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  • What a fascinating guy! He really was ahead of the curve. A pity his contemporaries repressed him so much.

  • This is what I took from the article. The point of the exhibit isn't really relevant since it doesn't fall into an existing carve out of permitted discrimination.

  • Modern history, possibly. In terms of casualties it resembles a genocide more than it resembles a war.

  • Exactly. NGOs are pointing out that aid drops etc are not going to fix this, once famine hits you need a framework of relief workers, and the situation is far away from being able to have that.

  • We don't have tipping culture but praising the meal to the waiter is considered polite at the end of the meal.

    This only applies to the elderly generation but they tend to put "quite" at the start of any praise.

    So, saying food is "quite good" is actually higher praise than "good". But to people not from here it sounds like the opposite.

  • I get the feeling this person is probably talking about commercial surrogacy from a European perspective.

  • Very cool, thanks for sharing!

  • This part's noteworthy:

    Scott Paul, the head of US government advocacy for Oxfam, said simply flooding the area with food was unlikely to solve the hunger crisis.

    “In the north we are talking about a famine situation where putting food on someone’s doorstep, or dropping it from the sky or offloading from a pier could be dangerous. It’s not just minimally helpful, it could be dangerous to severely acutely malnourished people,” he said.

    “The kind of humanitarian assistance needed to bring people back from a famine … [would involve] flooding the zone with people and medicine, and medical supplies. And that requires a kind of operating environment that we are nowhere close to having right now.”

  • Probably zoology and neuroscience.

    I enjoy some of the soft sciences as well but that feels a bit off topic.

  • I kind of prefer neurology for brain stuff.

  • Not who you're asking but watch Forbrydelsen, it's great and everyone on it is real looking.

  • Yeah but we weren't very good at it until digital filters. In really old movies they make the close ups of women slightly blurry.

  • It used to be good, but in recent years it's become so bad that I'd rather no recs.

  • I have history and recs turned off in youtube, it's great. The front page is blank with a search bar.