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i need to fucking learn mandarin

love peeking into boards i never touch because id have never considered using anon knowledge to choose a fridge

yeah awesome thank you dude

2014

mr beast partnering with the lds church to help bring in younger people so they can marry off said younger people was not in my 2026 bingo

putting the dullahan maid's head on the top shelf where she can't reach...

Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

When we bought our car, I told Sean to let me handle it. I walked in and said "We have X for a down payment and cannot pay more than Y in monthly payments." My Y number had some leeway, but I didn't mention that.

First thing the sales guy did after I laid down the rules was turn to Sean and go, "What's your number?" And Sean said. "Oh, no, you negotiate with Gayle."

So, strike one for the sales guy. Could not divide and conquer us by implying THE MAN would not surprised at what I laid down.

Sales guy then had to confer with his manager and left us at his desk for several minutes. I have a vague recollection (this was 16 years ago) of Sean and I amusing ourselves doing bits about the other people there to look at cars. I am sure we did not give off the stressed or nervous energy they were hoping for.

Guy comes back. His first offer is fifty dollars a month more than I told him we could pay. I looked at him and said "I gave you our upper limit."

"Well, but what's another 50 bucks a month?"

"Something I can't afford."

He didn't know what to do with my open and unashamed admittal that I had a budget because my money was finite.

He went back to talk to the manager again.

It took two more rounds of "I told you what I can afford" before he finally came back 20 bucks under what I'd stated as my max.

The trick to resisting high-stress sales tactics is doing the math at home, knowing exactly what you can afford, and then walking into the room and stating that number minus 15%. Then refusing to budge from that number. Never, ever, meet then where they want. Always meet them where you want. Because at the end of the day, you can walk away and go somewhere else and say "I told the people at Z what my terms were, and they refused to work with me. Here are my terms. Meet them, and you make a sale today."

thank you for not saying "it was really pawsome" when my parents mentioned the october revolution i know that took restraint

So turns out the US are setting babies up for a lifetime of illness and increased likelihood of liver cancer in Guinea Bissau in the name of “research”

7000 newborns will be denied the neoneatal HepB vaccine until 6 weeks to ‘prove’ that the HepB vaccine is linked to neurodevelopmental disability on the directions of the Department of Health vis RFK Jr and in collaboration with researchers in Denmark, despite the fact that the vaccine’s efficacy rate and best protection is when administered to newborns, and the total lack of correlation between vaccination and neurodevelopmental disabilities.

Guinea Bissau has some of the highest rates of HepB on the continent, and infants are the group at the highest risk of contracting HepB, leading to chronic hepatitis & long term hepatic diseases like cirrhosis and liver failure as well as increased chance of liver cancer.

The study can’t be carried out in the US or Denmark because it fails almost every benchmark for medical ethics — surprising absolutely nobody, it is in fact heinously unethical to expose babies to preventable disease that causes liver failure and liver cancer, but the “study” has been green lit in Guinea.

Fuck the US imperial project in Africa, fuck RFK Jr and the US Department of Health, and fuck every single collaborative researcher in Denmark. This is some nightmare Tuskegee Study shit and every single individual involved deserves to be in The Hague.

Good news: cancelled as of this morning.

Recently came across a clip of that cartoon villain looking "comedian" who is famous for being racist talking about why he didn't have his daughter vaccinated for Hep B. He said he asked the daughter what kind of disease it was and he was told that it was an "STD" (unlikely the doctor said this but they were probably trying to explain and his dumb ass just didn't understand). Of course, he was very shocked and refused to get the vaccine, as his baby is not going to have sex with anyone until after marriage or whatever. Like there was the VERY strong implication that Hep B is given to babies so that they can be abused or to facilitate their abuse which like, as far as I know. Most babies with Hep B didn't get it from sexual abuse.... like, he presented it explicitly as an STD to make it seem like you are sexualizing children by vaccinating kids against it. Thats the real argument these people believe, even though literally anything we call an STD can be transmitted in a myriad of non-sexual ways

A large segment of the right wing really believes everything is controlled by a secret pedophilic cabal, run by (((you know who))), and that this explains most things... someone trying to keep your child from getting liver cancer is an agent of Jewish degeneracy. Etc

ICE fucking abandoned the scene in a Minneapolis neighborhood and left their battle plans and designs on the city, fake license plates, and challenge tokens which they reward themselves for arrests. Looney Tunes shit.

"Demonstrators investigating the abandoned ICE vehicles apparently retrieved these “challenge coins” that ICE mercenaries receive when they kidnap people. This “coin” is decorated with a skull wearing a crown. ICE mercenaries serve king death."

hello whta the everloving fuck is this are ICE just cult members who believe themselves to be some kinda assassin creed shit?

It’s Nazi paraphernalia

where is evryone

whoever came up with this is not good at mnemonics

smuggling a bladeless knife with no handle through airport security

honestly the original USDA food pyramid was funny as fuck for recommending 6-11 servings of bread a day. like honestly don't mind if I do

There are actual tears in my eyes rn can you believe people are this stupid and walk among us all the time

The united states is a country of plague ridden rats

During the pandemic I was hoping masking would be normalized and that maybe we'd get a culture about it similar to china or japan, but 4 years later with covid infection rates high as ever, people seem to be even more cavalier than before, walking around completely unmasked just fucking coughing and sneezing all over the place like its not something that gets people killed