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Should be a wild four years.

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Now granted, I doubt most forum users have the care to dox anyone but there are the types out there.
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Also remember those totally spontaneous and totally not arsons surrounding food storage that was totally organic and not at all started by anyone?
They're still going on. From just last week:
Fire Destroys Ohio Farm Building Holding Thousands of Chickens (archive.ph)
Two weeks ago:
Chicken farm loses 30,000 chickens in fire (archive.ph)
 
There's an argument that being circumcised lowers the risk of transmission of HIV because the foreskin can tear increasing the risk of transmission.
There really isn't. Among the issues you noted, the original study showing lower rates of HIV with circumcision done on Africans conveniently left out that the circumcision group was also given education on using protection to prevent HIV (like condoms) while the non-circumcision group received none. A MASSIVE influence on results you can't simply account for afterwards. If I remember right there was also fuckery like including counting the period where they would be recovering in their follow-up on new HIV cases, instead of excluding the first month or so of data to account for that difference.
Of course they aren't going to get HIV during that time... when you've had part of your dick cut off you're not going to even think about sex for a while after. If you're not fucking, your risk of HIV is lower. A proper study would try to control for that variable. They didn't.

It's been a long time since I looked at the data but when I originally did I was shocked by not only the lack of actual evidence it's effective (same for penile cancer by the way which is another excuse) but by the shoddy way the trials were done rendering them worse than useless.

The "but the foreskin might tear" excuse also makes no sense given the natural gliding motion of the skin over the penis during sex decreases friction and tearing risk.

Circumcised penises don't have that layer of protection and thus result in more friction and more vaginal abrasion and tearing if the sex is rough or poorly lubricated.

I have no fucking idea why this sham science is still pushed. There is zero medical reason to circumcise someone unless there's something severe going on like cancerous tissue needing to be removed or something. It doesn't decrease HIV or STD risk, it isn't more hygienic, and doesn't decrease penile cancer risk enough to justify doing it as a preventative measure.

As for phimosis there is zero reason to completely circumcise to address it, even if it does occur and cause painful sex or erections. You make a small lateral cut at the tip of the foreskin so it isn't as tight and can be retracted. That's all that's needed. No removal of healthy tissue necessary.

I really don't understand it. It's why I looked into it in the first place because the entire concept of an amputation of healthy tissue being healthier than an intact organ didn't make sense to me, only come to find the data doesn't support it either.

In the US, I can understand (although disagree with) the religious reasoning. But funding it for random Africans with tax dollars? Just bizarre.

Is it just because it's an easy procedure that makes a lot of revenue? Do people actually believe the fraud science that justified it in the first place? A combination of both?

If we're re-examining science to see what's medically sound, "medical circumcision" would be a good one to add to the list. It's complete junk propped up by basically nothing.

To be clear I have no issue with people voluntarily getting a circumcision for cultural, religious, or even a esthetic reasons as adults. There are worse genital modifications done in different cultures including penile bifurcation (don't look that up) in some backwater tribes. My issue is when something is pushed as "medically necessary" with no solid evidence to actually justify it. Even worse when people are treated as though they're negligent or ignorant when they refuse to do it to their children because of it.

My autistic obsession over this issue has revealed a lot of examples that are not that difficult to find with some simple digging and basic understanding of how scientific studies are done and common issues that can interfere with proper data collection.
 
I live innawoods. They will be mauled and I’ll waste my money on chickens. Maybe I can take out a high interest chicken loan from my local hebraic “farmer” backed by collateral. The true American way. Wasting $1,000 on $4 eggs, no thank you sir, I enjoy those big white eggs premo only.
Get a rooster or a dog to protect them
 
You should consider getting a small backyard coop and two hens, it's a great investment if you eat lots of eggs. Easy and cheap to maintain and you'll have fresh eggs that are tastier than any bullshit you'll buy from the store.

Today's homesteading tip: Instead of chickens, raise quail. They mature and start laying in 6-8 weeks. The eggs have a larger yolk to white ratio and are more nutritious. Quail require 1 square foot each compared to 2-3 for a chicken, have no desire to free range, and have a far nicer temperament.

"Okay, have you ever been around chickens? They are stupid, uncooperative, inconvenient, ill-tempered creatures. They get what they deserve. Fuck chickens."
- Mark Rippetoe
 
Democrats, influencers huddle for a new new media strategy
The checks written by the (D) party bosses must have cleared because my Xitter is full of faux outrage and obviously astroturfed psyop bullshit.

I couldn’t imagine that they’re getting their money’s worth because it’s painfully obvious. Maybe they should have paid more.
 
