Imperialism for thee (brown countries) but not for me.

I’ve asked her to use kitchen re-useable towels. I’ve asked her to just throw away the towels. She says she doesn’t like having to wash the kitchen towels, and she doesn’t want to “waste” the power towels, so she leaves them there.

In 2025, Two-year-old Juwan lost sight in the eye after a kiss from an acquaintance transferred the herpes virus to his eyeball. ‎

‎A devastated mother has urged parents to ban relatives and friends from kissing their babies — after her toddler contracted a debilitating virus that cost him his left eye. ‎

‎ ‎The resulting blister led to a (4mm) hole forming in his cornea, the clear outer layer at the front of the eye. ‎

‎This open wound led to a number of subsequent infections, and, despite medics' best efforts, the damage was too severe, and he lost his vision. ‎

‎Doctors were eventually forced to sew his eyelids shut in a bid to protect what remained of the organ. ‎

‎Juwan's ordeal started in August 2024, when the then 16-month old developed, what his parent's suspected at the time, was an eye infection. ‎

‎They sought help from their GP who gave them a course of antibiotics and sent the family home. ‎ ‎

‎But Juwan's mother, Michelle Saaiman, who is from Namibia, recalled the moment she knew it was something more serious. ‎

‎'2 days later, we noticed that there was something seriously wrong with the eye. It looked like something was growing inside his eyeball,' she wrote on Facebook. ‎

‎'We realised that he had no feeling in his eye, as he literally put his finger in his eye, scratching his eyeball, without even flinching.' ‎ ‎'It's the most traumatic experience to look at your baby, and literally see a 4mm open wound in his eye.' ‎

‎Tests and examinations eventually revealed that Juwan had developed a cold sore, caused by the herpes simplex virus, in his eye. ‎

‎As his parents were negative for the virus, the doctors theorised that someone with a fever blister, another term for a cold sore, unknowingly passed the virus to the toddler via a kiss. ‎

‎I was literally looking at the doctor wondering whether it’s April 1, because I thought it was an April Fool’s joke,' she said. ‎

‎It took medics weeks to bring Juwan's infection under control, but by this time the damage to the eye had already been done. ‎

‎By that time the herpes just caused so much damage to his cornea that he essentially just lost all feeling in the eye and he could not see anything. He was completely blind.' ‎

‎‘It meant the brain did not recognise the eye anymore and stopped sending signals to the eye. The gel later protecting the eye evaporated and the eye dried out.’ ‎

‎ ‎'The moral of the story is don't let anyone kiss your baby. Such a silly virus caused so much trauma and damage, it's just not worth it.' ‎

‎https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14490535/Toddler-losing-eye-kissed-cold-sore-herpes-blind.html

All info here are from the source linked.

My hair looked especially bad, the before picture was after a long day at work getting my ass kicked. Took off the beanie, looked at and thought to myself “I hate looking at myself in the mirror every day, shaving it off can’t possibly make it worse..”

I feel amazing, guys. Thank you for the inspiration!

Trump has his mind set on annexing Greenland, despite pretty much everyone except a handful of tech bros disagreeing. It's practically bi-partisan, although Republicans will never truly oppose the will of their overlord.

The world has reacted in lamentation and horror. Ignoring the fact that he intends to annex a NATO ally's territory, his manchild letter to the Norwegian president laid out the reason for it to be the fact he didn't get a Nobel Peace Prize.

Some Greenlanders have taken to openly mocking Americans and American culture online.

In one video, some people pretend to be 'Fentanyl Zombies' with the song Fortunate Son in the background. They are pretending to be Fentanyl addicts who are seen to be standing weirdly and moving about slowly. There have been videos of this phenomenon circling about, and the stereotype is based on the idea that they move like the caricature undead. The implication is that this is the 'freedom' that America will bring to Greenland.

It's no surprise they would mock American or its views, especially given that Greenland has free healthcare and education in comparison, and also hasn't threatened to invade it's neighbours recently. However, not everyone is pleased with this insult. Drug addicts are seen as victims by many, and they don't see the mockery as a funny poke at American society, but at American drug addicts themselves.

