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Reply to comment by ttystikk in [image] Don’t burn your opportunities by racemoseMalamute470
Don't ever stop working for an employer, citizen.
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Reply to comment by asdaaaaaaaa in Woman framed in ‘rape fantasy’ plot speaks out after conviction of ex-U.S. Marshal by drkgodess
Money isn't money, it's permission to live in a different social class, which is extremely exclusive and pushes down hard on everyone around them to keep them out. Life's better, you have access to more resources, the people around you help you more, you're safer and more comfortable.
People who were born into it, or who were born with the resources, drive, and good advice to luck into it, feel like that life is just how the world works. Imagine being permanently outside the palace gates and desperate, but there's one thing you can do that lets you in.
How willing would you be to give up the only thing that gave you the life the people around you just lucked into? How willing would you be to give up dealing if it meant giving up having a nice home and physical and mental safety?
Rather than treating doing desperate things to make money as an addiction, we should be treating the problem of desperation. But we as a society are mostly unwilling to do that.
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Reply to comment by midnight_station in An Open Secret (2014) - A film exposing pedophilia and the sexual abuse of children in the entertainment industry in Hollywood. [1:38:22] by unknown_human
Which, for the zillionth time, is what that idiom means.
"A few bad apples spoil the bunch". At the end of that idiom, they're all rotten.
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Reply to comment by bcsimms04 in When this bridge in Fort Benton, Montana, USA was built 1888 it was required to have a swing span to allow steamboats to navigate. It was considered the furthest navigable point on Earth, more than 2,700 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. by triviafrenzy
I'd love more information on this but it's proving impossible to google. Got a link?
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Reply to comment by Atthetop567 in First female chief in Malawi, South Africa ends child marriage by messyredemptions
Okay. Putting it differently: I'm not sure why you're angry with me. You made a four-word, unsupported comment, to which I responded speculatively. You then got angry at me for apparently disagreeing with the scientific consensus, which you never referenced.
I don't know what I did to deserve that, but I'm done talking with you. Have a nice day.
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Reply to comment by Atthetop567 in First female chief in Malawi, South Africa ends child marriage by messyredemptions
I mean.... is no one allowed to engage in a conversation / wonder about the world?
You certainly didn't cite any sources... not sure why you're being salty about me not citing sources. Perhaps you could?
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Reply to comment by Atthetop567 in First female chief in Malawi, South Africa ends child marriage by messyredemptions
I both expect that's true and wonder if it's not. Our cultural reaction to female pedophiles is often not as intense, and we have a long history of ignoring and misrepresenting women's sexuality.
I wouldn't be surprised if, of female pedophiles, far fewer actually act on it though. Men in our culture sure seem to have a hard time with empathy and are taught to push their feelings down, whereas women generally have empathy drilled into them from day one, and (very sadly) most have had to live through firsthand what it feels like to be the target of unwanted sexual advances.
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Reply to comment by zackman115 in Inexpensive and environmentally friendly mechanochemical recycling process recovers 70% of lithium from batteries by chrisdh79
Literally they were talking about the car they already have, and their own experience of it being positive. They're not wrong or uninformed for liking their own car.
I also like my EV. It's the best car I've ever owned.
They'll only get better.