Golgafrinchan [none/use name]

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Cake day: April 19th, 2023

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  • Tell them that 7-11 is an American company. That will blow their tops.

    The name means it's open from 7am to 11pm, back when grocery stores were open 10am-8pm. After those hours, if you wanted anything to eat, you were screwed. It's hard to believe that America used to just go to sleep at night. Unless you were a nurse, a cop, or a baker, you were asleep at night.

    Then 7-11 went to 24 hour, expanded into Japan, and did well there and poorly at home. The Japanese 7-11 was spun off into its own company. Years later, they came back and bought the American 7-11. Tell anyone in Asia that 7-11 is as American as baseball and they'll disbelieve you.










  • Already do, in Canada!

    https://apnews.com/article/covid-science-health-toronto-7c631558a457188d2bd2b5cfd360a867

    Alan Nichols had a history of depression and other medical issues, but none were life-threatening. When the 61-year-old Canadian was hospitalized in June 2019 over fears he might be suicidal, he asked his brother to “bust him out” as soon as possible.

    Within a month, Nichols submitted a request to be euthanized and he was killed, despite concerns raised by his family and a nurse practitioner.

    His application for euthanasia listed only one health condition as the reason for his request to die: hearing loss.

    Nichols’ family reported the case to police and health authorities, arguing that he lacked the capacity to understand the process and was not suffering unbearably — among the requirements for euthanasia. They say he was not taking needed medication, wasn’t using the cochlear implant that helped him hear, and that hospital staffers improperly helped him request euthanasia.

    Apparently the new T4 Aktion programme has resulted in a wonderful increase in the volume of fresh organs for the transplant business.





  • The disappearance of anti-immigrant sentiment

    There wouldn't be immigrants. The word would disappear. With a one-world government, there wouldn't be any borders. People could move anywhere they liked. Total mobility. Wherever the state needed people to work, they'd be transported there. Obviously there would have to be a few restrictions to prevent whites from fleeing and gathering in settlements in some uninhabited land, but for the most part a whole chunk of vocabulary would be thrown away. Passport, illegal alien, immigrate, emigrate, citizen, all of them about as relevant as the Austro-Hungarian Empire.




  • Golgafrinchan [none/use name]toacab*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    "Cite your sources" requires a level of trust that most people haven't earned with me. If I do go to the work of citing widely known facts, I had better not get a knee-jerk rejection when I come back with points.

    I've cited sources when I got similar requests. I've sometimes crafted detailed responses detailing them point by point. And I've been burned again and again. Unless I already trust you, or you have made a good argument refuting the claims as a better and more complete version, I don't feel obligated to do as you say.

    People who demand evidence for things they already know to be true are usually arguing in bad faith. Would you demand somebody send you a peer reviewed study proving that not everyone likes chocolate chip cookies?