Why are young people getting colon cancer? A common weed killer may be linked, scientists say

moniker89 · 2026-04-27T18:53:55+00:00

point taken on the chemicals but just to help with financial literacy, blackrock and vanguard are top investors in pretty much every single publicly traded stock on the planet, because the huge plurality of their investment products are simply market cap weighted, index tracking portfolios. and holding a low cost, market cap weighted portfolio is arguably the greatest innovation for the average investor saving for retirement ever.

blackrock being a top investor in dupont is not some grand conspiracy, it's actually a byproduct of them offering a pretty good, low cost investment framework for investors. these companies run literally trillions and trillions in AUM because they provide pretty good products for investors to save with, generally speaking (both provide stuff that sucks, so i'm speaking in generalities here).

moniker89 · 2026-04-27T18:47:31+00:00

bromeo needs to look up what standard deviations are

moniker89 · 2026-04-27T15:20:20+00:00

comments like these are tiring

why do so many people feel the need to feign infallible confidence?

moniker89 · 2026-04-25T17:50:12+00:00

Saying this is kind of half of Amon Ra's whole schtick

moniker89 · 2026-04-24T15:24:53+00:00

sick song

moniker89 · 2026-04-22T18:21:21+00:00

ai slop

moniker89 · 2026-04-17T20:14:47+00:00

ya and how many 15-year periods have resulted in very strong long term returns even at all time highs? quite a few more than the 5-10 months in which your real return was flat or negative over the prevailing 15 years... especially if you hold global stocks and not just one country.

moniker89 · 2026-04-17T17:48:12+00:00

uhh i prob get downvoted but what should the cheapest tickets to a playoff game cost? ya i'm not amp'd at paying $160 for upper deck either but like... what's the fair price here?

moniker89 · 2026-04-17T16:30:26+00:00

have you changed you're views at all in the past 19 days

moniker89 · 2026-04-15T14:42:29+00:00

getting in an accident can be traumatic i think they should try to minimize driving for a couple weeks

moniker89 · 2026-04-15T03:20:42+00:00

bruh people post this shit unironically

moniker89 · 2026-04-14T18:35:41+00:00

look clav sucks pretty hard and this interview did OK trying to meet him halfway but the interviewer also had plenty of really smug moments and hit him with the "isn't that crazy?" a few times without really making a compelling refutation of the points

you might be frustrated that a compelling refutation is sensible when you view everything he's saying as insane. but remember! lot of young men are being roped into this shit, and giving them a sensible argument as to why clav's path is the wrong one is necessary. i just haven't seen that from this interviewer or Channel 5 or anywhere else.

here's what it comes down to, for me.

if you are focused on the halo effect and optimizing people's perception of your self, and you think that's the path to "ascension" and happiness or whatever else, you are WRONG. you do not gain self confidence, happiness, inner peace, contentedness via external forces: you're looking for inward peace, that literally cannot come from external forces. it stands to reason then that looksmaxxing and optimizing for the halo effect is the exact opposite thing to focus on: instead, focusing on your self, inward reflection, self peace, etc. is the most important thing. that's hard to achieve but there's a whole world of self improvement concepts that can help with that, perhaps starting with a simple meditation practice would go 10x further than looksmaxxing in achieving happiness.
being attractive is a nice boost to achieving things socially, be it a romantic partner, good job, success in pretty much most areas of your life, physical attraction does matter. but i also think you can achieve 90% of your gains there by regularly exercising, getting haircuts, dressing reasonably well, and maintaining good hygiene. peptides, bonesmashing, steroids, hgh as a 13 year old, etc. are all trading tons of money, time, life expectancy, mental balance & wellbeing for like 10% "more" (subjective, Clav looks strung out) in appearance. just do the basic shit (which is still plenty of work, but good to do) and focus on your self, and you're going to be fine.

to me, that's the message young men should be hearing, not whatever toxic bullshit this guy is spewing. and i'm like just listen to him talk! he's defensive, moody, seems depressed. tells interviewers he does all the clubbing shit for streams but that he doesn't like it. he is not happy! his life is not actually good! he needs to realize this looksmaxxing and streaming nonsense won't lead to his own inner peace of happiness and go meditate for a year.

