You just happened to stumble across the stupidest motherfucker alive. Probably alive. Those risky decisions don’t take themselves.

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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • A lot of people have trouble getting motivated.

    Your comment made me chuckle a little bit.

    I ask myself that same question every day. What’s the point of anything? Do I really need to get out of bed, get to work, eat food, climb out of the debt trap I’m in or even browse Lemmy?

    Something like this could help ease that daily question from myself. If it doesn’t work, it’s fine. Worth a shot. Free is cheaper than recreational drugs.


  • In South Africa, where I live, that kind of thing is a criminal offense known as crimen injuria.

    From Wikipedia:

    Crimen injuria is a crime under South African common law, defined as the act of “unlawfully, intentionally, and seriously impairing the dignity of another.” Although difficult to precisely define, the crime is used in the prosecution of certain instances of road rage, stalking, racially offensive language, emotional or psychological abuse, and sexual offences against children.

    There are also a good number of other laws that deal with child abuse, so offenders won’t just get slapped with a crimen injuria charge on their criminal record and say it was just road rage when questioned.



  • The only one that comes to mind is Hamilton Morris. I don’t know if Morris is a first name, but I really like the dude. He did a bunch of documentaries about drugs for VICE. Big tangent incoming.

    Those documentaries are really good. He did one about Project Coast, an awful program started by the apartheid government in South Africa (before Mandela became president). It’s the reason why the country still has such a high usage of methaqualone (AKA qualuudes, called Mandrax or “Buttons” colloquially) compared to the rest of the world.

    Project Coast did so many much fucking lingering damage. Poisoned baby milk, nerve agents, you name it.

    It was engineered by this piece of shit who earned the nickname “Dr. Death”, Wouter Basson. Cunt got away with it. He’s somehow still a practicing cardiologist in Cape Town. Infuriating.

    Main point: those documentaries are worth a watch. Not an ad. Pirate it if you want.

    Also, if anyone happens to be near Dr Death’s practice, just fucking exorcise that demon.







  • During the single mandatory postgraduate session on ethics, a few of us decided to play a bot trivia game over Telegram.

    We all already knew it’s bad to use our education to kill people or do fraud or plagiarise shit. Like, man, I never did that. I’m not gonna fucking do that.

    Anyways, someone sent the answer, “Led Zeppelin”, 1ms before me.

    I slammed my fist on the desk. The entire lecture hall looked at me. That was my only moment of gamer rage where I hit something. Normally I just aggressively grunt or clench my teeth.

    edit: I dropped out anyways, so it didn’t matter if you don’t think about it too much





  • They do a similar thing with medication here in South Africa. Or, at least they used to. I haven’t seen many video ads in a very long time.

    They can advertise Schedule 0 meds (aisle stuff) with pictures and a generic ad text, coincidentally also describing the type of medication they cannot advertise. The medications marked [S0] normally contain herbal or relatively safe ingredients.

    And then they have the Schedule 1 and 2 medications which look comedically similar to their S0 counterparts

    I think for schedule 1, I think they can advertise, but it’s OTC. Schedule 1 is stuff like, throat lozenges with benzocaine and other things that could potentially be dangerous, but you can only buy in small quantities.

    Schedule 2, They are allowed to say if they have stock and apparently run discount promotions on them, but they cannot openly display images of the products. Stuff like ibuprofen, codeine, antihistamines, pseudoephedrine etc.

    Example here:

    clicks. co. za/brands/benylin †

    1. Benylin for babies and losers

    2. Benylin for the real deal hatman seekers

    † (Sorry about the spaces, I don’t want to accidentally break any community rules nor let those cunts notice Lemmy traffic. Not advertising. Fuck Clicks. Fuck J&J. Cook your own meds in mum’s bathtub)