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it’s easier to get a gun than a doctor’s appointment
tipping
pharmaceutical commercials
casually having the largest prison population in the world and pretending it’s normal
violence on tv is okay, but no cussing or sexuality
casually having the largest
prisonslave population in the world and pretending it’s normalit’s easier to get a gun than a doctor’s appointment
A lot of times, it’s cheaper too!
tipping
I don’t think tipping is weird on it’s own, but the default expectation of tipping, and the fuckery around wages that makes tips essential to earning “a living” instead of a nice bonus is definitely weird.
Tipping is weird on its own. The idea that you are showing gratitude by pushing money on someone is gross at best and downright offensive at worst.
If someone tried to thank me with a hand full of change I’d tell them to fuck off.
What if it was a small stack of 20s? 100s? What if it meant the difference between paying rent or not?
If it were 20s or 100s it would be more insulting, you understand this, no?
If it’s the difference between paying rent or not then it’s a huge problem that the behaviour exists to enable that situation. If it weren’t a cultural behaviour it would be called panhandling.
Tipping is the product of capitalism. Using it as gratitude, puts capitalism as superior.
I see it as an extra “thank you” if someone goes above and beyond what I was expecting for a service. It’s not something that should be given out lightly or something that is expected, but I also know that tipping is necessary for people in some jobs to make a living. It’s not a fault of their own, but a fault of a system that saw a benefit they were getting, and was like “oh, we can just under-pay these employees and use tipping as leverage against them.” Do I hate the tipping system in the US? Absolutely. Am I going to impose financial stresses (by not tipping) on the waitstaff at a restaurant in order to make a point about how badly they are compensated for their work? Absolutely not.
Considering that giving cash to someone under any other circumstances is considered tacky (even gift certificates/cards are more acceptable, and that’s just cash with limits on where/how you can spend it), it is weird that tipping is so ingrained in our culture. And unsettling, to be honest…
I think a more accurate shorthand for this would be “tipping culture”
Injured people trying to escape from ambulance crews.
We’re at the accident site but the wounded seem to have vanished again. We’ll try following the blood trails.
Yeah it’s gotta be the daily allegiance to the flag -thing for me. That shit hella weird.
@kadotux @cm0002 @Bytemeister @merc
Having read the Constitution and Declaration of Independence as a kid (they were required reading in school), it seems to me that the flag should be pledging allegiance to *us*, not the other way around.
I stopped saying the whole pledge in kindergarten. Didn’t seem right to pledge to a god I didn’t believe in.
Pretty much stopped saying it all together after 9/11
“I pledge allegiance to the the Flag of the United States…”
Unless you think the flag is a god, you’re not pledging to a god, you’re pledging to a piece of fabric, or to the design printed on that fabric. Which, honestly, is a lot weirder. How can one have allegiance to a flag? What about the opposite, is it possible to be disloyal to a flag?
…for which it stands, one nation, under god…
Yes, god is mentioned as an additional clause, but you’re pledging to the flag.
Yes… Pledging allegiance… To a flag… Representing a Republic… That exists by/for god…
I mean, I didn’t look into it that much at first, I was in kindergarten FFS, but I remember thinking it was funny that God was mentioned in the pledge, and how he was also mentioned in the prayers at Grandma’s church, and I thought I shouldn’t lie and say the “under god” part since I didn’t believe.
Huh, just checked the text and I was surprised to find that the god part was only added in 1954.
Yep, because soviet spies were godless heathens who can’t/won’t lie about their faith in order to sneak into the US.
It was an easy way to spot them back then. A bit like vampires and garlic.
OMG this. Straight up indoctrination. And our parents were like Rah Rah, GOOOO TEAM!!!
Shit looks sketchier the farther we get away from the previous world war.
Man that shit was hella weird growing up.
I was just watching an old rerun of some generic tv drama, and a judge was signing a warrant, and saying “One day we’re going to have to explain this to government sub-committee,” and I thought, “IF that happens, and that’s BIG IF, nothing will happen.”
No no no. We say two election cycles ago, the guy in charge did this. Or that old director of the FBI did this, after he dies and can’t say fuck no the president demanded it.
The only weird part is that we unclassify anything. And that only happens when they’re trying to buy some public trust.
someone post all the major things the cia has done in the last 70 years by bullet point, much has been declassified and the fact none of the public is freaking out over the things they have done is maddening
I fruck out about it the first 10 or so times I found out about these things, but it doesn’t hit the same after a while. This is just what the US is. I vote, I speak my mind, I engage in a little domestic terrorism, but ultimately I don’t have enough power to change things in my lifetime. I’m crossing my fingers for an organized network of assassins with a conscience to materialize.
people who are usually morally right, usually don’t kill other people
I tend to agree. I would just like if a certain type of person didn’t have the kind of power that destroys the environment and worsens lives for ends that only serve to benefit that same type of person. How that happens doesn’t matter to me, but assassins would be quick and final. Collective action from the people would make me feel better for the future though.
