Who let the middle manager into the thread?

End small-dick hate.

We gotta end small-dick hate, homedog.

Am I just a pessimist, or is it starting to appear as if escalation of conflict in the Middle East is inevitable?

Shit is worrying. I'm extremely ignorant to the science of infectious diseases, but at least from my layman's point of view, it is extremely concerning how this virus went from exploding across the entire globe in wild animal populations, to now infecting cattle, to then infecting goats in such a short time span... It seems like it is progressively getting worse, and any one of these millions of new infections per day could be the one that mutates just right to be able to hop between humans.

I'm dubious of all the articles stressing the "risk is extremely low, so stay calm" sentiment. That sentiment seems less about giving good advice to make people feel comfortable, and more like a means to minimize panic - which there surely will be if this bug starts hopping between people, and that 50% lethality rate holds steady.

A bird flu pandemic would be less about social distancing, and more about huddling with a shotgun in your basement.

UBI is pointless so long as there are landlords who can jack up rent. It is essentially a landlord subsidy, and it does nothing to address actual contradictions within capitalism.

The IDF killed so many of their own people on Oct 7 that they refuse to investigate further.

Which is still very much learned behavior, often the result of an uncle pestering "So little Jimmy, got a girlfriend yet?"

That pesky "one issue" happens to be an ongoing genocide.

"Sure, he's all about sending 10,000 tons of military equipment across the world to add to the 20,000 killed Palestinians, but he's VERY pragmatic about other issues."

I'd argue that once you are feeling effects of the drug, you are no longer micro dosing.

Micro dosing started out as a way to describe the maximum amount of substance you could take without feeling primary effects.

Disrespectful and wasteful as hell.

One time in fifth grade, we were on a field trip to the state capitol. They loaded the whole class in a bus, and naturally all of us decided to bring our DSs for the few hours on the road.

My best friend Drew wrote "crap" in pictochat and he was losing his shit over how hilarious that was. Then he got his DS taken away when some kid ratted on him.

Godspeed, Drew.

Man.... I wish the world wasn't burning.

What you're doing here is subtly shifting the burden of phone addiction from software companies and phone manufacturers back onto end users.

You're glossing right over the fact that these teams have the very best software engineers, mechanical engineers, marketers, ad people, psychologists, and doctors for the purpose of making these endlessly scrolling apps as addictive and hard to avoid as possible.

I read your comment and think about the people who say "why are you depressed? Just go lift some weights. It all comes down to you"

Mostly agree except for the small penis bashing. We need to end small-dick hatred.

Good luck trying to explain to working-class people that the struggle they're feeling is only because they don't understand economics well enough.

You're weird for wishing rape upon someone. Weird ass American obsession with punishment and vengeance.

the members of blue collar unions are still primarily conservative

This is false https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/labor-union-members-more-democratic-less-liberal

I've known plenty of "dumb" people who weren't genocidal. It's less an indication of intelligence and more an indication of an evil soul.