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DefinitelyNotIGN 8 points ago +8 / -0

It's inconvenient. Someone might need to come in at night. A relative, or a neighbor in a jam. You want to be helpful to them.

That's literally the thought process. Bad people will break in anyways, so only good people will be kept out by the locks, so why lock it? And of course, people didn't bash a door in, they used lockpicks, it was a more elegant time. Or at least that was the perception.

Now, we see things differently. We see things in a Modern Current Year lens.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 12 points ago +12 / -0

Disregard human. Embrace Dorf.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 13 points ago +13 / -0

The stereotypical olde tyme family had 3 kids and a big dog. Retriever or Shepherd, usually. Beyond just somehow sleeping through someone walking through your house, that was usually sufficient secondary alarms. Someone shoots the dog, you shoot them. Because you DO have your gun on-hand. One in the bedroom, one on the mantle in the family room, sometimes one by the door.

If it's a farmstead or plantation house, even more animals would be about and easily startled by strangers. People call cows dumb, but if someone untoward came towards my grandfather's farm, they'd have three bulls surrounding them real quick, any time of day.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 19 points ago +19 / -0

If a teenager is misbehaving in Japan, a cop will just beat them, drop them off to their parents, and let the parents know he beat their kid because the parents didn't.

No trial, no juvenile hall or kiddy prison to get the kids into gangs and criminal connections, no ignoring the problem, just a smackdown and a short explanation to make it clear to the parents that their parenting is the failure.

It's more than just societal shame, there's immediate and real ramifications when something goes awry in the youth, which trickles up into the adult population.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 8 points ago +8 / -0

That one's more of an urban myth, anyways. Underwear vending machines, sure. Useful to travellers in hotels and whatnot, skip the Victoria' Secret. USED underwear isn't a vending machine thing, because its value comes not from the fact it is used, but who it was used by, and thus is much more profitable and common to be sold directly from the "manufacturer".

I'm sure one or two could be found, Japan has a weird obsession with vending machines selling literally anything, but they're a far-off exception, not anything approaching the level of common that drag queens talking sex to children is in the USA.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 4 points ago +4 / -0

If it was poison gas, it was likely an "accidental" one, like CO leeching from active troop vehicles just happening to be idling by major airflow entrances and settling into the lower tunnels. Entirely accidentally, of course.

If you want to loot the bodies, you don't use actual "poison" gas. Too dangerous to your own troops. And Isreal proved it's all about looting that body yo, with their new land development projects already being proposed before the ground is even cooled from the mortar fire.

Now, actual poison, instead of gas, just poisoned food or something, sure. That's effective in killing people, and any aide food would likely be shared/tested on the PoWs first.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 4 points ago +4 / -0

Unless you're hunting rats for more protein, it's a bad setup. The baseline setup is good, but it needs some proper custodianship.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 4 points ago +4 / -0

When it comes to censorious dictatorial actions, Austrian or Australian doesn't really matter.

[This has been your mandatory hyperbolic "literally hitler over something ultimately minor" reference.]

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DefinitelyNotIGN 5 points ago +5 / -0

No, no, no. Nation Of Islam, the black international religion, has taught us that the mad scientist Yakub made white people in a laboratory as a biological weapon, soulless, heartless, pure evil, finding satisfaction only in deceiving and harming others. It's a core tenant of the faith followed by millions!

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DefinitelyNotIGN 7 points ago +7 / -0

A stick is a great thing. Why, the roman empire ran on the things.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 11 points ago +11 / -0

It's the "humanity as a single human body" version of slapping a kid's hand when they go to reach for a hot stove burner. Minor harm to prevent greater harm later.

Or it's the infinite trolley problem: Divert onto 5 people, or let it hit 1, but you see down the 1's track that it leads to a subsequent 5-1 trolley problem, but you see down that 1's track that it leads to a subsequent 5-1 trolley problem, but you see...

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DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points ago +2 / -0

"It can't be mansplaining. I identified as a woman when I made that statement, it is stunning and brave, unlike you, bigot."

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DefinitelyNotIGN 8 points ago +8 / -0

The criminal could be part of the Screen Actors' Guild and thus be making an unlicensed and unapproved film appearance?

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DefinitelyNotIGN 9 points ago +9 / -0

The ponderously plodding pontification polluting this post is painful.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 10 points ago +10 / -0

Is the OP X/twit saying that the trans person was a victim of pedophelia? Not sure what they're trying to get across here. Or was Hitler the victim of pedos?

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DefinitelyNotIGN 1 point ago +1 / -0

"A doctor once helped deliver a baby that several years later scanned a manhwa using a bio-optical recording interface, wrote it on a bio-electric hard drive, and then shared data concerning the manwha to other interfaces wirelessly.

I would like this doctor sued, please." -Manwha publishers, apparently.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 5 points ago +5 / -0

You know what? I agree with that one Wikipedia vandal! They should no longer have the shield and armor of their religion, and should be treated in the same manner as white billion-dollar-dynasties that meddle in world affairs.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 2 points ago +2 / -0

What's neat, is the UK ones, look at the ones with the blue (conservative) dots higher on trust.

Even there, the ones that are right-wing, are slandered and smeared. Slightly greater gaps on average on the conservative-favored rags than the Labour ones. And fewer of them, too.

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DefinitelyNotIGN 3 points ago +3 / -0

So Disney is now mad that... People are too stupid to go to movie theaters?

I was just not pirating some anime and thinking to myself "wow, the sheer amount of people pirating anime, all around the world, it's produced new content every three months, everyone complains about trope re-use, it's just like the modern movie industry!", and then I thought to myself "but with better stories and characters... And acting... And profits, despite the piracy."

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DefinitelyNotIGN 4 points ago +4 / -0

If being fat is 1.4x risk, and being 50 is 11x risk...

Well, gonna die of a heart attack before the cancer gets me, suckers! Pass the McDonalds!

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DefinitelyNotIGN 11 points ago +11 / -0

"Most of our troops are this demographic."

"Then we should actively say we don't want that demographic."

"That demographic is now not most of our troops."

"Wow, how unexpected. I am surprised. I blame white people."

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