lol

Pog? Person other than grunt?

This part is also hilarious:

On a Tuesday evening at a community centre in a quiet corner of Beckton, east London, more than 175 people have gathered for an event.

Some have travelled from as far as South Wales, Birmingham and Oxford to attend a meeting organised by Worcester LGBT, which describes itself as a support group for gay and lesbian asylum seekers.

The group’s website says that only genuine gay asylum seekers are welcome.

But the men spilling out from the centre’s doors onto the pavement outside readily admit to our undercover reporter that all is not as it seems.

“Most of the people here are not gays,” one man called Fahar says.

Another, who gives the name Zeeshan, goes further.

“Nobody is a gay here. Not even 1% are gay. Not even 0.01% are gay.”

…

With the conversation having now switched to Urdu, she appeared much more enthusiastic about helping our reporter stay in the country, discussing how he could apply for asylum on the grounds that he’s gay.

When he told her that he wasn’t gay, she told him: “Listen to me. There is nobody who is real. There is only one way out in order to live here now and that is the very method everyone is adopting.”

She would not be drawn on who had passed her his number, but we were able to match her WhatsApp profile picture and first name to Tanisa Khan, who works as an adviser to Worcester LGBT.

Right - I would actually point out that very authoritarian states tend to have more crazy fissures in power than democratic ones since there is not really a normal means of settlement dispute and the government already has very little legitimacy.

So, the situation can be a lot more complex than you see on the surface even if there is not much in terms of meaningful change.

That is what I heard but I believe it is the case that since juveniles were involved (and migrants) that the SPanish government just is not offering up much information.

I do not really enjoy this characterization of the father - you are describing him as trying to prevent her death due to his hyper religiosity. Rather, most normal people, even without religion, would try to do this, and the religious values in Christianity are reflective of the parental love for their children, IMO.

Nonetheless, I do appreciate your commentary under the article.

Frankly, I am just curious as to more details about the crime to try to understand the sentencing… Haven’t gotten around to poking around yet…

But that is my main concern on the quality of journalism.

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.