If it wasn’t for the culture wars, it would be another Oscar Pistorius situation. Not the murder, the prosthetics.

For those who don’t know this guy was a runner whose legs were amputated, and he got replacement prosthetics that made him as good if not better than runners with natural legs. There was some debate if his disability actually gives him an advantage, if it should be allowed at all.

Let’s see what new and original ways he’ll find to fuck up Bolivia.
Socialists had their run, and they did fuck it up majorly. But now it’s time for new kind of mistakes.

I wasn’t aware marooning was still a practice on cruise ships

New planned cities often have this problem. But in long term I don’t think it will stay a ghost city if the government moves there.

That being said they could have upgraded an existing city on Borneo instead of going through the pain of building a completely new one.

According to wiki:

Simone Gbagbo is a controversial figure in Côte d’Ivoire. Involved in nationalist politics surrounding the Ivorian Civil War, in 2005 Radio France International reported that she was being investigated by the United Nations for human rights abuses, including organising death squads.

Sounds like a nice person

Stocks are basically the same as crypto at this point. There is no benefit or utility at owning some, the only value is the idea of selling for more at some point.

While I disagree with death penalty on principle, I will not spill any tears for slavers.

If the short-term value of your money depends on one person being president, you’re fucked.

explained he ‘wore’ bacon to protect himself from alleged threats of beheading

Does he think pork repels muslims like garlic repels vampires?

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.