How does the World view America these days?

[Nebraska]

that gen alpha correspondent should be promoted

[ignatius]

“We think the price is worth it”

 

[chenGOD]

Texas man (and woman) worse than Florida Man?

https://torontosun.com/news/world/nurse-53-busted-for-having-sex-with-great-dane-was-a-big-animal-lover

Quote

A Texas nurse and her hubby are facing a slew of charges after cops allegedly discovered a video of her having sex with the family’s Great Dane — the world’s largest dog.

According to cops, Joely, 53, and William Mitchell Keen, 52, are also facing child pornography charges.

 

[decibal cooper]

[ignatius]

 

Edited September 1 by ignatius

[Nebraska]

A five-member panel of Brazil's Supreme Court upheld the ban on X. The decision was unanimous, with all justices supporting Moraes's ruling.

The ban was imposed due to several factors:

• Failure to comply with court orders
• Concerns over the spread of misinformation and hate speech
• Allegations of undermining democratic principles by obstructing voters' access to accurate information

“It is not possible for a company to operate in the territory of a country and intend to impose its vision on which rules should be valid or applied. A party that intentionally fails to comply with court decisions appears to consider itself above the rule of law. And so it can turn into an outlaw.” - Justice Flavio Dino

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/2/ban-on-elon-musks-x-platform-upheld-by-brazil-supreme-court

[ignatius]

another day another school shooting. 

Apalachee High School shooting: 4 killed, suspect in custody after students evacuated from school near Atlanta

https://www.yahoo.com/news/apalachee-high-school-shooting-4-killed-suspect-in-custody-after-students-evacuated-from-school-near-atlanta-164223056.html

 

[geosmina]

1 hour ago, Nebraska said:

A five-member panel of Brazil's Supreme Court upheld the ban on X. The decision was unanimous, with all justices supporting Moraes's ruling.

The ban was imposed due to several factors:

• Failure to comply with court orders
• Concerns over the spread of misinformation and hate speech
• Allegations of undermining democratic principles by obstructing voters' access to accurate information

“It is not possible for a company to operate in the territory of a country and intend to impose its vision on which rules should be valid or applied. A party that intentionally fails to comply with court decisions appears to consider itself above the rule of law. And so it can turn into an outlaw.” - Justice Flavio Dino

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/2/ban-on-elon-musks-x-platform-upheld-by-brazil-supreme-court

Amazing! May I dare say beautiful!? Of course! I hope Elon Musk fucking dies already and X or whatever it is gets banned worldwide!

[ignatius]

Edited September 6 by ignatius

[Squee]

Shit. If only there was some way of stopping this.

Well, best of luck to you!

[Rubin Farr]

 

[ignatius]

5 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:

 

it's crazy.,. the extracts and concentrates and all that shit.. people cashing in. seems like the 7ohm shit could be FDA approved as a drug for getting people off opioids and onto something less destructive.. in similar way to methadone. but should require a prescription and a treatment center type focus adn not "get high on this shit bro!" vibe. 

sticking to the water extraction and making tea seems helpful to a lot of people but some regulation is definitely needed.

[Nebraska]

one of the guys that started the fake rumor about haitians eating pets is this guy (nate higgers) from blood pride

[ignatius]

6 hours ago, Nebraska said:

one of the guys that started the fake rumor about haitians eating pets is this guy (nate higgers) from blood pride

jfc. "Nate Higgers" ????  wtf. 

this is a good wide ranging discussion on a lot of things america and some of how/why it is how it is currently. 

 

[Hugh Mughnus]

It would be amusing if it wasn't so terrifying (these kinds of clips and whatnot). 

[ignatius]

11 minutes ago, Hugh Mughnus said:

It would be amusing if it wasn't so terrifying (these kinds of clips and whatnot). 

what do you mean? it's a 90 minute conversation. covers lot's of ground. 

edit: unless you're referring to the nate higgers douche?

Edited September 14 by ignatius

[Hugh Mughnus]

On 9/13/2024 at 8:42 PM, ignatius said:

what do you mean? it's a 90 minute conversation. covers lot's of ground. 

edit: unless you're referring to the nate higgers douche?

I was referring specifically to the douche yeah. 

