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Crime is down because we got rid of leaded gasoline
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Koishi Komeiji posted:There's a lot of theories about why crime has dropped but I doubt it's this since youth being distracted by little colorful dopamine releasing things has been going on since toys and porn were invented. I don't know if it's because of games, but the hordes of bored teenagers hanging around everywhere have all seemed to have evaporated in the last 20 years. When I was a teenager in the 90s, all we'd do at night, every night, was roam listlessly about town and settle in lower areas like old rail tunnels and the shorefront like a cloud of slightly toxic heavier than air gas,
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Nov 22, 2018 05:42
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I don't know if it's because of games, but the hordes of bored teenagers hanging around everywhere have all seemed to have evaporated in the last 20 years. I don't know, we were still doing that when I was a teen as late as like, 2010, despite the fact that my friend group was mostly a bunch of turbo nerds that played way too many videogames. Maybe you just don't notice them because you don't hang around old rail tunnels or other Cool Teen Places anymore
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Nov 22, 2018 05:57
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hahahaha lmao that owns so much
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Nov 22, 2018 05:59
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Now where did I put my anti‐ship missile?
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Nov 22, 2018 06:01
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This means some marketing rear end in a top hat took their family for a nice relaxing trip to the beach one day, sat down in the sand under an umbrella, looked out at the horizon, took in the beauty and serenity of the great expanse of sea in front of them and thought to themselves "Hmm, I wonder why nobody's monetized all this wasted useless empty space?"
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Nov 22, 2018 06:18
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jesus gently caress
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Nov 22, 2018 06:19
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Like at least those planes that fly low and tow banners advertising local poo poo are kinda charming and move on quickly, this is just "let's see how big a billboard we can drop directly in your field of view moving as slow as possible". Looks like it's a big screen too so I'm sure that loving thing blinks and animates and poo poo just to make it that much worse. Oh gently caress what if it has loudspeakers
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Nov 22, 2018 06:21
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I don't know if it's because of games, but the hordes of bored teenagers hanging around everywhere have all seemed to have evaporated in the last 20 years. that gets you either harassed or murdered by cops (depending on your skin color)
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Nov 22, 2018 06:21
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Shear Modulus posted:that gets you either harassed or murdered by cops (depending on your skin color) Nerd friends and I got frisked once because we were hanging out under a bridge at around midnight, cop assumed we were on the drugs and seemed real disappointed when we weren't and he didn't find anything. In reality we were trying to see if we could use a big dish antenna to pick up wifi signals from 5-10 miles away downriver on the other shore  Of course if any of us had been a few skin tone shades darker that would have gone totally differently I'm sure, I assume the radio equipment would be evidence of bomb-making or some other terrorist-loving freedom-hating activity
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Nov 22, 2018 06:27
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Shame Boy posted:Crime is down because we got rid of leaded gasoline The inventor of leaded gasoline has my favorite life story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
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Nov 22, 2018 07:02
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The XKCD Larper posted:The inventor of leaded gasoline has my favorite life story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. "An instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny" is how I wanna be remembered.
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Nov 22, 2018 07:17
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At least he died a hilariously ironic death:quote:In 1940, at the age of 51, Midgley contracted poliomyelitis, which left him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. In 1944, he was entangled in the device and died of strangulation.
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Nov 22, 2018 07:34
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I don't know if it's because of games, but the hordes of bored teenagers hanging around everywhere have all seemed to have evaporated in the last 20 years. its because of the widespread availability of opioids hth
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Nov 22, 2018 07:52
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The XKCD Larper posted:The inventor of leaded gasoline has my favorite life story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems ... Midgley would later have to take leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning. LOL
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Nov 22, 2018 08:06
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He also invented Freon, making him the one person to probably gently caress the earth the hardest in history.
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Nov 22, 2018 08:13
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Phrosphor posted:There were two kids on the train this morning discussing Fortnite and CoD. They were the type of middle teenagers I would have put down as jock/bully/thug when I was that age. They were using the word Kappa as a verb. I felt really old. They're still bullies, they just found a way to face even fewer consequences than before the internet.
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Nov 22, 2018 08:24
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Nov 22, 2018 08:52
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Nov 22, 2018 08:56
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if you're rich and white you don't need to know anything to succeed
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Nov 22, 2018 08:59
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF_brfZPmjM
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Nov 22, 2018 09:31
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Len posted:I dunno. I buy this bottle that has a giant 110 and just says "It's the proof that counts" you can get a fifth for 9.75 and it will get you where you want to be. You won't like the trip but you'll get there If you do the math and go purely by volume of alcohol per dollar then the best bet in the store is almost always box wine. Mmm...a nice 5l box of "white grenache", just what Saturday afternoon needs!
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Nov 22, 2018 09:43
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not a cult posted:On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems ... Midgley would later have to take leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning. So convinced he was right even though the dangers of lead were known for millennia lol
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Nov 22, 2018 09:56
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https://i.imgur.com/ih4S4Ps.gifv
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Nov 22, 2018 10:03
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The XKCD Larper posted:So convinced he was right even though the dangers of lead were known for millennia lol Nah, the dude totally knew about the dangers and would flee to Europe after the conferences to secretly get treatment for the symptoms of lead poisoning.
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Nov 22, 2018 10:06
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The XKCD Larper posted:The inventor of leaded gasoline has my favorite life story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. Holy poo poo how many people (other than himself  ) is this guy directly responsible for killing? Australia and NZ still have crazy high skin cancer rates because of CFCs
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Nov 22, 2018 10:09
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Kill one person with a lead slug and they give you the electric chair. Kill a million people with aerosolized lead and they give you the chairmanship of a major corporation.
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Nov 22, 2018 10:17
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bike tory posted:Holy poo poo how many people (other than himself Among people who know him, he's generally considered to have a higher potential body count than Stalin and Hitler.
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Nov 22, 2018 10:17
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not a cult posted:On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems ... Midgley would later have to take leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning. share more stories of capitalists getting owned
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Nov 22, 2018 11:45
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Nov 22, 2018 12:30
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I hate it when shrill over excited dipshits are right about stuff. Spare the academics tho, I feel they're unwitting stooges at worst.
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Nov 22, 2018 15:49
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Yeah, don't get too carried away. The problem is the predatory and parasitic subset.
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Nov 22, 2018 16:58
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not a cult posted:On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he poured TEL over his hands, placed a bottle of the chemical under his nose, and inhaled its vapor for 60 seconds, declaring that he could do this every day without succumbing to any problems ... Midgley would later have to take leave of absence from work after being diagnosed with lead poisoning. Giving yourself lead poisoning to own the libs
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Nov 22, 2018 17:36
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spankmeister posted:Giving yourself lead poisoning to own
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Nov 22, 2018 18:15
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Nov 22, 2018 19:15
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xposting this
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Nov 22, 2018 23:41
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I've always wondered what type of person clicks those ads. Is it solely old people or are there millennials who fall for it?
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Nov 23, 2018 00:22
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Captain Billy Pissboy posted:I've always wondered what type of person clicks those ads. Is it solely old people or are there millennials who fall for it? People who want a "top surgeon" to teach them how to poo poo themselves.
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Nov 23, 2018 00:54
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Where do those ads go? I don't click on them because I assume my computer will just explode with malware but I've always been curious.
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Nov 23, 2018 01:01
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