Not sure what you mean, of course WhatsApp can disable it's own encryption. That would be an argument for open source third party apps and interoperability.
Recent studies in psychology and neuroscience offer systematic evidence that fictional works exert a surprisingly strong influence on readers and have the power to shape their opinions and worldviews.
Huh thanks, not that interested in the Potterverse specifically but that first bit is very interesting.
This is way too long lol. Did you read it? So do they trade with muggles?
Just compare the civilian deaths: UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has verified 30,457 civilian casualties since 24 February 2022, including 10,582 killed and 19,875 injured.
In order to justify the Genocide you need to completely dehumanize Palestinians. That is the purpose of this propaganda. The same propaganda tactic has been used before.
The Houthi are the ruling regime in Yemen, not rebels. This is a way to make them sound illegitimate. I don't like them at all but they did oust foreign imperial powers from their country (Saudi Arabia and the USA).
They claim to be acting over Israel’s war targeting Hamas in the Gaza Strip, however they have frequently targeted vessels with tenuous or no clear links to Israel
They are trying impose sanctions against Israel and say they will stop as soon as there is a ceasefire. They are doing this to win domestic support.
I really wish more countries would impose sanctions against Israel.
Again they are pretty bad islamists and apparently pretty incompetent, but the overall framing here is propaganda.
That is one of the flaw in the hobbit movie imho, in the book they tease the dwarves and sing silly songs and are generally very lighthearted. In the movie they are almost dour in comparison to the dwarves. But the hobbit was much more of a childrens book that the lord of the rings.
It's a question of math. Men have on average 60% more upper body strength and longer arms, so it's rather easy for any man to murder almost any women with his bare hands. Obviously this lead to various social adaptations which maybe can be mathematically modeled through game theory. There are always exceptions but the vast majority, like 90% of domestic murders are committed by the male partner.
So here we are after thousands and thousands of years of evolution. Equating or simplifying this topic is a major tactic by the fascists (male supremacy).
I wonder how something like that can be constitutional lol. Just take that paper and wipe your ass with it already :D Trump should issue a new constitution branded toilet paper, I bet the morons would buy it!
We living in a democracy in name only. Without a free press and independent media and without better rules to allow the people to make better choices, it's always going to go the way of some weird self reinforcing and randomly mutating ideology.
It would be nice to have a "patreon" like monthy support and then an open accounting - so we know the money is split to development, instance server hosting costs and maybe admin wages. Or maybe can vote on it. I think fediverse is only the first step, we're going to need some kind of global non profit funded by users to create federated software and content for users.
I don't know, I thought wizards can turn anything in pretty much anything. They have no "material needs", which would explain why they overwhelmingly have no interest to really cooperate with the muggles. If there was any material advantage then it would have happened long ago. So if you're worldbuilding you'd need to make some rules that muggles can give wizards something besides "useless gold" :D
There are articles about what went wrong, but mostly they weren't even trying to "nation build". They often supported the worst kind of monsters. Like people cheered for the taliban because they removed them, the worst kind of warlords, the USA put them back in charge.
What does work is prosperity, education and peace. Only then can you have democracy. Israel had 70 years to help build up Palestine, they could have had like 3 TV channels with propaganda to build bridges and give them a life worth living. The terrorism would have made that very hard, but if you occupy a country that would have been the way to go.
Sorry, that art style gives me the heebie-jeebies