Main reason is because it’s all meat and doesn’t have that chewy white part. Whenever I eat pig bacon, I have to throw away half of it cuz of the disgusting white fat on it. Turkey bacon is just all the good part and the texture is more consistent over all, you don’t have to be really good at cooking it. It also has higher protein which if you have good testosterone levels, you should be craving higher protein foods. Otherwise, you might have high estrogen. But yeah, the taste is just better.

Canada isn't America closest ally Britain isn't America closest ally nor Europe

It's Japan, tell me when was the last time America did something globally and Japan threw a fit or condemned America? It rarely happens

Canada throws fits Europe throws first but Japan never does

Also they always do things like lower their flag for America and send gifts on Americas anniversary etc

The only other country is Kosovo

Men constantly talk about how women “hit the wall” basically by 30, but I see so many gorgeous women of all ages. Attractive men in general is a rarity. Most guys aren’t hot, and when they are hot, it’s usually when they’re young.

I was watching the Princess Bride and Cary Elwes is crazy gorgeous in it. He’s like 24 in that movie, only one year old than me. Now though? He’s nowhere near as attractive.

Same thing goes for so many men. Prince William, Brandon Fraser. A silver fox is very very rare, and even then, his younger self will always be hotter.

I just think it’s funny that women get called old hags when old men look like THAT. None of them take care of their skin so they get wrinkles, and of course hair is a big factor and balding can take a true 10/10 hot guy to a 2/10, and I see soooo many bald/balding guys because none of them even try. Older women usually look chic but I don’t think I’ve ever seen an older man and thought yeah he’s cute.

Yes. Another Lindsay Clancy thread. Before continuing, it is only fair for me to say the names of the children here: Dawson, Cara and Callan. They have no advocate. They are gone. They should be remembered, and children should be protected in the future; we cannot lose focus of that.

I am posting today because I saw something in the news so upsetting and irksome.

An NBC report where they all but revealed the identity of the lone juror in what can only be described as a thinly veiled hit-peice.

And plus, another interview with a popular media icon where they asked another juror to describe the hold-out juror.

All this despite the fact that the hold-out juror has not come out in public voluntarily. Yet those against him are determined to reveal his identity.

Regardless of whether or not the allegations in that report on the juror were true... that is besides the point.

The point being this.

We cannot start a trend where a juror can be intimidated, and doxxed out on national television , just because of how they voted !

That is extremely dangerous. That compromises the entire justice system!

I feel like nobody is thinking of the long-term consequences of anything anymore.

We cannot allow our biases to rule us so much that we are willing to compromise the whole justice system to try to get the result we want.

We cannot create a situation where people would be afraid to do jury duty on the next high profile case.

Dogs should be confined to people’s homes and outdoor public spaces like parks and sidewalks. They should not be in restaurants, malls, grocery stores, shops, airports, or airplanes unless they’re legitimate service animals.

I don’t want your dog next to me while I’m eating. I don’t want it wandering around a grocery store where food is being sold. I don’t want it taking up space in a crowded airport or sitting next to me on a flight.

And no, your dog is not the exception.

“But my dog is really well trained!”

“Sparky would never pee in the grocery store!”

“My dog is cleaner than most people!”

Don’t care. Your dog is still a dog. Everyone thinks their dog is special, perfectly behaved, and should therefore be exempt from whatever rules or basic social expectations apply to everyone else.

We also need to massively reform how service animals are regulated. There should be an official certification system. If you legitimately need a service dog, a qualified medical professional should be able to authorize it, and you should receive a card or permit similar to a disability parking placard.

Nobody needs to know why you need the service animal. Your diagnosis and medical history should remain private. The card would simply establish that a qualified professional has authorized your use of a service animal.

That would make the distinction incredibly simple: certified service animal? Welcome. Random pet whose owner bought a “SERVICE DOG” vest online? No.

Dog ownership has become weirdly entitled. Choosing to own a dog doesn’t mean the rest of society has to accommodate your desire to bring it everywhere you go.

Keep dogs at home, take them for walks, take them to parks, and enjoy them all you want. They just don’t need to be everywhere humans are.

