Didn’t this happen before Costa Rica abolished their army though?

People just report whatever they disagree with, I guess.

Adele isn’t that good looking as well, but she is well loved as a singer.

It’s interesting to hear the pov of an Australian. From the outsider’s perspective, I think you love rules given Australia’s outside reputation as a nanny state.

During the whole Olympic controversy on the Algerian boxer, Imane Khelif, questioning her actual gender, someone was making mental gymnastics that she still has testerone level higher than “vanilla females”.

Lol, vanilla females. That alone says a lot.

Shittiest take on this community by far.

It’s an myriad of reasons from what I can tell. Americans are conditioned to think along the status quo lines even if there is certain degree of freedom of thought. The American corporate media carves the political landscape to intentionally but subtly influence folks to pick either only Democrats or Republicans.

Another reason is that, I suppose rugged invidualism won out in the American society for better mobilisation. As you rightly pointed out, there just isn’t grassroots activism among American people (not counting civil and lgbt rights which are undoubtedly grassroots activism and successful ones at that). But this isn’t what it used to be. Before and in the early 20th century, there have been other third political parties still gaining respectable number of votes, the last one being the Socialist Party led by Eugene Debbs. He won a respectable 1 million votes as a presidential candidate while campaigning from prison during World War I.

Not sure what happened why political grassroots activism that could counter either Democratic and Republican parties died out, but my guess is that the proliferation of mass media in the 20th century may have had a hand to convince people to stick with two parties, as well as heavy emphasis on individualistic values.

I mean historically Filipinos who migrated to the United States were also one of the wide users of marijuana along with Hispanics. And among those communities, the cannabis/marijuana did not have had any negative connotation until the war on drugs.

Yup. Marijuana has always had widespread use by those from formerly Spanish-colonised cultures which are Hispanics and Filipinos.

Call me gatekeepy or elitist if you want, but I feel like the primary driving force of reddit getting worse was it’s popularity.

I had the exact same experience in Reddit! People complained of frontpage news subreddits being of low quality. I recommended a certain subreddit because of its quality to everyone. Little did I know that more traffic means more morons flooding and deteriorating the quality.

But on the one hand, you don’t want echo chambers to develop if it’s just the same people you interact with on regular basis. Ideally you’d want differences in opinion and fresh ideas.

More people means more discussions. But more people also means more chance of encountering idiots. It’s a hard balance.

To catch a thief, you must set another thief to catch him.

To catch a pedophile-

Prometheus has no excuse on the plot of playing with the baby alien/proto-facehugger. The dude is a biologist and should have known better not to play with any potentially dangerous animals, especially an unknown alien animal!

I remember when the news came out on the radio. The school reported to parents what their kids have been up to.

You could say the same to your favourite sporting events like MMA, Superbowl, Euro Finals, Copa America, and even e-sports, etc.

I can see where you’re coming from but the Olympics is a healthy way for countries to compete with each other, instead of going on battlefields. Like the other poster mentioned, the Olympics promote international cooperation. For example, even though China is getting a bad rap in international politics, their athletes have notably been professional and wholesome which boost their country’s image.

I also think that the high prestigious image of the Olympics will inspire more people to pursue sports; regardless of whether or not they will want to compete in the event. It’s still good to be healthy!

I just want to say that the Chinese athletes have been nothing but professional and wholesome throughout the current Olympic!

Well, child mortality rate was really high before modern medicine. No wonder many cultures exalt the process of birth.

More like the American fascists hid in the closet after Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack silenced anymore isolationists, some of whom are fascists sympathetic to Nazi Germany and were even funded by Berlin.

I was cleaning dishes when a lil’ spider, rappelling down, came right in front of my face. Seeing the creepy shape made me jump back and scream. The spider must have been shocked by my reaction and quickly went back up. Both of us got scared!

Looking back in hindsight, the spider must have been friendly and was trying to say hi to me, but I freaked out and he freaked out!

I forgot about Second Thought. I googled about being him kicked out from Nebula and many people accuse him of having become a full on tankie.

I don’t really want to get invested in the drama but I’m not surprised. Last time I watched Second Thought, he had been more radicalised but I didn’t expect him to become a tankie.

Genuine question, what does anyone else think of Nebula? It’s very high quality but it doesn’t have random videos that you would turn off your mind and just watch.