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posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 16 2018, @06:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the super-bugs-don't-come-from-krypton dept.

Submitted via IRC for takyon

There’s a little-known sexually transmitted disease (STD) that’s on the rise – and could soon become a very big problem.

Sexual health experts warn that Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) has the potential to become a drug-resistant superbug within a matter of years.

Research by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) found that over 70 percent of sexual health experts said that if current practices do not change, MG will become resistant to first and second line antibiotics within a decade. Left unchecked, they say this could result in thousands of women each year at increased risk of infertility from pelvic inflammatory disease caused by MG.

As a result of these daunting statistics, BASHH have just released draft guidelines to help the public and health services deal with this impending crisis.

“MG is rapidly becoming the new superbug: it’s increasingly resistant to most of the antibiotics we use to treat chlamydia and changes its pattern of resistance during treatment so it's like trying to hit a moving target,” Dr Peter Greenhouse, sexual health consultant from the UK, said in a statement.

Source: http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/this-littleknown-std-could-become-the-next-superbug-within-a-decade/


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U.S. STD Cases Increase for Fourth Year in a Row 61 comments

Rates of three STDs in US reach record high, CDC says

Rates of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia have climbed for the fourth consecutive year in the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday at the National STD Prevention Conference in Washington. Last year, nearly 2.3 million US cases of these sexually transmitted diseases were diagnosed, according to preliminary data.
That's the highest number ever reported nationwide, breaking the record set in 2016 by more than 200,000 cases, according to the CDC.

[...] In 2013, there were 1,752,285 total cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis diagnosed in the United States. That number grew to 1,811,850 in 2014; 1,945,746 in 2015; 2,094,682 in 2016; and 2,294,821 in 2017, according to the preliminary CDC data.

[...] The preliminary data suggest that more than 1.7 million cases of chlamydia were diagnosed in 2017, with about 45% -- 771,340 cases -- emerging among 15- to 24-year-old women and girls. Chlamydia, which remained the most common STD reported to the CDC, is caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis and easily transmitted during any form of sexual activity. If not treated, chlamydia can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease in women, which can cause permanent damage to the reproductive system. In men, the infection can spread to the tube that carries sperm from the testicles, causing pain and fever.

Related: Around 42% of American Adults Have HPV, Over 20% Have Cancer-Causing Form
This Little-Known STD Could Become The "Next Superbug" Within A Decade


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New Compounds Found Which Illuminate and Kill Drug Resistant Gram Negative Bacteria 10 comments

University of Sheffield and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) scientists have discovered several new related (dinuclear RuII) compounds which visualize and kill gram-negative bacteria, such as E. coli (note - no word on whether it works on synthetic E.coli)

Bacteria are classified generally by what type of staining works on them using a method developed in the 1800's by Hans Christian Gram. 'Gram-negative' bacteria retain a stain color that shows them as a pinkish red coloring, these bacteria have cell walls that make it difficult to get drugs into them and many gram-negative bacteria have become significantly or even completely resistant to available drug treatments.

A new drug in the difficult gram-negative space is particularly important. Drug resistant bacteria already cause the deaths of over 50 thousand people a year in the US and EU alone, and as many as 10 million people a year could die worldwide every year by 2050 due to antibiotic resistant infections.

Doctors have not had a new treatment for gram-negative bacteria in the last 50 years, and no potential drugs have entered clinical trials since 2010.

The new drug compound has a range of exciting opportunities. As Professor Jim Thomas explains: "As the compound is luminescent it glows when exposed to light. This means the uptake and effect on bacteria can be followed by the advanced microscope techniques available at RAL.

"This breakthrough could lead to vital new treatments to life-threatening superbugs and the growing risk posed by antimicrobial resistance."

The studies at Sheffield and RAL have shown the compound seems to have several modes of action, making it more difficult for resistance to emerge in the bacteria.

Better yet

Mammalian cell culture and animal model studies indicate that the complex is not toxic to eukaryotes, even at concentrations that are several orders of magnitude higher than its minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC).

The researchers plan to test the compounds against additional multi drug resistant bacteria next.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @06:53PM (8 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @06:53PM (#708012)

    big accident, i'm sure.

    • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:06AM

      by Immerman (3985) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:06AM (#708175)

      Infertility a pretty common outcome of a lot of untreated STDs.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:21AM (6 children)

      by hemocyanin (186) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:21AM (#708180) Journal

      So is that it? Infertility? It isn't like there are any restraints on population growth and so from an ecological perspective, I'm rooting for MG.

      • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:31PM (5 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:31PM (#708337)

        Since you're wishing people suffer a disease with permanent ill effects in the name of population reduction, in the interest of consistency, please don't go to the doctor if you are seriously ill. One less is one less as far as Mother Earth is concerned.

        • (Score: 3, Touché) by hemocyanin on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:07AM (4 children)

          by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:07AM (#708635) Journal

          Save it breeder. I'm intentionally child-free. I could burn barrels of diesel in my yard until I die and come out better than you in the carbon balance.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:34PM (3 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:34PM (#708826)

            This is your self-centered perspective at work, blinding you to the obvious.
            YOU are on the earth, impacting it just like any other person whom you would deny to come into the world. You're not special--just another drain on the ecosystem, and one who lives a Western lifestyle of comfort and higher environmental impact, actually. You will also do whatever to extend your life, thus maximizing your impact on the planet. You're a self-centered hypocrite. Everything for yourself, but nobody else deserves it.

            • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday July 18 2018, @06:59PM (2 children)

              by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @06:59PM (#708943) Journal

              If you are a breeder, your carbon impact goes on exponentially forever. My impact is limited to my lifetime. I am better than you.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:24AM (1 child)

                by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:24AM (#709153)

                No, you're just bitter.
                I'd say get a dog to keep you company, but that would just add to your carbon footprint.

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by DannyB on Monday July 16 2018, @07:03PM (37 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 16 2018, @07:03PM (#708017) Journal

    From TFA

    It remains unknown whether this infection can cause male infertility.

    But they seem sure it causes female infertility.

    And of course, to prevent the disease which causes infertility . . . use a condom!

    Did you see the oxymoron there? Use a condom to prevent infertility.

    What do people do who might want to have fertility?
    The only form of protection might be a wedding ring.
    Or the outmoded concept of being faithful.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by bd on Monday July 16 2018, @07:12PM

      by bd (2773) on Monday July 16 2018, @07:12PM (#708021)

      If we are more open about D&D campaigns we should be safe regardless.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 16 2018, @07:16PM (27 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday July 16 2018, @07:16PM (#708025) Journal

      Being faithful isn't outmoded. I've only ever had two partners, my ex and my current lover, and only ever wanted one.

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      • (Score: 2, Disagree) by edIII on Monday July 16 2018, @07:38PM (19 children)

        by edIII (791) on Monday July 16 2018, @07:38PM (#708043)

        It's sure as fuck though outgunned. While you're sitting there on your moral highground, the rest of the people are fucking like rabbits :)

        If anything, being moral in general has become outmoded.

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        • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday July 16 2018, @07:53PM

          by Bot (3902) on Monday July 16 2018, @07:53PM (#708051) Journal

          A set of moral values applied to self is always ethical. You are exercising your freedom. Of course if the side effects are huge, for example suicide, then you generate consequences for others and you may not being ethical.

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        • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 16 2018, @07:55PM (6 children)

          by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 16 2018, @07:55PM (#708052) Journal

          If anything, being moral in general has become outmoded.

          That one says it right there.

          People used to treat each other with some level of respect and humanity. There once was some sense of restraint.

          Now everyone just wants to get theirs. Can I get rich creating a new junk bond while destroying the real estate market and causing a recession? Okay, that sounds like a plan! Can I hike the price of life saving drugs by thousands of percent -- to enrich myself? Okay, great! Can I pollute the land, the air, the water without concern for what I'm doing to the lives of actual human beings, while making a big profit? Go for it! As the BMW driver zooms down the carpool lane in his empty car unconcerned about everyone else waiting in the other lanes.

          And the UN Human Rights Council should be looking in to Google's redesign of the tabs in the Chrome browser!

