TONIGHT WE MARCH pic.twitter.com/wtmCr145Wc

— Fritz Johnson (@FritzTheDev) January 5, 2025

I'm treating myself to a low effort post.

(i literally have not been able to shower since 12/30/24 btw)

laugh at this user.

Btw where do they put the titties when they cut them out? Do they have a titty bin? Do Indians ransack it?

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Wow. This post is dumb. (109)

How so? They make money on treating people and keeping them sick. Bad for business to have cures. (-68)

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You know everyone can see your post history right? (67)

Why does that matter? (-53)

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Wow. This post is dumb. (109)

Because it's inaccurate or.....? (-38)

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I had a chat with my brother in law last night. He is retired, but used to be a pharmaceutical sales rep. I asked him if he thought that drug companies ever avoided curing or treating illnesses more effectively in order to increase sales. He told me that the USA is the only country that puts any money into drug research. The rest of the world gets medicine for cheap while the United States has to pay more in order to cover the cost to develop and manufacture the drugs. He told me the first dose of a medication will cost $50 million dollars, but the second dose costs $6. Because the company will spend the $50m to figure out what to put in it and how much to put in, but after they figure that part out, they can reproduce it for much much less. So they have a short window of time until the patent expires and generics are released to make back that expense. He said that the treatment has to work better than previous treatments, but it does happen where a drug company will release a drug... (2)

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Look at the change of life expectation happening in the last 175 years.. This is the impact of medical science. You are obviously simply ignorant what medicine means.People like you are advocating to get back to times where people did not name babies at birth as they did not know who will survive the first years of life. You are advocating for unmeasurable suffering and somehow you think that you have any kind of high ground? (12)

What in the heck makes you think I'm advocating to abandon medical science? What a stupid conclusion to come to. I'm saying our medical science overlords(big pharma, most profitable industry in the world mind you) are unethical with their business and do a really shit job at promoting and maintaining a healthy society. Medical science should be a service to humanity, not the most profitable industry in the world. People are forced into positions like: give up everything you've worked your entire life for, or die. That's fricked up and that's all I'm really saying. I'm not saying medical science is evil and should be abandoned. I'm saying the people that control it are evil and should be overthrown. (-8)

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Now imagine if they made a cure instead of a treatment. My mom received chemo only for her cancer to come back and kill her. But they sure did make a fortune off of her first while my dad lost everything he owned. Her cancer literally put him in the street after being a homeowner for 33 years. (1)

So, not for nothing, but there is no such thing as a cure for cancer. Cancer, by definition, is the misaligned and uncontrolled growth of cells in the body. You can't just stop the body from growing cells. Even if you had a cure to stop someone's particular cancer - even if meant permanent remission for that particular cancer, wouldn't stop us from potentially having uncontrolled growth of some other set of cells.The best we can do is create better processes and tests for early identification of cancer or potential cancer and treatments that are effective with low incidence of major side effects. (1)

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the dejenerate podcast- it time for hotdogs 16:10

• Drinks something that looks like a shot & vapes & sings some shit song in a mumbling fashion & shot & chaser & vape

• 0:40 The problem- the b-words at steam haven't replied to his email sent at 1pm (it is now midnight). They changed the account password associated with it, but that wasn't him. It was a trailer monkey based in North Carolina!

• Takes another shot

• 1:50 the first account was the r*pe of his steam account, so he can't play EU or Crusader Kings or either fallout. The other r*pe was his windows on his computer closing by itself without him doing it; his computer has been taken over because he doesn't have anti-virus because he refuses to pay 60 fricking zogbucks for that.

• 3:00 shot & chaser

• 3:10 He also has hot dogs that need to be used up, hacks like a smoker. He also has candy. He needs steam to email him back. Chews

• 4:00 He missed getting tickets to a concert because he wasn't notified before it was sold out. They are to blame. Shot. Right.

• 4:40 He's like that b-word Elizabeth Smart. Everything is fricked and is going to heck, but he's looking forward to those hot dogs though.

• 5:10 He had Christmas dinner at jinxmother's house and stayed the night on the bottom bunk. The pillows were too thin, like in prison, and he didn't have a proper duvet.

• 5:55 He sees something on the floor. Looks like a fricking spidey(?)

• 6:00 Dinner was good though. He didn't get his mom PJs because he has no money. Another shot/vape.

