I wish i heard less about Elon Musk. I'm so tspped out on this dude. Every time a new article has Elon Musk in the title my eyes involuntarily roll over into the back of my skull as both an expression of annoyance and a self defense mechanism.

So yeah, there is no credibility for the ICC. Because of the actions of these countries, the ICC is now a theater court for theater cases. The whole world was watching and it was demonstrated that its use is merely a political tool for countries that aren't part of a specific sphere of influence and not an impartial court of international law.

What a shame and disgrace. We will ALL suffer the repercussions of the actions taking place today by countries such as France, the US and Germany.

Yeah, but you said you could have a podcast, but it wouldn't earn you a living. The same way you could theoretically grow produce and it wouldn't earn you a living either.

With enough work you could make returns on a podcast too. Both podcasting and farming require lots of work to grow a network, to acquire equipment and to find customers and partners. In both, you require time to be trustworthy. Both of those things are part of the same entrepreneurial process.

I may concede that perhaps you can get a couple of bucks faster with a homegrown garden, but it is not as easy as you're saying. Your grocery store/restaurant will not buy random veggies from Joe nobody when they have suppliers already. They don't even know how safe is the food you're growing. You'd have to find specialized farmer's markets and you'd have to pay for a stall there, as well as all the grow lights and hydroponics setup to grow the produce. That's residual money, if money at all.

The people you see on youtube are probably making more money with youtube selling education than they are with their micro arugulas or whatever. Or maybe they're lucky to have friends with restaurants or stores already who are willing to take the risk on some random person with no store and no licenses selling food on the side. And it's a big risk, because some farms have sent people to the hospital by growing greens next to livestock and ended up contaminating everything with E. Coli. They probably won't boil greens, so you can guess why it's not a small risk to take. Sure, you can say, but I'm very clean, i have no livestock and my fertilizer is reputable, but without licenses, there is no proof and it's not like they are going to send someone to inspect your farm.

And they're not even gonna hear you out unless you're coming with a price lower than the supplier that's growing an entire greenhouse full of microgreens for them. The whole microgreens/mushrooms fad was a gap between the demand appearing and big corpos responding to it with their massive greenhouses. Every year that goes by, it's gonna be harder and harder to break into that market, let alone survive in it. Farming is a very scale up sensitive industry and small players have an incredibly rough time in it over time.

I see farmers' protests almost every quarter about how they are struggling, how bad big farm competition is, how the equipment they need is prohibitively expensive and vendor locked, how any seeds that they need to be competitive are patented and exorbitant in costs. I didn't know farming was so easy.

Someone tell the farmers to watch youtube videos and clear out their closets. They clearly are doing something wrong.

Plug first, check of the repairs are done correctly later, is what i always say.

Ah yes, the US will crush everyone's economy and live in this economic bubble of invulnerability, and trade with the aliens.

US politicians don't understand the two way nature of trade. It's like the story of the sanctions and trade tariffs. We're not Cuba buddy, you can't bully us without massive job loss and trade for the US.

Yes, those are US bootlickers stating their verbal support, but NATO cannot participate in Palestine because to deploy NATO forces article 5 must be invoked by a member country and it must be in response to an attack on said member country. That is the core principle of the treaty. It's a self defense treaty, of which Israel is not a part of.

If any country participates in the genocide of the Palestinian people, they do so of their own volition and not at the behest of NATO. Canada leaving NATO or NATO being dissolved would have no bearing whatsoever on the Israeli genocide. The shared NATO membership may foster relationships and cooperation on extra treaty operations, but these are not NATO operations. To be a NATO operation, it has to be an article 5 operation or some operation mandated by the UN, and while the latter has happened, it was highly controversial that it did, as it was beyond the scope of the NATO treaty.

This protest demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what NATO is or how it works and ultimately even if they got what they wanted, which they won't, it wouldn't have accomplished what they were aiming for. The fundamental difference between a NATO operation and an operation of NATO member countries not consecrated in the treaty, is that the former is required to remain in NATO and the latter is completely voluntary.

I have to say i don't actually believe Europeans are scared of this sort of threats. We know what's at stake for the US here. It would take a lunatic to actually do anything of this sort. Yeah, it would be bad for us, but it would be awful for the US.