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          • (Score: 5, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 16 2018, @08:31PM (2 children)

            by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday July 16 2018, @08:31PM (#708077) Journal

            Yeah, because things were so much better back in the age of the Inquisition, right?

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            • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:23PM (1 child)

              by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:23PM (#708316) Journal

              Your comment and other replies make me consider that maybe I have a sheltered outlook. Or falsely inflated expectation of humanity.

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              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:32PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:32PM (#708425)

                Those two things go together. While the good people tend to outweigh the bad there are still plenty of shitty people that range from selfish to evil. There are more than most people expect, humanity as a whole is still in its infancy with large swaths of people throwing baby tantrums. QED US politics today. I'd say the safest attitude is cynical optimist. Expect the worst and hope for the best, then wait until you feel more sure about which one any given person is.

          • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @09:10PM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @09:10PM (#708093)

            People used to treat each other with some level of respect and humanity. There once was some sense of restraint.

            Respect and restraint in public, perhaps, but people also used to beat their spouses and children behind closed doors and think nothing of it. Some of those people relied on documentation, purportedly handed down by their gods, that encouraged the beating of spouses and children as perfectly moral behavior. Some probably still do.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @10:23PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @10:23PM (#708112)

              people also used to beat their spouses and children behind closed doors and think nothing of it.

              Supposedly they still do and it is quite as common as it has ever been. To suggest otherwise can lead to great derision from the internet, shunning and outright violence and death threats.

            • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:23AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:23AM (#708165)

              > Some probably still do.

              A friend from high school became a forensic psychologist, based near rural areas in one of the southern US states. His stories of abused kids are horrible.

        • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Thexalon on Monday July 16 2018, @08:10PM

          by Thexalon (636) on Monday July 16 2018, @08:10PM (#708063)

          There are paths to monogamy that have nothing to do with morality, like:
          - Some people are happy with the partner they have and genuinely have no desire for another one.
          - Some people are unable to attract more than one partner. Think not-quite-incel.
          - Some people want to avoid the complications of having another partner. Think about how much work one partnership can be, now double and triple that, and see if you're still thinking more is better.
          - In committed relationships, you have birth control and disease-prevention options that you don't when sleeping around.

          Libido is on a spectrum. One the one extreme you have the people that will bang anything that moves, anytime, anywhere. On the other extreme you have asexual people. Most are somewhere in between.

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        • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Monday July 16 2018, @08:13PM (7 children)

          by jdavidb (5690) on Monday July 16 2018, @08:13PM (#708067) Homepage Journal

          It's sure as fuck though outgunned. While you're sitting there on your moral highground, the rest of the people are fucking like rabbits :)

          Actually the numbers show that married people are having sex more than single people.

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          • (Score: 2) by edIII on Monday July 16 2018, @08:24PM

            by edIII (791) on Monday July 16 2018, @08:24PM (#708070)

            Surely, that must be a sign of the apocalypse?

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          • (Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Monday July 16 2018, @09:00PM

            by bob_super (1357) on Monday July 16 2018, @09:00PM (#708090)

            > Actually the numbers show that married people are having sex more than single people.

            Obviously, they forgot to poll (two L) my wife.

          • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday July 16 2018, @11:25PM

            But how do married people compare to singles which are having some sex?
            I feel that the singles quite cleanly split into the haves and the have nots.
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          • (Score: 2) by legont on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:57AM (3 children)

            by legont (4179) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:57AM (#708157)

            Even more, people had more sex before the sexual revolution; in marriage, off course.

            Hippies took it all and destroyed. No wonder - revolutions are always like this.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:11PM (2 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:11PM (#708385)

              Don't worry. They recanted the sexual revolution, and now the ctrl-left has gone sex-negative.

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:47PM (1 child)

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:47PM (#708434)

                Ahem, that would be the alt-right that is sex negative. The adjectives "incel" and "misogynist nerd" didn't just pop out of nowhere ;)

                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @07:31PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @07:31PM (#708477)

                  They're both sex-negative. The right wingers in the USA have always had a puritan streak. These are the "wedding ring = effective STD protection" crowd. What is more interesting to me is how the left wingers in the USA have turned from sex-positive to sex-negative.

