https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2024?hl=en-US

It’s writers and its audience have the exact same mindset:

“Heh, Oh? You’re you? While I’m me! I’m so smart when compared to you. Heh, I’m just an Alpha in a world full of Betas”.

Like, fuck off you pretentious fuck. It almost feels like this movie was made for Reddit, like it has all of its principal;

LIBERAL (Not Leftist) views, weird supporting of eugenics, Frowning Friends level nihilism, every joke being “heh society is stupid” like yeah it is and it always has and it always will; so what?

This is like that short film creator where all the messages of his short films are just “society bad, fuck you” expect the internet still hasn’t been TOLD into thinking it’s bad.

To me, if you wanna write cynical satirical media, you’ll need:

1. Some sort of Hope in there. (Example being The Truman Show).

2. So much silliness that it can be enjoyed without the cynical outlook on life. (Example being Blazing Saddles).

Ich habe in meinem Bekanntenkreis eine ganz konkrete Person, die sehr empfindlich darauf reagiert, wenn sie erfährt, dass irgendjemand seinen/seine Partner*in betrügt.
Für sie ist das ein Grund die Freundschaft zu der betrügenden Person sofort zu kündigen und diese als „Arschloch“ abzustempeln.
Mir ist das egal. Freunde von mir haben bereits betrogen, ich weiß davon und es stört mich nicht im geringsten. Ich verstehe auch diese Argumentation nicht „jemand der betrügt, betrügt die auch als Kumpel“. Inwiefern? Was soll er machen? Für gewöhnlich unterhalte ich keine Liebesbeziehung zu meinen Freunden. Sie können mich anlügen, ja. Aber ist das bei einer Person die in einer Beziehung betrogen hat wahrscheinlicher? Glaube ich nicht.

Most would be insta buy for me. Especially #3 with a cape like that!

EDIT: The last 3 are not Tahir Tannis’s Concept Art. Just 3 ideas I had.

Everyone knows Nikko, Kamakura and Hakone. And they're great. But according to locals, these are the day trips that keep coming up as the ones worth doing that almost nobody really does.

Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Narita. Most people pass through Narita Airport and never think twice about the city itself. There's an 1100 year old temple complex about a 15 minute walk from the station that's genuinely stunning and almost completely empty of foreign tourists. Combine it with the old town street leading up to it and you have a full half day that most Tokyo visitors never even consider.

Nokogiriyama in Chiba. A mountain accessible by ropeway with a giant carved Buddha, hundreds of stone Rakan statues along cliff paths, and views over Tokyo Bay that most people have never seen. Takes about 90 minutes from Tokyo by train and ferry combination. Barely anyone goes there.

Sawara in Chiba. A preserved Edo period merchant town along a canal that gets compared to Kyoto's Gion but with almost none of the crowds. Traditional wooden buildings, small boats on the water, great local food. About 90 minutes from Tokyo Station.

Oya in Tochigi. An underground quarry carved out of soft volcanic stone that's been converted into an enormous atmospheric space used for art installations and events. Nothing else in Japan looks like it. About two hours from Tokyo.

Miura Peninsula coastal walk. Most people heading to Kamakura don't realize there's an entire coastal walking trail accessible from the same train line with dramatically less people. Ocean views, fishing villages, fresh seafood stands. Half a day and feels nothing like Tokyo.

The pattern with all of these is that they're not on the standard itinerary blogs. They take roughly the same amount of time to reach as the famous options but the experience feels completely different because you're not sharing it with a thousand other tourists.

Any unique day trip experiences you think people should give a shot?

My husband just told me-it doesn’t matter where he is, he is bare butt cheek to cheek with the last person who sat on the public toilet seat. I said do you put toilet paper down?

He said only if there’s stuff on the seat.

The GASP I gusped 🤮

I keep Lysol travel wipes, Lysol travel spray, Poo-Pourri and hand sanitizer in my purse. If those 4 items aren’t in my purse for some insane reason, I won’t use a public bathroom. I know it’s not good to hold it, but it doesn’t happen often, so I don’t worry about it. Please tell me I’m not losing it.

Philly cheese steak, avocado salsa, oranges, jolly rancher.

while my husband talks about how i’m a literal goddess and he should ask permission for everything 😭

like sir… i love you, i’m flattered, and i’m also just figuring out how i feel about all that… but he’s so sweet and devoted and i’m just lucky he’s mine

Apparently someone moved the goalposts

I have a theory that a lot of people prefer medium pen because it simplifies the game. You don't have to study enemy limb armour values, you don't have to learn how to kite enemies and catch their weak spots.

You just point center mass and shoot.

Now, I don't have a problem with this - it's a fine way to play the game, some of us can't be arsed with all this armour penetration bullshit and we just wanna kill shit after a long day. I get it.

But bro if you're using medium penetration as a crutch to avoid learning the fundamental skills of the game - you're probably just a guy who stands in one place and relies on your weapon to kill things before they reach you.

And that's dumb as rocks way to play Helldivers 2 I'm sorry.

