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pls to meke stem controller 2 🥲 😻

I got caught in a scam last year, but luckily I realised what was happening before any damage could be done. But during the scam, the guy (who was pretending to be my bank) heard me tell him how much was in my account. It was like £100, give or take. No savings, no other accounts. He knew I was on disability benefits. He had this info at the beginning of the conversation, and he was talking to me for 45 minutes before he gave up. For £100. I wanted so badly to say to him "you saw that I had 100 quid to my name, and you still tried to steal it from me?" 😆 These people have gotta be sociopaths.

1-in-10 has been the stat for decades.

I agree. I'm talking more morally and less legally. I've seen countless videos where a woman is feebly tapping or shoving a man, the man is clearly physically unbothered and unhurt, but his ego is bruised, so he KOs her with one punch. Then the comments come flooding in about how she deserved it, "equal rights equal fights" etc.

It's not a fair fight. Of course there are exceptions, there are exceptions to everything. But for most people most of the time, a woman hitting a man is nowhere near as physically impactful as a man hitting a woman. The 'toolset' is undeniably different.

If a 5-foot man slaps a 6-foot man, and the 6-foot man laughs and then beats the shit out of the smaller guy and stomps on his head, most people would look down on the bigger man for taking it too far with someone he could easily beat and who presented no real physical threat to him. It's like that. I'm not denying the agency of the woman, or saying that her assaulting a man is fine, it's that the response to it from the man is usually an order of magnitude more severe with half the effort. And again, I know there are exceptions to this. Men can be abused and beaten by women, domestic violence against men should be taken more seriously.

In street/bar fights, where a woman is picking a fight with a man, the man is rightly restrained by societal pressure to not unload on her the way he would if it were a man picking a fight with him. This isn't sexism or baseless gender roles or any of that, it's because most of the time, untrained men are wielding a sledgehammer to an untrained woman's carpentry hammer (untrained in combat sports, I mean). So in that way, it's not a double-standard despite sounding like one, no more than it's a double standard to not beat the shit out of another man half your size when you would beat the shit out of him for the same offence if he were your size or bigger. Not that we should beat anyone up, of course! But it happens and will always happen, so it's nice to have at least one broad rule in an otherwise-ruleless endeavour: men shouldn't beat the shit out of women unless they really need to, to defend themselves from an actual threat, a threat to something more than their ego or temper.

P.S. Thanks for replying without calling me a misandrist or telling me to kill myself 💗 Genuinely appreciate it!

The game was acclaimed and beloved by virtually everyone who played it, and it's only becoming profitable now? Is it too simplistic to say that a normal release across multiple storefronts, namely Steam, would have made it profitable in a matter of months?

I genuinely keep forgetting the game exists. An article like this one will pop up from time to time, and only then will I remember about it. Epic is a black hole.

Loneliness.

Men hitting women is different from women hitting men.

I don't care if people - even strangers - see me naked. I don't walk around nude or anything, not because of shame or embarrassment, but because I don't wanna inflict such a visage on anyone against their will. But someone having seen my dick doesn't make me embarrassed at all. For example, if someone walks in on me changing, or if someone yanks my pants down as a prank out in public, none of that bothers me in the slightest. In fact, I sometimes feel like I have to pretend to be a little embarrassed just because I worry that people will think I'm into public exhibitionism or something. It's better for the other person if I pretend to be shocked/panicking. It's weirder for them if I just stand there with my shlong out and start talking to them like nothing is out of the ordinary. But I really don't give a shit.

Would be cool if the official Wikipedia mobile app integrated this functionality! It does have a 'random articles' card, but it's nothing like this.

Not sure 'addiction' is being defeated here, though 😆 Like if I'm addicted to sausages, giving me bacon instead isn't really solving the root of the issue. The issue being those sexy, sexy pigs.

Organising to do what exactly? A majority of the US population wants this nightmare. The Trump administration is expected to destroy norms and institutions to bring about their bigot's utopia, they ran on that promise.

It's really that dire. It's beyond the reach of the checks and balances that have kept things somewhat on-track up until just after 9/11. Checks and balances are precisely what the voters want to delete from the courts.

