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[–] 62 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Ever since I learned about the Dubai porta-potty I lost what little respect I had for influencers traveling to Dubai.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Now I’m curious, but I don’t want to look it up.

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  • [–] 31 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Dubai porta-potty

    I looked this up and between this and the Epstein Island stuff ... like is regular sex just not enough for people?

    Also, why can't filthy rich people use their money to help others ...

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  • [+] 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)
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    I think part of the problem is that the brain is never content with what it has. It becomes the new normal instead of luxuries.

    Think about the a rich man, sleeping with beautiful women all the time - either escorts or gold diggers.

    It becomes the new normal. He wants more. In what direction this want will go probably differs from person to person. There will be excess, perversion, cruelty, until that is the new normal. Getting more and more depraved. Limited only by that persons conscience and what he can get away with.

    And for a sociopath and billionaire? There are are no limits, no crime he can't commit, no foul act he won't try. Torture. Children. Murder. Cannibalism. These people have been above the law for too long.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I'm still unclear if this is a real thing or an urban legend. Sure prostitution is one of the main economic activities in Dubai, and I'm sure many cater to very specific fetishes. But is it like a real thing that happens regularly?

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Oh look. The mega wealthy brutalizing people when they calculate they can get away with it.

    Who could have guessed that was a universal trait

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Just looked it up.

    These are soulless monsters who can have literally everything but since nothing satisfies them anymore they wish to hurt and degrade others for the thrill of it.

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago

    There is no war in Dubai Sing Se

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  • [–] 32 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    As someone who grew up in Dubai you have no idea how much schadenfreude I am feeling right now!

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    In case someone does not know what does the word mean.

    Schadenfreude: The experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. Schadenfreude is a loanword from German. The closest word in English would be gloat. Schadenfreude has been detected in children as young as 24 months and may be an important social emotion establishing "inequity aversion".

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The Dutch word for it is "leedvermaak", incidentally.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    God I love Dutch.

    You look at it, and you think, if I stare at this long enough, I can make it out. Most of the words are about the same size, and there has to be some Latin bases here and there...

    nope...

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    Hehe, I'm married to a Dutch woman. I'm an American of non-European descent, for context.

    I speak Gujarati and Spanish and a smidge of Hindi and Japanese, other than English. She speaks Dutch, Danish, German, and English.

    When I moved to the Netherlands, I told her "We both know something about languages. I have to say this: speaking Dutch is like speaking German while spitting out your teeth after someone punched you in the mouth."

    She answered back, and I'm paraphrasing, "Tja, het is wel toepasselijk dat "Dutch Directness" het eerste is wat jij onder de knie hebt, jij Amerikaanse betweter."

    "Schat, dat is wel het meest diplomatieke wat ik vandaag had kunnen zeggen, gezien de daden van de VOC in het land van mijn voorouders."

    "Touché!"

    "Jazeker!"

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, I've never seen a picture of Violet08

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think you will. It's possible she's not even a woman. Or it's very possible that she looks nowhere near how she proclaims to look. Either way it's a fun account to watch.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    That's not a picture.

    This is a GIF.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF...) is a bitmap image format...

    Hmmm... I guess its an image, but not a picture 🤔

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  • [–] 24 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    This is several pictures. I saw them all. A guy came up to me, big guy, strong guy, tears in his eyes, and says "Sir, I've never seen all the pictures in the GIF. I'm glad you saw them for me." I'm a super picture-seer, the likes of which have never been seen before. I refer to every frame of the GIF as a picture because I'm also a four-dimensional time god.

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    You do realise a number of these Arab family monarchial figures are criminally indicted in the Epstein case

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)