Absolutely not, this is not democracy. In a democracy, you would vote out the corrupt party and continue with your life.
This is a revolt, and it’s what happens when a government, of any kind, fails its people and also fails to provide them a means of legitimately changing the system.
Doubling down on repression to keep the current system is what leads to rebellion. Seems like the government has backed off, but the seeds are already there…
As is always the case, people don’t go out risking life and limb because they’re mildly inconvenienced, no matter how the broader media tries to paint it.
They do it because they’re being systematically deprived of the very last few footholds they have on survival, on an escape, on a way forward with their lives.
When you squeeze people so much, they have no option - if I’m going to starve to death as a slave, might as well cut out the long suffering and bring some of them down with me. That’s the general atmosphere here…
Yeah, I agree with all of your points.
I’m not American, but my understanding of the system is that the long term plan for the country isn’t meant to be set by the president, but by the legislature - passing laws and creating federal bodies that steer the country.
Instead, there’s absolutely no laws being agreed upon, only presidents that try to impose their view for a while until they’re replaced by whoever’s next who then breaks everything.
The courts are then thrown on to the spotlight and asked by the country to fill up a role who’s not actually theirs, and I don’t even want to go into the issues with appointment of judges.
Not that the system in China is any better, they just happen to have a guy who’s ruthless enough to hold onto power with no opposition, and seems to actually care about his country - but he isn’t gonna last for ever, and there’s zero guarantee that the power struggles after he’s gone won’t tear the country to shreds, or that the next up isn’t a fucked up moron like the orange…
The worrying part is that they kinda seem to be implementing good policies for (at least some of) their people.
There’s a lot of disturbing stuff, and probably a whole lot more that we don’t even know about, but social security, education, healthcare - my impression is that they’re going the right way, while the US looks eager to go back to the Dark ages.
Just with STEM degrees, they’re producing almost 5x more graduates than the US, and they’ve surpassed the number of doctorates a long time ago too.
The current world balance won’t hold one more generation.
Well played sir, well played.
Are they all your phones, or different house members? Can you “pool” your photos together?
We’ve been doing this with all our phones for a long time using nextcloud. I’d like to use a more photo-oriented app, but the last I tried it, it just wasn’t there yet.
Can’t rotate or do basic edits in web app, dead to me.
Also can’t really sync and share with rest of household. Auto sync to phones is also a must.
I was seriously unimpressed with its features, and I’m not bothering with it again anytime soon.
Bro looked at pillows, water mattresses and swimming pools, then decided that his house’s brick wall was the best option for banging his head against.
Sure, you didn’t have to pay extra for it, but the headaches are on you.
Despite the crazed wanna be dictator, Hungary has been in the EU and NATO for a couple of decades now.
But since Orban loves to suck putins balls, he probably will try to spin it as an attack on Hungarian energy sources and thus on EU itself.
Bullshit, but I’m sure he’ll try it.
Are you sure? I thought Denethor was one of the first Scottish High Stewards.
Does it still look like it’s from 1998?
It works very well for my light personal needs, but I find the UI to be an eyesore…
Hasn’t it always been in the news?
China goes and does something aggressive to push their right over a bit of sea, then the US (usually with a local ally alongside) cruise around for a bit to re-establish the status quo.
Seems like this has happened hundreds of times in the past, and they’re regularly in the news.
My best guess is that they didn’t want to go all the way (either a virgin, or no contraception available), but agreed to “fake it” by holding the dick between their closed thighs. Which was obviously a ruse, because Linux.
He doesn’t 1) install, 2) approves any bowl, 3) or should he. He can refuse to make bidet seats any time, but prefers wașiki seats instead.
He directly provides releases for Windows x64/ARM64, Linux x86_64/ARM32/ARM64 (in AppImage format), and macOS. He also explicitly forbids modifications, and since he considers “pre-configured settings” to be modifications, and this is basically barring any other distribution.
