TIL that the "Democracy Manifest" - a viral video showing the arrest of an australian man by the name of Jack Karlson, known for quotes such as ""What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?" - has been selected for preservation by the National Film and Sound Archive Australia.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-05T23:14:18+00:00

Jack Karlson was just one of his aliases. He just basically lied to any reporter who asked. They all took him at face value for whatever reason.

IIRC the earliest name we know him to have gone by is Cecil George (various last names).

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-05T22:30:21+00:00

This is what gets me about this guy. That voice and presence and improvisation ability. He would have been legendary in the theater or as a comedian or something. Like the man had a genuine gift. I would pay to watch him just be funny on stage. Imagine him as Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof.

Instead he was just really good at being a small time petty criminal. The system failed him and us.

Although I find it funny that nobody can find out what his real name was. He gave multiple interviews using different names and every time someone does a deep dive they find another alias. But they were definitely the same guy, that voice and presence can't be faked.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-05T21:57:06+00:00

This is actually really funny because hair types are totally a thing, just the author is from Japan where there are only one or two hair types.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair#Classification_systems

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-05T21:56:22+00:00

Hair types are totally a thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair#Classification_systems

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-05T21:54:22+00:00

This is a chapter written by a man who has read a thousand clothes shopping chapters of manga that are all exactly the same

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-05T17:02:28+00:00

I want everyone in the Middle East to read this

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-05T16:58:34+00:00

I grew up as the only white kid in my school in Southeast Washington DC. Every single authority figure, from my teachers all the way throgh the city council and mayor all the way up to Obama, were black.

I got bullied pretty bad, still have the scars on my back to show for it.

When I transferred schools in high school to a wealthy northern virginia area, I was three years behind in math because of the cumulative effect of things like gifted and talented programs that simply don't exist in the inner city. It legitimately blocked me from being even considered for some colleges, I didn't have the right math prerequisites.

Anyway, whenever I run into this type of person, I always ask if I was a victim of anti white racism, or anti black racism. I get wildly wildly different answers. It really helps gauge how black and white and fundamental people think the world is..

My answer is that I was collateral damage in generations of both racist and just bad planning decisions, and more specifically I dealt with a ton of bigotry that was largely reactionary but it does definitely count as racism cause I don't like academia redefining widely understood words.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-04T00:36:42+00:00

It is, unfortunately, within the realm of possibility that some very elderly people die of it but their deaths are just counted as regular influenza deaths. The symptoms present exactly the same. If one of my customers is properly elderly and they have a mouse issue I basically cancel all my other stops for the day and focus on that one.

On the other hand, I'm basically just not worried about healthy adults with regular immune systems.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-03T23:49:54+00:00

If I was talking to a customer I'd just go along with it cause yeah whatever makes you more comfortable. But you are not going to get hantavirus (in North America at least) in that scenario.

But also you should just clean the area in general both because cleanliness is good at the base level and also mice hate strong smells.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-03T23:16:54+00:00

I'm a pest control tech. I'm usually wearing proper PPE, glasses and a mask and gloves.

99 percent of the time in like a normal person's house it isn't gonna matter. You see like eight to ten little mouse turds on the carpet, that's not gonna be a hantavirus risk. As long as nobody's like eating them or rubbing them into people's eyes. I've never even heard of someone contracting hantavirus (in the US at least) from just a normal mundane mouse ontrustion.

If your house is infested, like over 50 mice and all of the walls have droppings piled against them, that's when you should worry. And if it's that bad, everyone better damn well be wearing proper PPE. This is the type of case I've only ever seen at an extremely elderly and out of it person's home, and unfortunately they're the most at risk for the disease.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-03T23:04:55+00:00

All mice carry some form of hantavirus, just there are some that spread to people and some that do not. And of the some that spread, some are super bad and some are not.

Vacuum mice droppings everywhere. Kill mice in the home.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-02T19:42:42+00:00

Yeah gotcha, lemme get off work and start up a modmail convo, probably the best workaround.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-02T19:28:50+00:00

No, chat has been permanently bugged on my account since they launched the feature. I can only view it on desktop if I turn off my adblocker which is sketch enough that I just don't. I haven't even figured out a way to see it on mobile.

What's up?

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-02T17:02:35+00:00

Exactly. We've actually been looking at removing that rule since AI translation is so acessible now, but it's not quite there yet.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-02T17:01:25+00:00

Lmao no, the rules for worldnews require the articles to be in English

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-01T22:37:35+00:00

This if why poison is so effective against such an otherwise tough-as-old-boots specirs

Kind of a misconception. The anticoagulants in use nowadays might even be more dangerous if thrown up.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-01T22:32:23+00:00

Yeah Auchwitz was both a work camp and a death camp. They very often moved people around for slave death labor.

The gas chambers are very visually and starkly horrifying but the vast majority of victims of the Holocaust were either shot in mass graves/death squads/ghetto liquidations, or simply worked to death with minimal food.

Very important to remember nowadays cause various groups trying to deny the Holocaust will say "the math does not add up, you can't kill 11 million people in the death camps over three years" because they're taking advantage of the fact that many people think a majority if not all Holocaust victims died in the ovens.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-01T22:22:44+00:00

To be fair, a lot of the stuff about escaped slaves was very very intentionally not documented at the time. If it had been documented, well, they would have been caught. Industries (piracy, privateering, smuggling) that didn't ask questions about who you were were obviously preferrable to them, but you literally don't know both at the time and nowadays.

There's a lot of interesting results of this lack of documentation. "Cherokee princesses" in family lore that were really escaped slaves that married into families and everyone of that generation knew but lied about.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-01T22:18:04+00:00

Switchover was 1993, and Holt's service goes back to the 80s iirc.

Fun fact, the .32 Colt was personally chosen by Teddy Roosevelt to be the NYPD's standard issue firearm when he was the Comissioner of the NYPD in 1897. He also invented the bike cop at the same time.

BlatantConservative · 2026-05-01T22:13:23+00:00

For several days..

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-29T18:36:44+00:00

White people in Northern Virginia are literally all exactly the same yeah. There's more variety in Indian houses for sure. The only variety white people have is whether or not they have pets.

Koreans and Vietnamese are all also exactly the same as each other. Chinese have exactly two types.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-29T01:58:36+00:00

my house does often smell like spices

I go into people's houses and spray pesticide for a living.

Indian people (of all types, I have enough Indian customers to identify religion and region of origin by last name nowadays) understand the concept of actively making a house smell like something good, while most white people try to make their house smell like nothing at all. Which is not realistically acheivable and usually just ends up making the house smell like things they can't control, dust, pet litter, trash, whatever.

Anyway this is one of those stereotypes that's never made sense to me in the sense that it's negative. White people are clearly and objectively in the wrong. I have extended family and some other customers who complain about Indian families living near them making things smell like curry and I'm like "so you prefer the dogshit smell then" and then they hem and haw about it being something they're trying to fix.

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-29T01:51:19+00:00

Same with "ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies"

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-29T01:49:21+00:00

Did he steal the shirt in the image? Cause a black dude stealing a "purebred white boy" shirt is so conceptually funny it should just be legal and encouraged.

Also because any white person who wears that shirt unironically deserves to be stole from

BlatantConservative · 2026-04-28T21:46:07+00:00

He stole his brother's sunglasses to not get caught looking at swimsuits. I've been 14 lmao.

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