Meme - "I disagree, the hateful laugh react is one of the worst things you can do to somebody. You are not only insulting them but also not taking them seriously, thus undermining their whole being."
Someone: *laugh*
"Thanks for solidifying his point"
Someone else: *3 laughs*
Tanner Watkins' Alleged "Facebook Laugh React" Murder - "Tanner Watkins' Alleged "Facebook Laugh React" Murder refers to 21-year-old Sikeston, Missouri resident Tanner Watkins allegedly shooting and killing 18-year-old Isiah Fitzgerald in April 2023, purportedly because Fitzgerald laugh-reacted to his Facebook photo, which was a selfie of Watkins and his girlfriend Alissa Musgrove"
Man acquitted of all charges in Sikeston Rotary Park shooting - "Tanner Watkins, 20, was acquitted on Wednesday, December 13 of all charges against him related to the April 25 shooting at Rotary Park in Sikeston... "As Tanner was leaving the park after having been shot at by the Morgan brothers, he realized that his brother’s car was not moving and was still being shot at by the Morgan brothers. It was only at this point that Tanner stopped his vehicle, stood in the open park drawing the fire off his brother’s car and onto himself, and then returned fire (with a gun that was always in his vehicle) to save his brother’s life and the life of his brother’s passenger. The actions of Tanner Watkins that day to save his brother’s life were selfless and heroic, not criminal” “In addition, the evidence presented at trial failed to prove that Tanner actually shot either of the victims,” Oliver said. “It appeared from the evidence presented at trial that the victims were in fact inadvertently shot by the Morgan brothers as they wildly sprayed the park with bullets.” “This case and the actions of Tanner Watkins that day was a clear lawful use of self-defense and defense of another,” he continued. “Anyone put in Tanner’s unfortunate position would have done whatever was necessary to save the life of his brother and his friend.”"
Woman who lost memory had to fall for her boyfriend twice - "It has taken a lot more than a love letter or bunch of flowers to win Jessica Sharman’s heart. She lost her memory following seizures one day last March. Jessica had no idea who family and friends were — or boyfriend Rich Bishop. He has since had to slowly woo her all over again. Her memory has still not returned and Jessica, 20, has had to gradually get to know her parents and 25-year-old Rich from scratch... When her confidence started to return in September, she got a call center job. She says: “I was starting to leave the house more. People I’d known for years would approach me and start chatting. It was stressful admitting I had no idea who they were. It’s hard to explain losing 19 years’ experiences — and doctors say I may never get these back. I’ve had to relearn everything about those close to me — and doctors say there’s a 50 percent chance I could lose my memory all over again. But Rich was able to make me fall in love with him twice — so I know he could do it again.”"
Meme - "I visited a gun shop in Indiana once and had to use the bathroom; inside was a portrait of a naked man with a thick wooden board covering where his private part would be. Curiosity got the best of me and I tried to lift the board. It let off an air horn throughout the whole store"
Meme - Roshan Patel: "just got this resume ???
VO2 Max: 52 ml/kg/min, T-Level 900 ng/dL: Sperm COunt: 800 million"
Amish men ‘shunned’ after nationwide emergency alert outs them for having phones - "Members of the Amish community have been “shunned” by their church after the recent test of an emergency alert system outed them as having procured forbidden mobile phones."
Meme - "Aktion
-EWOCLEM-
Gummi. FUSSMATTE (Welcome mat)"
Meme - "Being a amber heard supporter is harder than being in the military"
CCU football coach responds to controversial Hawaii trip photo - "Coastal Carolina University's head football coach is responding after the team deleted a tweet showing him posing shirtless with the school's dance team in Hawaii... Coach Tim Beck is standing on the beach with Chauncey the Mascot and the dancers, all in teal bathing suits."
