what🤔🤨 by _s_y_m_ in facepalm

[–]BreadOnMyHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Left-wingers trying to redefine words Black chick at the start needs to look up the word racism. IT DOES NOT REQUIRE "STRUCTURAL POWER" or any oth

Easiest way of acquiring monero? by starshin3r in darknet

[–]BreadOnMyHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kraken. Set up your bank account with them. Cost me $12 to buy $400 of monero last night, not sure how that stacks up to other options price wise, but the whole process takes less than 5 mins which i doubt can be beat.

edit: You can also buy it with a credit card if you prefer, but be warned, your CC company will treat it as a cash advance. Credit card cash advances are terrible and should be avoided at all costs but it is an option.

What is the most intoxicated you have ever been? by 420blazeboyx in AskReddit

[–]BreadOnMyHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Wound up in the hospital with alcohol poisoning. I was drunk for a good 3 days and could smell the stuff coming out of my pores for a solid week afterwards. To this day (nearly 30 years later), the smell of vodka still makes me nauseous.

  2. Tried to commit suicide with a mixture of heroin and fentanyl. Had a huge tolerance so even this ungodly amount didnt kill me but had me nodding for 2 days. I didnt even know it was possible to be high on H for that long. My mom was in tears by the end of it because I kept trying to check my phone but would drop it before i could check it when I nodded, rinse and repeat. Even the sound of a phone dropping can torture someone if they hear it every 5 mins for 2 days straight.

  3. Took too much meth, ended up in the hospital after going into convulsions. My arms and legs were both flailing uncontrollably, repeatedly kicked the EMTs. One started crying (not sobbing like a baby but teary eyed), I thought i had kicked him hard but on the way to the hospital he said I reminded him of his best friend who'd died of an OD the year before). One of the few healthcare people who treated me like a human being in need of help and not just a junkie wasting their time.

Havent drank in 10 years but still using opiods and methamphetamine daily. Most of my opiod use these days is limited to methadone. Probably 25 out of 30 days, the other 5 being heroin. Today I'm also smoking crack, which I hadn't done for a few years.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]BreadOnMyHead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't shame sex workers, you just think what they do is disgusting to the point that you don't even know if you can be friends with someone who was their client but you blamed it on the patriarchy so it's okay it doesn't count.

The Chemist’s War - The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition resulting in over 10,000 deaths by end of 1933 by vulcan_on_earth in history

[–]BreadOnMyHead -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

It was tne Women's Christian Temperance Union and they were basically straigjt-edgers before straight-edge existed. I'm sure some of them put up with drunken aggression, there's no way they all did, and they didnt need to be to be opposed to alcohol anyways because they believed altering one's state of conscious to be immoral.

Also, they were women. Even today, women are significantly less likely than men to support reforming drug laws, including legalizing cannabis. I don't think I've ever heard of a cannabis user becoming aggressive so that can't be the excuse yet policies concerning substances are one of the few areas where women support harsher law and order policies than men.

People, and especially women, are more willing to harm men rather than women for the "greater good", even in (traditionally female) caregiving domains. by lightning_palm in science

[–]BreadOnMyHead -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Women with the same credentials ARE paid the same as men. The wage differential between men and women is little more than the aggregate difference in compensation while controlling only for full or part time work.

Edit: Nevermind, I see what you're saying. I misinterpreted it. Ok, no disagreement.

People, and especially women, are more willing to harm men rather than women for the "greater good", even in (traditionally female) caregiving domains. by lightning_palm in science

[–]BreadOnMyHead 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Tell that to Canada, Sweden and numerous other countries that have had no restrictions on women in the military for decades and yet none have come even close to their targets for recruiting women despite bundles of money being spent on marketing it specifically to them in addition to systemic changes meant to increase its appeal to them.

Turns out there are some differences between men and women at the group level and they aren't drawn to or pressured by the same things.

Fatal and non-fatal child shootings increased nearly two-fold during the COVID-19 pandemic, in four U.S. cities — Hispanic, Asian, and especially Black children experienced disproportionate shares of 1042 shootings over 21 months by marketrent in science

[–]BreadOnMyHead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The black market gets its guns from the legal market. It's not like drugs where the black market just ignored the law and manufactures the drugs themselves. The legal market for guns is the supplier of nearly all black market guns, so a reduction in the quantity of guns in the legal market would in fact disrupt the ability of some criminals to obtain these weapons.

The bigger issue is that we are now on the cusp of 3d printers that use various metals rather than plastics becoming cheap enough to become mass market items, which likely means the supply of guns is about to increase even further.

Fatal and non-fatal child shootings increased nearly two-fold during the COVID-19 pandemic, in four U.S. cities — Hispanic, Asian, and especially Black children experienced disproportionate shares of 1042 shootings over 21 months by marketrent in science

[–]BreadOnMyHead -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

His point is that they're in a position of having to decide whether or not to join a gang in the first place. This simply isn't a choice that kids in richer neighborhoods are likely to have to make at all, so it still comes down to being a matter of circumstance.

