Conclusions of the study:

“Women with rectovaginal endometriosis were judged to be more attractive than those in the two control groups. Moreover, they had a leaner silhouette, larger breasts, and an earlier coitarche.”.

No shit, but it doesn’t matter. SCOTUS and too many other courts are MAGA.

I don’t agree that Estonia should bow to the spectre of Russian retribution, and ignore their own laws. The notion that the goalposts should be moved is a slippery slope. Sounds a lot like appeasement. It’s a little odd to use the Estonian characterization of his actions being non-violent…it’s not appropriate…given part of the issue is a paramilitary force.

I still don’t get how the Estonian situation relates to the bulk of your post.

It wasn’t a complicated comment.

You piggy backed off of the topic to talk about different issues…and I didn’t see how the issues you were talking about and the topic were related.

I guess it’s not surprising that you’re reading too much into my comment, given how much you read into the topic.

I meant what I said. I didn’t say or insinuate anything about Putin.

What I’m seeing here isn’t an assessment of the issue at hand, but rather a pretext to grind an axe about different political issues.

“Reminds me of…” is doing too much heavy lifting…you skipped over the connective tissue.

I haven’t dug deep into this dude, but I was told by somebody I trust that he’s not an entrepreneur…but rather was a kid with access to wealth who was “smart” enough to buy up a bunch of companies.

His title of “entrepreneur” is myth making…not unlike Elon Musk, and a lot like Kevin O’Leary: He didn’t invent any technology or concepts…his strength was exploiting a generation who didn’t understand technology. Once his myth was in motion, inertia did the rest. Simply being young when he started did all the heavy lifting…and I guess Trump also got romanced.

It really bothers me that being selfish and getting lucky - and most of all having money - is what we call an entrepreneur. The word used to be reserved for people who actually put sweat equity into a novel concept.

Inflation is over. World peace achieved. All Americans rich.

But somehow evil Democrats are trying to murder angelic Republicans.

You’re rearranging the deck chairs on The Titanic. If it makes you feel better, knock yourself out.

We just care about money.

Rhetoric? I wish my arguments were rhetorical.

Yes, if you live in city and you’re a materialist you live in a fake environment and you’re the problem. If you think that’s radical, pour it on me.

I agree.

Unfortunately the Nobel Peace Prize a sham prize reserved for neoliberal imperialists, not brave heroes.

I predict next year Donald Trump will win The Nobel Peace Prize, forever making it an irrelevant prize given to capitalists.

This “educate yourself” nonsense is rich…given you didn’t engage with anything I said.

I’m an off grid subsistence farmer and an anti-materialist. It’s exactly because I “educated myself” that I’m out here. Cats are pretty fucking low on the list of harm the humans cause to the environment…they only exist as a “problem” in fake environments created where humans mass together.

My argument is you’re spending way too much energy thinking about outdoor cats, which are irrelevant to the larger argument of harm to the environment.

It’s a distraction from the problem that humans themselves pose to the environment…you’d get a lot more bang for your buck and the cat problem would take care of itself it if you were less materialistic, for example.

If you think you’re doing a goddamn thing by keeping your cat indoors, while at the same time running on the hamster wheel on consumerism…I have news for you.

Well put.

It’s amazing to me that - almost to a person - these MAGA and their sympathizers all claim to think for themselves and look at “all the sources” but they don’t ever notice they’re in lockstep with each other.

I’m in freakin Canada…so anyone who supports MAGA here is a brain rotted traitor in the first place…but there’s tons of them. My neighbour…before the pandemic was a normal dude…no real political compass…just a rich guy who was pretty harmless ideologically, at the end of the day. After the pandemic he has this script: “I used to be liberal…but liberals went crazy, we can’t say anything anymore, so now I support Trump, don’t like vaccines, love Elon Musk, love Tucker Carlson”. My brother…1000km away - same script with variations: “I used to be liberal, but you can’t say anything anymore so I support Trump. I hate vaccines, I love Elon Musk and I love Adam Carolla.”

His entire job is to get on TV right away to produce sound bites for the MAGAsphere. He’s not talking to you or me.

What he says doesn’t need to be true. As long as he says things Trump likes.

PETA aren’t really environmentalists…they’re militantly pro animal.

What I get tired of is critics being lazy and just calling everything hypocrisy. Like…bitch…you don’t need to live in a cave to care about something in the environment.

PETA are annoying, and it’s easy to get all Incel about them…but what they want is pretty straightforward and nobody should be confused.

I’d say the hand…and leave it at that. It’s either AI - or trying to look like AI.

I mean…I’m sure it came from something I said to it…all LLMs are good for is being agreeable and reflecting what you want back to you…provided what you ask for is simple.