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GhostFaceLeaks posted...

This is actually an all around internet case. If you look at credit card companies forcing other companies to remove NSFW content, you can't even swear to be published in some sites articles or videos, and everything like that, it is a grander scale of sanitizing the Internet.

Yep. Freedom of speech is being seriously restricted. What's accepted 10 years from now is gonna be much less than what we're used to

I was taught how this worked in college and didn't believe it would happen so soon and so fast.

2011: Megaupload goes down

2017: Net Neutrality disappears

2020: Algorithms impact censorship through monetization

2024: Sex Board closes down at Gamefaqs

Seriously happened very quickly and every decision made a small group of people a ton of money. We pissed and moaned for a long time but we eventually started paying for streaming services, using bad search engines, saying "unalived" and using the Thread Zone.

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Still think this is bigger than BLM when totaling the size and scale of the protests.

I may be wrong

Very easy but it depends on what they want.

At 38 y/o that could be a lot of different things

Motion sickness

I'm someone who had to take FMLA for a serious medical condition and it financially wrecked me. Getting back to work was difficult because you have to then work 2 weeks w/o being paid. Short Term Disability is when you get 60% of your income but it doesn't have the same protections as FMLA

MrToothHasYou posted...

As someone who has had to use FMLA before take it. Listen to your healthcare providers. You will not regret it, and even if it makes things tougher on your employer/coworkers, thats not your fault, and your coworkers will understand.

This is good advice but TC doesn't understand he won't be paid for the time taken off

It's cheaper to stay at work and lessen your shift load through PTO if possible

Why are you taking a trip if your mental health is bad?

FMLA sucks you can't get paid and your bosses have to build a case against you to fire you

Why can't you work and focus on getting better?

Be for real

People who want lower taxes

That's a lot of people

It works. I've used it a few times.

Bumble and Tinder works best. They didn't lead to lasting relationships but they definitely matched me with women I'd go on dates with.

I did this at 25-26, now at 34 it seems like it wouldn't be as lively.

My mother is bad with money because of mental health issues. My gf is bad with money because she never learned how to manage it. I'm really good with money but fell into a really bad situation in college that set me back a decade.

That being said I think I'm pretty good

nekrodev posted...

there were massive BLM protests DURING COVID, including the one where Rittenhouse killed a dude.

They weren't close to being as impactful as this in terms of scale, potential influence and number of people involved, wouldn't you agree? Don't you think this is a "bigger protest" overall?

1/6, abortion rights, the protests we've had since COVID began are small potatoes compared to this. People died during 1/6 but we aren't hearing that in the US yet in regards to these protests. That's a good thing, I think.

emblem-man posted...

Yeah there's been no indication of any violence from the protestors. Just so stupid to enflame the situation by having the cops move in.

Pro-Israel folk are probably calling the police and university and indicating they feel unsafe. It's possible for that to be true and the protesters to also be non-violent. If that's the case police being present makes sense

I'm saying is this isn't as bad as it could be. This isn't Kent State, Ferguson after Michael Brown or Charlottesville. Not yet at least. I've seen worse in the last decade. Is it still unacceptable? Maybe. I been watching this since Feb and I think the protesters and police have done a good job even though things have gotten worse over there. I've seen both sides be terrible at what they do. We aren't seeing police cars getting flipped over or riots yet.

I think what's different is protesters have mostly taken place during Ramadan and many of the Muslim protesters are great at showing restraint and encouraging others to do so.

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They were defintiely on the wrong side at first but when Federal Law was enacted they did protect Ruby Bridges

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I'm not pro-police I'm just not a hater. The question was have they ever been on the right side of history? Answer is yes

My bad that does read a little crazy

I'm saying we haven't seen large scale protests since George Floyd mostly due to the way COVID works. Hong Kong's opposition to coming under Chinese rule in 2019 was the last full-scale protest we've seen since COVID began. I'm saying that because we haven't seen a serious protest on a national scale since then it hits a bit harder than it does otherwise. But I don't believe police are necessarily in the wrong for keeping the peace because Jewish people and Zionists do attend the school and their safety should be taken into account.

People have been opposed to protesting on a large scale because a lot of protesters have gotten sick during the George Floyd protests.