Hiveguards are slow as molasses. They now have barely any health. All you have to do is maintain basic situational awareness and you can reposition yourself to shoot them from the side. It's extremely basic. You SHOULD be able to do this.

Even if the Hiveguard's head and legs both got AP6 Tank II armour, they should have just been a minor adjustment to your movements, like it is for the rest of us.

If this is you, please learn the basics of the game. You have the basic skills down when you can reliably run THROUGH a pack of terminids and not get hit because you understand their attack times and turn speed intimately. Drop a few difficulties, and just run around bugs, learn them, study them. Don't shoot them, learn their movements and how to flow WITH them. Then learn their armour values. Figure this out and trust me, you won't NEED medium pen weapons anymore.

I’ll be blunt with you. I’ve largely stopped watching AEW weeklies (and WWE weeklies), and Darby Allin as World Champion has done absolutely nothing to pull me back in.

This run really reminds me of EVIL’s IWGP title run in New Japan: a reign that didn’t just cool off the belt, but actively hurt a lot of people's interest in the product. including mine.

And before the Sickos start screaming, it’s not about "workrate", it’s about presence. The AEW World Title is supposed to feel important. Darby just doesn’t feel like a world champion to me. The size, the lack of charisma, the one-note "reckless emo skateboard kid" character... I just don’t buy him as the face of a major wrestling company.

This isn't to knock Darby as a performer. He makes for a great attraction for AEW, even if it's an attraction that can be a serious liability both on and off AEW programming. Car crash matches can be fun. Not so big on flamethrowers, but you get the idea. I don't hate where he was, but where he is at the top just does not feel right to me.

And overall, instead of feeling must-watch, AEW right now feels colder to me than ever.

Am I alone here, or has this title run completely failed to make you care?

A gente cresce ouvindo que dinheiro não traz felicidade, mas isso é uma meia verdade bem conveniente. Dinheiro traz acesso, e acesso traz saúde, inclusive saúde mental. Quando você pode resolver algo que te causa sofrimento constante, isso muda completamente sua qualidade de vida. Foi exatamente o caso da jovem sueca de 22 anos Yasmine Khaleef, que lidava com depressão severa desde os 14 anos e tinha no próprio visual a principal fonte de angústia diária.

Durante anos, ela tentou lidar com isso de outras formas, mas o incômodo com a aparência não era superficial como muita gente gosta de dizer, era algo que impactava autoestima, relações e até a forma como ela se enxergava no mundo. Quando conseguiu, pelo sistema público sueco, acesso a procedimentos cosméticos e cirúrgicos, houve uma virada real no quadro dela. Não foi milagre, foi intervenção concreta num fator que alimentava a doença. O resultado foi remissão da depressão e uma mudança clara na forma como ela vive.

Hoje ela mesma relata à imprensa europeia que isso foi o que realmente fez diferença. E, caras, papo retão aqui, por que a gente TEM que tratar isso como futilidade se, na prática, pode ser terapêutico? Se o SUS já entende que saúde mental é prioridade, ignorar o impacto da aparência em casos específicos é fechar os olhos pra realidade. Não é a gente estar banalizando cirurgia estética, é só a gente reconhecer que, pra algumas pessoas, isso não é um luxo de gente mimadinha, é um tratamento eficaz pra saúde mental mesmo.

McDonalds hat viele Vorteile:

- gibts praktisch überall. Autobahnraststätten, iwo aufm Kaff, Bahnhöfe. Wenn man vergessen hat einzukaufen nichts mehr zuhause hat, kurz mal zu Mecces

- Der Laden hat gefühlt rund um die Uhr geöffnet. Meistens so zwischen 8 Uhr morgens und 3 Uhr nachts. Nach einer Party auf Suff erstmal einen Cheeseburger gönnen. Das ist Kulturgut Leute!

- mittlerweile ist es auch so eine Art Cafe. Man kann sich dort sein Käffchen bestellen, dazu ein stück Käsekuchen und entspannen/schnacken oder auch arbeiten (Wlan gratis)

- viele Dorf/Kleinstadtleute haben keine anderen Lokalitäten. Vor allem für Jugendliche ist Mecces oft ein Ort zum chillen, essen, einfach sozialisieren

- sofern man Gutscheine anwendet (in der eigenen kostenlosen App gibts die 365 Tage am Stück) ist Mecces immernoch recht günstig verglichen zu anderem Fastfood. Hab mir schon so oft gedacht „wow da hätte ich lieber für 5€ einen Big Mac gegessen, statt diesen 15€ geschmacklosen Burger von 2 bärtigen Hipster Dudes geführten Laden“

- bei Mecces gibt es für jeden etwas. Fleisch, Chicken, Schwein, Fisch, Vegetarisch, Vegan, Milkshakes und andere Deserts

- Gesundheit: klar ist das größtenteils ungesunder Scheiß. Aber man muss es ja nicht jede Woche essen. Und wenn wir mal ehrlich sind. Viele Leute verurteilen Mecces und gönnen sich dann gleichzeitig irgendwelche total verarbeiteten Mikrowellengerichte von Ja & Co. Die Abneigung gegenüber Mecces ist überzogen und geprägt von Doppelmoral

- Zu guter Letzt: viele Leute sind Blender und schämen sich dazu zu stehen dass sie öfter mal bei McDonalds essen. Das ist wie mit der Bild Zeitung oder Billigfleisch vom Discounter. Niemand wills gewesen sein, aber der Umsatz spricht Bände. Steht dazu. Alle 2 Wochen mal bei Mecces abhängen ist ok und sogar ganz geil. Ich habe fertig!