Reviewed Work: Foundations of Economic Analysis Paul Anthony Samuelson Review by: Kenneth May - "Paul Samuelson deservedly enjoys a high reputation among economists. Foundations of Economic Analysis reflects its author's competence in both economics and mathematics, and underlines the fact that a thorough training in the latter is prerequisite to dealing effectively with the former. The book is an essential for the serious student of contemporary economic theory. Whether or not contemporary economic theory has much to offer the non-specialist is another question, of course, and there is much in Samuelson's book to support a negative answer. In spite of its rather broad title, the book is concerned almost exclusively with formal mathematical structure, and, moreover, primarily with the formal foundations of only a limited sector of economics- mar- ginal statics and comparative statics. The late Leo Rogin once remarked that this type of theory reminded one of a painstaking scientific description of a unicorn, except that a unicorn is more like a horse than marginal theory is like the real world... By assuming that the old and new situations are both optimum equilibria, i.e., situations determined by a maximization (e.g., of profits) or a minimization (e.g., of cost), one can deduce theorems about the nature of the changes, provided these are not too large. This last limitation suggests the facetious definition of comparative statics as the study of what happens when nothing of importance happens... the Foundations contains an implicit basic critique of orthodox theory which is as significant as its contributions in the field of unification and exposition. The work as a whole seems to strongly support the thesis that orthodox theory is by and large little more than a ritual with more emotional and political than scientific content, a ritual in worship of an undefined entity- free enterprise. There is even an explicit hint of this idea in the following quotation from the chapter on welfare economics: "Perhaps the bourgeois penchant for laissez-faire is the only case on record where a substantial number of individuals have made idols of partial derivatives, i.e., imputed marginal productivities""
Delts Don’t Lie - "In 1925, artist Bryson Burroughs analyzed Michelangelo’s draft drawings for the Sibyl and noted that the artist used a male model in depictions of her mostly unclothed body. On one side of the paper is a male figure with a hyper-muscular backside, the sort that might be expected in a portrayal of Hercules. But there’s empty space where the figure’s hair should be, as “nothing would have been gained by drawing the hair of this model in a study which was to serve for a female figure.” The reverse of the same sheet shows a pair of female legs. The final fresco is a sort of male-female chimera, something that Burroughs calls “beyond sex—beyond mankind.” While The Libyan Sibyl is a popular example of this phenomenon, Michelangelo built a minor reputation for using male models to depict women in a manner that art historian Jill Burke has likened to “men with breasts.” In his Doni Tondo, the Virgin Mary’s biceps bulge as she lifts baby Jesus into the air, and the breasts on the sculpture Night look like a misshapen afterthought. It would have been scandalous for many women in Renaissance Italy to pose nude, but many scholars argue that these mores fail to offer sufficient explanation for the ongoing androgyny in Michelangelo’s oeuvre. Raphael and contemporaneous masters similarly used male models as the basis for many female figures, yet, as Raphael’s St. Catherine of Alexandria demonstrates, the artist nevertheless drew a classically feminine portrayal (compare Raphael’s work to Michelangelo’s depiction of the saint). Pockets of Michelangelo’s artwork show that not all of his women possessed overt male qualities. He drew a female nude in preparation for his painting of the Entombment, and one need look no further than his sculpture of the Pietà to be persuaded that he could depict a woman with feminine attributes very convincingly. Instead of being for the sake of propriety or tradition, Michelangelo likely used male models and created masculine depictions intentionally... the next question is why? Historian Yael Even explores this question with Renaissance-era patriarchy in mind. First, she considers the possibility that Michelangelo preferred male bodies over female ones because he found them more beautiful. While some scholars suggest this could be a reflection of the artist’s sexuality, it could also be a reflection of the time—women were commonly considered physiologically inferior to the “perfect” male form. The preference could also be because a lot of Michelangelo’s work was created for a completely-male audience. The Libyan Sibyl, for example, was created for the Sistine Chapel, a site of papal activity. Even also considers the possibility that Michelangelo inherently associated masculinity with power... The use of masculinity to connote power goes further back in art history than the Renaissance. Athena offers an example from the ancient world. The Goddess