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FlyingSquid , in Florida family found guilty of selling bleach as fake Covid-19 cure through online church
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This same scam is sold to parents of autistic children. They are conned into making their autistic kids drink bleach to “cure” them. It’s so sick.

nix ,
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Its so damn sad people are preying on desperate people and making their children suffer

LillyPip OP ,

Heartbreakingly true.

Some practitioners are being swept up in this hysteria, too. It’s maddening and I hope we can curb it before more vulnerable people die.

paddirn , in Florida family found guilty of selling bleach as fake Covid-19 cure through online church

Was it really fake though? I mean, the President of the United States himself advocated for using bleach (“disinfectant”), surely that means it was a legitimate cure, right?

“And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me. So, we’ll see, but the whole concept of the light, the way it kills it in one minute. That’s pretty powerful.”

POTUS (April 23, 2020)

LillyPip OP ,
theyresocool , in Gun control laws in California and beyond in peril as Supreme Court expands 2nd Amendment

I bought a gun in CA and people who think CA has gun control laws are completely uninformed.

A Chinese national bought a brand new AR-15 right before my eyes in La Mesa, CA. Completely LEGAL. Wasn’t even a citizen.

People who don’t understand guns make your laws for the industry leaders.

And voters argue over ineffective, waste of money policies because they don’t know much.

Blamemeta ,

Bullshit. California explicitly bans AR-15s from sale. Here is californias own website on the matter. oag.ca.gov/sites/all/files/agweb/…/kaslist.pdf

And if somehow it wasn’t on that list, heres the other law that bans it. oag.ca.gov/firearms/regagunfaqs#2

borkcorkedforks , in Gun control laws in California and beyond in peril as Supreme Court expands 2nd Amendment

Is slapping down unconstitutional laws that haven't been around very long really "expanding" 2a rights? It's not like these rulings are allowing me to mail order machine guns like people use to. If by expanding the mean restore rights, sure.

The rulings just allow people to continue to own things in common use or do things that are legal in a vast majority of states. Keep in mind some of the laws in California involve things like demanding firearms have tech in them that doesn't exist.

masuhiro , in Pooping only every 3 or more days linked with cognitive decline, research finds | CNN

Ah, is this one of those "shit posts" I've heard about? very useful and informative, I'll have to check out more of them

Ddhuud ,

No, the shit post was a few weeks ago, this is a reference.

journey01 , in [Texas Tribune] Tearfully testifying against Texas’ abortion ban, three women describe medical care delayed

Dem libs talking like women are real people. /S

Jaysyn , in Wagner mercenaries and Belarus hold military exercises near Poland's border
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So? Poland can completely end both Belarus' military & Wagner at the same time and they wouldn't even need NATO support to do so.

BombOmOm , in Tesla, Netflix drag down S&P 500, Nasdaq
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Tesla stock is +169% YTD and +10% 1Year. Netflix stock is also doing quite well in the same timeframes. Both are pushing up the NASDAQ pretty well despite their downturns today.

Now, with that said, Tesla stock is likely heavily overvalued. As the other car manufacturers catch up to Tesla, the stock will likely decline.

themeatbridge , in Florida family found guilty of selling bleach as fake Covid-19 cure through online church

They made the biggest mistake a church can make, competing with big pharma. If you want to sell something, sell prayers or replicas of holy relics or literal snake oil, as long as you don’t call it a drug.

Like these faith nickels I have for sale. They can help with hair cancer, eyelid twitching, nasal shortage, rickets, crickets, tickets, clickits, boneitis, polywater intoxication, Bowden’s malady, space madness, subspace madness, liminal space madness, Baggy Trousers by Madness, rectal upcharge, and bacne. Side effects include irritable spouse syndrome, flavor packets, butterfly affect, scruples, time dilation, back knee, and the squorts. Of course, I have scruples, so I couldn’t possibly let these powerful faith nickels get out into the world for less than three easy payments of $49.95 plus s&h.

Fredselfish ,
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You have nothing for writers block?

themeatbridge ,

ChatGPT.

LillyPip OP ,

Side effects include […] scruples…

Of course, I have scruples…

Rookie mistake, using your own supply. The good news is, there’s a cream for that. I sell it on my website, miracle-scruples-cream[dot]info.

stringere ,

Bowden’s malady

Shiny.

Lakes , in Pooping only every 3 or more days linked with cognitive decline, research finds

I have 20+ lesions in my brain due to MS. I don’t poop a lot, so I can see this being true.

NewsAutoMod , in The Gilgo Beach killings suspect's wife unknowingly helped in his arrest. She's now filed for divorce.

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JustAManOnAToilet OP ,

Fixed, sorry I had just used the auto suggest.

JustAManOnAToilet OP ,

Well, nevermind, the Auto suggest was correct. Perhaps the title has been changed by CNN? Hopefully everyone can understand I haven’t maliciously altered it.

