Laws don’t work well when many people openly defy them. Prohibition in the US is a good example of that. In Iran, it took massive protests against the hijab laws to dismantle the morality police. But what may cement this new tolerance of women showing their hair in public is the simple, casual defiance by many women in their day to day lives: [S]ince the death last year of Mahsa Amini, 22, while in the custody of the country’s morality police, women and girls have been at the center of a nationwide uprising, demanding an end not only to hijab requirements but to the Islamic Republic itself. Women are suddenly flaunting their hair: left long and flowing in the malls; tied in a bun on the streets; styled into bobs on public transportation; and pulled into ponytails at schools and on university campuses, according to interviews with women in Iran as well as photographs and videos online. While these acts of defiance are rarer in more conservative areas, they are increasingly being seen in towns and cities.
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I don't know if any of you saw this, but last weekend I was in Granite Falls, WA, doing a wilderness survival training course.
It was the hardest thing I ever did. Tested me to the limit, even more than my rim-to-rim Grand Canyon day hike in 2021.
Nonstop rain, cold. Slept outside under a tarp. Had really poor equipment. I had to learn to compartmentalize my thoughts into half hour intervals just to get through the night. No sleep, by the way. I simply couldn't.
Frankly, I am still processing the whole thing in my head. Like, what did I do this for? What did I get out of it? Did it make me stronger, more resilient, expose me in any way? (The latter, YES.)
I always think of myself as a physically strong person. I wake up at 4am every day and workout out, then run outside, shirtless, regardless of temperature. (This morning was 25 degrees Farenheith.)
Nevertheless, I think I am still mentally weak. The course exposed me.
DeSantis’ latest attempt to win back the suburbs It seems he’s had a change of heart: A NEW BILL was introduced in Florida this week that would give Gov. Ron Desantis more power over state schools, and allow the Republican politician to ban gender studies and critical race theory, along with diversity and inclusion initiatives, at Florida colleges, CNN reports. The legislation, which follows through with DeSantis’ promise to ban universities from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, was filed by Rep. Alex Andrade from Pensacola on Tuesday. If passed, Florida state colleges would be barred from offering major and minor programs in intersectionality, critical race theory, and gender studies. Core classes would also be prohibited from touching on these teachings or presenting history of the U.S. as “contrary to the creation of a new nation based on universal principles stated in the Declaration of Independence,” the bill reads.
I did a video on attachments and how attachments are a source of our suffering. (Buddhist concept.) I related it to investing and trading. (i.e. we are "attached" to the outcomes.)
People got pissed off. They unsubscribed or criticized me on talking about this.
Is this normal? I've been trading for over 40 years. Been a member and floor trader on 4 exchanges. Managed money for a major hedge fund. Ran a proprietary trading desk for a major international bank.
Economist by education. (Wharton, UCLA.)
Is talking about a non-Western philosophy so triggering to people? I don't fucking get it. I think we are ALL screwed up.
