Lurker > willythemailboy

They brought a child with them to the shooting. That takes fucked up to a whole new level.

Investigators are trying to sort out whether she was politically motivated or a disturbed individual

My money's on both.

Given that it's CE, I'm shocked no one has suggested women's beech volleyball, any team at all.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

I feel like this discussion went off the rails when people started resorting to personal attacks and insults instead of salient points.

Point is, circumcision reduces the risk of certain cancers. And if I have the choice to reduce a child's risk of cancer vs. not reducing their risk of cancer, I'm gonna choose to reduce the risk 100% of the time. Not even a question.

How far in advance must this alleged cancer be prevented justifies surgical removal of the tissue that may one day cause cancer? You're not preventing cancer in children because the mean age of onset of penile cancer is 67 years of age and even then it's about 1 in 100,000 men who will ever contract it at all. Roughly 1.8 million baby boys are born each year, which translates to an expected 18 cases of penile cancer 60+ years from now.

Also keep in mind that the surgery is not risk-free. A study in Toronto found over a 14 year period 1 in 10,000 neonatal circumcisions resulted in complications requiring hospitalization and one in 83,000 resulted in DEATH. Let that sink in: More babies died from circumcision in the Toronto area than would be expected to ever even get penile cancer, let alone die from it.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34973956/

Talk about the cure being worse than the disease.

Ricemills posted...

Israel: "this is our 9/11"

Proportionally it was something like 8x worse than 9/11

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Literally making everything she touches into gold. People willing to pay 2k for basic tickets. Shes touring through Europe and Asia with sold out concerts. All your points are null.

She had entire countries begging for more tour stops because of how much money they were generating. Canada got stiffed and boy were they mad about it.

bfslick50 posted...

Isnt the top 1% is pulling in more money than the bottom 90%?

No. 22% vs 50%, with the other 27% (rounded) made by the 2-10% as of 2020.

https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/do-the-rich-pay-their-fair-share/

NeonTentacles posted...

I wonder if Taylor Swift already has a song prewritten for the breakup

She did announce another album recently, didn't she?

As long as they don't book the KLF and have them recreate the 1992 BRIT Awards.

ForsakenHermit posted...

I wonder if he'll rip the outfit she's wearing off.

Or possibly this:
https://youtu.be/Byn1w6GmGLo?si=Fq3Xaksr-Zm94reF&t=145

thronedfire2 posted...

it's almost like a football stadium isn't thousands of miles wide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7TNP2OTY2g

3 feet is apparently enough

thronedfire2 posted...

the queen is dead so probably

I was thinking of Merkel leaving office, but there are probably a few CEOs with more power but less publicity.

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It's literally just copium. He was circumcised as an infant and must mentally justify it somehow.

CADE_FOSTER posted...

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/romeo-and-juliet-child-abuse-nude-scene-lawsuit-1235477837/

yeah not great

Yeah literal CP considering she was 15 at the time.

darkace77450 posted...

October 7 was a terror attack, not an act of war.

When a terrorist attack is perpetrated by the official government entity of a quasi-state, it is both an act of terror and an act of war. One does not preclude the other.

dancing_cactuar posted...

CE: Rightfully bemoans the fact that shitty SC Justices like Clarence Thomas are locked in for life
Also CE: Opposed to establishing groundwork so they have to be given the boot after a certain point
This board is so self contradicting with a fair number of its politics.

The obvious answer is that they want to keep the justices they want and get rid of the ones they don't.

Antiyonder posted...

Surprised them being different colors (Rainbow and all that) doesn't count towards the Wokeness.

No, that's to indicate... uhhh... football team jerseys! Yeah, that!

GrandConjuraton posted...

No, because I'm not watching it at all.

This.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

It's fun when people are vigorously pro-science until it comes to things they disagree with. Then scientists are wrong and preventative medical procedures are evil.

Studies on the supposed benefits of circumcision are about as reliable as all those studies that showed the health benefits of smoking. And the motivation behind them is about the same.

bladegash posted...

All 8 billion people of the world's population could fit inside new york city. Not alot of elbow room, but if you actually make all of NYC a 3 layer megacity with the elite occupying the top portion with lavish and abundant real estate then put the important non elites in the middle layer with some conveniences and then keep the pollution and rest of the population in the slums of the dark bottom layer, then everything will be just fine.

So basically a hive city from Warhammer 40k? Pass.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Maybe currently but there's been some pretty fucking old politicians before.

Queen Elizabeth II was 96 when she died.

See post 33. Biden isn't even in the top ten. Even if you're looking at elected leaders of western democracies he's still be behind Michael Higgins of Ireland and Sergio Mattarella of Italy.

Apply the same to shrimp as well.

GranTurismo posted...

does the u.s. have the oldest politicians of any country? Esp. the ones that have the most power

In general (i.e. counting Senators, SC, etc.), possibly. In terms of head of state, we're not even in the top ten. The current oldest serving head of state is the president of Cameroon, Paul Biya, who will turn 91 on Tuesday.

Aristoph posted...

So the only one that would actually get hurt and the only one who can literally unlock magic for humanity is the Fire Elemental? And people are still picking the dog and the billionaire?

Humanity was a mistake. God should just Alt+F4 and start from scratch.

You're discounting the possibility that Trump could burn his wang trying to shower the Fire Elemental.

Revisited posted...

What the... on what grounds did the judge overturn it

First Amendment. Basically anything short of assault or stalking is free speech.

Buy bitcoin as soon as they make it.

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The explanation is pure unadulterated copium.