On the other hand, a lunatic is just what the US has just elected, so i guess we'll just have to see how this shakes out.

Earlier this year, when republican senators started threatening EU countries with sanctions for rejecting Israel policy, everyone kind of just shrugged it off. There wasn't any real concern. Everyone was mostly going like, ok let them do it then. I'm feeling a sort of exhaustion from US drama in the political atmosphere around here.

Yeah, same. In Europe, a large rift is starting to appear between the ruling political class and their constituency and they're starting to notice and thread real carefully on the unwavering support for Israel.

It used to be like, oh we defend Israeli right to exist and look at how Israel makes the desert bloom and now it's like oh look it's a difficult situation, it's complicated and we must stand by the ICC. So at least we're heading in the right direction.

EU universities are withdrawing from Israel partnerships left and right while not overtly saying why, but Israelis know why. And the European education framework policy organs can't really do much about it, as all participation is voluntary.

I would honestly like to see how that would pan out. Obviously this is just a clueless senator pulling things out of his ass for political points, but the worldwide scandal of a US military incursion against an international court of law inside a NATO country would have massive repercussions. It would destabilize US partnerships, diplomacy and it would tarnish US standing even more than it already has been for the last 20 years. Every US opponent country would love for this to happen. This would definitely not go well with EU countries, most of which already said they would stand by the ICC's decision. Arab countries would turn on the US and third world countries probably would too, as the ICC case is massively popular with both those two parties.

I doubt it would spark a war between the US and the EU, but it would certainly sour relationships real damn quick.

Personally i disliked it and i gave it 3 tries because everyone i know raved about it.

It just feels like teenage drama through and through. It's the usual, 25 year old teens doing dumb things, being sexualized and being over the top dramatic with special cramming on classic cliques. There's some sci-fi elements to it, but at some point i loathed all the characters, in particular the protagonist.

Full disclaimer, i didn't make it past the second season.

US police's laughable incompetence is usually hilarious entertainment us outside of the US, but this one is incredibly tragic and heartbreaking.

This is ridiculous for any country, let alone the top economy in the world. They're like toddlers with guys. Even veterans conduct themselves in an amateur and grossly negligent way. There is honestly no way to shame the US police uniform to the entire world more than it already has been, though.

It's their choice, but by not arresting him, they are weakening the international rule of law for everyone and basically giving dictators worldwide arguments to use when the rule of international law turns of them.

I hope it's worth it, for whatever misguided mission Germany is on about. We'll just be waiting for the apologies to the victims of this other genocide 30-40 years from now, for another "dark past" of Germany, and hope there won't be an abrupt overcorrection to helping the other side perpetrate a genocide, since, as we are seeing, Germany is not solid on sensible middle terms. It is possible to both support Judaism and not support genocide simultaneously.

Hell, it would even be possible to support an Israeli state and protect a Palestinian state if world leaders had half a spine.

Wasn't he also featured in a video about how he couldn't wait until Hillary Duff and the Olsen twins turned 18 because he wanted to date them when they were like 15 ?

At this point the anti semitism accusation has been so diluted that it's beginning to carry very little weight. It's hard to find someone who has done worse to jews worldwide in the contemporary era than Benjamin Netanyahu. The comparison of a genocide of which he and his administration is guilty of to actual historical cases of anti semitism is beyond embarrassing.

The world at large rejects Israel with disgust.

Let's be honest here, while the first past the post system is conducive to a 2 party dupoly, many countries around the world use it and they don't have it nearly as bad as the US. The real issue in the US is the first past the post system coupled together with the relic of the industrial age that is the Electoral College, which expands all the shortcomings of the first past the post system to a state level and eventually to the district level for the senate elections.

Many countries in Europe use the D'Hondt method of proportional distribution of senate/assembly votes according to the national election results, which more directly represents the will of the people and reduces issues of swing state strategic voting. You simply can't have equal standing of every state simultaneously with proportional representation of the will of the citizens due to the population differences. In order to have both, you'd have to redraw states so that they have similar population sizes. You either make some people's votes worth less or some states' votes worth less. In the case of the US, some people's votes, mainly in highly populated centers, are worth less than votes from rural areas in order to preserve state parity, if i understand correctly.

