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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.

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.

Slug man from the sewer runs for president, wins.

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

Have an upvote you lunatic.

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?

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.

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 His reporting on the CIA importing cocaine was retracted after it was fact checked, and his editor would not stand behind the reporting.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.

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

OR

Holy shit poverty is happening to worthy people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I like to use a VPN while shopping. Especially for airline tickets. I don’t log into anything until I’m ready to buy.

fuck that, I’ma dual boot and bounce.

Who you gonna shoot? I’m serious. Stalin was a bankrobber. Haitians drove Napoleon’s army into the sea with machetes. The Black Panthers took several pigs off roll-call. What’s your plan, revolutionary?

The only thing “taking the 5th” implies is intelligence.

Ya know the 5th is the one so they can’t coerce you to confession (with torture)? I think it’s a good one.