Eight states have ID verification laws.

Oklahoma has tried several times to make viewing porn a felony.

Everyone laughing this off as impossible is not taking this seriously enough.

Med schools should accept more than 2% of applicants.

The problem is a lack of residencies, and there’s been lobbying to keep the number of residencies low, to keep doctor wages high.

The real issue is that mental health in the United States is an absolute fucking shitshow.

988 is a bandaid. It’s an attempt to pretend someone is doing anything. Really a front for 911.

Even when I had insurance, it was hundreds a month to see a therapist. Most therapists are also trained on CBT and CBT only because it’s a symptoms focused approach that gets you “well” enough to work. It doesn’t work for everything, it’s “evidence based” though in that it’s set up to be easy to measure. It’s an easy out, the McDonald’sification of therapy. Just work the program and everything will be okay.

There really are so few options for help.

Nuremberg was a failure anyway. They gave the Nazis the easiest fucking trials ever.

I’m afraid that the outcome will be the same here. That the ICE goons will live quiet lives after this. There will be no reckoning - that the desire to move on and forget all of this will override the desire to punish. That we will rn more “fair” to them than they are to the immigrants they round up.

Might help him please his wife enough that she doesn’t have to go after whatever shriveled up thing Elon has…

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Revelation 13:16-17

You’d think the crowd that avoided barcodes at grocery stores and had meltdowns over “microchips” supposedly in the COVID vaccine would be foaming over this administration.

They do pedo AI threads.

4chan has been mostly dead as a place of creativity for years. /b/ is mostly creepshots, AI generated porn, and a guy who has been spamming a picture inviting you to eat Andy Sixx’s shit for like 5 years now. /pol/ is basically Stormfront lite.

/lit/ and /mu/ were some of the best parts of 4chan but are shells of their former selves, some of the sfw boards sometimes have things of value but it’s time to move on.

There are different forms of slavery. The US was unique in that it was a system of race based chattel slavery, and really, the idea of “race” was invented alongside it.

Slavery in west Africa would often mean that the person would end up being integrated into the tribe over a long period of time (varies immensely group by group, but still the general trend). In the Middle East, Muslims were not allowed to hold other Muslims as slaves, so sometimes conversion could be a ticket out (there’s some funny complexities there).

Slavery in the US was a uniquely barbarous institution. It was industrialized, it treated people as resources. Perhaps an especially brutal Roman latifunda could compare in an individual’s experience, but even then, a freeman in Roman society would still be about equivalent to most every one else.

Slavery didn’t stop in the US after it ended. Tons of masters chose not to tell their slaves that the Emancipation Proclamation had freed them until sometimes decades after the fact. After the Civil War, the KKK ran a campaign to terrorize Black communities. Communities also immediately passed things like vagrancy laws, which started the system of slavery as punishment for a crime that we still have today.

There have been forces in the US attempting to minimize slavery since before the ink was even dry on the peace treaty. Please do not join them.

secretly infected Blacks with Syphilis

The Tuskegee experiment was horrible, but the researchers didn’t infect those men with syphilis. They “just” didn’t inform them that they were infected, treat them, or encourage them to seek treatment.

You don’t do sex rituals to summon the antichrist? Lame.

There’s a group of people who are (rightly) concerned that black folks have been omitted from history, and have overcorrected to claiming that basically all important historical figures ever were black. Another comment in this thread mentioned the Black Israelites, but there’s also the Nation of Islam (nothing Yakub made could be good of course).

Sorry, was trying to avoid the daily fail and this seemed to have the funniest title. It does seem like a weird mini sex cult.

“What if we combined the hellishness of the porn industry, with the hellishness of gig work?”

Once I did an Amazon mechanical Turk thing where they were paying $1 for pictures of feet. For a “study” of course. My feet were rejected 🙃

What a bonus! I paid like $40 each for my uranium and trinitite samples a few years back!

It’s one of the cheaper forms of protein. One of those frozen bags cost me $5 and I split it over two meals. The only cheaper option is chicken drumsticks or canned chicken and I’m sick of those.

Many people have extremely low literacy levels and have difficulties with media criticism. In the US, this is largely driven by the Right’s attack on education in response to Brown v Board of Ed - if black children get to go to school, they don’t want them to receive a good education. The higher echelons of the Right can afford to send their children to private schools anyway. Many schools in the US also spent the past decade not teaching phonics (using a “whole reading” model that was tested and proven to be ineffective in the 1970’s) and school English curriculums have deprioritized reading entire novels in favor of the passages that show up on standardized tests. Subjects like history and science have also gotten the shrift in favor of more time on math and reading in the decontextualized format they use on these tests.

We live in an era of violent anti intellectualism. It is trivially easy to make shit up, and the internet provides a constant stream of slop. This was bad before AI, AI has accelerated it. And with a distrust in institutions and the idea of an “expert” in general - people will not believe anyone that goes against their pet ideas. It makes them feel smarter, that they know something that the experts don’t. Those latte drinking elitists think they know things, but I know better! There’s the double edged sword of they “know” that you can’t believe everything online, but what that ends up doing is allowing them to pick and choose what they believe. You can provide a Wikipedia article demonstrating that what they are claiming is a 1000 year old Incan carving is a modern art project, but they’ll just claim Wikipedia isn’t a valid source - while uncritically believing “Amazing Facts Channel.”

It’s an attack on the idea of knowledge itself, the world of “alternative facts.” You can pick and choose what to believe - to live in a world of make believe where you are The Chosen One because you know all of these things that the “experts” are too dumb to see.

It kind of reminds me of my ex husband, when I tried to explain how to solve quadratic equations to him. “But what if you could just take the square root of the whole thing and pretend x is that? Isn’t all of math made up anyway?” He had deep insecurities because he had been raised to believe he was a genius, and couldn’t stand being wrong about anything. He’d be furious when I looked up basic facts he was incorrect about because he would constantly belittle my intelligence.

I don’t know if the problem is fixable. Maybe if the internet dies, maybe if we lose Facebook and AI and everything else in some sort of Carrington event and have to go back to books. I don’t know.

He is getting cucked by Elon Musk, if that makes you feel better.

Candace Owens has started denying the Holocaust and claims that Jews shot JFK - she left the Daily Wire . Alex Jones has been having Nick Fuentes on and saying all kinds of fucked up shit - teasing at blood libel and calling out big name conservative Jewish commentators like Ben Shapiro.

It’s actually a huge split in the alt right. There’s the ones that are pro-Israel because they’re killing Muslims/weird Christian eschatology reasons, and the ones that are pro-Palestine because they hate Jews more than Muslims. Actual antisemitism is on the rise, even if groups like the ADL have been trying to muddy the waters by pretending that criticism of the genocide is antisemitic.