So in sum it's the first past the post, the electoral college and the senatorial system. The whole jig is rigged so that Democrats and Republicans are artificially always toe to toe more or less equally in a permanent stalemate. Over time this has created stark divisions in the US society. There are republican newspapers and democrat newspapers. Republican culture and democrat culture. There are even people who only want to date republican or democrat. Even this post is a manifestation of the ridiculousness of the US political system, by shaming the people who refuse to participate in this blue or red theater of politics, calling their preferred choice a "wasted vote". To anyone not in the US, it is just absolutely a ludicrous disrespect of political plurality to call someone's vote "wasted". People vote for who they want to vote.

Keeping people in this sisyphean hamster wheel of politics is the point, which is why some states aren't even given representation lest the jig runs amok. Historically, preserving the jig has always been paramount to the US political elite, demonstrated, for instance, by the pre civil war one state democrat-one state republican equal division. In the post civil war era, states weren't given statehood if they were going to threaten the permanent democratic-republican balance that's so important in the US.

Wasn't there a men movement like this ? MGTOW i believe.

So MGTOW and 4B, a match made in heaven. Seems they'd get along well. Or not get along. I don't know anymore.

What does MGTOW mean?

MGTOW is an acronym for “Men Going Their Own Way,” a term and movement that represents men who have chosen to prioritize their own lives and interests over traditional societal expectations, particularly in relation to relationships with women. Adherents of MGTOW advocate for male independence and self-determination, often distancing themselves from marriage, long-term relationships, and what they view as a society biased against men. The movement emphasizes personal freedom, self-sufficiency, and a rejection of traditional gender roles that they believe are unfairly burdensome to men.

Remarkably similar.

Life gets worse. Much worse. And you will survive and even find happiness. And everything you needed, you had it all along.

Oh yeah, many times. I've had a guy run his hands through my hair and push a boner against me. I've had a teenage girl lick my bicep and giggle at me with her friends. I've had an older woman just grab my butt and pretend she didn't do it. There was another guy who was just petting my shoulders and leg, discreetly through the crowd.

It's just those things like what are you gonna do as a guy ? Report it ? Hey mr officer, a teenage girl licked my arm and then her friends giggled at me, if you run you can still arrest them ? I'd just be laughed at. No point reporting it i guess. It's just gross and annoying. I always chalked it up as problems of living in a big city.

I've never been at risk of being raped though. I am pretty muscular. I can see how it would be scary to be and much, much worse.

I honestly think it's ridiculous our public transportation is so unsafe to warrant this, but if it's necessary, then so be it. But if we're going to make women only carriages we should make an equal number of men only carriages, because not all women will use the women only carriages and i don't want my available commute space compromised because authorities can't keep public spaces safe for women.

I know it sounds a "but what about men" comment, but let me explain why. At my gymn, we used to have an open space for everyone. Then they decided to segregate about 1/3 of the space and make it ladies only while the remaining space was to be for everyone. The result is that, despite having machines available in the women's area, women want to be in the everyone's area all the time while the women's area is usually empty. The result is that there's no space for everyone to train in and men just have to queue to be able to train at peak times, usually in the late afternoon. We all pay the same, we all need our exercise, why are men having less ? Because we share the same gender with rapists ? How is that my fault ?

I can see the exact same thing happening with transportation. You limit men's available commute space on account of having an unsafe space for women, then the women's carriage goes empty while the everyone carriage forces everyone to be up against everyone. This is unacceptable. I have been sexually harassed as a man in public transportation too and while i recognize it's not as bad for me as it is for women, because it only happened a few times, it always happened by forcing me to be smushed against a ton of people.

I would prefer if everyone respected everyone and we could live like civilized people together in an equal and safe society, where nobody was threatened, harassed or raped, but if we're going to start sex segregation at least do it in such a manner so that everyone has equal amounts of space and opportunity to carry out their lives without being inconvenienced. If we segregate spaces, make x space for women, x space for men and x for everyone together. None of this special places just for women while everyone pays the same crap. That way if the common area is too full, i can just move to the men only area and that's it. If we can't be decent, at least let's try to be fair.