Well yeah, the CIA has done horrible stuff in the 40s, and the 50s, and the 60s… And the 70s and 80s and 90s… And some stuff in the 00s.
But now? They probably learned their lesson.
Yeah most countries never admit to anything or declassify anything. It just disappears to time…
I played the storyline for Qube recently (10th Anniversary edition), and there was a hook that was supposed to be sad, but instead hit me as horribly American, plus a dash of victim blaming.
Spoiler
"So, I want you to know, I’m only reading this because you wrote it to yourself.
“It was three PM on a Sunday. You were upstairs at home. A teenage boy broke into your house. He thought you were away on vacation. You went downstairs with your gun. You shot him in your living room. Only he wasn’t trying to rob you. He was passing by and saw a fire in your kitchen. He broke in to try and put it out. He was young and stupid and probably should have thought of a better solution. But you assumed the worst. You assumed the very worst and you shot him. He was paralyzed from the neck down. He died seven years later, alone, at night, in Penrose-St. Francis Hospital…”
You mean like that Japanese kid that knocked on the wrong door and got shot? The guy who shot him was acquitted.
That was infuriating the whole way through. I don’t exactly want to recommend reading further, because it’s just a depressing story all around, but this was well written and provided the piece of information I was shamefully burning with curiosity about
Thank you regardless. That definitely is a sobering read. Poor Webb Haymaker, he tried…
It didn’t have what I was thinking about, though… Even though the country is completely in the gutter with gun crimes by civilians and law enforcement alike, it’s at least nice to know that my initial assumption, that the Brady Bill the community helped enact probably was decommissioned, is in fact still active and enforced.
Poor Webb Haymaker, he tried…
Honestly, I think he probably succeeded in helping a lot of people, he just couldn’t keep going forever. It’s absolutely tragic that he didn’t make it to meet his daughter though.
I’ve always been an atheist, but the older I get, the more I wish there was a traditional Christian afterlife (just with the moral values determining where people end up significantly tweaked). It would be nice to think he and Yoshi could be reunited and at peace.
In traditional Egyptian faiths/cosmology, spirits can join each other at the Field of Reeds – in fact being with loved ones is a core concept of that afterlife too – but the criteria for entry is simply the morals which we all live by: no stealing (selfishly) from others, no lying (with intent to harm), no murdering and no polluting the Nile (eco terrorism, desecrating the Gods and sabotaging the sole sustainer of life in the desert). Selfishness, greed, malice, and cruelty. Everyone who can prove their goodness gets in. Oh, and the alternative isn’t endless torture, but a second death – nonexistence.
I’ve always looked for an alternative faith system to Western ones – I’ve never been a fan of oppression or rule via fear – but the Egyptian faith is one of my favourites.
Maybe they’re in the Field of Reeds. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with taking solace in an idea - even though I myself can’t believe in them.
(I wanted to use a gif courtesy of BabyFarkMcGeeZax, but it seems my instance hasn’t changed the 100MB default file limit and my client crashes. This’ll have to do)
Following the killing, some argued that had Hattori been white, Bonnie Peairs may have not reacted the way she did. The Haymakers stated in an interview following the trial that had Hattori been white, they believed he would have never been killed, noting that Bonnie Peairs said that she first noticed that Hattori was “darker colored” than her.
I’m inclined to agree. Although the wife/instigator denies it, deeply learned/inherited societal racism affects nearly every relevant choice.
I had no idea qube had a concrete plotline, as far as I ever saw, you are immediately thrusted into the puzzles.
The 10th Anniversary edition was released around 2022, and rebuilt the entire game in Unreal 5 to closely match the style of Qube 2, with extremely HQ textures and lighting, redesigned levels (they took out the secret levels and dev photos, sadly) and a fully voiced plot! I only played this version but it seems a fantastic homage for fans of the original
Can you give examples of such cases? Really important once?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d’%C3%A9tat
Kind of the reason Iran is so terrible now
(And tons of other countries have similar stories)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIA_controversies
Fun fact: MKUltra produced the Unabomber
CIA funded Al qaeda.
They killed MLK Jr. Not sure if they’ve fully admitted it yet.
I think I would’ve heard about that lol
Who is “they”?
J Edgar Hoover’s FBI afair
The federal government, perhaps led by COINTELPRO (FBI).
The government brought crack into the inner cities to disrupt black neighborhoods
vaguely waves around pointing at everything.
