How does the World view America these days?

  On 3/12/2024 at 9:25 PM, Nebraska said:

When it comes to the average breast size, the figure that’s thrown around for American women is 34DD, which is a little bit larger than what people speculate Sweeney’s size to be. That number seems to come from a decade-old survey by lingerie retailer Intimacy, so it’s also hardly a scientific fact.

great article. allegedly, american's are under such severe censorship they have forgotten the true measurements of an average pair naturally home grown of milk duds- so much so that they confused sydney sweeney's "average" bust for what is universally considered "big boobs". 

https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/03/sydney-sweeney-breast-size-oscars-snl.html

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Average cup size might be D or DD but there's no way in hell 34 or lower is avg.  I mean, just walk around WalMart.

booba

  On 3/12/2024 at 11:39 PM, Alcofribas said:

booba

get outta my head!

  On 3/12/2024 at 9:25 PM, Nebraska said:

When it comes to the average breast size, the figure that’s thrown around for American women is 34DD, which is a little bit larger than what people speculate Sweeney’s size to be. That number seems to come from a decade-old survey by lingerie retailer Intimacy, so it’s also hardly a scientific fact.

great article. allegedly, american's are under such severe censorship they have forgotten the true measurements of an average pair naturally home grown of milk duds- so much so that they confused sydney sweeney's "average" bust for what is universally considered "big boobs".

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  On 3/12/2024 at 5:23 PM, ignatius said:

steve jobs, A #1 asshole and kind of an idiot. parts 1 and 2. part 3 is out today and is wherever you get podcasts. 

Honestly I know very little about the bloke, having religiously avoided anything to do with Apple for my whole life so far. But the manner of his death alone tells you he was a cunt. Remember kids, alternative medicine is a fascist gateway, always was, always will be.

  On 3/13/2024 at 2:48 PM, Walter Ostanek said:

Honestly I know very little about the bloke, having religiously avoided anything to do with Apple for my whole life so far. But the manner of his death alone tells you he was a cunt. Remember kids, alternative medicine is a fascist gateway, always was, always will be.

i didn't know much about him either.. only that he could sometimes be a dick to staff.. but holy shit.. he was a dick to everyone and super weird about it and manipulative and yes.. the alternative medicine new age spirituality shit definitely helped him die from a treatable cancer. 

these podcast episodes are entertaining once they get going. hilarious even... 

  On 3/12/2024 at 11:39 PM, Alcofribas said:

booba

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The HB 1181 law primarily passed by Republicans in the Texas Legislature requires companies that offer "sexual material harmful to minors" to ensure its site's users are 18 or older with an online system that can verify their government-issued identification or another system that utilizes public and private data.

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/23/23-50627-CV0.pdf

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/pornhub-texas-blocked-age-verification-law-1235942280/

  On 3/15/2024 at 1:14 AM, Nebraska said:

 

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/23/23-50627-CV0.pdf

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/pornhub-texas-blocked-age-verification-law-1235942280/

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Time to invest in VPN companies. 

  On 3/17/2024 at 5:50 PM, ignatius said:

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Man, I drag on capitalism a lot but after spending a week in Cuba and talking to a lot of people, the situation there is totally fucked up and a lot of their history should not be celebrated.  (Of course their situation is complicated and due to many problems.............)

  On 3/17/2024 at 7:34 PM, EdamAnchorman said:

Man, I drag on capitalism a lot but after spending a week in Cuba and talking to a lot of people, the situation there is totally fucked up and a lot of their history should not be celebrated.  (Of course their situation is complicated and due to many problems.............)

‘capitalism is the worst system, except for all the others’

  On 3/17/2024 at 7:34 PM, EdamAnchorman said:

Man, I drag on capitalism a lot but after spending a week in Cuba and talking to a lot of people, the situation there is totally fucked up and a lot of their history should not be celebrated.  (Of course their situation is complicated and due to many problems.............)

That's cool you got to go to Cuba. I wanna go so bad to Havana. I imagine the music and food there are so good, even though like you say the country is probably not in great shape economically. Are Americans allowed to go there now? Thought that there was still some kind of embargo or something.

  On 3/18/2024 at 12:20 AM, decibal cooper said:

That's cool you got to go to Cuba. I wanna go so bad to Havana. I imagine the music and food there are so good, even though like you say the country is probably not in great shape economically. Are Americans allowed to go there now? Thought that there was still some kind of embargo or something.

