It's honestly sickening and it's so sickening that people either don't want to believe that it's actually how it works or they don't want to think about it because it's so horrible that any actual critical thought put into this problem would make someone extremely depressed.

It needs to change. It's literally slavery. If you can't afford a home or you don't "submit to producing profits" as you put it, The state can literally make you a slave. Remember that prison labor is a thing too.

This is spot on! I bring this up with any friends who have severe anxiety at any given moment. It seems to help. To think about anxiety as a trick your brain is playing to make you feel like you're in imminent physical danger seems to help me remember that whatever issue I'm worried about isn't that big of a deal and I'll likely survive it.

It puts things into perspective.

My high school coach used to say this. We were a team who had 8 players go to NAIA schools, D3 or played for a community college including myself (although I'm far from D1 talent). My coach used to tell us, for encouragement, the difference between a D3 player and a D1 player is usually 3 or 4 inches for every position. The skill is still the same.

Maybe it's not entirely true but there is some truth to it. There's also usually a big difference in athleticism but he didn't mention that haha.

Even players who actually were about that life like stephen Jackson and Zach Randolph weren't videoing themselves with guns (although who knows if they were around with today's social media culture)

Yeah it's Putin showing that he's not ready to cut his losses yet and is more than willing to let more Russians and Ukrainians die until he is.

It's basically a psyop way of saying "oh you think we're scared and almost on the brink of collapse, well we're not budging one inch"

If Russia came out tomorrow and said they're ready to cede the (illegally) annexed territories everyone everywhere would know that putin was in trouble. He knows this so these "open for talks" statements he puts out is more of a reminder that Russia plans on continuing the war indefinitely. Second: they're an attempt to make it look like Russia is still strong and is not crumbling under the weight of sanctions.

Well it's more organized crime, but espionage is also literally not legal. Spies are arrested and jailed all the time.

Edit: my thought isn't a unique one anyway. Many theorists have drawn comparisons between nations and organized crime. Nations are essentially the crime syndicates that retain the most power and influence.

It makes even more sense when you look at organized crime syndicates and how they run. You'll see a lot of parallels to how nations run. Alliances, treaties, laws, wars, even espionage etc...

The biggest difference is scale but we see with the cartels down in Mexico that crime syndicates can increase their scale so much that they're essentially their own nation with their own laws and governing bodies.

Espionage always fascinated me in general. Intelligence agencies are essentially criminal wings of governments to me. Not domestically criminal of course but much of what Intelligence agencies do would be deemed illegal in whatever country they're operating in.

Point being it's a weird field with weird rules and there can be multiple reasons for not jailing spies immediately from maintaining relationships, ensuring your prisoners on the other side aren't abused, to not wanting to give away your hand like you originally stated.

Studied in Brazil for a year and I know exactly what you mean. It's the first "mispronunciation" I was taught about

It's been that way since the Steph era. Russell Westbrook averaging a triple double was another symptom. No one has averaged a triple double since.... Oscar Robertson in the 60's

Yeah does anyone ever ask him how? How does it threaten a global nuclear catastrophe? Because if he answered I can't imagine it would be easy to answer in a way that doesn't cast a bad light on Russia.

We used it interchangeably when I was growing up. If you didn't make the team you were cut, but yeah this obviously isn't referring to amateur kids sports so I should've at least made that connection haha.

Ahhhhh I see, makes more sense to me now. Not exactly bittersweet then. I assumed cut meant you were never on the team to begin with not removed from the team so now I understand haha.

Edit: I was thinking cut the way you're cut from the team if you didn't make it after tryouts.

Exactly that's why it's bittersweet. It's in the same vein as being eliminated from a tournament by losing to the future champion.

Edit: Haha just genuinely confused as to why I'm being downvoted. When you lose to a team that turns out to be the best it's slightly less hurtful because it at least feels slightly valid. If you lose to a team that gets blown out in their next game the loss might hurt a little more.

Like would you feel worse about being cut from a bad team or worse if you were cut from a team that turned out to be very good and didn't need you after all.

