I was offline for a week and missed it. I just skimmed it - didn't see any takers in the "do you buy it?" thread. Now you have at least one "yes" vote.
Wouldn't it make more sense to go after the verminous creditors and/or the scum running the "instant loan apps" than commit suicide???
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Folks in India are killing themselves to avoid being blackmailed by creditors through instant loan apps that harvest their nude photos and blackmail them with them.
My assumption is that Freddie DeBoer made a deal to never say anything critical of Zionists on Bari Weiss' substack (or maybe elsewhere).
Weiss is a notorious pro-Zionist kook that pretends to be be "anti-woke" about everything except insane zionist radicalism.
I'm confused as to why it doesn't make more sense for the people in India to kill the people trying to blackmail them rather than themselves.
ETA: Ahhhh, it's more online than I was thinking.
Yeah it's loanshark apps, and people on the other end trying to get their loans paid back via blackmail because the loans aren't secured in any way.
FdB is the rare writer who I take the time to read even while disagreeing with just about all his policy positions. He’s just flat talented.
Same, I have big respect for that guy.
Any chance you have access to the full study on personality changes after heart transplants?
Just the one linked in the article.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306987719307145?via%3Dihub
There was a big discussion about it in #random late September.
I was offline for a week and missed it. I just skimmed it - didn't see any takers in the "do you buy it?" thread. Now you have at least one "yes" vote.
Wouldn't it make more sense to go after the verminous creditors and/or the scum running the "instant loan apps" than commit suicide???
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Folks in India are killing themselves to avoid being blackmailed by creditors through instant loan apps that harvest their nude photos and blackmail them with them.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66964510