haha for real
As for context to my post CNN is not far left in my learned and erudite opinion as they are a frequent apologist for the effects of neoliberalism and corporatism upon the peeps of this world.
In your scenario they seem to be the place other people are "discovering" and downloading the PDF from. Perhaps gathering together to discuss whatever is in the PDF and reinforce each other's beliefs about the content. This could of course be done with a website/blog/forums but the reach of Facebook is of course immense, global and pervasive in pretty much every country. So Facebook is different because of its scale, network effect and ease of discoverability. The last issue with Facebook I would point out is that due to its corporate structure and size Facebook is only accountable to Mark Zuckerberg, and Mark Zuckerberg is accountable to no one.
I think the real issue facing society is that Facebook will always err on the side of user engagement unless forced to behave otherwise. If Facebook was really just about "connecting people" which I take to be innocuous communication between users and sharing pictures of kids/pets/etc. then they would have to strip out the features that allow their worst communities to form and operate. But Facebook knows that crazy grandparents sharing conspiracy theories and racist drivel drives engagement and so that content largely remains. It's up to our societies to solve this problem, because history has shown that Facebook will only do the right thing when forced to.
I can obviously research some of the points you've raised but it would be helpful to readers for you to provide some context. I don't know what FATA refers to for example, and it's not mentioned in the article you linked either.
That act of communal mourning can also serve to reinforce social bonds among the living members of the group, at least in my estimation. I recently held a memorial service for my father (shakes fist at Parkinson's) but the thing that struck me was the younger members of our extended family experiencing some of that shared bond between the older ones, perhaps learning to appreciate their family members more. They hadn't known my father as brother or uncle but their parents and grandparents had.
A sense of belonging to something a bit larger than the individual experience... I have no scientific evidence to support these suppositions but it seems they must be real, to me.
Personally, it's because I know other people. Having gone through artificial panics and unreasonable demand-based shortages based entirely on fear I know that my fellow human being is often irrational, selfish and short-sighted when left to their own devices. The _only_ solution to resolving those periods of irrationality I experienced were limits placed on their behavior like rationing of gasoline or toilet-paper or water or etc.
Why have an inflatable goatskin that you're inhaling from for swimming on the surface? Considering the fish next to him it seems more likely the artist left out the boring aspects of holding rocks or whatever to reduce buoyancy.
I can't speak to whether it's normal but it's a red flag for me. One of the companies I've worked for was pre-IPO and went IPO while I was there and when they hired me two years before that IPO they laid out the vesting schedule (1 year cliff, then monthly vesting of the remaining 3/4s of options) along with the strike price of the options along with how that strike price/valuation was calculated. Other places have had varying levels of professionalism like that but that was the only place that ended up IPOing and I believe there is a correlation between the professionalism of laying out clear compensation and the actual performance of the rest of the company.
I disagree that they're excellent examples when you consider the difference in terrain, infrastructure, the cultural and religious differences between the combatants and the status of one side as foreign occupying force.
The problem is that we tried to allow people to be "personally responsible" and we ended up with a worse wave of the pandemic than the original one. People were not responsible, and they were definitely not "personally responsible" seeing how they've tied up our medical system, burnt out medical workers and kept people with normal medical emergencies or conditions from getting the care they require. Liberty is freedom+responsibility. All I hear about is freedom without responsibility though.
I worked the grill at McDonalds for a while (admittedly two decades ago) and I disagree. They were frozen when retrieved for cooking and I just don't think those frozen pucks compare to fresher ground chuck hamburgers that occasionally I buy at the grocers.
I am somewhat happy to see this. I have been thinking recently about what will happen to all the small mechanic businesses that currently employ so many with the advent of "manufacturer limited" electric vehicles.
>there has been no form of slavery in the Western world anywhere near as brutal as American slavery
Absolutist statements like this rarely seem to hold true.[0]
American slavery is European slavery as well. Europeans (both countries and individuals) benefited extremely handsomely from enslaving people in Africa and bringing them to their colonies in America. And even after they had finally outlawed slavery for themselves just a few scant decades before the US did, they kept buying that affordable slave-produced cotton and sugar and coffee and etc. from the Americas.
The original article mentions that there were "tropes" in Roman, recurring characters in different jokes playing the same roles. In the examples it seems to be a character who takes things quite literally either in a serious manner or in a joking manner. I don't see anything particularly negative.
There's a lot of overhead in the traditional finance system which leads to gatekeeping by those interested parties. I'd rather pay some crypto fees "to the system" than pay fees that ultimately end up in the pockets of overcompensated executives at a middle-man rent-seeking org.
Police officers are civilians. I know it's a pedantic point but I think it's important to reiterate this whenever I see non-police officers described as civilians. American society at least has started to elevate them to a special super-citizenship, it seems.
I tell people from outside Texas that Houston is the most diverse city in the US and they act like I'm shamelessly lying. With all the stuff there is about Texas government and politics to criticize, it's a very unique part of the country under significant tensions pulling the place and people in multiple contradictory directions.
These regressive voters are mostly concentrated in suburban environments. It's not a huge ordeal for most people to live in suburban Austin or Dallas or San Antonio or etc.