In France, they gave 300k condoms. That's 30x the amount they gave here. And they used them all in France, how long the fuck did they think those 10k would last?
Seriously, with all the horrible tales of what happened in that island being discovered, how the absolute fuck is not the whole country of these monsters out for blood to murder these... these beasts just for the crimes that we already know they commited?
USA what the fuck is wrong with you?! With all of you? From the lowest guy to any general of the army that still has two balls? Or even one for that matter at this point. Are you really that indifferent to these atrocities?
It's getting really difficult to not hate all of you and wish for your extinction. Your society is made of monsters... Fuck.
I find this kind of paintings terrifying, more than modern horror stuff like zombies and crap.
The kind of reality these paintings portray is scary and disturbing in ways that really make you be afraid of them. And I love every single one of them.
I'm going to the gym, do some swimming for my back, then I'll take a sauna and a cold shower right after (love the hot-cold shock).
After that I'll get back home watch the winter olympics and forget (again) that today it's just a normal day that someone decided to turn into a pointless "holiday" to make me spend money.
I'm watching hockey, skeleton and jumps right now! HboMAX allows for multiview on the single screen so you can follow several sports together (with commentary on a single sport).
I'm also jumping on and off to curling, that has been a real surprise for me.
The italian couple that played during the mixed doubles (they got bronze in the end) made me start following it. I knew the sport but I never found a reason or a moment to follow it. Now? Eh... I think I'm a fan!
I already knew ice hockey so I was already following the games at the olympics, but curling? Yeah, the biggest surprise.
However, I think this year, the winter olympics are getting way more attention than other years. Dunno why, but looks like it's the first time that people are really interested on them! And that's great! It always looked like the winter sports were just second-class disciplines.
Can anyone explain to someone who's not from there why is it a bad thing to require photo ID?
In my country, you don't have to register to vote. You need to register your residence (aka: where you live) and that gives you access to all the services of the area and also let's you vote assigning you an electoral area where you cast your ballot.
Still, when you are voting, you need to go there with your ID (which has always a photo) and it's checked before voting. Why in the US that's a problem so big? Why are they fearing this could be used to manipulate the elections?
You don't understand. They are investigating this because of the children!
They probably think children watching this are going to become sluts too soon and so they won't be innocent and pure anymore for when they try to rape them!
Which s funny, they said the counter-concert would be so big that nobody would watch El Super Tazon, yet looks to me that every single republican knows what happened in that show...
So unexpected! Who could have thought that making such an unique game would end like this?
I mean, this is a shooter where people choose a hero with an unique loadout and set of skills and battle with therr team against another team of these heroes.
We could call it... idk... Hero Shooter! I'm sure I haven't seen a game like this before!
Italy is right now third in the rank (second in medal numbers) and the mountains and cold winters are only partially true.
Spain shares the same climate, with arguably more mountains and land where the winters are really cold and they are lagging a lot in the rank, they sent something like 20 people or so to compete where Italy sent many more {something like 120 iirc).
Spain has also Sierra Nevada, which is higher and also offers snow.
I agree on the infrastructure, but that makes my statement true because it's then a question of investing.
Still, many of the sports don't even require a mountain or a cold winter (see ice hockey, all kinds of skating, curling...) and yet, Spain has way less people there than Italy.
So weird, right? Nobody would have expected that focusing on luxury EVs while the market was demanding AFFORDABLE EVs would have make you sink while the Chinese brands making those affordable EVs soar.
Why? Why did ignoring what the market was asking have consequences to my product?
Alpro had a dispute with their soy milk too in Italy.
In Italian, milk is "latte" (double t, important for the question).
They got said that they can't call the product "latte" because it is not milk as it doesn't come from an animal.
They created a new packaging with a huge writing saying: "Questo non è LATE" (with a single T). It could roughly be translated to English as "This is not MYLK" . They are still selling it because they are not selling milk.
Edit: apparently it's not just an Italian thing as they sell it in English as "not MLK"! Funny tho, I almost got the name right without knowing it!
A screaming child who had his iPad taken might come to your mind. Alpha Kids are reportedly not doing well in school and many are subject to the algorithms of today. They will have a front row seat to the future we are headed towards. ...
I wish they did live happy, but seeing the world and how is it going I have strong doubts.
But I'm no blaming the kids for this. I'm blaming the parent thinking that an iPad is a great distraction to keep the kid busy and the rest of the society that has voted consistently to put in charge assholes who openly made education worse every time they could.
And yes, I do think that stupid iPad is to blame even though I grew up with a gameboy. My gameboy had games, it played tetris, it played mario or pokemon. My gameboy didn't have tiktok or youtube. It's not the same thing.
I recently created a QQ account and made this single post in the Off-topic -> General board. To my surprise, I got banned a couple of hours later for "Spam." My post wasn’t commercial or anything; it was just a genuine discussion. ...
No. The commercial internet is becoming a walled garden. It's up to us to use the alternatives. If we keep using the commercial internet, we are not only entering the walled garden on ourselves, we are also putting the chains in our feet.
There are people who can't properly function without an llm. And it's not just a few, a good bunch of humans have decided to leave the reasoning skills to a chatbot so they don't have to do it.
Not critizicing you or anything, just pointing out that this is a common sight from entitled tourists, especially British, because the ones behaving like that think of Spain as their personal beach.
We hate them for a reason; going to another country thinking the people there should live to serve you as if you were at home and not them is a powerful driver to make people hate you.
