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Great narration.

For decades Israel's modus operandi in Palestine has been the equivalent of a school bully that punches a kid when no one is watching and then cries foul when he gets punched back. Except everyone is watching and crying "my antisemitism", instead. I have no idea if Omar is a good person or not, but it's exceedingly clear that she is right in this instance. Pelosi's statement was pretty shameful, though.

I like that the bread places are designed to specifically use the worst bread.

That's the typical straw man every gun loving American uses about gun control. Gun control doesn't mean stripping everyone of every gun there is. At all. Anyway, I just thought that for the poor dog you'd do anything. Anything! <--that's a single tear

https://abc13.com/mom-accidentally-shoots-her-son-trying-to-shoot-dog-5-year-old-shot-by-angelia-mia-vargas-deadly-conduct-of-a-firearm/10728726/ @Guard DogHow about some gun control now?

That Danish decision is clearly a disgrace.

That is not happening, as societies get richer and more stable overall, people just stop wanting to have that many kids. In Europe this has been happening for like 40 or 50 years. The internet or "the promotion of dumb behavior" has nothing to do with it. I mean you either are so poor that you need extra kids as a work force, or you are rich enough that having kids stops being a financial and emotional burden. If you are in between (read "almost everyone in advanced economies"), you just aren't going to have that many kids. The fact of the matter is that the entrance of women into the work force has not increased families purchasing power as much as it should, especially considering that during the 20th century in advanced economies, kids went from being potential family income to dead weights (this is a good thing, in case you are wondering). People aren't having kids later because feminism is promoting it. People are leaving their parents' houses later and later because they can't afford it, they aren't having kids earlier because they can't afford it, and they aren't having more kids because they can't afford it. Real wages haven't kept pace with the growth of advanced economies in the past 50 years. That's it. If you want people to have more kids they have to make more money. Big companies across the board are making loads and loads more money every year, but that money isn't entering the economy in a real way. The Swedish government has been promoting having more kids for years, by the way. More money paid to families with more kids, more time at home with newborns, free child dental care, free college. Anecdotally, I can say that upper middle class families appear have more kids now. It is not uncommon for me to see 3+ kids families around. Still, they are not having 6+ kids, which I imagine would be necessary to offset all the families that have between 0 and 2 kids. There's only so much one can do if wages are low. https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

My experience here in Sweden is that assimilation and integration takes at least 10 years, there's really no two ways about it. I was here in '98 when the "ghettos" were by and large filled with people from the Balkans. They weren't particularly well accepted, they were insular, crime rates were higher and, to a degree, they had brought their conflicts along with them. Right wing rhetoric was pretty much the same back then. Nowadays, however, they are a completely accepted and integrated part of Swedish society. Now the issue with the 2015 refugee crisis is that it was huge, and the cultural differences between the Middle East and Europe are much starker. So all these problems have been exacerbated, which, coupled with the right wing rise is creating a volatile situation. Personally I'm more worried about future refugee crisis. I can only assume the coming population displacements will be much larger, dwarfing the Syrian numbers. If right wing parties are even more influential by then, we will be in for interesting times. I don't think the behavior of immigrants affected the situation all that much. It definitely doesn't help, but in this age of extreme confirmation bias, people are going to think what they want to think. Even if by some freak coincidence recent Muslim immigrants had been behaving exceedingly well(they haven't), people would still be finding reasons to complain about immigration. Here in Sweden the number of reported crimes per capita has been stable since 2008, by the way. Not sure at all if that's an effective measure of how much the refugee crisis has affected criminality here. Drug crimes have increased significantly for example. Thefts have decreased. I presume the integration factor is still different for people who emigrate to the US. American cultural hegemony and its weight in the minds of people who move to the States, has to still soften the blow of integration, despite Republican efforts to make the US as immigrant unfriendly as possible. A lot of people who move to the US actively want to be American and feel integrated.

Indy was an homage to adventure serials of the 30s and 40s. The last Indy movie was intended to be an homage to sci-fi serials, I believe. It wasn't good because it wasn't very well written, not because it went with aliens and science fiction, specifically. Spielberg just got old, perhaps.

Extreme right wing parties were already on the rise since, at the very least, the 2009 crisis. I don't think this rise was significantly affected by the actual intake of refugees, given that the growth continued, more or less unabated, in almost all European countries, regardless of whether they took in a significant number of refugees or not. Racists going to racist, basically, and it is really easy to appeal to them, as they were feeling disenfranchised for a long time. The problem wasn't Germany accepting refugees, but rather almost all other countries balking at even the idea of it, thus putting too much pressure on Germany's resources in a very short time. In any case, Europe's population replacement rate isn't high enough to maintain populations without immigration, so it is actually necessary for the European economy. Severely limiting the intake of people from outside Europe is essentially condemning Europe to dying a slow death.

Or rather, how was that a mistake?

I never would have thought it, but she is the best.

Hindsight and all that, but Trump didn't take over the GOP base by chance, and Reagan's administration was a definite and essential part of the path the GOP took, from the 60s and the Southern Strategy, until today.

Land of the free.

They must have mentioned universal health care right as they were giving the shot.

That's a pretty low bar for being a hero.

Today at 14:00, the shop opened for a 3070. I was there on time. clicking "Buy" 0 seconds in. Gateway timeout immediately. Edit: 5 minutes later the cards are gone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/03/us/politics/clarence-thomas-supreme-court.html This is the original article. Watch out for dnyuz. Those guys plagiarize articles left and right. Edit: I took the liberty of editing your post.

She's the one who doesn't want to play Witcher 2 and Call of Pripyat. I'm sure she'd enjoy Alpha Protocol too.

Pressure from my Genshin Impact daughter and her upcoming birthday, means I am now in the market for a GPU, preferably a 3080. Last week, I subscribed myself to a European PC hardware store, and I got a message today the cards I'm looking for would be available today at 1400. Unfortunately I only noticed that at 1410, which was way too late. Their website was already buckling under the weight of a bunch of nerds frantically clicking refresh. In any case, the 3080 was already gone, but a few 3070s appear to still be available. Unfortunately, I can't even login. Well, as I wrote that, the site came back online and, obviously, even the 3070s are gone. Let's see if I'm on my toes next time. By the way, no, my daughter ain't getting a 3080 for her birthday. She'd get my current 980 ti and some sort of budgety ryzen system which she scoped out herself, which is already an unbelievable luxury by my standards. To play at 1080p too. What is she running right now? my old q6600 with a GTX 580. Oh, yes, some nice classical gaming. It was fine for Minecraft but, for some mystical reason, she is complaining about hitches in a 2020 game. What could the problem be?

Why is it that, other than the sweet potato ones, all those fries look like frozen pre-fried crap?

The question of poor countries is a good one, as as far as I know construction costs for coal plants are still lower, but the question is neither here nor there, because the current issue are developed countries, which share the bulk of energy expenditures in the world, have the resources to move to cleaner energy, but either have dallied and taken their sweet time to get things going or, in the case of the US, have flat out refused to admit there is a problem to be addressed. When goals are set they are also always half measures.

I imagine overpopulation problems would be solved.

Intense lobbying from the oil industry?