                  Incel originated as a self-identified label, and has been around there on the internet for at least 15 years I'd say. Recently, however, it turned into a homophobic attack on men who have sex with men instead of women. It may seem difficult to reconcile this with sex-negativity, but that's how it reveals itself as plain old misandry. Men who ask women on dates are called sexual harassers.

                  Misogynerd is what you call the nearest available man when it turns out that programming requires a basic comprehension of middle school algebra.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @11:19PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @11:19PM (#708126)
          > the rest of the people are fucking like rabbits

          Only those trying to hasten the inevitable Idiocracy.

          My skin in the game: same partner, no straying, for -20 years, and childfree (i.e. by choice).
          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @11:23PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @11:23PM (#708128)

            If you have a hi IQ you are also contributing to Idiocracy by not pumping out jenius babies.

      • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @07:56PM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @07:56PM (#708054)

        I've only ever had two partners, my ex and my current lover, and only ever wanted one.

        Which one? Does the other one know?

        • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday July 16 2018, @08:28PM (5 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday July 16 2018, @08:28PM (#708074) Journal

          Considering my ex and I have been separated over 8 years, I don't think it's relevant. Really, from what I understand this is a common thing among gay women; the worst that can be said about most of us is either we're serial monogamists at the extreme end, or we're hardcore single-target UHaulers and mourn forever when a relationship ends.

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          • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @08:54PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @08:54PM (#708088)

            Way.to.ruin.a.joke.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @10:26PM (3 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @10:26PM (#708113)

            Except when two gay women decide to have a baby together and one abandons the other after 3 weeks

            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:24AM (2 children)

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:24AM (#708206) Journal

              You, er, seem to be missing something rather fundamental about biology here...

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              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:57PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:57PM (#708346)

                adoption you twat

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:06PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:06PM (#708382)

                Sperm donor clinics

    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @08:02PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @08:02PM (#708061)

      But they seem sure it causes female infertility.

      And of course, to prevent the disease which causes infertility . . . use a condom!

      Did you see the oxymoron there? Use a condom to prevent infertility.

      Oxymoron? How about omnimoron? (that would be you)

      Infertility is one side effect of MG that impacts women. Your dick festering, getting covered in scar tissue and oozing puss is another side effect. That will definitely affect you, and may affect women (if they encounter it). BTW, not getting laid because your dick looks like it's going to fall off is a condition that will limit your "fertility" even if it's not technically classified as infertility.

      • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 16 2018, @11:19PM

        by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 16 2018, @11:19PM (#708125) Journal

        RoKu suggests movie: Death In The Terminal.

        I say: try using the GUI.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @09:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @09:12PM (#708095)

      Effectiveness of a wedding ring for STD protection is likely to be on par with the rhythm method.

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:01AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:01AM (#708137) Journal

      The only form of protection might be a wedding ring.

      You crazy? It won't go through even when flaccid and shrank by the application of freezing water!

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    • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:59AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @03:59AM (#708200)

      "Did you see the oxymoron there?"

      No, because there is no oxymoron.

      The correct descriptive term would be : paradox.

      I detest when imbeciles like you try to use words they don't understand in order to attempt to impress people.

      You need to hang yourself tonight, to atone for your sins.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:55PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:55PM (#708345)

        how much petty hair-splitting can one engage in, damn

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:04PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:04PM (#708440)

          Try proper capitalization and punctuation! Nyah.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @08:10PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @08:10PM (#708494)

            no u

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Bot on Monday July 16 2018, @07:49PM (16 children)

    by Bot (3902) on Monday July 16 2018, @07:49PM (#708047) Journal

    "somebody is too close to curing AIDS so we're going to come up with something new, stay tuned" :^)

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    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 16 2018, @08:01PM (15 children)

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 16 2018, @08:01PM (#708060) Journal

      How else are the 1% going to reduce the global population to 500 million.

