“These other guys aren’t getting punished enough, so this guy isn’t going to get much of a punishment” is the sort of reasoning the gets judges thrown off the bench.
Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday, calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan....
All that Israeli propaganda about new luxury seafront property in Gaza…
You’re going to love that beach house that has no electricity or running water or sewage or garbage collection or an accessible road or an easy route to a store or a hospital…
GDP is not the amount of money spent on infrastructure or foreign aid. That comes directly from tax dollars and need to be measured that way. The entire economic output of the United States is not relevant when discussing infrastructure rebuilding or foreign aid.
That sounds pretty expensive to do and even more expensive to maintain considering what’s around it. I sure wouldn’t trust that road to remain structurally sound indefinitely with all the water and power running through it.
Sorry… you think foreign aid and infrastructure doesn’t come from tax dollars? What do you think is in government budgets that have to get passed every year?
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at its 241 mostly small colleges across the country....
Can trans men compete in men’s sports? Because I’m always told that “women” can compete in men’s sports if they want, but they don’t have the athletic abilities. So what about trans men? They could be taking hormones that increase their muscle mass. So they can play basketball with the men despite not having a penis, right?
Also, can we stop making such a big fucking deal about sports, especially college sports, as if it were anything other than a form of entertainment?
They are a big deal for the same reason rich people’s charities are a big deal- government has failed the poor. Athletics should not be a way into college just because you have a physical advantage over other poor people. There is nothing equitable about that. That is, in my opinion, not a defense of college athletics and more than it’s a defense of the Salvation Army.
I would also say that conflating the fact that specific college sports are taken way too seriously and made way too big a deal of doesn’t reflect athletic scholarships as a whole, considering people don’t go crazy about college wrestling or college field sports. When was the last time you heard of a college pole vault star? If there were some sort of “scandal” involving a transgender person in women’s college pole vault, would we even hear about it?
I remember something similar with the previous eclipse, which I watched from a different park in Kentucky. But there weren’t any leaves on the trees here yet for that to happen this time.
Before people want to blame Islam for this as a kneejerk reaction when they read that this is in Africa-
According to Susan Dicklitch-Nelson, a professor of government at Franklin & Marshall College, homophobia in Uganda was not always this prevalent, but anti-gay sentiment influenced by Christian evangelists from the US has helped fuel a cultural war on homosexuality for the past two and half decades.
Muslims make up around 14% of Uganda’s population.
I will be the first to say that Muslim countries are persecuting queer people horribly, but they are scapegoated when Christian countries, influenced by American evangelicals, are doing the same things.
I’ve been a fan for many years and I have bought a few things from his store over the years. For my money, one of the most consistently funny web cartoonists, even if he doesn’t publish cartoons very often. I really hate that this happened to him, but at least he found a funny side to it.
Extremely difficult. Courts have essentially ruled that adoption agencies can turn down whoever they want based on their religious views, and not just queer people, this was a case over a Jewish couple trying to adopt from a Christian agency because that was the only one available in their area. And, of course, that’s true in a lot of places. All the adoption agencies are Christian and will only let other Christians adopt.
Which is pretty fucking ironic considering they kept saying adoption was an alternative to abortion.
Nobody gets to tell me what to do! (lemmy.world)
Saying prosecutors should focus on Antifa, judge frees white supremacist in beating (www.usatoday.com)
Russians stage a rare protest after a dam bursts and homes flood near the Kazakh border (apnews.com)
Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday, calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan....
Eclipse 2024 pictures: An eerie darkness descends (www.bbc.com)
Thousands of people witnessed a celestial spectacle that plunged parts of North America into momentary darkness.
Travel poster (lemmy.world)
Rebuilding Gaza was seen as a ‘Herculean’ task before Oct. 7; six months of bombing has led to crises that will long outlive the war (theconversation.com)
NAIA all but bans transgender athletes from women's sports. NCAA vows to ensure 'fair competition' (apnews.com)
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports at its 241 mostly small colleges across the country....
We watched the eclipse in a park with a pioneer village. The holes in the schoolhouse roof showed the eclipse on the floor. (lemmy.world)
LGBTQ+ Africans fled to a UN refugee camp to escape brutal persecution. It followed them there. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Perry Bible Fellowship's Nicholas Gurewitch got hacked and his comic's Facebook account has been stolen. He made a comic about it. (pbfcomics.com)
He has a shop on his page if you want to help him out- pbfcomics.com/shop/
Vatican calls gender fluidity and surrogacy threats to human dignity (www.theguardian.com)
I am so tired of the whole “cool pope” thing with Francis. It’s 100% PR.
Eclipse-watchers: looking at 99.9% totality is unsafe! (web.archive.org)
Safety tips:...
Germans: what genocide? (lemmy.world)