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This strange inability to respond appropriately to Israeli aggression is about more than Gaza. Events there have exposed the flaws in an entire model of politics and the assumptions that underpin it. If liberalism cannot offer a moral and stabilising form of governance, then what is it for? In the
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Reminders now has sections for lists, and once you've established sections, you can display a list in columns. I thought that maybe I could apply Personal Kanban to my Reminders. I started with a little research. Backlog/To-DoDoingDone My initial thought was that this wasn't going
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Team spokesman Mohamed Morad told The Associated Press on Friday the federation killed the cow and distributed the meat to needy people in Cairo the day before. Who are the Soccer Gods to which you sacrifice? Further down in the article, it mentions they did this before a couple of
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She is the stage mother who comes to all his ballet recitals and T-ball games and tells him he’s a star and that everyone else is doping. And if a little lawyering happens on the side, well, that’s a solid day’s work. Two birds with one stone.
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I’ve got plenty of gripes about Mastodon, but the aspect that makes up for most of them is that it feels very direct. It’s not just that it doesn’t have the various algorithms controlling the feed, but it doesn’t have the people trying to game the
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A few defense lawyers inverted the arguments of the prosecution to assert that the Germans' authoritarian mindset and obedience to the state exonerated them from any personal guilt. Seems a little crazy to make the defense be “our culture values authority and obedience therefore we are not responsible for
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Both the United States—concerned that its “Jim Crow” system of racial segregation not be labeled a crime against humanity—and the Soviet Union wanted to avoid giving an international court jurisdiction over a government’s treatment of its own citizens Jim Crow was the inspiration for the racial laws
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In its focus on “culturally determined patterns of behavior” as opposed to structural factors such as these, the urban-adjustment framing introduced at the Cincinnati workshop consistently mistook the symptoms of the postwar urban crisis for its causes. The behavior of the new urbanites became the symptoms of the crisis because
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Rightly or wrongly, Clinton seemed more interested in modifying the behavior of these voters than in trying to understand the material foundations of their grievances Does this work in MAGA’s favor? Their behavior is so distracting that no one bothers to look to see what’s at the root
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“The basis of all human-relations work with all people,” Giffin reminded his audience, “is that you have first to accept them as they are before they are willing to modify their behavior.” It does not sound like this step was made, but it sounds like a good step. The first
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The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived. The fact that those distantly related Indo-European languages had almost the same pronunciation of a single word meant that the word—and the concept behind it—had most
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I know these things are true because when I finally connected with other neurodivergent people, realised my full set of differences, and started to accept the things I cannot change – I began to thrive. You need positive examples to help you grow past your old lessons. You get those from