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meowMix2525

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  • Liberal Death Cult

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  • And what's your plan to get that done? What, you're going to convince wealthy politicians to give you those things, and piss off their donors, just out of the goodness of their hearts? What about when they don't do that, are you going to find your backbone and criticize them directly instead of turning all of your vitriol to the left of you?

    No, of course not. Your plan is to vote harder and throw up your hands when the things we desperately need as a class are explicitly left off the table; spoiling the vote, btw; because the things that would really get people out to vote, across party lines, just happen to be things that go against the interests of the ruling class. Then you'll shout at the rest of us for "dividing the left" when we point out the fucking obvious that those who derive power from capital are not going to give up that power voluntarily and the whole thing was smoke and mirrors to keep you invested in the system that affords them that power.

    We as a class will need to organize and build class consciousness so that we can pull our collective power together and use it to force the hand of the ruling class. That's what a realistic plan looks like. That is the only way meaningful change has ever been wrought about in this country.

  • What’s an unspoken rule that absolutely everyone should know, but most people clearly don’t?

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  • The rearview mirror (the one that hangs off the windshield) is for seeing directly behind you. Your side mirrors are for seeing things to the right and left of you. If the driver directly behind you can see your face in your side mirrors, or you can see their front windshield, and your rearview mirror both exists and is unobstructed, then you are driving around unreasonably blind to vehicles overtaking you. This blind spot can be almost completely eliminated.

    The side mirrors should be positioned thus that you have a clear view of the lanes next to you, with the door handle or body of the vehicle just slightly out of view. You can lean and tilt your head if for some reason you prefer a view of what's going on behind you that is half obstructed by the vehicle you are currently driving.

    The goal is to maximize the area covered by the mirrors so you can see more things, not to have redundant views of the same thing.

  • Mostly downsides at the office

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  • The OOP reads like all social interactions are equally bad, so I'm not really sure why you're disagreeing with me for disagreeing with the original post. I did not say anything to the contrary of what you are saying.

  • Mostly downsides at the office

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  • Did we read the same post? The one I read said it was good to not interact with another human being for days on end.

    Thanks for letting me know your anecdotal experience though. Mine does not at all look like that but it sure sounds nice. congratulations I guess?

  • Capitalism is killing us

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  • They were bombed to shit by the US whose military is still occupying them to this day...

    of course the state that did that and wants to maintain any veneer of democracy would twist itself in knots to convince you that it was the right thing to do.

  • Mostly downsides at the office

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  • Yeah, I have, and I think being fearful and avoidant of each other is more destructive than it is helpful. Have you looked at the up and coming generations, taken seriously the loneliness they are expressing, and acknowledged how that might affect their views on the world and how they treat others?

  • Mostly downsides at the office

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  • I agree that WFH is far more efficient and a better situation for most office-based workers, but I wouldn't call going "multiple days without speaking to another human being" an upside. My issue with office work is I have to get up early and get myself ready and fight through traffic, not that I have to interact with other people even if I don't like some of them.

    I think that's a regressive point of view. I'm skeptical of anyone with a platform that pushes it, and somewhat repulsed by the normal people that repeat it. Naturally, I think. You don't like people? Well, I'm a people... You're a people too. All of us are people. Good people, whatever your idea of a bad person is, we all are people and we people are social creatures.

    In a healthy society we should want to be around other people and, in fact, as a group we become more accepting of individual differences by encountering and interacting with numerous and diverse groups of people and accepting them into our norm, seeing first-hand that we are all just normal people going through life and striving for what we believe is good. We people add so much more than we threaten, we are capable of great and profound things when we work together to achieve them.

    It's not normal to turn your nose up at that and I hate that it is being normalized.

  • Mostly downsides at the office

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  • Have you considered that that might be difficult with antisocial attitudes like the one expressed by OOP becoming the norm?

  • Home invasions

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  • Well they're also an anticholinergic, which means they block the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is the chief chemical messenger controlling functions of the parasympathetic nervous system. It's really important in brain and muscle function.

    What are the effects of anticholinergics? Effects can include dry mouth and sore throat, resulting from the impaired secretion by exocrine glands. Another side effect is tachycardia, or a higher than usual heart rate, that occurs when anticholinergics interfere with receptors that typically slow the heart rate. Anticholinergics can also cause urinary retention (i.e., the inability to empty the bladder) and obstipation (i.e., the inability to pass stools or gas) due to decreased smooth muscle motility and tone. Additional anticholinergic effects include blurred vision and light sensitivity. Rarely, anticholinergics can cross the blood brain barrier and enter the central nervous systems, causing mood changes, hallucinations, confusion, or disorientation.

    What is anticholinergic toxicity? Anticholinergic toxicity occurs when anticholinergic agents accumulate in the body and may lead to anticholinergic syndrome, which can cause dry mouth, flushed skin, hyperthermia, and tachycardia. It may also lead to anticholinergic delirium, which is characterized by confusion, hallucinations, and psychomotor symptoms. With lower doses, acute anticholinergic syndrome can resolve on its own after the anticholinergic medication has been stopped and fully excreted. On the other hand, higher doses can be life-threatening, so individuals should be medically reviewed and acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, such as donepezil and rivastigmine, can be prescribed as an antidote.

    Fyi. Anticholinergics are a class of drugs which have been linked to dementia when used regularly by those 65 and older. Imbalances in acetylcholine are linked with chronic conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.

