What an incredibly polite way of saying “Bitch, we already got military agreements with you wtf you saying, dumbass?”

There’s still some toxicity around Buddhism at least. Living in SEA I now know several people who are really turned off by the practices and beliefs of their family’s religion, Buddhism, from the way all troubles are explained away as karma to neurodiversity and Learning Differences being hidden because that would mean that person did something bad in their past life.

I used to think Buddhism specifically was the “good” religion that’s more like philosophy, but spending more time with people who grew up deep in Buddhism has made me see there’s really more to the community and it’s beliefs and practices than I thought.

Columbia University PhD student Ranjani Srinivasan calls accusations that she’s a ‘terrorist sympathizer’ absurd, telling CBC’s David Common that she feared for her safety after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials showed up at her door.

That’s the entire text with a 7 minute video on the page.

Newsworthy and valuable info in this climate, but I can’t be the only one who gets frustrated when a news site posts basically just a video and no actual article. Maybe just a personal gripe

Oh, so if it’s going to be down voted anyway, then a lot of down votes feels good? Guess that’s more validating than a middling response

I spent two years in Saudi Arabia in the early 2000s and was hearing stories like this even back then as a kid. I remember some kids even put on a skit involving maid abuse for some kind of social justice style project (I don’t remember the specifics) so it was a well known enough issue even then. Terrifying stuff and disgusting that they still hey away with it.

I guess getting people to rage can feel validating, knowing that I’ve made someone rage quit a game feels satisfying for sure.

I don’t personally feel that way about sites like Lemmy/Reddit/Social-media in general where things are more discussion and social-interaction based though. I guess for my kind of discourse goals, if I’ve made someone angry rather than laugh or understand my perspective, I’ve done a bad job.

Genuinely curious, does that mean that, for you, getting downvoted gives you dopamine/a sense of accomplishment?

Your above comment is in the negative when I’m making this comment. Does that feel good? Again, genuinely curious, hard to put a non-judgemental tone in writing.

I can’t relate to that feeling, upvotes and downvotes to me show how much a community agrees or disagrees with what I’ve said. Either what I said isn’t right for the community I posted it in or maybe just a generally unpopular opinion if I’m getting downvotes. Might make me reflect but usually no big deal, I’m mostly here for the discussions, memes and current events. Outside of trolling I don’t really see how getting downvoted might be seen as a good thing by a poster.

Citing what I saw on Philip DeFranco earlier, apparently in a shutdown the executive branch has a lot of power in terms of what specifics get shutdown and how.

Was news to me considering the shitshow that happens every time the budget needs to be voted on but with all the DOGEness going on makes sense that there’s extra caution around this. Still sucks that Dems rolled over so easily.

And it was Zelensky who was apparently “Gambling with World War III”… Tough times ahead methinks.

Fuckin Cheeto

Deep? Can Musk and DOGE count as deep state with how new they are to government (if you can call DOGE that)? He’s not even from the US, he’s so far out he’s circled back around to deep state.

Then again, foreign actors blatantly controlling the white house seems to be the trend right now

I have immediate family in the US and one of the main reasons I don’t visit is because I am legit afraid shit like this or worse will happen.

I believe it, but I honestly don’t think it would make any difference in the world at this point if proven anyway

I didn’t watch the sequels, Mitch McConnell comes back and AOC tracks him down at the edge of space or something?

He’s burning down P. Sherman’s dentist office! Hope the fish tank is alright

Orange skin with paleness around the eyes is the new giveaway

Feel like the wording of this headline implies that all Gen Z is LGBTQ+

Not saying that would be a bad thing to be clear

Not me, I’m on a whole other continent, watching the blaze, hoping it doesn’t spread too far.

I’d like to say I did that on purpose to show how dumb they’d be renaming it, but it is I who can’t remember my East and West

True. Guess it’s more like them getting Google to change Greenland into West Alaska

Imagine being a tourist in the US, looking for an address you believe to be say, Martin Luther King Street. Can’t find it anywhere, even on Google maps, then eventually you talk to someone and find out it’s now called Elon Musk Avenue.

Not saying this is exactly the same, but if we’re letting people change the names of places on commonly used global map software willy nilly, even if it’s just region to region, we’re gonna end up with problems. It’s not like “freedom fries” back in the day that legitimately affected no one.

And I am suddenly seeing a parenthetical on the Gulf here outside the US, so there technically was a sudden change