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It's so weird to include that alongside all the stuff about the bears hunting and eating people. I guess they couldn't find quotes from relatives of the victims if that's being kept private for decency's sake or something, but just this random inclusion of a farmer talking about how heartbroken he is over losing like $50 (at the most) worth of apples is so dissonant with the rest of it.

That bit's actually sort of true albeit phrased in a horrible misleading and overly broad way. Certain pollutants, sulfides mainly IIRC, increase the albedo of the atmosphere and so reduced the impact of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses.

This is, of course, at the cost of causing toxic acid rain and other problems, hence why there's been a concerted effort to reduce or eliminate them wherever possible. I believe they also tend to go along with the kinds of pollution that really fuck up the surrounding area and make it unlivable with smog, too, so there's also an immediate pragmatic reason for eliminating them even when "this has serious widespread negative consequences that directly endangers infrastructure, agriculture, and the environment" isn't enough to convince authorities to take action.

If you're old enough to remember "acid rain" being a big topic in the 90s that kind of fell off the radar, like the "hole in the ozone layer", this is why. The pollutants causing it have been significantly reduced across the world (as have the chemicals responsible for punching a hole in the ozone layer).

It's pretty explicit about it too. They're replicating the systems and violence they were taught, to a backdrop of nuclear war and ongoing fighting between surviving military elements. When they're rescued, after hunting down and murdering one of their own, it's by a hunter/killer sub that's still actively hunting for targets even after the world ended.

In general yes? There are lots of "when real, this is extremely bad and not fun at all" things that when remade into safely ritualized and/or sufficiently fantastical forms become exciting and safe ways of coping with real anxieties and fears, whether this is through some sort of ritualized roleplay or more explicit fiction and art.

I just wanted to elaborate with a footnote without breaking the flow of what I was saying. Checking, the only thing I had saved that might have mentioned it 404ed, although I think that may have just been a resource on doing a blood choke without threatening the wind pipe. This is just general kink community knowledge though, like the risk of nerve/joint damage from poorly placed restraints or how blunt force impacts to the abdomen and particularly around the spine or kidneys are very dangerous.

But like, stopping blood from moving is bad and has a risk of making blood clots (this is why sitting for excessively long periods of time causes a risk of DVT, as blood pools in one's legs more than it should), and cutting off oxygen to the brain is also extremely bad. The only bit that contradicts conventional knowledge is the more recent research that even brief reductions in blood flow to the brain cause brain damage that builds up over time in the same way that minor head impacts add up (another recent discovery, since before the assumption was just that serious concussions were bad but lighter impacts didn't cause injuries).

The article in OP does mention and link studies about the brain damage risk though, I think.

Yeah. Even the "safe" way to do it is one of the most dangerous and "even done completely right, this can still just randomly kill someone^[Due to the risk of blood clots and stroke from stopping the movement of blood through the artery that's entering the brain. It also probably causes minor brain damage every single time, even without a loss in consciousness, and as a result can cause neurological problems if that randomly happens to hit something important.]" kinks someone can engage in and it being mainstreamed into vanilla porn as just like a thing people spontaneously do is bad, but the solution would be like mandating warning labels with sex-positive education on how fucked this is on videos featuring real or simulated choking, not the UK's usual "oh heavens a kink, I must send in the constables and retire to my fainting couch and pray to the depraved sex pest royals for salvation" shit.

It has been said that the Republicans are bad cops and the Democrats are good cops.

I prefer it as the Democrats being bad cops, and the Republicans being gibbering eldritch horrors made of graft and howling for blood cops.

The Democrats threaten, the Republicans rampage while stealing everything that's not nailed down.

"Good cops" in that game would be something like socdems, offering a healthcare burger if you fall in line and cooperate with the prison of capitalist society.

It literally, actually means "intentionally killing as many civilians as possible".

It's all targets chosen by some guys in a room pointing at a map and saying "destroy this thing, whatever it is, for reasons", as opposed to being picked out in the field by spotters or aircraft operating on their own discretion.

It's just mostly associated with the WWII and Korean war terror bombing campaigns the British and US carried out where the things being targeted were either residential areas or cities that had industry somewhere in them.

They're an extremely moderate social democracy akin to european ones, and have suffered considerably because of it. The surprising part is that they've managed to keep on the trajectory of having regulated capitalism with some social welfare and nationalized oil without the socdems in charge turning coat and becoming neolibs, without the neolibs managing to coup them despite repeated attempts that have gone completely unpunished, and without any sort of swing to the left as they watch all this moderate capitalism and tolerance for reactionary power blocs only serve to allow reactionaries to keep attacking them from within while still being isolated and attacked by the US for the sin of being a designated subaltern periphery state that dares do regulation and own its own natural resources.

They still deserve support, obviously, and they serve as a very clear example of the racist hypocrisy behind US foreign policy when a state as moderate as Norway gets treated as a pariah simply because they're not white and because they're located within the sphere of influence that the US empire claims as its subjects to be subjugated and looted as it pleases.

So this thing is 100% some vibe coded contractor grift that's either just some repackaged phrenology guesser or that literally just lets its user choose the result he wants, right?

Reminds me of an old cracked article where its author tried to spend however long being "completely logical", except that was a self-effacing shitpost where he went around acting and talking like the space elfs from Star Trek and concluded that the only good thing to come of it was he liked the non-foaming toothpaste he tried.

I usually just watch whatever trackmania video wirtual posted to his low effort slop channel that day. He's neutral and inoffensive enough to be watchable and there's no reason to pay attention to the funny car game, and I don't have to commit to watching the rest of it when I'm done eating because it's completely empty bullshit that's just a sort of neat spectacle to watch when busy with something else. Dude's brain is like 97% trackmania mechanics knowledge, 2% Ancient Egypt trivia, and 1% chess and absolutely nothing else. He's also a completely sexless dork in an apparently stable relationship with a woman who is both clearly smarter than him and also AFAIK older than him, so it's a sort of safe bet he's not doing the streamer crime, and the closest thing to a scandal I've heard about him was an alleged ESL mistake moment from years ago where he confused the English words "racer" and "racist" when trying to play with words.