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Cake day: October 1st, 2023

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  • Did you even read the article you linked? It literally argues against your point.

    The literal first sentence of the article is:

    Contrary to myth, the sale of Ben & Jerry’s to corporate giant Unilever wasn’t legally required.

    And further down:

    This article aims to dispel the idée fixe that corporate law compelled Ben & Jerry’s directors to accept Unilever’s rich offer, overwhelming Cohen and Greenfield’s dogged efforts to maintain the company’s social mission and independence.

    Yet in the end, Ben & Jerry’s directors chose to accept a generous offer, even at a cost to the social mission, rather than allow the company’s defenses to be tested. Anti-takeover protections are only as effective as the people positioned to use them.





  • Seriously, all this crazyness with the US election has given me newfound sympathy for the people of Russia.

    Americans literally have every respectable news source available to them, and they still get brainwashed by these buffoons because they only get their news from facebook, tiktok, fox news, and shit. They choose to be ignorant.

    The Russian people at least have the excuse that they’re literally living under a dictator and are fed bullshit everywhere they look. They have to actively and at the risk of their security seek out valid sources for what’s actually happening.

    Imagine if every news channel in the US was just Fox News. I guess we might not have to imagine it for much longer…









  • Mary Magdalene was not a prostitute. That’s a common misconception.

    The portrayal of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute began in 591, when Pope Gregory I identified Mary Magdalene, who was introduced in Luke 8:2, with Mary of Bethany (Luke 10:39) and the unnamed “sinful woman” who anointed Jesus’s feet in Luke 7:36–50.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene

    But Jesus was most certainly very accepting of people from all walks of life. That was like his whole purpose. So the other comment about him rejecting people from the community is dead wrong. If anything, people reproached him because he was too accepting of the “sinners”.




  • No, it’s not at all. This is total nonsense. If anything, superheroes are usually persecuted by the government.

    Spider-Man specifically is literally an outlaw.

    And look at the X-Men. Half the time the gov wants to wipe mutants out.

    Maybe you can say that about Captain America, but he was created to defeat the Nazis. So yeah, who the fuck is not on the government side in this situation?

    And when the gov became corrupt, Captain America became an outlaw.

    So whoever is upvoting this and whoever created this doesn’t know much about Marvel or comics.

    I mean I don’t know that much, but I know the bare minimum to know this is nonsense.


  • He said that, on the fateful day, he was far from Central Park — on his way to a “falconing” excursion in Goshen, N.Y. — when he witnessed a woman in a van fatally strike the bear. He said he scooped up the dead bear and put it in his own van, planning to later skin it and eat it.

    Wtf??

    Hours passed, Kennedy said, and he ran out of time to take the bear home before catching a flight. As he told Barr, he and some people he was with — he said the others had been drinking — came up with a plan: abandon the bear and an old bike, which happened to be in Kennedy’s van, in the park, taking advantage of the fact that there has been a rash of bicycle accidents recently in New York.

    Wtf… why? Is that what rich people do to pass the time? I could imagine a bunch of drunk college frat dudes doing this, but he was 60 years old when this happened!