People don’t need any advanced CIA techniques to control the way you think and feel; Plenty of ‘normal’ abuse tactics can achieve this over time - arguably, control is the entire point of abuse.

The way you’re questioning yourself alarms me. You’re likely being abused, and you need support. Please do whatever you can to get help. At the very least, read up on types of emotional abuse and their effects on victims. You’re not the only one.

I can’t see him swinging his influence around like that.

He didn’t need to - the women felt the pressure anyway. We know because they told us.

He at least asked.

Low bar there.

Though he could’ve also asked if he could excuse himself or they could excuse themselves so he can have privacy

Dude, how are you writing comments defending him without even knowing that he was specifically interested in jerking off while the women watched? Like, that’s his kink. I am inclined to believe that he genuinely acted out of cluelessness (as opposed to ill will or predatoriness) - but then again, I was a pretty big fan of his.

Looked it up (under “Early life” on Wikipedia). Born in Washington D.C. actually, but his father is of Mexican and Hungarian-Jewish descent and the family lived his first 7 years in Mexico.

Not really, same in Germany if you are generally drunk in traffic (except by foot or public transport, i.e. an active participant)

An active participant in operating a vehicle, I’m sure. I would disagree with the implicit characterization of walking on foot as being a non-active participant in traffic.

Alternatives to escalating by using a car can bet walking or taking the metro, the latter is easily possible in Japan, for instance. When the trains don’t run there are plenty cheap manga cafes or capsule hotels.

If you’re in Tokyo, maybe. I imagine this might be a bigger problem in rural areas, where the distances are greater and public transportation less available.

For the uninitiated: This is a Swenglish joke, a mistranslation of “It’s not the speed(/fart) that kills, but the impact(/smäll)”

I know this is old, but it is a bit irksome that this post is titled “Fact of the day” when it can’t even keep its facts straight about which country does what.

Those signs aren’t from Sweden. Our traffic agency (who prints the signs) doesn’t use ‘fart’ meaning ‘speed’ - except for ‘gångfartsområde’, ‘walking speed area’, which disappointingly enough doesn’t even have the text on it - but mainly uses ‘hastighet’ meaning ‘velocity’. Other commenters in this thread have posted examples of ‘fart’ in a different meaning being used on Swedish traffic signs.

‘Hastighet’ means velocity.

A brand of protein shakers, with a wire ball in them.

You can see just a hint of it on the far right edge

And OP didn’t post the german one what I could see. I’m disappointed, I would have liked to see a line acknowledging that this as a crosspost/translation.

Peter Stormare

From the one and only Kurzgesagt

Is no-one gonna mention the inconsistent formatting of the signs underneath? Just me?

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