• 6:30 The Betrayal- Jinxbrother has his own TV and he WAS WATCHING ANIME in front of jinxthinker. It was fricked up and shit.

• 6:55 He, jinxmother, and one jinxsister (other jinxsister lives too far away) were watching a film with an Asian in it. Jinxmother didn't want to watch it if everyone in it was emo, because she thinks all Chinese people are emo.

• 7:40 Another shot

• 8:00 He's going to test drive his NEW GEORGE FORMAN GRILL later on his hot dogs

• 8:30 He also got an e-mail from united health nation or some bullshit. Oral B toothbrush right is bullshit or something. Jinxthinker is a manual toothbrush chad; electric toothbrushes are scams.

• 9:15 He's down to 2 Monsters, he will need to acquire more. He wishes he had them concert tickets, right. He also got some new coffees

• 10:10 All George Forman grills are banging, but his new one is bigger; frick frying pans- george forman is a real butt neighbor.

• 10:50 When he lived with Jinxgrandma (I believe this is the first mention of jinxgrandma or a living with grandma arc) he bought a George Forman grill, but it eventually became busted.

• 11:10 He saw someone smoking a cigarette when he went to the shop, like okay that's normal...

• 11:30 How did they steal the steam account though?

• 12:15 Basically he's going to make the hot dogs. He gets 10 hot dogs per pack, but 6 buns per pack. So he's going to have to do some advanced math to fit all the dogs in the buns available.

• 12:50 Calls steam support stupid

• 13:00 He got a new 2025 calendar

• 13:20 Shot. Spits it out into a coffee mug

• 13:45 Let's do some singing because it's Singing O' Clock. Starts some even more shit song. 15:05 Su I sIIIII^IIIIIIIIIIDe

!jinxthinkers Can Jinxbrother be reformed?

An icon, reimagined. 🕹️ @MyArcadeRetro#Atari #GamestationGo #CES2025 pic.twitter.com/AvqTLuegR2

— Atari (@atari) January 2, 2025

!g*mers

I just picked up the Incal

The social accounts of Internet personality ‘Woah Vicky’ are claiming she has been kidnapped with a $1 MILLION demand for release. pic.twitter.com/Bdn4r1WlDr

— Pop Base (@PopBase) December 29, 2024

UNVERIFIED: Woah Vicky reportedly kidnapped in Nigeria. And a ransom demand of $1 million has been made by the perpetrator via the American's X account pic.twitter.com/flOsMuANyY

— keneci News (@Kenecifeed) December 29, 2024

She was last seen at a church and is suspected of being abducted right after

https://tiktok.com/@ohitssje/video/7453871394644905259

The kidnapper took her phone and went on TikTok Live!

https://tiktok.com/@munkeybizz/video/7453653594613583134

https://tiktok.com/@munkeybizz/video/7453842558121266462

....

....

And turns out she was just. bored!

UPDATE: Woah Vicky says she started the false rumor that she was kidnapped in Nigeria.

“I was just bored forgive me y’all,” she said.

Her fans and critics were not amused however, with many slamming her for spreading such rumor using a country that kidnapping actually happens… pic.twitter.com/bJISJ4v0kJ

— keneci News (@Kenecifeed) December 29, 2024

As one can assume the reaction from the Black community went from "Please, keep her" and "This is obviously fake" to "Darnit, we wish she was really kidnapped"

but they're still mad at her for being a racist b-word

10,000 Satellites Orbiting the Earth & not one satellite has been filmed on camera passing another satellite by. Ever.

Take all the time you need. pic.twitter.com/VMD7GBkZuy

— Concerned Citizen (@BGatesIsaPyscho) January 2, 2025

Here's a goodun

There are no satellites in the sky … no one has gotten into space …

If they did we’d have livestreams of it every single day.

They’re trying but failing miserably, everything falls back down.

— Macc Mayo (@_MaccMayo) January 2, 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hq35nv/brother_wont_let_me_meet_his_gf_till_i_lose_weight/

I love that his mom sympathizes with the brother and not the ham planet sister. Gives me hope for 2025. I wonder if the girlfriend even knows the sister exists

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hq35nv/brother_wont_let_me_meet_his_gf_till_i_lose_weight/m4n0z3i?context=8

This is crazy. They want you to remove yourself from society because of your appearance? At that height/weight you're, what, a 1-2xl in women's sizes?

