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If you like international and eclectic news, come and join me at @worldwithoutus (Link for Lemmy = worldwithoutus).

I've also started helping out at @worldnews, (Link for Lemmy = worldnews), @movies, (Lemmy = movies), and am a ghost at @13thfloor (Lemmy = 13th Floor).

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This. I ask a question in a forum because I respect the people in it and want their take.

If I wanted to wade through pages of irrelevant shitty SEO bait pages I'd google it.

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This article is ignoring a lot of things. The biggest barrier to reconciliation is probably that Kagame's repressive regime relies on keeping enmities alive.

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\35 Those were the best times. Your body's still young af but your mind has grown up and gained some wisdom.

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That's funny, in my interface (kbin) it still looked like a list but it said 35.

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You're getting religion mixed up with technology and opportunity.

There's been plenty of violence, war, and extremism in the name of Buddha and Confucius. They absolutely can be used to justify genocide, just look at Myanmar. It's very difficult to find a major religion that has never produced fanatical sociopaths.

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@fiat_lux thanks!!!

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@ernest thank you! Please have a break so you can enjoy the weekend too!

Monkey Man review: a thrilling ultraviolent spectacle (www.bfi.org.uk)

Its multiple story threads and attempts to satirise India’s government sit awkwardly with the action, but there’s much to admire in Dev Patel‘s frenzied, ultraviolet genre spectacle....Shot and choreographed with a kineticism that never veers too far into the sleekly balletic, the fight scenes here are often enthralling...

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Where?

Edit: I see, you mean the typo in the opening line. I guess it means Sight and Sound's online editor needed more coffee.

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@Spacehooks
Now I want there to be a thrilling ultraviolet movie.

Like, maybe one where there's ghosts and you can only see them if you wear special UV glasses at the cinema!

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It was reliable like having a loyal dog in car form.

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Erasmus = student exchange between universities.

If you end up hosting other people's students but nobody else hosts yours, then you end up spending more on education.

According to the article UK students are less likely to go overseas because they can't speak any of the languages.

It's a bit like if you kept having your kids' friends over to dinner but your own kids were too picky to ever eat dinner at their friends' houses.

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I think most likely governments pay into Erasmus and then individual universities get fees reimbursed. The appeal of it for students is you don't pay international fees.

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A month ago Israel said it was going to "flood Gaza with aid".

All it did was flood Gaza with the blood of more children and aid workers.

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Convinced several people in high school that mixing mineral turpentine into their drinks was a good idea.

I was doing it too but still seems pretty messed up to take others down with me.

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I think it has to be. In worldwide terms, Catholocism is the biggest Christian sect/denomination.

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This sounds like a semantic backflip.

Catholics themselves see themselves as Christian and since they are the largest Christian denomination, saying they aren't is just No True Scotsman.

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Maybe in your part of the world, not in mine. Christians normally just say Christian unless they're trying to recruit you (they are less than half the population).

Anyway that's like saying if you ask me what my meal is and I say "steak" that means it's somehow not meat because I was specific about the kind of meat.

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This honestly reminds me of that meme where the dog only barks and snarls at the other dog when the gate is between them and whenever it opens he shuts up.

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This one not the one with the Alsatian.

President Macron says France and its allies 'could have stopped' the 1994 Rwanda genocide (apnews.com)

French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that France and its allies could have stopped the 1994 Rwanda genocide but lacked the will to do so, a strong declaration ahead of the African country’s 30th anniversary of the slaughter that left over 800,000 people dead....

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Macron will recall that when the genocide started, “the international community had the means to know and to take actions” based on the knowledge about genocides that had been revealed by survivors of the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust

Is the speechwriter tone-deaf, or are they intentionally making an ironic point about the current international genocide situation?

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France played a big role in the Rwandan genocide tho.

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