That is a smart, objective, and academic approach.

Just curious - what are your primary sources?

Classic Catholic sources or like more stuff from the left hand path itself? Or both?

lol

In 42 minutes on Tuesday, Adebayo shot 20-for-43 from the floor, 7-for-22 from 3-point range and 36-for-43 at the free-throw line. He also grabbed nine rebounds.

They let bro throw up 22 shots from 3 even though he was hitting them down less than a third of the time.

FYI, the activist who spoke against the drag story hour for kids and took his own life, was actually a young gay Australian.

https://x.com/i/status/1641768457761898498

I would just say Tucker is criticizing Western power projection globally and has become an isolationist.

Right, I wish you didn’t blocik me, though, because part of my gig is posting stuff from a diversity of sources since my philosophy is that I make myself more immune to bias through diveristy…

God I hate stuff like this so much.

So much.

This is a horrible wy to rob people, of course, but for the love of everything RIGHT in this world… Rob them with an unloaded gun. And if it has to get physical, hit them with a blunt object or something, I mean… this i sall just so horrible.

Basically… Do ANYTHING & EVERYTHING to avoid permanently ending someone’s life over money. It’s sickening.

A hardworking electrician doing something nice for his teen daughter and himself are now just dead over a few hundred bucks because someone thinks you can just roll like that. Disgusting.

… I read news like this a lot, but often times the lurid details of murders do not phase me as much as these very normal murders over the most trivial of things, with he most unsuspecting & innocent victims.

To be completely fair…

They cite their sources - the Doctor in question is quoted on a different website saying the same thing more explicitly:

Based in Geneva, GCERF is an international foundation that works with governments and communities to prevent violent extremism.

“Now what happens [is] that a lot of young boys are being misused by the women who are there to get them pregnant, and to continue with the line of the caliphate,” she told Rudaw on Friday, referring to the camp in northeastern Syria, where tens of thousands of women and children are housed.

“There are a lot of pregnant women. There are a lot of babies. And these young boys of 12, 13, 14, 15 are being sexually abused in order to maintain the line of the caliphates. This is the biggest child abuse that one can imagine.”

Rudaw.net

Chat GPT summarizes it as:

It’s a legitimate and established Kurdish news website.

It’s widely used for information about Kurdistan and regional politics.

Like most news sources in politically complex regions, readers should be aware of potential political bias.

I agree with criticizing the war if it is purely about geopolitics.

Btu we also have to think of the perspectives of the Iranian people and the Iranian diaspora.

Well, we would have to make the case that the transperson was actually treated poorly. We have it sounding like she cautioned her against it and felt some amount of discomfort based on past trauma.

It also sounds like a very nominal amount of money - $200 is small beans for any kind of rent, even in subpar facilities.

I do see your point, though…

But imagine charging some poor woman in a trailer park $10k in fines after she said these things that are very tepid criticisms.

right, I totally get what you are saying, but the amount of people in the diaspora desperate for regime chang and desiring freedom, not continued life under an autocratic theocratic regime, is through the roof. It is also the same that the protest movement is huge in Iran.

If we were to view this solely through the lens of diplomacy, I would agree with you, but I am seeing it more broadly.

I thought we were looking at a scenario where there would likely be no war but the division between conservative/liberal media on this is pretty stark.

I still don’t really know what will happen.

Could go either way.

Lol I switched teams at work for administrative reasons only. I don’t interact with 98% of the work my team does but rather everything I do is just on me…

And the new team is wonderful but they were like “We gotta add you to the email list.”

I used to only get emails relevant to me. Like thirty to fifty emails a week. Now I get about 200 to 300 a day. Of course I configured my inbox so I basically don’t see them, but I still get new emails from people outside the company added to the list.

All very good people, heed you, better than my last team in most ways, but also determined to fill my inbox.

This is one of the most INSANE videos I’ve seen

Mexican cartel members tossing granades inside of a supermarket full of people

Mexico 🇲🇽 needs a Bukele style president, and needs it now

Vid on X: https://x.com/hispanicnomad/status/2025718508315636100

.,… That is a really wild stat!

I assume this happened so they can be bargaining chips in any negotiation and put pressure on the West to negotiate.

Their culture isn’t any more homogenous than US culture. What you probably mean is they are racially homogenous, but it would be bad to imply that is superior.

This is not accurate. Of course, regional differences are pronounced - it is not just the Kanzai that are distinct from greater Japan, but even within Kanzai the people of Kyoto represent a more traditional culture that is honor and prestige based while the people of Osaka tend to be direct, forthright, more hot-blooded and more expressive. Many say this is due to the traditional character of the cities - Osaka being highly mercantile and Kyoto being the traditional capital.

Yet, they are all Japanese, they have the same reference points, they have the same greater interests and cultural values, the same strange mix of Buddhism and Shintoism into a sort of national religion, and they have the same reference points within their political philosophies.

They are highly homogeneous.

I could talk all day about the regional differences and the socioeconomic classes within Korea, but still, there is cultural homogeneity.

Oddly enough, here it would be the center left that is even more inclined than the center right towards preserving this homogeneity and more expressive of a quiet ethnonationalism. Even the hard left seems inclined towards these views in the classic sense due to the influence of the North Korean communist narrative.

Japanese trains were state owned until 1987. Once the majority of the tracks were laid (the expensive part), they handed it over for private management.

Another important element to Japans succes is that after WW2 they were banned from building a military which freed up a lot of money for social programs.

Sure, and half of the Seoul metro train tracks - or a bit more, IDK - are privately operated.

But yeah, the military spending is not a factor, but this is certainly true. The Europeans have tremendous welfare states because they have neglectedl military spending, and now they are FINDING OUT.

However, this is irrelevant to the NYC/Tokyo dichotomy.

I think most people would point out their successful, homogeneous culture, and maybe even that they are quite Capitalist in other ways.

The subways there are also private (or largely private, I am not entirely sure).

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This is invariably how it ends up.