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wanderer ,

The new deaths bring the total reported so far by various countries to 577, according to an AFP tally.

The do cite their source.

At least 60 Jordanians also died, the diplomats said, up from an official tally of 41 given earlier on Tuesday by the Jordanian government.

Do you think it's impossible that 41 people could die, reported on, and then more people die?

wanderer ,

Great. That is a state issue, so pay attention to your state government, vote for state representatives that support better voting methods, and contact your state representatives to push for reform.

That doesn't change this trolley problem.

wanderer ,

Fascist societies rhetorically cast their enemies as "at the same time too strong and too weak". On the one hand, fascists play up the power of certain disfavored elites to encourage in their followers a sense of grievance and humiliation. On the other hand, fascist leaders point to the decadence of those elites as proof of their ultimate feebleness in the face of an overwhelming popular will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

wanderer ,

And even further back, the systematic use of rape by Zionist militias throughout the course of the 1948 war as an instrument of ethnic cleansing and dispossession led to the displacement of around 750,000 indigenous Palestinians to make room for the nascent Jewish state. Palestinian women, who are entitled to “birth the nation,” to borrow from Rhoda Kanaaneh, have been particularly targeted by this eliminationist Zionist practice, as a way of disposing of an undesirable population.

They have always been doing this, since the founding of their country.

wanderer ,

Jesus committed a terrorist attack against the Jewish temple.

wanderer ,

Was the emperor some kind of chicken? Gallienus is awfully similar to gallus.

wanderer ,

I guess memes adapt to their environmental pressures

That should not be in any way surprising.

The word was coined by British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976) as a concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

wanderer ,

Monkeys and apes

That's redundant. Apes are monkeys. There has been a shift in how life is classified, and for the same reason that birds are now considered to be dinosaurs, apes are now considered to be monkeys.

Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes. Thus monkeys, in that sense, constitute an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms monkeys and simians synonyms in regard to their scope.

wanderer ,

They are probably influenced by Christian Zionists or are Christian Zionists themselves. Their support for Israel is not to support Israelis or Jews, but to use them as pawns to bring about the second coming of Jesus and the Apocalypse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism

wanderer ,

That's Robert Landsburg although I don't think his photos are very famous.

The series of photos that were turned into a video were taken by Gary Rosenquist, who survived the eruption.

wanderer ,

It's a halo. He is a saint in Christianity.

wanderer ,

The thing on the head

It's a halo. Are people unaware of what halos are?

wanderer ,

This style of halos appear a lot in stained glass windows and those are in movies and tv shows often enough that most people have probably seen some.

wanderer ,

It's also in the opening scene of Monty Python's Life of Brian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxFr3t-tHw&t=178s

wanderer ,

In the US, the calorie used in nutrition data is actually a kilo calorie.

and therefore one kilocalorie (one large calorie) is 4184 J

In the United States, in a nutritional context, the "large" unit is used almost exclusively.

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