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Or otherwise neutralised, yes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg2xyyj9w5o A second child has died from measles as an outbreak of the highly contagious virus continues to grow in western Texas. The school-aged child was not vaccinated, had no underlying health conditions and was in hospital suffering complications from measles, Aaron Davis, the vice-president of UMC Health System, told the BBC. US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has faced a backlash over his handling of the outbreak, visited Texas on Sunday in the wake of the death, which is the third overall in recent weeks. A virus is not susceptible to bargaining, prayer or one's denial of what scientifically works and doesn't work against it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz79ewg193ro Crowds of protesters gathered in cities across the US on Saturday to denounce President Trump, in the largest nationwide show of opposition since the president took office in January. The "Hands Off" protest planners aimed to hold rallies in 1,200 locations, including in all 50 US states. Hundreds of thousands of people turned out in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and Washington DC, among other cities. Protesters cited grievances with Trump's agenda ranging from social to economic issues. Coming days after Trump's announcement that the US would impose import tariffs on most countries around the world, gatherings were also held outside the US, including in London, Paris and Berlin. Not sure how much it'll amount to, but...

So much fallacious argument there. For one thing, as if Israel being a "democracy" and an "ally" (both subjects of debate in of themselves) makes any policy they share with, say, the Chinese, somehow palatable.

They view human (and other) life and dignity as a dispensable punchline and want as many other people as possible to feel that way too. Quite apart from being utterly morally abhorrent, it's also practically incompatible with any kind of future that doesn't involve horrific dystopia.

Yeah, but they're shit.

As are their crisps and most of their drinks products, hot or cold.

Never apologise. Never explain. Never admit fault.

In other news, mobile phone footage shows the IDF are full of it regarding the murder of emergency workers last week. Quelle surprise.

Likely so. However, that hasn't stopped the tariffs against other nations with (presumably) equally vital imports. I'm just going to apply Occams Razor here and go with the simplest explanation: that this current US administration considers the current Russian regime at least a potential friendly and an example to follow.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgkje35gd3eo.amp It would appear that the kind of political divides that we're seeing in the Anglosphere are not simply limited to there.

Still roughly 3 billion worth of goods last year, apparently. Not sure what specifically. https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia-and-eurasia/russia Edit: interesting blog article on the matter: https://www.russiamatters.org/blog/why-was-russia-spared-trumps-tariffs

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.