So while ultimately you’re right in that he doesn’t install it himself, he provides a super-simple “do it yourself” kit for people who live in apartments, while making anyone else who lives in a house have to assemble it from a million separate pieces themselves.
Note that I’m sympathetic, and I don’t know what the solution here is, but hopefully everyone figures it out…
My take on a better analogy:
The bidet maker is pissed because people complain to him that their bidet is leaking or has cracks. He’s annoyed at a distribution/installation company because they fumbled, so he’ll handle installation himself but only to the houses he approves.
Oh, and the bidets are free and nobody gets paid a cent.
I’m sorry to call you out, but I think you’re disregarding a valid point and establishing a false equivalence between this contraceptive method, and traditional hormone-based methods.
Please let me elaborate. This drug is not hormone-based. It works by blocking a receptor called “RAR-alpha” that exists in every cell’s nucleus, and it works as a switch that controls gene transcription - it determines what the cell eventually produces and does. The body chops up vitamin A and uses it to trigger this receptor, and we know that it plays a role in many different processes, from cell differentiation (including formation of the heart, nervous system, and white blood cells), to development (like the formation of limbs) and even cell death. Incidentally, it also plays a role in sperm production, which kinda makes sense because of how important it is for cell differentiation and development.
The body doesn’t produce a “blocker” for these receptors, which is the function that the drug in the study, YCT-529, performs. This actually mimics the loss of RARa signaling in a vitamin A deficiency, which unsurprisingly, causes fertility problems (among a host of other symptoms).
This is a different approach from “traditional” hormonal contraception, where the most common pills (progesterone only or progesterone-estrogen) activate the same receptors that the body usually activates (and this is what the person above you was referring to) - but in way that prevents the regular cycle from progressing. The fact that the body has these “natural levers” that regulate this process is the reason why birth-control pills have existed for decades - we just push those buttons harder (I’m not denying there are consequences to this, I’m just pointing out the buttons exist). There is no such mechanism for sperm production however, so scientists have been looking at all steps that lead to sperm being produced trying to find something they can block, and that hopefully won’t have terrible consequences elsewhere.
I 100% agree that calling either method “more complicated” or “more natural” or “easier" is wrong. But we cannot gloss over the fact that this drug is a compound that is novel to the human body, and that it works through mechanisms that we only have a limited understanding over, while the other is inherently less risky (because most of its effects are to mimic the body’s normal responses) and, at this time, much better understood.
Hopefully this will prove to be a very safe and effective drug, and that responsibility for contraception is equally divided because of it, but this needs to be proven first.
Also sorry for the wall of text, but it’s kinda in my ballpark so I sort of ran with it.
49% owned by Rosneft while another 49% are owned by “UCP” (Russia’s United Capital partners). Basically a 100% russian refinery in India…
I agree with you, it is multifactorial.
An additional aspect, IMO, is that Europeans in general are much better educated when it comes to driving rules and driving in general. Rigorous theoretical and practical exams, expensive mandatory classes, and actual enforcement that, not rarely, will take away a driver’s license for serious/repeated offenses. This causes people to approach driving as a privilege, not some god given right.
Anecdote time - I actually have a couple of American neighbors, they’re a couple in their late 60s/early 70s, probably. It pains me to see their gorgeous BMW X5 gaining new dents almost single time they go out with it… :(
To be honest, I’m confused about this too.
How are 40% of respondents being harassed at work for being intersex? How do people even find out?
Only about 30% of the people surveyed identify as cis, and around 15% describe their orientation as heterosexual, so I’m sure that they definitely face many of the same struggles that the LGBTQIA+ community faces as a whole.
But why would discrimination at large be decreasing, except for intersex people? Maybe they’re feeling more empowered to come out, and people don’t know how to react?
I would even expect, if anything, that bigots would be more understanding of someone for whom Nature made life “visibly” harder, but maybe I’m just naive.
In any case, it doesn’t seem like the study sheds enough light on this, hopefully more studies will follow so that we can find a way to do better.