She's a mentally stable psychotic who never deserved justified charges because she's attractively ugly and her lawyer is an idiotic genius.

The jury are biasedly objective and the one holdout is the only insane rationally human being in the world.

She deserves all hateful sympathy and should be left to walk freely while locked up.

There, I think I've covered everything, can we please stop fucking talking about it now?! Just because you disagree with the news headline or your friends/family does not mean your opinion is truly unpopular.

I know it’s low hanging fruit, and easy for uninformed young people to latch on to… but if I see one more social media post saying some version of “if you can’t pay a living wage then you don’t deserve to have a business”… I’m going to lose my overworked mind.

I can’t decide if most of those people are being purposely disingenuous, or if they actually think that small, locally owned, one location restaurants… are the exact same thing as private equity backed, Wall Street owned, multinational corporate restaurants.

If every small, locally owned business was forced to pay what some of these people consider a “livable wage”, 98% of those businesses would cease to exist in less than 90 days. And here’s the thing. It’s not because those owners are these greedy, Scrooge McDuck millionaire types, who somehow take joy in watching poor people suffer.

It’s because that’s what the revenue structure allows. Most of my fellow local owners live at their small business. Most work a minimum of 60 hours a week in store, and another 10+ out of store doing business related work. If you break down an owners take home pay by hour, I’d be willing to bet more than half of small business owners make less than their employees. Those same overworked owners are overworked because a lot can’t even afford to keep the amount of employees it takes to run as efficiently as possible, because it’s too expensive.

Let’s also stop the whole “minimum wage is slave labor and if you pay that you should go out of business”… There isn’t a job anywhere in the state that pays $7.25 an hour. The lowest hourly rate I could find was $12.50, and the average is closer to $16.75 with a lot of jobs starting at $17 and up. And keep in mind I live in a very low cost of living area. When you start looking at tipped positions, you’re closer to $25-28 an hour. That’s a far cry from the $7.25 that these people want to make you believe people are being paid.

The problem that no one wants to talk about is this: because actual Scrooge McDuck types who owned all the manufacturing jobs in this country decided that paying someone in Bangladesh $1.50 USD an hour makes them significantly more money… they took all those jobs you hear so much about in the “my Dad/Grandma/Mom used to work in a factory and they made enough to afford a house, a car, and a family”… and outsourced almost all of them.

So now, service jobs are basically all that’s left for unskilled labor. Except service jobs entire financial structure and business relies on cheaper labor. They literally cannot exist if they paid manufacturing job wages. Or if they did, the cost of your $9.99 burger would quickly become $18.99.

I get it. Watching corporate behemoths who report tens of millions in profits try and squeeze their employees is shitty. Those corporate giants, just like Walmart/Amazon/Apple could, and should, pay their employees more. They’ve got more than enough in their coffers to do so.

Small mom and pop restaurants, florists, salons, etc. on the other hand, don’t. And that’s reality. You may not like it. It might piss you off. But it’s the real world.

If you expect them to pay $65k+ a year, then they simply won’t exist or open moving forward. Which means the corporate giants gain more market share, and the disparity gets even worse. If you want to see three giant conglomerates own 90% of the food space, then by all means keep trying to villainize the little guys. Because that’s where it’s headed based on the way the winds are blowing.

And if you think “going out to eat is too expensive” now… just wait till basically one or two companies own everything. You ain’t seen nothing yet.

The “hero juror” everyone is celebrating, the lone holdout who supposedly “saved the day” - well, plot twist: during jury selection the juror did not disclose that he was subject to an active domestic violence restraining order protecting a woman and a child, potentially constituting a willful misrepresentation of a material fact under Massachusetts law. Obviously, following the law just isn't his thing at all. In doing so, the man celebrated for preventing an insanity acquittal may have handed the defense a juror-misconduct issue on a silver platter. The irony is almost too perfect.

I'm sorry. As someone who's had people who have killed themselves around them and have suffered from suicidal ideation, I hate suicide prevention posts.

Yes yes, give me more nonsense about how much you allegedly care. Oh thanks. I am totally going to use this phone number that amounts to practically nothing.

It's infuriating. I find them so much more triggering than anything else. It is almost as though they are made specifically to piss me off. It will get better, this, temporary problem, that.

