whereisk

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[–] whereisk 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Exactly. The calculus for taking risks is vastly different when there's a safety net. You can treat it as a game and go all in.

On the other hand if there's even a small chance of losing housing or getting in legal trouble or your family being destitute you take no risks - if you are a person with a sense of responsibility that is.

[–] whereisk 82 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (17 children)

He had knowledge and connections to the upper echelons and he couldn't make it, and when health concerns arose he went back to his money because it sucks to be working poor and in need of medical assistance.

[–] whereisk 21 points 8 months ago (7 children)

More than that, most peanut butter has a lot of hydrogenated vegetable fats which are likely much worse than a bit of sugar.

If the package doesn't have a tablespoon of peanut oil or so pooling at the top when you first open it, that you then need to mix it in, it's hydrogenated.

[–] whereisk 17 points 8 months ago

Wage slavery? No. It's poly-employment.

[–] whereisk 6 points 8 months ago

How do you study mind-altering drugs when every clinical-trial participant knows they’re tripping?

You give them other hallucinogenics than the one you're studying?

[–] whereisk 3 points 8 months ago

I wonder if it's later going to be found that these people are the useful idiots of big oil producers trying to undermine the cause on public opinion on purpose.

[–] whereisk 55 points 8 months ago

The Indonesian President - if I'm not mistaken.

[–] whereisk 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Danish on their way to fight the Nazis, 1940.

[–] whereisk 1 points 8 months ago

They don't know what you are talking about my fellow Aussie. Any A in an acronym means "American" to the USAns. That other countries exist that start with A is unfathomable.

[–] whereisk 49 points 8 months ago (4 children)

"Real heroes use bikes - do you?"

[–] whereisk 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Perhaps this was written much earlier than v5.

[–] whereisk 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

To be fair, Jews were also massive victims of empire and colonialism. They were kicked around Europe for centuries since the Greeks and the Romans.

Now, on the fall of the Ottoman Empire all kinds of populations coalesced into nation-states (also, all while kicking out people that did not identify with the new nation - massive population exchanges at the time, millions of dead in forced marches out of a region). Most back to the heartlands of their ancestral lands - so the idea wasn't far fetched.

Unfortunately, unlike those other populations Jews were in diaspora so long that they had kept little physical connection with that land which was now occupied mostly by Palestinians.

Fun fact: A plan was hatched to allocate a portion of Australia instead

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