There is still an embargo and Americans are not allowed to travel for tourism, but there are several reasons for which we are allowed to travel.  Look it up; the most popular is, "to help and support the Cuban people."  Supposedly, you're supposed to do something like 40 hours worth of helping the people each day, and you're supposed to keep receipts that they can check for up to 5 years or something.

We stayed in privately-owned AirBnBs and did several private tours, all of which count toward that goal.  We did a farm tour in Viñales where our guide (a farmer) took us through tobacco fields and to a tobacco / honey / coffee farm.  The gov't takes 90% of their crop, but they're allowed to do whatever with the remaining 10% and I may or may not have hypothetically in an alternate universe perhaps not purchased 50 cigars from this farmer (there's some gray area there, as they are not "branded" cigars; they are made and sold by the farmer not the government so nobody could tell me if they were illegal but idc because now I have them in my humidor).  We also did a vintage car tour and an Afro-Cuban / Santeria tour in Havana; both supported privately-owned businesses.

Inflation there recently has been crazy af (something like 100 - 500x?), the gov't ration books don't provide shit, and COVID / Trump's policy shift from Obama wrecked a lot of their tourism (country's main source of income) so they are facing a pretty bad time all around.  Because of the embargo, we had to take a fat stack of cash and change it there (American credit cards and bank cards will not work), but tourists from other countries do not face this restriction, although you can really only use credit in a limited number of shops and there were long lines for the ATMs that were actually working (side note, the gov't restricts Cuban citizens to withdraw max 5,000 Cuban pesos per day, which currently is only about $16 USD).

Bottom line was that we had an amazing time, and nearly all Cubans we met were friendly and helpful and had a lot of good things to say about American people.  It also helped a lot to have a native Spanish speaker (father-in-law) and fluent Spanish speaker (my wife); I'm not sure how well I could've gotten around with limited Spanish.  It was amazing to hear all kinds of stories like our Viñales hostess and how her 2 sons had to sell drugs for a coyote just so they could get to Grenada where they're barely making enough to eat but she says, "at least they're free".  Or our Havana hostess who was a pharmacist but also does the hosting/AirBnB concierge gig because her pharmacist job pays less than $15 a month and that's not even enough to feed herself let alone her family (doctors make a whopping $20 a month)...  I'd definitely recommend going, but do your research first and plan well.

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The winners: businessman Elon Musk, right-wing media kingpin Rupert Murdoch, lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, felonious Wall Streeter turned philanthropist Mike Milken, and actor Sylvester Stallone.

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“The honorees reflect the integrity and achievement that defined Justice Ginsburg’s career and legend.”

my arse

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/justice-ginsburgs-family-decries-bestowing-rbg-award-on-elon-musk-and-rupert-murdoch/

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2024/03/17/ruth-bader-ginsburg-award-elon-musk-rupert-murdoch-vpx.cnn

satire btw. someone photoshopped a tear drop on amy schumer

  On 3/18/2024 at 4:14 PM, ignatius said:

satire btw

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/arkansas-airport-director-bryan-malinowski.html

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According to the authorities, Bryan Malinowski, 53, the director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, shot at agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, who then returned fire as they tried to carry out the search warrant on Tuesday.

  On 3/22/2024 at 2:33 PM, decibal cooper said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/us/arkansas-airport-director-bryan-malinowski.html

 

Why did he need to make extra cash by running guns? Unless he was trying to arm a militia or sumthin.

  On 3/22/2024 at 3:17 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Why did he need to make extra cash by running guns? Unless he was trying to arm a militia or sumthin.

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Yeah, there does not seem to be any details emerging yet on motive or what this guy was about. The story seems weird to me, though. I did not know that Bill & Hillary have an airport named after them. Looks like it is just a small commercial airport, but the wikipedia page does state that it is a 'joint civil-military' airport. I did not know that this was a way that airports could be categorized. Maybe most commercial airports also have military traffic, not sure.

  On 3/22/2024 at 3:17 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Why did he need to make extra cash by running guns? Unless he was trying to arm a militia or sumthin.

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$120k a year is boat money, not yacht money. gotta hustle up that extra to live the big life

happy 500 pages of The World viewing America

Greedflation is real

https://www.ftc.gov/reports/feeding-america-time-crisis-ftc-staff-report-united-states-grocery-supply-chain-covid-19-pandemic