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- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Those DNA kits work differently than what you might expect. When they say “you’re 20% German”, what they mean is that you’ve got 20% of the genetic markers they’ve identified in modern people who identify as German.
This might not seem like a big difference, but it is because genetics doesn’t respect political boundaries. Ancestry will not tell you that you’re 60% Texan because “Texas” isn’t a recognized biological origin. Even though people have been there as long as they’ve been in Mexico.
You also have to accept that 20th Century Germans who’ve participated in DNA testing is the absolute standard for what a “German” is.
Nonsense. The idea of “national DNA” is incoherent leftovers from race-theory.
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- Comment on This country (the USA) was founded by REVOLT 1 week ago:
The American war for independence is a pretty anemic “revolution”. Think about the material conditions of the average American before and after. Now compare that to revolutionary France, Haiti, or Russia.
It’s almost embarrassing to say your fighting for “freedom” when right next door, literal enslaved people were throwing Napoleon’s army into the sea with machetes.
- Comment on It would be so interesting if humans didn't have a gender assigned at birth and could choose who they want to be. 1 week ago:
That’s pretty much how it already works. It’s just that the pressure to make the “correct” choice is fucking crazy.
- Comment on according to sugar daddy’s net worth actually 1 week ago:
I don’t understand why people drag on sugar-babies like they’re the stupid ones in the situation.
- Comment on The reason 1 week ago:
I think he’s absorbed the lesson from Iraq&Afghanistan that airstrikes are safe.
- Comment on Name this Paper 1 week ago:
Safe, clean, and renewable. It’s the energy source of the future.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 2 weeks ago:
I can not be created, only confirmed.
- Comment on Kremlin’s “Bio-Drone” Pigeons Fail to Deliver—but Still Get Funded 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 3 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Kellogg ---> Epstein 3 weeks ago:
The reason circumcision is common in the US has more to do with people like RFK jr. than it does with people like Epstein.
- Comment on In Pulp Fiction Vincent made a big deal about a $5 milkshake, which is less than a crappy one from a fast food joint costs today. 3 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on News these days 3 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet 3 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Affluenza is really the biggest driver between thinking the barrio/ghetto/slums is an "unsafe wasteland" vs people who are just trying to exist and survive in the framework they are given. 3 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 3 weeks ago:
Because WWII is the only history.
- Comment on What are we being distracted from? 4 weeks ago:
What you’re being distracted from is the fact that rape and sexual assault, especially of children is normal and accepted in our society. You may be confused by all the hate and demonetization pedophiles get, but like all rape, the status of the perpetrator matters most.
Until 1971, married men were immune from charges of raping their wives. And several States protected them after that. For every 100 rapes reported to the police, only 18 charges will be filed ^1^. And of course their are incompetent pigs and timid prosecutors. But it’s also the public at large who won’t convict rapists. (because nobody believes women)
Epstein wasn’t hiding anything. And all those people around him knew what he was up to.
But forget about Epstein. What powerful men are snatching teenagers off the street today? Nobody cares.
The Epstein scandal is about embarrassing powerful men. Nobody gives a shit about raped little girls.
- Here is a reference to that figure, but for some reason, the referenced study isn’t on the DOJ’s website anymore.
- Comment on HP has laptop subscriptions now 4 weeks ago:
The fine print is worse. If you cancel, you owe a fee equal to the rental price for the remainder of the year.
- Comment on But bro please 4 weeks ago:
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?
- Comment on Little quick question: what do you think of advertising from a Marxist perspective? 4 weeks ago:
Advertising adds cost but no value. Advertising, along with profit are the largest capitalist inefficiencies.
The tragedy of a potential customer being ignorant of a product is something must learn to cope with…somehow.
- Comment on YSK About Resilience Targeting 4 weeks ago:
This is an article because it couldn’t fit on a motivational poster.
- Comment on Russia Launches First Brain-Chipped Bird Drones for Surveillance Over Cities 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on If you have to throw punches, make sure to punch upwards. 4 weeks ago:
Dave Chappelle is going to be big mad if he sees this.
- Comment on Sure, Jan 4 weeks ago:
Kid Rock is music for dudes who can only see their kids on the weekend, but don’t.
- Comment on Important Announcement 4 weeks ago:
Miss Rachel is not a radical activist, that’s Zionist propaganda. Portraying her that way, even as a joke, makes Mossad laugh.
- Comment on PSA 4 weeks ago:
The American war for Independence is a pretty sad example of revolution.
Think of the average American, how much did their material conditions change? Now compare to the French Revolution, Haitian Revolution, and Bolshevik revolution.
America by comparison, was just an “under new management”.
- Comment on Bread mattress: so my sleepy ass can partially eat it, as I'm in the lengthy process of waking up (possibly improving efficiency) 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why is it I feel a tiny bit of empathy for the Guthries but really don;t care at all because people get kidnapped/ransomed every day, what makes he so special besides her daughter? 4 weeks ago:
Because most people have a parasocial relationship with media personalities so it kinda feels like it’s happening to people you know.
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 5 weeks ago:
It’s not obvious to people who like evidence. What you describe is called suspicion.
Suspicion is a reason to start look for evidence, not a reason to stop.
Your opinion is that secret assassins killed a man in prison. And you aren’t interested or even curious to back that up with anything.
I’m not going to just buy “secret prison assassins” without any evidence that they even exist. Especially when ‘jailbird kills himself’ is reasonable and likely.
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 5 weeks ago:
What you should take away from this is not that suicide is difficult in prison, but rather that suicide is so common they have specific policies in place.
It makes 10000% perfect sense that Epstein would kill himself. He just got busted down to the justice system tier for mortal Americans and his life was over. People killing themselves in this situation is so common that it’s a trope in media.
The idea that some CIA-Mossad-Legion of Doom joint operation to assassinated him is the claim that’s short on evidence.
