One of America's major problems is a lack of positive male role models for boys. It's a paradox because any man entering a teaching role is a fricking loser sans retired professionals wanting to give back.

Often the problem it is simply scarcity, but here you have something worse... or perhaps better as boys can learn to bully losers early.

Gru here, OP, wants to keep themselves safe because children keep noticing that he is fat, bald, short, and ugly. Instead of becoming a millionaire to mitigate his issues he goes in to teaching, which according to him is a "career".

Unrelatedly, I actually have some cash in my pocket for the first time in my life. I was planning on being very fiscal and constructive with it. But in the last few days, I've seriously been considering blowing it on a trip to Bosley and a plastic surgeon.

Instead of getting a nose job may be a better option, it's what I dmed him to do anyway.

Replies are the typical reddit tier suggestions.

None of your features sound like they are unattractive. You just need to start thinking of yourself as sexy!

Just be yourself and get reported bro.

Time to find another job where you are treated with respect! Find a way to use your talents in the corporate world.

Talents being a fragile hobbit?

Everyone, Mr. Smith here just said [rude comment about my appearance.] I have gotten a couple of comments like this and I want to address it with you all because I'm surprised you don't yet know that comments like that are not appropriate. It's not ok to point out physical characteristics like that. I doubt Mr. Smith or any of you would enjoy having your physical features pointed out and mocked. Mr. Smith, can you explain why you thought it would be appropriate to make a comment like that?"

"Because you're a joke and everyone thinks so, have you tried quitting?"

"Because it's funny"

Where does this shitty advice about "bullies" come from, every reddit thread is full of shit advice that assumes the bullied party can embarrass the other.

It's the same dumb shit where girls suggest,

"Oh ask him to repeat his rude comment, that'll stop him dead in his tracks, or even better SLOW BLINK HIM till he asks if your not only a dumb slut but a deaf one too."

Anyway, would be a shame if his students found out his white whale is finding:

I feel like, surely, somewhere, there must be a tentacle-ish wriggling squirming moving robo-dildo that I could feel moving inside and stimulating me - not just something lame that jiggles back and forth a bit. Is there? If so, where? Can't find anything. Thanks in advance.

Been rewatching American dad today, there's some stuff in it that absolutely would be not ok today. Making me feel old as frick cuz I remember my dad saying that shit when I was a kid about shows that were in black white

#TomBrady is facing backlash for posting pictures of himself poolside while kissing his teenage son, who was sitting in his lap 👀 pic.twitter.com/2eRVbmAm96

— No Jumper (@nojumper) December 31, 2022

Screw politics. Screw poll numbers. Joe Biden has a record of accomplishments in the first two years of his Presidency that has gone unmatched for almost 60 years.

— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) July 29, 2022

Greatest president since JFK.

Yeah, this dude’s definitely losing babes because of his job and not because he’s posting this on /r/teenagers

Ur not gay ur just confused. Eat meat, workout and quit jacking off. Being gay is an abomination and cannot be justified.

Or this in /r/circumcision

it was the worst experience of my life but I’m glad it’s over. I waited years to get it done and that caused me major problems. I had phimosis and it literally took 2 mins to piss the hole was so small.

Tell me that this guy isn’t radiating alpha masculinity and sexuality.

Australia’s censorship industrial complex:

“The problem that you’ve got here with this eSafety Commissioner, she’s an activist.

She will continue to expand her role to police the internet, to censor debate in a way that’s consistent with her own ideological views.

You have… pic.twitter.com/GZosiBHAcb

— Ana Mostarac (@anammostarac) April 20, 2024

Privacy Preserving Attribution for Advertising
From me, a laymxn, Firefox and Meta have been working on an ad system so when users see ads the users privacy is "preserved" to some degree and ad companies will know their campaigns are working. This upsets nerds greatly.

Orange Forum

Oh. Bigger story here appears to be that the proposal is publicly editable and has already been vandalized. I'm not going to link to it, but I will say that I'm not thrilled that Mozilla is handling proposals using these formats/hosting choices.