If Trump wants a 3rd term, he will get it, and his voters will not be moved by marches or sit-ins or AOC exquisitely calling out the scum and villainy from the floor of the senate. Either talk Luigification, or let the people post their fucking memes in peace.

If you're in debt and it's affecting your mental health and making you contemplate ending it all, don't worry, there is a way to get your life back again. The following info is about the UK and N. Ireland, but it is highly likely similar info is available wherever you happen to be:

StepsChange is a charity that acts as a middleman between you and your debtors. The charity will negotiate reasonable and specially-tailored monthly payments for your debtors, which - depending on your income and savings and all that - will not cripple you every month. You can pay off what you owe and still have money left to live your fuckin' life. Yes it's a charity, but they don't give you free money, you pay your own debts, but you just do it in a way that isn't ruining you.

I've seen this work with multiple family members, so I can 100% vouch for StepsChange and the dream-like positive change it made in their lives. It takes what amounted to many hundreds of pounds a month and reduces it to like 30. It's insane how much they can help you. Please contact them if you're in financial trouble.

Similar charities must exist elsewhere, so look into it if you're not from these parts. There is always hope.

so waht? a litle plastik never would harmed my mindal health??

but why do i have overwelming urge to aslep in recycling bin??

raised anger and criticism in several Muslim nations

I don't think there are many non-Muslims who were onboard with this stupid shit either, to be fair. Besides the spittle-flecked gammon who were already bigots to begin with, of course.

The only Quran burning I'd support would be if Elon Musk did it as part of his whole white identitarian shtick. I'd send ISIS the airfare myself.

Do your smaller-than-average feet have any appreciable effect on your mobility? If not, I have to wonder why we need these clown-ass feet at all. Waste of meat and leather.

Nope, not discussing shit with Nazis. I just know of people even where I'm from (N. Ireland) who are mentally unwell and will walk around yelling crazy shit that, coming from anyone else, would result in instantaneous violence. But they're known to be crazy, so they get a pass. Not just Nazis, but imagine if someone is wandering through an IRA stronghold yelling "fuck the pope!". I don't assume that person to be playing with a full deck, and anyone who beats him up would be looked down upon. If I see 4 dudes doing the same thing together, then it's different. There's much less chance of it being crazy Jim off his meds again in that case. Sometimes the crazy person just says the worst shit they can think of, and Nazism is like the express route to the top of Mount Cunt, so it's easy even for a nut to rattle off some heinously-offensive diatribe in that vein.

All I'm saying - and I'm not suggesting everyone do this, just explaining where I'm coming from - is that I wanna know before I punch someone if they're genuinely evil or if they have a pre-existing head injury that coincided with their psychotic interest in WWII. I'm not saying we don't punch Nazis, just that we should be careful to target genuine Nazis and not unmedicated schizophrenics. And I don't know anything about the guy in the gif in the OP, maybe he was with a large contingent of scum and he has a political science degree, in which case he got what he deserved. But if he was alone, and was riding the subway to get into town wearing a Nazi armband, and trying to get people to react to him, I'm 50/50 on whether or not he's the real McCoy looking to martyr his chin for the cause or if he's someone the mental health services have failed.

TL;DR: Punch Nazis, but separate the Nazis from the Nazi cosplaying schizophrenics.

A lone dude like this wandering around antagonising people would presumably have some sort of psychiatric problems, so I wouldn't immediately KO him in the street, and would need to ask him a few questions first in order to gauge how tethered he is to reality. But if I see a clump of neo-Natals together, then we can skip right to the violence.

We can expect these people to carry out violent assaults now, with the understanding that their violence is tolerated by the fucking president of the country. This is going to get horrific.

Not that I would ever condone or encourage such abhorrent and inexcusable behaviour, but it would seem like if anyone in US politics is begging for a bullet, it's Musk. Even more so than Trump or his cabinet of monstrosities. Musk is uniquely poised to catch a round in the dome. And it will probably be a MAGA lunatic that does it.

Who better to make such a judgement?

For what it's worth, that woman absolutely did NOT murder her husband. Fuck Netflix "documentarians".