The news thread

[Toy Revolver]

2 missing boys found dead in separate rivers, police say

ugh- this reminds me of the atlanta murders from when i was a kid

https://www.wsmv.com/2023/05/22/2-missing-boys-found-dead-separate-rivers-police-say/

[Psy-Fi]

Meta fined record $1.3 billion and ordered to stop sending European user data to US

[Toy Revolver]

Meta fined record $1.3 billion and ordered to stop sending European user data to US

nice

[Lexi Darling]

I am proud to have Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and Twitter all blocked on my devices. I think the older I get the more of a technophobe I become, at least with regards to the corporate tech overlords. I really am turning into my mother, haha.

[SGR]

I am proud to have Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and Twitter all blocked on my devices. I think the older I get the more of a technophobe I become, at least with regards to the corporate tech overlords. I really am turning into my mother, haha.

Social media and smartphones are absolute cancer to kids' self-esteems. And yet, it's probably difficult for parents not to get a smartphone for their kid since every other kid is getting one (and as a result, the kids will not let up about pestering you for one)

[jimmy jazz]

If I had kids they'd have dumbphones. Ring and text when they're out, that's it. No chance I'd have them on all the social media stuff now.

I feel sorry for them tbh. Imagine every fuck up you made as a youngster being sent round your school and accessible permanently. Imagine all the secrecy and bullying that must go on in WhatsApp groups and whatever.

[SGR]

If I had kids they'd have dumbphones. Ring and text when they're out, that's it. No chance I'd have them on all the social media stuff now.

I feel sorry for them tbh. Imagine every fuck up you made as a youngster being sent round your school and accessible permanently. Imagine all the secrecy and bullying that must go on in WhatsApp groups and whatever.

Not only that, but I think how happy/content we are is baked into us as some kind of function of comparing ourselves to others around us.

For example, let's say you grow up in some town where you're poor and underfed. But you look around you and 99% of the other people in the town are happy, living in big houses, and driving luxury sedans. You're going to reflect on your own situation in comparison and be pretty unhappy, jealous, discontented, and unsatisfied about it - which in some cases would lead to depression but might also lead to you deciding to make changes so you can improve. On the other hand, if you grow up in a middle-class place, you're well fed, you live in a decent home, and you seem to be doing as well as most everyone around you, you'll probably be a lot happier.

But in general, if you look around you, at the people you interact with and have to deal with in real life, you're probably doing fairly well in comparison. Then you look on social media at other people's highlight reels, and suddenly you're the most boring and ugliest person in the room. Definitely not good for kids and most of them aren't able to make this distinction. Young women face enough body insecurity issues as it is with body standards set by popular media, they don't need the additional factor of seeing girls like this on Instagram and thinking this is 'normal':

"Your average Instagram picture"

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tl;dr: Most by people, by definition, are average - and social media feeds kids the high end of the exceptions.

[DJChameleon]

why do people gaf about veterans

fuck veterans

Say that to my face and I will slap the shit out of you joking or not.
I will call Mindy to beat your ass too.

I'm a veteran.

Republicans pretend to like veterans and want to grandstand with them but behind the scenes they vote against funding to improve the VA hospitals and other things associated with veterans.

[Toy Revolver]

idgaf

take it personal if you want

every time a us soldier dies it fills my heart with joy

fuck the military and that means fuck the people in the military

i'm glad they're on the street dying

fuck our war machine from the president to every last enlisted and retired veteran

fuck no i'm not joking

baby killing civilian murdering fucking cowards

glad the suicide rates are up too

fucking scumbag terrorists

[DJChameleon]

wah wah wah cry about the military industrial complex all you want you benefit from it.

Enlisted and Veterans were just pawns in the higher ups schemes.

take your silver spoon in your mouth crying elsewhere.

Majority of people that sign up for the military don't do it out of patriotrism for the country. They do it for a stable job/income, to avoid getting into trouble/jail time, for college money to get a better career later on. Some even join because they just want to be able to travel around the world with all those added benefits.  Military recruiters target low income minorities in high schools all across the nation. I saw a sign outside of my local high school about 3 weeks ago that said signing bonus is up to 40k. They have have a hard time recruiting lately it seems. If a kid grows up poor of course he's going to jump at the promise to get 40k and a dodge. Well thats an old school reference that enlisted dudes would get a dodge charger straight out of bootcamp with the money they got for signing up.

Take your white privilege elsewhere and have a seat sir.

[Shhon]

idgaf

take it personal if you want

every time a us soldier dies it fills my heart with joy

fuck the military and that means fuck the people in the military

i'm glad they're on the street dying

fuck our war machine from the president to every last enlisted and retired veteran

fuck no i'm not joking

baby killing civilian murdering fucking cowards

glad the suicide rates are up too

fucking scumbag terrorists

[Rubber Soul]

Thanks, DJ. As a non-military person myself, I didn't know how to explain the unexplainable to TR. Yes, I have relatives in the military, mostly for economic reasons so I get where you're coming from. It's tragic our politicians send you guys to danger zones throughout the world. If you want to thank a veteran for his/her service like on a game show or something, don't send them in harm's way to begin with. They're not the enemy, they're only human like the rest of us.

Did you have to serve in a war, DJ? I can only imagine some of the horrors that go with war.

[jimmy jazz]

idgaf

take it personal if you want

every time a us soldier dies it fills my heart with joy

fuck the military and that means fuck the people in the military

i'm glad they're on the street dying

fuck our war machine from the president to every last enlisted and retired veteran

fuck no i'm not joking

baby killing civilian murdering fucking cowards

glad the suicide rates are up too

fucking scumbag terrorists

That's poor mate come on.

And the military don't just fight in wars. They do lots of rescue shit and delivering aid also.

[SGR]

idgaf

take it personal if you want

every time a us soldier dies it fills my heart with joy

fuck the military and that means fuck the people in the military

i'm glad they're on the street dying

fuck our war machine from the president to every last enlisted and retired veteran

fuck no i'm not joking

baby killing civilian murdering fucking cowards

glad the suicide rates are up too

fucking scumbag terrorists

I think we're gonna need a dislike button. This is by far the most insensitive (and dumbest) thing I've read on here.

[Toy Revolver]

as if the us military isn't by far the biggest terrorist organization on earth

they deserve the same disrespect as al qaida the taliban boko haram or any of them

this romanticizing of a murderous cult just because they're american is stupid af

fuck them and fuck their excuses

if ordered they'll murder in the middle east
if ordered ther'll murder in central america

the entire disarray and death and chaos in iran iraq central america pakistan and afghanistan is on them

talk sweet however much you want but the lives they take, always in their country, never defending ours, are real people that deserve to live and it's our duty to reject their murder the same as their mothers do

so yeah fuck veterans