Yeah this is especially true with Detroit. It has to do with the system as well. Police are not very involved in the community they're policing nowadays, often living in cities outside of where they work. Murder cases rely heavily on witnesses and testimony (like a snitch for example) if there isn't much physical evidence or the physical evidence is inconclusive.

Because police aren't very involved in their communities, witness testimony and snitches are hard to come by. Especially in a place like Detroit. Murders go unsolved here all of the time and the last time I checked (when I was living there 6 years ago) the MAJORITY of murders went unsolved.

Edit: Being involved in your community as a police officer can also help you identify things like motives or tensions between groups or gangs.

I'll just have you know, since this story is about Detroit, that the majority of murders here go unsolved. If no one snitches and there are no witnesses it's very hard to get a conviction.

Nepal's are scary but from what I've read recently the north yungas road (death road) in Bolivia is arguably one of if not thee most dangerous road in the world. It looks beautiful but also insane even compared to some Nepalese roads.

He's crazy and delusional, that's pretty much it. The only thing got right is that putin is bad. He got the reason putin is bad wrong and everything else wrong too.

Edit: Another commenter already said it but he's being punished for criticizing the Kremlin, anything else they throw at him is just a facade.

Yeah that's not what I said at all but okay.

Their technology was far behind and corruption was rampant domestically but there is no denying the influence they had in geopolitics. Shit many of Russia's current allies or sympathizers are left over from the cold war. I live in Vietnam which in general perceives the US as a partner and the US is very much liked here. You don't see any Russian flags anywhere but the hammer and sickle can be found everywhere. The Soviet union was a much more powerful ideological force than Russia if anything.

The Soviet union was a corrupt oppressive hell hole but the more I learn about the cold war the more it seems like the Soviet union at the very least supported a more humane foreign policy than the United States (a very low bar to clear in the cold war) which got them a lot of friends (that they're now losing at a staggering pace)

Edit: and just so no one thinks I'm a Soviet sympathizer because I'm very much not what I mean about the humane foreign policy is that while the USSR definitely had an unethical approach to foreign policy it's hard to beat the United States record of installing a corrupt dictator in the congo, illegally bombing Cambodia and Laos, installing violent dictators in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and pretty much all of Latin America, militarily supporting Pakistan's genocide of Bangladesh, and various other less violent but equally shady things amongst their allies.

The USSR just wasn't quite as busy as the United States, they were more focused on oppressing people back in their Soviet bloc (which included most of eastern Europe at the time)

The country/state thing makes sense since you're within the borders of the location but I always learned that it's weird we say ride in a car but on a bus.

Honestly the vendors at Angkor wat (I was there earlier this year) are mostly on the roads leading to the site and are absent from the actual temples themselves.

I would normally agree that these are annoying but in the case of Angkor wat it actually made it feel more authentic because I imagine that vendors were everywhere back when the site was actually occupied as well.

Honestly it's perfect for me. It's factual but leaves enough questions that you feel like you need to read the article to get the full picture. "Former prime minister crushes journalist under campaign truck" or "Khans driver crushes journalist" would be baity to me.... But I see where your coming from

Okay for sure! Thank you for the explanation!!

Someone mentioned earlier that consulates have different laws than embassies although that was another comment and I never verified because verification is for nerds. /s The claim though was that embassies are sovereign territory where consulates are not.

I agree with you one hundred percent on picking USA over china, but as someone who has recently met a lot of Americans who lived in china to teach English it was both surprising and not surprising to hear about how little government overreach affected the day to day lives before covid. Obviously china's current system works better than what they had before with Mao and before that was the century of humiliation so their system wasn't great then either. Can't really fault the Chinese for loving the government that at least brought them to the status of second most powerful country in the world and one with some of the highest living standards outside the US and western Europe. But again ideologically I would pick freedom and Liberty over safety and security any day and it seems china has sacrificed a lot of freedoms and liberties for that safety and security. Plus racism and marginalized communities still exist in china and that safety and security part doesn't apply to them.