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Mentioning Tiananmen Square, an example of internal repression with a couple of hundreds to a couple of thousands estimated fatalities, in the same sentence as two cases of near complete genocides of other ethnicities is wild. Do you not see how distorted that is as a comparison? In that comparison, you’re either trying to minimize the genocides of the Nazis, the Americans and the Turks, or raise the level of a case of internal repression with limited casualties to be comparable to massive historical crimes against humanity. Neither makes you look great.

I think that all of those have some impact on the levels of nor-epinephrine and/or dopamine in your system, which also impacts ADHD as far as I understand. I take bupropion hydrochloride (Wellbutrin in the US) for a combination of depression and adhd. It’s mild compared to the stimulants I think. Where I live, doctors do everything they can in order to avoid prescribing addictive substances, including stimulants.

The data from EU companies is anonymised and private. The data from Chinese companies is always available to their government.

Just trust me bro, the EU respects you but the Chinese are out to get you. The same EU that still has a special trade agreement with the genocidal Zionists, and is their biggest trading partner. The same continent that colonized and enslaved much of the rest of the world for centuries.Those are the good guys that you should implicitly trust, no proof needed you paranoid dummy. The red Chinese, they’re the scary ones. Fear them.

Addiction to porn is not a real thing. No reputable source classifies compulsive viewing of porn as an addiction as far as I know. These people just find it to be a convenient excuse for their compulsions.

This amazing man was a Social Democrat! Nowadays, the actual left party is far to the right of where he was in the seventies. That’s how far the window has shifted. His speech on prejudice still gives me goose bumps every time I hear it. Palme was a rare gem.

How about you work on your reading comprehension? Oh you were there, with the ‘burkhas’?! Anyone who knows anything about Iran knows that burkhas are not a common thing in Iran, so how about you cut the crap? So the rights of women were ‘evolving’ by ‘leaps and bounds’ huh? Does that include the 37% literacy rate for women at the time of the revolution? Improvement by leaps and bounds better describes the current close to 90% rate I’d say, or perhaps the 60% of college graduates being women. Again how about you tell us where women had more rights before the revolution other than the right to show more skin? I’m all for anyone wearing anything they like, but you equate a western dress code to progress it seems. It doesn’t matter if they can read or write it seems, as long as you get to see more skin.

I clearly wrote that women are fighting for their rights and are far from reaching that goal. You interpreting that as ‘thinly veiled support’ for the regime just exposes your thinly veiled royalist sentiment. Maybe you should ask yourself why in 2025 you are still clamoring for the return of a king? If that’s the ‘progress’ you speak of, most people in Iran would reject it wholeheartedly.

That sounds like a clumsy way to do it. It’s difficult to argue that refusal to do your job isn’t intentional fuckery. But I can think of many creative ways of just being hapless at your job. Also, it seems very odd if the employee could just fire you for any reason and then demand payment. I mean, considering that the costs they demand to be paid back generally is higher than the actual cost for the employer, I can see business ‘opportunities’ where they just give you the training and immediately fire you afterwards for any arbitrary reason, and make a profit in the process. Sounds wild.

Ok, maybe my brain is malfunctioning, but how would this play out if the employee just said, “ok, then I’m going to be an absolute nuisance at work until you fire me”?

The current secretary of defense of the US just made a post arguing for revoking women’s right to vote, among other things. The supposed leader of ‘the free world’. And the Europeans still call Trump daddy.

We’ll probably be looking at pictures of US women in a couple of decades and wondering how it could turn into a shit hole.

Even the rubber stamp parliament of the Shah had less women. Ffs, women gained the right to vote only in 1967! And there are currently 17 women in the Iranian parliament. Abysmal, but still far ahead of the era in the picture. That’s not even mentioning the extremely low levels of education among women pre-revolution. Don’t fall for this kind of propaganda, there’s more to women’s rights than getting to wear mini skirts as an urban elite. Women are still fighting for equal rights in Iran, and they are still far from reaching that goal. But don’t think that they haven’t made progress since the time of the picture.

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“What’s with all the surgery Cathy? Lord! You’ve been stitched up thousands of times but you’re still sad to look at … You’re like the AIDS-quilt!”

Kind of reminds me of this beautiful poem:

"…And I will leave. but the birds will stay, singing:

and my garden will stay, with its green tree,

and its white water well…

Many afternoons the skies will be calm and blue,

and the bells in the belfry will chime,

like they’re chiming this very afternoon.

The people who have loved me will die,

and the town will burst anew every year.

And in the corner of my green, flowering whitewashed garden,

my spirit will wander nostalgic from tree to well.

And I will leave,

and I’ll be lonely, without a home,

without a green tree, without a white water well,

without calm and blue skies…

And the birds will stay, singing."

-“El viaje definitivo”, Juan Ramón Jiménez

Going through the comments, it’s mostly Trump being an agent of China, of the Saudis, the Israelis, and mostly a Russian agent.

I unfortunately don’t think there’s a way out of this for the US population unless people start to accept that Trump is a very distinctly American character, the culmination of what the right wing in the US has been working towards forever. And that the problem the US has is an internal one. Trump is an inevitable consequence of the US political environment, and he or someone like him would’ve come to power sooner or later, even if Russia didn’t exist as an external factor. Unless people accept that, I don’t think there’s any coming back from this for the US population. It’s just going to get worse. And it unfortunately will also bring chunks of the rest of World down with it in the process.

Your first reply to me was “shut the fuck up you smug fuck head”, while I still haven’t called you any name, and you’re calling for the moderators to permaban me? That’s… pathetic. Grow a spine, that might make the comment section more intelligible

Your an Aussie, calling yourself a European. That’s how your society is different. Other people generally consider themselves to belong to the countries they inhabit, not be from another continent entirely. But the anglo settler colonial nations still call themselves European.

Wow, an American backing up the Aussie’s settler colonial understanding of national identity. What a shock that a member of the other major anglo settler colonial entity that hates the indigenous people of its land would feel this way. You are the anomaly, the rest of the world doesn’t distance itself from the history of the people who have lived there over the years. Understandable that you can’t relate though, your whole society has been based on the extermination of those people. So it’d be difficult to claim their history as your own or even feel a positive connection to it. That’s not the case for much of the rest of the world though.

I know it’s sometimes hard for Aussies to imagine history beyond 300 years back as being relevant to your national identity. But that’s just because it’d make you face the fact that your nation is built upon the ruins of a civilisation you feel zero connection to, because of you know, you being colonial settlers and them being the indigenous people you tried (and still try) to eradicate. In Egypt, and indeed in Italy, Greece, Iran, China, India and so on, people don’t viscerally hate what came before them wanting to just forget them. They do often feel as the inheritors of those ancient civilizations, and have incorporated them into their own national identity. So yes, Italians do feel like the inheritors to the ancient Romans, just ask an Italian.

That’s a very particular and odd view of what a civilisation is. By this logic, there are no inheritors to ancient Egypt at all since even the current inhabitants speak Arabic and not ancient Egyptian. In fact, Ancient Egyptian had already developed into Demotic Egyptian by the time of Cleopatra, and Demotic in itself was heavily influenced by Aramaic and, you guessed it, Greek. It’s fairly common for language to develop and change throughout the history of old civilisations, and in that process, be influenced by the major civilisations of the time. Cleopatra speaking Greek doesn’t make her not Egyptian, it just means that the Greeks were the dominant civilisation in her region during her lifetime. A thousad years later she’d be speaking Arabic, which still wouldn’t make her not Egyptian.

Don’t know if it’s still what’s recommended, but I use foobar2000 for ripping CDs to FLAC.