Youtube comments of Maggie (@maggie6152).

  1. Every time I go to the state fair where I am, I am shocked at the horrifying abominations pidgeon breeders have created. I don't think any other animal has been this gruesomely twisted by us--not even dogs.
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  2. Thank you JC and Thank you Dr. K for this extremely important video. I grew up in an abusive household and I became The Tank, defending my sister. I had an boy in high school English class that was the entire school's target. The teacher said he "kind of is asking for it" and that freaking mad me snap. I invited this kid to whatever lunch group I was in, I defended him in class, I witty quipped the bullies every time they started something to redirect their attention. This kid said during the class that I was the only good person in the class, and that made me feel better than anything. At that point, and still to this day, I believe that "all it takes is one". One friend. One supporter. One Teacher. Having even just that one person can completely change your life and allow you to survive through those 5 years.
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  3. ​ @jcnlaw  I dunno man, if it was like, dark alley in dangerous neighborhood or drug den, I'd still probably care. 🤣
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  4. Oh, dang, my low income apartment I'm in due to being severely disabled has most of those pre-installed. Guess I'm not poor after all despite being 50% below the poverty line in my area! Thanks Fox News!
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  5. ​ @pustboxer dangit I just clicked on this comment to post that
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  6. So Second Brexit.
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  7. Oh god I remember that case. Read I sort of "where are they now?" article and he finally got treatment, which led him to regain his mental faculties, and now he's having to spend his life in jail knowing what he's done and that there was nothing he could have done himself to stop it. His sister eventually forgave him and visits him regularly in prison. It was so heartbreaking and even though I support way more gun control, it upsets me when democrats try to say this isn't ALSO a mental healthcare access issue. We need both.
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  8. Can we please stop turning abusive management practices into complimentary words?
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  9. "Good enough" is your best friend and ally against perfectionism. Use it as a mantra, eat it for breakfast, say it in the mirror. You can also do a little exposure therapy and purposely get a few answers wrong on a test (still pass, though) or leave that "one last spot" dirty when you clean. My therapist has a saying: "B's get degrees" and because of my illness I've had to just let go on a few assignments and be ok with it. Also, get impatient! Say "I'm sick of working on this project, it's boring, I want to move on to the next thing! These are some things that have helped me. Still hard to start a music project or something else I'm passionate about because I genuinely WANT it to be super awesome, but yeah, progress is being made.
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  10. Psychology as a field was created by men snd dominated by men until recently, and yes, research is poor on women thanks to a long history of sexism in healthcare and research. Very frustrating to deal with as a lady.
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  11. Saw an article quoting Trump saying, "Elon won't go home. I can't get rid of him. Until i don't like him." This will be the Leopards Eat My Face/Surprise Pikachu Face of the millenia.
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  12. As a woman who has been in a male dominated industries and spaces, THIS is one of the most terrifying aspects.
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  13. That's what hoarding does to the people around you. My mother was a hoarder and we couldn't have friends over, family rarely came, and we rarely went anywhere because mom's safety zone was her hoard. It's this massive "secret" everyone knows about that must be protected at all costs. It's horribly isolating and incredibly destructive to everyone it touches, like alcoholism. It's awful growing up in an environment where your shoes from ten years ago are more important than you.
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  14. Microsofts overall strategy in every industry they enter is to buyout competition and let it die until the Microsoft singularity is reached. Our anti-trust laws are terrible in the US and also don't account for mega corporations that cross multiple industries and can buy any good idea. Patent laws for software are also messed up. We need to change this stuff for the tech industry to change.
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  15. My dad worked at a casino with the security systems. Apparently there was a slightly higher win rate at the slots by the doors so people coming in were more likely to see others winning. They could choose when a jackpot was won as well. Gambling is insane and predatory and it only gets worse when code is involved because you can hide EVERYTHING. Regarding the selling of items from boss drops, that's already against the rules in games if not against the law. That behavior gets you removed from the game by the devs or companies. Even with that, you KNOW what you are getting. It's not a hidden box with a hidden drop rate that advertising skewed the chances of you actually getting that rare drop. As to whether bosses with random drops should be banned, I would say no, as long as real money isn't involved. However, know that game developers and publishers ARE trained in and research psychological tactics to keep you playing, just like casinos. Keeping you playing is their number one goal and we don't have laws that protect consumers from being psychologically "hacked" by entities that only want your money. Be wary, especially if you have kids, and kids susceptible to addiction, because developers and publishers are getting better at figuring out how to get you addicted. Watch what your kid plays, research it, and make the decision whether or not they should play it. I went to a school specifically for game design and am still in the community of game devs. This is a topic that comes up often. There is a website called GameDeveloper (formerly known as Gama sutra) that has a lot of good articles about game development, monetary practices, and other industry news. It's a good way to educate yourself.
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  16. I dont know that crossing your arms is default bullying. I do it when im thinking hard, to communicate displeasure, and because im cold lol. Very situational and needs context.
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  17. Wow, what a quack. Hope you find a good one soon.
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  18. Ah yes, threatening to harm people if you don't get what you want is 1000% the most effective way to get others who are afraid of you to help you. Yup. Seems logical, Captain.
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  19. Country roads has become too real now.
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  20. I think it would also be helpful to add appropriate government officials' and oversight bodies' offices that are SUPPOSED to be preventing these two companies from doing exactly this. Laws that make this process unprofitable are usually more effective, lasting, and widespread than targeting the reputation of a single company that has already made it very clear they are fine with doing heinous things to make a buck.
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  21. I lived in a women's shelter for six months--i was the youngest at 28 and most were 40s, 50s, and older. The gossip and garbage from some of the women was DISGUSTING. I hid in the basement and still somehow made friends with almost everyone, probably by not participating in the gossip and bullying. 😂
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  22. Increasing privacy rights in the US or wherever you may be from will not affect a company based in China. That's not how international company laws work. CHINA would have to ban TikToks collection of data. Laws we make only affect companies based in our countries, like YouTube or Facebook.
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  23. Hug your bros, compliment your bros.
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  24. This American fully supports you.
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  25.  @itsLantik  I actually was able to catch him before he became unstable or dangerous, but I could clearly see the potential for it if someone didn't step in right then. He was just a socially awkward, weird kid that tried too hard to fit in, and every attempt he made was met with ridicule, ostracization, and the worst bullying I had ever seen in a public setting. They TORTURED this kid until he snapped and got into trouble, just like in JC's story and they even stole his trombone, which I think was over a $1000! Filled me with rage! 😡 Actually, now that I think about it, I might have wound up punching someone before he did. 😆 I'm just glad I could help and give him that support and I hope his life has gotten much better, because he deserved it.
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  26. Skillshare and Curiosity Stream are also good ones. I'm interested in, but haven't tried Brilliant.
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  27. I think...what I'm hearing in your statement is "give men girlfriend or men get violent", which...isn't a particularly positive spin on mens' emotional capacity and will almost universally get a negative response from women.
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  28. To add to that: It is WAY more dangerous for kids to be online than outside.
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  29. They are going to. Stock up. Get an implant now. I have endometriosis and adenomyosis. My hysterectomy is Jan. 3. I will never be a brood mare.
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  30. Slammin' Gavels would be a great band name...
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  31. You hate it but youve decided it's permanent instead of seeking help to change your views and process your trauma?
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  32.  @dakota9821  Not even close, mate. The return of child labor is ALL republicans. I've been following this development for years.
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  33. I always wanted to do a "period yoga" calendar showing all the ridiculous poses I've struck trying to relieve pain. Sometimes the best is draping myself face down over a footstool placed under my midriff and bending my legs at the knee so my feet were straight up in the air.
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  34. ​ @Andre_the_Lion  I think it was less the bad morality pushing and more the "all morality is subjective" and "I don't judge" ideology that wrecked things.
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  35. The youngest age you can become president is 35. That's in law. Why are they complaining about someone 24 years older than that? 😂
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  36. I'm more inclined to believe the head tooth on the cougar is from the second explanation. That looked like a fully formed lower jaw and teratomas usually are indistinct masses of tooth, hair, fat cells, and sometimes eyes. They're formed by stem cells that got the wrong memo and should have been something else. They often occur in genitalia (ovaries and testes) and are just as horrifying as they sound.
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  37. Beautiful. Absolutely stunning protest.
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  38.  @zenthedying91  Maybe, but there are a disgusting amount of people who believe that line of thinking.
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  39. I just can't accept this as an excuse anymore. We've had the internet at our fingertips for decades now and all it takes to start learning these things is googling "how to manage a household" "how to clean a house" "how to care for a child" and there are millions of articles and resources; guides on what to learn when you move into an apartment, and so much more. Should your parents have taught you? Yes. But they didn't and now you have to fill in the gaps and learn yourself--not rely on your SO to tell you how. I have been doing this since I was 14, in 2004, and it's only getting easier and more accessible. The most important thing is to start putting in some sincere effort to learn this stuff.
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  40.  @SadisticSenpai61  Ah yes, the ever convenient human anatomy design that is the "Butt Canal".
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  41. ​ @annetheelf8174 Shoot, I didn't realize men got all the humor genes. I better turn in my clown nose and egregiously large shoes. I'm keeping the rainbow wig, though. You can pry that from my cold, dead, definitely-not-equipped-with-a-buzzer hands.
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  42. Eh, i both do and dont disagree. I love teaching and understand some people just get screwed by life and dont know where to get started, but i have ZERO patience now for people who cant do even a basic google search on "how to clean an apartment" or "easy recipes" or other absolutely bare minimum adult skills. I have kind of a unique perspective though, as I'm disabled and i don't have as many ways to contribute to a relationship on an equal basis so teaching an eager student who is awesome in many other ways makes me feel like i truly bring value to the relationship. I get to live out my dream of being Yoda, and he gets to live out his dream of being Luke. 😂
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  43. That sucks and I'm glad research is being done on alternatives, but until those alternatives are found, I, and many others, require pain medication to function AT ALL in daily life. I know too many people turning to alcohol, harder drugs, and suicide because their pain is not able to be controlled by current alternatives to opioids.
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  44. Disabled woman here: Absolutely cannot afford them.
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  45. ​ @Adreitz7  "Had" regulations, if you're in the US. 🥲
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  46. Hernia...a cosmetic surgery... That's unfortunately a new one for me.
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  47. Dude, Im a woman, I've lived in poverty most of my life--I get not having much extra cash for fun stuff. There are a million things that are great to do as first dates that cost zilch or very little that can show who you both are far better than expensive dinner: the classic walk in the park/beach, board game shops (co-op or team activities are AWESOME at building attraction and learning about someone), any sort of free event around your town or city, museums often have free days, my dream date would be finding a bunch of weird books in a library or bookstore, studying together. Anything that puts your focus primarily on eachother and working something out together. I've got easy portable card games i like to bring to places where i want to learn about other people. I'll also bring my art and photography or show them my music. Anything to springboard a conversation. Weird animal facts are the MOST universally good awkward silence fillers I've found. 😂 Everyone likes at least one kind of animal. Also i really like to listen to people geek out about things they're passionate about-'you just gotta make sure you don't completely dominate the conversation with your geekout.