She is 260 lbs. she is way too big. Frick. All fatties should be out of sight and out of mind

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hq35nv/brother_wont_let_me_meet_his_gf_till_i_lose_weight/m4n161e?context=8

Basically. i feel like im kept as a dirty secret or something. and yes im 1X or 2X depending on the style of clothing or the maker.

You are dirty /u/totalnetwork1013 do better to not be disgusting

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hq35nv/brother_wont_let_me_meet_his_gf_till_i_lose_weight/m4n879t?context=8

Totally ridiculous. I honestly can't think of words strong enough to express how I feel.

I'm a little shorter and a little fatter than you and I'm a totally normal person. I'm married and I have a job with coworkers who like me, and I have friends who love me. Don't let your idiot family make you think you deserve anything less than the full depth of human experience. There is NOTHING wrong with you.

This poster is even more gross. She convinced someone to put a ring on it? You are not normal when you are this fat. You are some freak of nature that exists thanks to modern food surplus and advanced medicine.

Fatties, you have something wrong with you. Luckily, lead poisoning is still effective

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hq35nv/brother_wont_let_me_meet_his_gf_till_i_lose_weight/m4nmm9c?context=8

I don't really understand what's going on here. Are you a minor living at home? Is it a cultural thing? Is his gf so special that meeting her is meant to be an incentive, or is he just ashamed of you? Frick this noise. If you know her name just message her on Instagram and introduce yourself and tell her why your brother won't. If she's any kind of decent person she'll see this for the massive red flag that it is. Also, move out girl. These are not people who uplift you.

He is obviously ashamed of her… but she is fat so she is too lazy to remove herself from this awkward situation.

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hq35nv/brother_wont_let_me_meet_his_gf_till_i_lose_weight/m4n1mes?context=8

This is not normal at all. I feel like your brother has teased u about your weight before

Normalize being ashamed of fatties

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hq35nv/brother_wont_let_me_meet_his_gf_till_i_lose_weight/m4n3yep?context=8

since i was little yeah. my whole family

The family has been trying to get her to stop eating but nothing works. Her brother is my hero. Now that's a man of action. I bet his girlfriend loves him

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hq35nv/brother_wont_let_me_meet_his_gf_till_i_lose_weight/m4o0yu9?context=8

My jaw is on the floor. I'm literally tearing up over this. I'm usually not a proponent of going "no contact" with family, but wtf. Protect your peace dear. This is INSANE behavior, for 260 measly pounds. Love yourself love yourself love yourself and surround yourself with people who love you.

>for 260 measly pounds

That's approximately the weight of a normal guy and his normal girlfriend. Fatties deserve love as much as they deserve food

Fatties are the most delusional narcissistic pieces of shit ever. I pray that RFK will the needful to in order to enact the final solution to the fatty problem

Open Christian is a subreddit for the gay agenda in Christianity, put simply.

This post is full of hilariousness because people affirm that there is in fact no direct affirmation which is hilarious considering how PC they are.

There are probably not any churches that specifically affirm homoromantic relationships while condemning sexual intimacy.

Conservative sexual values are about enforcing patriarchy, because conservatism is always about the enforcement of social hierarchy in some form. Once you permit one sexual arrangement that goes against the hierarchical purpose of the values system, any remaining restrictions become arbitrary, and insisting on them becomes reactionary. Every sexual more that is rooted in patriarchy becomes open to challenge—and patriarchy underlies all prohibitions of consensual homosexual activity, notwithstanding apologetical appeals to the Bible and Aristotelian or Thomistic teleology.

God, hearing these people speak is disgusting.

/u/ELeeMacFall your posts suck and so do you.

A lot of people missing OP's question here. As others have said in this thread, there are no major Christian denominations that support celibate same s*x marriages while condemning non-celibate ones. I do think that position is closest to what the Roman Catholic Church might be moving towards, but logistically it would be a difficult position to hold.

Only actual common sense user in a flood of r-slurs.

!burgers !africans

Here he is talking about his subreddit and telling people he can win a Nobel Peace Prize lol

@TheSpookcast

Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good

The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?

By Zachary Small

Dec. 26, 2024

One way to understand the video game industry's current crisis is by looking closely at Spider-Man's spandex.

For decades, companies like Sony and Microsoft have bet that realistic graphics were the key to attracting bigger audiences. By investing in technology, they have elevated flat pixelated worlds into experiences that often feel like stepping into a movie.

