I enjoy Nicki Minaj but mainly because of how stupid the lyrics are. The wordplay isn’t clever, it’s hysterically bad. For example “ you can suck my diznik if you take the jizzes” or “ Oooooh, Boobs, Boobs, Boobs, Boobs, lotta boobs” are both funny lyrics, but not clever. Or how about when she says a Samurai speaking Thai - that just comes off as racist (Japan is not Thailand).

The 90% comes from a fake study where the data was clearly manipulated. https://grftr.news/why-was-a-major-study-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19-just-retracted/

The 90% effective claim is based on a fake study that had to be pulled down.

https://grftr.news/why-was-a-major-study-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19-just-retracted/

In their paper, the authors claim that four out of 100 patients died in their standard treatment group for mild and moderate COVID-19. According to the original data they uploaded, the number was 0 (the same as the ivermectin treatment group). In their ivermectin treatment group for severe COVID-19, the authors claim two patients died – the number in the uploaded raw data is four. Grftr News put these findings to the authors however has not received any reply.

The raw data doesn’t match what the study claimed.

Every patient in the severe COVID-19 group receiving standard care was an ICU patient, while the patients with severe disease in the ivermectin group were mixed between wards and ICU. The experts Grftr News spoke to confirmed this is extremely unlikely to happen by chance.

They didn’t randomly choose patient groups - the study authors instead made sure to put their hand on the scale and make the control group all ICU patients.

Wherever he looked, Brown found problems, from numbers containing non-numeric characters, confusion about date formats, and—most damningly of all—multiple incidences of data being copied between patients. In column after column data is duplicated exactly – “including the typo ‘coguh’ for ‘cough’ for multiple patients”. As Brown concludes in his blog post, “the chances of any one of these duplications occurring by chance, let alone all of them, are astronomical.”

The data itself looks fake.

The article goes on and has more, but basically - that 90% claim is false and that’s why it isn’t being used to treat everyone.

Banning gay trans men from being allowed in gay spaces is obviously transphobic...

I think long distance mainly only works in situations where the relationship is already established before going long distance, and there is a timeline for when you'll be in the same place again. So, you already have those two things going for you.

My husband and I were long distance for a little over a year but we are living together again now. It was pretty easy - we talked a lot, would do video calls even if it was just to hang out, but we were also close enough that we were in the same timezone and could visit each other frequently.

I'd suggest trying to see each other as much as you can. Do video calls regularly, and plan out trips that you can visit one another.

Made health insurance more expensive for everyone

Costs have been rising every year for a long time. No president has stopped that.

Raised all of our taxes.

The only significant changes Obama made to taxes were to make the Bush tax cuts permanent for under 400K and allow them to expire for over 400K. Very few people make over 400K, and those are the only ones he raised taxes on.

Drastically reduced the number of people working.

There were millions more people working in 2016 than in 2008. You are just making things up.

Let Iran keep working on nukes.

This was supposed to be about Obama - you are listing things Trump did.

Obamacare, Iran deal - you are just listing policies you disagree with.

Inflaming racial tensions - lol, what? Pretty much every president could have that said about him.

Spying on Trump campaign - did not happen. Obama doesn't direct what the FBI does, and there was no attempt to spy on the Trump campaign. Durham's investigation found nothing wrong.

Fast and furious - literally the only thing you listed that can be considered a legitimate scandal, and it hardly rises to the level of "worst president ever".

What were the toxic and malicious things Obama did that make him the worst president?

I assume people create and share long youtube videos and podcasts because it makes it easier to lie. People don’t want to watch a long video to figure out the context of what someone is claiming and be able to check what it’s based on and if it’s accurate. The only people that will watch it are true believers who already were going to believe whatever was in the video regardless of how accurate it is.

She is a beta who loves to be chased, complaining about betas who love to be chased. This has to be trolling.

Did he do a series of Grindr notification reaction videos or something? There was a post here last week in a fast food place where the same guy turned around for a Grindr notification. I follow him on instagram but noticed these videos popping up on reddit recently.

While covid is very bad right now in some parts of the country, doing a year over year comparison like that doesn’t make sense. It’s not going to perfectly follow the season. We were in a valley between surges last September, and we’re currently at what looks like the top of a peak this September.

It always seems like the creative writers at AITA have to test out all possible angles of their story prompts. Wearing white at a wedding - are you an asshole always or are there some situations it’s okay - in this attempt, it’s an inside joke with the bride who doesn’t care but all the other guests blow up her phone calling her an asshole. Turns out, still an asshole, but getting closer to finding the right balance of disagreement.

Yeah, because Matt Bomer’s problem is he couldn’t possibly attract an instagram model. He’s way too ugly to get a hot chick and has to settle for dudes.

The way they are now is in 20 point blocks (0-19, 20-39, 40-58, 60+). The 60-100 is really 60-79 (none are above that). I think it makes sense how it is.

There’s already a safe space for right wingers - r/conservative. Plenty of others too. No reason for this to be a right wing propaganda sub.

Yeah, it’s just bizarre. Apparently you’re not allowed to have one nice meal. Must give expensive gifts to others before ever treating yourself.

I imagine the mom would be horrified if her daughter were sacrificing something important to her for some jewelry. Most mothers would appreciate just spending time with their kids far more than any expensive gift.

That would be great actually. There’s too much validation happening in AITA. The OP obviously already doesn’t think they are an asshole, they don’t need to be cheered on and told how right they are. Explaining other people’s perspectives would be much more useful.

The mustached one is actually Matt Wilkas and the other is Daniel Vincent Gordh. I did some quick searching. It's from Matt & Dan, a youtube series they did together. Both were on Eastsiders. Murray Bartlett was in Looking, but he's not the guy in the video.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEtbm3jOwQI

What are these guys from? They look very familiar

I think they are both minor characters in Eastsiders?

Edit: Matt Wilkas and Daniel Vincent Gordgh. From their Matt & Dan youtube series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEtbm3jOwQI

Every day for months? Yeah that is different. Not something I’ve ever experienced. Seems like they are just looking for someone to chat with.

I would’ve given up long before you did. If this is a recurring problem with you, maybe you should switch tactics and set up an initial meetup much sooner - do your chatting in person and only really start putting in the long term effort once you have met and know they are real.