of war and wisdom is seldom depicted in the same sensuous style as her sister Aphrodite, the Goddess of love and fertility... A second (not mutually exclusive) possibility for Michelangelo’s practice was the growing popularity of androgynous depictions in circles of Renaissance Italy. After all, this was the era when humanist Mario Equicola wrote that, “the effeminate male and the manly female are graceful in almost every aspect.” Just as Michelangelo gave some of his women bulging muscles, other artists gave men younger, more effeminate faces and hips... Art historian Maya Corry argues that androgyny’s popularity in some circles was in part due to the era’s obsession with harmony between disparate elements, such as the balance of the four humors in the body or the balance of a figure’s body weight in the contrapposto pose. In addition, androgynous figures bear a more religious, devotional undertone. Angels are unsexed in Christian thought"
Bizarrely, there was some trans ideology injected into the article after publication. Sadly, I can't find the original
Phone Numbers Were Never Meant as ID. Now We’re All At Risk | WIRED - "The use of phone numbers as both lock and key has led to the rise, in recent years, of so-called SIM swapping attacks, in which an attacker steals your phone number. When you add two-factor authentication to an account and receive your codes through SMS texts, they go to the attacker instead, along with any calls and texts intended for the victim. Sometimes attackers even use inside sources at carriers who will transfer numbers for them. "The issue being exposed with SIM swaps is that if you control the phone number you can take over the authenticator... Numerous undertakings have explored these problems, but past projects have faced inertia in working to implement changes. Again, look to credit cards; the international community used chip and pin for decades before the US finally transitioned over in 2015. And the US still didn't adopt PINs, opting for less secure signatures instead. Substantive change likely won't come unless the government mandates it."
Meme - "IF LUCIFER WAS ABLE TO INCITE A REBELLION IN HEAVEN THAT MEANS JEALOUSY, ENVY, DECEPTION AND VIOLENCE CAN EXIST THERE, DESPITE THE PROMISE OF A PERFECT PARADISE."
CTV Question Period on X - "How should Canada prepare for another potential Trump presidency? @Scaramucci says Trump “will be an antagonist to your leadership” in part because “he’s very jealous of Prime Minister Trudeau. He’s younger and way better looking than the President.” #cdnpoli"
Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 on X - "Rebel News just spent a week scrumming oligarchs at the World Economic Forum. CTV is gossiping with a C-list celebrity who last saw Trump in 2017. It makes me laugh when they say we’re not real journalists."
Meme - Joe Wettlaufer: "THATS IT!! I will never help anyone again......EVER! I'm too kindhearted, or I'm too naive.... Yesterday it was so cold out that I took a man into our home, out of the kindness of my heart. I felt so sorry for him, poor thing was standing stiff and frozen out in the cold, but this morning he had just vanished. Not a word...not even a goodbye or a thank you for sheltering him. The last straw?!?! When I realized he had peed all over the floor! That's the “thank you” I get for being good to people?!?!?! Now I'm going to warn my friends to watch out for this man! He is heavy-set, wearing nothing but a scarf, he has a carrot-like nose, two black eyes, and his arms are stick skinny. Don't bring him into your house! What a mess he made on the floor.
Update: apparently he goes by the name of Frosty and has been spotted in numerous neighborhoods. Again, DON'T bring him inside no matter how cold he looks!"
What a monster! This is what's wrong with the world - no one wants to help anyone else! /s
Meme - "When people ask me why I'm always snacking on something
Cookie Monster: "Without my cookies, I'm just a monster.""
Meme - tia @dontfacetimeme: "my grandma was in the hospital but children weren't allowed to visit so my brother sat me on his shoulders with a long coat & we walked by security liked this. The nigga laughed n did not stop us"
Meme - "Bert was unimpressed that Ernie's "big surprise" was a run-of-the-mill knob job, but all of that changed when Ernie quickly pulled a tarantula hawk out of a specimen jar in his back pocket and pressed it against Bert's throbbing gans. The multiple stings drove all conscious thought from his mind and submerged him into a white- hot sea of agony. There was no Ernie, no house, nothing but pure, unadulturated pain and screams. When it finally subsided, Bert found himself covered in ropey strands of semen. His balls ached, not from the venom, but from blowing his load like a geyser at least a dozen times while he was out."
Meme - @Woccwontmiss: "This is still the craziest interaction on Twitter"
"I look so chinky and ugly with no lashes"
"Omg Girl Same I Look So Niggery and Ugly Without Mine"
Damn anti-blackness!
Meme - "Danby 36
If you have Asian fever, I'm perfect for you. If you don't, you will have it by our first date.