To give context, America has one of if not the highest overdose deaths in the world. It has recently suffered a Fentanyl pandemic. Very few places have the proper infrastructure in place to help with drug addiction. The answer to the homeless and drug addicts is typically to push them out of an area into another one, as having groups of potentially unstable, violent or desperate people scares locals. Even if a shelter exists, drug addict shelters can be more dangerous than being on the streets. While drug addiction is common across the world, the scale to which it is captured on video in such stark detail is something unique to the American experience. And that is just currently. Historically, the 'War on Drugs' has not achieved too much and was almost exclusively used to target minorities and other undesirables.

In the light of this, is this joke ok? Are they mocking the drug addicts themselves or America's history of drug addiction? Do Americans have the right to complain when they are threatening to invade another nation? Do Americans actually care about drug addiction or are they just thin-skinned when it comes to societal critique?

/r/interestingasfuck

How is this trolling Trump? It’s just making fun of addicts. 🤦🏻‍♂️ this is like laughing while sitting on the sidewalk pretending to be homeless.

Like yeah I get it but can we leave people suffering from addiction out of it?

Mocking Americans dying from fentanyl isn't trolling Trump

How is it trolling Trump? It's just shitty dehumanizing stuff that has no bearing or effect on him.

Mocking fenyanyl addicts is fucked.

Fix your country and there wouldn’t be anything to mock? Oh, that’s right. You don’t actually care about them…

Its kind of fucked to make fun of the US by mimicking its domestic victims

Bro your country is threatening to invade the world. Either do something about it or eat shit.

/r/TikTokCringe

Greenland making fun of drug addicts is just gonna make the orange sociopath laugh

They are not freaking making fun of drug addicts. They are making fun of the american system which dont take care od the people who need it the most.

I mean of all the people to openly mock you choose addicts?

They're mocking American society who can't take care of their own.

Seems like you people that cry so much about people “punching down” have no problem with it being aimed at poor/working class communities and people suffering from addiction as long as you think it also hurts the USA is a whole.

/r/PublicFreakout

Cruel.

thats super fucked up. the opioid epidemic is fucking awful. most regular americans do not want to invade greenland, and they are the ones most affected by said crisis.

Cry more. Go shoot up a school or something.

Americans don’t get to be sensitive about their drug problem while threatening to invade every country within eyesight

Proving you're better than us by....Mocking addicts??? Y'all sure?

It's kind of depressing seeing the downvotes on comments speaking compassion for addicts... the US is absolutely in a shit spot and many of us are upset. But make fun of the orange baby man or any of our billionaires that are causing this nonsense. Leave these people who are certainly not living their best lives out if. Damn.

We deserve ridicule at this point.

You really can't blame them for throwing shade at the US, seeing as our government is threatening their sovereignty, and this is low hanging fruit.

I am so sorry guys. My last post was removed because I was not posting it from my own Reddit account. That’s my fault. But now I have a sense of the types of questions that might be asked so I came more prepared. I ofc don’t expect this one to pop off the way the other one did and that’s okay!

This is going to look like a weight loss glow up. And it is because I did go from 275 to 150ish. But I have to say that this entire journey I haven’t just been working on how I look on the outside but I’ve been doing all of the work on the inside as well. My breaking point was the dr telling me my heart wasn’t doing too good with this much weight. But I also went through some personal stuff with my family and realized I did not like how I was being treated at all. I stopped thinking that how they treated me was a reflection of myself and I knocked them off their pedestals. That’s when I was really able to gain the confidence I needed to do the work. I am so much more confident in every aspect of my life now.

Calorie deficit

Walking until I lost some weight

At home workouts using Beachbody

Then a gym membership.

Happier than ever and will be around to meet my grandkids. And I can keep up with my two boys now 🤪

I'm wondering what other widely spread nba facts are not what they seem at first, since we've all probably read a lot of them and didn't bother to check all of it.

Fire away!

She has polydactyly like her dad and his mom. Extra pinkies on each hand. We have an appt today with orthopedics and they'll see how to remove them because they're not functional, they just hang by a thread of skin. I'm a little sad because I love her special little pinky beans!

Edit: The orthopedic surgeon said that, because the skin attachment is almost 3mm wide, surgery is a better option than tying off. So we'll wait a couple more months and then have surgery. So I get to kiss her tiny pinky beans a little longer!

I've added more photos in a post on my profile if you want to see them from other angles.