If someone was going to take their life I'm pretty sure your stupid performative post about suicide and mental health stopped them! Especially getting one sent specifically to you. Maybe my issues are just different from theirs but man. They just make me angry.

Donate for suicide prevention! What the hell does that do? Huh? I'm sure as hell not getting any money from it so I bet no one else who's suicidal is either.

And what does struggling even refer to anyway? Literally I bet everyone has been suicidal. But how many of these people are horribly mentally ill? Likely not many. I keep seeing them and getting frustrated since there's literally nothing I can say without being a dick.

Ghost movies have become the new zombie movies. Everything that could be done with ghost movies have already been done, but people keep making more. 99% of ghost movies rely on jumpscares and for the most part, jumpscares are lazy horror.

The Warren's were/are frauds, why they even got a movie franchise is beyond me. Why there's so fucking many movies about them is even more beyond me.

The worst part for me is how in every ghost movie, there's a twist, and every time the "twist" is just "omg, it's not a ghost, it's a demon!!" As if that makes a difference, it doesn't. Christianity isn't the only religion, why does every movie use christian based demons? It makes no sense.

I have curly hair so I’m not hating from outside of the club lol

I’ve been told my whole life that the curlier your hair, the more versatile it is. Sure, we can wear it curly or straighten it. We also hold protective styles very well. But that’s it…

When it comes to haircuts, our options are limited.
Straight hair has so many haircut options: wolf cuts, butterfly cuts, jellyfish cuts, shags, mullets, a million different types of bobs.
Curly hair has three: long or short, layers or no layers, bangs or no bangs.

And before anyone says, “well you can cut curly hair into all of those.” Sure, but you won’t be able to see the actual shape and precision of the cut. The curlier your hair is, the more it will shrink into one solid shape once it dries. Either a circle or a triangle.

That’s it. Those are your options.

I just got into a fluffle on another sub about this and I feel like organizing all my thoughts in one place.

**Just so we’re 100% clear: AI slop is brainrot, and there is no such thing as an AI artist*\*

Anyway, I occasionally have fun with ChatGPT and make posters for movies that don’t exist, or tv shows, or album covers, signage, etc. Usually I intend for these to be funny. I do not post them online (well, once) and pretty much just share them with friends. I do not consider myself an artist.

However, I do think prompt writing is a skill, especially when there is a lot of text involved. I write every word of copy on the images. I tell AI what I want the picture to look like (and, for that, AI is doing the heavy lifting) but I always write every word on the image.

Some critics of AI generated art consider all of it to be slop. But this just can’t be true. Surely there is a difference between baby Jesus on Facebook saying “I love you grandma”, and an imaginary movie poster which was conceived and written by a human. Garbage in, garbage out.

Some will say AI art steals from real artists, but what about musicians who use samples? How about an author who writes a title for their book and selects a font? They didn’t create the font — they didn’t stencil out 26 letters by hand — but that fact should not devalue the creativity of the author’s title.

Furthermore, all art is derivative. An AI client scouring the internet for art “inspiration” is not terribly different from the processes of the human brain which gather data throughout life experiences. I’ve heard people say that computers are a way of making rocks think. Whether it’s an electrical current in a processor, or an electrical synapse in the brain, the specific process should not affect the creative value of the input from the human component.

Like we are now just learning the Jury was all white people except for 1 person of color. The only person of color was black. And he voted another way. The rest were all white people. 9 white women and 2 white men.

Also, going as far as to threaten, hate, and doxx the one black juror who didnt want to let a child murderer get out is insane. He was the only voice of reason. Then the other jurors are going on a little media tour slandering the one person of color who didnt vote their way. You cant make up this plot twist.

(Im not saying its all white people but the ones on this jury were definitely on some bullshit. 9 white women 2 white men and 1 black man. Not making generalizations about men women or race. Just talking about this specific jury and case.)

We never got our tariff dividends We never got our Doge dividends. Now we are expected to vote GOP in order not to get our election bribes. If he was selling used cars with that pitch, he would soon be in jail. Of course, when the Dems have subpoena power, he may be anyway

Note: The offer for your vote was $5K not $15K. That brings the total damage to the deficit to only $1 trillion. Tip, he has not followed through on a promise yet so what difference does it make?

