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This is only scratching the surface of the weirdness of semen retention advocates. Throwback to the Canadian political candidate who advocated for this a few years ago:
Source: https://thepostmillennial.com/ppc-candidate-calls-himself-a-semen-retention-soldier-claims-he-can-breathe-through-his-testicles
Source: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/politician-says-men-should-breathe-25021657
Learning to read was a mistake
Experts are divided between those who think we never should have left the trees, and those who think we never should have left the oceans.
As an armchair scientist myself, I think we screwed up leaving the singularity of the big bang. Inflation and baryogenesis were a mistake.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Why half of the best quotes on the internet are either Adams or Pratchett's ?
Pretty positive thats Adams.