Apparently, even though they joined Meta for ads, the proposal was posted on Google Docs and was editable to the public. Now you need to login to see it and I ain't doing that.

r/privacyguides

It's a mixture of hard coping and doom posting. Many users are shaking their heads at Mozilla and their board, typing up screeds while using Firefox to show protest or something.

If this saddens you, I suggest you Get Brave

Be sure to click through to the sub.

Someone tries to shame them

Why do you post a bunch of underage anime girl tiddies tho?

Lol freestyle pissers 1, plebbitors 0

Ima leave your reddit handle behind next time I destroy a bathroom

No pls

Lmao

Calling out an anti-freedom pisser for not even having a job

I think I've found my new hobby

I thought The Science™️ was always changing?

Trying to strike a balance between free speech and public health, California’s Legislature on Monday approved a bill that would allow regulators to punish doctors for spreading false information about Covid-19 vaccinations and treatments.

The legislation, if signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, would make the state the first to try to legislate a remedy to a problem that the American Medical Association, among other medical groups and experts, says has worsened the impact of the pandemic, resulting in thousands of unnecessary hospitalizations and deaths.

The law would designate spreading false or misleading medical information to patients as “unprofessional conduct,” subject to punishment by the agency that licenses doctors, the Medical Board of California. That could include suspending or revoking a doctor’s license to practice medicine in the state.

While the legislation has raised concerns over freedom of speech, the bill’s sponsors said the extensive harm caused by false information required holding incompetent or ill-intentioned doctors accountable.

“In order for a patient to give informed consent, they have to be well informed,” said State Senator Richard Pan, a Democrat from Sacramento and a co-author of the bill. A pediatrician himself and a prominent proponent of stronger vaccination requirements, he said the law was intended to address “the most egregious cases” of deliberately misleading patients.

California's legislation reflects the growing political and regional divisions that have dogged the pandemic from the beginning. Other states have gone in the other direction, seeking to protect doctors from punishment by regulatory boards, including for advocating treatments involving hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin and other medications that the American Medical Association says remain unproven.

If enacted, the law could face a legal challenge. Governor Newsom, who has three weeks to sign the legislation, has not yet taken a public position on it.

While other nations have criminalized the spread of vaccine misinformation --- and have higher vaccination rates --- the response by states and the U.S. government has largely been limited to combating misconceptions with accurate information, said Michelle M. Mello, a professor of law and health policy at Stanford University.

She noted that even laws that cited a "compelling interest," like public health and safety, to police disinformation ran the risk of having a chilling effect, a First Amendment standard for many courts.

"Initiatives like this will be challenged in court and will be hard to sustain," she said in an interview. "That doesn't mean it's not a good idea."

California's response follows a warning last year by the national Federation of State Medical Boards that licensing boards should do more to discipline doctors who share false claims. The American Medical Association has also warned that spreading disinformation violates the code of ethics that licensed doctors agree to follow.

The measure was among a flurry of Covid-related bills proposed by a legislative working group that drew fierce opposition from lawmakers and voters. Some of the most contentious bills have stalled or died, including one that would have required all California schoolchildren to be vaccinated.

As the legislation moved through the Legislature, its sponsors narrowed its scope to deal directly with doctors' direct interaction with patients. It does not address comments online or on television, though those have been the cause of some of the most impactful instances of Covid misinformation and disinformation.

"Inaccurate information spread by physicians can have pernicious influences on individuals with widespread negative impact, especially through the ubiquity of smartphones and other internet-connected devises on wrists, desktops and laptops reaching across thousands of miles to other individuals in an instant," the Federation of State Medical Boards wrote in a report in April. "Physicians' status and titles lend credence to their claims."

The legislation would not require the suspension or revocation of a doctor's license, leaving such determinations to the Medical Board of California. It is intended to make the dissemination of false information about Covid-19 subject to the same rules as other kinds of "unprofessional conduct" taken up by the board.

The legislation defines disinformation as falsehoods "deliberately disseminated with malicious intent or an intent to mislead." Treading into the at times contentious debates over alternative, often unproven Covid treatments, the bill defines misinformation as spreading information "that is contradicted by contemporary scientific consensus contrary to the standard of care."

