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rumschlumpel

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  • Why are women in the MAGA movement or wth ever? Isn't their whole thing is to have women be subservient to a man? You can't tell me they want that for their life.

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  • The short: Propaganda works.

    The slightly longer: Tell them that whatever groups are getting the blame for all the ills of the world are a danger to them. e.g. the whole trans bathroom controversy, decades of painting colored people as predators. Throw in some religiously-motivated "abortion is murder". On that note, US churches have kinda been doing half the work for MAGA.

  • Have you ever seen anyone drink Bombay Sapphire?

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  • Weird, its juniper flavor always seemed mild and subdued to me compared to Gordon's or Tanqueray (the two other big brands here).

  • There's always money in the Flock Cameras.

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  • Is scrap somehow much more valuable in your parts, or are these people even more desperate than the people around here who collect cans and bottles that have a deposit? I feel like more people here would scrap non-deposit cans if it was worth the effort ...

  • There's always money in the Flock Cameras.

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  • Are most scrap yards even accessible without a car? My country isn't nearly as car-centric as the US and it would still be a huge issue to try and go to a scrap yard on foot.

  • This is why people keep getting hacked

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  • TBH I even get annoyed about updates on Linux. At this point, I don't want any changes, period - I'll grudgingly deal with it for security and compatibility reasons, but if that weren't relevant I'd happily keep using software that hadn't been updated since 2020.

  • This is why people keep getting hacked

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  • In my family, my retiredment-age grandmother is on Signal but my brother isn't. Absurd ...

  • There's always money in the Flock Cameras.

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  • You do need to gather enough scrap to cover gas, that's hard to do with these.

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    I was just looking for memes, I'll...just...

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  • And then people call you an incel anyway, because it's such an incel move to defend people who get called incels, and they didn't read the "wall of text" (a couple of paragraphs) anyway.

  • Anon wants u 2 h8 him

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  • because I’m bored

  • Anon wants u 2 h8 him

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  • It's not even just religion, the US is crazy about it, too. There is some religious influence there, too (in the "no one should feel sexual pleasure" sense), but it's mostly cultural. Also, the UN is promoting it in subsaharan Africa as an anti-HIV measure which at least has more merit than most other reasons, though sounds still kinda sketchy IMO.

  • Anon wants u 2 h8 him

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  • Pretty sure Chinese people generally have these, too. So that's already 17% of the world's population covered.

    Anon thinks it's still 1950?

    Edit:

    So because I'm bored, here's some numbers:

    People with access to "safely managed sanitation" (not shared with other people, though most statistics I've seen lump in pit latrines with toilets as we know it): 58% of world population https://data.unicef.org/topic/water-and-sanitation/sanitation/

    Uncircumcised men: 62% of world population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevalence_of_circumcision

    meat consumption: Most of the world has a meat consumption comparable to rich western nations now, except for much of Africa, MENA region, India, South-East Asia and a couple of poorer countries in South- and Middle America. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/meat-consumption-by-country (and countries that don't eat as much meat have a lot of overlap with countries that widely practice circumcision and have lacking accesss to sanitation).

    vegetarianism, veganism: apparently about 8% of the world population wouldn't eat any meat even if they had access to it, most of them in India https://www.torrinomedica.it/english/vegetarians/how-many-vegans-and-vegetarians-in-the-world/

    A question mark is how many people would "seethe" at anon eating specifically fried bacon, specifically for breakfast - even in Europe, some people are too poor to eat meat for more than one meal per day, or even one meal every day, and some people who aren't already vegetarian or vegan would disapprove because of health reasons. The latter category seems extremely hard to quantify.

    In short: People who would go "what, like it's hard?" at anon's list include most people in South America and Mexico, the non-muslim population of Europe (94% of Europe's total population) which is 8.4% of the world population, China, Japan. That's about 30% of the world where it's much more likely than not that someone can shower, use a toilet, eat pork most days and, if male, is uncircumcised.

  • Make Europe the Electro Union

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  • Businesses could never be counted on to make decisions in favor of public interest. That's what governments are supposed to do.

  • Make Europe the Electro Union

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  • Batteries might be more important for the near future, but solar panels don't last forever. Germany does still have solar panel manufacturers, but it's not necessarily easy/fast to scale this up, plus IDK how well they're doing with all the control electronics/software - the EU doesn't have a big chip industry, either.

  • Make Europe the Electro Union

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  • We should probably start manufacturing more of the vital components. EU countries can absolutely make solar panels and batteries from ore to end product, they just choose the economic strategy of importing it from whoever makes it cheapest with no regards to security considerations. Being this dependent on one single country that is also a systemic rival is a phenomenally bad idea.

  • Belgium plans to nationalise nuclear power plants

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  • I assume "nationalizing" doesn't mean "seize with minimal compensation (if any)". Have fun paying Putin for those uranium rods and maintaining your severely outdated nuclear plants.

  • Trump orders withdrawal of 5,000 troops from Germany amid feud with Merz

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  • Nice.

  • Trump says he'll place 25% tariff on autos from the EU, accusing it of not complying with trade deal

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  • Can we have a counter tariff pretty please? US-style pickup trucks are starting to become a thing here and it fucking sucks. Or just straight-up ban that type of car.

  • how I actually feel though

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  • I hope Bandcamp doesn't get enshittified to hell for a while. I love supporting indie artists by buying their music, going to concerts isn't really possible for me and buying merch is super inconvenient for shit I generally don't need or want.

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    Let's see

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  • You don't have to be one of the greatest painters ever to be a professional painter, or one of the greatest composers ever to be a professional composer. Same way not every business owner is a billionaire.

    Either way, even for creative geniuses, painting, composing etc. is still hard work that is often not well-rewarded in their lifetimes.