-NYC M&A attorney"
Meme - "THiS is soME GAY SHIT HIGHT HERE."
Video | Facebook - ""𝐔𝐩𝐭𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐤" - 𝐊𝐲𝐨𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐇𝐒 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐝 - 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑"
Meme - "When you try to make Halloween Eyeball Cookies, but end up with a pile of titties!"
I decided to rent with an Indian family and I now regret it. : SingaporeRaw - "1. The inconsiderate attitude I can’t seem to do my laundry peacefully without it smelling like they’re cooking the next day. It’s seeps into every fibre of your clothes and you have no choice but to rewash everything, everytime. Even after multiple conversations, it’s always “that’s how our food smells like”. I’m not asking you NOT to cook, but just be considerate given I have one day in a week to wash my clothes!
They even wake up at 5.30am and use a blender. A fkn blender and pressure cooker which lets out a PSSSH sound every 30 seconds. There are days I’m awaken to spices getting fried entering my room.
2. Care for the house Since I’m renting a room, i also have to use the communal spaces. They leave their dirty dishes for hours, they don’t use the range hood and there are ants in all corners of the house. If I was the landlord, the state I’m taking this house back is going to be a write off.
I don’t know if what I’m experiencing is normal but they aren’t exactly uneducated or poor. They are both white collar professionals with big companies. How tf do they treat and live like this?!"
"I once asked an expat Indian about what he thought about landlords who asked for more rent from Indian tenants He completely understood it was because Indians love to cook and their cooking smells strongly He had no problems with paying more for the privilege of cooking his cuisine. I thought that was an extremely reasonable take."
"Sg Indian here. The main issue is the frying of spices in oil. Especially cumin. That thing is demonic. Not every household does this. There's healthier Indian food that doesn't produce that strong smell. The style of cooking matters as well. If the person is doing a lot of frying and burning spices then it's going to be a nightmare. If you look at other culture cuisine, there's usually a few items that can have an overwhelming smell. Things like shrimp paste and fish sauce get similar complaints. Ultimately, it's about being considerate and hygienic. Use proper ventilation, use the cooking hood, be aware of what spices are more pungent, clear away the oil, clean the floors/walls etc.. I know the struggle cause my dad LOVES that kind of cooking. I'm talking using up a bunch of oil that sticks to the floor. Fortunately I get him to cook only once a week so that I can clean and maintain my house properly. My mom on the hand, is extremely considerate and cleans up immediately after cooking. So you barely notice a thing. All this is to say that it depends. I have relatives who are extremely hygienic and you won't smell a thing in their homes, but there are also families that are unhygienic. It's up to you if you want to vet and bring up the cooking/smell topic, or whether it's better to just avoid it altogether and stick to people of a similar culture. Either way, all these are things that will help you make a better choice next time."
"There's a reason stereotypes exists"
"I never believed in stereotypes until I experienced them ."
"Theres a reason the open minded and liberal types are young... the older and more experienced they get, the more likely they come across shit like this haha."
"I was also young and naive once, I thought that the old folks were just being racist and xenophobic by saying bad things about having motherland indians as colleagues. But holy shit after working with them for years (tech sector lol), I've also become racist and xenophobic against the motherland...
Agree to everything, but never get it done in the end
zero work quality. Requirements says need 5 things, only 2 gets implemented. The rest need to be at testing state then point out "eh why not in"
send meeting invitation to one fella, suddenly the whole village is invited, and none of these extra fellas have any input
work hours from 11am till 4pm India time. Except they are still out for lunch at 12 till like 2, and 3pm still go tea break
send an email asking for 2 things, only respond to the first thing in the email
hiring from own village, like literally flying people in from the motherland instead of hiring locally (the company I was in actually got in trouble with MOM twice for this while I was working there)
sexist, which sucks when your manager is from there. And caste-ist also, have seen them pick on local Indians cause local Indians tend to be decended from South India and all these clowns are North Indians
These are the main grievences lah. As people, they are nice people, friendly and good to have drinks with. But holy shit working with them is a nightmare."
"Worst people to work with. They can talk till cows come home, and at the end of the day, they don't know what they are supposed to do as the SME. I'm in tech sector."
