It will. Depends what type of bear though.
A grizzly? Their fat butts slowly climb at a glacial pace. A black bear? No climbing as they are Olympic class climbers, but you stand, make yourself big, and “fight” as they are cowards and are terrified by confrontation.
A polar bear? Lmao, get ready to die.
Honestly, I’d probably choose something by the ocean. I DO NOT trust the deep woods in the US. I do not want to go out for a morning walk and see myself staring back at me from behind a tree further down the trail or some devious cryptid garbage like that.
Miss me with that.
This means that either the US has CIA agents embedded in the Ukrainian high command, someone in the Ukrainian high command is dirty and is sending the US vital information Agent Werther style, or the US itself carried out or authorized the attack using Ukrainian assets.
On the other hand, if Ukraine is uninvolved, then the US has either propped up their own little terror group, or given some remnants of ISIS the resources to carry out this attack, and any communication as to how the US knew about the attack would blow their plausible deniability.
Exactly 0 of these possibilities are good, and the US has dug itself an enormous hole. This is going to absolutely blow up in the US' face.
Oh lmao, it just threw me for a loop because I was not expected a headline of “Woman thinks hat bobble is hedgehog” lmaoo
Sorry about that
That’s not the BBC, that’s BBC Manchester, or in other term, local news. They aren’t going to be writing articles on geopolitical tensions and China.
But do you think that Chinese news doesn’t do human interest or lighthearted articles?
Wouldn’t a better representation be a link to the front page? A random article about a person taking care of a hat bobble in Cheshire (while hilarious and did make me giggle), isn’t really breaking news international news.
Say what you will of Islam, there have been ethnic groups with ties to Islam in China for 500+ years, but before 1800 no meaningful Christian presence.
This is not true. Christianity was introduced to China by Syriac (Syria and Iraq) missionaries and believers of Nestorian Christianity who traveled the Silk Road in the 7th century in 635. Literally 1400 years ago, and 20 years after Islam was even founded.
These missionaries settled in Xi’an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, where they met with Emperor Tiazong, who was extremely interested in the religion, and allowed the missionaries to settle. They then built around 20-30 churches across China, translated the Bible into Chinese, and established a significant presence that would last the next thousand years. There are silk portraits of Jesus, thousands of tombstones dating to 700-1200 with crosses and Christian iconography, and so on.
It’s also an extremely unknown portion of history, but the Mongol Empire was significantly influenced by Christianity and was in close contact with the Papacy. This only spread Christianity further in China.
What do you mean when you say “you can’t imagine ISIS planning attacks on European soil?” That is their absolute bread and butter, do you not remember the various bombings and shootings that killed hundreds of people? The Paris shooting, the Brussels bombing, the Nice shooting, the London bombing, the Manchester Stadium bombing, etc.
There have been dozens of attacks in the last 10 years.
I hope the surgery went well, wishing you and kiska the best of luck!
There was a conversation about this a while ago on the grad when I asked the exact same question funnily enough. If you can find the thread the discussion there was very good and would probably answer your question. Not much has changed since that post was made.
Thanks for pointing that out! I worded my point poorly and I'll go edit that. What I was trying to say is that HIV progresses to AIDS and causes severe damage frequently due to its hidden nature, and the "low consequences" depends when the infection is caught. If it is caught during the acute infection stage, or early in the infection then damage would be minimal. However, the vast majority of people are not getting regular STD or blood testing and for some people it never crosses their mind because they've only ever had a tiny amount of partners, or maybe only one as in the case with 50% of Gen-Z.
Further, why would you get tested if your partner looked healthy, all you got was a bad case of the "flu" that was "definitely" unrelated to the sex, and your partner never told you about their status? We cannot also discount the social stigma surrounding testing, which while improving in recent years, still carries the stigma in large parts of the world that, "Why would you get tested if you aren't dirty or a prostitute"? Or the general unavailability of testing. Organizations like Planned Parenthood or college STD labs are invaluable, but not everyone has access to that.
For that reason, what are the odds of that person finding the disease in the Clinical Latency or chronic stage before it develops into AIDS or a more devastating secondary infection takes hold? Even without a secondary infection, AIDS has its own list of devastating symptoms.
I lurked for over a year and so when I joined I jumped in quickly and hit the ground running. Might have made me seem like I was an even longer term user.
What kind of small sad trees are you climbing?
A grizzly is never knocking the down a bog standard regular oak tree.