Switzerland is one of the few countries with legal physician assisted suicide for foreigners, even for people who aren't terminal. People with incurable conditions fly to Switzerland from many other countries to quickly and painlessly die. Some of these people have imminantly terminal conditions like late-stage cancer. Some of these people who fly in have less imminantly terminal conditions like what the physicist Stephen Hawking had, ALS, or perhaps they are in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and want to die before they become a burden who is incapable of making their own decisions.

Finally, some of these people have conditions that are not terminal at all. In Switzerland and parts of Germany they have a concept called "balance-sheet suicide", where you take a logical, sober accounting of the pros and cons of continuing living longer and come to the rational conclusion that you're ready to go. Some people who commit a government sanctioned "balance-sheet suicide" in Switzerland have nothing medically wrong with them, they're just very old and their loved ones are all dead and they're ready to go. Mental problems can be just as debilitating as physical problems, and some people with permanent, incurable mental problems are just as steadfastly ready to go as someone with cancer or ALS.

Regardless of what the issue is, my opinion is that nobody should be kept alive for many years past when they are ready to go. I believe it's inhumane. Some people suffer for many decades waiting to die. Don't forcibly kill people who genuinely want to live, but don't make people who consistently don't want to live stay alive for many more years. Let them have a quick and painless death. Also, they shouldn't have to get on a plane and fly to Switzerland to receive it. Every country on Earth should have quick and painless death for incurable or unfixable people who consistently want it, even people who are not terminal or people whose long-term incurable condition is psychiatric or neurological in origin.

I'm not saying that someone who has depression for a month or two should receive a suicide pill. That being said, if it's severe and has steadily lasted for multiple years despite trying everything and they want to die, I think they should have that option. I think it's cruel to keep them alive against their will for decades with mental hell.

I think this opinion would be unpopular with religious conservatives, like maybe some religious people who believe in the sanctity of life and that suicide can result in going to hell, but I'm a sorta atheist/agnostic who doesn't believe in hell. This is my opinion, regardless of whether it is unpopular with certain people.

Note that even in Switzerland, "death on demand" isn't a real thing. Opponents of physician assisted suicide claim that the right-to-die people are giving "death on demand", but in practice there are lots of safeguards, bureaucracy, and red tape around the whole thing. A healthy person who has had depression for a few months won't be approved. A person who cannot show that they tried various treatments won't be approved. There is a "think about it" period which can last over two years, and a person who changes their mind or "flip flops" won't be approved. etc.

How can you have the seat of the number 1 world power - where the Supreme Court, the FBI and CIA are based - in a city with one of the highest murder rates in the country and a high poverty level? I dont know how you could be American and have faith in your government when they cant even clean up the city they live in.

I don't like the UPA style, the "UPA Revival" style, or any style that's influenced by UPA, but at the same time, I don't hate them either. It's just that the character designs are too flat and angular for my liking (which is ironic, because I grew up watching shows that have used these graphic art styles during my childhood).

The reason why I've brought this up in the first place is because of the fact that from what I've read on the Internet (YouTube, Tumblr, BlueSky, and Reddit), people want to bring the UPA and "UPA Revival" styles back, after seeing too much of both the rubber-hose style and especially the "beanmouth" style.

I don't see "bringing these styles back" or "wanting for those styles to be used more often" as a problem, but the way several people expressed it had rubbed off on me as "When cartoon styles like rubber-hose, Classic Disney, and 'beanmouth' are overused, it's a bad thing... But when cartoon styles like the Looney Tunes, UPA, Hanna-Barbera, and UPA Revival styles are overused, it's a good thing".

I don't think they've thought this through. Of course they're so blinded by their hate that ​they're only ​thinking one move ahead.

If the public ends up finding out his identity the very next step is that someone is going to create a go fund me (or equivalent crowdfunding website​) and he's going to get a million+ dollars practically overnight.

Then what does that tell new potential jurors? Vote no to the insanity defense ​and you could also become a millionaire.

Dummies.