It says doctors have "a duty to provide their patients with accurate, science-based information." That would include the use of approved vaccines, which have been subject to fierce debates and political activism across the country, though there is broad agreement among medical professionals about their effectiveness.

A group called Physicians for Informed Consent opposed the legislation, saying it would silence doctors. The group filed a lawsuit this month to seek an injunction preventing the Medical Board of California from disciplining doctors based on accusations of disinformation. In its lawsuit, it called the legislation's definition of misinformation "hopelessly vague."

In a recent letter to Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, James L. Madara, chief executive of the American Medical Association, said disinformation swirling around vaccines had contributed to ignorance among the public that had worsened the pandemic's impact.

"The most unfortunate result of this has been significant vaccine hesitancy and refusal among certain communities and within certain demographics, ultimately resulting in continued higher rates of severe illness, hospitalization and death due to Covid-19 in these populations --- outcomes largely preventable with vaccination," he wrote.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/29/technology/california-doctors-covid-misinformation.html

Here's a good summary of who this dude Arthmoor is and why everyone hates him: https://old.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/vgkw69/-/id2ss6s?sort=controversial

>Frankly, Arthmoor (and his team) cannot be allowed to have a stranglehold on the modding community with his unofficial patch (UP) again.

>Due to the necessity of the unofficial patch, a lot of mods require it as a base or have patches that forward changes from the UP, making it hard to make a serious modded playthrough without it. The problem with that is the UP doesn't only have fixes in it, but also perosnal changes that are out of the scope of a "patch", which Arthmoor refuses to make at least optional. This is a common thing with Arthmoor, the most infamous example being Gate Gate when his Skyrim open cities mod also added ugly oblivion gates to all cities, and when asked to make them optional Arthmoor threw a hissy fit - something he often does and is known for.

>With the UP being so commonly used, Arthmoor and his team have gained some power in the modding community. With this power they try to dictate the standards of modding, one way being that they hate having old versions of their UP available and as such create a lot of compatability problems. One recent example was with the anniversay edition of skyrim introducing some creation club for free, so Arthmoor and co. made the decision to make the new free dlc a requirement for the UP. This wasn't met well as a lot of people didn't want to use this content or were waiting for more mods to be updated and as such wanted the new free content not a requirement and instead be made a seperate path like for other creation club content. Naturally, as the UP team cannot compromise with the community, they went ahead with that anyway.

>Arthmoor's colossal ego prevents him from allowing the community enjoy themselves in ways he doesn't agree with. When SkyrimVR came out, an older version of the Skyrim UP worked for it and as such the VR community went ahead and used it. However, Arthmoor was not happy with this as he didn't support VR so he Took down that version and used DMCA to get rid off it elsewhere and made new version not work with SkyrimVR. I know a very considerate response from Arthmoor. Naturally VR users had to find other places to get it then, so users had to resort that what Arthmmor likes to call "mod piracy" and download it off other sources. Arthmoor reacted very maturely and took down the UP over this shouting "piracy" as the reason and was downright aggressive to the SkyrimVR community over this. That's the usual response that Arthmoor has to these situations.

>Arthmoor himself is the biggest problem in all this. He is downright unstable due to his ego and tendency to be aggressive towards people he disagrees with. Most Bethesda modding drama features him front and centre screaming bloody murder at the modding community for doing something he didn't allow them. I am convinced he goes out of his way to do things that the modding community doesn't like to get to shout at them some more like being against modpacks and collections. His aggressive behaviour has even gotten him banned from /r/skyrimmods after an especially disastrous tirade.

>Now the modding community wishes to be rid off him for the sake of modding future Bethesda games. The solutution would be a community driven patch with open permissions and made by less hostile authors. The The problem with that is that Arthmoor and his team have are actively against any competition existing. One member of his team has revealed in the past try preventing alternatives from exisitng but since removed his account One member of his team has revealed in the past that they try preventing alternatives from exisitng but since removed his account, possibly because he wasn't meant to say that part out loud. If the community came together to make a new UP for Starfield, Arthmoor would probably show off his ego again and try everything to stop it. I would not be surprised if he tries to take down other UPs.