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  48. Thank you for the giggle in these depressing, terrifying times.
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  49. I think I, as a white girl, will now start a dogmeat restaurant just to get everyone to shut up about immigrants doing it. Dogs are animals. It's not a big deal if someone eats dog. Not YOUR pet dog, but this "certain animals are wrong to eat" is dumb. I had guinea pigs as pets. They eat guinea pigs in Peru. I personally won't eat it, but It's what works for them. Who's up for some German Shepherd's Pie?
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  50. This is the first thing you've posted, Dr. K, that I have to HARD disagree on, and following this advice could be actively dangerous, ESPECIALLY for women. I agree that people in this online era have become too willing to bail on a relationship when the waters get rough, but you should not actively pursue red flags. This is what abusers tell people, and I'm confused by the blinders you seem to have put on in this video.
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  51. Seattle and all the surrounding area is a nightmare because of this tech pay imbalance.
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  52. Im disabled. The best i could do is stock up on rice and i got my passport last year. And try to build community in this bloody anti-social country.
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  53. ​ @baph0met I have multiple guys who asked me out that I turned down and we're still excellent friends. There is another path.
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  54. I make friends with people at the grocery store and pharmacy i see regularly. Neighbors exist. Expand your idea of the types of people who can be friends--not just people in your age group or hobby. I have friends from the ages of 20 to 72. Be interested in others' hobbies and lives. Also volunteering is usually free and a great way to meet people
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  55. ​ @truthache8560  People dont learn what they dont want to. All your doing is forcing a kid to live abused and unwanted.
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  56. Dead peoples' voices being traded around like magic cards...
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  57.  @NLTops  I use "genuinely kind guy". Hopefully that isn't catchy enough for them to steal...
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  58. You might be experiencing a form of Dissociation, which can be a response to trauma. Research it a bit and see if it sounds like you then talk to your doctor/therapist about it.
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  59. This is where I like to remind people there are a lot of overlapping symptoms between different mental (and even physical) disorders and we can't definitively say which one it is with only this brief snapshot of one interaction. Thus is why armchair psychology and self-diagnosing can be so dangerous.
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  60.  @afflatus85  I think the idea that you are willing to ignore or not support incredibly good investigative journalism exposing huge issues because he doesn't support this one issue you do--no matter how important it is to you--MAY be exactly what he is poking fun at. I believe this is also many peoples' gripe with leftist (and let's be honest, righties do the same often enough, though I see it much more commonly in the left wing) politics and policies.
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  61. Good gravy. People in this chat acting like western religions never had their "disrespectfully or ignorantly destroy God's creation" phases as their countries industrialized.
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  62. Leopards leopards leopards nom nom nom
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  63. My favorite is still The Ankle Breaker, the GLASS bridge in VENICE, made by some froofy hot designer architect that needs to be fined for every injury on that nightmare and have his license taken away. Second place goes to the concave glass skyscraper that melts cars and streets with the sun rays it focuses.
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  64. This is what hoarding does to the people around you. My mother was a hoarder and we couldn't have friends over, family rarely came, and we rarely went anywhere because mom's safety zone was her hoard. It's this massive "secret" everyone knows about that must be protected at all costs. It's horribly isolating and incredibly destructive to everyone it touches, like alcoholism. It's awful growing up in an environment where your shoes from ten years ago are more important than you. And now my sister is a hoarder too.
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  65. ​ @dillymiro9672 I'm curious now. Why would you want to be in a romantic (not just sexual) relationship with someone you aren't even interested in being friends with? Are you thinking only of short term bang bang? Because if you're looking for successful long term, you're definitely going to want to be with someone you would also consider a friend. You ARE going to have to spend a ton of time around them, after all.
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  66. I live around moderately wealthy to wealthy tech people. They mostly don't care about clothes and visual appearances, but dear god, the amount they spend on fancy gadgets and events (hosted or otherwise) is IMMENSE. And those expenses are absolutely used as bragging rights and d*ck measuring contests.
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  67. I really just want to put out there that the excuse of "my parents didn't teach me" is just not as effective nowadays when we have The Internet in our pockets and accessible almost 24/7 (some countries and locals may differ). I grew up in a household that didn't teach me anything, even when I asked, so the second I got internet access I started teaching myself, at age 14 (2004). There are still gaping holes in my knowledge that my parents should have filled, and it was waaaay harder than it would have been if I had effective parents, but you can literally type "how to take care of a household" in Google and get a million articles and videos.
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  68. ​ @harringt100  In the military, actually.
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  69. I'm a 32 year old woman and this massive backslide is so, so depressing.
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  70. I would encourage everyone watching this to send it to educators, education administration, and whatever school board you're familiar with. Parents too. Everyone should see this.
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  71. I'm in a state where we've had mail-in ballots for at least as long as I could vote (15 years, now). I became disabled 12 years ago, and if I didn't have access to voting via mail-in, I wouldn't be able to vote.
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  72. ​ @Noqtis Tell me how to market my art in a field so overabundant with AI generated crap (often generated using a piece an artist finishes and is trying to sell) that consumers are sick of looking for new art.
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  73. Mr. AI forgot disabled people in that third one
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  74. There better have been an insert of the butterfly effect cause I need the picture in my head to get more absurd.
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  75.  @boooooooga  It is. The recording of it is so, so much more insane. Yongyea has it in his video on Unity situation.
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  76. This is the same exploitation of altruism you see in the medical field with nurses, family doctors, nursing assistants, medical assistants, home healthcare aids, psych ward technicians. Overworked, underpaid, in incredibly unsafe conditions for patients and providers alike.
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  77. This is in large part due to many cultures forcing men to bottle all their emotions other than anger. If you aren't even allowed to feel those emotions, you don't learn how to deal with them. The same holds true for women getting angry. If we do, we're being over emotional or "b******", no matter how reasonable it is.
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  78. I know this is a very hard concept for many people to understand in this comment section, but if a disabled person works enough to lose medicaid but can't work enough to buy insurance, they will become too sick too work (often sicker than before they started working) or die. That'll be all.
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  79. Please dont insult us dorks like that.
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  80. ​ @pinkeysherbet22  I can cry or laugh. One of those leads to a better headspace for me and millions of others to avoid despair and do something. Also why do we now care for the feelings for a group whose platform has been "facts over feelings" and making fun of lefties for being snowflakes? If you aim to convince someone, you have to understand and use their language and logic. Could it be they don't like their logic and they couldn't see that until it was laid against them by "the snowflakes"?
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  81. Welcome to sociopathy: what others need is a waste of time and space, what I need is of the utmost importance.
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  82.  @joshpetit44  Apathy is an even bigger reason. Hyper-individualism is a huge reason, too.
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  83. ​@blepware Make friends with them. It's always fun to have friends your age to get the memes and whatnot, but having friends outside your age or generation can garner you insight and stories, advice and unique opportunities. It's unfortunate that we in the west disparage intergenerational relationships (I don't mean dating) so much because it has been something that has helped me immensely in my incredibly isolated life (born in 90s).
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  84. People see it, they just don't want to do anything about it (OMG extra work to go to a local town or county representative meeting maybe once or twice a year for a few hours) and believe they can't do anything to stop it.
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  85. Republicans
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  86. ​ @rumpleforeskin9543  STINK ANGEL??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  87. Get me off the Merry-go-round of Stupid. 😭
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  88. Surface tension is a crazy thing
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  89. Correct. I am one of those disabled people.
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  90. Yeah, the hunt for a good one is an absolute pain, but the good one is very much worth it.
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  91. Fun fact: The shape of human breasts actually makes it harder for babies to breastfeed. The shape was entirely evolved due to sexual selection, not for breastfeeding practicalities. Have fun incorporating this into your discussions!
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  92. ​​ @musicaeclectica  It'll be the end for a lot of people. Like, sure, Hitler was eventually vanquished, but millions of jews, disabled people, and other "undesirables" were ended far before they could ever see even the war start, let alone be won.
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  93.  @Berkhay  No, no, it is absolutely NOT your fault. You were manipulated, lied to, used, and abused. Please don't think it is your fault.
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  94. At this point we should just start telling them to hire the stockholders, because that's who they care about.
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  95. Pfffft, I embraced the cringe and amplify it just to upset others lol
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  96. Cool, let's see you take the risk of life in jail or sacrifice your ability to work and provide for your family to help someone. Really easy to judge someone who has to face a moral dilemma you yourself have no concept of or risk of knowing. 🙄
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  97. RUN. AWAY.
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  98. Science needs a good number of high-quality, large sample studies to prove something, and these studies will direct policies and laws around the world.
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  99. ​ @NoctLightCloud  How young? I'd say this is smart to start doing in your teens so you can learn how your world works and how to make a difference in it. Which is a major counter to the endless nihilistic hopelessness of the internet. I sure wish I could have done it.
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  100. Garbodor and Trubbish are sad at the comparison, too.
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  101. I mean that one dude got a fish to play the stock markeet...maybe we could get him to do a googly eyed rock pachinko.
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  102. Except it's the only way to learn how to deal with it when you're randomly exposed to a trigger in life. I've had dozens of phobias and worked through them all. The worst one was of vomit. Because you can't necessarily avoid it. I worked through it and now im over it. I know others whose parents try to help them avoid any trigger of that phobia and now they can't even EAT because the encouraged avoidance reinforces the idea that it is too frightening to confront. And ANYTHING can be a phobia or trigger. It is absurd to expect every human to know and be responsible for others' mental safety--which is actually MY biggest trigger after having been held responsible for my parents' mental health my entire childhood.
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  103. Here's the thing, though: neglect IS abuse. While I understand where avoidant behaviors come from and empathise, the damage of not acknowledging you have a problem and getting it treated is very severe to others. I do not agree with calling wariness around people with behaviors that cause so much damage a stigma. This isn't like schizophrenia where the OVERWHELMING majority are harmless. These are behaviors that have quite seriously destroyed lives. I also think it encourages people to stay with relationships that are not healthy trying to "fix" someone who isn't willing to fix themselves. Our trauma is our own to fix; others can only assist, but we can't overburden or expect others to just deal with our crap because trauma put it there.
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  104. 1 day??? 😳
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  105. That case makes me think zombies are even more of a moot point than ever.
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  106. Rugged individualism! Yaaaaaaayyyyyyy!!!
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  107. Holy shit have none of you people been taught in school about how to deal with an emergency like this??? You gtfo of the car asap and RUN. Away from the tracks in the direction of the train to avoid the death shrapnel from collision. I learned this in freaking kindergarten and it was in driver's ed.
