They're emulating what's happening in Paris, they want to be part of the biggest sporting event of the year. 10 million people watched the final in France, that's 1/6 of the french population (and that's just the legal streams). No other sport gets that kind of motion, not by a country mile. The world cup gets a billion and a half globally. Genuinely, if you were in the streets in Paris on saturday you wouldn't be questioning it, within a half hour of the game ending there were enough people outside to block all the traffic, and I live on the edge of the city, that's what it was like at its lightest. No other event gets that many people in the streets, no protest gets that large. It's literally the biggest event these kids will see in their lives, outside maybe of the Hajj.
Religions are nothing if they don't have numbers behind them. If you win the numbers game you've got the game in the bag.
I don't know if you've ever lived in a city with a top tier football team. I've never watched a PSG game but I still know whenever they score a goal because the entire city starts shouting. During important games every cafe with a TV has a crowd in front of it watching. The entire city is the stadium.
The numbers still aren't in any way comparable, the champions league final has hundreds of millions of people watching. If you were anywhere in Paris last night you were hearing screaming, honking and fireworks until 3 in the morning, the streets were filled like it was a carnival.
I lived half my life in New York and saw a gun once. I lived the other half in Paris and also saw a gun once. I'm now in Paris and there's a gun range a few blocks away from me.
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Edit: actually nevermind, plutopos just reminded me I see guns all the fucking time in Paris because we have soldiers patrolling the streets with assault rifles, I'm so desensitized to it it completely slipped my mind.
It sounds to me like she's only just now figured out that trans people have feelings and is trying to retcon her bigotry into trans-inclusive victimhood? Like, nonono, guys, you don't get what I'm saying, trans people have rights, of course, I'm just saying I do too! Right? It's just that trans people, who I totally respect and always have, are trampling on my rights! I'm the victim here!
All the women I've been friends with who've worn a hijab did it in part out of faith and in part to free themselves of the male gaze. Not the gaze of Muslim men, but of men in general. All made the choice to start wearing it on their own, as adults, and most of them eventually stopped wearing it. These were all college educated women.
Oh, and G-Police
This, though I did also become obsessed with katamari damacy in college
Does he remind anyone else of the bad guy in The Mask?
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Dammit, guessed the order wrong, didn't get the reverse rainbow
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There's a lesson there though: the checks don't help, it's your general level of alertness that makes the difference.
Not that being aware of that will in any way convince your brain to stop checking.
They're emulating what's happening in Paris, they want to be part of the biggest sporting event of the year. 10 million people watched the final in France, that's 1/6 of the french population (and that's just the legal streams). No other sport gets that kind of motion, not by a country mile. The world cup gets a billion and a half globally. Genuinely, if you were in the streets in Paris on saturday you wouldn't be questioning it, within a half hour of the game ending there were enough people outside to block all the traffic, and I live on the edge of the city, that's what it was like at its lightest. No other event gets that many people in the streets, no protest gets that large. It's literally the biggest event these kids will see in their lives, outside maybe of the Hajj.
Religions are nothing if they don't have numbers behind them. If you win the numbers game you've got the game in the bag.
I don't know if you've ever lived in a city with a top tier football team. I've never watched a PSG game but I still know whenever they score a goal because the entire city starts shouting. During important games every cafe with a TV has a crowd in front of it watching. The entire city is the stadium.
The numbers still aren't in any way comparable, the champions league final has hundreds of millions of people watching. If you were anywhere in Paris last night you were hearing screaming, honking and fireworks until 3 in the morning, the streets were filled like it was a carnival.
You're right, it's written in Latin script on the neck
Connections Puzzle #1082
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I have a friend who has a PhD in medieval Malian history and he trounced me in french history trivial pursuit ðŸ˜
I lived half my life in New York and saw a gun once. I lived the other half in Paris and also saw a gun once. I'm now in Paris and there's a gun range a few blocks away from me.
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Edit: actually nevermind, plutopos just reminded me I see guns all the fucking time in Paris because we have soldiers patrolling the streets with assault rifles, I'm so desensitized to it it completely slipped my mind.
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No entiendo. ¿Que hay que pedir si ya tienes cerveza?
It sounds to me like she's only just now figured out that trans people have feelings and is trying to retcon her bigotry into trans-inclusive victimhood? Like, nonono, guys, you don't get what I'm saying, trans people have rights, of course, I'm just saying I do too! Right? It's just that trans people, who I totally respect and always have, are trampling on my rights! I'm the victim here!
Ah. Well. That would explain it then.
The guy in the middle looks like Bad Bunny with ageing makeup
I thought llms were a type of machine learning
All the women I've been friends with who've worn a hijab did it in part out of faith and in part to free themselves of the male gaze. Not the gaze of Muslim men, but of men in general. All made the choice to start wearing it on their own, as adults, and most of them eventually stopped wearing it. These were all college educated women.