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thronedfire2 posted...

the queen is dead so probably

I was thinking of Merkel leaving office, but there are probably a few CEOs with more power but less publicity.

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It's literally just copium. He was circumcised as an infant and must mentally justify it somehow.

CADE_FOSTER posted...

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/romeo-and-juliet-child-abuse-nude-scene-lawsuit-1235477837/

yeah not great

Yeah literal CP considering she was 15 at the time.

darkace77450 posted...

October 7 was a terror attack, not an act of war.

When a terrorist attack is perpetrated by the official government entity of a quasi-state, it is both an act of terror and an act of war. One does not preclude the other.

dancing_cactuar posted...

CE: Rightfully bemoans the fact that shitty SC Justices like Clarence Thomas are locked in for life
Also CE: Opposed to establishing groundwork so they have to be given the boot after a certain point
This board is so self contradicting with a fair number of its politics.

The obvious answer is that they want to keep the justices they want and get rid of the ones they don't.

Antiyonder posted...

Surprised them being different colors (Rainbow and all that) doesn't count towards the Wokeness.

No, that's to indicate... uhhh... football team jerseys! Yeah, that!

GrandConjuraton posted...

No, because I'm not watching it at all.

This.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

It's fun when people are vigorously pro-science until it comes to things they disagree with. Then scientists are wrong and preventative medical procedures are evil.

Studies on the supposed benefits of circumcision are about as reliable as all those studies that showed the health benefits of smoking. And the motivation behind them is about the same.

bladegash posted...

All 8 billion people of the world's population could fit inside new york city. Not alot of elbow room, but if you actually make all of NYC a 3 layer megacity with the elite occupying the top portion with lavish and abundant real estate then put the important non elites in the middle layer with some conveniences and then keep the pollution and rest of the population in the slums of the dark bottom layer, then everything will be just fine.

So basically a hive city from Warhammer 40k? Pass.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Maybe currently but there's been some pretty fucking old politicians before.

Queen Elizabeth II was 96 when she died.

See post 33. Biden isn't even in the top ten. Even if you're looking at elected leaders of western democracies he's still be behind Michael Higgins of Ireland and Sergio Mattarella of Italy.

Apply the same to shrimp as well.

GranTurismo posted...

does the u.s. have the oldest politicians of any country? Esp. the ones that have the most power

In general (i.e. counting Senators, SC, etc.), possibly. In terms of head of state, we're not even in the top ten. The current oldest serving head of state is the president of Cameroon, Paul Biya, who will turn 91 on Tuesday.

Aristoph posted...

So the only one that would actually get hurt and the only one who can literally unlock magic for humanity is the Fire Elemental? And people are still picking the dog and the billionaire?

Humanity was a mistake. God should just Alt+F4 and start from scratch.

You're discounting the possibility that Trump could burn his wang trying to shower the Fire Elemental.

Revisited posted...

What the... on what grounds did the judge overturn it

First Amendment. Basically anything short of assault or stalking is free speech.

Buy bitcoin as soon as they make it.

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The explanation is pure unadulterated copium.

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This is probably OP's best option. It's basically the midpoint between employer-based health insurance and Medicaid. I've been there and it wasn't awful, and based on my income at the time is was about a quarter of the cost of the insurance offered by my job. Of course it's income based, so if OP is paycheck to paycheck in a high cost of living area like NYC the absolute income cap may still be too high for him to benefit.

Zikten posted...

I'm not circumcised but I support banning the practice and saving future babies from being harmed

Unfortunately that view will get you labeled as anti Semitic and Islamophobic, as demonstrated by Iceland's attempt to ban infant circumcision a few years back.

Technically "aggressive" panhandling is illegal in California and was temporarily banned in Illinois before a judge overturned it. Nowhere has outlawed simply sitting there with a sign but they have tried to ban panhandling when it crosses the line to harassment.

Zikten posted...

Ok but why does the IDF need to have tanks shoot at obvious civilians, journalists and medics?

In real terms, because the buildings Hamas is fighting from are all built of concrete. They have an effectively infinite supply of bunkers.

Sounds like it is paralleling dating apps.

Kai_Laguna posted...

There's actually a species of jellfish that is biologically immortal.

And yet they get eaten by other things all the same.

FolkenRawr posted...

My sister's undocumented Mexican boyfriend hates them. Like, with a vitriol I've rarely seen. Basically he does like day work, and says they're taking all the jobs. That and of course the 'hand outs'

It honestly blew my mind. He's also not the brightest dude, but he's always at least been reasonably empathetic.