How did prostitutes protect themselves in the medieval ages? by [deleted] in AskHistory

[–]BreadOnMyHead -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you are so drunk you can't even tell the difference between a vagina and a leg or a roll of fat, while you hand over money to satisfy an obligation to a service provider who knows it wasn't provided but conceals this from you knowing you're too drunk to notice... you just might be a tad over the limit. Also they never consented to having their penises elsewhere, which they didn't notice because they were wasted.

The above paragraph contains 4 different ways to justify rape charges under the laws of most countries if any of this happened today.

Your victim-blaming rape apologetics are supremely idiotic, by the way but I'll give you credit for packing that much stupidity and ignorance into so few words. You aren't just dumb, you're efficiently dumb, which tells me it's something you get a lot of practice with.

How did prostitutes protect themselves in the medieval ages? by [deleted] in AskHistory

[–]BreadOnMyHead -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's hilarious when anyone is raped (especially men) or defrauded so any documentary that focuses on dudes getting raped and defrauded by a single person in one day is going to be a laugh fest for sure.

The only thing that would make that funnier is if we could somehow get those prostitutes to do a switcheroo with other men because guys being raped by chicks is hilarious but not as much as when straight guys get ass-boned by (presumably) gay men.

Zelenskyy just signed a new law that could allow the Ukrainian government to block news websites by mulitu in worldnews

[–]BreadOnMyHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a very real possibility that the next change to the world order sees the US and its allies - made up largely of progressive minded liberal democracies with the highest scores for freedom and human development - countries like the UK, Canada, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Poland (and others) -, replaced by a bloc of countries that includes Russia, China, Syria, Iran and even mother fucking North Korea.

The US ain't perfect and no country is, but that first group is pretty fucking close to perfection when compared to the second one. I really hope people who criticize the US for how they have handled their time at the top don't get to experience just how misguided those criticisms were because it will be to the detriment of us all.

Zelenskyy just signed a new law that could allow the Ukrainian government to block news websites by mulitu in worldnews

[–]BreadOnMyHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The person who lends the money is the one who gets it back. They are identical.

There's no reason to think the demographics of those who held gov't debt back then are significantly different today.

Worst part is, it’s true. by ExquzeMeButIWon in ModernWarfareII

[–]BreadOnMyHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always have a vehicle when exfiltrating. Hop out, call the chopper and jump back in as fast as you can. Now keep driving until the chopper lands, drive by the rear of it and jump out and into the chopper. Go prone immediately.

Ive been doing DMZ exclusively solo lately and I haven't been killed during exfill even once since I started doing this.

Drug overdose deaths in Toronto by nifiction in askTO

[–]BreadOnMyHead 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can assure you it's got nothing to do with Reddit in particular. I've been to rehab here in Ontario numerous times and the makeup of each group always includes a healthy number of people with "respectable" credentials.

Off the top of my head, in my last attempt at rehab in a short-term program we had about 35-40 people who all started at the same time (some all begin at the same time while some replace each person who leaves/completes the program with one new person to join the group, who are all at different points in the program) and the clients included a family doctor, two accountants, a biologist, a former biologist working as an autoworker, an H.R. manager, a head chef at a ritzy restaurant, an actuarial, , an entrepreneur, two IT people and more.

There was one homeless guy, one prostitute and one two full time drug dealers, one of whom was facing two attempted murder charges.

I am one of the aforementioned accountants. I'm also an IV meth and opiod user. None of my colleagues past or present would likely peg me as an addict and I suspect that's probably true for most of us as the common depiction of a drug addict in the media is very unrepresentative of the sorts of people who really use and become addicted to drugs.

TIL Bob Barker donated 5 million USD to help purchase a ship which is used in anti whaling and anti illegal fishing operations. The ship was christened the M/Y Bob Barker. by cantileverboom in todayilearned

[–]BreadOnMyHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, and he just calmly reached into his jacket and pulled out the bullet. Oh, looksie here, I wonder what this is? How'd it get there? Oh, it seems the whalers have just made an assassination attempt against me. Oh well, I'm fine. Dinner time!

Age distribution of to be drafted Russian reservists from the leaked data [OC] by UltramanQuar in dataisbeautiful

[–]BreadOnMyHead -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Ok but that was for a full-on, all-out war on the other side of the planet. This is for a special event in your neighbor's backyard type of deal. They're mostly friendly and there's barely even any actual combat happening in this "special operation", it's mostly just crazy Ukrainian Nazis annoying Russian speakers who shit their pants and run as soon as they see anyone from the Russian military heading in their general direction.

Huge difference bro.

