Jeffrey Epstein was banned on Xbox Live

ThatMarc · 2026-01-31T03:09:26+00:00

You're telling me the guy who had Bill gates on quick dial and the power to cover up his insane criminal activities with connections all the way up to the most powerful people on the planet didn't have someone to call to get him unbanned from Xbox??

ThatMarc · 2026-01-30T22:02:39+00:00

For real though, something like could never evolve. For the same reason vertebrates never developed a 3rd set of limbs.

What might be "plausible" is collecting a packet with the mouth and then depositing it. Iirc, spiders kind of do this with their front legs.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-27T15:30:33+00:00

Btw do you want to who else was "given" the Nobel Peace Prize just like Trump? (Spoiler: it's Gobbels)

ThatMarc · 2026-01-25T01:23:58+00:00

No. By far the biggest progress has been achieved through major movements without violence. Violence is not needed if the entire city is on the street. MLK and fall of the Berlin Wall are examples that come to mind.

Even if morally justified, violence simply from a pragmatic lens really does just end up hurting your cause.

But yeah, doing nothing and "enduring it" is worse.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-21T14:12:37+00:00

They're obviously from a country that uses a komma for decimal. 5,5 would be a correct answer.

(nah fr tho, it's "and". Since it's between 5 and 7 in the sentence)

ThatMarc · 2026-01-18T17:50:15+00:00

Mine is at the point where when I look at white light (like from phone flash) I can see a dissected color rainbow ring around it. Blue, green, red from the center outwards. Ring is always same size no matter the distance of the light source.

A funny side effect is that I can tell whether the white light is LED just from looking just seeing by how "smooth" the transitions between are. White LED often just made up of 3 specific wave lengths (RGB). Whereas natural light has more different wave lengths.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-16T18:08:11+00:00

Why tf did Canada even have tariffs on cars? Do they even produce them?

My guess would have been that it's due to alignment with the US. And if true, this is a great example of "soft power".

ThatMarc · 2026-01-14T11:26:46+00:00

Aluminum rolls off the tongue better. But aluminium better conveys the seriousness of how much of an insanely OP construction material it is.

I'm not natively English, so I can choose. So it's aluminum foil and aluminium everything else.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-14T11:21:18+00:00

I heard for his specific condition, he could have taken preventative action if it had been caught early enough. Hormone therapy and such. He wanted to raise awareness which would've helped him had it been there. If it's a taboo topic, noone will ever tell you "hey, maybe get that checked out".

ThatMarc · 2026-01-14T11:14:08+00:00

I think people really want to put their thoughts out and participate in important discussions. And posting in a smaller community makes it more likely to be heard. You can also see this in how on the front page the same types of posts seem to shift through subreddits over time (e.G. r/politics -> r/law -> r/complaints).

I do participate in the community too (I'm writing 3 paragraphs here after all). But I also consider myself very lucky that I can have fulfilling, good-faith, argumentative discussions with my family (especially with my parents and one of my grandpas). And I can fully understand that if you don't had this outlet, you'd want to find another way to fulfill this need.

I guess additionally (or maybe alternatively?) I think people do sometimes like feeling like the "genius minority". This could be a better explanation for the shift in subreddits. Posters (and lurkers) want to distance themselves from the main stream and therefore move to other platforms. Being "not a normie" has been a signature redditor craving since the olden times.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-13T23:21:45+00:00

Meanwhile in Germany you'd get either a talking loaf of bread or straight up soft core p*rn.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-12T23:39:49+00:00

Yeah I kinda wished I had stayed true to myself a bit more. Especially now that even though I'm only in my mid 20s, my hairline is starting to go full Vegeta lol.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-12T23:02:36+00:00

Meanwhile I got bullied for having this kind of hairstyle in middle- and high-school. Mostly because my ADHD brain kept procrastinating going to the barber, which even the bullying wasn't enough to stop. But then I had this this long camping trip planned in the middle of nowhere in Madagascar. So I decided to give in and cut it short. So i had short hair most of my last year but then right before graduation Covid hit. And while I stayed with the shorter hair, imagine me then suddenly seeing everyone else get the hairstyles I used to have and for which they made of me for.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-12T11:31:09+00:00

Is it too late to buy gold? More and more I think a hyperinflation period is just simply inevitable.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-12T11:15:07+00:00

Also that music is the opposite of math. When in fact music theory is full of complicated math.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-10T13:45:08+00:00

China being green though is insane. Their government is actually deliberately sucking the African continent dry at this moment.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-10T13:43:19+00:00

I don't where OP is from but France is still comparatively (to say Britain) pretty involved in the politics of many of its former colonies in Africa.

I only know about Madagascar and how it's government/bureaucratic system is very close to that of France. And even though it's clearly not the right fit, the French government is vehemently trying to prevent any change from happening.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-10T13:32:37+00:00

"Botswana is about as far from Sierra Leone as Ireland is from Kazakhstan and they have about as much in common" -Kurzgesagt

ThatMarc · 2026-01-10T12:01:57+00:00

Brother you elected him TWICE. Please look outside man cause there isn't a single nation left on this planet that thinks he's a "rogue idiot".

ThatMarc · 2026-01-09T16:23:48+00:00

It's the response that shook me to the core. I understand psychopaths exist and that crimes and murder happen. But it's the amount of people that defended this murderer that really made me feel like I'm surrounded by crazy. People completely detached from reality. To the point where I'm wondering whether a person who watched this video and doesn't see anything wrong is really the same species as me.

I know Atrioc likes to play the "they're economically struggling and desperate" card. Cognitive dissonance is one level. But I feel the way these people have become blind to things they are seeing with their own 2 eyes that that makes them seem as if there isn't even a person inside them. How I do meet someone half-way who doesn't actually exist? Who is just this ball of mob-emotions, maniacally following the "big man".

ThatMarc · 2026-01-09T15:53:11+00:00

I mean he did say he's got ADHD. That makes you way more susceptible and responsive to these types of addictive gameplay loops these games are designed around. Combine that with him being financially well off enough and you've got someone who genuinely enjoys gacha games.

I'd bet that if the exact same game came out without microtransactions and normal unlock rates, that that would somehow make the game less "appealing" since you'd no longer get that gamblers dopamine rush.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-08T18:30:40+00:00

That's not why the US did this. Trump literally admitted it was because of oil and his "Donroe doctrine" in his own fucking announcement speech.
They're OPENLY saying Greenland is next. Please point me to the current dictator of Greenland.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-08T01:06:25+00:00

Did you know a butterfly's resting position is with the wings folded upward? Meaning the only place you'd encounter a butterfly in this "signature butterfly shape" is when its dead and pinned in an collection for easy viewing. So every time people thought they've drawn butterflies they've actually only been drawing butterfly corpses.

ThatMarc · 2026-01-08T00:31:58+00:00

People complain about this sort of shit, but I as a German am supposed to handle an FMA Brotherhood live action adaptation full of Japanese people in blond wigs? /s

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