yesman

@ yesman @lemmy.world

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I don't read my replies

1h ago

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud
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yesman @lemmy.world 1h ago
Audiophiles get a lot of friction, but this kind of person exists in almost any hobby. People fascinated by equipment and ascetics who loose the plot about what their hobby is all about.

1d ago

Conspiracy Theories Only Flourish With More Epstein Evidence

Conspiracy theories can be a coping mechanism that allow people to feel like they understand a complicated and scary world. The Epstein scandal is complicated and scary.

1d ago

What's your pitch for an X-Files 'monster of the week' premise?

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yesman @lemmy.world 1d ago

Slug man from the sewer runs for president, wins.

1d ago

Kellogg ---> Epstein

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yesman @lemmy.world 1d ago

The reason circumcision is common in the US has more to do with people like RFK jr. than it does with people like Epstein.

1d ago

I fully read/watch all advertisements on a webpage to earn the privilege of viewing its content.

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yesman @lemmy.world 1d ago

Have an upvote you lunatic.

1d ago

How seriously is Quantum Immortality taken?

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yesman @lemmy.world 1d ago

The idea isn't falsifiable. Therefore it's not science.

It's not dumb or foolish to think that ideas like this are plausible and cool. They may even be true, we just can't tell the difference with science.

2d ago

330 gallons of sulphuric-acid was purchased for Epstein Island on the day the FBI opened investigation

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yesman @lemmy.world 2d ago

Sulfuric Acid isn't ideal for dissolving bodies, because it doesn't dissolve bones well. It has many legitimate uses such as water purification, which the article points out.

Honestly with all the terrible shit we know happened, I don't understand the urge to turn this into an episode of Dexter. Is child-abuse island it not interesting enough?

2d ago

In Pulp Fiction Vincent made a big deal about a $5 milkshake, which is less than a crappy one from a fast food joint costs today.

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yesman @lemmy.world 2d ago

Hardees/ Carls jr. used to advertise a 1/4 cheeseburger with lettuce and tomato as the "six dollar burger" as a dig at casual dining restaurants.

Today it's called the "famous star" and is $6.39.

2d ago

Gary Webb killed himself. He was divorced, unemployed, and his professional reputation was ruined. His reporting on the CIA importing cocaine was retracted after it was fact checked, and his editor would not stand behind the reporting.

But his article was published and is still available to read. The idea that the CIA assassinates people 20 years after they "spill the secrets" stretches credulity. Makes since he'd punch his own ticket.

The idea that he was shot twice "in the back of the head" is a myth. He did shoot himself twice, but that's not so unusual. 42% of gunshot and penetrative wounds to the brain are survivable.

This meme irritates me because it depends on the misinformation that suicides are unusual or suspicious. Suicides are common as dirt. To the tune of like 40K people/ year in the US. It's a major public health crisis but gets ignored because of taboo and because it's a gun issue.

2d ago

Five plots to kill Syrian president or ministers were foiled last year, says UN

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yesman @lemmy.world 2d ago

Wow IS is almost as incompetent as the CIA.

2d ago

Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet

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yesman @lemmy.world 2d ago

That headline implies that selling plasma to get by is acceptable so long as your working class or poor.

Holy shit poverty is happening to worthy people.

2d ago

Affluenza is really the biggest driver between thinking the barrio/ghetto/slums is an "unsafe wasteland" vs people who are just trying to exist and survive in the framework they are given.

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yesman @lemmy.world 2d ago

I used to work cleaning residential construction sites. Once my coworker and I came across a bucket that was used as a toilet. My comrade commented that immigrants were nasty, but my thought was that their cheap ass boss didn't provide facilities.

I think this is the basic difference between the left and right.

2d ago

Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution?

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yesman @lemmy.world 2d ago

Because WWII is the only history in America. And we've forgotten 3/4 of that.

3d ago

Klarna for rent

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yesman @lemmy.world 3d ago

People already put rent on their credit card to pay it off in chunks. This is just Klarna tapping in that market

People using CC to pay rent isn't reassuring, it's more alarming. Paying for housing on short-term, high-interest credit is financial insanity and implies profound dysfunction if not desperation.

3d ago

Do we all concur?

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yesman @lemmy.world 3d ago

I want to cook these motherfuckers as much as anyone. But if there is universal political motivation, then maybe the best use of it would be policies and international agreements to aggressively pursue sophisticated and connected abusers of children.

These files have exposed society wide failures of indifference, corruption, and tolerance for rank criminality. If after all that we've learned, kids aren't made to be safer, then we've failed again.

3d ago

A Pakistani muslim man found a woman crying and heavily intoxicated. The good samaritan offered to drive her home. She later falsely him accused of rape.

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yesman @lemmy.world 3d ago

3d ago

What are we being distracted from?

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yesman @lemmy.world 3d ago

What you're being distracted from is the fact that rape and sexual assault, especially of children is normal and accepted in our society. You may be confused by all the hate and demonetization pedophiles get, but like all rape, the status of the perpetrator matters most.

Until 1971, married men were immune from charges of raping their wives. And several States protected them after that. For every 100 rapes reported to the police, only 18 charges will be filed ¹. And of course their are incompetent pigs and timid prosecutors. But it's also the public at large who won't convict rapists. (because nobody believes women)

Epstein wasn't hiding anything. And all those people around him knew what he was up to.

But forget about Epstein. What powerful men are snatching teenagers off the street today? Nobody cares.

The Epstein scandal is about embarrassing powerful men. Nobody gives a shit about raped little girls.

Here is a reference to that figure, but for some reason, the referenced study isn't on the DOJ's website anymore.

4d ago

British Woman shot by dad in Texas after 'arguing about Donald Trump'

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yesman @lemmy.world 4d ago

Another sacrifice to the god of guns.

Every time something like this happens, gunbrains will explain why it's the result of stupidity. But that's just copeum because they need to believe that their choices aren't putting their families at risk.

4d ago

HP has laptop subscriptions now

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yesman @lemmy.world 4d ago

The fine print is worse. If you cancel, you owe a fee equal to the rental price for the remainder of the year.

4d ago

South Korean official expelled for suggesting ‘importing women’ to boost birth rate

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yesman @lemmy.world 4d ago

SKorea, just like Japan doesn't have a birth rate problem, they have a racism problem. Their ethnostate immigration policies make Donald Trump look like Angela Merkel.