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      • (Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Monday July 16 2018, @08:25PM (9 children)

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday July 16 2018, @08:25PM (#708071) Homepage Journal

        What about Smallpox? We had an article about the antidote to Smallpox, so interesting. We have Smallpox in a freezer that keeps it very fresh, very nice & strong -- PERFECTO -- thanks to my predecessors. And we have the cyber for Smallpox, we can make it from the cyber "blueprints." Maybe make it better in certain ways. We have some very interesting options there!!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @08:47PM (8 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @08:47PM (#708083)

          Sorry, no antidote for Smalldicks.

          • (Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Monday July 16 2018, @09:54PM (7 children)

            by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 16 2018, @09:54PM (#708109) Journal

            Evolution's answer: small hands.

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            • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday July 16 2018, @11:03PM (6 children)

              by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Monday July 16 2018, @11:03PM (#708122) Homepage

              As somebody who has small hands, but a naturally larger-than-average cock, I invite those women to tell me that my small hands and large Tommy Gunn Penis Extender [amazon.com] are smallening their opinion of me.

              I tell them, "bitch," if you don't like my paycheck-to-paycheck ways and microwave-oven dinners, you can hang with that bigger-dicked guy down the block who sees you but prefers women more younger and hotter than you are.

              • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:16AM (2 children)

                by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:16AM (#708143) Journal

                Typical eth-f dating pattern:
                - old women
                - microwaveable frozen dinner
                - necessary use of sex-toys enhancers
                - pittance money thrown in at paycheck time.
                Highly likely: plenty of darn cheap booze all the time and delightful conversations on 'blame it on the Jews'/'dirty Mexicans' topics.

                Me rekons that, indeed, the matter of EthF's small hands strongly pales in significance.
                Which makes his post +Insightful even when -Offtopic.

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:29AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:29AM (#708148)

                  So... Barbie and Ken size?

                • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 23 2018, @01:48PM

                  by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 23 2018, @01:48PM (#711209) Journal

                  > plenty of darn cheap booze

                  Uh, no.

                  Only the finest! Whine and Cheese Whiz! The finest and best box of wine that Walmart has to offer.

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              • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:11AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:11AM (#708216)

                You realize just cause your dick looks big in your Trump hands doesn't actually MAKE it big right? RIGHT??

              • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:20PM (1 child)

                by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:20PM (#708314) Journal

                Is that a sex toy or an industrial strength condom?

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      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday July 16 2018, @09:04PM

        by bob_super (1357) on Monday July 16 2018, @09:04PM (#708091)

        > How else are the 1% going to reduce the global population to 500 million.

        Anti-Vaccination campaigns.
        Unaffordable health care.
        A Trump nominee leading the EPA.
        Trump nuclear diplomacy.

        Not sure we'll have 500M left, at this rate.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @11:03PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @11:03PM (#708121)

        How else are the 1% going to reduce the global population to 500 million.

        Well, WWI & WWII took care of ~100 million, and I figure the next wars will be even more effective at Population Reduction Enforcement. Do you pre-qualify?

        • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:15AM (2 children)

          by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:15AM (#708142) Journal

          Please check your facts. Both WWI and WWII resulted in huge population increases. (It's true there was a bit of a time delay, but not that much.) Perhaps the 30 years war shrank to population.

          That said, and depending on the approach used, WWIII actually *is* likely to shrink the population drastically. (But if they go in for drone warfare with chemical explosives rather than missiles with nukes possibly not.)

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:21AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @12:21AM (#708145)

            Biological warfare would be the most effective route outside wholesale nuclear holocaust. A black plague with flu-like resistance? Super-STDs that resist all control and spread through more than just blood/genital fluids? Ebola in the food supply?

            • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:12AM

              by Bot (3902) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:12AM (#708718) Journal

              meanwhile autism is increasing dramatically and mainstream media barely touch the issue without making any projections.

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Snotnose on Monday July 16 2018, @09:11PM (1 child)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Monday July 16 2018, @09:11PM (#708094)

    My sex life nowdays is to 127.0.0.1.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:14PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:14PM (#708387)

      You filthy incel! Death to incels!

  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @09:15PM (11 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 16 2018, @09:15PM (#708096)

    Preliminary research shows male-to-female transmission is rare, leaving the other five millennial genders at risk.