Indigenous owned forests in the Amazon absorb carbon; non-Indigenous forests produce carbon. Chicken and pig factories are bad for the animals and bad for the climate. Indigenous held forests capture more carbon The importance of natural forests as carbon sinks is well recognised – each year between 2001 and 2021 the world’s forests absorbed about Continue reading »
The Force Posture Agreement (FPA) clearly removes Australian sovereignty over what weapons may be launched or fired from this country by US Armed Forces. Even though the fiction is being peddled that this will occur at “Australian facilities”, the stark reality is that they are US bases under US control. Following the timely open letter Continue reading »
The ‘your atrocity is worse than my atrocity’ argument at the core of Richard Cribb’s response to Richard Culllen over Japan needs to be handled with care. Japan’s apologists can and do point to the very civilised treatment of Russian and German prisoners in the China wars at the beginning of the last century. They Continue reading »
Can we avoid, what a growing number of researchers and writers, consider, will be the likely collapse of human civilisation in the not-too-distant future, if we do not quickly and radically change direction? Two books, published in recent weeks, one by Canberra, science writer, Julian Cribb and the other, by a distinguished panel of authors, Continue reading »
There was a bothersome moment on television late in last week’s first cricket Test between Australia and India in Nagpur. It occurred when Allan Border expressed the opinion that Steve Smith’s behaviour in recognising with a thumbs-up sign that an opposing bowler had beaten his bat and scored a small victory was “ridiculous” and “stupid”. Continue reading »
In 1996, I was offered an untenured post in the department of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. What made the offer particularly attractive is that I could live in a large subsidised flat on Hong Kong Island, with a balcony overlooking the ocean. The main reason I was offered such beautiful accommodation, I Continue reading »
Faced with a ‘mini-Chernobyl’ in Ohio and bombing of the Nord Stream pipelines, the Chinese balloon was a distraction White House needed. A stray Chinese spy balloon, a train wreck involving deadly chemicals, and an act of state-sponsored sabotage or terrorism – which events do you think have a greater impact on the actual safety Continue reading »
Better her than me A cabal of Muslim, communist, socialist refugees is coming for you. But you knew that. During most of my Hullabaloo tenure, I worked in a cubicle. Posting during work hours being frowned upon, my social media engagement until recently was more limited. And I wasn’t about to waste limited down-time watching Fox. The staff at Media Matters does that for a living. Presumably, they get an alcohol allowance. Kat Abughazaleh is building her online audience commenting on the slime from your video| Oozin’ along on your livin’ room floor. She sits in her cubicle in Washington, D.C. collecting clips to post to TikTok and Twitter (Clare Malone ofThe New Yorker): “There’s that stupid voice,” Kat Abughazaleh, a twenty-three-year-old senior video producer for the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America, said. She and I were watching Carlson’s show in side-by-side cubicles at her organization’s offices, in Washington, D.C. Abughazaleh, a pair of sunglasses perched on her head and a vape pen always within reach, was flagging moments from the episode to post online.
A shit ton of caveats We’re not done yet. Digby referenced on Friday a tweet thread critiquing the recent Cochrane study on masking that has the right wing huffing and puffing even louder, “Masks don’t work!” Brett Stephens in the New York Times brought eye-popping attention this week to Cochrane’s overstated findings by quoting multiple masks-don’t-work and make-no-difference statements. Then, buried down in paragraph 10, we find “the analysis does not prove that proper masks, properly worn, had no benefit at an individual level.” Whoa! What? Kelsey Piper at Vox points out in the meta-analysis that most of the “randomised controlled studies” among Cochrane’s 78 are not about Covid, were not performed during the Covid-19 pandemic (or other epidemics), and only two were “about Covid and masking in particular.” They are examining the effect of mask mandates on community-level spread, not individual protection, as Stephens thoughtfully dropped into paragraph 10.
By Tom Valovic / Mass Peace Action I’m probably not your typical peace activist. Over the last 15 years or so, I’ve been involved in a variety of volunteer and activist work in environmentalism, healthcare, and the best use of emerging technology. As a relative newcomer, I’ve found that the level of fierce dedication and […]
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The so-called Collective West and the rest of the world have a yawning gap in how they view the war in Ukraine.
Unexpectedly, the election for leader of the SNP has become a true hinge moment in the entire history of the Scottish nation. Sure of their control of the party, the devolutionists in the SNP have openly come out with the proposal that Independence is merely an “aspiration” – Humza Yousaf’s exact word. Stewart McDonald and […]
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Famed short seller Jim Chanos discusses the ever-rising role of fraud in the US financial system and his views of China.
No Brasil, impulsionado pelo governo federal, projeto de lei tenta responsabilizar grandes empresas pelo conteúdo falso produzido por usuários.
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As 2023 unfolds, we fear that American policy will continue to be characterised by both mission creep and the absence of any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia. read now...