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Isn’t the US as capable?

From what I've heard they wouldn't be completely uncompetitive the issue is they don't bother to do the necessary tracking: The US government introduced a domestic scheme to label GMO and hormone-free beef but their customers don't care so the industry doesn't care so noone participates so they don't have the certs to export to the EU.

I only see women being pushed into places with traditionally male majority, but not men being pushed into places with traditional female majority.

As a positive counter-example, I'd like to give a shoutout to German childcare. In 2022, 17.9% of under 20yolds, 12,6% of under 30yold childcare professionals were men, contrast with 2% among 60 and older. There's been an active effort both from the professional organisations as well as operators to increase the ratio, right-out masterplanned it, and they're making strides. As a side-effect: Plenty of young female childcare workers now don't feel weird at all about wrestling with the boys. Not that "boys need movement because their gross motor skills develop before fine motor skills" was unknown back in my days but the vibe was either "grandma watching you build wood block towers" or "grandma watching you at the playground".

There's three aspects to this: They recognised that "women know better than men when it comes to childcare" is BS and recognition was given to masculine styles of parenting, with that the pattern of dealing with the few men that were in the field by "promoting them out of sight", that is, into administration, was abolished, and finally an active push to advertise the job to men.

Not sure whether the ratio will ever reach 50:50 or whether that's even important at all, stabilising at 1/3rd or such would be plenty to ensure that things are even-keeled. If you rather become a construction worker I'm not going to tell you to go into childcare instead, and vice versa, not everything that's not 50:50 is due to gatekeeping. Women aren't going to become saturation divers en masse, and that's fine.

Masculine influencer. Another masculine influencer. Not going for "male influencer" here that's just the top of my head list of people who a) happen to end up in my youtube feed and b) look really cool to pubescent boys. Silverback energy: Big, strong, just, kind.

What were the residents of Moura guilty of? Answer.

Jihadis came in, enforced their perverse interpretation of Islam, Sharia courts, dress codes, the lot. Then Wagner+Mali army came, first stomped the Jihadis, then Wagner moved on to rape the locals. Mali army looked on for a while, then stepped in and said "Ok Russians, that's enough, stop it", and it stopped.

That doesn't happen with French forces, you don't have to tell French forces to stop torturing and raping the local civilians, and they also won't tell you that it's a valuable strategy of war. And that's why there's going to be another putsch because as fucked-up as the Mali military is they're not inherently cruel. They just have no idea of how to achieve stability, and were dissatisfied by the progress of the French -- but seeing the Russians, yep, the French are very much preferable. Or ask Nigeria for help instead. China if you can convince them, that'd certainly be interesting. Anyone, but not Russia.

Because you know what? You don't win the hearts and minds of the people if your reputation is even worse than that of the Jihadis. Say what you want about Al Qaeda but they're not as bad as ISIS or Wagner, they do have a sense of decency. A very twisted one, but it exists.

Don't be a Jihadi? Don't try to force your way onto others trying to establish a Caliphate? Are you seriously taking the side of Al fucking Qaeda here.

How do you explain Wagner's actions to the survivors of Moura. "Don't be a civilian?"

Detainees were subjected to torture and other ill-treatment during questioning, and dozens of women and girls were raped or subjected to other forms of sexual violence, the report claims. In one instance, soldiers brought bedding from a house, placed it under trees in the garden, and took turns raping women they had forced there.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg, most of the atrocities don't get investigated at all due to the fucked-up overall situation. It's all Wagner MO though.

And... where's the revolt? Did you read your source? Did you even check the date? What it said about the opinion of the Mali military?

As said: The French left once uninvited by the government. Who are Putschists but meh that's usual down there, and not likely to change without a prolonged period of stability. I do expect another Putsch to come in soonish as they're not getting things handled either, as said Wagner is often worse than the Jihadis, and on top of that Russia is way overextended as it is. Won't take long until they can't supply their goons down there.

Did you, btw, read up on Russia's media campaign down there. The French are arrogant, no doubt, but that's different from wanting to rule the area or wishing it ill. What you can legitimately blame them for is a disinterest in building up those states, training their militaries, enable them to secure their own territory on their own. Russia saw an opening for its actually colonial ambitions and went for it.

