I wonder if the gender imbalance had an influence on this decision. According to Wikipedia there are 1.14 boys for every girl in the 15 and under age bracket. The lag in maturity got maybe more pronounced because there simply were more boisterous boys in the classrooms than mature girls who can answer all the questions.

I mean, come on.

It's FIFA. Handing out a peace prize. They didn't do it because they love peace so much. It's one narcissist painfully realizing that the success of running his organization's biggest money grab depends on the whims of another narcissist. Because that's still true, nothing will happen until after the world cup finals. Then, they will work up another shortlist for the next one (Kim Jong-Un, Benjamin Netanyahu, whoever is still alive in Iran and in charge, etc.) or, which is more likely, there will be a press release issued on a day when the world burns with bigger news that the prize is on hold indefinitely.

You're asking a question and then you answer it yourself.

Lemmy is part of the fediverse. On the fediverse you are your own algorithm. So either you have curated your feed to be very political or you're on the local feed of your instance, which has a lot of political posts. But you signed up there.

Either way, you're there by choice. Curate your own feed. I get lots of stuff that isn't political. Just keep in mind you don't get reddit user numbers over here so not every niche nonpolitical subject has found a viable community. Yet.

Well adjusted individuals are less likely to build a murderous drug empire. I think organized crime is a little bit like politics. If you've made it to the top you've been through so much shit that you have nerves of steel and a Teflon soul. You will have found a way to deal with it or you already went swimming with the fish.

They can probably afford a real therapist out of pocket but my guess is that's the exception rather than the rule. The inevitable influx of millennials and gen-z into crime may have driven those numbers up since Tony Soprano but still.

Yes, it's TACO Tuesday in Teheran.

Somebody should write a book about this. Maybe call it "Spare."

Calling it one law may have been oversimplifying it on my part. It's more of a concert of laws and case law. Here is a summary with sources.

As a bit of a left field addition to other good suggestions already in this thread:

Rescind the fiduciary duty of any officer in a corporation to increase shareholder value no matter what. Exceptions must be made for cases where it would hurt the environment (anywhere on the planet and judging by the strictest state laws in effect), cause excessive loss of jobs, or hurt consumers.

I think a lot of problems of late stage capitalism are downstream consequences from this stupid law.

I think apart from the spelling mistake there is one logical error in it for maximum kindness. It excludes all of those people who were fortunate enough to be surrounded by kindness. If they weren't denied any kindness they're allowed to be assholes.

It's a variation on the theme of "do unto others as you would have others do unto you." "Meet all people with kindness who mean you no harm." could be a rephrasing that balances maximizing outward kindness with a necessary amount of self defense.

Because it's phrased the way the title is. Were it "Were most Nazis Catholic?" the fate would be different.

Between the US regime, the mullahs, and OpenAI, this has to be the hardest game of fuck, marry, avoid in history.