[+] -17 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You see a tiny clip that matches your world view: police are bad. And instantly you no longer care about context. This is exactly how MAGA processes information.

Always demand the full picture. Never listen to only one side. And stay cricital of all evidence shown. That is hard, but at least stop downvoting and telling off people that point this out.

And I repeat: this still looks bad. Very much worth investigating what happened. Most likely this cop went out of line. But let's not play judge based on a couple of seconds of contextless video.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    In Dutch, the word "kanker" can be used as verb, noun or adjective. Example: Die kanker hoer kan opkankeren met die kanker van haar. Which best translates to something like: That fucking whore can fuck off with that shit of hers. Except that the Dutch version is wayyyyy more rude and inappropriate.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    It at the very least got popular in the Netherlands. This was due to a youtube upload from 2008 of a Dutch student who was proud to be the first person to swaffel the Taj Mahal. This resulted in more people swinging their dicks against various monuments.

    So if you see a popular monument, remember that it is likely a Dutch person filmed themselves while wacking their dick against it and put it on youtube somewhere.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I recommend you take a look at Breeze. It is a dating app in the Netherlands (and expanding).

    When you match, you get a date planner (after paying for the date). No chatting allowed. A real date or nothing. That is the premise. You pay per date, and you get your money back if the date is cancelled or they don't show up. So the app earns money from sending people on real dates. People that don't show up or cancel dates are penalized by the algorithn and they loose badges on their profile. This is good for Breeze, who wants people to go on dates, and good for the users, who want to go on dates.

    Chatting is allowed a couple of hours before the date, but this is not intended for conversations, only for practical purposes.

    As a result, profiles also matter much more. For both sides. You litterally need to sell yourself, because if someone swippes on you, they may need to pay 10 euro for the date if you also swipe on them.

    You also get only a handful of profiles each day. Which makes sense, because you can limit the number of concurrent matches/dates, hence the app is better off distributing the matches, rather than piling them onto the 10% hotest accounts.

    This also means you can't spend more than 15 to 30 minutes a day going over 5 tot 10 profiles.

    Meanwhile, the app can provide free accounts, where people only need to pay for actual dates, hence the entry barier is lower than Tinder, where men won't get seen without paying. Meaning it is easy to get a userbase going.

    I suspect the hard part is the logistics of setting up the dates. A spot in a bar or coffee place needs to be organized for each date. If that is no option, the users are asked to choose a meeting spot (talking to eachother via an intermediate person.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Make a small espresso in the way you know your target victem/snob prefers. Including the use of the right small cup, the most fancy beans you can get your hands on, and the best espresso machine you can afford. But instead of handing this small cup of goodness over to the exited snob, you poor it into a pot. The bigger the pot, the better. Then add lukewarm water until the pot is full. Now stare your victem in the eyes, and deadpan tell then that you now have drink-ready coffee for the whole party.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago

    There used to be a decent argument for the taboo on sex. Namely that it produces children. And children should not be born to a woman without someone to support her financially. Hence the sudden weddings when a girl got pregnant. This protected the woman, who would otherwise had to raise the children without a father.

    Religion was used as a means to enforce this protection.

    But in the modern world, this idea just doesn't work anymore. Sex doesn't need to produce children, children can be raised by one parent, and woman can take care of themselves without help of men. So all layers of the problem have been removed.

    My point: religion used to have a point, but failed to get with the times.

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