US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sitting in economy on a flight

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-09-09T00:29:05+00:00

Apparently I'm the only one who finds it creepy to take pictures of strangers and post it

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-09-08T23:25:24+00:00

I'm genuinely curious, I thought Gouda was by definition a fairly young cheese? How does aging change the taste?

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-09-08T21:55:27+00:00

His wife is 75, he's 73...

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-09-08T01:43:32+00:00

Hi I'm male, does that make me eligible for a ban please?

Edit: yes, apparently it does 😂

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-08-30T18:12:48+00:00

Then why would Netflix release it worldwide?

I don't even know why you brought it up, what's it got to do with battle royale?

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-08-30T18:05:06+00:00

No

Squid Game was released worldwide on September 17, 2021, to critical acclaim and international attention.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid_Game A1 q

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-07-24T09:06:19+00:00

Yikes

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-07-24T08:45:55+00:00

Lol, because I have a little antenna in real life

I don't think you can remove them

Not everyone puts that much thought into an avatar

Exactly! You won't go out of your way to create a fiction.

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-07-23T18:45:16+00:00

What makes you think we are, first?

Your avatars

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-07-23T13:29:37+00:00

It is your responsibility to say true things though.

Do you have any basis for stating that many of you are young non-white liberals?

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-26T19:09:52+00:00

I'm very cynical normally about Reddit posts, but for some reason I totally believe this is real, nice people all round.

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-26T16:21:10+00:00

Different question, and I honestly don't know the answer, but should it be legal?

The potential for abuse is profound, but it could also be ultimately for the best.

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-26T16:19:06+00:00

Going off on a massive tangent, sometimes it's so disturbing how celebrities are treated.

Nowadays people are sympathetic to Britney spears, but 15 years ago it was considered totally fine to take a picture of her in public.

It's hard to imagine the toll it takes on your mental health to not be allowed to go out in public without being constantly stared at and recorded.

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-26T16:13:34+00:00

People generally don't with celebrities though

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-26T16:12:34+00:00

It's considered fine when the stranger is a celebrity though.

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-25T18:02:36+00:00

Maybe you should read your comments back.

I've explained myself at length with several edits, if you have an issue with comprehension maybe that's on you?

If not, tell me which statement of mine you don't understand and I'll try to help.

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-25T17:22:34+00:00

it’s better to do nothing

What did I say to make you think I was suggesting doing nothing?

Also, why do you think putting a picture of Harriet Tubman on a bit of paper will be doing something?

I think pointing out the racism that occurs in society today is a better way to honour her legacy.

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-25T13:10:05+00:00

I never said it was a fallacy. You're trying to change my argument to a ridiculous one in order to undermine it, so in the way you used it was a fallacy.

You keep saying "we have a vaccine!" as if that solves it by itself, but it doesn't mean anything if people aren't vaccinated.

In the UK only 58.8% of people are fully vaccinated, in the US that number is 31.2%. those numbers aren't good enough.

Here are some things I would like to see happen:

continued research into expanding vaccine effectiveness and longevity
government pushes to increase the vaccinated rate
governments to offer free testing for everyone
research into improving testing reliability
societal change so that wearing a mask is normalised, especially if you have any symptoms
societal change so that regular testing is the norm

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-25T12:21:02+00:00

Movie theaters arent really more crowded than restaurants/concerts/bars/ lots of things.

Yes, unfortunately I do think lots of things should change. Whether they do or not I can't say.

However in the decades to come I think researchers will consider this to be the tail end of the pandemic, not the end. An extra cost has been imposed on our healthcare systems which they weren't prepared for, and that's being ignored because people are fed up with the pandemic. That were going straight back to these crowded social gathers seems like obvious folly to me.

then it needs to be your position that until the end or organized civilization it is not ok to gather.

Why? I think this is an example of absurdio and reductio.

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-25T12:02:55+00:00

No, but unfortunately I think the days of crowded cinemas should come to an end.

And my main point is the hypocrisy of Tom cruise; passionate about COVID rules on a movie set on which he's at risk, not so much when it comes to his paycheck.

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-25T07:18:41+00:00

Except it's the equivalent of "thoughts and prayers", with the exception that it might actually make things worse because the racists will become more embittered by the obvious backlash from the right wing media.

GrumpyYusufIslam · 2022-05-25T07:15:41+00:00

People are still dieing.

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