>Sincerely, I hope the modding community comes together for Starfield and pushes Arthmoor into obscurity, as he has created more bad than good.

Apparently this change is the result of chubsters and uggos whining but it's still worth it for this infographic:

Post your grindr-approved bussy in this thread!

More drama

'I'm a humourless canned fish' comment chain number 1

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/si0cee/r2balkan4you_has_been_banned/hv5qbm4/?sort=controversial

'But what about the Roma and the gays'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/si0cee/r2balkan4you_has_been_banned/hv5u1jg/?sort=controversial

'I can't understand basic satire'

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/si0cee/r2balkan4you_has_been_banned/hv5pk2q/?sort=controversial

SRDines stand up to defend the Turks?

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/si0cee/r2balkan4you_has_been_banned/hv5pnxc/?sort=controversial

Some south africans are slapfighting about the validity and philosophy of BEE, and whether it scares away foreign inevestments

https://solidariteit.co.za/en/bee-legislation-obstructing-starlink-services-in-sa/

Last year all of South Africa was anticipating Starlink internet which we viewed with wonder, especially those of us languishing in the rural regions of RSA not covered by good internet, especially with the large degree of cellphone and internet towers having their backup batteries stolen by thieves, thus having whole districts be blacked out in terns of internet and phone signal, whenever loadshedding is current in that area.

https://www.news24.com/news24/bi-archive/no-cell-phone-signal-during-load-shedding-due-to-battery-theft-2021-11

For us ruralcels Starlink would have mean an astronomical deal. Reportedly the signals aren't mega fast, but anything is better than having zero data available. Our commie overlords refused to budge when foreign companies shy away from their most infamous affirmative action mandate of BEE, in which a percentage of the corporate structure must be black as well as other available disadvantaged races in RSA. This has fricked with small business creation, as south african versions of Moms and Pops simply cannot be created without municipal interference in terms of employment permissions and rezoning laws in terms of city planning.

Imagine a white couple wanna start a burger joint. They cannot do so without at least 33% black corporate ownership (at least this currently applies so in the Free State province, i cant remember the other provinces). No one is gonna grab a 3rd black or coloured stranger just to fricking start a business! Sometimes of course a few friends know a different race and they trust each other with their lives, but this tends to be the exception.

So now we south Africans sit like cucks, after having waited in great anticipation for Musk's Starlink only to groan in horror and frustration as we realize our fricking ANC overlords basically is willing to frick us all over for their equity philosophy in this trying time with unprecedented loadshedding hardships.

Anyways enough moaning, here's todays drama in /r/southafrica 1000th crypost about how we beat our climate goals. Two swag boys are arguing about BEE and both get heated!!

https://old.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/13izqjc/this_is_getting_out_of_hand/?sort=controversial

Pride Parades and the Pride festivals that follow are noisy and crowded. They’re filled with sights that may be new to kids, like public nudity and kink. So is it appropriate to take your young kids to Pride?https://t.co/CZDnooZq5f

— Fatherly (@FatherlyHQ) June 1, 2022

https://twitter.com/cultmenephila/status/1532120602588372992

I created a 40 page comic book story about monsters and Midjourney AI was my artist. Download it for free here: https://t.co/dLh1cRRJvE pic.twitter.com/aCo8f083pd

— Steve Coulson (@SteveCoulson) August 18, 2022

Wow, I wonder whose art the AI mashed up into that image. Guess I'll never know 🤷‍♂️

"Created"

What a great way to steal art!

We're not so different, you and I, but I'm amazed we came to vastly different conclusions about the ethics of this.

Artcels on suicide watch

All the anti-amber heard stuff you've been seeing on social media, even if you don't care. Turns out it's a right-wing sponsored media push and likely retaliation for #metoo.https://t.co/5O82VuFs9j

— Hailey Heartless (@SadistHailey) May 20, 2022