  • Home invasions

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  • What Benadryl are you talking about, I've never heard of it being anything but diphenhydramine? People definitely abuse this form, it's a deliriant in high doses and can cause hallucinations. I can't recall its name but I distinctly remember there being a community about it on the other site.

    Edit: perhaps you're thinking of Sudafed PE, in which the main ingredient, pseudoephedrine, was switched for phenylephrine? The latter drug was recently found to be ineffective like you're talking about. Though, the reason they made pseudoephedrine prescription only in the first place was because people were using it to make meth, not because it was a fun drug to abuse.

  • actually serious

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  • Malala Yousafzai

    Edit: a couple corrections.

    She's Pashtun (Pakistani), not arab, but she is a practicing Muslim. She was fighting against the Taliban's ban on girls from education, which is not a feature of the rest of the muslim world. It's a feature of extreme fundamentalism, of any religion, not of Islam.

  • Ted Cruz begs Americans stop being so nasty to Elon Musk

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  • Hey, what did slugs and slime molds ever do to you??

  • Ted Cruz begs Americans stop being so nasty to Elon Musk

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  • I thought it was a tonsil stone or something

  • Bachelor Chow slabs, anyone?

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  • Could be fish sticks

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  • Yes, I am proudly biased against groups that commit genocide before our eyes and deny it, dispossess indigenous peoples of their ancestral homes and turn them into refugees in foreign lands, along with fascist ideologies which call for the establishment and maintenance of an ethnostate and sheepishly justify Nazi collaboration and ethnic cleansing as a means to that end. Stay as mad at that as you like and have the day you deserve.

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  • Your aljazeera source with hamas sourced numbers is the misinfo.

    Hamas is not only its armed wing. It is the entire government in Gaza. Its numbers have historically been considered reliable by the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and Human Rights Watch. In relation to the Gaza war, two letters published in The Lancet journal did not find evidence of inflation or fabrication of Palestinian casualty numbers. There is no reason to cast doubt on their estimates than to deny that Israel is committing a genocide.

    Andrew Fox is a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. He served for 16 years in the British Army, leaving the Parachute Regiment with the rank of Major. He completed 3 tours in Afghanistan including one attached to US Army Special Forces, as well as further tours of Bosnia, Northern Ireland and the Middle East.

    The Henry Jackson Society is a trans-Atlantic foreign policy and national security think tank, based in the United Kingdom. While describing itself as non- partisan, its outlook has been described variously as right-wing, neoliberal, and neoconservative.

    This is your source?? A fucking British soldier that has made a living occupying Ireland and running around shooting at Arabs????? Writing at the behest of a right wing think tank??????????

    The rest of this is racist Zionist slop that I shouldn't even justify with a response, because even if it was a completely honest portrayal it would not justify genocide, but to start; Palestinians cannot be held responsible for actions that other arab nations took after 1948 (in response to the horrific acts committed during the nakba, but that nonetheless does not justify it) or the antisemitism that was in large part purposefully fomented in those nations by Israel to advance the Zionist mission. The intention of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine has been made clear since Zionism first emerged in the late 19th century. The mass transfer of Jews to historic palestine and the ensuing displacement of Palestinians started before even 1933, which is when the Haavara agreement was signed between Nazis and Zionist collaborators. It has never been about "self defense" and that is a fucking shameful way to justify the violent expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their home land.

    You have an agenda and no amount of logic will ever change it.

    Back at you.

    Get the fuck out of here you disgusting fucking Zionist.

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  • So for Israel it's just Netanyahu, but for the organized resistance against Israel, it's the entire group? I don't think you know what chauvinism really is, or why it's bad. You also avoided my question:

    Is there any organization that could take up arms; put their lives on the line and use violence strategically to defend their people and resist violent occupation; that you would not denounce?

    Forgive me if I don't believe you're really motivated by being against governments or tyranny. If you're not in favor of resistance, then what your argument essentially boils down to is "everyone does it, therefore it can't be helped when the government I don't want to criticize is doing it 100-fold with the help of powerful allies for the purpose of genocide, because that's just what governments do". The only thing it serves is soothing your conscience and lack of curiosity.

    You care to comment, but you don't care to learn anything that goes too hard against the state narrative. So you end up with shallow analysis and platitudes that reinforce the status quo, and you arrogantly assume that you or someone like you would know better than the people in the region who have spent their entire lives learning and resisting. This is in stark conflict with your supposed aversion to tyranny.

    It is your responsibility to investigate before you speak. If I may, I would suggest you start here

  • Zelensky says US silence over Russian attacks encourages Putin

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  • The Communist Party of Cuba

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  • I wasn't denouncing violence, I was denouncing bad men.

    Violence is violence, and none of it is justified.

    Yes you were????

    Who is the "bad man" on the Hamas side that hasn't already been martyred? If there is none, why do you denounce Gaza's entire government but only one "bad man" when it comes to Israel? Is there any organization that would take up arms; put their lives on the line and use violence strategically to defend their people and resist violent occupation; that you would not denounce?

  • Bed Bag

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  • That I get, somewhat, but the bug thing is just crazy to me. Water doesn't attract bugs, I've never woken up to a bug in my glass of water. Maybe dust, maybe the occasional cat hair, whatever, I'm unbothered. But bugs? regularly? That is a critical mass of bugs.