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Heard about it 🤔

No, he wasn't vice president.

from your link:

He is the first Philippine candidate to lose a vice presidential campaign but win the presidency.

And about Duterte, exactly my point; imagine the level of competence it takes to run such a crazy (and sorry to say so, but successful) war on drugs while (probably) being involved in drug trading yourself! And then all the other crazy shit he did. The dude had more than just brains and passion, while Bongbong seems to care mostly about his daddy's reputation.

😊glad I could provide some balance to some of the weird answers you got here.

I tried to find the bakery episode, cuz it's really crazy, but could not find it. But what I found is that it has more than just a happy ending ($36M payment, jesus fuck, I wanna get it happening to me in the US too!) 🤯

Assume your [morally positive family member here] is always watching.

You mean big brother, right? Had me literally laughing tears for over a minute 🤣🤣🤣

I generally recommend never using social media under your real name. And every business communication (where you need to use your real name) should only consist of bland and necessary stuff. A business, whether as big as Disney or just you, offering a thing from a website or food truck, simply does not need (and imo should not have and not pretend as if it had) values and political views.

The podcast blocked and reported often revolves around your question (or more around the drama after it happened), sometimes they also interview people who had it happened to them, or wrote books about it.

I cannot remember a specific episode now, there are so many. In one, a family-owned(?) bakery lost everything cuz they were falsely accused of racism.

Probably the most interesting and famous case that underlines that simply being a "genuinely good person" is not enough, is the one of Justine Sacco; the woman who tweeted "Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!" and then lost her job etc., almost got her whole life destroyed (she fine today).

While it may not be hilarious to everyone and kinda on the tasteless side, shitposting and making jokes should not destroy your life, so never do it under your real name!

The internet and computing in general is no longer a harmless activity.

Woa, did you start to write that essay in 1981? 🤣

Just kidding, reasonable thoughts there. But I'm way more optimistic; in the future I see whole generations rejecting any communicative online activities, if its not work related. Idk when but at some point people will sinply go outside to be sure to interact with real humans.

But yea, good that you found a way out now already, can't say the same for myself 🥲

Fierce or not, it just seems weird. The relations between prc and roc cannot be that bad, and think of all the trading! There are so many ways to improve relations while still aiming for an official reunification. But hey, you know what, great idea! Let's publish some video-statements of soldiers who say they will sacrifice their lives to get back the island that we officially already hold sovereignty over! – nono, much better idea! Let's make it an eight-part series, that will make us even more popular over there!

It's like in the meme where the one guy who says something reasonable gets thrown out of the office window. (have not watched it, maybe it's also much better than I assume)

Meanwhile American propaganda is obviously much better, for example, no one questioned what happened before the stuff that happens in the black hawk down movie, or what happened after the pearl harbor movie. Comparing cats and dogs, yes, but from a simple propaganda perspective, that is just good framing, something China is really bad at, constantly. 

And the US knows how to use that advantage. Americans (and most people in the West) care and know more about what probably happened to probably thousands of peaceful Chinese democracy-lovers (NSFL!), rather than why the US government bombed a whole city block in Philadelphia  2 years prior 🤷‍♂️

And yea, its always good to learn more! Have fun learning about the history of Taiwan, White Terror and all that. It became too much for me very quickly, so I cannot recommend anything.

Wtf, how could all that happen?? I thought after Marawi they couldn't even organize a car jacking

What will happen now? Not meaning to praise Duterte but sending special prayers to the Philippines with their current president 😬

One thing that comes to mind is, avoid applying and following every rule to the extreme.

Like how you did here with rule 1 😂

Hey, late reply, but since it seemed to interest you, I'd like to share some thoughts I had in the meantime. It's mostly based on limited personal observations.

Smoking just has to play a significant role in that. You super rarely see any women smoking, and I really mean super extremely rarely, in the whole country. But men of all ages (including some teenagers) smoke everywhere, constantly. With the drinking, it's maybe a bit similar but way less extreme, cuz there is no stigma against women drinking (again, limited personal observation! might be different in other regions or small villages)

But then it hit me: the biggest factor could be drugs like amphetamines; stuff that overworked factory workers use to stay awake, but also shop clerks, lorry and bus drivers etc. literally an endless list. Work time is generally WAY too long, people simply cannot earn enough to survive without "little helpers". Drug use in this context is a real problem, government doesn't hide it.

