Full marks, truly captures the spirit of Lemmy.

I’m 5’3 and my wife is closer to 5’10. My wife is quite charming and attractive whilst I have a huge personality.

Awful joke that scarcely carries into text aside, it’s possible to date successfully as a short man. You just have to have things to offer, then find someone who values those things. Having really excellent things, like fantastic conversational skills and personality, well-developed or unique personal interests, or a monster condom that you use for your magnum dong, helps immensely.

Strange leg placement and foot design, and the twenty tails.

He didn’t lose his hair - it fled in protest.

He looks younger there than in the post pic.

Obvious troll is obvious.

There’s nothing quite like when someone reads a study and doesn’t understand it, yet is such a smug, condescending arsehole whilst being completely wrong.

Edit: JFC, you didn’t even get past the abstract.

I purchased silk floss online. It works quite well.

I have some bad news about those fibre-boosted cereals…

Just kidding, no PFAS there.

This person has absolutely no idea what they’re talking about.

I linked the actual study above, but here’s an article from the American Chemical Society explaining a ULCA study linking chewing gum to microplastic exposure.

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2025/march/chewing-gum-can-shed-microplastics-into-saliva-pilot-study-finds.html

The research completely disagrees:

Ingestion of microplastics during chewing gum consumption

This thread sure turned into a dumpster fire.

I believe the estimate was 5-10 in the entire state. It’s simply more American culture war shite.

Trans rights are human rights and fuck anyone who disagrees.

It’s startling how fast disinformation organically spreads. I saw disinformation being spread on Lemmy, presumably by actual people, within a day or so of the push to oust Hakeem Jeffries.

I can feel the amount of time and effort on display in that photo.

It’s funny how gullible people of all stripes often have the same ultimate fallback when faced with information that challenges their worldview: it’s due to a government psyop/troll farm/et cetera.

After doing a little digging, it seems to be an unsubstantiated rumor being spread via social media, but I asked op if they have any legitimate sources.

Edit: the claim is pure shite, there is no pay per signature scheme here.

Did you know that people who post these polls get paid per signature on Change.org? It’s an engagement grift.

According to change.org, they get paid 95% of donations made to that specific campaign. Do you have any reputable, non-social media sources that substantiates this “per signature” claim? I gave it an admittedly cursory search and couldn’t find anything that wasn’t an unsubstantiated social media post.

Contact your representatives directly and tell them what you think. Stop believing that social media websites have your best interests in mind.

100% agree. Even if change.org is largely benign, it’s the type of media that serves to alleviate frustration without driving any actual change: a great recipe for maintaining the status quo.

JFC, your lack of self awareness in this thread is stunning. I’m guessing “didn’t read the whole thing” is a common practice for you, be it news articles or commentary.

A hot sauce bottle with a neck dispenser would be just gorgeous.