Yen = Japanese currency

Yuan = Chinese currency (aka renminbi)

Or threads.

Aren’t we all blocking US federal departments from our feeds as far right spam these days? No? Just me?

We just went snorkeling with stingrays in the Bahamas, and they had the same thing happen. The enclosure was only females, and yet one of them has gotten pregnant.

I assumed she was pregnant when the put them in the enclosure and they didn’t know it? Or that they weren’t as good at distinguishing male/female as they thought they were.

But you know, maybe there are some cool optional hermaphroditic traits in sting rays that biologists are just currently unaware of.

There’s no lasting change that can be effected by a one person act of terrorism. It takes mass organization, and people will have to be desperate. In this case, it might take civil war.

As an American who despises the administration and how we’re treating our allies, I agree with you. There’s no point in apologizing or trying to save face or whatever. This country needs to eat bags of dicks until they finally suffer enough to quit doing the same stupid ass shit.

Please stop sending help. Please stop acting like we’re still normal. Until Trump and enough of his supporters get beaten in the face with the consequences of their actions, they will not stop.

We stopped educating everyone with less money than the average middle class. You cannot reason with them because 1) they struggle with logic, and 2) they accept wholesale, without question, the utter lies and propaganda of the monied right-wing. They will simply have to learn the hard way, by suffering.

Gawd I love this meme.

The US is lying through their teeth about Iran, but Iran is hardly a communist government. They’re a theocratic authoritarian regime. There is no diversification of power in their government. Roles and responsibilities may be delegated out, but ultimate authority rests with the Ayatollah.

If the men are also covering their hair (which is true of some middle eastern societies like the Berber people, traditional Qatari clothing, traditional Saudi clothing, etc, and Sikhs), then it’s not specifically ostracizing women in a society. But that is not true of traditional Muslim face coverings for women. And while I agree that there are plenty of sexist practices in Western society meant to hold women in their place, that hardly excuses the sexism practiced in much (not all) of modern Islam. Two things can be wrong.

To be clear, I think the homes being made fun of in the original picture were supposed to be Western homes. They certainly look like many subdivisions in the US.

I haven’t actually seen propaganda about Soviet housing. The pictures you posted just look like the poorer areas of any western city. We stayed in La Mina (on accident) when we visited Barcelona. Your pictures look better than La Mina!

I don’t know about Tokyo or what the options really are for raising kids in Japan. But I think (I’ll join you here with spewing opinion/ conjecture everywhere) in the US a lot of people intentionally leave cities once they decide to have kids. When you are a young professional in your 20s, it’s still very popular to live in dense urban centers, but then as you get married and start having kids, the vast majority of people move out to the suburbs or more rural areas. Now, obviously this is a privileged class of people, and maybe there are different trends in socioeconomic classes above and below them. And perhaps they move out of the city for other reasons (the price of housing, the quality of schools, etc), but I think access to nature also plays a part. But I say this as a girl scout troop leader, so I’m definitely biased.

On the one hand, I guess it’s a more efficient packing of people into urban areas than having large green spaces. On the other hand, it’s fucking depressing, and I think kids miss something in childhood without psuedo wild spaces to go explore alone.

But how much can you really trust Spanish Leonardo DiCaprio?

If Fox News reported on it, they would switch news providers. And if there were no news providers castigating the Iranian people, then they would revert to their “liberal media lies to us” belief system. The ignorance is willful.

My MAGA relatives called for the extermination of all the Somalians in Minnesota at Easter. I don’t think benefit of the doubt that people just don’t KNOW about the suffering of the Iranians is really justified. If they don’t know, it’s because they don’t care or don’t want to care.

Fair enough. Just the other day I was off the same mind as you, relieved that the Tesla Cybertruck owners in my area were plastering themselves with a giant sign of their assholery.

Honestly? Take it with you. Stop the spread.

Don’t worry, there are literally startups, and Elon Musk, working right now to block sunlight from you and sell it back to you.

This reminds me, did anyone ever figure out how to watch No Other Land in the US? How can I find it?

“Murdering each other is against our nature”

Nope. Genocide has always been with us. Where do you think all the other types of humans went?

A stable anarchy can’t exist as long as people are still thinking in terms of using each other as resources for their own interests.

FTFY. No point in pining for a social order fundamentally incompatible with human nature.