[-] vxx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The context is "if his plan had worked".

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

10 million to tap into a 10 billion market seems greedy

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's a quote. Those little things around the sentence have a meaning.

'It was Carnage': Students describe...

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I didn't think one second those students died in a war because of food poisoning.

It's also put in quotes, which implies they're quoting a person that was at the scene.

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Maybe he's working on his defense to claim insanity.

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

He hung out with Diddy. Don't be too confident about that.

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The book wasn't about Islam. It also wasn't about Christianity. It was about the Dominion Theorcracy which resembles more what we see with the religious extremists in America.

Edit: I would like to add that it also fits religious extremism in Islamic countries, but that's not what the aim of the author was. She definitely meant America and their extremists. She even created a flag that looks awfully similar to the American flag.

Dominion Theology is a group of Christian political ideologies that seek to institute a nation governed by Christians based on their personal understandings of biblical law. Extents of rule and ways of achieving governing authority are varied. For example, Dominion Theology can include theonomy, but does not necessarily involve advocating Mosaic law as the basis of government. The label is applied primarily toward groups of Christians in the United States.

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Looks solid to me, they definitely didn't cheap out. Ankered into the ground, connected to each other, and the mesh fine and solid enough to make it hard to get through. They're also high enough and hard to climb.

This creates enough choke points to control a mass, or to hold up individual groups long enough to get ahead of them.

Keep in mind that there will be additional guards this time and they won't have just sticks and shields.

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That too

Edit: But I think you're right, it's mainly iodine what I recalled. Fluorid is pretty rare I think. They put it in the toothpaste though.

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Or they could just keep scolding there supporters , calling them naive and dumb

What imaginary part of the Harris/Walz campaign does that come from?

Also, they're taking trump very serious. They say "Listen to him and take him serious"

[-] vxx@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's not a person, it's a concept that describes the evil inside us, and of what we have to be wary of.

I'm not religious, but I understand a metaphor when I see one.

I'm pretty sure the Bible warns about those hate preachers as well.

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[...] In a phone call to UDC leader Duma Boko, President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded and congratulated his opponent.

Despite overseeing a dramatic change in Botswana, recent poor economic growth and high unemployment dented the BDP’s popularity.

The party "had got it wrong big time", Masisi told a press conference.

"I will respectfully step aside and participate in a smooth transition process ahead of inauguration. I am proud of our democratic processes and I respect the will of the people."

He has urged his supporters to remain calm and rally behind the new government.

Speaking to Boko on the phone, the outgoing president said: "You can count on me to always be there to provide whatever guidance you might want."

In his first comments to the media since the outcome was clear, Boko, a 54-year-old former human rights lawyer, said: "What has happened today takes our democracy to a higher level. It now means we've seen a successful, peaceful, orderly democratic transition." [...]

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[...]It was the first conviction of a Louisville police officer who was involved in the deadly raid.

Some members of the jury were in tears as the verdict was read around 9:30 p.m. They had earlier indicated to the judge in two separate messages that they were deadlocked on the charge of using excessive force on Taylor, but chose to continue deliberating. The six man, six woman jury deliberated for more than 20 hours over three days. [...]

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In their analysis, the researchers found no significant differences in conspiracy mentality between the autistic group and the general population. Both groups scored similarly, indicating that being autistic does not inherently affect one’s general susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs.

This finding suggests that conspiracy mentality is not linked with autism, contradicting two potential hypotheses the researchers explored: one that autism might increase susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs due to common experiences of social exclusion, and another that autism might offer a type of protection against these beliefs due to cognitive characteristics associated with autism, such as analytical thinking.

Link to the study:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546805.2024.2399505#abstract

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