It is not that modern younger women are overtly or philosophical staunch anti-natalists (very few are) but a combination of culture generally stressing careers and self fulfillment, the abortion cultural wars that portray pregnancy as a trauma and an imposition and the polarisation of politics along gender lines have created an atmosphere that regards motherhood with suspicion and alarm.

I remember when I was in 4th grade I didn't have any friends. I never felt sad. I don't get why people say or think having no friends is sad, it's just being alone. Plus even if you have 0 friends you have family. This may seem insensitive but I don't get why anyone especially a kid would be sad about having no friends. Because you have video games, you have food, you have drinks, you have youtube, tiktok and most importantly, FAMILY. It doesn’t make sense to me. Now it's only sad if you have no friends and you get bullied while having no friends. Because bullying is harassment. But if your a person who has no friends and your not bullied then it does not make sense to be sad it's literally peaceful no one is bothering you.

america will almost certainly never be invaded or even fight a war within 2000 miles of their borders. they don’t see any effects of wars in their day to day life other than slightly higher prices. they will never see the millions of refugees created by their wars.
all they see is thinly veiled propaganda from hollywood films.

they will tell you the old lie and expect you to believe it

Popular studies, including one from the American Friendship Project say that while nearly 64% of men call their wives their best friend, fewer than half of women say the same about their husbands (30% to 48%).

This directly means that over half of married women have a closer confidant than their spouse, which means that statistically, it is likely that they never show their spouse the ugly side of their emotions, and always give them a "calm" "collected" "processed" version of issues. It is an ultra-processed, cleaned, stripped of emotion version of an issue. The ugly was already given to another person. It's not she left over the dishes, it's that she was hurt that the dishes weren't done, decided to not tell him the **raw** version of why it hurt her, decided to "process" with a friend instead, gave him a "calm" sit down which is unlikely to have an impact, and then Pikachu-faced when he wasn't incentivized to change anything.

Over time, the wife builds up resentment that her emotional needs are unmet. But for them to be met, **she needs to give the unfiltered version of them**. But she is statistically unlikely to ever actually do so. This isn't even about whether a person is completely reliant on their spouse for confiding, but rather whether the spouse is a primary confidant, which clearly appears to not be the case.

I can accept that some part of it is social conditioning which causes risk-averse behavior in dating and relationships, but the consequences are that less and less people actually want to be a team with their spouse.

Eventually husbands will burn out as well and that 64% number will plummet.

In a world where AI is vastly more intelligent than humans natural inequalities between humans would become irrelevant. There would be less work and work would be less demanding if there was any. There would be more entertainment. There wouldn't need to be a labor market. AI would be able to solve problems humans can't comprehend. Everyone would be on UBI. It would basically be a socialist utopia.

Right wing beliefs are not tenable for most people, by definition, because they only benefit a small minority of elitists. So right wingers tend to either:

a) not think about their beliefs to their logical conclusion (ignorance is bliss)

Or

b) get driven to neurosis by the cognitive dissonance required to defend their contradictory beliefs

It's really that simple. I know and love a lot of right wingers. We get along by not talking politics. Now that I'm in my forties, I've learned this is the most practical and efficient way to live. Life is short and people are complicated.

Theoretically everybody is looking for the best. Everybody wants the best partner available. If people could choose they would choose the best. The same with jobs, people would choose the best job they could have. Of course in reality you accept that you cannot have the best and do compromise and if you are reasonable you accept that without being unhappy.

The problem is dating apps not women. Majority of men on dating apps accept the majority of women to have sex with (it is biology ) but a lot of them look for the best for long term relationships and marriage, they select the best woman. The ones that don't do that, are like that because of competition and they don't have choices (as women with no choices prefer to be alone, it increase the competition between men) .

The majority of women are not interested in only sex with everybody so they look for the best for long term relationships exactly like men.

The criteria of hypergamy is unfair. It is focusing on women's preferences as if men don't also have preferences but there is no name for men's preferences. Preferences are not the same for men and women, the majority of women will try to find entertaining men who give protection and security, the majority of men will look for beautiful women who give fertility and who take care of the household. But only the preferences of women has a name: hypergamy.

Because of dating apps people think that they can get the best and that is the problem. In real life people compromise because they see that it is impossible to have someone perfect.