bongoman42

You have a very heteronormative view of porn. Plenty of Arab women also enjoy porn and the origin of misogyny in Arab society is way older than any kind of modern porn.

The problem with free public transport is that it turns into a de facto homeless shelter. And then it isn't safe to use anymore. You let people evade fares and then those people go onto stab people like Zarutska.

I am not disagreeing with any of this, but the dream itself is alive. It is what attracts many of the imported cultures here. Does the importing make it easier for businesses to not share burdens, yes, but it also enables fresh ideas and modes of working.

The American Dream is very much alive. US is still trying to fend off massive number of immigrants from pretty much all over the world. People want to be here because it is a place where there is still hope for the future.

From later news, the the stabbing pilot is an Omani national and the stabbed pilot is Indian and it looks like a terror attack. Interestingly, the pilots who landed the plane appear to be Ukrainian and Russian.

The libertarian in me says people should be allowed to make their own choices but I can't negate that gambling in poor is overall significantly negative for society. Before India banned this kind of gambling, I had a firend who worked as a data scientist for Dream11, an online fatasy cricket like gambling app. He was able to see a lot about the people playing. Oftentimes, the daily 'ticket size' was somewhere around 100-300INR (about $1-3), these were folks earning maybe 1.5 to twice that at the most. Their kids were often going hungry so their parents could play.

This is a solved problem in 2026. You can create as many bots with varied personalities to talk to. Therapists have a vested interest in you continuing to talk to them and can induce neuroses in susceptible individuals.

We use Qwen 7B parameter model for this in production. It works quite well.

A part of saying something like um is to continue your speech and prevent the other person or someone else in the group from interjecting.

If it wasn't fun you wouldn't need to have an aphorism against it.

This is largely because states will not cooperate with ICE to help identify criminals among immigrants. ICE is not an issue in states where the police are cooperating with it.

The Islamic system literally permits slavery, including sexual slavery. It is far worse than capitalism any day.

The middle east has the largest concentration of billionaires outside of US/China and huge poverty alongside. It is so grotesque that the rich will often just kill people and casually pay blood money.