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  108.  @daunted232  I can almost guarantee the same reaction would be had if menstruation was shown in a game.
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  109.  @dstorfer  What, did nobody tell you about the complimentary Ferrari and mansion we get on entry into the system?
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  110. I guess the oddity is him claiming some sort of medal of bravery for going down in a sub in an industry that was already very safe except for the dummies last year.
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  111.  @AceRasputin  ...Do you know that $12,940 is a lot less than even $30,000? Maybe instead of forcing disabled people to live in hideous decrepitude, we should push for ALL of us to get universal healthcare so NONE of us have to deal with this crap.
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  112. Can we start protesting as intensely over corporate price gouging for food?
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  113. So glad to hear his progress is positive! He deserves it!
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  114. ​ @gsf23  I'd vote for that as a Dem.
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  115. ​ @nesamdoom Actual shit > Shit advice takes notes vigorously
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  116. I looked at a map of the US this morning showing what states allow what forms of abortion. It's not even close to 90%.
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  117. Yes. It is a terrible thing. Not just compassion, but also admiration for sociopathic/psychopathic traits.
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  118. China and South Korea have it on a whole nother level, though. Though I'm afraid we're heading towards something like in this vid in the US and it's genuinely terrifying.
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  119. For me, it's helpful to view that listening i do as extremely important and helpful, even if it doesnt solve the larger problem. A lot of that stress comes from feeling helpless in the face of someone's suffering and viewing things in this manner counteracts that.
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  120. Correct. Also India is not a happy place for women and that could be affecting this guy in particular. Actually when I look at these gurus' comments on other websites, it's mostly Middle Eastern, Indian, and Southeast Asian guys. All areas not known for treating women well.
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  121.  @obligatoryusername7239  Pepper spray or a tazer are considerably less lethal and permanently wounding options than a gun...and considerably more favored by the courts.
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  122. Yes. They have very high cognitive empathy so they can figure out what makes people tick even though they don't have affective empathy. If they are VERY good they can even perfectly mimic emotions for short periods.
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  123. ​@a.j.crowan296 Pfffft. They don't want a trophy; they want a parade.
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  124. ​ @SpaceBethC131  Wow, not gonna adopt and save kids because "it takes too long"? You care so much about the 453,000 kids in the adoption foster system. Such conviction to your beliefs that "takes too long" stops you.
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  125. I like to say it's a 60/40 split between doing the work yourself and support from others. At least that's what I think for mental illness.
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  126. Wow i want to draw your "Day of the Near-Dead" description. 😂
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  127. Well, according to the men in the video, five-child, eight-child, then ten-child policy are the order.
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  128. 42!!!!
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  129. I'm in the US and I just tell those people the number for the hotline to report social security fraud. If they then complain about taking a few minutes to call and report those friends they see faking disabilities, then I get to throw out "You'd rather end the lives of millions of disabled people than make a phone call to stop that fraud you see? Yes? You are legitimately a terrible person."
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  130. Mmmm, I have to disagree. Often abusers have serious mental health issues themselves and come from terrible households yet can still choose ignorance over compassion and empathy even for those going through the exact same stuff they did. I find it more accurate to say people are separated into two types: those who have suffered and never want others to suffer what they did, and those who have suffered and feel everyone's life should be as difficult as theirs. It's a bit of an oversimplification, but as I grow older, it seems more and more true.
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  131. I'm confused. You say there is no third space where you are then immediately describe for most of your post what exactly a third place is. Make friends with your fellow goat shepherds. Then meet their friends. Networking friends grows exponentially.
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  132. I dunno, i think my vote for worst post Roe V Wade story is the 9 year old girl who was carrying her grapist father's child who had to drive out of state to get an abortion. Any girl that age would have to get a c-section to survive birthing. Ohio, it was, i believe. That being said these stories are ALL going into a collection of most horrifying news headlines ever read, as far as im concerned.
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  133. Oooooof that's outdated.
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  134. ​ @Crowvithian  Valuable information. You have completely changed my view of the discussion in this thread. 🧐
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  135. ​ @tradermunky1998  I loved programming. I didnt love the sexual harassment and constant questioning of my expertise. I left.
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  136. ​ @alphacentauri8083  Surgeon psychopaths are absolute terrible nightmares for the field. The lack of concern for the patient and awful abuse of underlings has helped wreck the medical field and is what started the extremely dangerous long hours of medical professionals. Non-psychos are arguably better at anything once they learn how to manage their emotions, CERTAINLY in any field relating to people.
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  137. It's insane. I don't like abortion, mind you, but I can't imagine demanding someone to carry a fetus or baby or whatever you want to call it with severe health problems that will almost guarantee death within months of birth to full term. That's cruel. People find out they have health problems that pregnancy will exacerbate to dangerous levels but they don't necessarily know before the pregnancy. We don't even have support for good maternity leave. We have a severely underfunded and abused foster system. People want to pull back government benefits as much as possible. Birth control isn't 100% effective. Government benefits that include child support aren't there for the parents, they're there for the KIDS. Taking them away in some misguided belief that it will reduce people who aren't capable of taking care of kids is ONLY going to hurt the kids.
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  138. COMPRESSORS, MAN. THIS IS WHY WE USE COMPRESSORS WHEN MIXING. I'm a composer with misophonia and that song was pure agony. 🤣
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  139. Yes. The film, made by a Korean, dealing with a variety of common issues in cultures across SE Asia, was very popular in said cultures. Truly a shock.
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  140. I'm just going to quietly bookmark this and show it to every human being I know...
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  141. Thank you. I needed to hear your story. I went to college for software engineering and wound up disabled and unable to work for the next 12 years. I just got my health well enough last year at age 34 and it often feels too late. The current political/economic instability is not helping that thought.
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  142. Yeah I have misophonia, a severe sound sensitivity and I'm in the same boat.
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  143. ​ @mikey-wl2jt  The lawyer can get a maximum of $7,200 or 25% of the beneficiary's backpay, whichever is less, by federal law.
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  144. You are right, but a huge factor in that overprotectiveness is the same information, news, science, algorithmic nightmare overload that's making teens so depressed. Life is getting infinitely more complex, we're finding more and more out about how health, environment, social status, relationships, and more factor into a kids development and parents are overwhelmed by the amount of information and the pressure to adhere and be perfect in raising our kids is higher than ever before, while social support (in the US) has been declining. And don't get me started about how black box algorithms push content to make us more paranoid. 😤 We need serious tech regulations and increased social support for parents so they don't have to feel so obsessive over their kids.
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  145. Have you tried having a lot of money?
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  146. Freedom costs a buck 'o fiiiiive. Ok I'm sorry back to serious talk.
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  147. "There once was a barnacle soooo ugly, everyone died. The End" Only joke I could think of in light of such a serious issue.
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  148. Well, Dr. K's channel is oriented towards and focuses on a male audience. I'm not sure this is the place for that.
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  149. I'm childless and I care about kids. The ways I care most are in education and abuse. I care that kids get a good education and feel safe in schools (both of which we are failing miserably at, by the way). I care that there is a good social safety net for children of all ages in abusive households and for young adults exiting such houses. We're also utterly failing in those areas, too. If you can't manage to make yourself care about kids for them, then do it because these are going to be our coworkers and our nurses in the future and having a bunch of terribly educated, developmentally stunted adults is going to be VERY BAD.
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  150. Oh my god.
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  151. Can we just...stop idolizing man-babies? Please?
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  152. Good to know my local casino has better discretion than Twitch/Lenovo in shutting down a ride that caused a severe injury.
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  153. Dr. K, i don't know what has happened in the past few months on your channel, but the comments and community is getting far, far more vitriolic and alarming than, say a year ago.
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  154. Dang, I didn't know most jobs could get me pregnant due to faulty equipment or bad practices. Looks like I'm never getting a job. 🤷‍♀️
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  155. This is not how I expected we'd end up eating the billionaires...
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  156. ​ @jesschace  Or...anything with internet. Or if you're AROUND anyone with a device connected to the internet.
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  157. FOR EGGS!!! 🥚🇺🇲🫡
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  158. Honey, the AI overlord is broken again
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  159. Narcissism at it's purest and finest
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  160. Easy: America worships money and people believe meritocracy is real, therefore rich people have to be geniuses and highly competent because they have a lot of money. This is so deeply ingrained in our culture that it would completely upset people's entire worldview and concept of justice to admit that might not be true. And humans do not like to challenge their deeply held beliefs. Because it's bloody hard.
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  161. What in the world? That is so bizarre.
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  162. BOO! You're now talking to a woman right here on youtube now! IMMA SPOOKY!!!!
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  163. Oh boy! I getta pull out my 90s elementary schoolyard lingo, like meanie pants and butthead. Except butthead might be too harsh here.
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  164. ​@gavinjenkins899 Are you arguing that a piece of software should have the same rights as a human being?
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  165. Why didnt you find a different therapist along with looking for tools?
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  166. PLOT TWIST!!!
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  167. I love that if I buy someone a meal with my foodstamps, I risk jail time of up to 15 years and fines of over $15,000 (more than 10 times my monthly income), but these rich folk can embezzle millions and millions and evade all the taxes and get a laughable slap on the wrist.
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  168.  @wendy_knits  I grew up in an abusive family and 32 years later I'm still suffering daily for it. My mom had two abortions before giving birth to her first, my older brother. I think about that a lot. I wonder how much worse the abuse would have been with 5 kids instead of 3. I wonder how fucked up and broken they would have been. I can say all day "they could have gotten out and saved the rest of us" but the reality is life most likely would have been much worse for all of us. They may have actually been the lucky ones. This is so awful and apparently one of the justices said they have the cases establishing contraceptives, gay marriage, and gay relationships in their sights next. What do we do? I'm already in a state with senators that are against overturning these and vote accordingly, but what do we do????
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  169. Rant everywhere you can. People seeing the reality of the system and not their ignorant fantasy is what will actually get this to change.
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  170. ​ @Fropito That's called emotional neglect and can be just as, if not more damaging than physical neglect sometimes.
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  171. I mean, this is the real purpose of comedians: to criticize what is conventially "uncriticizable". Comedians aren't bound to the same expectations and laws that a straight news journalist working for the scumbags we need to talk about might be. So it's not really sad, just appropriate.
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  172. I wonder if the loss of teeth in birds is related to feathers? Seems like it's easier to preen and keep feathers clean without damaging them if you have no teeth.
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  173. Yuuuuup.
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  174. WE GETTIN ALL HORIZON ZERO DAWN UP IN HERE
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  175. I mean, you ARE interviewing them. For one of the most important positions for you: a long term partner and potentially the parent of your kids. Do you NOT want to screen people for something so important and with no takesies backsies?
