Buffalox
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- Comment on If a person gets busted for let's say a 3rd DWI or small bag of weed or something minor, and escapes the county jail. Will they launch a manhunt after you like they do with killers and such? 3 days ago:
I bet it’s also exciting for the cops to engage in.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Things work different for different people, you can’t get a universal answer to this question.
Your brother should pay attention to is he experiences any side effects, and hopefully he has a good doctor that pays attention if he has any questions.
The principle of GLP 1 is quite elegant IMO, but that’s the case for most medicine that works. Doesn’t mean there can’t be minor or even serious side effect.There is a danger of malnutrition if you overdo it, and malnutrition can lead to all sorts of conditions. But I really really hope he is being well informed by his doctor.
Best of luck to your brother. 👍
- Comment on How does the world view America now that the Dems are in control of congress? Or are they waiting for the DIC to be thrown out? 6 days ago:
The Affordable Care Act
Did not result in healthcare for all, and was based on a concept designed by Mitt Romney. It also makes so more people join the program, saving cost for the public budgets, so in a way it’s also a tax on the poor. Not helping the economic balance much.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
Helping the economy is also in the interest of wall street.
Wall Street reform to prevent a financial crisis happening.
Again is in everyones interest. That is in no way contrary to the interest of the 1% or Wall Street, despite their claims that any regulation is bad.
OK I never said they are equally bad, Republicans are clearly worse. What I’m saying is that Democrats as a party still work for Wall Street, and then throw some crumbs to the people, and protect rights of minorities and environment more.
So clearly the Democrats are better, but they are still very right wing by European standards. You could say just left of fascism.
If we take Germany as an example the AfD is as bad as the Republicans, And German traditional right wing parties are much like the Democrats. - Comment on How does the world view America now that the Dems are in control of congress? Or are they waiting for the DIC to be thrown out? 6 days ago:
Obama had both the house and senate when he became president, and he did exactly NOTHING with it.
- Comment on How does the world view America now that the Dems are in control of congress? Or are they waiting for the DIC to be thrown out? 6 days ago:
Biden changed almost none of all the shit Trump had done.
- Comment on How does the world view America now that the Dems are in control of congress? Or are they waiting for the DIC to be thrown out? 6 days ago:
In control like not touching the steering wheel much, they could if they would but they won’t.
Best thing is less extremism which is great, worst thing is nothing really changes. They are happy keeping the defunct democracy where they share power with the Republicans, and both sides work mainly for Wall Street and the 1%.
Luckily there are more DSA people among Democrats now, so some things may improve slightly. But they do not have the power to make real changes, at least not yet. - Comment on How does the world view America now that the Dems are in control of congress? Or are they waiting for the DIC to be thrown out? 6 days ago:
I won’t lie, there’s a sigh of relief for me personally.
Trump will be a lame duck now, so the messes he can make will be fewer.
But I’m not sure I trust the American people quite yet. They still elected Trump twice.
As a European, I also don’t think we can return to business as usual, because USA is still an unreliable partner.
Even a new relatively good president in the next presidential election will not change that.Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush Jr. 2 times, and now Trump 2 times, paints a pretty horrible picture of American politics.
And even Obama was a war criminal, even though he was better than average, and very liked in Europe. He was not the humanitarian he painted himself as in his speeches. He was still all about American exceptionalism.So I think we will have to wait about 12 years to know if USA is on a better path or not. Until then extreme caution is recommended.
- Comment on Why are entertainment figures jump on a chance to talk about a Free Palestine but not a Free Kurdistan? 4 weeks ago:
AFAIK the Kurds have been infamous for their tendency to stab each other in the back. It’s almost like the Kurds themselves don’t want to be part of a country called Kurdistan.
That however does not justify the oppression of Kurds, and that’s the part that is mostly protested against.
Also the Kurds don’t have it nowhere near as bad as the Palestinians. - Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
refuting an argument different from the one actually under discussion, while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction.[1] One who engages in this fallacy is said to be “attacking a straw man”.
More exactly in this context, arguing against a claim I never made.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 1 month ago:
The difference is that one has gender dysphoria, the other does not. So although the operation is the same, it is not gender affirming care, because gender affirming care is by definition for people with gender dysphoria.
- Comment on What if rogue Ai agents or other bad actors take over these 2? 1 month ago:
While banks here do use AWS, I seriously doubt they are used for the core bank business as in holding the actual account and transfer data.
- Comment on What if rogue Ai agents or other bad actors take over these 2? 1 month ago:
They are not as important as some people seem to think, it would be a very good thing if a massive amount of customers would move away from those services.