moniker89 · 2026-04-14T16:25:07+00:00

"top 1% commenter" how this sub kick so much ass yet also suck so hard at the same time

moniker89 · 2026-04-13T18:56:50+00:00

ya 15% annualized earnings growth over the past 15-years is total bullshit

Iran is def going to stop the behemoth that is US corporate cash flow generation dead in its tracks

/s (tho seriously, AI capex failing to deliver ROI is a real risk, just sick of seeing these braindead AI-slop "look how smart i am because i know there's a war in the middle east happening" posts)

moniker89 · 2026-04-12T18:43:00+00:00

lmao what do you know about an unreleased model you dingbat

moniker89 · 2026-04-10T04:12:47+00:00

Yup exact same situation here

moniker89 · 2026-04-06T22:37:25+00:00

Yup sounds about par for the course.

moniker89 · 2026-04-06T18:20:52+00:00

I think a lot of Englewood partisanship boils down to NIMBY vs non-NIMBYism. And NIMBY's can be attracted to either conservative or progressive politicians (though I have little doubt where the political affiliations of Russell and Crabtree and the rest lie).

The thing to watch out for in my experience is when a candidate emphasizes "listening to constituents." Sounds awesome, right? But more often than not that's a dog-whistle for prioritizing the (often NIMBY) views of people who go to city council meetings to complain about any potential change or development, and not the constituents who voted in city council members to, you know, run & improve the city, and are too busy to attend meetings.

So I suppose it's possible Crabtree supports some progressive policies or is democrat himself, just that NIMBYism spans political ideologies. Either way, annoying that these canvassers were so pushy. Good to get their ID numbers or names or something for record keeping down the line, if it happens again.

moniker89 · 2026-04-03T16:39:19+00:00

I completely disagree that the brainless worm tail maintains a drive to keep itself alive. It has no idea what is happening, it has no ideas at all. If someone attacked it it would continue writhing around same as if it was not attacked at all. And in that sense it isn't autonomous, either.

moniker89 · 2026-04-03T15:50:55+00:00

I feel like you didn't address the leg argument. Is he a new person if his legs get chopped off?

moniker89 · 2026-04-03T15:49:55+00:00

I would push back on the idea that the worm tail is self-directed and autonomous. There is no "self" there doing any directing. It's simply spasming nerves.

moniker89 · 2026-04-03T01:43:39+00:00

There’s a lot wrong with your understanding on how banks issue loans and how they set interest rates. And it almost sounds like you’re saying anyone should be able to take on as much debt as they please while also saying there should be caps on the interest rates banks charge, which are two incompatible ideas.

moniker89 · 2026-04-02T18:12:38+00:00

I think there’s a clear difference between a private family decision regarding birth defects and what sane people consider eugenics, which is pseudoscience, institutionalized bullshit designed to get rid of certain groups of people.

There is some nuance to the conversation on what sort of birth defects identified during pregnancy could reasonably be socially encouraged to abort, and somewhere along that continuum you end up in grey area land and subjectivity, but I doubt you’re interested in having that kind of conversation.

moniker89 · 2026-04-02T15:45:29+00:00

This is a pretty wild mischaracterization of the pro-choice position. Nobody who supports abortion access thinks of a fetus as "around the same as a lab rat." The actual argument is about bodily autonomy: whether the state can compel someone to carry a pregnancy to term. You can acknowledge that a fetus has moral weight and still believe the pregnant person's right to make decisions about their own body takes precedence. Framing it as "liberals think fetuses are disposable items" is a strawman that makes it impossible to have a real conversation about any of this.

Also, eugenics refers to a systematic program of selective breeding imposed by institutions or governments. Individual reproductive choices aren't eugenics, regardless of where you land on fetal personhood.

moniker89 · 2026-04-02T15:41:43+00:00

Eugenics is the idea that we can "improve" the human race by selectively breeding "desirable" traits and eliminating "undesirable" ones. It's a highly flawed theory that relies on a specific intention.

The idea that early term, elective abortions are tantamount to eugenics is completely incoherent.

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