If the AI was trained on the behavior of past ministers it will just start taking bribes immediately

Just because you haven’t heard as much from Nicolas Maduro. Maduro’s (lack of) connection to reality is similar to Trump’s. In a slightly different world they would be best buddies.

c/Lost Lemmings?
This place is called “world news”. A celebrity dying is very much what should be posted here.

TIL he was still alive

of course not, but the modern African wave of homophobia is very much inspired by Christianity and Islam

• “we want to break with our colonial past”

• embraces ideology originating in former colonial powers

I didn’t realize it was a thing in North America. Despite the infamously high gun ownership in NA, I usually connect celebratory gunfire with Balkans, Turkey and Arab cultures.

Just my speculation but this policy might be a significant contributing factor to the growth of Chinese economy.

Rising prices of assets lock up money that would otherwise be used for more productive investment.

Puts on the genocidology hat

“You see they are not killing using organized industrial means, so it can’t be a genocide. If the killing is done by randomly shooting and bombing civilians it’s just a sparkling massacre”

Ah yes - in a memorial remembering genocide, let’s prohibit symbols of protest against a current genocide

Let’s make it a permanent solution. Both sides can increase their flagpole by 1m every 2 years, alternating. So India gets to have the bigger one for 2 years while Pakistan seethes until it’s finally their turn. Then Pakistan enjoys their flagpole for 2 years until it’s India’s time to grow. And so on.

It would keep them occupied for a few centuries until a reasonable limit is reached at 300-400m. Or even longer until they both build space elevators.

After screwing up so much, it’s very expected. Kudos to Bolivians to be willing to abandon failed politicians rather than keep voting them over and over again.

I don’t see how they could possibly make it worse. At this point just having a bunch of mercenaries shooting up everything would be an improvement.

First contamination with fentanyl made other drugs unsafe and risky. Now fentanyl itself is contaminated.

At least Milei is consistent. His stated mission is to reduce the budget deficit, not to improve the lives of citizens.

He treated the situation as a civil war rather than a criminal matter. What do you do in war? You go after all enemy combatants, you don’t try to determine if one specific soldier killed any of yours. Anyone in enemy uniform is a legitimate target unless they surrender.

El Salvador gangs do have specific ways of visually distinguishing themselves even if those are not traditional uniforms. Of course there are people wearing the same clothes and tattoos just because they think it’s cool, but that is unfortunately a darwin award case.

In this context the captured are not in prison but in a POW camp. What he’s missing is an exit strategy. Eventually you have to establish a permanent peace and release the POWs under some conditions. Not to mention obey the Geneva Convention which enumerates some rights. That’s why he’s always framing it as being tough on criminals.

Of course.

If you’ve ever seen any interview with Bukele it becomes immediately apparent he’s just another dictator wannabe who was very lucky to accidentally do something good immediately after being elected for the first time. Now he’s riding that wave until he re-ruins the country again.

He doesn’t even understand why his policy worked. He just repeats the “tough on crime” bullshit.

Remember that Netanyahu got a warning from the Egyptian intelligence about an impending attack a few days before it happened. And he chose to do nothing to prevent it.

Looks like overtourism is becoming an issue everywhere in the world. Yet another instance of the tragedy of the commons.

But a deeper underlying issue is the idea of real estate as investment. If you treat housing as an investment, of course renting to tourists is more profitable, therefore more of it will be dedicated to tourism.

Traditional parties are consistently failing their nations all over the world.
The only ones offering any kind of hope for the future are snake-oil salesmen like this.