Entitled tourists are like that. Not all are like that, but British in Spain are the worst offenders because they tend to act like this. They think Spain is their personal beach so locals are just a bother for them because they... you know... live there.
I'm so certain you will delete the id immediately after I send it that, after carefully considering it, I deemed it a waste of time: if you are deleting my ID immediately, the time spent on sending it is better used on something more useful, like taking a dump.
If not being able to afford a house in my country is making me not to have children, what makes you think I'd go to another country in which I can't afford a house either to have children there?
There's something I'd like to point out tho: it's not a "strong sense of justice". Justice, for us autistic people is an emotion. You feel despair, you feel love, you feel joy... we also feel justice, injustice, fairness...
Yeah, we have some unusual emotions, and justice is one of them.
As a result, any perceived injustice (even minor ones) can trigger strong emotional reactions such as anger, anxiety, or sadness.
I disagree with this, i know what's anger, what's anxiety... injustice feels different to those.
I could search later for more sources, but talking to other autistic folks, I noticed that many of us have a wide array of emotions that either work differently, or are not present in neurotypical brains.
The most prevalent has always been justice and the reason we concur on it being an emotion is because it can manifest physical symptoms the same way as any other emotion.
Sometimes tho, the diagnosis is not about getting "fixed". It's about getting answers for your life. I got my diagnosis when I was in my 30s. It changed the way I see myself and the way I react to the world, but not because I'm not "fixed"; it changed it because now I know there is a reason for things being this way and I know how I work.
Hace cuatro horas, para mi eran las siete y veinte o por ahi. No puedes decir que soy un mentiroso! A diferencia de muchos, yo no miento ni en mi apodo!
I did! I rarely speak in spanish when I'm on the internet (unless it's with known people with whom I can safely use gendered language because I know them), but when I do, I tend to use it because it's easier than having to ask what your preferred gender is. It also makes it easier to spot the people I don't want to talk with because they will quickly get offended because woke.
The "@" is sometimes used because it's made of an "o" and an "a" making it somewhat both at the same time, but it presents a very obvious problem: how do you say it? Because we call that symbol "arroba" and saying "encantadarroba" sounds weird AF. Just switch the vowel for an "e" and be done with it. In italian there's the "schwa": ə" that serves the same function, it's harder to type because it's not usually found on keyboards, but whatever, if being inclusive and pissing bigots takes so little effort, I'm gonna try and use it as much as possible, even if it's still something that takes some effort to apply at times because of the interiorized grammar that you have to unlearn.
Edit: forgot to add, bigots get angry about it because you are "desecrating the sacred language" or shit like that. But you know how it is, they are the biggest snowflakes ever.
Winter Olympics in crisis as athletes deplete entire stock of 10,000 free condoms ( www.independent.co.uk )
‘It is rule 62 of the Olympic Charter that we have to have a condoms story,’ says IOC spokesman Mark Adams
At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files ( www.nbcnews.com )
Me neither
What are you up to this Valentines Day?
Trump threatens to bypass Congress and order new voting laws ahead of midterms ( www.lemonde.fr )
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Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel ( www.pcgamer.com )
House Republicans call to investigate Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show over 'widespread twerking, grinding, pelvic thrusts' ( ew.com )
Ruining my life
Trump-Appointed Judge Rules ICE Violated Constitutional Rights of Minnesota Detainees — Drops Hammer in Strict Order ( www.mediaite.com )
Phoenix Police officer kills homeowner who disarmed home invasion suspect ( www.fox10phoenix.com )
Trump, 79, Sparks Health Concerns With Bizarre Slurring ( www.thedailybeast.com )
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Highguard Developer Makes Layoffs Affecting "Most of the Team", Two Weeks After Launch ( thisweekinvideogames.com )
You won’t always be in power, and one day, you will be held accountable for your role in this dark moment in American history. I guarantee it. - Rep. Delia Ramirez at DHS oversight hearing ( cdn.social.linux.pizza )
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Trump receives trophy as he’s named ‘Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal’ ( www.independent.co.uk )
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Even at the Winter Olympics, Europe is leading again. ( www.theguardian.com )
German auto sector loses nearly 50,000 jobs in a year, industry says ( dpa-international.com )
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Oatly loses long-running 'milk' battle with dairy lobby ( www.bbc.com )
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Do you have hope for Generation Alpha?
A screaming child who had his iPad taken might come to your mind. Alpha Kids are reportedly not doing well in school and many are subject to the algorithms of today. They will have a front row seat to the future we are headed towards. ...
The internet is quietly becoming a walled garden.
I recently created a QQ account and made this single post in the Off-topic -> General board. To my surprise, I got banned a couple of hours later for "Spam." My post wasn’t commercial or anything; it was just a genuine discussion. ...
Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) suddenly drops unprecedented air restrictions over El Paso, southern New Mexico ( elpasomatters.org )
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I'm fed up with Copilot, and I'm not sure it can be fixed ( www.pcworld.com )
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No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare ( www.eff.org )
Discord after leaking 70,000 government IDs last year
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‘Import young women’ to lift birth rate, South Korean mayor suggests ( www.ctvnews.ca )
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Measles is spreading across Florida. The state's updates lag more than a week ( www.wusf.org )
Measles is highly contagious, and immunization rates in some counties are below the 95% recommended for herd immunity. ...
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ChatGPT rolls out ads ( techcrunch.com )