[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You've fallen for a smear campaign from a group called "Center for Organizational Research and Education" formerly known as "Center for Consumer Freedom". You can look up their other campaigns here and form an opinion about from where they get their money and which groups they target:

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_Consumer_Freedom

This is specifically on the PETA case:

https://crescentcitytimes.com/richard-berman-the-slander-campaign-against-peta/

Yes PETA helped euthanize pets. But so do many many other shelters around the globe every day as they're overflowing from strays and pets from irresponsible owners and scummy breeders. PETA has a video on their website showing that they did it for cases that could not realistically be rescued. Lifelong neglected pets with very little chances of surviving and multiple diseases. Also a reminder, most of us are responsible for killing animals daily. But it's ok as those are bred for it.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    A collegue just told me after I repeatedly asked him to repeat himself as I didn't understand him that he always had the problem of speaking to quietly. After his wife told him he regularily tried to speak louder which lead to him speaking to loud and getting complaints on that. Now he's back at the old volume.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I determine within the PKGBUILD (which I view from octopi) the URLs where code or binaries are downloaded from and then if those URLs seem trustworthy, e.g. how many stars or maintainers the github repo has. When the repo is small and doesn't qualify for the latter criterias, I do a git clone and skim over the sources on the lookout for malicious URLs or strange code (never found anything in that regard). Also search for the package on https://aur.archlinux.org/ and look if other users have anything to say and how many votes it has.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I know next to nothing about this topic but heard in an interview with Ventura, that Hogan was the only one of that league (or how they call it) who had already signed a fat contract with a higher league and that the unionization would have put that into risk of not proceeding.

    Edit: Found the interview. It was a bit different than I remembered but not much.

    https://youtu.be/nt5mRyIyOzU?t=2947 (at 49:07)

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The people with the infinite family tree were all white and the stupid people in the future were mostly white too. Not want to neglect your statements about zipcode and whereabouts of your upbringing are more important than your DNA in how your IQ is. But the movie isn't making that statement either, IIRC. It's just saying that the people who could give their kids the "best" start in life, because they already would now how to not raise their kids in self-inflicted immaturity, aren't procreating. But I don't think that this is factual.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah I read "It" of course. But I was 16 or so. I often heard about the orgy but I really can't recall it. Maybe it was censored in the localized book or I did not perceive it as that bad as people make it. AFAIK it was after they defeated the spider being in the sewers. King still did substance abuse when he wrote It and surrounding this debacle I often see people accusing him of still doing it though he is clean and dry for decades now.

    Yes the scene may have been inappropriate but it certainly wasn't meant to be pedophilia:

    "In 2013, Stephen King (through his office manager Marsha DeFillipo) shared on the message board of his official site what the controversial scene in the sewers represents, and begins by explaining that, at the time, he wasn’t thinking of the sexual aspect of it. Instead, he wrote it as the connecting link between childhood and adulthood, as the Losers Club knew they had to be together again, and described it as “another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children’s library and the adult library.” King added that he's aware that, with time, there has been more sensitivity and attention to issues like the underage sex depicted in IT's sewer scene."

    https://screenrant.com/stephen-king-it-beverly-sewer-scene-meaning-explained/

    What I find way more disgusting is the lynchmob behaviour of people in this thread who never read anything from King and don't know him in general and them even accusing other users of being pedophiles.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    That's interesting. I read most of his books and I really can't recall anything in that regard. Between he's famous for being a horror author although he wrote a few non-fiction books. The human psyche and inner monologues of the character along with descriptions of villains and why they became the monsters they are, are recurring topics in his books. Might it be that this is the reason why they involve child abuse? Remember Dutroix? He was abused as child.

    Anyways I can't really recall any scenes in his books where he delved more into that topic than appropriate.

    Edit: I'm trying not to have idols or parasocial relations and it's been years since I read the last SK book. So my memory may be clouded a bit. Other than the scene from "The Jaunt" (which I haven't read), I haven't found anything after a quick search. If it turns out he's a pedo I won't defend him. But regarding from what I know about him as person from the biographical texts, and stuff he wrote on social media and how meticulously he deconstructed evil personalities in his books, I can't imagine this being anymore than a witchhunt.

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