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[–] [email protected] 38 points 19 hours ago (7 children)

Nah, the loss is on stupid Americans. No matter her position on these issues, it should have been a landslide victory for anyone but Trump.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_bolt_pistol

It's a captive bolt pistol, or cattle gun. It's what they use in slaughter houses to stun animals before killing them.

In commercial operations, rates of failure can be significant and multiple shots are often used. One study looking at cattle found that 12% were shot multiple times, and 12.5% were inadequately stunned. Other research has recorded higher error rates, such as a study looking at young kangaroos and finding that 38% failed to be stunned.

Ahhh, the meat industry. Isn't it beautiful...

[–] [email protected] 106 points 4 days ago (1 children)

For decades, the Justice Department has dispersed election monitors across the country to observe procedures in polling sites and at places where ballots are counted. That was a power granted to the federal government under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed discriminatory voting practices and sought to equalize voting access. After the U.S. Supreme Court gutted parts of the law years ago, the agency now must get permission from state and local jurisdictions to be present or get a court order.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Post’s withheld endorsement was seen as another example of tech executives and billionaires preparing for a potential second Trump administration. Meta’s (META+0.38%) Mark Zuckerberg, Apple’s Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, and Google (GOOGL+0.58%) CEO Sundar Pichai have all reportedly spoken with Trump in recent weeks or months.

Fucking pathetic. Groveling at the feet of Trump.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That should be regulated. That's insane light pollution.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Doesn't matter. If you take those numbers, let's say 4 out of 10 men are against abortion, so you put them in a pile.

Then you take 3 out of 10 women against abortion and you put them in the same pile.

So now you have a pile with 4 men and 3 women who are against abortion. Which would mean 4/7 people who are against abortion are men. Which is 57%. Not 79% at all.

Either way. What's the source. Should always source your statistics.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Where did she get that number? Where's the source?

Majorities of both men (61%) and women (64%) express support for legal abortion.

38% of men are against abortion, and 33% of women are against.

The numbers are pretty similar.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortion/

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute. That's a common misconception.

The portrayal of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute began in 591, when Pope Gregory I identified Mary Magdalene, who was introduced in Luke 8:2, with Mary of Bethany (Luke 10:39) and the unnamed "sinful woman" who anointed Jesus's feet in Luke 7:36–50.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene

But Jesus was most certainly very accepting of people from all walks of life. That was like his whole purpose. So the other comment about him rejecting people from the community is dead wrong. If anything, people reproached him because he was too accepting of the "sinners".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is incorrect. This is not a healed scar at all. That's a very fresh burn wound exposing the flesh underneath without the melanin layer.

You can literally see the wound is fresh and is peeling off. Not a healed scar.

Go look up healed burn scars on black skin. The images can be pretty gruesome, but the melanin mostly returns.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Biologists would never say that. At least not any biologist worth their salt.

There's no nurture or nature. It's both.

[–] [email protected] 160 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (26 children)

No, it's not at all. This is total nonsense. If anything, superheroes are usually persecuted by the government.

Spider-Man specifically is literally an outlaw.

And look at the X-Men. Half the time the gov wants to wipe mutants out.

Maybe you can say that about Captain America, but he was created to defeat the Nazis. So yeah, who the fuck is not on the government side in this situation?

And when the gov became corrupt, Captain America became an outlaw.

So whoever is upvoting this and whoever created this doesn't know much about Marvel or comics.

I mean I don't know that much, but I know the bare minimum to know this is nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You forgot the second part, which really justifies his fears. The whole quote:

"I've had a pest man around to sort the problem and he said there were still thousands of wasps around. He warned me not to go near there because they might smell the stings on me."

And apparently, the stings and the smell are like markers for other wasps to attack (according to an expert in the article).

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