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An interesting article on life in Russia from a Feminist POV. https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/10/21/russia-through-a-feminist-lens

My main beef with AI is that it is apparently causing a large increase in the public's utility bills.

It might also be noted that Christians had promoted hatred of Jews for hundreds of years, and had a long history of exiling them (Spain and England) and mistreating them in other nations all over Europe.

In 1731, Spanish sailors boarded the British brig Rebecca off the coast of Cuba and sliced off the left ear of its captain, Robert Jenkins. This traumatic auriculectomy was used as a pretext by the British to declare war on Spain in 1739, a conflict that is now known as the War of Jenkins' Ear...

I like Dunkin but do not have any favorite on the donut wars. My favorites are the ones with powdered sugar on the outside and chocolate or vanilla sugar creme on the inside. As for the importance of this topic, nations have fought nations over less important topics...

Any so-called inferior donut can be saved if you pretend it is Baba au Rhum and pour a splash of rum on it. However, the office may not be viewed by management as the appropriate place to repair the shoddy donut.

I keep seeing this claim that communism or atheism has killed 100 million people, but no see no attempt to justify these numbers. Mao, Stalin, Pol Po, et al? And that religion and capitalism and killed far less. Can we see some backup for these numbers? Backup That does not lead to the...

Even if your family has lived here for 250 years. MAGATs have turned the idea of Law and order into a sour joke

Do we all now have to carry full ID everywhere we go? And keep extra copies at home in case in case some government agency seizes them and does not return them at once? Sounds a lot like the ID Conservatives want very black to carry to their polling place, too, doesn't it?

They expect the ultimate in gullibility - after all that is what they give their idols

Those things are not unique to capitalist cultures

Pardon my emoji. A little bit of fear is good for you - a little more fear, not so much so. We should all be more than a little scared now.

The only thing Marxism has going for it is that capitalism is not doing very well either. Both have a terrible record. OTOH, well managed and regulated capitalism seems to be able to cope. Barely, if it can be kept out of the hands of Trump, et al. Which now seems doubtful.

Trump is playing to his gullible base. Grandstanding. They aren't bright enough to realize that they're being played and eat up everything he tells them like it's candy. .

I suspect that most science news reporters are either very good writers with limited academic science credentials or people with a bachelor's degree knowledge and/or credentials in one STEM field or another trying to cover areas beyond their limited credentials to do so. OTOH, who else out...