Never underestimate the "it's fine when I do it but bad when everyone else does it" mentality.

neccis posted...

It's just bizarre to them lol

I once had a conversation about that with a guy who was dating an Eastern European woman. Their first time having sex she said she didn't know he was Jewish. He was utterly confused that she didn't expect him to be circumcised and she was confused that anyone would be without religious reasons.

Toonstrack posted...

Or fortunate depending on their eventually partners preference

Or unfortunate if their partner would have preferred uncut.

Smallville posted...

Why do most of you believe the u.s. percentage is so much higher than other industrialized countries though? Had no idea the gap was that large between 2nd.

Because the US factually IS higher than other industrialized countries? Canada is just below New Zealand, and much of Europe is down in the 10-20% range.

KI_Simpson posted...

I'm pretty sure the gap is a lot smaller for children born now/recently, as opposed to total percentages of people who have penises. As mentioned earlier, there was a propaganda campaign to convince American parents to have it done over a century ago, and it became a cultural norm due to that. More liberal areas are less likely to have it done.

For recent births it's closer to 60% in the US, due in no small part to the pushback it's been getting in the last couple decades. And the growing Hispanic immigrant population, as the percentage of circumcisions in most of Latin America is in the single digits.

Darkinsanity1 posted...

No, the other reason not to do it when you're older is because it's far more painful and difficult to heal from. As an infant, you'll never remember it. You don't move around nearly as much so the friction isn't an issue, they probably heal faster in general too.

Also a lot easier to die from.

Darkinsanity1 posted...

It absolutely is though, all these people saying "let them make their own choice when they're older." Who the hell is going to do that unless medically necessary, when by that point they're completely used to their foreskin. Debating whether it's wrong etc, all just stupid bullshit. PC crap is 100% in play for this issue.

It's almost as if that's the fucking point.

Zeeak4444 posted...

i think the more apt analogy would be cutting fingernails off to avoid dirty finger nails.

No ones cutting off the tip of a penis

Fingernails grow back, unless you're ripping out the root and burning it with acid to prevent regrowth the way they do for ingrown toenails.

Smallville posted...

is u.s. the top country by percentage for this? What if just very industrialized countries it might be the top? wonder why.

The US is the only industrialized country where circumcision is prevalent, aside from Israel for the obvious reason. The US is between 70% and 80%, and the next highest industrialized country is New Zealand at 33%

The Muslim world and oddly enough the Philippines are higher than the US.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/circumcision-by-country

I very rarely watch streams, and the few I do watch are usually locked to sub-only chat. So no, I don't participate.

Crime inducement:

The user can induce criminal acts for people to do, making people commit crimes ranging from murder to thievery to arson, etc. They can also induce organized crimes onto a larger number of people as well. They can also make crimes happen from any situation.

Doe posted...

You dont even realize that Yemen is not in Palestine.

That aside, why is it unbelievable to you that an LGBTQ person could have empathy for another marginalized group? At least 19,500 women and children have been murdered by Israel since October. Hell, how many of those killed were LGBTQ, regardless of whether they can be open about it?

Palestinians are not all that much more tolerant of LGBTQ than the Houthis. In fact they're so bad that LGBTQ persecution is one of the very few reasons Israel will grant limited refugee status to Palestinians.

Enclave posted...

We don't remove tonsils to prevent future complications, we only do so once it's medically necessary.

Removing teeth prevents cavities, right?

Tyranthraxus posted...

People with dangerously out-of-control dogs can be jailed for up to 14 years and banned from owning animals, and their pets can be put down.

Not long enough.

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It's highly suspect that countries with low to nonexistent circumcision rates aren't being plagued with a pandemic of dick cancer. It's almost as if the health benefits are minimal or even entirely made up.

creativerealms posted...

We should have a cap on how old someone should be to be president. Say seventy. Yeah I know some people might be perfectly coherent at seventy.

It's not entirely comparable, but Biden was older on his first day in office than Reagan was when he left office. Let that sink in for a second.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

None of them. Some, however, are removed or otherwise altered for health benefits.

Nice of you to name one. Wait....

And it's somewhat ironic that people are touting penis and cervix cancer prevention as a health benefit comparable to vaccines when both of those are almost completely eliminated with the HPV vaccine. Certain oral cancers as well, if I remember correctly.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Yeah that's what I kinda figured. Not really worth my time.

We're born with all sorts of things we don't really need. Like the appendix.

Are any of them surgically removed at birth solely for aesthetic purposes?

Prestoff posted...

