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@Pantangelini @furgar That article you linked, boy, what bunch of shit.

Gee, I wonder why some the unvaxxed might have some animosity towards the vaxxed. Might not be because of shit like this, right? Even the author admits that stats show that the vaxxed are more likely to have animosity towards the vaxx than the other way around.

Considering what the vaxxed wanted for the unvaxxed, the unvaxxed are showing quite a lot of restraint.

Sometimes you don't dodge the bullet, but rather it misses you.

https://www.dw.com/en/japans-kishida-vows-to-raise-birthrate/a-64484926

>Despite ​Japan's attempts in recent years to encourage people to have more children — including promises of financial bonuses and better benefits — birthrates in the country have been in continuous decline for 14 years.

It's almost like coaxing and bribing policies don't bring up birth rates. Let's just try to do it harder! That will surely work! And when the fertility rate goes up by .1, we will cheer and celebrate.

@Tfmonkey Some thoughts I had with your theory on the natural gas price being manipulated. I think there is a connection with that and the government floating a ban on gas stoves. That might just be a tell that they are indeed manipulating the market, and they are looking for ways to prevent more use of gas. Sure, there was no ban yet, but they are hoping to scare people from even buying a gas stove or to get rid of their existing one.

Not saying this is going to help, but it's the government.

@furgar This happened to me. Had my wallet in my back pocket, not knowing it was causing imbalances. I only noticed the imbalances once it started to hurt like hell when I was doing heavy deadlifts. The physical therapist asked me if I put my wallet in my back pocket, and sure enough, that was the ticket. Caused my sciatic nerve to be pinched, which hurt more than it actually caused real damage.

Now I can lift even heavier without those problems, though try to stretch more often beforehand.

@Tfmonkey @basedbagel @Pain66

@Marko >vaccinated person having a heart attack

Funny of him to mention that, considering how the clot shot causes heart attacks. Might be the only funny thing, because of how unfunny Jimmy Kimmel is.

For anyone that claims, "The Covid-19 vaccines are rigorously monitored for safety," fuck off. Case and point:

https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/cdc-left-serious-adverse-events-off-post-vaccination-surveys-despite-knowledge-of-possible-link-documents-show_4988809.html

@Ottovonshitpost @penguin @Constantine2nd @grey you are probably right. Apparently, most glory holes are not going to have a woman on either side. So this story is most likely fake.

@milk This is only baffling to anyone who does not understand inflation. Yet again, your ability to understand inflation is an intelligence test.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/one-million-france-protest-pension-reform

It is not exactly shocking that France is on the verge of having riots, as it is part and parcel to modern French culture. Apparently, changing the pension retirement age by 2 years is enough of a reason to have uproar.

If this plan is pushing people over the line, how much worse would things be with actual cuts to entitlements/welfare?

This is the perfect example of why we are going to hit the wall at full speed instead of fixing the problems with government spending.

@LouisConde 1.3? Still not enough. Needs to get to at least 2.1 to get to replacement rate. Nothing too crazy, just enough to not be dying off slowly.

@furgar This is not me being against better city planning with more walkability and less car dependence, but do not assume that having such a city will guarantee that the other problems such as crime will somehow vanish. You either need to have the pre-existing conditions where crime would not be a problem in the first place, or you need to have a means to deter the criminality. City design alone will not deal with this issue.

@furgar One big gripe I have with the recent influx for the shilling towards the "mixed-use walkable city" advocates is their assertion that low crime is a guaranteed when you implement their city planning ideas. But they never consider that having a high trust society is a necessary first step. Such a society is far more easily achieved when you have a common ethnic/cultural background. In the US, we certainly have no such society.

@TheVeryLutheranHousewife >Open your eyes and look around and notice what needs to be done.

This is assuming men operate the same as women. No, we are not going to "see what needs to be done" or "anticipate your needs" to what a woman actually wants because we have a different outlook due to our wiring.

Would I as a man tell my wife, "Why can't you just pick up the air conditioner and move it to the window?" That would be me assuming she would have the means to do that, which would be wrong.

@TheVeryLutheranHousewife >They can't hear it when you are asking for it explicitly.

I have some doubt on my end that they are truly being explicit, as so many women communicate far less straightforwardly than men do. Her "explicit" is likely, "There are just so many dishes that keep piling up!" Rather than, "Could you please take care of the dishes now?"

Men respond far better to straightforward communication than hinting. I would want to observe the conservations to confirm my theory.

@deprecated_ii The point I am trying to make is that you cannot make a straight line comparison of "150 days of work" versus our work days. I don't think most people arguing how "peasants had it better" would be willing to trade their current life for that of a medieval peasant. They would soon find out that the meme is not quite telling the whole story.