I suspect that men tend to use that stuff much more than women.

And I sure suspect that the use of amphetamines does not increase one's life span. Interesting study; small but wonderfully selected sample group imo. Check the GPT-generated summary at the end.

Anyway, thanks for your reply, but to be super honest, I didn't really understood it 🙈, can you maybe send me the articles? Just if you still have them, not super important.

Acceleration of cardiovascular-biological age by amphetamine exposure is a power function of chronological age

Background:

• People are using amphetamines more around the world.
• Nobody has looked into whether amphetamines can make your cardiovascular system (heart and blood vessels) and overall body age faster.

Methods:

• They used a device called the SphygmoCor system to measure the pulse from the wrist of the participants.
• They had 55 people who took amphetamines, 107 who smoked tobacco, 483 who didn't smoke, and 68 who used methadone (another type of drug). So, 713 people in total took part from 2006 to 2011.
• They tried to find out the "biological age" of the heart (how old the heart seems, compared to the person's actual age).

Results:

• The ages of the participants were between about 30 and 40.
• They made sure to control for age differences in their analysis.
• Both male and female participants were equally represented in the groups.
• Almost all (94%) of the amphetamine users had taken the drug in the past week.
• They found that the "biological age" of the heart was not just increasing linearly (like a straight line) with the actual age. Instead, it increased faster, like a curve.
• When they compared "biological age" with other factors like time, BMI (body weight related to height), and actual age, the curve-like relationship was even stronger.
• Even after considering all other factors that can hurt the heart (like smoking, high blood pressure, etc.), amphetamine still made the heart age faster.

Conclusions:

• Taking amphetamines seems to make the heart (and perhaps the body) age faster than it should.
• This aging effect increases even faster as one gets older, suggesting the drug could be accelerating the natural aging process.

I think almost every independence movement is a bit like a Rorschach Test; people see in them what they want (or can).

In this discussion here you learn basically almost nothing about Taiwan, its history, or why and what its people want, but you sure learn a lot about the political worldviews of everyone who participated. Your comment here is an excellent example of that, even better than the one I replied to first.

And btw, I don't justify any claim. I'd rather support Taiwans de jure sovereignty (over the island, not over all of that 😅) if that's what its population want. And I doubt that this CCTV documentary is gonna change my mind, but still plan to watch it cuz I'm still trying to understand why most Chinese propaganda is so lame 😂

Yea they would probably sacrifice the Philippines first. Then Japan.

And it isn't a Chinese island; that's the point. It's a democratic, independent country that happens to be a US ally. 😍

And it isn't a Ukrainian province; that's the point. It's a democratic, independent country that happens to be a Russian ally. 😡

Is this a known thing? I aways install everything that scanner suggests me.

Nextdns AND a VPN? 🤔

Interesting, now I doubt that we just have super opposing political views, rather we have super different working brains 😅

Hope you will answer to this one too!

Let's say you have a garden. I take fruits and vegetables from your garden and add them to the dishes of some of my family members, maybe only to garnish the dishes of my 6 favorite kids. Meanwhile, most of your family members don't have any food at all. You start to complain, want me to stop taking fruits and vegetables for my well-fed family because the garden is yours, your family is hungry, it could somehow benefit from the garden and its fruits and vegetables. Then you hear this:

you are comparing the proportion of fruits and vegetables coming from a location to the proportion of the population that benefits from a service that use the fruits and vegetables in question. you put forward a comparison that makes absolutely no sense. The numbers compared are absolutely not comparable.

Would you stop or continue complaining?

"That word 'vassal' really did trigger some people [...] It sounded like they were basically saying: 'You're right, but don't talk about it this way.'"

That's exactly my view too, stop calling us vassals, we're literally hostages 😭

Had to read your sentence 4 times to understand what youre trying to say. Could have just said "no I don't think it's weird at all"

BS

Shutting down brainstorming by simply calling it BS falls more into the category "personal drama" than "real content"