[ignatius]

The nuts and bolts of BRICS. I don’t know about these things but sounds like it’ll be a bit bumpy

 

[Crazing]

On 8/28/2024 at 8:41 AM, ignatius said:

“We think the price is worth it”

 

Was listening to the council of foreign relations podcast (don't) - they were saying how if only saddam had just said hey guys i really just dont have any wmds dont worry about it  then everything would have been fine - and therefore it was his fault for not communicating with the u.s gov - the somersaults - my god i cant fathom their delusions

[ignatius]

[decibal cooper]

On 9/16/2024 at 1:06 AM, ignatius said:

The nuts and bolts of BRICS. I don’t know about these things but sounds like it’ll be a bit bumpy

 

I think that BRICS on the surface is just an economic alliance, but with the two major military conflicts happening, and America/Europe’s involvement with those, that BRICS will morph into a military/security alliance as well. Countries that are tired of America’s unilateral military interventions and funding and also tired of sanctions and feeling hemmed in by having to do international financial transactions in US dollar.

Turkey just made a formal request to join BRICS like last week, and they are a NATO country now, so that would be an awkward conversation between Turkey and America if this comes to pass. Turkey will have to break out the George Castanza it’s-not-you-it’s-me tactic. 

I honestly do not know much about BRICS either, though. Maybe there are roadblocks I am not aware of for it to be successful. I think though that US support for Israel in particular probably has some countries considering whether or not it will be better in the future to be an ally with China and brics countries instead of America and the west

[ignatius]

22 minutes ago, decibal cooper said:

I think that BRICS on the surface is just an economic alliance, but with the two major military conflicts happening, and America/Europe’s involvement with those, that BRICS will morph into a military/security alliance as well. Countries that are tired of America’s unilateral military interventions and funding and also tired of sanctions and feeling hemmed in by having to do international financial transactions in US dollar.

Turkey just made a formal request to join BRICS like last week, and they are a NATO country now, so that would be an awkward conversation between Turkey and America if this comes to pass. Turkey will have to break out the George Castanza it’s-not-you-it’s-me tactic. 

I honestly do not know much about BRICS either, though. Maybe there are roadblocks I am not aware of for it to be successful. I think though that US support for Israel in particular probably has some countries considering whether or not it will be better in the future to be an ally with China and brics countries instead of America and the west

i don't know a ton about it either other than some conversations i've listened to on some podcasts where they cover surface level bits of it. but, that video he gets into the nuts of bolts of it and how it is different from what happens now since the US Dollar is monetary system the world's trade is based on.. more or less.. and even when USA isn't trading something the trade goes through US institutions because the dollar reigns. so, a bank or exchange in chicago will make a bunch of fees on a trade for wheat/grain between say, brazil and eqypt or something.. and BRICS will completely eliminate that step.. removing the USA as a middle man for all those kinds of trades. this deals a blow to USA hegemony and can potentially throw the system into some bit of chaos because US businesses (farmers) will be blind to prices and trades and not have all the information they usually have before say, planting a crop because they don't know the market and what is needed etc... which seems weird but w/so many mega farms run by corporations seems maybe not so bad because fuck them... but for smaller family farms, which admittedly are still pretty big, it will make things pretty challenging.. since they're all planting for the world market. 

ironically.. this could perhaps be an opportunity for more farmers to regenerative and be more sustainable and plant different things and instead of selling globally sell domestically and leave the global market to the mega farms... 

when shit gets too risky and complicated some people might reassess their plans for the future in order to survive and not have to sell their smaller farm to the corporate conglomerate which is basically speculating on the global markets. 

but what ifs are plenty and i know nothing about all this but it takes a lot of farming to feed the 8 billion people on the planet and due to market forces and stupidity we aren't doing it right.

Edited Tuesday at 05:38 PM by ignatius

[ignatius]

 

Edited Wednesday at 04:14 AM by ignatius

[DyeMyBlueBlack]

 

American here: I would lick a public toilet seat if that meant I can move to a country that focuses on social welfare 

[decibal cooper]

3 hours ago, DyeMyBlueBlack said:

 

 

American here: I would lick a public toilet seat if that meant I can move to a country that focuses on social welfare 

if you somehow have paperwork in your family showing that your grandparents or great grandparents were born in a different country, it is pretty easy I've heard to apply for citizenship to whichever country they are from. Heard it is easier if it is on grandfather's side.

My grandmother on my father's side immigrated to America when she was a teenager from Czechoslovakia. I was thinking about trying to apply for citizenship there if I can get help from my family to track down her identification papers if they still exist. Trouble is that decades after she moved here that country was divided into Slovakia and Czech Republic, and I have no idea which side she was from or how that works. Czech side has Prague, which is probably great. Not so sure what city Slovakia has, though, or what it is like there at all.