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The enacting of the Civil Rights Act, protection of Anti war protests in Vietnam and Iraq, Brown vs. the Board of Education

There's been lots of times police have been on the right side of history

It's not really insane

I'm on the side of the protesters but it's normal for this kind of thing to happen.

Since Hong Kong, COVID has been a huge deterrent for these kinds of protests. The same people yelling and holding up signs in large groups will be sniffling and feverish in the next few days. They then either stop protesting or spread their sickness to other like-minded people. Happened during the George Floyd protests and that was pre-vaccine.

Murphiroth posted...

Surely then given that you know how awful and predatory these loans are, you're in full favor of student loan forgiveness?

Surely you made this topic in good faith, right?

Surely.

Lol. It's more like we're never gonna get it on a large scale so making plans to pay them out may be a good idea. Student loan Payments starting back actually set me back a great deal until I signed up for grad school through my job to freeze them again. I think my strategy was unusual but elegant.

The fact I was able to settle my private loans for around 40% may help people looking at big numbers make them smaller. Private companies will settle with you if you default.

The Government loans are very difficult to get rid of and they got in the way of me building a house in 2021 (when stuff was cheaper) so getting them out of the way can help others in this BS housing market we live in. Even if you don't plan on building a home it will help with your long-term credit.

thronedfire2 posted...

I dropped out of 3 different schools. my debt from student loans is finally down to under 30k after almost 20 years

luckily one of them was only community college so those were small numbers.

I got Community College out of the way quickly

Wonder if he's on medication

Robot2600 posted...

what a dismal topic but it looks like things are finally gonna go your way tc

I feel like dismal is a strong word

shironinja posted...

we are in a recession and are all heading to war in the next year or two?

It's a good time to not owe a motherfucker shit

44K in private loans and 23K in Government Loans. Settled private loans in 2018 for 16K over 13 months. Defaulted and let the bank know how little I was making at the time. They made me an offer and I took it and lived in squalor until completing the agreement in Jan of 2020.

Government Loans couldn't be settled of course. Had $12,500 when COVID ended and payments restarted. Started Grad School (freezes payments), Worked my ass off at my sales job, and paid $13,748.91 in 6 months. Probably never taking another grad school class again.
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I could have done so much with the money and it's set me back a great deal. My college girlfriend left me due to my financial strife and how long it would take. She believed I could do it but she just couldn't afford to wait, I had to abandon the line of work I truly valued because it didn't pay enough, I've lived at home this entire time and my schoolmates and local friends have written me off as a loser because I haven't progressed as they have. But it's definitely possible to pay them off. Allow me to be an example.

Give an example.

I usually like dub VAs but I think I get what you're talking about

I'm over there as well. That's my primary board even though we don't have many.

All are welcome. But post here too

You guys should watch the Book of Clarence

Really good depiction of what it was like imo. Dr. Strange is in it

That is pretty big. Poaching is gonna be at an all-time high for top companies

Makes sense. Everyone else is still why not you?

Posture is a big thing too

cjsdowg posted...

Why does the internet not want people to have porn anymore.

We have to replace all the people that died during COVID so our birth rate doesn't fall too far.

Anime babes can't repopulate America.

Philly and the Lakers gonna win both series

Nuggets are lazy and the Knicks are incomplete

It was ok. Watched the Knicks-Philly Lakers-Nuggets game knowing exactly what was gonna happen

Both cases the other team truly deserved to win watching the whole game

Probably my worst/shortest night of training but this felt good to see after a 6 mile ride.

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Hit a PR on the indoor upright bike on Saturday. My team lost but my first 100K on an upright bike wasn't that hard at all even in 85 degree weather on my patio. 246 after a weekend of wine chicken and poor sleep. Probably gonna ride tonight but I am exhausted
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CSCA33 posted...

School policy is used as a wedge used to force open a door for further measures, and he is openly stating the goal is to eventually just end this behavior from existing in the state.

first its creating a greater perception in the public, normalizing that this isnt something socially acceptable around children or schools with (adult teachers, staff, etc) to be transgender or gender nonconforming (GNC.)

Thats a hop skip away from saying not at work or other public places period, essentially forcing trans and GNC people out of the public with these escalating attacks. It began with children, where Texas made it illegal for medical providers to give gender affirming care to minors the past few years.

