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Fair to say.

Apparently.

Nah, what the supposed moral code inflicted by all parts of the Abrahamic religions on society has itself inflicted... ... you're right, we really shouldn't have that conversation.

... in the UK, a country with less than 1% of the world's population, and a proportion of that smaller percentage having some form of an investment account, yes. I stand by what I said.

... to that minority of people lucky enough to have the capital to invest and know the timing and the market, certainly.

No disagreement here either. The problem is complex, but finding the solution is a critical part of advancing forward as a society. NB. I'm reasonably sure that those in the past had issues with depression and other forms of mental atypicality, it just wasn't talked about as much or simply dismissed. They certainly had every reason to be depressed about their lives, given how hard almost all of them must have had it by comparison to today.

I don't doubt it. But I would draw attention to the "statistically significant" part of my last post. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I'm reasonably sure that throughout the history and present time that they've been disenfranchised, quite a lot less women proportionally have turned to forms of violence against other people as an attempt to sort those problems out than blokes. If it weren't the case, the history books would run far more red with such incidents than they already do.

The failure of the deficit model of communication highlighted very well there, yes.

It certainly doesn't have to be a zero sum game. Look after both boys and girls while making sure that those that want the old bigotries to return (because yes, that is a big problem right now) are neutralised. Interesting, really: there's a lot of debate about whether economic problems feed into social ones, or vice versa, or both. My take on that one is that it's bloody difficult to know and each situation is different. I will say this though; when was the last time there was a statistically significant number of girls who engaged in mass violence towards their peer group because of matters like this? That's another facet of it for me; again, purely opinion, but the decision making of blokes when it comes to a lot of things tends to me much more consequential towards other people, if that's a halfway decent way of expressing it.

So much winning.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5yrpvggyyet South Korea's constitutional court has unanimously voted to uphold the impeachment of president Yoon Suk Yeol. Took a bit longer than expected/desired, but the right result in the end. Note to other nations currently dealing with highly misogynist and seemingly autocratic leaders; this (for the most part) is how you deal with it. It may be yet, Song-nim. It may be yet.

Following the decision to place tariffs on McDonald Island, not far off Antarctica:

The good thing about autocrats is that they get things done. The bad thing about autocrats is that they get things done.

The problem is that what starts out with legitimate concerns like this is appearing to end with figures in very high places saying - and working towards - the viewpoint that women should be considered homebound chattel of men without consent, as they have been in a great many "traditional" cultures and which many people have fought and died to overcome. That's not hyperbole either - the slippery slope is real, and provable.

I will say one thing: this current US administration has managed to do more for (mostly) global unity than any other in recent times. It's just a shame the cost will likely be the biggest global player sitting out while the rest of the world attempts to face the problems that need to be faced.

Yeah, he and his want The Gilded Age back. Socially as well as economically, in all its rather dubious glory.

Exactly. With all the associated price rises for American consumers that will result from such upheaval.

The usual media suspects lining up to downplay the effects of these tariffs on the UK and that a "deal is possible" with this administration. How more plainly obviously self interested do Trump and his lackeys need to be, so as if such a deal with him and them is even desirable. He'll likely be thinking of this as a massive opportunity to eat into more of the US advantage as the leading world power, and calling lots of other world leaders to work to that effect.

Bloody sects maniacs.

Look up the Quiverfull movement, if you dare. The above being 100% accurate (more's the pity) being said, there is however still time to stop the most damaging aspects of the discussed ideology from being felt in a great many places.

The issues it highlights are, sad to say, very real, have a tangible cost and need to be highlighted in schools and wherever else would be useful. Of course, a direct fact based documentary might be better for that purpose, but that's difficult to gauge.

https://www.midlandsmovies.com/a-batman-premiere-forever-in-leicester-hearts Yep. RIP Val.

And in other news, Cory Booker is starting to stand up and be recognised again. Maybe he can make a better tilt at the White House in around four years time.

On the recent discussed topic of population change: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ypdy05jl9o The US couple, aged 37 and 38, ardently believe that the world needs to have more babies or risk civilisational collapse. They have become the poster children for pronatalism, a movement that believes falling birth rates are a big problem for society. And that big families are the answer. ... these people do realise that the Earths resources are finite and that while population slowdown risks a lot of problems, continual population increase guarantees the exact civilisational collapse they fear, right? Another "would be hilarious were the beliefs not so sincere and the consequences not so dire" moment.

...or you can go for whatever you can and try not to make the perfect the enemy of the good.