There's also that wholesome bible story where Lot threw his daughters to a mob of rapists and was referred to as an "honorable man" for it.
The bible is full of misogyny, incest, rape, and quite frankly doesn't treat women as people. It's a shitty book with shitty ideas from the bronze age.
I felt silly for buying a 63 gallon, foldable/portable water tank for my small farm because the vast majority of the ones I looked at were marketed towards preppers.
I just want my animals to have water in case the power goes out for a few days.
But the way things like that are marketed makes it sound like your the smartest, bestest, most prepared person to ever walk this earth. I don't need you to stroke my ego, just sell a foldable water tank with no leaks please.
I'm guessing a lot of the teenagers that apply to work at restaurants that do these illegal, unpaid "trial shifts" aren't aware of how illegal that is so they probably get away with it for far longer than they should.
Shit, a lot of adults in the US don't know their federal and state rights as employees thanks to lack of education on labor laws. Laws only work if everyone is aware of them. Can't report something if you don't know it's wrong in the first place.
He doesn't want the aliens to learn swear words or they might start adding them to the crop circles. Obviously.
Social media like Twitter preys on people's fear of missing out.
Manufactured Problem - not being up to date on internet bullshit. Marketed solution - be on twitter. Supply and demand died a long time ago. Now it's all about manufactured problems, and conveniently marketed solutions.
This sort of psychological manipulation in marketing works. It's why it's so hard to get people to leave websites like Twitter, reddit, fb ect. They've made their brands synonymous with media trends.
It took long enough, but I'm genuinely happy to see folks wising up and realizing they don't "need" Twitter. It's like watching a bunch of people break up with a toxic ex all at the same time.
My one concern about her openly opposing the genocide in Gaza is that it would likely cause the electoral college to just hand the vote to Trump. That will be way worse for Palestinians overall. Don't forget Trump didn't win the popular vote in 2016.
Unfortunately there are too many people in the US government who are invested in supporting Israel, and it's not out of the realm of possibility that the electoral college is compromised like our supreme court is. Israel could be the make it or break it on that front.
It's still insane to me that people were actually doing that. I know meds like ivermectin and pyrantel are used in humans but still.... Horses have BIG organs, and that paste is a suspension dosed specifically to get rid of equine intestinal worms. It's not the same as the pill you get from a pharmacy.
Even if those people who ate horse dewormer felt no ill effects I bet there's some organ damage in there. I'd hazard a guess that human livers and kidneys don't like high doses of that stuff.
Unfortunately, a lot of people who are under the influence of religion believe that marriage is for creating children, and many of those people received very little to no sex ed.
The ideas that "every child is a blessing" and "God will provide" are used to handwave away the importance of people's bodily autonomy and to deflect the reality that people can and should have access to the resources to chose if, when and how many children they have.
I've taken to calling them reproductive luddites. They're afraid of contraceptive technology.
I read them too after what happened to my sister.
However, I think that certain types of side effects(life altering ones Tardive dyskinesia) and medications that are known to mess with hormonal birth control should have their own little text box right on the front where people can clearly see it.
Throwing a long ass pamphlet in there and calling it informed consent doesn't really cut it for me. There's a lot of room for improvement.
My sister had her first child because her birth control failed due to another medication making it less effective.
No one warned her about that being a thing that can happen with that particular med. Not her doctor. Not the pharmacist. No one said a thing.. which is super fucked up. She was married at the time, but still. They were not ready for a kid(their words)
This was almost 20 years ago so I don't remember which med it was, and I'm hoping the medical community is better about this now.
I could be entirely fucking wrong here, but I'm pretty sure that actress played a mom in a netflix show about two brothers who killed their parents.
It's also 6 am and I just smoked a bowl, and it just occurred to me this might be a joke im not getting. If that's the case sorry about that and don't mind me