Agreed.

This is very similar to cochlear implant debates in the deaf community or conversations around the discovery of Down Syndrome in prenatal screenings. For example, I have epilepsy and there's an argument that people who have epilepsy/down syndrome/deafness at birth should never be born and should not exist in the future. Not because they can't survive in society or modern medicine can't treat them, but because their existence makes things difficult for the powers that be.Of course that puts people living with those conditions currently in a tough spot. They're being told they don't have a future in society.

This is a Eugenics argument I believe. Since COVID, there's been a serious effort to force people who aren't having kids to the edges of society because of our falling birth rate. Trans, GNC and people with permanent disabilities are seen as future burdens to society because they're unlikely to reproduce. The abortion debate plays in to this.

Texas is fucking over a ton of people medically for financial reasons more than anything, make no mistake. It's not really a LGBT issue imo. As bad and dangerous as the rhetoric is around trans-folk, understand that people with disabilities, people who had Medicaid, kids of minorities, kids whose parents don't work, are all on the chopping block in Texas as well as other states with similar values. The aim is to push trans people out of the state so they won't vote in the upcoming election.

Please vote if you live in TX, even if you disagree with me.

Just want the Lightning to beat Florida and eliminate the Maple Leafs

We don't even need to win the cup or get to the Finals, we just want to ruin the dreams of those two teams.

We already did it to Auston Matthews once, the second time will provide closure.

Honestly after reading it sounds like she's a scapegoat that who's death strengthens the Communist control of the country?

Hard to have Communist control of a country with rich people gallivanting around doing what they please. With the leader being old and on his way out this seems to be posturing by the government appearing to appeal to the Vietnamese proletariat and show their strength.

Cuticrusader09 posted...

It was probably something else, but maybe that was the easiest excuse to drop him.

Edit, women lie all the time if they are afraid a dude wont accept the rejection well.

agreed

As someone who has settled it's a rough thing to do because in a way you aren't fully committing to the relationship. You're selfishly being with someone you aren't attracted to pursue your own happiness.

I agree with TC that acceptance is an important part of a relationship and there's too little of it in the early part of the dating process. But accepting someone you aren't excited about being with is a waste of your time and more importantly a waste of their time.

Noticed this with my perpetually single sister. I believe her mistake isn't having high standards but never being friends with guys she actually enjoyed going out with. She can't keep a man longer than a month because she expects fireworks and a first date effort every time. As soon as the guy starts relaxing, she's out the door seeking someone who tries harder for her affection.

With guys it's the opposite. They don't actually enjoy dating and seek the comfort of the relationship above everything. But you always have to date your GF or wife. You're always supposed to be courting her. The comfort you receive is your reward for doing right by her.

Screen grabs and stuff are always great to do because the board is always changing

Paying to watch Devin Haney kick Ryan Garcia's ass

Riding my bike indoors during the NBA playoffs too

Guessing TC is single.

I believe you can be better. Do you?

It's a good question

It's ethical imo

really amazing

Stopped after they gentrified South Park and came out as Republicans

They always were right leaning (The Goobacks episode, Mrs. Garrison) but they did a lot to keep Issac Hayes happy when he was alive and on the show. After he left they started showing their true colors. It worked until after the gentrification.

Still like both games a lot. Favorite RPG in their generations

I'm jealous of that pace and that weather.

It is now sweltering in the South. Rode this morning and had to keep riding just to stay kind of cool. Went to the doctor yesterday and my labs were excellent. This time in January I had high liver enzymes and my cholesterol and blood pressure were bad. Now blood pressure is 128/72 (post-exercise, pulse was high I kinda cheated) and every other number is within the good to excellent range.

Reduction of alcohol, steady cardio and weights along with Huel meal replacements really helped me. Also lost 10 pounds in those three months and there's a lot of progress to be had.

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Absolutely beautiful

I'm blessed to have my Father using my Youtube Premium account and the results are funny.

A lot of videos of people scratching winning lottery tickets

Drumiester posted...

The lockdown gave me my dream career of working from home

QFT

Working from Home immediately increased my income and prospects for life

Anime and Manga board

I was also nude I showered at her house and would walk around proud with a post-exercise pump. Would also rinse the oil off post massage.

Did not massage her nude but was often shirtless