NewsAutoMod ,

I’m searching in the lemmy code to find how they get that stuff, so till then it has some false positives. So don’t worry (:

rbhfd , in Burglary suspect picks wrong house as homeowners, both armed, swiftly shoot him

Implying that a house where the owners don’t own guns would have been the right one?

The reason burglars take guns in the US is because there’s a good chance they’ll run into owners with guns as well. So lots of people owning guns doesn’t prevent burglary, it just forces criminals to take guns as well.

Kyrrrr ,

Remember kids, Escalation™ is always the best way to reduce gun violence!

borkcorkedforks ,

Seems weird to argue that it's "escalating" to defend yourself from a home invasion.

Kyrrrr ,

Seems weird to argue resolving any interaction with the death of one or more parties isn’t escalation

Vupperware ,
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If u do t want to get shot… don’t rob houses?

As mentioned above, the expectation is that the homeowners will have guns.

borkcorkedforks ,

Should people kindly ask the home invader to please vacate the area after their door gets smashed in? Maybe just hug it out?

I don't know about you but I lock my doors. I don't know what the fuck a stranger is trying to do in my house. They will be met with force if they forced their way in to violate my personal space and safety. Being unarmed or complying won't keep anyone but criminals safe.

Kyrrrr ,

That’s the argument me and the person I replied under are making. Adding more guns just increases the chance someone gets shot. If we gave everyone in the world a fully automatic ak47 that wouldn’t stop people from being desperate or just plain evil. Crimes would still happen and I bet that burglary would have ended with more than one person shot. Probably more than one person dead.

Yeah I don’t think we should just lie down and let everything get stolen from us but why do people fight so hard for more violence? I’d much rather be arguing over how to improve police response times. Providing affordable security systems. Making internal doors and walls more secure. Social programs so people don’t get to the point they need to rob people to get by.

This article is infuriating because fox news says we should all clap for this lucky family that got to almost got to watch one another bleed out. Guns should be a last resort and when a news source talks about them it should regret the fact that death had to be put on the table.

borkcorkedforks ,

It's not about thief or stuff. If someone breaks in I don't know why they're there. I have no reason to assume they are only there for stuff or won't hurt people who get in their way. Giving them the benefit of the doubt make no sense when they're already breaking in and violating your home. As an example I wouldn't go out to stop someone from breaking into my car or open the door during some incident. But if the door get kicked in a person shouldn't expect a warm welcome.

I do not care if a criminal gets hurt during the course of crimes that violate people's homes and personal safety. Anyone has a right to stop such people with force. Self-defense isn't a crime and I really don't consider it a problem. The gun was not the first resort. There were presumably doors and locks. Maybe some yelling. The criminal choose to victimize someone and found out that goes poorly on occasion.

If you want to prevent violence prevent people from being in desperate situations and commiting crimes against people. Don't expect people to be accepting of home invasion.

tDSpPd2C9MrT8n , in Florida family awarded $800K after McDonald's Chicken McNugget burned 4-year-old girl

How are damages in cases like this even calculated? They sued for $15,000,000 and were awarded $800,000. Is it just how big the medical bill is without insurance?

SomeoneElse , (edited )

I’m not a lawyer but I believe it’s usually split into two parts; the first to cover the expenses the person has already incurred - time missed from work, medical fees, taxis etc etc and predicted expenses in the future - plastic surgery to remove the scar for example, counselling or recompense for “emotional suffering”. The second part is the actual fine imposed on the company/whoever for their negligence. It’s kinda like reimbursement + penalty I believe.

ETA you always ask for way way more than you expect to receive. It’s a bit like haggling but the jury decide the final price.

UniquesNotUseful ,

They can also add punitive damages. Didn’t seem to be in this case BUT a meal marketed at children shouldn’t cause scars.

With the coffee case had lots of damages for this. MacDonalds had been warned that they were serving coffee at dangerous temperatures, had 700 complaints but it was cheaper to pay compensation than fix.

They served the coffee at much higher temperatures than other establishments, so normally you’d have 12 seconds to wipe coffee off your skin but with MacDonalds it was 3 seconds, causing 3rd degree burns.

They lied saying it was done as people wanted to drink after driving for a long time but their surveys showed the opposite.

SomeoneElse ,

The coffee case and how they destroyed that woman’s reputation was absolutely awful. Even now people think it was a “frivolous lawsuit”. That coffee was so hot it fused the lady’s labia together. There is nothing frivolous about that, it’s horrific to contemplate - especially when McDonald’s were warned about the problem, as you said.

JustAManOnAToilet OP ,

It was hot coffee. It was boiling hot coffee. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand you shouldn’t play around with it and spill it on you. They made it hot so you could get it at the drive through and still have hot coffee when you got home to eat.

Reddit_Is_Trash , in Burglary suspect picks wrong house as homeowners, both armed, swiftly shoot him

I love stories like this that have happy endings, I’m glad the homeowners are both ok

Umbra , in Wagner mercenaries and Belarus hold military exercises near Poland's border

Belarus demonstrating it's prepared to defend itself against the crazed Poles.

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