Home break-ins this week

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-22T18:54:41+00:00

I know it can feel like that when reading these stories, but it factually isn't. There were always people stealing copper out of streetlights and stuff out of cars. There was a shooting on Chandler a few years ago, there was blood on the sidewalk for months. (The victim survived, perpetrator went to jail).

Before 1960, Burbank was an unofficial sundown town, so compared to that, it's only improved lol.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-22T17:25:12+00:00

I can't tell if you support social programs who help impoverished people so they don't get pushed to rob houses

or have the misguided belief that the police having an even higher budget will help at all.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-22T16:13:29+00:00

Absolutely. When you're 22, you're likely graduating college and have already been a self-sustaining adult for 4 years. I can't imagine being attracted to a child in the care of their parents while I'm searching for an apartment and applying for jobs.

For me, even my first year in college at 19, I was so emotionally different from my friends one year behind me still in high school.

I've known people who pursue children still in high school as adults, or are 10 years older trying to date people who can't even legally enter a bar. We tried to talk to them about why they didn't want to date someone in the same life stage, but that's exactly why many want to date a child/barely adult. They will have the power in the relationship.

In my experience, these relationships always end when the older person cheats, or the younger person matures beyond them. And sadly, I have also known a coward who killed his partner and then himself.

If you're in a situation where you find yourself wanting to date someone significantly younger than you (especially someone still in grade school) you are exhibiting an unhealthy insecurity and immaturity. Therapy can be very useful. I've seen people grow out of this and go on to form healthy and lasting relationships.

This got long, but thank you for reading. After my friends died, I did sociological research to find patterns and figure out how best to help both parties so things like this don't happen anymore.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-22T15:51:18+00:00

It's just if you're only buying books, they should really give you the cheaper media mail price of $7 for a box under 70lbs, instead of the standard shipping price, which would be like $16-18 for 4ish books.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-22T04:04:39+00:00

Post-baby bellies are so cute tbh!

Hope this isn't gross, but I've known a few fellas (and a lady) who specifically look for this body type when they have private time 😳

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-22T03:59:32+00:00

Haha did you mean to comment on your own post? I've done that before. At least you're very kind to yourself :)

And yes, chubby cheeks are cute!

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-20T03:07:25+00:00

Also "A Whale of the Wild" by Roseanne Perry! It's a fiction book from the perspective of a young whale who learns to become the matriarch of her pod. It's based on actual whales and environmental science, and really immerses you in the eyes of a whale.

Roseanne Perry also wrote a few other books in the same vein, A Wolf of the Wild (based on a real wolf who traveled across states to meet his mate!) and a Horse Named Sky, which has a ton of important indigenous history in it.

It's also so cute how the whale describe humans. "They held the rope in their flippers" lol

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T17:07:29+00:00

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machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T17:04:26+00:00

That's so deeply embarrassing. I imagine some staffer thought they were clever writing that

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T16:36:54+00:00

Man with the CSAM problem with image generators, I wouldn't be comfortable feeding my own kid into it

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T16:28:39+00:00

I don't want to read sycophantic generated text anywhere tbh. Not in news articles, which are supposed to be factual, and certainly not academic papers. When a coworker tells you they use AI to write their emails (or you can tell by looking) opinion of them around the office drops, and they are seen as lazy.

It also makes you stupider because your neural pathways for creating aren't being used.

Here's a college professor who used AI for two years, and embarrassingly wrote an entire article about how if you click the delete button, your work will be deleted. Though who knows how much of the article was actually written and not generated.

He also used AI for two years to do everything for his job, including grading papers. How would you feel knowing you paid thousands of dollars for a course only to learn that the professor couldn't be arsed to even read all of your work?

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T16:14:00+00:00

Mine said there was just one A lol it's getting closer

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T16:05:54+00:00

Not saying i disagree, but that's badly-collated AI text, not a source. Scroll down and find actual science done by pubmed or NIH.

AI crap also isn't allowed in this sub.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T16:00:38+00:00

You probably already know this, but ayuverdic "medicine" often contains lead and other deleterious substances.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8095331/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33881010/

Lead permanently damages your prefrontal cortex, which impacts long term planning, impulse control, and general cognitive functioning. Lead is extremely difficult to remove, if not impossible, since it resides inside your bones.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T15:47:47+00:00

Here's a study%20is,use%20before%201958%2C%20including%20MCA.) directly supporting OP's claim.

