berrytopylus

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[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Wasn't the chastity belt hacking story a fake? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEM6SHbjY7Y

Edit: looking into it more, seems like there was a (maybe) real story about it perhaps and then the YouTuber messaged the writer of the original coverage and pretended he was a second victim.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

Modern Warfare 2 (the first one). When you're climbing the ice wall and you fall and get caught, the level of detail on the face was astounding to kid me. It was like watching something in real life to me.

Probably helped that it was off of my sister's high def TV.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The way people talk about when they turned 30 honestly makes it terrifying to us younger folk, which is pretty weird when you consider that 30 is actually still a pretty young age compared to the 80-90 years that you can get nowadays (and who knows how much is possible by the time we're all seniors).

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

To be clear here, while they advocate for UBI this isn't really a study on the topic as much as it is on direct cash payments to the homeless. Which has been supported by tons of different research in Canada, London, so many places I can't even remember them all.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Blockbuster isn't that old yet, I'm not even 30 and have memories of getting Sailor Moon and Pokemon VHS there. Heck by some definitions I'm even a Gen Z so I guess it's super early Zoomer memories lmao

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

but that probably cannot be said about Canada.

Depends on what you're eating. Even in the most insanely priced areas, beans and rice tend to be pretty damn cheap, and North Americans do not eat a lot of rice or beans or chili or other cheap foods that are staples in lots of Asian diets.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

Butterflies are just crazy animals in general. Back in the 1800s there was even a naturalist arrested in Chile because they thought he was spreading lies about them https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/insect-metamorphosis-evolution/

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 71 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

The government literally had/has a program to give out cheap smart phones, tablets and laptops to poor people during Covid.

The idea of this technology being inaccessible to those in poverty is like 20 years out of date.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 75 points 2 years ago (63 children)

I was told landlords did a lot of work to earn their money? If he's clearly well enough to do such intense labor like owning property then he must be in good mental condition.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This sub is probably mostly cops and maybe some law students.

From what I remember almost all of the moderation team are cops yeah.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The funniest thing to me is the people who are like "It's against the law to be in the left lane if you're not passing!" because dudes, it's also against the law to be speeding yet you're doing that.

You can't really sit there and start getting angry about traffic violations when you're in the middle of one.

[–] berrytopylus@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As he explained it, paxlovid has its own side-effects, there isn't a limitless supply of it, and if you're young and healthy and vaccinated already you're not going to see a meaningful reduction in symptoms

Pretty much all of medicine is a balance between risk and reward. This can actually be an issue sometimes with things like screenings or whatever where we pick up things that aren't actually an issue (even if they're scary) and are unlikely to pose a threat by the end of a person's natural life and then put them through an onslaught of medical intervention that hurts their QOL way more than the actual problem was likely to ever do for them.

That's not to say that screening and treating minor issues is bad or anything, just that we need caution to avoid causing unnecessary harm.

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