See Bill Ackerman and Herbalife.

Federal regulators should have shut that shit down ages ago, but the grifter party loves MLMs (look at how the DeVos family made their money…)

Raping teenagers is no big deal in the US.

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The US hasn’t “technically” been at war since WW2. We weren’t “at war” during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War…

wut

Cuomo, the guy who tried to subpoena the gynecological records of someone he sexually harassed, is posting weirdly horny stuff?

The video game “Hypnospace Outlaw” also captures a lot of this feeling - being in the late 90’s/early 2000’s stumbling through a series of web rings, find all sorts of hobby projects and obsessions.

Gopherspace also has a lot of this, although it’s text based.

There’s also the childish desire for an “I told you so” as they watch anyone they don’t like being sent to hell.

If you are a veteran, I hope that if you believe in heaven that you realize that you’re going to hell… Because breaking the Commandments includes not murdering for any reason whatsoever including for your country.

The Bible is pretty explicit that killing in warfare doesn’t count. The prohibition is specifically of murder. I’d ask if you were a Jehovah’s Witness, who do interpret the verse this way, but 99% of Christians and Jews would understand that commandment as only discussing killing out of warfare. You comment later that you are “playing to the Christian Reader” - this is something that absolutely would not work. (And why? Lemmy is like 90% atheist?)

Also - you get that the vast majority of people who join the military never kill anyone right? Not every soldier goes to the front lines, hell, the majority don’t.

Many people who join are young people who believe that they are actually protecting their country. Because, that’s what the military would ideally do. Yeah, in reality the US is a hegemon that does a lot of fucked up shit, but stupid 18 year olds don’t usually understand that. Someone whose body got fucked up because they believed that they were “protecting their country” because the media and their entire social world told them that should probably not be left in the cold.

And yeah, student loans are fucked too. Making this a “people who went to college” versus “people who went to the military” thing is the absolute dead opposite of class consciousness, and counterproductive as shit. I’m surprised you aren’t an .ml troll.

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Soldiers also asked him, “And we, what should we do?” He said to them, “Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages. — Luke 3:14

Nah, I think you just don’t want to acknowledge racism exists.

I was showing a student the Collatz conjecture last week. It would be a nice way to enter the millionaire class.

Probably needs no introduction. Lots of companies use this to screen programmer applicants, but you can just treat it like a challenge for fun, too.

Realistically, would going through many of the challenges on this/similar websites be useful in finding a programming job? My degree isn’t in CS, but I often teach programming including some higher level data structures/algorithms material.

I see the same quote in other articles

Yeah, it makes absolutely no sense.

Doesn’t that show suggest a romantic relationship between the preteen Lydia and the adult(?) Beetlejuice?

Gay marriage is legal in every state since 2015. Supreme Court ordered it with Obergefell v Hodges

It’s primarily a Jewish and Muslim thing. Christianity doesn’t really require it.

He was also a eugenicist!

Covering the organs with a cage has been practiced with entire success. A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed.

John Harvey Kellogg - Plain Facts for Old and Young

They took that away because he fucked a teenage patient. College kid came to him for depression, he gave her a job and had sex with her.

They were going to supervise his practice and let him keep his license, but he gave it up rather than submit to supervision.

There are a couple of stories of addicts on his show being offered drugs before they went on to make them relapse/seem worse. The show was basically an exploitation of people desperate enough to take public humiliation in exchange for mental health “help.”

I think he’s in part responsible for a lot of terrible attitudes about mental health - a popular understanding that “tough love” is a helpful approach, a refusal to acknowledge the impact of trauma… A general problem with America seems to be viewing TV show personalities as “experts.”