconduct. They can’t go around shooting people, even if they e just sentences said person to the firing squad.
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cr0y posted:Because United States Senator is not driving for Uber when you have some free time, it is literally their full-time job and are being paid several hundred thousand dollars to do it. https://lailluminator.com/2023/03/21/proposal-would-give-louisiana-lawmakers-their-first-raise-in-four-decades/ Local too. This is legit good. As poo poo as they are, and gently caress most of this state’s government outside this city, Id rather my legislators be full time than part time And given all but 2 of the state reps from here are blue, I’m happy to have them get paid more than necessary if it stops the state from making it illegal to be trans or vote left or ride a bicycle Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Apr 17, 2023 |
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gurragadon posted:That's where I was coming from when I meant some donors (who they do listen to) are more aligned with my interests. It sucks, but sometimes that fundraising effort ends up with some group getting an interest passed that kind of aligns with mine. Do you not get how part-time politicians essentially lock out everyone who isn’t independently wealthy or connected from even trying?
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DarkCrawler posted:I'm not sure if there is any country where you can vote without being present so it is Sorry if late but the United States, for example? The first vote I ever was old enough to cast was 2012, yet 2020 was the first time I voted while inside the US
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SpeedFreek posted:If there was a more functional rail system there might not need to be so much trucking. The US has more rail than the entire EU, and fewer derailments. It's all freight. What are you arguing besides "drat I'd love to pay lots more than what airlines charge to spend days gazin at the scenery between Boston and Seattle?" Meanwhile drivers from the eastern countries of the EU work hours that make even the US trucking industry look good. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Apr 18, 2023 |
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Beastie posted:They tested the SMS Emergency Broadcast system at 4:45AM today. Lot of Floridians are probably tired and grumpy at work. is that why that was twitter trending? I still get Texas Amber Alert sms freakouts even out of state. Yes, lemme just drive *checks notes* twelve hours to Quitaque and be on the look out for a silver 2007 ford focus possibly headed west. It is the most performative think of the children poo poo imaginable.   :cryingmickeymouse:
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DarkCrawler posted:This data to start with: to those of us who actually have to live under republicans, grew up with republicans, grew up with literal klan kids sitting in the desk next to us at school- you really don't get what makes them tick no matter how many times you repeat your same hot take and we have enough problems trying to make this place ok without needing yet another loving foreigner telling us how everyone knows the truth except the people who live this poo poo every day, not forums days, the actual irl days of our lives you do not know or understand how these fascist fuckers work. nobody needs you to explain them. please stop. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 14:17 on Apr 21, 2023 |
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I’m not happy until we lose Benny Shaps
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Failed Imagineer posted:He literally could swap in VP Bernie and see a bump in polling, but Biden has never been that guy, Biden sucks, and we don't live in the kind of world where that is plausible Putting one of the best senators into a position of powerlessness? I’d think less of Bernie if he took the job, unless we’re rolling the dice on which ancient white man dies first Fister Roboto posted:It's not surprising but still disappointing. Biden was barely elected in 2020 in large part due to the massive rising tide of radical anti-Trump sentiment. Bernie did his part by directing that tide into Biden's camp. And now it feels like they've spent the last two years trying to calm that tide, to get things back to "normal". But under Biden's presidency, we've seen a repeal of Roe v. Wade and multiple state bans on abortion, a growing backlash against LGBT rights, anemic action on domestic policy hampered by members of his own party, a busted rail strike, and increased funding for the police and military. All of these things would get worse under Trump, and started under Trump. 9/9 Supreme Court hearing decisions on abortion and lgbtq rights wooo But being in a blue city in a red state I’m pretty dead to “dems useless” these days. Seeing dems at state level actually do bare minimum stuff to help makes me more than a lil jealous. I’d rather roll the dice on more of that than copium about if just x then dems will pack the courts and pass full communism now when every precedent is that more republicans means more entrenched fascism. Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 26, 2023 |
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Broke: eject florida into see Woke: turn the whole state into Disney property à la Celebration and the Disney world surrounds
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A lot of these posts really demonstrates to me that food education is a huge problem in the US. Like saying that having grown up obese in the US and staying that why till I lived away from my mom. In no world are you so hard pressed that drive thru at rush hour is saving you time or money compared to a million slow cooker dishes or even slapping together a sandwich at home. HFCS is easily avoidable without paying extra at fancy places, it’s at walmart for store brand prices. Brands and bad education have kinda hosed us and made a lot of people give up. I don’t mean the desperately impoverished or those trapped in food deserts, I mean people who can somehow afford 5x fast food meals that are a days worth of calories alone a week, but also enough more calories to be at an unhealthy weight. We need a reboot from childhood on. Unfortunately I don’t see us getting us that any time soon. And yes, we need to treat obesity as something other than a moral failing. Another thing we don’t do, same way too many people think other substance abuses are like “yep just woke up today and decided to down a bottle of vodka bc I suck and am stupid. E: also work hours wise, it’s not that fast food is actually faster. It’s that getting home exhausted and beat down makes you want to not do poo poo. The gooniest of couch potatoes almost certainly would find a great, physical hobby be if anything from gardening to long walks to mountain climbing, if not for lack of time, money, and fatigue Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 22:00 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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World Famous W posted:just so i follow the conversation right, am i or am i not supposed to be buying guns and ammo while building up a group of resistance fighters? You must choose between voting and anything else. If you vote, community organizing becomes illegal and you better not throw anything at a proud boy.