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  176. Yeah, a job entirely dependent on how pretty men think you are that inevitably attracts the worst type of men, just...isn't empowering. The real moral failure in society though, is failing so utterly to pay adequate wages in all other jobs that women see sex jobs as the only viable option...and are way too often right in feeling that way.
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  177. ​ @br3669 Bingo. Get out there and be the better leaders you proclaim to be.
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  178. Hard disagree. The major problem is men relying solely on their girlfriends for emotional comfort and safety. If you are not comfortable with the amount of emotional display, YOU need to communicate that YOU are not available for that kind of support, NOT that men should only open up to their girlfriends. You do not speak for me or millions of other women who support their guy friends.
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  179. Disabled here too. It's taken me ten years of struggle and research since I had to leave college the first time for health reasons to accept that there simply is no place for me in work culture as it stands in the US today. I CANNOT physically work more than part-time, cannot do physical labor, cannot do long hours at a screen, and that puts me out of most jobs and definitely out of range for healthcare, which I, y'know, kind of need to not die and keep working. So I've basically given up trying to get out of poverty and now I'm becoming a disability advocate in the tech world and spitting all over the way it's structured until it, and other industries, change to allow people like me a chance to work.
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  180. That's...actually an interesting point I've never thought about before.
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  181. ​@WrottJackson Mate, that message cup wasn't given "just because a woman was talking to a guy", it was given because baristas experience a ton of shitty customers, and that includes men aggressively hitting on them (ie not taking no for an answer). Context is important for these observations.
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  182. Why...would you stream to children in your underwear?
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  183. ​ @ian_snow I have seen multiple guys in this comment section calling this gal a 5/10 and others complaining that the only women they match with are unattractive/ugly and refuse to date them, so I don't think that's an entirely accurate statement.
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  184. What are you using to learn?
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  185. THEY REQUIRE THE OTHER LEG AS SACRIFICE!!! THE OLD GODS MUST BE SATED!!!
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  186. I'd rather just get the software I buy and not get future updates. It's a huge pain to relearn a ton of features and muscle memory every few weeks/months.
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  187. Good god I'm sorry. Are you in any support groups for VAs? Online or off? I find those are the best places to find those out of the way resources you aren't told about. And making friends with someone who has worked in law has been one of the best things I've done for myself. Even if they don't know the ins and outs of disability laws, they have a network of lawyers that may have one in they can get advice from. Heck, even asking on a VA or law advice reddit might get you what you need to know.
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  188. Ladies and gentlemen, as someone who has personally seen WAY too many dark sides of humanity, you will be right FAR more often if you assume every insane story on the internet you read is true. Yeah, the world and people are that f'd up.
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  189. This is a direct result of streamers and gamers severely misusing IPs. Yes, Nintendo did stupid things regarding streamers many years ago before streaming took off and they finally acknowledged it could be good for business, but that is not what is happening now. Now, we're seeing far far more modders demanding payment (and often getting it) for mods they make using Nintendo IP, poorly attempting to skirt around copyright by setting up Patreon accounts that you "donate" to so they can keep making mods as a "hobby" (Unreal Ocarina of Time is an obvious one). The final straw for Nintendo's tolerance--because yes, they did have significant tolerance for fan made content and streamers for many years after the initial fiasco, no matter what you may think--was Pointcrow's egregious decision to put a $10,000 bounty on the Breath of the Wild multiplayer mod he was using. Simultaneously, we as gamers/modders are shooting ourselves in the foot, as we are claiming erroneously that these companies whose product WE are playing with that THEY own are greedy for wanting to make money off of THEIR product. Our own poorly thought out vigilantism led us to getting Bethesda to take down their mod shop which would satisfy BOTH parties' desire to make money off of their work. That was very, very dumb of us. That shows that we are not willing to be in a symbiotic, mutually beneficial business relations with the companies making the products we play. Modding has ONLY existed this long because it would train people on video game companies' engines that they would then directly hire if the modders made something good enough. That's why it has been allowed despite being technically illegal. We have not held up our part of the bargain and have been demanding everything in reeturn for nothing the past few years. The easiest way to deal with this as a company is blanket bans on mods and probably streaming eventually. And Nintendo is NOT the only company doing this. Companies who were very supportive of modding before are now putting bans out: Capcom being the latest one I saw. We have done this to ourselves and despite how shady the video game industry is, this was NOT the way to go about fighting back against the terrible practices it has. This wasn't even a terrible practice. This was one of the remaining GOOD ones and I am extremely upset at the gaming community for doing this. Modding has been incredible for learning to game dev, creative expression, and the disability community. But now that people have decided they should be paid with no regard or return for the work of the company whose engines and assets and music and IPs they want to make money off of, this is going to go away.
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  190. So...they're gigolos. Have fun finding out what happens when the person whose income you depend on dies or decides he wants something from you you don't want to give. And thanks for crapping in the punch bowl millions of women created over generations to prove we aren't just parasites. I'm sure the incels will love your content.
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  191. Point crow made a HUGE mistake, though. He said he'd release the mod he'd been using if he got $10,000, which he did. You DO NOT sell mods. That is VERY illegal, and as much as I like him and his content, he screwed up big time here.
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  192. ​ @onesob13  As someone who was homeless during the whole "we need to make a nicer term for the homeless" my city/state went through, i was pissed they wasted valuable council time on a pointless side quest rather than do something that would actually help the homeless.
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  193. It DOES take enormous mental effort. That's why the ones who get away with horrible things for so long are the smart ones. They need the processing speed high intelligence grants to mask with different people and come up with lies at the drop of a hat. The dumb ones get caught right away and don't function in society. Also remember they are practicing these manipulative skills their whole lives--they are professionals.
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  194. ​ @Momma_AL Yes
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  195.  @MrWyzdum  But you have to choose to change it.
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  196. Well, a lot of people are, but it's considerably harder to make changes happen in a country not your own with completely different labor laws.
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  197. I'd be ok with that. I have endometriosis. 😂
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  198.  @colleenbeyer4681  Adoption/foster is an underfunded over abused system that often leaves kids bouncing from home to home, plenty as abusive or worse than what they were put in the system for. Then when all this mental/physical damage is done, they're booted out of the system at 18 and left to fend for themselves. If all the people wanted to remove the option for abortion, THIS needed to be fixed FIRST.
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  199. ​ @TheFunkadelicFan  Nah, it was after WWII because the US didn't have their entire country and neighbors bombed near flat. Since Europe rebuilt though, it's been an out of control downward spiral. But hey, they're now saying it's women entering the workforce that is the reason the economy and men's job prospects are terrible.
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  200. ​ @bullcrapptv It's about that price for three where I live.
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  201. ​ @johnbees4443  The one that allows me to vote?
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  202. Oh my gosh beavers popcorn like guinea pigs!!
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  203. Pokemon games of this size will never be realized, functional, or polished in the 1-2 years development the devs are forced to work in thanks to the absurdity of the constant push for pokemon merchandise.
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  204. How about "smeckledorfed"?
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  205. Please stop taking away words and phrases I use to describe actual decent men, creepos!
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  206. SURPRISED STRIPPER-PIKACHU FACE
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  207. I think...every generation sucks at parenting and there's always been awful, neglectful, abusive parents who would do the easiest thing to get their kids to shut up. Before, it was physical abuse, drugs, TV, dumping your kid outside unsupervised all day, video games, and pre-social media internet. Now, the easiest go-to is a personal device with the entirety of the festering, designed-to-addict internet and it's looking like unlimited, unsupervised internet access at an early age might be just as damaging as giving your kids drugs. Which is terrifying.
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  208. ​​ @james15us  Really? Knowingly participating in and building an enormously predatory and destructive system isn't something you should feel guilty about? I feel like I've heard that before...😂 OP is in a crap situation, it's true, but he should not dissociate from his guilt and the morality of himself. Hopefully he sees his guilt as something important he should listen to and sees this job as a stepping stone to something more aligned with his morals. Encouraging the opposite is just "I don't care what they do as long as I get paid", which has led to MANY horrible crimes against humanity. Edit: you're "up to a point" is acknowledged.
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  209. So that body is getting adequately compensated with a retirement fund and pay equivalent to the teacher since it's been vital to the class and teaching for 10 years, right? 😆
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  210. Dang, if this was about pokemon cards, the Pica-chew joke you made me think of with this would be much better.
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  211. I didn't see any of the news and had no idea it was happening so when my phone started screaming I was surprised, but I saw the message and went, ah ok. What I DIDN'T expect was for it to happen a second time when I had just plugged my headphones into my phone, which gave me a sound-sensitivity-induced panic attack and expletive storm, with some thrown headphones into the mix. I would have appreciated a text warning for the warning before it happened and that it would be done twice. Also I am now under 5g mind control due to it, I guess.
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  212. Updoot for you lol
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  213. That lawnmower one would be straight out of King of the Hill. 😂
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  214. Well, shoot. As a USAmerican, I thought The Guardian was a good news source. I had no idea of the politics in Australia and that your country is facing the same "the press has gone nuts" issues. Bummer. IS there a good news source that isn't just millibillionaire corrupted? Is the stamp of approval in journalism to get your house firebombed? Man, and I thought medical license reviews were a rough form of vetting. Glad you and the neighbors are ok. Edit: maybe I was misunderstanding the context of the way The Guardians article was used.
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  215. And it's even more life-threatening this year! I love election season!
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  216.  @timheinrich3752  There is a hotline on the SSA.gov website to report social security fraud you see. Making a phone call is a better option than killing disabled people.
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  217. ​@dzrewn1 Dropped, as in, it's not increasing as fast as it has been yearly, not actually lowering. I think previously inflated prices decreasing back to previous years' prices overall is called disinflation.
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  218. ​ @ohiasdxfcghbljokasdjhnfvaw4ehr  That's a nice thought until you or a family member becomes very ill or disabled. Gig work is terrible until we de-link healthcare from work.
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  219. ​@carminescurse It's not $187 a day. It's $187 per job/per company. To use your analogy of a warehouse worker, that worker is paid $187 for one day's work, then they have to find a new warehouse company to work for. Eventually, the worker will run out of companies to work for and have made only a couple thousand in a LIFETIME, while those companies continue to make milli-billis from that one day's labor.
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  220. Lol, wait until you learn about immigration/emigration if you have a disability
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  221. Ah, yes, we must keep the poors out of the upperclass dating pool
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  222. And I hate seafood! 😢​ @BirdsOfSteel 
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  223. ​ @Anno335  If you're on the floor in any hospital, you're saving lives. The people who "only" handle linens and clean? Well, you work in the OR, you know how important it is to keep everything clean to stop the spread of infection. So even they are saving lives.
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  224. The ultimate display in dominance and confidence. 🤣
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  225. ​ @michellementh9651 OHHHH I need to start a "Love at first shite" brand now!!!
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  226. ​ @gandalainsley6467 I have heard all my life that men are better leaders than women. Guess what's part of leadership? Taking the personal risk to do the right thing.
