Artist: Kanye West | Album: Donda

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Background by /u/Kitchen_Ur_Lies

The culturally ubiquitous Kanye West, now legally just “Ye”, seemed to be working on everything besides music after releasing his latest solo effort, ‘Jesus Is King.’ A post-Jesus spin-cycle rendition of his cancelled album ‘Yandhi’, it gave listeners what was to be the first of his exclusively non-secular gospel releases “from here on out.” After the uniquely mixed reception to a West effort, Kanye embarked on many ventures outside of music, including helming a creative director role at Gap and casually running for president of the United States. As Kanye’s Gap and very successful Yeezy ventures seemed to make him a billionaire by April 2020, music appeared to be an afterthought for the next iteration of his artistic catalogue.

During an interview with Michèle Lamy in May 2020, cinematographer Arthur Jafa, whose work includes Jay-Z’s 4:44 music video, announced he was [collaborating with West on a single off his previously unannounced record, *God’

TL;DR: This is a serious post as ESPN's The Undefeated highlights aspects of Kyrie Irving's stance in relation to (1) social justice and the damages of his anti-intellectualism, (2) cheerleading from dishonest actors such as Fox News and Donald Trump Jr, (3) false analogies to Muhammad Ali and Colin Kapernick, and (4) the fact that this is "a disease that kills more Black and brown people per capita" than anything else.

https://theundefeated.com/features/kyrie-irving-is-abandoning-the-voiceless/

October 15, 2021

Kyrie Irving has become the center of the NBA universe as his refusal to get a COVID-19 vaccine makes him ineligible to play home games or practice with his Brooklyn Nets team. The franchise responded by stating that it won’t allow Irving to participate in team activities until he’s vaccinated, and Irving finally broke his silence after weeks of speculation over his motives.

First, The Athletic wrote a story explaining how Irving believes he’s the “voice of the voiceless” for people forced to take the vaccine to keep their jobs. Then, he took to Instagram Live in a meandering, 20-minute speech: “It’s not about being anti-vax or about being on one side or the other. It’s about being true to what feels good for me.”

Irving’s Live did nothing to dispel the notion that he misunderstands who is actually voiceless and refuses to understand that criticism and fact-checking are vastly different consequences from persecution.

Much of Irving’s career has been defined by his off-the-court ideologies. Sometimes criticism of him has been valid, such as the ridicule he received for his comments questioning whether the Earth is flat, which he later apologized for. Other times, the criticism has been ill-informed, like those who mocked Irving for burning sage in Boston’s TD Garden arena before a Nets game, something he did as part of his Native American heritage.

But the pushback over his refusal to get a COVID-19 vaccination as hundreds of Americans are dying per day is warranted. Yes, Irving has control over his own body, but his decision, when it becomes a public health concern, is open to criticism.

“If I’m going to be demonized about having more questions and taking my time to make a decision with my life,” he said, “then that’s just what it is.” But Irving isn’t being demonized for his belief. He’s facing appropriate ramifications for perpetuating a public health crisis. This isn’t an example of someone punished for being a freethinker.

Muhammad Ali

Introduction to D-Serine

How can one drug help everyone? We constantly hear about people's different experiences, but at the end of the day we all learn in the same way. And this is why I've been fascinated by D-Serine for the past few months. In this post I hope to explore D-Serine in its entirety, from the human trials down to the mechanistic workings in the brain, as I believe this is something that could truly help a wide variety of people.

In summary, this is what I know about its use in humans:

• Nootropic effect of D-Serine in young, healthy people: Reduces sadness and anxiety. Improves attention, learning performance and information retention.^([1])
• Nootropic effect of D-Serine in old, healthy people: Improves spatial memory, learning and problem solving. Didn't change mood.^([17])
• Outlier to the two studies above: Surprisingly, D-Serine failed to improve cognition in different tests that were emotionally charged, suggesting its nootropic effect may not be universally applicable.^([18])
• D-Serine benefits in PTSD: Improves anxiety, depression and general PTSD symptoms.^([15])
• D-Serine benefits in Parkinson's: Significantly improves symptoms in parkinson's patients.^([16])
• D-Serine benefits in Schizophrenia: Significantly improves Positive, Negative and cognitive symptoms of Schizophrenia. Meta analysis.^([8])

Other on-going trials for D-Serine I am aware of: Depression, Schizophrenia (auditory learning) and Psychosis.

