[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 161 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, it's not at all. This is total nonsense. If anything, superheroes are usually persecuted by the government.

Spider-Man specifically is literally an outlaw.

And look at the X-Men. Half the time the gov wants to wipe mutants out.

Maybe you can say that about Captain America, but he was created to defeat the Nazis. So yeah, who the fuck is not on the government side in this situation?

And when the gov became corrupt, Captain America became an outlaw.

So whoever is upvoting this and whoever created this doesn't know much about Marvel or comics.

I mean I don't know that much, but I know the bare minimum to know this is nonsense.

[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You forgot the second part, which really justifies his fears. The whole quote:

"I've had a pest man around to sort the problem and he said there were still thousands of wasps around. He warned me not to go near there because they might smell the stings on me."

And apparently, the stings and the smell are like markers for other wasps to attack (according to an expert in the article).

[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because, according to the article, only the women had their hair removed. The men did have pubes.

In ancient Greece, whether you were a hairy alpha male or a gorgeous and effeminate power bottom, the gents were generally allowed to let it all hang out. But when it came to depicting the female body, she was always entirely pubeless.

If I remember correctly, he does talk about his drug use in that book. He even talks about drinking mouthwash at one point because he was that much of an alcoholic.

He said that, on the fateful day, he was far from Central Park — on his way to a “falconing” excursion in Goshen, N.Y. — when he witnessed a woman in a van fatally strike the bear. He said he scooped up the dead bear and put it in his own van, planning to later skin it and eat it.

Wtf??

Hours passed, Kennedy said, and he ran out of time to take the bear home before catching a flight. As he told Barr, he and some people he was with — he said the others had been drinking — came up with a plan: abandon the bear and an old bike, which happened to be in Kennedy’s van, in the park, taking advantage of the fact that there has been a rash of bicycle accidents recently in New York.

Wtf.... why? Is that what rich people do to pass the time? I could imagine a bunch of drunk college frat dudes doing this, but he was 60 years old when this happened!

[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 95 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Elon Musk is not spending $45 million a month to elect former President Donald Trump, though he has created a new super political action committee (PAC) to fund the Republican candidate, the billionaire told conservative commentator Jordan Peterson during an interview Monday evening. 

What a bullshit headline. It's literally the first line of the article.

So he is spending money to fund Trump. He's just going through a super PAC because he can't legally straight up give Trump 45 million.

He probably talked to his lawyers and they told him to correct himself.

[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 45 points 3 months ago

"NewsBreak", a free app with roots in China that is the most downloaded news app in the United States.

Never heard of it. Hard to believe it's the most downloaded news app. I guess I'm out of touch.

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[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 94 points 8 months ago

Yes, let's fight prejudice by stereotyping a whole race, gender, and sexual orientation...

[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 63 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nearly half (44 percent) of the identified microplastics were fibers, while a third (30 percent) were plastic fragments. This is in tune with other studies that have shown plastic fibers from clothes and other textile products are the most prevalent form of microplastic in the environment.

More important than single-use plastics seems to be synthetic clothing.

[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, this is ridiculous. Imagine living in a world where you are afraid of joking because people will lose their minds.

Even if his joke was even worse than this, who cares? The people at the party would have thought, "Wow, this guy is lame," and that would have been enough of a consequence.

What kind of puritanical, pearl-clutching, and judgemental society are we creating with these outrageous reactions. Get a life people.

If you wanna hate him, hate him for actual valid reasons. Don't become a petty gossip-monger.

[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago

4 years where? To become a real psychologist (not a therapist) in most places you need a PhD or a PsyD. In total, you probably do at least 8 years of schooling.

Not to mention that that "book full of labels" is constantly reviewed and was made based on consensus from psychiatrists, which are medical doctors with a lot more than 4 years of schooling.

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[-] rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works 122 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This article is terrible. First off, where do they get 60% from?

They link to the wrong research. The research they link to is a survey of people who already have anxiety. If you look at the research of the actual survey of the whole sample, not just those with anxiety, (here), it says that 42% have a diagnosed mental health condition, which includes an anxiety disorder amongst other disorders like depression, ADHD, and so on.

90% of the diagnosed conditions (90% of 42%) is anxiety, which would mean the actual number for only anxiety would be 37.8%.

78% of those 42% (32.76%) have depression as well. So a lot of those people with anxiety also have depression.

So the actual title should be 38% of Gen Z have an anxiety disorder. Which is only a bit higher than the total population.

According to large population-based surveys, up to 33.7% of the population are affected by an anxiety disorder during their lifetime. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4610617/

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