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US suicides hit an all-time high last year

I will probably get shit for this, since it's a predominantly left leaning space, but until society starts acknowledging men's issues it will keep getting worse.

https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics

In 2021, men died by suicide 3.90x more than women.

In 2021, firearms accounted for 54.64% of all suicide deaths.

This article is an excellent example of what I am talking about. It does not even mention the disparity of suicide rates between the sexes despite it obviously being a huge outlier. Instead, they talk about how guns are the problem, even though a gun is just a method.

Taking away the easy methods to commit suicide might reduce the rate, but it does nothing to address to core issues that make people want to kill themselves in the first place. Instead of 5000 dead people you will have 5000 people who wish they were dead. Mission accomplished.

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Kuwait to distribute 100,000 copies of Quran in Sweden after Muslim holy book desecrated at one-man protest

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What ideology did he promote?

Being against Judaism is not the same as being a Nazi whatsoever, so your analogy is just incorrect on a fundamental level. And frankly, it's so obvious that it feels like a bad faith argument.

And yes, if you had relatives killed by jewish (religion, not ethnicity) people justified by their religion, it would be completely in your right to burn their religious text.

Hell, you're in your right to go burn any religious texts you want without a reason. (Not recommended in Islamic countries, might lead to a severe case of a death penalty).

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Russia says it will halt foreign currency purchases and launch a digital ruble to keep the currency from spiraling further

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Manipulating the currency exchange rate is one of the favorite activities of corrupt autocratic governments.

It's a method to give the impression that the full scale invasion did not hurt their economy, hell it even made it better.

However, you can keep up the facade for only so long until the natural forces of the market overpower and break it.

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Oh no! Barely 18? As in an adult? Adults in porn?! Call the fucking cops. Not like there is a 1000 porn studios with 18 in their name.

And if you're taking action because of how right wing propaganda might misinterpret it to paint you in a bad light, that's just pathetic.

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$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial | Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers denied Google’s push for a summary judgment in a lawsuit over the way it tracked...

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Posing Brave as an alternative to Chrome is ridiculous. It's a crypto scam company that intends to profit from advertising. And they have been caught inserting referrals into url suggestions.

Don't know why you think Edge is better either. Microsoft is no more your friend than Google and they have every intention to collect as much data as possible.

If you want chromium, use a build of un-googled chromium. You don't need to replace one evil with another if you can just rip it out altogether.

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Researching alcohol interventions for a friend. I’ve seen more ads for alcohol than ever in my life

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It should be noted that setting Adguard as your DNS will allow Adguard to track the domains you visit. The latest info I can find is that a lot of their team is still located in Russia, which makes them susceptible to government demands regardless of their intentions.

DNS adblocking should be the last resort. On Android there are many ways to do system wide local adblocking (with and without root). Don't know about iOS. Alternatively you can do network level blocking with something like a pi-hole.

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It’s time to change how we cover Elon Musk

Yes. Stop covering them unless they actually do something of importance to the public.

I could not care less about what dumb shit Musk said. To me it has no more weight than what a random person on a bus stop says.

Actually here's the benchmark, if it's something that wouldn't be covered if it was said/done by a random man on the street, then don't cover it if it's said/done by musk.

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Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

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He didn't defraud the rich lol. The exchange was one of the most popular among cryptocurrency users. There are no minimum and no sign up fees. The number of people he defrauded is probably in the millions.

If anything, knowing crypto, the rich almost certainly had insider knowledge and withdrew their funds before everything collapsed.