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De_Narm , in Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor

Maybe I missed something, but he seems to be using the same math as the guy who projected his baby would gain a weight of a trillion pounds if the rate of increase remains constant.

Not only that, it kinda implies that everyone wants to be a Sato, otherwise they could chose the other surname upon marriage. Which people would most likely do if it is too common. Given this assumption, the option to keep your maiden name wouldn't help (but should still be there).

BigMikeInAustin , in USA | Ten Commandments to be displayed in Louisiana public school classrooms

Didn't something like this happen in a different state and so someone wrote the 10 commandments in Hebrew and the schools freaked out about having "heathen" writing on the wall?

Because the original christian "god" only wrote in modern US English.

HuntressHimbo , in Biden gives residency to undocumented spouses of US citizens

This feels like a cheap throwaway after he shut the border to asylum seekers. Just papering over his own little fascist border policy

EDIT: just want to be clear its good he's doing this, it just strikes me as particularly insincere right after the other border news.

ArbiterXero , in USA | Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

What an unbelievably stupid thing to do.

They get that viruses and new variants don’t respect geopolitical borders right?

LainTrain , in "Training future authoritarians": How China promotes its authoritarian capitalism model by teaching government officials in the Global South on how to infringe people's freedom and undermine democracy

I cba to read this. What did they actually say in those docs? Did they tell them to kill the poor and discriminate against undesirables or what?

Given that in China, law enforcement is designed to protect the state and the Party rather than the people, journalism is prescribed to create national unity rather than act as a check against the system, and the law is intended to protect the regime rather than its citizenry,

atlanticcouncil.org

Yeah this doesn't seem very unbiased.

csolisr , in Moscow stock exchange stops trading in dollars and euros
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@BrikoX Now they're stuck with what, the Renminbi-Yuan?

The_Che_Banana ,
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Shekels and I.O.U's

crawancon ,

I'll give you 14 Brapples and a Flurbo for those schmeckle comrade.

WanderingVentra , in USA | Alito Says SCOTUS Should Push Nation Toward “Godliness” in Secret Recording

Well that's terrifying. I'm starting to think you can't have a real democracy without strong recall abilities on politicians. The fact that these people are untouchable in office no matter what we find on them is insane.

BrikoX OP Mod , in USA | Alito Says SCOTUS Should Push Nation Toward “Godliness” in Secret Recording
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I think this clown missed the class where US Constitution mentions "separation between Church & State".

Coasting0942 ,

No no, my Christian fan fiction says the Founders were really thinking about the Jesus when they were writing that part, so it cancels out.

vonbaronhans ,

Except the US constitution does not include that language. The "a wall of separation between church and state" phrase most notably comes from an 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson to the Danbury Baptist Association. Not a legally binding document by any means.

I imagine you're thinking of the Establishment Clause of the Constitution which forbids the US government restricting the free exercise of religion.

I believe, iirc, the Supreme Court over several decades has affirmed and reaffirmed the overall position that the US government must remain secular and not favor a particular religion. Which is effectively what you're getting at.

BrikoX OP Mod ,
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You are correct. Though the meaning behind the phrase remains true and biding precedent. If only precedents meant anything in today's court system. They reinterpret the Constitution on a daily basis to suite the billionaire needs whose paying them that day.

csolisr , in USA | In Wyoming, Bill Gates moves ahead with nuclear project aimed at revolutionizing power generation
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@BrikoX While I appreciate the fact that sodium cooling requires less space to build a plant than the former water-based technologies, and that it requires less human intervention to avoid an exclusion-zone-degree accident, I'm not entirely sure how will the Natrium technology reduce nuclear waste to an acceptable level, both of quantity and of safe storage conditions.

sik0fewl , in White House Labels Israel’s Attack That Killed 274 Palestinians as “Successful”

So did NBC News.

Rapidcreek , in USA | Thousands gather at White House for pro-Palestinian protest

I hear Fags for Hamas was represented

sonori , in Nepal | Mount Everest: Eleven tonnes of rubbish taken off Himalayan peaks
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Well There's Your Problem episode on how so much rubbish and corpses get up there in the first place.

AnEilifintChorcra , in Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website

https://static.al2.in/toward-nakba-as-a-legal-concept.pdf

Oh nice, we can all still read it. I would have never seen it if they hadn't taken it down since I don't follow Columbia Law Review

1984 , in Male birth control gel is safe and effective, new trial findings show
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Why do they always use the phrase "safe and effective". Almost as if they are programming people by repeating the same phrase everywhere....

MeowZedong ,
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Nah, it's almost as if proving a treatment is "safe and effective" is the entire purpose of a phase ii clinical trial.

If you want pharmaceutical conspiracies to chase, follow the money. The point at which they are trying to "program" you is when the drug hits the market and commercials come out. It's not that these products are ineffective at this point, just that they will do just about anything to capitalize on them.

Pharmaceutical companies are by no means clean and trustworthy, but your conspiracy is literally just a description of marketing and advertising, which I agree is a plague upon our society.

walter_wiggles , in Global pandemic treaty to be concluded by 2025, WHO says

Lol they can't even agree on vaccine sharing.

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