Used to roll, can confirm that MDMA and E typically come in fun shaped pills and have since at least the early 2000’s. Nothing new here, just a headline for pearl clutchers.

Whoa! I just told my partner literally yesterday that lol is the laugh track of texting.

lol as much as I don’t like her or anyone else in this administration I do appreciate that she actually looks her age.

It’s rage-gagement, pure and simple. Outrage driven engagement makes the most profit; it’s similar to the pattern of online reviews: people are way more likely to leave a bad review than a good one and the same goes for nearly every interaction one can have on YouTube.

You would be surprised.

I’ve known plenty of older folks that simply take what is prescribed to them, to the point where half of what they’re taking is simply side effect management/masking for the other half.

Plenty of Drs seem to have a mental flowchart of meds as solutions to the problems meds cause.

Note: this is not absolute; not all medical professionals are like this and not all meds are necessarily harmful.

Almost like it wasn’t about them in the first place.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent. -George Orwell

This is the exact reason conservative streamers have risen as quickly as they have. It’s all rage-bait engagement farming.

This is the ELI5 many others need. So please note that most Americans are literal hostages in this quagmire of idiocy.

All jokes aside, does anyone actually know why this is happening?

Either this company is pandering to fascists and every single user needs to delete their info and profile fucking yesterday, or this is some weird distraction/some other strange confluence of events that simply seems odd out of context.

Adult: ‘What school do you go to?’ -child answers adult- Adult: ‘Allllriiiiiiiiiiiiiight!!!’

The lean in…gross. All of it, disgusting and completely unacceptable. I feel sorry for that child, and can’t believe not a single board member stood up and called it for what it was and immediately stopped the proceedings. That was my first instinct imagining myself there. Full fucking stop, protect that child and bring that nasty man to account.

Are people in such a true state of psychosis these days that we just ‘heh heh this is fine’ fucking everything now?

Dude targeting and arresting like 10 people in black isn’t going to stop the rest of us from hating you and your administration, and holding you all to account as soon as it is possible.

Absofuckinglutely. If you can’t think on your own, someone else will do it for you.

Guaranteed the same men who wouldn’t lift a finger to help care for a forced-birth child, and certainly wouldn’t vote to ease the financial burden of those forced to raise a child they can’t care for.

Also the same men who wonder why they have a much harder time getting laid these days.

I’ve heard this excuse before and countered effectively with drive-through weddings and the national divorce rate.

100%. Being poor can be (& typically is) traumatic. People under that much stress and trauma are more susceptible to abuse and manipulation.

> “The masks are off,” Dmitriev wrote. “U.K. and EU warmongers are showing how deeply anti-Trump they really are. They tried to hide it for a long time, but now everyone can see it.”

So…what are they really saying here? This war is about being loyal to Trump? That other countries are either for this war or against Trump? Are they speaking to Trump when they say this, so he frames it this way? Since when do leaders from other countries need to show deference to Trump? Since when is he leader of Earth that requires compliance?

Yo this is how you start WWIII

Their only interest is profit, it was only a matter of time for that interest to consolidate into corruption and greed. In a world where making choices that benefit all do not generate as much short term gains as making choices that benefit a select few, it is easy to see exactly why these companies operate the way they do. Their interests are not ours.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. We should have regulated tech (and hard) decades ago. Were Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg not example enough for tech enthusiasts, or now that it’s too late is it the right time to shed our naive fairy tales about the Billionaire Supermen who want nothing more than to save us all?

But the billionaires told me I need these fossil fuels!

I’m in a /s mood.