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  227. Wait...are you serious?
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  228. ​@uncklassboy180 Holy bloody Mary, finally some sense in this thread.
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  229. I'm disabled and have been on housing lists that have a 7-10 year waiting list. Section 8 waiting list you have to be chosen by lottery TO GET ON. I didn't win. I've been stuck with my parents or homeless (parents again right now wahoo). If I don't make it to the top of the list may next year, I'll be homeless again because my dad's moving onto and island with the step-family then. Best part is I can't move to another country with a better support system because I'm disabled and would be a burden on their systems.
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  230.  @cjmhall  I feel that way about both women AND men. If you're passion project is something that won't end up with money coming in down the road and you're just sitting on your butt playing video games or just putting on makeup and buying clothes without contributing to the household through either childcare or doing every household chore, yeah, that's hella unattractive. And men SHOULDN'T date women like that either. Being a couple is being a team and if both members aren't contributing to the team to solve problems to a relatively equal degree, it's not healthy. I personally would be fine with being the breadwinner for a guy going to college, is a stay at home dad, or became disabled but they need to be doing the emotional/house labor just as women would do in those situation, which a TON of men are very resistant to even trying.
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  231. Look at you making me giggle in such dark times
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  232. ​@stylesrj Wanna trade? I get horny games, fake games, how to become an ultra buff alpha male, diet ads, history's most scandalous photos, 50 trillion fake healthcare products, and a statue of a dude bangin' a goat. I'll also throw in a Highly Suspect Anime Children in Underwear for free (largely due to the gamma radiation from these images causing my retinas to melt). Sometimes liking video games as a woman suuuuuuuucks.
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  233. ​ @ealusaid  Can I ask you what organization? Is it national? I'm trying to find disability communities to fight all this nonsense.
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  234. ​ @irm316  It literally means if Korean guys don't stop with the misogyny and evolve a little, they don't get to be with women. Why is "don't treat us as lesser beings if you want to interact and have a relationship and kids" such a hard concept to understand? 😮‍💨 Terrible, bad women for wanting to be respected and valued as people instead of as indentured incubators with legs. 😑
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  235. Emulating games is illegal. Please stop acting like any company who follows the laws that allow them to keep their IPs and continue making games is evil. I have pirated games in the past and even i can figure out emulating brand new games is sleazy as hell. Please stop talking about this before researching the laws around gamedev, Charlie. You are a great fella with a good heart, but you are creating animosity towards game companies that will wind up causing far more severe consequences for gamers down the line than not being able to pirate...like streaming games. We NEED to play by the law and show that we are a benefit to the makers of games or we will have that taken away from us too. We are already having modding chipped away because of the entitlement that has developed in the modding community.
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  236. I mean...I'd sure hate for my music to be associated with a...poop fetish toddler unicorn...
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  237. Any idiot can use a calculator--we dont need to teach them that after more than a month or two for graphing calculators. Do you not think it is important to understand​ the basics of your field to be able to learn and innovate in the advanced topics? These kids using AI are already falling apart when they encounter anything they don't understand and critical thinking and curiosity are dying because they can just put it into AI and still graduate. Do you want to work with that kind of cohort? Do you want to become the teacher at your job when they have a mental breakdown having to walk them through EVERY SINGLE STEP of the problem, the way teachers have to do now? The way employers are starting to have to do?
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  238. Sooooo many democratic jewish space hurricane lasers. Had to create a "global warming" conspiracy to cover for our ABSOLUTELY GOD-LIKE POWER OVER ALLLLLL.
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  239. This is so silly and I don't understand the running joke of Charlie clones still, but this is a hilarious wedding crash of an award show. Bravo. 🤣
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  240. ​​ @Weathernerd27  It's not from inflation. It's from the bird flus completely devastating our chicken populations, farm AND backyard.
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  241. I'm in a pretty big Indie scene and it's been absolute chaos since this announcement. The breach in trust caused by retroactively wrecking an agreed upon contract and the simultaneously demand to "trust their black box algorithm" to count installs has been the biggest driver. Unfortunately, all the crap Unity is doing is legal in the States thanks to this very problematic clause that is in almost EVERY software EULA: "To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Unity reserves the right from time to time to (and you acknowledge that Unity may) modify these Terms (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Additional Terms) without prior notice." -Unity License Agreement We desperately need consumer protections to be buffed and get decent regulations in the tech industry.
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  242. Ugh, how does, "I'm done," work in the following context: My parents have been extremely abusive and neglectful. I tried to get away from them but became disabled and dependent on them again when I was 20. The abuse got worse, their favorite tactic is to say "Look at everything I do for you" which amounts to $20 a month to be on their insurance plan as a disabled dependent and a roof over my head, SOMETIMES a ride somewhere. Everything else is up to me including upholding the emotional side of our relationship. My dad has kicked me out onto the streets because my brother was abuding and assaulting me. I wasn't necessary at the time because they wanted to make a cheap buck on having my man baby 35 year old brother be our grandfather's caretaker. He did a shit job and abused both me and my sister, but he is the wonderful golden child in the eyes of my family. I spent two years homeless (I don't have enough money for rent, can't work, and hadn't been approved for SSI at the time) living on $200/month in state support in addition to food stamps. Then I had to move back to my insane mother's because I ran out of shelters and couldn't handle the insanity anymore. I lived there for two awful years until I had a mental breakdown and wound up in the psyche ward. My dad finally realized I might not be ok and I have been living with him for two years. My dad is building a house on a nearby island with my step mom (who is her own special toxin along with her kids) and is going to dump me and my severely disabled sister onto the streets again when the house is done. I'm on a housing list and supposed to have gotten a spot six months ago. My sister and I do not have enough money together for rent anywhere. If I wind up homeless I will lose everything I have struggled to build since the last time and my sister will probably die. I'm going to tell my dad exactly how screwed we are with all the math and I'm going to have to talk about how traumatic my first time homelessness was. He's going to have to make a choice: continue to provide housing for his disabled daughters until my housing comes up, or condemn us and end our relationship. I am tired of EVERYTHING else being more important than me. I am tired of single handedly trying to improve our relationship. I am tired of being judged on no context. I am tired of being guilt tripped for the barest minimum provided. I am tired of absolutely no effort being made to learn or listen to me about my illness. If he decides his stupid fucking project and step family is more important than his very sick kids again, I am done.
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  243. Hecking applause, good sir!!!!!
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  244. What the crap is reality anymore???
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  245. ​@PhantomtheGuardian If the money from the Dave deal wasn't spent on the kids, the money from this would not be, either.
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  246. Pfffft we all know the cool kids are rockin' boxes.
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  247. Wow. This is NOT the kind of show I would have associated with the Scooby-Doo franchise. I'm genuinely surprised someone OK'd this bizarre fever dream.
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  248. ​ @zer0stars  Can you incorporate helping others into the definition of being the best you? It feels good, makes you feel connected and useful, plus you might be helping someone out of their own pit of despair or stress.
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  249. Psych wards and hospitals owned by them is even worse
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  250. ​ @outmywritemind1739  Dude, did you ever go to school? Most of the cheaters in my school were just lazy or it was their PARENTS who were failing them.
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  251. I'm already there, dawg. It is so much faster now than search engines to find in-depth knowledge on a subject, even if you have to reserve a book. It's really sad to see how crap the internet has become in regards to research.
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  252.  @reinodeforaminia8322  I think a more recent one to add to that list is health awareness thanks to scientific progress and greater access to medical info. We now are much more aware how mental health, physical health and genetics work to affect our kids and that's a pretty big deal to factor in.
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  253. Its one thing if it's repeated over and over again with no effort on the speaker to improve their life situation, but trauma dumping generally happens when someone is literally at the end of their rope and have no support system. Listening to them that ONE time could be what keeps them going over the edge. I hate how that phrase has made everyone i know afraid to talk about the bad things that happen in their life.
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  254. OOOHHHHHH BANANA!
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  255. I could probably bring some insight on Nintendo's position in this issue. My "credentials" are that I went to a specialized school for game design, programming and art (I was in the programming side of things). I had to leave due to developing a disability, but have stayed in the industry as much as I could by reading articles, watching videos, learning how the business works, keeping track of various social issues in the industry, and of course, watching streamers and playing games. Now I am part of the largest indie development group in my area (and a smaller one where I started), and have just started to become an advocate for accessibility in game/hardware design while making video game music and participating in game jams (where people get together and make a game in a VERY short amount of time). Also, I've participated in a few Smash and Mario Kart tournaments myself, but have since had to leave the smash community due to my disabilities, so I watch people like Hungrybox and Alpharad play it as I can't anymore. So. Nintendo. I do agree that many of their policies are absolutely stupid and anti-consumer/community and there are a few reasons for this. First, the business culture in Japan is VERY based on seniority and respect of tradition. The old hats make the rules and the young hats respect the rules. Which is why japanes game companies often seem so "stuck in the past". Second, Japanese game developers are very much supporters of "the developer intended way to play IS the right way to play" and they can be very hard line about this. Think: Masahiro Sakurai refusing to put in game cutscenes into Smash 4/Ultimate because players posted the Brawl cutscenes online (yes, he said this). Third, Nintendo is first and foremost a family-friendly company and they live on that public perception of them and their IPs. That last one is what most impacts the grassroots smash community the most, I believe, with developer intended play coming in second as Nintendo and Sakurai both have stated Smash is a party game, not a tournament game. Let's be a little honest with ourselves here: despite the fun we have with them, professional esports can be nasty, toxic, petty, abusive, disturbingly unregulated, unsafe, and straight up awful sometimes, and that culture can infiltrate down into more casual player experience (I just watched Why It's Rude to Suck at Warcraft by the Folding Ideas YTchannel that explains this effect in depth in WoW). In addition, I have read multiple stories of high level players in the Smash Tournament scene coming under investigation for sexual assault of minors and women, allowing minors into these tournaments where alcohol is often involved, abuse of players, and some other horrendous stories. Moist, you brought up how especially insane Smash Rage can get, and while we can go haha, in practice, this culture of out-of-control tempers can and do create a terrible, hostile, and sometimes dangerous community setting. Like League of Legends, infamous for it's toxicity. All of this is EXTREMELY not family-friendly, so I can understand Nintendo not wanting their IP, which they are legally obligated to defend in US copyright law to keep ownership over it, associated with the bad side of the FGC culture. And so, they want tight control over tournaments. Now, this Panda Allen guy sounds like just a nut CEO that wants to capitalize on the market and I'm curious what the contractual agreement Nintendo signed with Panda says that would maybe force them to cancel a tournament they clearly supported all throughout until Mr. Allen said no. This is highly unfortunate, as Nintendo sponsoring tournaments would allow for more enforceable regulation of player conduct and a safer tournament setting for all, while allowing for fun Smash communities to thrive. A very complex and sad issue. My condolences for you and your players, and all the other participants of this tournament.