A retarded authoritarian government that incompetently fights the bugs is definitely better than getting eaten by the bugs. There is even the outside possibility that an existential threat would make such a government less retarded. Imagine how fucking bleak it would be if instead of generic authoritarian world order fighting the bugs it was globohomo authoritarian world order responding to interstellar bugs eating people. There would be more effort put into bug outreach and how to put more black trannies in command than figuring out better ways to defend our worlds and root out their hives all while sneering at the poor fucking infantry getting their guts torn out by shredding claws.
Listen, SpaceChud.
The word "bug" is an offensive slur that violates the Terms of Service for Earth. The Arachnxds are forced into taking desperate people's insurgency methods as a response to Human Imperialism and the generational traumas & socioeconomic disparities resulting from Primate Supremacist institutions.
Instead of treating the Arachnxds like a lesser beings, we should instead be winning their hearts & minds by teaching them transgalactic gender equality and quantum queer theory.
 
I have no fucking idea why this sham science is still pushed. There is zero medical reason to circumcise someone unless there's something severe going on like cancerous tissue needing to be removed or something. It doesn't decrease HIV or STD risk, it isn't more hygienic, and doesn't decrease penile cancer risk enough to justify doing it as a preventative measure.
I'm sure it's mainly pushed so hard for the same reason that Iceland received so much pushback from certain religious demographics when they proposed a ban on male circumcision. It's quack bullshit that just exists as a thinly veiled justification to afford the Jews and Muslims of the Western world the freedom to mutilate their babies.

I have no idea what the practical explanation for American hospitals that offer circumcisions is, though. I suspect there is just no reasonable explanation that can be given regarding the efforts to export the practice to Africa of all places, either.
 
CBS: "Is posting an insult a crime?"
German prosectors: "Yes"
CBS: "Is it a crime to repost a lie?"
German prosecutors: "Yes"

Also Germany:
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Perhaps the US should start tariffing Germany hard something to the tune of oh I don't know, some amount that'll make the Treaty of Versailles look like a small dip. That way they should reprioritize if they truly want to be Weimar again or if they want to roll some shit back.
 
She missed her chance at being in the Stasi so bad. Talking about 'online violence'. What a disaster.
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I love how she says basically that people are afraid to speak their mind because of 'online violence' so it's the state's job to make people afraid to speak, not just normies.
-Half the population is afraid to engage in discourse
-Government arrests you for engaging in discourse

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
 
Eh. I guess I don't think too much about it since I'm too much of a nobody to be fucked with. I haven't done anything too retarded out in the world to make much of an impact anywhere. I just try to keep my head down and not mention any weird internet shit in polite company (I imagine that's what's protected me for now) outside of mocking anything dumb happening in entertainment.
There’s a reason that one should be as courteous as possible online, but especially places filled with autists. He’s not here anymore but there was a guy who would dox people for saying stuff like this because he was very good at it. Don’t tempt fate.
 
I didn't think the MSM could get much lower, but today proved me very, very wrong.

The all out defense of the German censorship regime by CBS is completely despicable. Completely abhorrent. Completely un-American.
 
For my money Tucker Carlson has the best conservative interviews right now. I didn’t care for him when I was younger or even on Fox News. But his recent stuff I’ve found both entertaining and informative. Is there anything about him or his past (other than the bow tie incident) that I should know about?
He's from SF and heir to a frozen foods fortune. People now often identify wealth with an ability to resist corruption, but if it's a problem for you, know that he's rich as fuck and doesn't need to work; not that he gives off a particularly folksy image. Curtis Yarvin would be comfortable placing him on the board of directors of fascist CorpoMerica.
a magical societal caste system that heavily influenced your entire life's trajectory assigned on your first day of a private school
This shit brought me back. After HP, tons of YA novels and movies ripped off this concept (look up the plot to Divergent (2014) for an incredibly on the nose example), because it was tapping into a zeitgeist of finding oneself in an externally imposed identity, and a sort of controlled rebellion. Striving for the trappings of power while never grasping the real thing. Think: instead of forging a destiny for yourself and acting as agent, a prophesy prescribes you an adventure and you grapple with this fact psychologically as you go through the motions of fulfilling what fate and society have dictated for you. This was just sort of in the air I think and the writers picked up on it, but now there are adults who grew up reading that stuff.

None of this is my original ideas, all just half remembered from The Last Psychiatrist, a blogger whom you can read if you were looking to be diagnosed with narcissism, at great length. I believe he stopped writing it right around Current Year.
 
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