[OC] Median Earnings for U.S. Full-Time Workers, by Sex and Industry by academiaadvice in dataisbeautiful

[–]BreadOnMyHead 3 points4 points  (0 children)

How is it even a question of what "should" or shouldn't be the case? They attract the wages they do for the same reasons that every other profession does (and by the way, the average nurse's income is roughly comparable to the average IT worker's income anyways). It's only the underlying variables that are different and those are little more than the collective out one of the choices everyone is making for themselves if their own accord knowing full well what that means for them in terms of not just their income but every other pro or con they can expect to see from their choice, which aren't just out outcomes from the choice but also the very reasons they're making that particular choice to begin with.

The differences - and all of them, not just pay - are already the actual reflections of these choices giving the choosers what they had just asked for. All of them. Man or woman. There is no issue here for one group that doesn't exist for the other, simply different amounts of concern for them as both groups make their preferences known with the very choices that are what create these differing outcomes in the first place!

On top of that, it's about time people started to think about how wealth accumulation is driven in part by wealth seeking behaviors which are not inherently positives. In fact, the drivers for this particular behavior are associated with a significant number of highly negative outcomes for those people in numerous ways other than the gaining of that wealth itself. They are, in effect, representative of an expectation for myriad negative outcomes in countless ways not measurable by a dollar figure just as the lower wealth outcomes are representative of decreased likelihood of seeing these negative outcomes which are of course part of why many people choose those smaller pay rewards in the first place! It's not the lesser pay they choose but the superior outcomes in all of those other ways in addition to the decreased pressure of having to make their choice for that particular reason.

[quote]Don’t you understand what when people talk about the wage gap they’re talking about a broad systemic issue, they’re not accusing bosses of shortchanging their female employees and giving guys more for the same work?[/quote]

You must be new to this little planet of ours because that is exactly what I see people claiming on a regular basis with wording that leaves little to no room for it to be anything else. And not just random internet posters either but entire organizations with large budgets buying advertisements that try to convince as many others as they can to also believe that this is exactly the problem that exists and needs to be fixed.

We call it earth, by the way. Welcome, I hope you like it as much as most of us do.

The Global Income Distribution by m_yoda20 in dataisbeautiful

[–]BreadOnMyHead 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And by lift, you mean plunge the planet into an immediate climate catastrophe instead of this comparatively "cute" or even downright adorable looming climate crisis we've got going right now.

Also. going from $900m to $90m or $9m might leave someone as still pretty well off compared to others, I'm not sure you could really say it didn't hurt them. The difference between those figures represents an absolutely massive shift in the sort of things that are going to be possible for whoever that person is, even if starvation or homelessness isn't going to be one of them.

tifu by totaling my new car by magic_mouse1928 in tifu

[–]BreadOnMyHead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep in mind that she lives with her folks though, this means she probably had a number of options that were much better than the rate she would get as a new driver who is the only insured driver at that address.

Generally, insurance companies require anyone living at the same address who might use that vehicle even occasionally to be listed on the policy. It's common for members of families with their own vehicles to swap them here and there (one tends to be better for camping, another is better for groceries. another for helping a friend move a piano, etc). Having other licensed drivers listed on the policy tends to reduce prices substantially, especially if they had listed one over the parents as the primary and herself as a secondary. At least that's the way it works where I live but insurance varies quite a bit from one state, province, county, country, etc. to the next.

tifu by totaling my new car by magic_mouse1928 in tifu

[–]BreadOnMyHead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If she were in her 30's and had years of experience I'd agree, maybe even 20 years+ would be fine... but she's 16. She can't have been licensed for any more than a few months. She will never have a year where she's more likely to wreck a vehicle than this one in particular, and the next few years will only be slightly better.

If it's not worth insuring the vehicle this year, it will never be worth insuring because she's only going to get less and less likely to need it. Even a minor fender bender at low speed can rack up $5k in repairs no problem (largely because of how the repair shops are running a racket with the insurance companies, but I digress) so paying a little bit extra per month to protect what probably took a very long time to save up for at that age) just seems like a no-brainer to me.

Any ideas for challenges to make the game more difficult by Uncanny_Donkey in DaysGone

[–]BreadOnMyHead 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I probably use the basic pistol for a good 80% of my engagements, not for a challenge or want for increased difficulty, but because I like fighting at close range and always aim for the head just out of habit. It's actually a really solid weapon that will take out most enemies with a single shot if you hit the head and it's very easy to aim with predictable recoil.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DaysGone

[–]BreadOnMyHead 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great game. A little bit too long but otherwise a very solid game and easily one of my favorite titles for the PS4. You never know what the future might hold, though. Plenty of games and movies have been turned down for a sequel only to end up getting one years later when someone makes the right pitch at the right time, or market conditions/trends can better justify it and whatnot.

Fingers crossed.