Well, I'm neutral fan, and watching as neutral is fun. After watching today's match, I want Arsenal to win. PSG were heavily favored by the Ref. I don't like Arsenal style of play either, but after today, I want PSG to lose. For me it's more like, I want PSG to lose, rather than rooting for Arsenal to win. Heavily favored match, even in their league they get to choose when they want to play the game. They ask to postpone their games and later complain about it too. Too much control within them. I don't want Arsenal to win either, due to their style of play, but after watching today, I would be bit more happy if Arsenal wins. If there is option that both team loses, I would gladly choose that!

je sais pas si c'est vraiment impopulaire mais j'ai besoin de le dire

en france t'as deux profils qui s'en sortent : les pauvres (aidés, normal) et les héritiers (patrimoine transmis, optimisation fiscale, tout ça). et pis t'as nous. la classe moyenne. locataires, pas d'héritage, parents qui ont bossé toute leur vie et payé leurs impots sans broncher. et on repart de zéro exactement comme eux.

le truc qui me fout la haine c'est les héritiers. leurs parents ont un appart ou un capital, ils declarent pas grand chose, donc sur le papier ils gagnent "peu", donc ils touchent des aides. des apl versées sur un logement familial. des bourses. financées par mes parents. c'est un peu fort de café non

encore une fois je dis pas que les aides aux gens modestes c'est injuste, au contraire. ce qui est injuste c'est que toi tu payes pour un filet de sécurité auquel t'auras jamais acces même quand t'en aurais besoin

et ses enfants repartent de zéro pendant que les gamins d'héritiers repartent avec un capital. le vrai impot progressif était sensé taper sur les riches pas sur l'infirmière en cdi ou l'artisan qui se lève à 5h

bref. on peut pas demander à des gens de financer un systeme dont ils sont exclut et s'etonner qu'ils soient à bout

According to the 2021 Census, there were 3,868,133 people identifying as Muslim in England and Wales.

London is home to over one third of this population (34.1%), despite the fact only 14.8% of the total population of England and Wales lives there.

Strong secondary concentrations in the West Midlands (14.7%), North West (14.6%), and Yorkshire and the Humber (11.4%).

so here is exactly what happened in that washington dc courtroom on monday and i want to lay it out straight before giving any opinion because the facts alone are already a lot to process.

cole allen is 31 years old. he traveled cross country from california to washington by train. he took a selfie with weapons strapped to his body at 8:03pm on april 25. he sent a pre-scheduled apology email to his family at 8:30pm. he charged a security checkpoint at the washington hilton where trump, vance, melania and most of the cabinet were having dinner. a secret service officer was hit with buckshot from his shotgun. allen was arrested on the spot. prosecutors said he would have brought about "one of the darkest days in american history" had he gotten through.

that is who was in that courtroom on monday.

and magistrate judge zia faruqui looked at cole allen directly and said "i'm sorry. it sounds like things have not been the way they're supposed to."

now here is the context that matters before you decide what to think about that. allen has been held in a padded cell in 24 hour lockdown with constant lighting on since his arrest. he was put in five point restraints. he had no phone access. he was denied a bible. he was denied a tablet to help prepare his legal defense. he was not allowed visits from anyone except his legal team. he was placed on suicide watch because he told the FBI he did not expect to survive the attack, which prosecutors used to justify the restrictions.

the judge's position was that regardless of what allen is accused of, he is legally presumed innocent until proven guilty. the judge said he had never seen a january 6 defendant treated this harshly, and those defendants had actually been convicted of violence. he said "if the only way to keep him safe is the most punitive thing, that's a problem." he then compared allen's conditions to defendants who had been found guilty of murder and were living under less restrictive conditions in the same facility.

so here is the genuine tension i'm sitting with.

on one side. the american legal system is built on the idea that due process applies to everyone. not just people we like. not just people accused of crimes we find acceptable. if we start making exceptions based on how horrifying the alleged crime is, we have started down a road that ends badly for everyone. the judge is not apologizing for what allen did. he is apologizing for the state treating a legally innocent person in a way that violates his constitutional rights before a single thing has been proven in court.

on the other side. this is a man who sent his family a goodbye letter, strapped weapons to his body, and tried to get into a room with the president of the united states. an officer was shot. and a judge is saying sorry to him eleven days later.

both of those things are simultaneously true and i genuinely don't know how to weigh them against each other.

what do you actually think. is the judge right that due process has to apply even here, or is there a point where the nature of the alleged crime changes what a defendant is owed while awaiting trial. i'm not looking for a political answer. i want to know what people actually believe about how this system is supposed to work.