The disruption would only be very temporary. - Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 1 month ago:
That’s not dysphoric but an issue with the standards for being what you feel you are.
Living up to ideals is not the same as being a prisoner in a body of a different gender than what you identify as.
Having a penis and hating it to a point where you want it removed, is not the same as having a penis that you think is to small.
Those are VERY different issues.The issues may be valid, they are just not the same as gender dysphoria.
- Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 1 month ago:
That’s not gender affirming care. That’s just men practicing and enhancing their masculinity.
It may be founded in insecurities, but those would be treated by a psychologist if an actual treatment were to take place. - Comment on Is gender affirming care for cis people a thing? 1 month ago:
That’s like asking if you can have an arm treated for being broken when it’s not actually broken.
Or like having your penis treated to become a penis when it’s already a penis.What’s wrong with you?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t think you can homogenize Americans.
Yes you can, USA is a country, and the government is acting on behalf of the whole population.
That is not about individuals that may disagree on all sorts of things, but the country as a whole, and what their administration, government and lawmakers are doing. - Comment on if I rip a fart, will putting a fan facing out the window or facing in from the window clear the stink out faster of the room? 1 month ago:
Having the fan blow out will mostly repeatedly replace the air by the window, as the air sucked by the fan is taken from the immediate surroundings, and that air is standing mostly still.
If you let the fan blow into the room however, it will be pushed further into the room, helping to move the air in the room more, and increasing how much air is actually shifted out.
The problem with taking in the air it blows from the immediate vicinity still exist, but normally there will be some movement in outside air, so the that is sucked fr4om the immediate vicinity is replaced by the natural wind replacing it outside.So blowing in replaces way more air on average, the exception being if it works against an airflow in the room in opposite direction.
- Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am 2 months ago:
Another example of a society that has lost its mind, and has become psychopathic, because they see sociopathy as a form of freedom. When instead it oppresses the population where it should help.
A Psychopathic solution to a problem that is also caused by psychopathy.
To call it a weapons free zone is disgusting, when we all know it’s to prevent the homeless from sleeping there. - Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 2 months ago:
You are making a straw man argument.
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 2 months ago:
It’s off-putting because it’s stupid, and being stupid is nor edgy.
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 2 months ago:
IDK, I just think that movies where the actors are having sex that competes with porn movies is incredibly stupid and boring and doesn’t add anything to the movie. It’s like if we had similar scenes of the actors taking a poop. Like WTF are we seeing that for?
It’s not edgy, it’s not liberating, it’s just stupid and boring and honestly 99 times out of 100 off-putting.
IDK why the fuck they do it? One thing is if it’s a short clip, that an be OK, but in some movies these clips a freaking LONG, like yes we get it, they slept together, does the scene have to be sop long so I could go to the bathroom and not miss anything?Or am I weird, do people find it hot?
Usually in European movies it’s shorter and done more elegantly, American movies it’s becoming like hard core porn. - Comment on What should I do about my family? 2 months ago:
You may have heard this a thousand times, but if you are not a fit person, physical exercise can also strengthen your psyche.
I’m not suggesting this as the only thing you should do, but maybe in addition to better suggestions.
A regular run once a week together with some body building is amazing. - Comment on Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US? 2 months ago:
Thanks for the explanation.
- Comment on Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US? 2 months ago:
OK, that’s USA then, I don’t think you can do that legally here in Denmark.
- Comment on Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US? 2 months ago:
Buying a phone anonymously is easy, you can do that in every phone store.
It’s the sim card that’s the problem. if you pay for your service with VISA, it’s not anonymous.
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 2 months ago:
I would absolutely read the table of content, but I agree that price is insane.
- Comment on The meow technician on duty 2 months ago:
I had a hard time spotting what is mildly infuriating, until I saw the SSD is 128GB. And I must say I have to agree, that is way to small.
- Comment on $29 in San Francisco 2 months ago:
Well it looks cheap, so there is that. 😋
- Comment on Attorney general: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools 2 months ago:
USA is a religiously fascist nation, where protection of minorities is banned, but religious and fascist bigotry against minorities is promoted.
I know a lot of Americans aren’t like that, but that’s the way the American society seems to be turning.
- Comment on This drip coffee is now $5 dollars, up from $2.50 3 years ago 2 months ago:
Yes we have shrinkflation on coffee, we used to have 400g packages special roast that they claimed could be used to make as many cups of coffee as a 500g, but of course that’s bullshit, and it taste worse IMO.