    • (Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:27AM (6 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:27AM (#708207) Journal

      No, no, no, if you wanna make fun of them you have to say 47 genders, and make some reference to believing you're a piece of military hardware. Because that's totes how trans people work. I've met a bunch and every single one of them is a different gender and comes with a 4,000+-pound carrying capacity and at least half a dozen hardpoints for guided missiles. ...idiot.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:50PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:50PM (#708341)

        "Because that's totes how trans people work."

        What does being two-spirit or genderqueer have to do with being trans?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:18PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @04:18PM (#708390)

          If only we had a large anthropological library available to us at our fingertips so that we could research various cultural traditions such as two-spirit folks. It would be incredible if we could also look up the current theory on the neurological origins of brain sex and the reasons the brain might develop to be a different sex from the reproductive system. With those two things, we might be able to go beyond your question and synthesize some sociological theories.

          Alas.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:21PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:21PM (#708421)

        Now c'mon, I think it is fair to make fun of a list like https://ageofshitlords.com/list-of-all-tumblr-genders-so-far [ageofshitlords.com] where you can find "hippy" being changed to some kind of gender?

        Earthgender– A gender identity that is directly affected, tied to, or influenced by the earth or nature.

        and the proper rejoinder would be to point out that the first search result was a website called "age of shitlords".

        So are some gender titles ridiculous and just descriptors of personality types? Yes.
        Are assholes that have nothing better to do than make fun of people exploring themselves Shit Lords? Fuck no. They are just shit, lords of nothing :)

        Don't get too serious with these dumbasses and enjoy the joke. Is the joker an asshole shitbird? I didn't see The Maniacal Bastard log in, so there is a chance it was just a good opportunity to make a joke out of a hot topic. There are many gender descriptions I will accept, but Earthgender simply describes a hippy and/or fetish like getting turned on by doing it in a forest and I simply can't take that seriously as a human gender.

        I can get behind all of these https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/07/explained-the-33-gender-identities-recognised-by-the-2016-australian-sex-survey/ [lifehacker.com.au] although I find quite a few of them redundant (transgender man, trans man, female to male) so I'd say it should get reduced to 10-20 or whatever removes the identical genders with different labels.

        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:53PM (2 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @05:53PM (#708437) Journal

          Not going to lie, I'm cisgender and *really* don't get this stuff on a personal level. The simple gender binary may be wrong, but a spectrum still has two ends, and what we seem to see here is "nature "intends" people to be one or the other, but nature fucks up, so we get people who don't match or people somewhere in between sometimes."

          NOT "by the way your environmentalist or political views are gender identity now." That's a total non-sequitur.

          Does this make me cis-dyke scum? Maybe. Do I care? Newp.

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          • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:10PM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @06:10PM (#708444)

            Well then how could you not find the joke somewhat amusing? Just cause it played on a sensitive topic? If a stand up comedian had said it would you have laughed? Are you just too used to the assholes around here?

            Not my joke but I did find it funny because it wasn't overly antagonistic like the attack helicopter people.

            • (Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:40AM

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday July 18 2018, @03:40AM (#708646) Journal

              Yes, definitely too used to the assholes on here. There's not even 10 of them but they make this place such a complete fucking cesspool.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @10:41AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @10:41AM (#708268)

      Millennials are hardly at risk at all. You try having sex with your parents sleeping in the next room.

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:45PM (2 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 17 2018, @02:45PM (#708340)

        From the surveillance videos I have seen, Mom or Dad (we're mostly single parent households in the US) hears their son/daughter masturbating, enters their room, has a calm chat with the embarrassed teen, and then starts oral sex on them, possibly ending in full anal.

        Is PornHub not giving me an accurate societal picture?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @01:55PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @01:55PM (#708761)

          Definitely not accurate.

          In real life, the Millennial 'teen' is at least 20 and anything up to 35.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @06:20PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @06:20PM (#708918)

            Now you tell me! Well, there goes my dream to start a family.

  • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:42PM

    by Alfred (4006) on Tuesday July 17 2018, @01:42PM (#708323) Journal
    later virgins
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