GONADS125 @ GONADS125 @lemmy.world

Abandoned this profile due to lemmy.world's federation with Threads. I have

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Always sucked when that inevitable day came when they discovered the betrayal..

It blows my mind how much the boomers and this current teen/early adult generation seem to have in common... A real step back in technological literacy, critical thinking skills, and ability to scrutinize reputable sources.

Also like many of the boomers is their inability to handle dissenting information/evidence counter to their internalized beliefs. They just shutdown and reorient themselves with comforting information/reassurance seak from their in-group (e.g., FB, reddit echo-chamer).

This is my subjective perspective of course, and I want to point out I'm not asserting it as fact like a jackass.

Ugh, the blind hypocrisy here has reached The Office level... Sweeping generalizations and prejudgements based on sex, by someone claiming to condemn sexism.

Our society has made leaps and bounds in women's rights and equality, but there's still so much room to grow and improve. I am a man, and I believe there is still an unfair advantage to being both white and male sex. I believe this is due to inherent explicit and implicit sexism and racism that still permeates our society.

But you are making sweeping generalizations that you claim as a fact. Cite yourself then. Find some reputable research that supports your sexist claims.

There's a difference between making statements as I have done above vs asserting sweeping generalizations as fact, as you have done.

The historic sexism against women doesn't mean that in any given situation, men are default at fault, or the greatest offender by number. It's especially absurd here, where you are making it out like women do not have conflict with one another.

Were you homeschooled all your life? Do you live in a bubble? This is a blatantly false and truly absurd statement that everyone can laughingly dismiss, based on countless counter-examples throughout their personal lives.

The most cunningly ruthless insults I've ever heard in my life have all been from women, who I considered to have more emotional intelligence than the average man.

I don't know.. maybe you're just trolling and I bit....

America, land of the free

Free to the power of the people in uniform

Yeah I regret not voting for her over trump, but I viewed both of them as trash candidates. The DNC corruption to support her over Bernie left me bitter and I couldn't stomach casting a vote for a chronic lying career politician in the pocket of the banks.

I have never been a Biden fan either, viewing him as a career politician who was always regarded as a centrist (e.g., drug policy) before the political spectrum went full tilt to the right. But I happily voted for Biden over trump and will vote for any candidate over him. I can also acknowledge the good Biden's presidency has done.

But Hillary Clinton is the biggest reason trump won. She is so unlikable and far from a progressive or honest politician. I would've voted for any other dem candidate back in 2016. It was the first election I could vote in, but I abstained when my decision was between a giant douche and a shit sandwich. Most people I knew in college at the time felt the same way. She never had the support of young adults.

As much as I hated the trump presidency, at the same time, I was selfishly satisfied seeing her lose after the DNC/Debbie Wasserman Schultz scandal and Hillary Clinton's pompous, obnoxious entitlement and "It's my turn!" mentality. Let's not forget that she and Bill Clinton were also friends with epstein and trump, and were in the same social circles before the 2016 run...

Avenue 5 on HBO was a very fun disaster to watch unfold. Would definitely recommend.

I understand that.. I'm just talking about the users fixating on the date format. Look at all the examples in the comments.

It's not surprising, but it's disheartening to see people downvote you for this comment. Blind hate. Plain and simple.

I specifically said I wasn't justifying what happened here. My point was just an aside on the importance of organ donation.

I don't condone stealing people's organs. What happened here was clearly fucked up.

Not condoning this by any means, but everyone ought to be an organ donor. I find the people who refuse on the grounds of "I don't like the idea of my organs being harvested.." are demonstrating insufferable selfishness. Multiple lives can be saved from one donor. And you'll be dead anyway! You won't care then...

Especially all bikers should be mandatory organ donors.

It's just the EU date style.

I find my brain reads dates the US way first and then immediately rereads the EU way after, when that doesn't make sense. It's pretty automatic.

Not even tangentially related.. but I replaced the dumb American (and I know UK as well) 3 fingers gesture with the German 3 when I learned of it as a teenager. It's so much more efficient and reasonable compared to stretching our fingers out unnaturally...

Man I swear I remember this on reddit.. or a post similar to it.

I remember many of my fellow Americans couldn't understand the date format.

Edit: And it looks like the same thing happened here..

I use a wall (sometimes with a pillow) to pop my shoulders, hips, etc. back in place. Do the same with couches/furniture in various ways.

I've learned all sorts of specific movements that will pop my joints back in the socket. I've had systemic dislocations since childhood due to EDS, especially during flare-ups. I can pop everything from my jaw to my toes.

They're like that annoying kid who no one keeps in check, that just pesters people while being too weak and pathetic to be a real threat.

All China can muster up is petty shit like this and fistfights with India on their border. Their military is only tested thru genocide. They're a bully that's trying to hide the fact that they're just a paper tiger.

The Tuskegee experiment did the most damage imo. So absolutely fucked up...

Black Americans were promised free healthcare under the guise of an experiment intending to study the late stages of syphilis (which is fatal). The men were told they were being treated for "bad blood" (a common term at the time), but they were really just provided placebos while the effects of the disease were secretly recorded.

In order to track the disease’s full progression, researchers provided no effective care as the men died, went blind or insane or experienced other severe health problems due to their untreated syphilis.

A man named Peter Buxton discovered the experiment and raised concerns over it's ethical violations, but the review board decided to continue the experiment until all participants had perished and autopsies could be preformed. Buxton was having none of it, and leaked it to the press.

By that time, 28 participants had perished from syphilis, 100 more had passed away from related complications, at least 40 spouses had been diagnosed with it and the disease had been passed to 19 children at birth.

In 1973, Congress held hearings on the Tuskegee experiments, and the following year the study’s surviving participants, along with the heirs of those who died, received a $10 million out-of-court settlement. Additionally, new guidelines were issued to protect human subjects in U.S. government-funded research projects.

This is still a very potent source of lingering distrust of the healthcare industry among Black Americans.

I'm sure none of these healthcare workers think they're being racist at all. It's all played out at a subconscious level. Racism is so baked into society that most people who are being racist don't even realize they're being racist.

You are so 100% correct. This is called implicit racism, and it permeates our society to a systemic level. Healthcare can be a good example, and the U.S. criminal justice system is the best example imo.

One thing that really drives home the systemic implicit racism in this country are studies that have people rate black and white men on how strong/large/muscular and threatening they perceive them to be. The black men were perceived to be more threatening and that use of force was more likely to be viewed as justified. Black and white Americans both perceived the black men to be stronger, taller, and more muscular than their equal-sized white counterparts. Source

Another study found that people view black boys as older than they are, and that they are more responsible for their actions than white boys, whose actions were more likely to be excused by the belief of childhood innocence. So our society essentially strips black boys of their perceived childhood innocence. Same Source

I really like Volcom shorts and pants. They tend to fit me a lot better (and with much greater consistency) than any other brand, even expensive ones. They're pretty durable too. Nice that they're not crazy expensive, but I also buy them from discount stores in the US for great prices. I never buy clothes at full price.

You could probably find Volcom clothes at skate shops in Europe. I have seen them on European online skateshops and stuff, if I'm remembering correctly.

You're missing a key ingredient from a garden center..

My brother made some years ago when I was a kid. It melted asphalt into a wavy, glassy texture.

Gas station and gardening center, plus a specific material used in packaging.