Designers of last year's Marvel's Spider-Man 2 used the processing power of the PlayStation 5 so Peter Parker's outfits would be rendered with realistic textures and skyscraper windows could reflect rays of sunlight.

That level of detail did not come cheap.

Insomniac Games, which is owned by Sony, spent about $300 million to develop Spider-Man 2, according to leaked documents, more than triple the budget of the first game in the series, which was released five years earlier. Chasing Hollywood realism requires Hollywood budgets, and even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.

Cinematic games are getting so expensive and time-consuming to make that the video game industry has started to acknowledge that investing in graphics is providing diminished financial returns.

"It's very clear that high-fidelity visuals are only moving the needle for a vocal class of g*mers in their 40s and 50s," said Jacob Navok, a former executive at Square Enix who left that studio, known for the Final Fantasy series, in 2016 to start his own media company. "But what does my 7-year-old son play? Minecraft. Roblox. Fortnite."

Joost van Dreunen, a market analyst and professor at New York University, said it was clear what younger generations value in their video games: "Playing is an excuse for hanging out with other people."

When millions are happy to play old games with outdated graphics — including Roblox (2006), Minecraft (2009) and Fortnite (2017) — it creates challenges for studios that make blockbuster single-player titles. The industry's audience has slightly shrunk for the first time in decades. Studios are rapidly closing and sweeping layoffs have affected more than 20,000 employees in the past two years, including more than 2,500 Microsoft workers.

Many video game developers built their careers during an era that glorified graphical fidelity. They marveled at a scene from The Last of Us: Part II in which Ellie, the protagonist, removes a shirt over her head to reveal bruises and scrapes on her back without any technical glitches.

But a few years later, costly graphical upgrades are often barely noticeable.

When the studio Naughty Dog released a remastered version of The Last of Us: Part II this year, light bounced off lakes and puddles with a more realistic shimmer. In a November ad for the PlayStation 5 Pro, an enhanced version of the Sony console that retails for almost $700, the billboards in Spider-Man 2's Manhattan featured crisper letters.

Optimizing cinematic games for a narrow group of consumers who have spent hundreds of dollars on a console or computer may no longer make financial sense. Studios are increasingly prioritizing games with basic graphics that can be played on the smartphones already in everyone's pocket.

"They essentially run on toasters," said Matthew Ball, an entrepreneur and video game analyst, talking about games like Roblox and League of Legends. "The developers aren't chasing graphics but the social connections that players have built over time."

Going Hollywood

Developers had long taught players to equate realism with excellence, but this new toaster generation of g*mers is upsetting industry orthodoxies. The developer behind Animal Well, which received extensive praise this year, said the game's file size was smaller than many of the screenshots used to promote it.

A company like Nintendo was once the exception that proved the rule, telling its audiences over the past 40 years that graphics were not a priority.

That strategy had shown weaknesses through the 1990s and 2000s, when the Nintendo 64 and GameCube had weaker visuals and sold fewer copies than Sony consoles. But now the tables have turned. Industry figures joke about how a cartoony game like Luigi's Mansion 3 on the Nintendo Switch considerably outsells gorgeous cinematic narratives on the PlayStation 5 like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

You wouldn't steal a BARpod, script here.

That is the story of Liz Fong Jones and Kiwi Farms

There will definitely not be a Part 2.

TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 3, 2025

Elon Musk is wrong.

The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire “the best and the brightest,” but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad.

The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make. pic.twitter.com/Mwz7i9TcSM

— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) January 2, 2025

Drama needs to be enriched by oom Leon @kaamrev @Sneedman

Stock up on 50-star flags before they're vintage!

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— Bug Enthusiast 🐞❤️ (@idolomantises.bsky.social) 2025-01-01T19:40:01.248Z

Ex-Zensurkommissar @ThierryBreton will mein Gespräch mit @ElonMusk mit Drohungen vorab reglementieren. Ein einfaches Gespräch! Das ist ein Frontalangriff auf die Meinungsfreiheit: Die EU-Kommission agiert undemokratisch, und das Zensurgesetz #DSA ist eine Schande für Europa! https://t.co/c9GHudGmyW

— Alice Weidel (@Alice_Weidel) January 4, 2025

Euros can't even talk to burger chuds without permission from the government, it's too dangerous for democracy.