D-Serine as a supplement

When taken orally, D-Serine can be used to enhance learning. It seems widely applicable, capable of not only enhancing cognition in healthy people, but those with serious disorders as well. D-Serine has the stereotypical benefits of both NMDA antagonists and glutamatergic drugs.

D-Serine also stimulates adult neurogenesis[^([31])](https://ww

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Buenosdillas

They’re on standbi

The Commune:

Created to be an independent power opposing the crime families and criminal underworld, the commune is a collective of nen users who have aligned themselves to a common goal, a common code, and a common aura.

Johann (current mantle):

Name: Johann

Nen Type: Emitter? (specialist)

Description:

Appearance:

- Age: 39

- Sex: M

Background:

Johann’s father, Walter, was a head-hunter who had the ultimate goal of ridding the world of various aspects of the criminal world, particularly crime families that would pick up youth, transforming them into what they desired for their own wealth.

Walter was killed by a mafia family for interfering with their operations, causing Johann to pick up where he left off.

Johann inherited his father’s power, transformed into something new. With it he formed the commune with Benny Fisili.

Johann now has the goal of eliminating the mafia families and creating a better world.

Joining the commune:

In order to join the commune, you must be accepted by all the members via unanimous vote. Members will debate the introduction of a member and discuss the possible merits and demerits of accepting them into the commune. After the discussion, the members will anonymously vote via a blackball system (where any vote against them leads to them being unaccepted).

If the individual is accepted via this vote, they will become an initiate of the commune for one week. Not yet a full-fledged member, the initiate will not yet receive the full boons of membership.

After one week of being an initiate, the initiate is inducted into the commune with a shared meal. As many members of the commune as freely can gather together and have a meal together. During this meal, the initiate becomes a full member of the commune, and gains the full boons of membership and the commune hatsu.

Members:

- Johann - (Leader) {Mantle hatsu}

- Benny Fisili (Accountant) {Universal cards}

- Theophrastus (Agent Support) {Idealised Realisation}

- Leo R (Data collection) {Whispering Root, Whispering Dance}

- [Matilda R](https://www.reddit.com/r/DrAnvil/comments/rfqsve/nen_commune_member_mati

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

Bill Cosby always carefully cultivated a public image of himself as a wholesome comedian who didn't use profanity and was a positive role model for young black men. In public he lectured against rap music, saggy pants, and other perceived societal ills, while in private he was carrying on a decades-long career as a sexual abuser and rapist.

Until Newsweek, Gawker, and comedian Hannibal Burress brought this story back to the forefront in 2014, Bill Cosby had been able to use his power, money, and influence to keep the general public from knowing about his depravity and his crimes.

On October 16, 2014, Hannibal Burress said the following at a stand up routine in Philadelphia.

> And it's even worse because Bill Cosby has the fucking smuggest old black man public persona that I hate. Pull your pants up, black people. I was on TV in the '80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom. Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, brings you down a couple notches. I don't curse on stage. Well, yeah, you're a rapist, so, I'll take you sayin' lots of motherfuckers on Bill Cosby: Himself if you weren't a rapist.[…] I want to just at least make it weird for you to watch Cosby Show reruns. […] I've done this bit on stage, and people don't believe. People think I'm making it up. […]That shit is upsetting. If you didn't know about it, trust me. You leave here and google 'Bill Cosby rape.' It's not funny. That shit has more results than Hannibal Burress.

Even though Cosby had accusations going back to the 1970s and an article in People Magazine in 2006 he was able to use his power and money to bully these women into not going to authorities. Ultimately 60 women would accuse him of sexual assault or rape.

Days before that People piece hit, Cosby had settled a lawsuit with Andrea Constand, an operations manager for the women's basketball team at Temple University, an institution to which Cosby had extra special ties. Constand alleged that Cosby

> invited her to his Cheltenham home, gave her pills when she complained she was stressed and, after she got dizzy, began “touching her breast and placing her hand on his penis,”

Constand's criminal case against Cosby never progressed due to lack o

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You take away their little brooms

Why

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac

What, then, is Chinese rap?

Edit:

Notable mentions from the comments:

• Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits

• French/Finnish art

• Country/Canadian rap

• Chinese/Country/Canadian rock

• Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap

There hasn't been a single post this year!

(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)

Nothing, it just waved

Him: I can explain everything!

(It's his best joke yet I think)

Bob

So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."

Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.

Just to clarify, 12345678

Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...

Notices there's only 2;

Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."

I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.

I was just sitting there doing nothing.

When I got home, they were still there.

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!