All bodily freedoms, including that pesky bodily autonomy thing that some people seem to struggle to understand, should be freedoms granted by the constitution (or similar document in other countries).

We passed laws that have made things more equal here in Canada. The US should do the same.

I keep thinking about America’s obsession with freedom, and from what I see, y’all aren’t very free.

I’m in a very far southern area in Canada, and I’m here to report, it’s not something that happens here either.

So heading further north, let’s see, more rare than “I have never witnessed nor heard from anyone who witnessed it”… Uhhh. I feel like this is like dividing by zero.

It just doesn’t happen.

The fact is, it should be legal. It’s sexist if it’s not legal. Whether anyone chooses to exercise the right to do it, is an entirely different matter.

I think I watched a summary of it by a YouTuber.

The same reason that filament based incandescent bulbs burned out. Planned obsolescence.

There’s a very real conspiracy (not just a theory) about the “arms race” in light bulbs for long lasting bulbs. Eventually, they made bulbs that lasted so long that they stopped making money.

Lighting manufacturers intentionally made worse bulbs to simply improve profits. They realized that they were driving themselves out of business. Everyone in the light bulb industry agreed to stop development of even longer lasting bulbs, just so they could continue to move units and make money.

Also, with LEDs, the thing that burns out fastest isn’t the LEDs (there’s usually a dozen… ish, in an LED bulb)… It’s the electronics. The power needs to be converted from line power to something the LEDs can handle, which is usually DC. So there’s a full power supply in the bulb to convert AC to DC, with a certain voltage to power the LEDs.

Sometimes this conversation is simple, a full bridge rectifier with little more than a filtering capacitor, other times it’s very complex.

The power supply in the bulb is usually what fails first.

Okay, but fucking pages sounds like a good way to get papercuts in places I don’t want papercuts.

Didn’t some kid do particle enrichment in his shed with parts from smoke detectors?

I seem to recall that.

CONSUME

My pleasure. I regularly put notes in my password manager about stuff like this.

Have a good day.

Can you maybe add a note to the account in your password manager to remind yourself of the limitation? I dunno, I’m just some guy

I dunno about this analogy. I think the doctor proved that with enough time, anything can become a door.

Hey, stop trying to be logical. These people don’t understand it, and that’s mean.

/s

Ironic. Amirite?

There’s a whole subset of idiots that believe that you need to expose yourself to harmful shit to have a strong immune system. (See: all the people licking toilets and crap during lockdown)

There’s some credible science to it, in the way that, an immunization is literally putting “harmful” stuff in you to train your immune system. This is known science that I should be able to mostly hand wave around since most people already know this. Immunizations are usually focusing on a key indicator, eg, for COVID, it’s the protein on the outside of the vital cell wall (all the spiky bits in the illustrations) or whatever… I’m no scientist. For other viruses and bacteria, it’s a deactivated version of the virus… It’s essentially “dead” for all intents and purposes. It just resembles the virus so closely that it effectively trains your immune system to recognize it.

With all that being said, not all bacteria and viruses are something we can develop a natural immunity to, partly because some of them just kill us, partly because there’s something that is preventing it. Again I’m not a scientist.

Regardless, these idiots think that by exposing yourself to “natural” viruses and bacteria, you can strengthen your immune system. Bluntly, it’s possible to do that, and why the fuck would you want to do it that way? It’s literally a randomized version of a science we already have that’s tried, tested, and proven effective, called immunizations. With immunizations, you get all the benefits of surviving the horrors of some of the most nasty viruses and bacteria out there, without suffering through what those viruses and bacteria are going to do to you.

The whole thing is stupid.

If anyone argues about “good” bacteria, tell them to eat yogurt. FFS.

Kid on the lower right has two right hands…

Kid on the top left has an impossibly long body, head/shoulders above their “dad”, and their leg is hanging off the side of the bed.

IDK what is going on with the kid in the bottom left, and their feet?

There’s a lot wrong with this picture.

Apparently that persons fetish is for a mutated family

Why does the title capitalize every word?

… Probably to make people like me wonder about it.

I hate the mentality of “I had to suffer, so you should have to suffer too!”

And so many of them have that attitude.

It’s just gross

What even is this response?

I was raised. I raised myself.

I see a lot of boys who are so sheltered from the world that they can’t even make hot pockets or do their laundry without someone helping them.

I wanted to be raised by my parents and I was forced to raise myself. I don’t say this to garner any sympathy, because I know I won’t get any. I’m not going to throw myself a pity party because I was left to figure it out.

The only point I’m making, if any at all, is that: school doesn’t prepare you for life. It certainly didn’t prepare me for life… And parents should be teaching their kids how to deal with stuff, and think about their choices so they can make good ones without needing to be told what to do.

I had to figure that out on my own. It’s 100% possible to have a very easy upbringing and be raised right.

I don’t think I need to tell anyone that nobody gives a fuck about how you feel or how much you’re struggling, if you have a dick between your legs, and that demonstrates the problem in society. Boys will “figure it out”.

Most of them don’t, more than a few, never will.

What’s all this shit about being raised? Who raised you?

Do as I say!

Don’t talk back!

To summarize my youth: the only stuff I learned, outside of school, was taught to me by my brothers, in the form of bullying.

I was the youngest.

What I’m most annoyed by is that my dad, a teacher, with a bachelor’s in bookkeeping, taught me exactly nothing about money.

They fed me, and I got older, but I raised myself. I learned how to handle my own finances, and live on my own, because they certainly didn’t help me in that regard, and when I found myself basically on my own at 16, after my parents divorced and I was essentially abandoned, I had to sort my shit out damn fast. It was sink or swim.

Obviously there’s a lot more to it than that, but I’ll tell you this: as a teenager, I had no goddamned idea how to shop for groceries, or cook for myself.

I try not to bitch about it too much because that was more than 20 years ago now. I don’t want to compare my challenges to anyone else.

My entire point is that, I wasn’t taught anything. I figured it out without any help. The difference between a man, and a child who got older, is whether you taught yourself how to be self sufficient, when everyone else decided that you were old enough to know everything you needed to know, when nobody has actually explained anything to you about how to survive, then pushed you out the door… If you experienced that, and you figured it out. Welcome to adulthood, congrats. If you were never in a situation where if you missed a couple of shifts at work, you’d have to sleep under a bridge, then, IDK. Sounds a bit pampered to me.

As a man, who knows many “men”, I have to say, a lot aren’t being raised… At all.