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Wear pink but don’t cry - "Men under 25 are less likely than their elders to feel comfortable hugging another man or weeping in front of them. What happened?"

For me this is the crux of the issue:

To Galloway, neither the left nor the right — which can seem compelling to rudderless young men — are providing a genuine alternative. “The far right conflate masculinity with cruelty,” he says, referencing Tate and Vladimir Putin. “The far left thinks that men should, quite frankly, act more like women. Neither of those is productive.”

Men, especially young men, today are stuck in a no man's land where they know that the toxicity of the past is not what's socially acceptable, but no one's giving them a model of what they can be. They are collateral damage of the culture wars.

Andrew Tate (just writing that name feels dirty) and his clique are exploiting this to cultivate hate and toxicity, but the traditional feminist approach that "Men should get in touch with their feminine side" will leave them isolated socially from their peers and emotionally.

The middle road will not be feminine and won't be the traditional masculine role that's still very present in culture, but will be a place where men can confidently own their vulnerability.

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Check your biases

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I read somewhere that people in Asia won't tilt on things like eye or hair colour being different immediately since their so used to black hair/brown eyes that they just filter it out and use other cues.

This also means that people who look identical to say a European are considered to look nothing alike.

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Shout out to the oil, meat, and shipping industries

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The point is that they've established a relationship between o16 levels and temperature, so if you've got twice the o16 then say it was 25% warmer (made up ratio, I haven't read the study).

This doesn't tell us what the air temperature was, but it does tell us what it wasn't (IE upper and lower bounds).

When you have several of these proxies it helps narrow down the temperature range (think how your god works better when you have more satellites).

Now if you know that the last seven days are the hottest on record and you know from your proxies that you are outside of temperatures of the past 100k years then it's a pretty safe bet to state that we're at the hottest time in the past 100k years.

There is no melodrama or lying in this fact, unfortunately.

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Amazon faces potential break-up as FTC finalizes antitrust lawsuit | The FTC is getting ready for the big one

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Yes and no.

The simple fact that you're not using IE6 on MSN with Bing search to access a Windows server is more or less proof that the constraints placed on Microsoft at that time did actually have an impact (even if I felt robbed that the company wasn't split up at the time).

Today the one thing Microsoft is still dominante in is Office software (and even then Google docs is snapping at their heals).

OS? Android is more popular than windows Server OS? Linux rules the roost Browser? Chrome

The company that really needs scrutiny ATM is Google.

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Syndicats de police : un tract incendiaire d’Alliance et d’UNSA-police, révélateur de l’exaspération des troupes

Franchement tant mieux.

Le rôle du flic n'est pas d'abattre le méchant comme au Far West.

Ce n'est pas pour rien que l'usage de l'arme à feu est tellement encadré pour la police, c'est le seule façon que cet usage soit légitime dans un état de droit.

Si les policiers se rendent compte qu'ils ne savent pas dans quel cadre ils peuvent légitimement se servir de leur outil a donner la mort, mieux vaut qu'il reste au coffre.

Pendant qu'on y est, un petit rappel de la définition de "protéger et servir" ne serait pas de refus.

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Influencers are disgusted with Amazon's paltry $25-per-video endorsement offer | It looks like full-time Amazon UCG creators are getting a 90-percent cut in pay

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Technically it's their client that's putting the thumb screws to them.

If that's the case the logical solution is to put your commercial hat on and find another client. Amazon aren't the only ones paying.

If Amazon was your only client that'll be tough, but speaking from experience if you don't diversify your client base, you're living on borrowed time anyway.

This doesn't mean Amazon are not being abusive, but the solution isn't to moan on the internet.

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Russia interfering in 2024 election to help Trump, US intelligence officials say

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Honestly, Fox have been putting distance between themselves and Trump for a little while.

They can see he's nuts and also that Team trump means risking jail time.

Add to the fact that the election is now a toss up, and being seen as not R enough for Trump is a lesser evil than getting dragged through the courts on treason charges.

Doesn't mean that they've changed their heart, just that the rats know when to abandon ship.