Most health benefit circumcision gives is practically null and void when you live in a first world country with easy access to water and hygiene. I will say, the only continent I know of that actually benefits from circumcision is probably the city areas of Africa where hygiene and water access is a luxury. For first world countries like the US, circumcision is primarily a cosmetic thing which should be a choice and not something to take bodily autonomy away from a person. And I say this as someone who is circumcised because my parents were first generations immigrants and had no idea what it meant other than the doctor telling them "it will make the baby cleaner and healthier".

Which is unironically what a lot of cultures that practice FGM believe, only applied at an older age. Most of them truly think it's in the girl's best interest in terms of health.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

It's a surgical procedure. Is repairing a cleft lip or cleft palate also considered mutilation?

Do you consider being born with a foreskin to be a birth defect that afflicts about half the human population?

Murphiroth posted...

An instant off switch that you can turn into a show.

I challenge you to name an alternative that isn't as splattery.

Murphiroth posted...

Checks out that you would be incredibly bloodthirsty.

No, I'd want an instant off switch, not lingering for several minutes or hours as can happen with other methods even the supposedly quick ones. The problem is that instant and clean are mutually exclusive.

archizzy posted...

Honestly there were Atari games I played more than 100 hours as a young kid. Too many to name.

This or possibly SMB on NES.

el_cheato posted...

The firing squad is the method with by far the lowest rate of botching, it was only done away with because it's too loud and flashy and makes people feel bad. The lethal injection makes it easy to pretend this is a civilized medical procedure, which is of course the point.

If it was me personally I'd want the opposite - as loud and splashy as possible. I'm thinking a hat composed of danger putty and everyone just stands well clear.

Or perhaps firing "squad" with the gun being an Abrams firing cannister.

Doe posted...

Ive been trying to formulate my thoughts on this type of argument for a while. Its not the first time I saw it.

the crux is the belief that for something to be an atrocity, it has to be completely open about what it intends to do and completely direct about how it accomplishes it. For something to be an ethnic cleansing, for example, a president has to get on TV and say it is now government policy to cleanse X group.

Obviously (or I guess not since people like Destiny dont get this), the loophole here is to maintain international decorum and give justifications for actions that will happen to also have the result of diminishing the targeted group.

And you dont even have to be super crafty about it. Israels ambassadors have come on TV and literally claimed that Hamas tunnels are connected to every second home in Gaza, to justify wiping out all civilian infrastructure. And Netanyahu and his ministers have coined voluntary emigration on top of that.

I'm going to be somewhat generous in assuming this Destiny guy meant something rational like civilian casualties caused by the prosecution of a war shouldn't automatically be considered genocide. That is, things like the Nazi Blitz against Britain or any of the Allied bombing campaigns against Germany or Japan were not acts of genocide against the British, Germans, or Japanese respectively. He seems to be arguing that the Convention on Genocide requires intent and not only acts which have the results.

I've not watched any of his content, so he could just as well be an idiot.

tankboy posted...

Corn, wheat, oats, and rice, are all grasses.

They are grasses we only eat the seeds of, not the leaves (for the most part). We could eat cooked leaves of most of those but they are essentially worthless in terms of nutrition.

Your standard lawn grass is not the same biologically as domesticated grain crops. Eating grass seeds would be possible but the actual leaves - the "grass" part of grass - contains enough silica minerals to wreck your teeth if you ate any significant amount of it. It would still be of minimal nutritional value but better than nothing, and historically people have eaten grass in extreme famines. If for some reason you find yourself in that situation, probably the best method would be to make a smoothie out of it to avoid chewing microscopic silica bits.

Part of the value of animal husbandry is to turn large quantities of unusable plant matter into usable food products. Grass is shit to eat but goats, cows, rabbits, etc. are much easier to eat.

FolkenRawr posted...

I've never heard of filing city taxes.

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/ comptroller/initiatives/ us-cities-that-levy-earnings-taxes.cfm

NYC income tax rate is legit higher than some states' income tax rates (even not counting states with no income tax)

I can't rule out lab tinkering but it's entirely possible that it was natural. Virologists know this sort of thing can happen at any time and the real question isn't how it happens it's why it happens so rarely.

Enclave posted...

Look, it doesn't take wigs or bullshit, it's usually as easy as dressing in normal ass clothes and not wearing makeup. The idea that famous people only fly private is just false. I mean believe it if you want but I'll continue to live in reality personally.

There's famous and then there's Swift level of famous. B list celebrities don't fly as much and when they do they probably fly commercial.

The only real difference is that most everyone else flies charter planes and Swift owns her own jet (used to be two jets). If she was flying charter it would be much harder to track which jet was hers.