There are so many, but one of the biggest is Project MK Ultra. They literally dosed people with LSD (unknowingly to the patient) and various other terrifying methods to try to figure out different ways of interrogation through human experimentation.
Project MKUltra began in 1953 and was halted in 1972.[3][4] MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate its subjects’ mental states and brain functions, such as the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals without the subjects’ consent. Additionally, other methods beyond chemical compounds were used, including electroshocks,[5] hypnosis,[6][7] sensory deprivation, isolation, verbal and sexual abuse, and other forms of torture.[8][9]
And as best I understand it, didn’t even use proper scientific method to even make their study replicate to prove what they were doing worked to any extent.
Which isn’t the worst part at all, but just shoves it waaaaaaaay further down the torture side and removes any scientific use at all.
They learned from the Nazis that way.
I think about the guy who killed himself after the CIA, his employer, dosed him with LSD without him knowing pretty often.
And the Japanese
Yep! Though Project MK Ultra was founded on Nazi experiments specifically:
During the early 1940s, Nazi scientists working in the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Dachau during World War II conducted interrogation experiments on human subjects. Substances such as barbiturates, morphine derivatives, and hallucinogens such as mescaline were employed in experiments conducted on Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Jewish, and other prisoners of war.[22] These experiments aimed to develop a truth serum which would, in the words of one laboratory assistant to Dachau scientist Kurt Plötner, “eliminate the will of the person examined.”[22] American historian Stephen Kinzer said that the CIA project was a continuation of these earlier Nazi experiments, as evidenced by MKUltra’s use of mescaline on unwitting subjects, replicating previous Nazi experiments conducted at Dachau.[23] Numerous Nazi scientists would be employed by the United States government after the war as part of Operation Paperclip, with some figures such as Kurt Blome becoming involved in MKUltra.[24]
Oh I thought you were referring to the whole “not reproducible and not following basic scientific method” part
I am. Neither the CIA nor the Nazis followed the basic scientific method and the results are not reproducible. They were really just torturing people and using their goal of developing a “truth serum” as justification.
Japan had a similar unit that was torturing people under “scientific advancement”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
A study on black men with syphilis, while hiding that fact and leaving them untreated.
And then the main conspiracy nuts are going “Nyeh!”, because it was about overthrowing a democratically elected government, and not rolling out communism (read: Obamacare).
Their constitution is a divine document, dictated by the elder gods which cannot be altered in any way (including the amendments, oddly enough) and which can solve any problem and contains every truth.
Actually that’s incorrect in terms of the “cannot be altered”. The constitution can be altered via a ratification by 38 / 50 states or 2/3rds of congress. With a supermajority being required, this would mean that the proposed amendment would have to be bipartisan… Which means it’s almost impossible to do, especially nowadays… Unless the country were to take a major shift left or right (or more likely the elections become rigged)
Last time this happened though was in 1992
thank goodness because if it was too easy, the “two terms” would have been amended already by the Party of Trump
No wonder he wants to “federalize elections.” Just look what’s been happening in Nicaragua since 2013 which has finally come to a head (although Ortega’s judges just straight up nullified the term limit…
On paper the USA SCOTUS cannot do this since they can only interpret …but they can take away teeth to enforce which they have done before… they just can’t straight up say “nah that’ part of the constitution is nullified.” Like what happened in Nicaragua in 2013
I mean, they’ve already reinterpreted parts of the Constitution to not mean exactly what it says. They can wordsmith their way around the 22nd amendment if enough of them find politically advantageous. I’m sure Alito has a draft ruling already ready to go.
And the founding fathers were divinely inspired geniuses who thought of every possible contingency, despite being a bunch of 20 year old rich kids.
Applying bible rules to the Constitution.
And can be ignored by the very same government whenever it chooses to do so.
American civil religion is a sociological theory that a nonsectarian civil religion exists within the United States with sacred symbols drawn from the national history of the United States. Scholars have portrayed it as a common set of values that foster social and cultural integration. The ritualistic elements of ceremonial deism found in American ceremonies and presidential invocations of God can be seen as expressions of the American civil religion.
I’ve always thought of this as being very bizarre and I don’t know if something similar has ever emerged in another country so far.
The US has birthed lots of very weird ideas.
The Epstein Files will be released in 2126 to ensure that all guilty parties cannot face justice.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
Yeah. That’s the weird thing.
Press releases before things are declassified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-e46xdcUo
The declassified documents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCT80HJWQ2A
A huge amount of the population is truck-sexual.
25 years ago, I could see how they had a kind of rugged romantic working appeal back when trucks were four wheels, chassis, big engine, and two seats. They don’t seem to make those any more, I only seem to see the giant luxury wanker variety.
thanks for the explanation!
i didn’t quite get it the first time i saw the popularity.
