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A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in the US
Dalit man killed after brutal assault for calling caste-Hindu shopkeeper’s son “beta” in Gujarat
Activists in Toronto are currently demonstrating outside the Ontario Food Terminal in support of the Palestinians being forced to starve in Gaza
I'm in Mumbai. The 37km north-south journey from one end of the city to the other costs 20¢ on the local train. $1.20 if you want to ride the fancy train with AC. East-west is 13km and costs 50¢ on the elevated metro line.
This led to a very confusing discussion in the replies about the varying fares and systems of public transit in the Oakland-San Francisco area
As someone forced to ride my bike right next to thundering trucks and cars on the roads every day, I can't begin to enumerate how many close calls I've had because there are no bike lanes here.
They're also trying to make a movie about Hind Rajab's murder while her family is still stuck under the genocidal occupation that killed her
Just about every state and province in North America could claim that title once you're outside the bigger cities
93% of gynecological research is conducted on men? Research into ovarian cancer? Development into drugs for preeclampsia?
That's not what that means at all. It means gynecological research + research into other issues that only affect female physiology only accounts of 7% of all medical research. The other 93% is either focused on general or male-specific issues (and conducted mostly on men).
Issues that affect both women and men still often tend to affect both in different ways -- but the majority of medical research tends to just take what works for the standard male body and apply that to everyone regardless of sex instead of investigating sex-specific effects and tailoring solutions around that
Open letter to the Bluesky moderation team about their treatment of Palestinian accounts
There's no "might" about it -- the entire system is dyed bright saffron and the ruling regime has mastered the art of keeping it that way to maintain their iron grip on power and cover for their gaping failures in economy and governance
Medical science is in fact terribly biased against women because the standard baseline is almost always a typical male body
Spoon found in kitchen
Chiquita fires thousands of striking banana workers in Panama, says it suffered $75 million losses
I'd honestly love to take my cats along on a motorbike ride, but that would mean subjecting them to the hellscape that is Mumbai's traffic, so...I'm not about to do that. Props to the guy who did, but nah
The organizers seem to be the usual trance-rave "boom shankar" fuckwits who do this kind of nonsense on the regular -- but I do notice Paytm Insider, BookMyShow, and Skillbox selling tickets for this as well
I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide
I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide
I just came across an AI called Sesame that appears to have been explicitly trained to deny and lie about the Palestinian genocide
I know lol. This is like when the CIA put out that one recruitment video aimed at Chinese citizens a few weeks ago -- the video was supposed to lament the terrible conditions of Chinese workers, but inadvertently turned out as a brutal critique of American capitalism
The Houthis are targeting the airport, not airliners.
There was also a more recent victory of Samsung workers against the company in Tamil Nadu, just a few weeks ago I think
You're not wrong, but Sabine Hossenfelder is not a good source for well, anything (except physics, which she has excellent grounding in).
He's a fed himself, is the point I'm making. He's not some innocent patsy being framed, he's in on the entire thing for the optics of it
No I get that, but there's this prevailing sentiment that cars are somehow more necessary in rural areas because...they're not worth serving with transit or something? I don't know. I think it's ridiculous. Big cities should obviously have excellent transit and non-car infrastructure but so should small towns and villages
You're so right actually. All of the facts are absolutely being reported with pinpoint accuracy and zero bias or obfuscation by official sources and media that absolutely haven't demonstrated a consistent slant towards a certain side for the entire duration of this latest round of genocide in particular and the entire struggle in general.
Come to think of it, I'm sure the timing of this event, coming at a time when that particular side is actually starting to lose substantial support in the court of public opinion as well as in actual criminal courts, is completely circumstantial and coincidental -- as is the fact that the perpetrator is part of a "leftist" organization that is notoriously riddled with feds to keep an eye on the movement, or the fact that he was treated with kid gloves and allowed to shout FREE PALESTINE loud and clear for the cameras to capture, by a police force that normally shoots kids with toy guns -- the same police force that was pointing guns at Aaron Bushnell as he burned to death.
Completely above board and natural, I'm certain.
Funny you should mention Asian countries, considering both I and the author of the tweet in the screenshot live in an Asian country. We do use individual transport -- but it's not cars, it's usually motorbikes or scooters. The "meme" (actually a serious opinion from someone who studies urbanism and transport for a living) is aimed at manufacturers and governments (like mine) who are pushing electric cars that most people can't afford (and that people in rural areas definitely can't afford) to the exclusion of public transit, which practically everyone can afford.