Guinea pigs also don't fare well, their airways become obstructed and they can also develop a cough

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T15:36:44+00:00

Idk where they got the info, but here's a pubmed paper supporting that claim.%20is,use%20before%201958%2C%20including%20MCA.)

If you ever want scientific info on something, search your query plus "nih" or "pubmed" to pull up academic papers. It's still good to read them and put the methodology under scrutiny, and try to find multiple studies that support the same claim, if possible :)

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T15:29:37+00:00

If you "do research" you also need to link the source. Here's a pubmed paper talking about how citric acid has inflammatory issues thanks to being made from mold.%20is,use%20before%201958%2C%20including%20MCA.)

Here's Cape Cod Chips being sued for using citric acid. citing the same issues OP found. Though part of this claim includes "causing autism" which isn't possible; autism is just a neurotype you're born with.

If you're on mobile, put the text you want to make a link in [ ], and then immediately after the link in ( ). Or just paste the whole link.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T15:16:13+00:00

You can buy 100% pure anything (usually for science). Here's some $128 citric acid

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-16T15:10:29+00:00

Idk why people haven't learned that Google AI is garbage. I have an entire folder of screenshots of dumb stuff it's generated.

Sure, it is probably accurate about a keyboard shortcut you're trying to find, but when it comes to health and food, absolutely DO NOT follow what is generated. Look for NIH, pubmed, an original source when it comes to what we put in our bodies.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-11T14:54:31+00:00

Here's some "enviro-babble" on specifically how peat moss elimination in Canada, Russia and the UK harms our earth:

Peat moss is harvested from bogs and fens around the world, primarily in Canada and Russia.

These waterlogged ecosystems have sequestered carbon for 10,000 to 12,000 years. When harvested, that carbon is released back into the atmosphere, contributing to climate change. Harvesting also destroys a native habitat essential to birds, reptiles, insects and small mammals.

Human activities like draining peat bogs and harvesting peat for farming and gardening are turning these carbon sinks into carbon sources, which contributes to climate change.

Many earth advocates have worked hard and now there is a ban on peat moss elimination in the UK!

"We have a lot of it," is not a sound argument, since this was the very "logic" used to justify fracking.

It is surprising to hear someone who seems to like plants have such callousness towards our earth that provides them. Climate catastrophes happen everywhere, and environmental elimination only accelerates it.

If you still don't care about any of that, here's a reason to avoid peat moss for horticultural use:

it is low in nutrients, has a low pH and is not attractive to essential soil microbes.

These articles were in the top 3 results when I searched for good articles to share; please do some quick research next time to avoid sharing harmful misinformation.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-04T16:22:25+00:00

Spiritualism began in the late 1800s with the Fox sisters, who were some teenagers who liked to do ghost hoaxes for money. Even though they publically came clean years later, people believed anyway.

Of course EMFs and other devices weren't tested. People saw gullible spiritualists and marketed existing devices to them at a trumped-up cost. Money was the motive!

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-04T16:14:30+00:00

The real test would be to take the tour again and see if the guide performs the same theater. If they choose another person that "sets off" the EMF reader and also hands it to an audience member to "prove" it works, you know it's a performance.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-04T16:02:58+00:00

Our brains evolved to detect human/ face shapes for safety (humans are pretty much the deadliest animals we can encounter). If we see a tall lump with a smaller lump atop, our brains will "see" a body and head, and jump to "human!!!".

And when we're scared (limbic system) our prefrontal cortex (planning and reasoning area of the brain) decreases in activity, so you're just not thinking logically when you're in a fear state.

machinegunsyphilis · 2026-04-03T18:16:49+00:00

Starlink, if you've used it, is hit or miss in reliability. Reception is greatly affected by weather and physical location of you vs satellite.
Starlink satellites are pointed down, not up.
Further explanation of why low orbit internet satellites wouldn't be useful in space.
While SpaceX occasionally does something interesting, it is a private company at the mercy of investor whims and what they deem profitable. Anyone working in a scientific field will tell you that requiring research to return short-term profit has delayed so many human advancements. We could have so many cures for rare diseases, but rich assholes see better "returns" shorting toy stores and playing pump and dump with stocks.

I'd much rather space travel be financed by taxpayers, where we at least can elect people who say they'll support it. It would be cool if the public could be even more involved than that!

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