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mawarannahr posted:"You've got to shoot to kill" also is a particularly American issue IMO. In Turkey you're supposed to shout "stop," possibly do a warning shot, and shoot to disable The only results I get for googling Turkish police foot shootings is turkish police killing people And police in other countries killing people but that’s google
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I’m more wondering about the efficacy of shoot to wound. There’s a place for warning shots. It feels too hollywood to expect anyone to be able to easily plugs the limb of a moving person.
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KillHour posted:I'm pretty sure the coast guard doesn't need to shoot at a drug runner's boat because they have helicopters and you, in a boat, aren't going anywhere they can't follow you. The navy and coast guard do VBSS all the time- my Buddy literally shot at drug boats from another small boat.
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Literally train cops to view civilians like soldiers were trained in Baghdad and they shoot less people. Almost any other tactic than “everyone is a criminal out to get you” will kill less people. Like basic cop training is to inundate them with videos of the .00001% of cases where a routine incident happens to be with an armed crazy, and they get to hear/see the dying cop in vivid detail.
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Nenonen posted:Finnish police definitely are trained to shoot non-lethally and it seems to work. For example the 2017 knife attack A hit to the thigh is extremely dangerous. Sounds more like they got lucky and weren’t trained to mag dump than they activated VATS. It’s real disingenuous to claim shooting to wound works when the real solution demonstrated here is train cops to not shoot
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OctaMurk posted:Louisiana, its all swamp The swamp rules??? DeathChicken posted:Yeah my big memory of Texas was that once you leave the towns it's expanse after expanse of burned out dead grass as far as you can see Texas is the answer
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PT6A posted:The latest I've heard from north of the border is y'all are proper upset that we have our own visa policy and don't treat our USMCA brothers like lepers, and honestly I find it vile that A) America would try to dictate Canadian visa policy and B) that you're in a wide-reaching free trade agreement with a country whose nationals you won't even allow across the loving border without a visa. That's some sick poo poo, you need to sort some things out down there! A) no one cares B) you can cross with a Mexican passport just like a US american crosses into Canada, the issue is not that. The visa is the stamp on your passport. Or do you think Mexicans and US nationals can live/study/work in Canada without a visa? Cuz lol
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You can still gently caress them for judicial misconduct in such cases Hypothetically
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Around here the poo poo jobs have seemed to come to a 50/50 split One half seems to be attempting to pay a living wage and realizes that they need workers to function The other can't quite figure out why they need to constantly hire and nobody gives notice when they leave, but it's definitely not the 11.15/hr wage or the "somehow you only have one day off but only get 22 hours"
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The most famous republican overthrow was the man est of man’s men right fr a ten year war of conquest vs perfumed old guys and writers (whose wives the first guy famously loved to gently caress). Machismo killed Rome. Buy my book.
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I called the fash hypocrites and they all disappeared in a puff of logic
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How many times do we gotta call Ben Shapiro short before people stop listening to him? Wait it doesn’t work it just makes use feel good. Say what you want but don’t pretend you’re posting the good fight lmao People get deplatrormed for being called out as Nazis sometimes. Not for lol fat manlet poo poo Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 18:54 on May 13, 2023 |
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cr0y posted:With Trump it could be literally anything including him not being involved in anyway whatsoever. The options are: There are still russian mobster types active with ties to the motherland sure but not necessarily Putin, so it could be sanctions or just unrelated criminality or Trump related criminality or combo. Sister in law’s ex got busted right before Covid for running a gang related puppy mill for fighting dogs. Saturday morning cartoon villain poo poo. Nice enough dudes if you’re not a cop/rival tho
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