All over the place in Europia. From train station to public parks, in multiple countries, it is somewhat common for a turnstile with a coin slot for a small charge. Doesn’t bother me if it allows for cleaner, safer facilities and keeps the riff raff out.

China executed mfers when companies sold tainted baby milk powder.

Damn, I did not know Ket could depress respiration like this! In fact Ket is used medicinally in place of opioids as it doesn’t depress respiration. But here is the TIL part: it should not be mixed with benzos or alcohol (or other depressants I would imagine). I don’t use bu I hope someone who does get to read this.

I desperately want to watch his 8 hour analysis of Starfield but am scared of the commitment.

Oh that’s perfectly fine then! Thanks for taking the load off my mind.

I have noticed this trend of whatever Israel is accusing others of perpetuating, it is usually heavily involved in itself.

History began on October 7th and not one day before.

Users not reading shit I can understand but it makes my blood boil when it your own bloody colleagues.

Bravo 👏🏼

People by their very definition are narrative. If one has ever taken an action that effected another, they are part of ‘the’ narrative.

Nah dude, fuck the other side too for real just to be clear. The truth is what it is and it stings.

A world class intelligence agency, which would normally know the contents and length of your bowel movement, totally shits the bed and lets an egregious attack play out, while their media assets chalk it up to a “failure of imagination” .

Where have I seen this one before?

Chill dog, this ain’t Israel. No one is buying that horseshit.

Only fascist trans murderers question the given narrative.

I haven’t had Netflix for a while and was recently shocked at just how awful the quality was. (this was with decent internet + “full HD” subscription)

This is what I’ll be telling myself as I rock and cry myself to sleep at night.

You are more than welcome! The chapter is called Unification of Humankind for anyone else interested, here is a little excerpt:

“Myths and fictions accustomed people, nearly from the moment of birth, to think in certain ways, to behave in accordance with certain standards, to want certain things, and to observe certain rules. They thereby created artificial instincts that enabled millions of strangers to cooperate effectively. This network of artificial instincts is called ‘culture’.”

It’s literally Sapiens, the first book. The chapter is called the Unification of Humankind, from the quick look I had online.

Sharing, and believing in, fictions is how distilled units of information are efficiently passed down generations and is one of the bedrocks of our development as a species. This is what allows us to have laws and corporations and agreeing to drive on particular side of the road.

Yuval Noah Harari covers this more eloquently in his book Sapiens. You would definitely dig the relevant chapters.