"The absolute worst scenario is if you got PRC cooking mala and then Indian cooking back to back. Landlord would kiss their kitchen goodbye"
"It’s not racist when people don’t want to rent to Indians. My father is a property agent and he said once you rent to an Indian you can’t rent to other races in the future. The smell sticks to the walls and you can’t get rid of it. Indians are only like 10% of the population, it’s hard to find another Indian tenant once previous one moves out, and you end up losing thousands in rental income."
"Im Singaporean indian ,i also dont want to rent out to indians .Come to sg ,think hell of themselves.I rented out to 2 different couples, always showing bad attitude ."
Damn racism!
Desi cooking - How to deal with post-cooking odor in the air? : ABCDesis - "I am hoping to take a break from dating threads to seek advice for a more mundane problem. I love cooking desi food frequently (every other day usually). My apartment smells fantastic while cooking, but a few hours after that, the lingering masala smell is not very pleasant. It's not too bad in the summer/fall when I can open the windows and air the condo out, but not so great in the winter. What are a few cheap ways to get rid of the smell? I have tried the following -
Febreze - The mix of masala and febreze was even grosser
Activated Charcoal bags all around the condo to absorb odor - Not very effective
Fans everywhere - Moderately effective, but it takes forever for my condo to smell fresh
Incense - Moderately effective, but the smell of burning incense is pretty strong too
What are your/your parents' magic tricks to deal with this?"
"Place a glass bowl of vinegar close to your cooktop."
Ways to reduce the smell of cooking in house? : IndianFood
Sathi AD NR Balasingam's answer to How do I eliminate the Indian food odour at home? - Quora - "There are many suggestions for eliminating or reducing curry odour in Western style homes. The suggestions centre around the use of lemon peels, cinnamon, vanilla and more importantly vinegar ."
India’s Food-Security Problem Is Also the World’s - WSJ - "At present, the government sets price floors for two dozen crops, guarantees purchases of certain agricultural products, and provides subsidies to farmers for fertilizers, electricity and transportation. All that might seem positive for food security, but on net it probably hampers investment and food supply growth. Price floors mean that supply might sometimes exceed final buyers’ willingness to pay during slow times, leading to wastage. And restrictions on exports artificially depress domestic prices when global demand is hot. The government’s own investigations have found that Agriculture Produce Marketing Committee laws, which regulate the trade of farmers’ produce by providing licenses to buyers, commission agents and private markets, lead to cartelization and reduced competition... India’s creaky agriculture infrastructure also needs work. According to the U.S. International Trade Administration, poor infrastructure in India is responsible for post-harvest losses of up to 40% for certain products. Unfortunately, reforming the food-pricing system is politically perilous. Previous attempts to change domestic agricultural marketing regulations have been met with stiff resistance from farmers and political opponents, and coming general elections make any immediate relief unlikely."
Of course, the left will propose more regulation, and support Indian farmers trying to maintain protectionism, all while trying to ruin Western farmers
Meme - "This is some gay shit *rainbow coloured turd*"
Meme - "Invented everything" *pyramids with jets, and Egyptian garb*
"Whitey stole it!" *sailing ships*
*mud huts* "Cant invent again"
Meme - "With heartfelt sympathy
I'm sorry for your loss
Sending you warm thoughts and wishes right now for whatever will help you through this difficult journey
my last day will be September 20th"
Meme - "Lemme tell you a story. My Elf rogue once got a ring of anti-magic as a reward. It projected an anti-magic field so small it was only useful for picking magical locks. With my remaining gold, I bought 5 tons of cannonballs. Then I asked our party mage to shrink them. I treated the cannonballs as if they were bullets for my flintlock rifle. Here’s the kicker - I fitted the anti-magic ring at the end of my rifle barrel. Guess who now has a Ship Cannon as a portable weapon.
The DM:"
Meme - Square: "OH NO! THE HOLE Is A CIRCLE BUT I AM A SQUARE. HOW WILL I EVER FIT IN??"
Circle: "You COULD JusT GO IN SIDEWAYS."
Square: "YOU COULD JUST SHUT UP AND LET ME BE SPECIAL."