By the end, the Sahel states were in full revolt against French occupation.

There a) was no occupation and b) not even the Putschists were in "full revolt".

You seem to think dropping 200 lb bombs on a city to wipe whole neighborhoods off the map constitutes “throwing down”

You seem to be talking about the Russian main forces (which aren't in the Sahel), not France. Heck, Americans, but again, not France. France drops training ammunition instead of actual bombs on Hilluxes and when Americans make fun of them ("they ran out of ammo") the French shrug and say "Concrete slabs are perfectly sufficient for pickup trucks". It's baked into their core doctrine, they supply their troops with what is necessary, but not more, because they want them to be audacious.

Are you referring to the Bounti airstrike? Like in you strg+f "controversial" and found something? Then just assumed the 200lb and "whole neighbourhoods"? This is Bounti.

Map (Int, Int) Int. Kind of a bad example because tuples have special-case infix syntax, the general case would be Map Int (Either Int Bool). Follows the same exact syntax as function application just that types (by enforced convention) start upper case. Modulo technical wibbles to ensure that type inference is possible you can consider type constructors to be functions from types to types.

...function application syntax is a story in itself in Haskell because foo a b c gets desugared to (((foo a) b) c): There's only one-argument functions. If you want to have more arguments, accept an argument and return a function that accepts yet another argument. Then hide all that under syntactic sugar so that it looks innocent. And, of course, optimise it away when compiling. Thus you can write stuff like map (+5) xs in Haskell while other languages need the equivalent of map (\x -> x + 5) xs (imagine the \ is a lambda symbol).

T-shirts mit Polyesternähten landen eher seltener auf Stränden. Die hat sich die EU angeguckt und das gemacht was man schnell und günstig machen kann, damit die Strände sauberer werden. Nicht alles muss immer gleich die komplette Welt retten.

Das hat nichts mit Symbolpolitik zu tun. Die haben ne Studie gemacht "was liegt auf den Stränden rum" und sind dann die Liste durchgegangen was man denn effektiv vermeiden kann und Deckel ohne Flaschen, ja die kann man vermeiden, und das sogar ohne den Firmen wirklich Mehrkosten zu bescheren: Die neuen Deckel sind nicht teurer und die Umrüstkosten minimal.

Kippen sind auch möglich aber wohl eher in Richtung Filter müssen kompostierbar sein. Zumindestens zum Selberdrehen gibt's die, weiß nicht wie das mit der großindustriellen Verfügbarkeit ist. Schwieriger wird's bei Fischnetzen, Tauen, usw. natûrlich gibt's Seil auch aus Hanf aber das hat schon seinen Grund warum die nicht mehr verwendet werden.

Tho’ it is hard – the earthly load,
The Cart is easy in its move,
The reckless couch-time, on road,
Will not get of his bench above.

In early morn we take our places;
We glad to break our empty head,
And leaving leisure for the races,
We cry, “Go on, you idler, damned!”

At noon, our bravery’s diminished;
We have been tossed and more afraid
Of slopes, steep, and ravines, peevish,
And cry, “Be easier, you, brat!”

The cart rolls in the former fashion,
By evening, we have used to it,
Wait for night lodgings, doze, patient, –
And Time tends horses to full speed.

-- Pushkin, "The cart of life", translated by Yevgeny Bonver

tl;dr it doesn't really matter the cart keeps on racing until it crashes. And then they Slav it back up and it keeps on racing. Nobody knows who or what the fuck actually holds the reigns. Also that "go on, you ildler, damned" does not give the profanity used in the original credit. Like, not even close. English isn't capable of it.

Pray tell, how many times without explicit invitation/request by local government?

Because last I checked when the Sahel states wanted them gone they packed up and left. And then things went to shit quite quickly: In some areas Wagner has an even worse reputation among the civilian population than Jihadis (now that is an achievement), and figures because Wagner is not there to fix anything but to make money by "protecting" natural resources they don't care much about fighting the Jihadis, either. France never shied away from throwing down with them, where they were reluctant is stomping Tuaregs, instead opting for endless negotiations and mediating. Which is perfectly sensible because the Tuareg are sane, they want stuff like autonomy within their regions, not massacre people.