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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Hm this mortuary guide looks interesting...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Mint is a good recommendation. I've used it for most of a decade because I just want my system to work.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (7 children)

wntd t rspnd prprly bt my vwl sbscrptn xprd. Ds nyn hv $5?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Right? Like someone is going to put a chair or bench in a public space like a park. Ha! Call it a "park bench" or something... and let people sit on it for free?? Ludicrous! It'll never happen! /s

That'll be £1.00 for reading this response. Please advise where to send the invoice.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nobody is both that bored and that motivated. Unless paid.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I mean it's $1 million in gold that's plenty illegal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you also blame people with anorexia for not eating enough?

The obese people I know all had childhood abuse, neglect, or CSA or something else going on. Eating is a maladaptive coping mechanism just like how some CSA survivors act out in various ways.

Other people have different life experiences than you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

If shame was the answer, nobody would still be obese. There is always an underlying cause, and it isn't because of a character flaw. Often people use food as a maladaptive way of coping with emotional abuse or neglect, SA, or other things.

It's another example of people being shallow, self-righteous assholes with a narrow perspective and no willingness to understand or empathize with fellow humans.

Sort of like how some people are anti-trans (usually anti MtF trans). Often these people are so pathetic they have to bash others to feel better about themselves. It's the same mentality as blaming poor people for not having more money. Or dismissing drug addicts as subhuman garbage rather than fucked up people with a disease.

This kind of shit makes them feel like it's not even okay to be seen because of this shit.

That's exactly their intent. They don't see fat people as equally human. They see them as people who aren't as good as they are and they would just as soon fat people "go away".

People born on third base thinking they hit a triple. As if having well adjusted parents and not having a mental disorder and not experiencing CSA and so on was somehow all their own doing and not just the luck of the draw.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Apparently not.

I got nothin

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I found this on skeptics stack exchange. Supposedly, it's a hoax/urban legend that goes back way before the internet. (The entire stack exchange page on this topic is fun to read, btw)

The quote originally came from Prof. George T.W. Patrick of University of Iowa, who translated an ancient stone tablet into modern English and published in "Popular Science Monthly", May 1913. The full text of the original can be found online at archive.org: https://archive.org/details/popularsciencemo82newy, page 493.

One writer found this same quote in a slightly earlier source dating to 1908.

Yet another writer noted that there was no Chaldea but ...

... there was a stele of a King Naram-Sin of Akkad which has been exhibited in the Istanbul Archaeological Museum since 1892. The inscription on this stele is fragmentary and has nothing to do with degeneration.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4923/was-this-quote-on-a-clay-tablet-about-unruly-kids-written-by-an-assyrian

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