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  256. Surprise. The over-hyped and oversized game, from an industry that is not legally required to deliver on advertised promises (in the US) and is almost impossible to return the purchase, is not what was expected! Making 1000 planets without reusing assets or procedurally generating it would be so prohibitively expensive they could never make enough money to equalize production costs. There would never be enough time to develop it. Something will ALWAYS have to be sacrificed to make it bigger. Wider but shallower. Please, don't believe these absurd promises--they just aren't possible. You're being bamboozled.
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  257. It's the natural progression of "We're like a family here!"
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  258. Yo, i lived in a shelter and many of the ladies had to get all their teeth removed. His lip smacking looks more like what the ladies did after their teeth removal thatn tardives. His jaw in some pauses also closes further than it could if he had teeth.
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  259. Thank God these aren't seen as a magic bullet anymore. Im so tired of hearing about serotonin. Now new medications will actually be incentivised. I'm "treatment resistant" and tried around 14 anti-depressants. One gave me tinnitus, one worked for a short time, one helped me more by the side effect of sleeping but i had to stop it for other side effects. I'm waiting for psilocybin to be approved by the FDA. Now if only they were looking for better alternatives to current day anti-anxiety meds and painkillers instead of just cutting people off who need them.
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  260.  @bertschumacher2097  Even then, mate, it's hard to call someone abusive from the WW2 era "less of a man", because the social stigma was so intense against not only men expressing feelings, but veterans even suggesting the idea that not everything they did was good was forbidden due to extreme propaganda. Add to that having garbage, equally stigmatized options for mental healthcare, your two options were to internalize and kill yourself or externalize to keep from killing yourself and unfortunately hurt people in the process. Often both would happen in varying degrees because there was no help or way to process the horrible, god awful shit you had seen. Whether you externalize or internalize feelings is affected a lot by things entirely out of our control: genetics, birth order, gender, how parents raised their kids. I'm not saying it's ok to abuse other people, just that abusers usually need as much help as those who are suicidal and we can't judge the past as accurately when we look with the lens of the now and all the resources, knowledge, and societal changes we've gained or had since then. I say this as someone who grew up in an abusive family, and the significantly differing effects it had between me and my two siblings are something I'm still struggling to understand. All three of us are or have been suicidal, anxious, filled with self loathing, anger issues, trust issues, confidence issues but these are expressed in different ways between us. My sister cut herself and is now struggling with hoarding, I'm beginning to numb and dissociate more, and my brother unfortunately is an externalizer and abuses others. You might say my sister and I are better people for only abusing ourselves, but I still remember my brother crying to me about how he was afraid he'd one day kill somebody in a rage and I can't not think about how if we all had had therapy at a much younger age, none of us would have been as fucked up as we are today. I don't speak to him anymore since his abuse turned towards me, but I really, really, really hope he gets into some kind of therapy before he DOES kill someone.
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  261.  @pigslam  Welcome to the ugly reality that most parents see their kids as property or assets.
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  262. FUCKING FINALLY. JESUS, THERE ARE A MILLION WEBSITES FOR THIS SHIT. I'M SICK OF IT BEING EVERYWHERE AND I'M A WOMAN FOR WHOEVER CARES.
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  263. Regarding the video with the music man and the police, I think a solution would lie in having social workers and police psychologists (the people who deal with hostage negotiations and more) stationed in police departments. We're basically trying to defuse the situation here to PREVENT crime and having these services readily available in case of an event like this would be very helpful. After researching a bit, I found that most police psychologists, otherwise known as forensic psychologists, are in private practices separate from police departments, which can cause a delay in help and make dealing with these types of lower key issues difficult. That's where social workers come in. In the US, we have such an extremely punitive view of the justice system and only a small number of areas are starting to tackle crime as a social and mental health issue and there is finally more talk about uniting the fields of social work and police work. This is imperative to prevent crime and "defuse the bomb before it explodes" and I hope would give social work a much higher station in the public eye. Right now, social work is a HORRIBLY under-valued, under-paid, under-staffed field and we DESPERATELY need social workers for our society to function on a basic level. Police just don't have the training an expertise to deal with many of these issues and while yes, police training can and should be adjusted and modified, they just cannot get the same expertise in psychology, negotiating, and services that the forensic psychologists and social workers have. Let the police be the shield and the psych and social be the "sword".
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  264. Cinema Therapy, Thor from Pirate Software, the Game Grumps, HealthyGamerGG, Critical Role (DnD roleplaying show), Dr. Glaucomflecken (hilarious skit comedian that talks about the silliness and insanity in the medical world), the Fire Department Chronicles (first responder comedian--there can be dark and frightening stuff as it's a career that deals with, well, responding to emergency 911 calls). Some of these are for more teenage or adult audiences, so if your kiddo is young, view them first on your own. All are on youtube. Cinema Therapy is a great one to find movies and shows with great role models to watch, too. There's a lot in the realm of nerds, psychology, healthcare, and teachers. Look for men who are in legitimate helper roles that care for their community and can laugh at themselves.
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  265. Awesome video as usual, mate. The music was a little loud in this one, though.
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  266. Why would you want to elect someone that makes everyday a game of russian roulette?
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  267. ​@seemlesslies Sexual assault is by definition unwanted sexual advances. As in, being groped or touched by someone you don't want groping or touching you. As in not positive. Or good. Like, no shit I only want the guy I'm attracted to to make sexual advances on me--it's viscerally unpleasant and often terrifying otherwise. That's why you have to make damned sure the person you wanna touch or make sexual comments about is ok with that, male OR female.
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  268. Surprise!
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  269. Y'know...I think I'm just going to start wearing one of those full body privacy suits from now on.
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  270. .............................
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  271. God help me this crap just makes me want to cry.
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  272.  @mattmarriott848  Because there's a huge gap before you reach that level of tax? Because 20% of hundreds of millions is still a ton of money to live life in luxury WITHOUT having the obscene amount of power hundreds of millions brings to a small amount of people?
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  273.  @mattmarriott848  Because the wealthy use myriad ways to store money and assets to where they aren't taxed. That percentage of income tax is far, far, less than 40% of their full wealth. We had 90% at one of the most prosperous times in the USA's history. I'd go as low as 80%.
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  274. ​ @ikeafanatic1749  Mate. That's the same as bloodline. Genes and race = bloodline.
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  275. ​ @averageaussieentertainment1817 If THAT'S the kind of guy you want to sit down and talk with, hoooooooooooo boy, youve got some very needed self-introspection to catch up on there. The dude is a 100% textbook narcissist (the real kind, not the social media "everyone's a narcissist" kind) and he would gladly wipe his %## with your hand if he could save a dollar and it could make him feel like a king.
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  276. ​@elizrebezilmadommdo1662 Nah, my mom's been a para educator for almost 20 years, and I almost can't believe the behaviors she's describing. Kids assaulting teachers, cussing at them, unable and unwilling to follow the simplest directions. And these are elementary school students. Even the kindergarteners. And there are zero consequences for students now, like, actually. No detention, no suspension, no expulsion, kids are rewarded with sweets at the principals' office, parent's don't care or actively accuse the teacher. There's been a noticeable decline for years, and the pandemic just poured gasoline on the fire. It's just insane. These kids are so screwed and it makes me so sad. I'm in the northwest US, by the way.
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  277. Why do so many sociopaths have blue eyes? Or is it just essier to see The Psychopath Stare because their eyes are blue?
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  278. I love when people freak out about cordyceps infecting humans. I'm over sitting in the corner thinking we already have that in rabies.
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  279. Birth control is not 100% successful. Why do people not know this? Oh yeah, preventing any and all forms of sexual education.
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  280. Most local stores died due to amazon, AKA big tech. The big box stores moved in to what was left.
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  281. That should be a sign on how serious this security risk is...
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  282. ​@thecombatwombat7652 Took all the words out of my mouth, you.
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  283. ​ @erikg8526  CLAPS FOR YOU DOZENS!!!
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  284. 343 probably has its own closet sexual harassment problems. It's an industry wide problem.
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  285. ​ @redcell9636  Give it a few months. Trump has already called our first amendment protected right to protest illegal.
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  286. ​ @PtYt24  Welcome to reason #324 why our culture of hyper-individualism is bad.
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  287. ​@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 um. Yes. That's how law enforcement works. You need to report crimes for them to do something about it. Like the police.
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  288. This guy isn't a leader; he's a tyrant. Too many today confuse tyrants for leaders and it's kind of a serious issue we need to address. Tyrants tear down, control, and abuse those around and beneath them to keep and increase their own power. Leaders build up the people around and beneath them so that THEY are empowered.
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  289. I've noticed this tendency in some groups to equate empathy with intense emotion too, but wasn't sure where it came from. Therapy speak is an interesting theory. I'll have to look into that.
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  290. Watching the insane gambling practices of the tech world finally crash and burn is sooooo satisfying.
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  291. Did you know places in the EU has a limit on how many ads can be shown per show? Maybe we should get off our asses and fight to get something like that here in the states.
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  292. ​ @benvg  Dear god, man, see a doctor about that gas!
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  293. ​​ @Yamjam-l7t  Learn how to make friends and be an auntie or uncle.
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  294. The music in your vids is still a little loud and conflicts with your voice, but great job as usual with the vid!
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  295. That first grader was playing a shadow game.
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  296. ​ @tonirighter8838  Don't insult whiny little girls like that. Bro is more like a giant mosquito.
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  297. ​ @lmak312 Christ would be so unfathomably disgusted by what is being done in His name in this country.
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  298.  @nomore6167  The absurd laws, bureaucracy and rules created in this witch hunt denies and kills far, far, far more disabled people and actually costs more to perform and run than if they just approved everybody with an application. They are understaffed because the obscene amount of people they need to fund the hunt would make it even more costly.
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  299. ​ @lionelronaldo7156  They're already working until they die though. South Korean work culture is one of the most insanely brutal in the world.
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  300. It takes this long because gathering all the infringement events takes a long time. You have to adhere to a lot of different laws when gathering evidence and sometimes its better to let the accused keep doing their thing (screwing up) to build a tighter case. Law is slow AF.
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  301. ​@JamJuice101 Ok, I know this is a concerning issue and you didn't mean it this way, but I now want to have "Erotic Jesus" as a vtuber avatar. 😂
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  302.  @elabuterin7150  There is a hotline on SSA.gov you can find to report social security disability fraud you see. Go nuts, mate. Hell, film her if it's legal in your state.
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  303. Even if artists still make art, discoverability will become nearly impossible and counterfeits can be inifinitely reproduced just by someone using your image/song/etc. as a prompt. Facebook is already now full of this crap. This becomes even more serious when we talk about using real people's photos of themselves or their own voices. There are people making p0rn bots out of non-consenting people's images and using voice AI of real people to have "them" say terrible things. I don't want to do or post ANYTHING on the internet (personal, art, music, or otherwise) until this technology gets some serious guardrails and laws put on it.
