what are your thoughts on the sudan war?

why have big conspiracy when simple explanation will do?

lol putin, wasn’t funny the first time

installed by the US during the Arab Spring?

I thought you were going to say US for a second there

edit: nvm someone else did below

And what is Egypt doing about that?

i’m like why would egypt let israel control it

Egypt tightly restricts the opening of the Rafah crossing, and has kept it shut during previous Israeli bombardments of Gaza in 2021, 2014, and 2008. Since a period of heightened conflict between the Egyptian military and jihadists in the Sinai peninsula began in 2013, Egypt has vastly curtailed movement through the crossing, and banned the entry of aid organisations and journalists into northern Sinai. Palestinians accuse Egypt of bolstering Israel’s 16-year blockade by essentially closing their one exit route out of Gaza.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/15/rafah-border-crossing-could-egypt-open-it-to-fleeing-palestinians

yep sounds about right

what’s stopping them from supplying aid through the Egyptian border?

damn, hopefully saudi arabia, qatar, dubai, oman, egypt, or any other trillion dollar petro states can step up and help out

maybe egypt needs to open the gates so they can let aid in?

passing of the Gender Recognition Act in 2004, which allowed trans people to change gender on their birth certificate

this doesn’t make sense to me, if gender is a social construct then why is it on the birth certificate? shouldn’t it be the sex that’s on the certificate and can’t be changed?

damnit you got me, i actually did read it afterwards and realised my comment was wrong but then just left it as it has 9 updoots

hell yeah! rest in hell

but tbh it’s not, old people love it

tbh i’ll just keep using perplexity without using the browser, still firefox with ublock for me

yeah right, trump might be mental but you’re still a dictatorship

Facebook is a disaster that is happening in real time and yet

Facebook has for some reason decided I need to see a constant stream of compact, cutesy studio apartments with a variation of “this is all I need” captions.

Oh you still use it

There’s still a lot going on globally:

https://www.marinetraffic.com/

But I don’t expect the US to have a fun ride

This economist says there’s a 90% chance of a recession. Here’s the math.

During the 2018 trade war with China, the U.S. average tariff rate increased from 2% to 3%. Studies show that the impact on gross domestic product was between 0.25% and 0.7%.

Using the low end of the estimated impact, and Trump’s plan that at the moment calls for double-digit tariff rates, Slok says the negative impact on GDP in 2025 could be almost 4 percentage points — and that doesn’t even include the negative impact from uncertainty for consumer spending decisions and business planning.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-economist-says-theres-a-90-chance-of-a-recession-unless-tariff-policies-are-changed-e43c40d1?mod=home_lead

So a 4% hit to GDP when GDP last year in the US increase by 2.8% does not sound good

I appreciate the news, but keep it realistic and well sourced. As in, link to the actual publication that makes this statement.

Yeah the post was pretty low quality, I did find this though:

Power-sector CO2 hits ‘all-time high’ in 2024 despite record growth for clean energy

https://www.carbonbrief.org/power-sector-co2-hits-all-time-high-in-2024-despite-record-growth-for-clean-energy/

tldr: power demand went up faster than renewables could be installed because of heat waves particularly in India, if it was an average year then renewables would have outpaced new demand, so on this basis renewables are still expected to outpace new demand over the next 5 years as there’s still tons of projects being implemented

tbh I’ve been complaining about India for a while now, all the gains the west is making are being undone by them

I wish more countries were helping India install more renewables, low interest loans, lending tech expertise, whatever it takes

He did get a lot of things right:

Pope Francis says Trump ‘is not a Christian,’ Trump responds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnv6tIRW86A

“As if I could have taken a selfie or a photo while Karadima abused me and others and Juan Barros stood by watching it all,” tweeted Barros’s most vocal accuser, Juan Carlos Cruz. “These people are truly crazy, and the pontiff talks about atonement to the victims. Nothing has changed, and his plea for forgiveness is empty.”

Wasn’t this then 6 months later:

Pope Francis begins purge at Chilean church over sex abuse scandal

Francis realized he had misjudged the Chilean situation after meeting with Cruz and reading the 2,300-page report compiled by two leading Vatican investigators about the depth of Chile’s scandal, which has devastated the credibility of the church in a once overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country in the pope’s native Latin America.

“A new day has begun in Chile’s Catholic Church!” tweeted Juan Carlos Cruz, the abuse survivor who denounced Barros for years and pressed for the Vatican to take action.

“I’m thrilled for all those who have fought to see this day,” he said. “The band of delinquent bishops … begins to disintegrate today.”

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/pope-francis-begins-purge-at-chilean-church-over-sex-abuse-scandal https://apnews.com/article/33b208ef4bc84576a503b059629607db

Sounds like you could maybe… forgive him… for making a mistake while attempting to cleanup the worst mess in modern catholic history?

But I’m not a catholic or religious at all

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