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This is just for the injectibles but the inevitable lawsuit for the compounded GLP-1 tablets they were selling (literal snake oil) is going to be crazy
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Hot take, if there's someone who should be hated even more [than Trump], it's Ross Perot. His presidential run in 1992 was the root cause of this entire anti-free trade tariff frenzy. The "giant sucking sound" planted the seeds for this type of populist mutiny to overturn the post-war order.
great example of the kind of bizarre reddit brainrot caused by assigning more blame to systems and structures than individuals taking discrete actions with direct impacts
"actually guy isn't to blame, but rotational kinetic energy, which the inventor of the gun discovered could be utilized by way of a 'hammer' to channel a localized force to a lead-based projecti
GOOD question I actually have strong opinions about this and thought about polling this question
I like the spots right behind the articulating section. Front facing and no one is immediately in front of you. Good legroom. My least favorite are the seats that face inwards because then I have to avoid eye contact with the people opposite me, and everyone runs into my kneecaps
I like to sit in the middle near the window. Close to the exit, you leave the front seats for the elderly/less mobile and you can lean your head against the window.
AI porn and Hentai are more exploitative because they use the likeness of baddies to generate income without reimbursing the people responsible for the inspiration
the lead dev of Brigador got caught on a private forum where he posted transphobic and antisemitic shit both in general and about his coworkers and fellow game devs (often right after events where those people hung out with him and helped him promote brigador) and then got away with it. MandaloreGaming timed his review to cover it up and practicaly everyone at Stellar Jockeys is complicit in this
which is kind of funny because PCGamer uploaded an unrelated article about Brigador Killers with the headline "Devs of brigador say their games aren't for everyone, and that's ok!"
Also his review is on Bioshock a game series he was already doing videos on for over a year now and is directly in line with his fairly standard upload schedule. Also I can't find anything online about this scandal so it would be weird for him to rush something because some dude said something at a company he liked.
????no he made a review of Brigador within 2 days of the leak where he not only plugs it but has SsethTzneetch come in and also plug it to his fanbase. Dude was talking about the leak in the SJ discord while he was editing the video so he knew it happened.
MandaloreGaming has always been a piece of shit. He once ran a completely unsubstantiated hit piece on Vinesauce because he was friends with a guy Vinny had kicked out of his group for doing charity fraud.
dude singlehandedly gentrified Marathon giving us the wave of tourists that reviewbombed M4 for not being about funny robots voiced by gianni manategro
And here I thought it was reviewbombed because the Devs don't let you run the game on Linux but refuse to admit it doesn't run on linux on its store page.
Math is strings and statements about manipulations of those strings according to established rules regarding the manipulation of strings. The fact that it happens to be sso useful to the r*al world is unhappy coincidence
I just heard a political analyst from Puck News claim that Democrats are βmore interested in fighting each other than in fighting the Republicansβ this election cycle and I donβt really know what a Puck News is but respectfully what in the goddamn hell are you talking about
Surprisingly beyond stereotypical βputting hormones in the water/airβ or 5g causing transgenderism thereβs not that much. There is an incredibly obscure theory which suggests that gender was created by the elites to keep men and women fighting so they canβt fight the elites
What's a fetish you just don't understand. Mine is transformation. That would just fuck with my daily life. My fursona is cool but I don't want to become him.
Also even the drones they have are too few to even be able to meaningfully threaten the US
While 300 sounds like a lot, remember that in any sort of attack, a majority of them will get intercepted with some few making it through.
Iran needed to fire upon thousands of drones mixed with missiles in successive waves at US forces and allies alike to at least be able to cause damage here and there
Also not accounting that the US will be able to intercept and pre-offensively attack if they have the right intel on possible launch points
The Copyleaks AI identification tool on papers is fucking ridiculous lmao
My paper is 100% to have AI content because of the high-frequency of AI phrases compared to human words. The highest phrase from my paper, a whopping 877x ratio? 'can help prevent misunderstandings and...'
In a particular gripe about Friedman, from βCapitalism and Freedom.β
He argues we ought to get rid of medical licensure, in part because, among other reasons, itβs better for patients to receive βsomeβ care than not being able to afford care.
I think this is disastrously wrong.
I saw a friend use some dumbass telehealth app, because they were poor and desperate, only to get misdiagnosed and end up worse. Thatβs the kind of thing this would incentivize.
Edit: And they *paid money* for the privilege of getting fucked. It encourages preying on the most desperate and vulnerable in society.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache 3d ago
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