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Fair enough.
Be the change you want to see and all that.

I personally love the mad spelling, but I can understand that other folks don't.

They're old English letters used for writing the two different "th" sounds English has, which are fairly rare phonemes.

It's certainly simpler, I'll give you that.
It takes too much mental energy to read that document.

May I ask why at all?

There were forced historectomies women were made to undergo in ICE custody.

This is malinfornation and false[1](https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/27/judge-concludes-nbcs-allegations-of-mass-hysterectomies-by-doctor-at-ice-facility-were-false-may-have-been-knowingly-recklessly-false/)

The official bipartisan US government investigation put it at 2, your Reason link lists 1. So a long way from the "mass hysterectomies" that were the sensationalist claims made. You're right to push back on it.
There were still over 40 cases of invasive gynecological procedures done without consent, but it is not the claim made.

Fucking over people outside of the US is a short term strategy that means ever more people are waiting for a chance to take the US down.

Don't expect all the vassal nations to come to the US's aid, because the more bridges get burnt and the more the US looks like a hypocritical bully the more the fall will hurt when it comes.

You're absolutely correct.
I'd also add that while they exist, it is also with fewer food and water poverty/access issues compared to favelas since they're rural rather than urban spaces.

Thanks for the callout and link! 🙏🏽

Nature is fascinating.

Many of the comments being "penis worms!", but no one is asking about that Red blood is only in the "majority of vertebrates" leaves me wondering which vertebrates have what other colour(s) of blood.

Edit: I have been told that it's "Crocodile Icefish" (10 species of) and colourless.

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As someone has already pointed out, the election that Hitler did well in causing his appointment to Chancellor was one with a high abstention rate - especially from Communists and Socialist who chose moral purity over voting against Nazis.

You do you. But your crusade on others trying to hold off a second genocide against migrants of colour and LGBTQI people in the US doesn't seem the best outcome to me.

Unless you know a third candidate that won't persecute people in the US and will also end support for Israel.

I don't conflate voting for one of two options with consent or endorsement of all their actions.

This is why the whole system needs to change.

Can it be done before the next president's term starts? Unlikely, so maybe we need to hold our noses and vote against Netanyahu's preferred candidate.

There is a baseline of quality that is hard for a plucky individual to match outside of mono-medium media.

While it is possible for good video games to be produced by a single indivudal or very small team, it is a lot of work on their part and hard to do if worried about paying for food, rent, etc.

Filmic media (is there a good noun that joins movies and fiction TV shows as a unified object?), a solid level of difficulty above that.

Or maybe in a post-modern world we use (mostly empty) signifiers to give ourselves meaning and show allegiance to a subculture.

Its why we pepper our speech with allusions and cultural in-jokes - but where in the past they were tied to more concrete ideology, now they are simply signs that one has consumed the same media as someone. And the existing signifiers have more cultural clout than new ones, except to signify an interest in non-mainstream cultural products.
For the self has become simply a vessel for consumption. There is nothing beyond the consumption of product.
Especially as public allegiance to a non-neoliberal ideology is seen as uncivil. Unsurprisingly more peaceful Left-wing ideologies less civil and more incorrect that violent far Right ones, because the Left will always be more critical of consumption as the purpose of life.

Despite being wrong, Fukuyama's inflammatory title has polluted the mind of the Anglophone and European cultural zone.