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This is probably OP's best option. It's basically the midpoint between employer-based health insurance and Medicaid. I've been there and it wasn't awful, and based on my income at the time is was about a quarter of the cost of the insurance offered by my job. Of course it's income based, so if OP is paycheck to paycheck in a high cost of living area like NYC the absolute income cap may still be too high for him to benefit.

Zikten posted...

I'm not circumcised but I support banning the practice and saving future babies from being harmed

Unfortunately that view will get you labeled as anti Semitic and Islamophobic, as demonstrated by Iceland's attempt to ban infant circumcision a few years back.

Technically "aggressive" panhandling is illegal in California and was temporarily banned in Illinois before a judge overturned it. Nowhere has outlawed simply sitting there with a sign but they have tried to ban panhandling when it crosses the line to harassment.

Zikten posted...

Ok but why does the IDF need to have tanks shoot at obvious civilians, journalists and medics?

In real terms, because the buildings Hamas is fighting from are all built of concrete. They have an effectively infinite supply of bunkers.

Sounds like it is paralleling dating apps.

Kai_Laguna posted...

There's actually a species of jellfish that is biologically immortal.

And yet they get eaten by other things all the same.

FolkenRawr posted...

My sister's undocumented Mexican boyfriend hates them. Like, with a vitriol I've rarely seen. Basically he does like day work, and says they're taking all the jobs. That and of course the 'hand outs'

It honestly blew my mind. He's also not the brightest dude, but he's always at least been reasonably empathetic.

Never underestimate the "it's fine when I do it but bad when everyone else does it" mentality.

neccis posted...

It's just bizarre to them lol

I once had a conversation about that with a guy who was dating an Eastern European woman. Their first time having sex she said she didn't know he was Jewish. He was utterly confused that she didn't expect him to be circumcised and she was confused that anyone would be without religious reasons.

Toonstrack posted...

Or fortunate depending on their eventually partners preference

Or unfortunate if their partner would have preferred uncut.

Smallville posted...

Why do most of you believe the u.s. percentage is so much higher than other industrialized countries though? Had no idea the gap was that large between 2nd.

Because the US factually IS higher than other industrialized countries? Canada is just below New Zealand, and much of Europe is down in the 10-20% range.

KI_Simpson posted...

I'm pretty sure the gap is a lot smaller for children born now/recently, as opposed to total percentages of people who have penises. As mentioned earlier, there was a propaganda campaign to convince American parents to have it done over a century ago, and it became a cultural norm due to that. More liberal areas are less likely to have it done.

For recent births it's closer to 60% in the US, due in no small part to the pushback it's been getting in the last couple decades. And the growing Hispanic immigrant population, as the percentage of circumcisions in most of Latin America is in the single digits.

Darkinsanity1 posted...

No, the other reason not to do it when you're older is because it's far more painful and difficult to heal from. As an infant, you'll never remember it. You don't move around nearly as much so the friction isn't an issue, they probably heal faster in general too.

Also a lot easier to die from.

Darkinsanity1 posted...

It absolutely is though, all these people saying "let them make their own choice when they're older." Who the hell is going to do that unless medically necessary, when by that point they're completely used to their foreskin. Debating whether it's wrong etc, all just stupid bullshit. PC crap is 100% in play for this issue.

It's almost as if that's the fucking point.

Zeeak4444 posted...

i think the more apt analogy would be cutting fingernails off to avoid dirty finger nails.

No ones cutting off the tip of a penis

Fingernails grow back, unless you're ripping out the root and burning it with acid to prevent regrowth the way they do for ingrown toenails.

Smallville posted...

is u.s. the top country by percentage for this? What if just very industrialized countries it might be the top? wonder why.

The US is the only industrialized country where circumcision is prevalent, aside from Israel for the obvious reason. The US is between 70% and 80%, and the next highest industrialized country is New Zealand at 33%

The Muslim world and oddly enough the Philippines are higher than the US.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/circumcision-by-country

I very rarely watch streams, and the few I do watch are usually locked to sub-only chat. So no, I don't participate.

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Doe posted...

You dont even realize that Yemen is not in Palestine.

That aside, why is it unbelievable to you that an LGBTQ person could have empathy for another marginalized group? At least 19,500 women and children have been murdered by Israel since October. Hell, how many of those killed were LGBTQ, regardless of whether they can be open about it?

Palestinians are not all that much more tolerant of LGBTQ than the Houthis. In fact they're so bad that LGBTQ persecution is one of the very few reasons Israel will grant limited refugee status to Palestinians.

Enclave posted...

We don't remove tonsils to prevent future complications, we only do so once it's medically necessary.

Removing teeth prevents cavities, right?

Tyranthraxus posted...

People with dangerously out-of-control dogs can be jailed for up to 14 years and banned from owning animals, and their pets can be put down.

Not long enough.

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It's highly suspect that countries with low to nonexistent circumcision rates aren't being plagued with a pandemic of dick cancer. It's almost as if the health benefits are minimal or even entirely made up.

creativerealms posted...

We should have a cap on how old someone should be to be president. Say seventy. Yeah I know some people might be perfectly coherent at seventy.

It's not entirely comparable, but Biden was older on his first day in office than Reagan was when he left office. Let that sink in for a second.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

None of them. Some, however, are removed or otherwise altered for health benefits.

Nice of you to name one. Wait....

And it's somewhat ironic that people are touting penis and cervix cancer prevention as a health benefit comparable to vaccines when both of those are almost completely eliminated with the HPV vaccine. Certain oral cancers as well, if I remember correctly.

Gobstoppers12 posted...

Yeah that's what I kinda figured. Not really worth my time.

We're born with all sorts of things we don't really need. Like the appendix.

Are any of them surgically removed at birth solely for aesthetic purposes?