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  304.  @john_doe_not_found  Can you name the billions who died with children? The vast majority of humanity is nameless and forgotten. Mexicans even have the concept of multiple deaths for when the last people who remember you forget you.
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  305. I don't know WHY I've never thought of ads as flies on a corpse/shit, but thank you for doing it for me.
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  306. Do guys just not understand their chances with women are being ruined by the sickos, perverts, and genuinely violent and dangerous men women have to deal with on the regular? Seriously, don't get pissed at women for having to be cautious because we don't want to get in another near assault or harassment encounter, get pissed at the creepos and sickos WITH us.
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  307.  @agoogleuser4356  China? Somewhere else in Southeast Asia?
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  308. So, uh, guys. Let me just say, self-control is very attractive, but when your idea of seductive self-control is "I haven't sexually assaulted you but I want to and very well could have"...no. That's not the good kind of self-control. That is unhinged levels of barely-qualifies-as-self-control-that-bar-should-be-waaayy-lower-to-you "self control". An example of good self control is when you have a good grasp on your emotions and how long you stay in that initial rush of emotional reaction to a situation, being able to recognize and reflect on it in the moment, and recovering enough to let your rational logical brain take control after that initial upset, while still recognizing and respecting your feelings. And not eating all the chocolate I bought when you find my secret stash...
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  309. It really scares me that the US is heading towards some version of this.
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  310. Big sad.
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  311. Remember earlier this year when Republicans pretended to care about disabled people by telling the country we would suffer more on universal healthcare because the government could tell us to commit suicide then? I 'member. I'm so glad they care about us! 🙄🤮
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  312. ....what the fuck.
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  313. ​@rodney0004 Thank you for validating me. 🧐
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  314. Guess what "we the people" have been needing to pressure them to do for decades, but refused to because "what do I have to hide?"
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  315.  @Lazadvjkn  Probably abusive, too old, disabled, or dead. We don't all get blessed with caring or even mildly responsible family.
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  316. One of my dreams is that we get over the stupid Cussing is the Worstest Thing You Can Do attitude we have in the US. This does not include slurs and derogitory terms, but just the "naughty" words that are nothing more than expressions of frustration or shock. Don't get me wrong, I like the power I have over others with my ability to clear a room with several uses of certain four letter words, but there are just far bigger issues to get upset over. I have a running theory that our obsession/fear of them in the states stems from a misunderstanding of a certain Biblical Commandment, pure classism, and a curious side effect of freedom of speech (have to figure a way to moderate the crazy while respecting basically the best thing about our country). This kind of stuff gets really, really stupid, however, when we start auto censoring words in games that are played internationally, where no slur holds the same meaning outside of a local cultural context. I cannot tell you the number of panicked conversations I have had because a completely benign word was unexpectedly censored because it's a slur against grandmothers in some dark part of Zimbabwe or whatever. It also gives a MASSIVE amount of power to social media and tech companies over how we are even able to discuss tender subjects (suicide or "sewer slide" as it is commonly known in many online circles nowadays is my personal favorite) and how we ultimately think. It's a crazy interesting subject I like to study cause sociology, psychology, technology, and linguistics are all involved.
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  317. This is largely due to them winning the Gonzales case, so they wouldn't be subjected to US cable television laws, I imagine.
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  318. Ooooooof. Yeah this is an interesting perspective and definitely something i lived through for decades. You have to be really, really careful with this though. Shutting down or "pretending" to be the failure without outside support can be very, very damaging. I had to do it for 10 years after i became disabled and dependent and sank into a terrible depression because i could never be honest or show myself. I was unable to feel anger or defend myself or FEEL like I could defend myself until about 8 months ago. I was dead inside. Also, sometimes the tactic Dr. K is talking about does not work all the time. Sometimes, they just want to bully someone, period, and showing that constant weakness can be equally dangerous. There is a balance to be struck.
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  319. ​@Aaron-kj8dv beautiful
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  320. ​ @mikeluostari5196  No, the worst is that they did it knowing it would harm so many others even though THEY PROBABLY WOULDN'T EVEN BENEFIT.
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  321. That's already a thing. Sorry.
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  322. It's not even about "needing" or "not needing" that much money. It is too much power for any individual to hold. These people have more influence than kings and emperors and that is beyond dangerous.
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  323. Poor 1300lb baby :(
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  324. This entire reply thread proves pantheras simulation idea is a good one and necessary.
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  325. ....Aang's gonna keep his clothes on, right? He's...he's 12.
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  326. You dare question the "Kill God with the Power of Friendship" ending tradition?!?!
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  327.  @martinusmagneson  Wait, so what's the non-rude variant of Vagina-face? In what context should you use it? 😆
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  328. I wonder if we're seeing behavioral evolution. Maybe lionesses are getting tired of having their offspring murked every time a new guy comes around and getting choosier about gentler males. Maybe the tigers are changing rearing habits due to environmental loss and reduced numbers. Or maybe these are out of the ordinary individuals with stronger parental instincts. This is really interesting.
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  329. Color.
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  330. ​ @FirstTheyCameForThe1mmigrants  Hell, some of the conservatives do, too.
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  331. It is a very, very, very important part of the mental health crisis parcel, but not the only reason. A lack of access to social services, bleak economic prospects, mental health stigmatization, the housing crisis, dealing with information overload, manipulative black box algorithms that push extremely damaging or upsetting content, isolation, poverty, living on the edge of world war 3, the terrifying economic power an extremely oppressive government (CCP) has over almost all the world, feeling powerless to change an increasingly extreme and corporatist government (US), gun violence (US), climate change, the pandemic. But yes, adequately funding mental health care, paying our health care and social workers what they are worth for the invaluable work they do, having an appropriate ration of staff to patients, and universal health care are HUGE.
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  332. TREEHUGGER HIPPIE GOOGLE
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  333. Now I'm just imaging the tiniest little CPAP machine for him. ❤
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  334. It would be more helpful to petition our government to consider video games as art, therefore stored like other works in the Library of Congress.
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  335. Ah, good to know that no matter where I go in the world, I'll still be one of--if not the most--hated and neglected and abused classes of society. Being disabled is the best.
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  336.  @manifest2203  I've been trying to help men for most of my life and overwhelmingly the only time they are supportive to other men is when they are hating on women. I keep telling them they need to support and be kinder to OTHER MEN and I just get the wall of "that's not how male relationships work" or ""you're just trying to make us into women", It is so, so frustrating because a major answer to the male loneliness epidemic is for men to be more supportive to other men WITHOUT needing to hate and degrade another group. It's so frustrating and I feel helpless to stop this nightmare as a woman. Don't even get me started about trying to get them to see a bloody therapist to deal with all the unhealed parental trauma that has led to this crap. As a woman, I WANT to help men, but because I'm a woman, my advice is automatically lesser and discarded even though I've been through a large amount of things men go through (suppressing emotions, having no emotional support with friends, extreme isolation, having society hate me [I'm disabled]). I've grown up with men, my friends through my entire life have been 85% men and I've personally observed the problematic behaviors and how they develop through every stage of life. But it doesn't matter outside of a small amount of men I've met and am still friends with because I'm a woman. They want women to fix the problem, but don't respect women enough to learn from them.
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  337. Where are they moving to? Because house prices are going insane over the whole planet.
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  338. This is true in almost every field and societal system. There are people who want to do good, who joined the field or whatever to do good, only to come up face-first against huge systemic issues that prevent them from doing exactly that. Surprise, everything's corrupt and needs some good roto-rooting and we as civilians need to step up and do our part to help fix this, rather than waiting for some other mysterious, unnamed, unsung fantasy hero to do it for us.
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  339. Which also incentivizes the lawyers to drag the case out until the reach the maximum cut they can get.
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  340.  @dogsreadtruth4548  I've been in a two year battle against a nightmare neighbor who has actively sexually harassed and stalked almost every woman in the building (he's currently actively harassing and stalking 3 women), is actively committing hate crimes against multiple other neighbors, damages our cars when he has a beef with us or is just feeling particularly racist one day, blasts music that reaches 100+db at all hours of the day and night, has flooded my apartment multiple times by leaving faucets on, has started fires on a regular basis by forgetting the oven is on, has at least one active restraining order on him, has been arrested multiple times before, and I just keep finding out more insane crimes he is commiting every time I talk to my neighbors. He has been here for 12 years doing this @#&$. There are a TON of reports and documentation against him. Why is he getting away with it? Because poor baby has Autism and mild dementia and is protected by law and oversight of upper management in my housing authority is nonexistent. I have been complaining up the command chain to every human being I can find, and I may have just gotten one of the managers a forced resignation so far. I will take this to the news and state government if I have to. I live in a hilariously hypocritical progressive state who's populace runs around patting themselves on the back for how good they are to poor people. Meanwhile, their ignorant idealism and lazy "activism" and "support" make the lives of the people they profess to help 100x worse because they refuse to acknowledge the dark parts of the groups they are trying to support. This is the life of a welfare queen, folks. Living large in my subsidized housing it took 10 years to get into in a crime ridden hellscape and an old rundown building.
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  341. Since every influencer seems to be completely insane and/or hiding terrible things, I can't wait to see your video discussing your own dirt and downfall, Charlie.
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  342. I know twitch has become a ridiculous circus, but it dying would just give google yet another monopoly. Which is good for no one.
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  343. ​ @alex-qd6of  I will when it means millions more children will die AND...AND they won't even get those benefits for their own families AND we tried to warn them. How can we have a functioning society when we accept that as an ok thing to do? I understand fearing for your family. I do. At the same time, we need to start remembering our neighbors's families too. I dunno if your Christian, but a lot of righties are, and "Love thy neighbor" is one of the most foundational teachings of God.
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  344. Perfect rendition of a furry weedwhacker
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  345. @MC YOU. CANNOT. MAKE. PARENTS. CARE. ABOUT. CHILDREN. THEY. DON'T. WANT. Child protective services is horribly underfunded. It is IMPOSSIBLE to regulate and monitor every single family and if you don't think there would be uproars over the incredibly intrusive and restrictive laws that would be required to do so, I don't think you understand the problem.
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  346. ​ @WingedAsarath  No way man. I facepalmed right with y'all.
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  347. ​ @bore-aliss Nope. Disabled people who depend on medicaid, medicare, ssi, and ssdi are first.
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  348. Youve got my vote, whoever you are and whatever you did!
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  349. I really think there is no distinction physiologically between mental illness, or personality disorders, or neurodivergence. All these divisions are just sociological and show our extremely negative biases against "mental illness". We're finding depression is often physiological like ADHD or Autism, and I've seen some hilariously ignorant and judgemental takes from the "disorder" and "neurodivergent" groups against conditions traditionally labeled "mental illness".
