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  • We are indeed. Not looking forward to my old age, where doctors, accountants, and engineers cheated their way into being qualified by using a glorified autocorrect.

  • Your disbelief is strange.

    People occasionally ask questions in lectures. Anything they are confused about gets covered off in tutorials later. Lecturers and tutors both have office hours where further questions are asked.

    If a student has learning difficulties or special requirements there is pastoral care available for that.

    It's really not mysterious.

  • She has children. It’s interesting that if you thought a full on dictators/ death camp regime was coming (as she does) you would either abandon your children or put them in harm’s way, but judging other people for making a different choice does not make you seem all that righteous.

  • She has children. It's interesting that if you thought a full on dictators/ death camp regime was coming (as she does) you would either abandon your children or put them in harm's way, but judging other people for making a different choice does not make you seem all that righteous.

  • You sound naive. She studies dictators and she grew up in a neighbourhood of holocaust survivors. Teachers and their students are already being taken by ICE and it may become harder for targeted groups to find safety. This is not a question of "standing in a crowd".

  • The British can all do it for things like the Queen's funeral.

  • Trump physically resembles Baron Harkonen from the old film.

  • You sound like you are trying to trick people into getting their skin rasped off by sharks.

  • It's telling that even his dream job (security contractor in DRC) is very corpse-adjacent.

  • Because he had a friend who he loved who started making questionable choices and is now wanted for murder. I would cry too.

  • Gorgeous cat though.

  • Unfortunately no, there are a bunch of times in both the Torah and the Bible where God explicitly tells Israel to commit genocide, eg Amalek.

  • Yes. You can see why I think this will have long-term global implications for nuclear armament.

  • For many years Iran was enriching uranium and various other countries were like, no pls.

    This is a massive oversimplification but basically back in 2014-15 Iran agreed to stop trying to build nuclear weapons capabilities (and have increased surveillance of what it was doing) in exchange for lifted sanctions.

    Trump of course undid all that, Biden tried to reinstate it, Trump seems to prefer to let Israel bomb Iran instead.

    So in my view what has just been proven here (and in Ukraine) is if you trust the US and don't arm, you will get attacked by your enemies.

  • The malevolence of US foriegn policy is woven like a tapestry throughout modern history.

    I'm not sure that anyone has been mean-spirited enough to write a single source detailing all of it in one place, but perhaps someone else can suggest one.

    If you want to know how it gets hidden from you, Manufacturing Consent is old but a good place to start.

    I haven't heard it myself but the Behind the Bastards podcast about Henry Kissinger is often recommended and probably covers a significant amount of US involvement in foriegn genocides.

  • Good point. I assumed they meant the films because the books were not any kind of technogical innovation.

  • It has implications for nuclear armament. Netanyahu needs a forever war to stay in power, and Iran is now further incentivized to arm itself to deter that.

    Other countries in similar positions are seeing how having agreed to a non proliforation deal in the past with the US has panned out for Iran.

    So more nuclear armament is probably more attractive to certain countries who don't want to be the Iran or Ukraine of their regions.