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  350. @Catlily5  Oh woah, I didn't know bipolar and schizophrenia are showing to be related to ADHD/ autism now too. Interesting.
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  351. ​ @queenofthebutterflies5212 Most of those are terrible positions to allow someone with no remorse or guilt into. And no, there is no cure. Sometimes they can manage the most destructive parts better. A large portion don't care to. Even the "functional" ones are abusive in any area they can get away with it as long as it doesn't endanger getting what they want in the future.
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  352. There is something called an ABLE Savings account that you can apply for if you were disabled before age 26 where you can save money that doesn't count against SSI. I hear from others in the comments they are raising the age limit to 46 soon.
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  353. I literally don't understand how you can regularly have patients screaming, fainting, and vomiting and NOT even think: "hey...maybe this hurts more than we think..." What the actual @^^$ does it take to get to that conclusion? I don't CARE if you were taught the cervix doesn't have nerves, THERE ARE WOMEN SCREAMING AND FAINTING REGULARLY WHEN THEY GET THEM. THAT'S A PRETTY CLEAR INDICATOR THE SCIENCE IS WRONG.
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  354. I'm sorry for your loss of time.
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  355. I just want people to know that the optometrist who "gauged my functionality" in my first court appeal actually suggested I lose the use of one eye by patching it to reduce double vision. This was a fixable condition where I could keep the function of both eyes if I had money for treatment. The money I would get from SSI. I was denied. Happy Halloween! The true horror is how we treat disabled people. 👻
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  356. I can't watch the video yet, but if you're disabled, you're dead or going to be swept under the rug even further than we already are under Project 2025. No ADA to protect our rights to equal opportunity, no Affordable Care Act preventing insurance from denying you for pre-existing conditions, SSDI/SSI go bye-bye. Bad. Very bad. Ultra bad, even.
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  357. Anal bead...chess bot... What.
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  358. If only Kraft Mac 'n Cheese cooked in the time it advertises, these people could get their lunch and eat it too. 😆
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  359. ​ @noseboop4354 Yeah, no. Everyone I know on benefits (I live in low income housing apartments and have many friends on social security) can't afford doordash. I can't even afford a month's worth of groceries on my disability benefits. However, corporations have jacked up prices for groceries so high, lowered portions and quality so much, that it's actually becoming more budget friendly to eat out at certain restaurants for many things then take home half the meal. Which is nuts.
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  360. Only 30% of single women are on dating apps. There's a ratio of 5 men to 1 woman one them. So yes, in this very specific scenario--an overabundance of men--women can get more choosy. Would you not be more choosy if the roles were reversed and you had hundreds of matches? You can't date everyone and these apps basically force you to choose on looks alone, so it's kind of expected. And I think it's awful, which is why I'm not on them. And I suspect also that remaining 30% of women on these apps may contain a disproportionate number of women who are shallower in character than the average population of women. In conlusion: dating apps are evil and everyone should get off them for their own mental health.
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  361. Oh, we are definitely already considered the bad guys around the world now.
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  362. Daaaaaaaammmmmnnnnn
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  363. It's almost as if we should have regulations on how intrusive and common ads can be... Like Europe.
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  364. All right! Reality has progressed to 1990s CGi quality! Ignoring the ReBoot-style face and ever-happy Barbie voice, the movements are incredibly smooth and amazing
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  365. Trust me, those types are a MAJOR contributer because of how they force women into the position of having to view men as unsafe until proven otherwise until they just never want to deal with men again. If there were less of the fuentes/Tate boys running around or at least being lambasted instead of promoted by a sickening number of men, we wouldn't be as exhausted trying to play psyops agent when dealing with guys. Then we'd be interacting with more men on a regular basis. And feel way safer dating men.
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  366. MacKenzie reminds me of this cat named Ladybug I met at a shelter. She sounded like a demon summoned out of the pits of hell and looked ferocious when she meowed, but was just a sweet thing that loved being petted. Hilarious contrast.
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  367. All of this makes me wonder who this absolute man-baby's babysitter is who is keeping his other companies afloat. This is just such asinine business 101 failure I genuinely don't know how he ever had a successful business.
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  368. The government is a reflection of us. Our country as a whole is apathetic or outright hostile towards disabled people and that's what allows these atrocities to continue.
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  369. ​ @oliviastratton2169  Disabled, disabled, disabled. We exist. We got physically screwed. We are dependent on SSI or SSDI. Our parents depend on us getting it to help support us.
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  370. Guys...I don't know how to tell you this, but trying to think of a more interesting and engaging comment than "hi, how are you?" is not "you having to do all the heavy lifting in a relationship". That's...kind of the barest minimum level of any human interaction where you want someone to be interested in you. 😅 And "how are you" can be a hugely loaded question that can be hard to answer. Generally, when I introduce myself to people looking for new friends/dates, I say "HI, I like to [insert hobbies here], I [short list of things I have accomplished that I am proud of/job]. What do you like to do?" There's a lot more for the listener to work with there, and you show interest in them. If they don't show any interest in that, move on.
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  371. I'm disabled from a genetic disorder, dependent on the ACA and SSI. I'm gonna die!😂
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  372. Land of the "free", baby. 😎
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  373. Wellll we're going to have to get past our intellectual laziness and apathy as a population, first.
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  374. This woman had SEVERE mental illness that was either overlooked or unable to be treated thanks to our terrible healthcare system and stigmatization of mental illness in the US. A tragedy that could have been prevented if we Americans actually gave a crap about each other and our social safety net. This horrible nightmare is where "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" gets us.
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  375. Ruth Bader? I see. Yeah, the Supreme Court definitely went to pot with her dead. 🤔
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  376. I'm assuming you have text to speech here, but can you get any at home equipment? Like a cycle machine? Can you ask your doctor about at-home exercise programs for you? Could your parents or staff watch an exercise video on youtube and show you how to do the exercises?
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  377. Oh. My. God. No.
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  378. Apathetic voters are part of the bad guys, too.
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  379. ​ @ferretdot Which would be equally terrible for composers. Chords are a basic building block of music and there are only so many that sound good. Its as insane as patenting colors.
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  380. I...should not have come here after watching Mama Doctor Jones talking about people eating this thing, but dangit curiosity. 🤮😆 It's freaking huge and crazy that moms don't bleed out more often from that huge wound after delivery. What is the process that happens to stop the bleeding? What is the percentage of women who DO have excessive bleeding post-afterbirth? How much does it weigh? How much blood is lost between afterburth and healing?
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  381. Why didn't she defend the video while playing a slide guitar??? I doubt her sincerity now.
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  382.  @NobodyHasToAgreeAllTheTime  Because Republicans believe everyone on benefits is either faking it, lazy, and that giving us (disabled people) money to not die on and get proper treatment will somehow make us not pursue work we can't pursue due to our disabilities. The irony is that if we got adequate and timely financial support and medical care, many more of us would be able to get off Social Security and reduce the cost overall. I would have. Also, it costs a massive amount for all this bureaucratic complexity trying to keep people off the programs and sniff out every dollar that escaped the absurd number of rules. So much so that I believe it was found (always check sources) the cost of approving everyone currently applying for disability right now would be significantly less than the processes to keep people off. But "something, something bootstraps", y'know?
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  383. I like to imagine a rebel Vigilante within the company quietly snuck those Supreme Court documents into the photo shoot because they knew how f'd up what the company was doing and wanted to further ruin them.
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  384. Growing up (born 90), the worst sexism I dealt with was exclusionary and demeaning. It felt good proving to boys I could do most of they things they could, and even outperforming them regularly. Now...the sexism isn't a funny game anymore--it's just terrifying.
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  385. A Woolly Mammutt, huh?
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  386. I appreciate the apology, considering I'm in one of the demographics that Trump & friends denigrates and dehumanizes.
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  387. I just realized you're the first woman I've seen talking about finance I've seen in years of youtube pushing finance videos on me. I'd get them a lot because I'm disabled and have had to do a lot of work/housing/how to make money research and I never noticed it was all men until now.
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  388. ​@hallo-mt5tx I honestly don't remember the last legitimate ad I've seen on youtube. 98% of it is scams and offensive content promoting scams. Twitch isn't like this. The complete lack of oversight Youtube has for their advertisers is wacky, especially compared to how insanely strict they are with content creators (that don't make them oodles of cash).
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  389. The way laws are written for additives in food in the US, it has to be proven it is bad for human consumption to ban it, whereas in Europe, it has to be proven safe for human consumption BEFORE it is allowed to be put in food.
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  390. ​ @michaelshirhall1831  because youre not sacrifing 9+ months to grow the bloody thing. Is it that hard to understand? YOURE not risking your health and life. YOURE not having to take off work or being fired because you need to make doctor appiontments or your body developed some terrible condition due to genetics. YOU dont have to deal with the hormones that allow the baby to grow. YOU dont have to deal with postpartum depression or any other permanent medical condition that Until men can carry a whole freaking child to term, THEY DONT HAVE EQUAL WEIGHT IN THE CONVERSATION.
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  391.  @waynehartlerode8936  Did you know social security has a fraud hotline you can call if you see crap like that? Definitely better than killing people by making the system impossible and abusive towards the people who need it to catch some fraudsters.
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  392. You mention you had all day for this old bean. How long did this groom actually take?
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  393. How much did all the hair you shaved off weigh?!?! That's nuts!
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  394. Yes, there is a huge problem letting an extremely totalitarian government have free access to the entire US populations viewing and communication data and we've already had that major issue about Russia influencing our elections via Facebook, if that's been forgotten about. The fact that both sides of the political aisle managed to agree on this should show everyone how serious a risk this poses. You generally don't want a country you are teetering on the brink of war with to know everything about your population. I know everyone saying "but Facebook and Google, etc." is also selling our data to China, well that's almost a bipartisan issue to prevent them from doing that as well except our Congress in the States is in disagreement over the reasons why we should implement it. Republicans believe it's in support of freedom of speech while Democrats believe it's for protecting the populace from these mega corporations and there is a refusal to compromise on this issue. Please, please, PLEASE either decide you want nothing to do with politics and say nothing about them or do serious research to try to understand what is happening in politics locally, nationally, AND internationally.
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  395. I was born in the 90s and been a video game music geek for my entire life. I have recently been getting into 70s and 80s funk, disco, house, rock and more and yeah, the difference between popular music today and then is astounding. It's so much more complex and interesting than the mass-produced, oversimplified stuff of today. There of course is still a ton of awesome new music in more niche places, but yeah, mainstream stuff is very...boring most of the time.
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  396. See, this is the Jesus throwing the tables of the merchants in the Temple I always visualized.
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  397. ​@museseseseseReaaaally? Thanks for that tidbit of info. I gotta research it now.
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  398. It already is causing those effects. Enrollment for OBGYN students is down and OBGYN's have been fleeing red states.
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