I love how unrealized gains are worth enough to borrow against, but somehow don't count as wealth for the purpose of taxation. Funny how that works.

Minor but still significant victory for LGBT rights in China https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/world/chinese-court-recognises-two-legal-mothers-in-landmark-lgbtq-ruling-471531/

The paucity of the examples of repression is very telling. Omg a handful of security checkpoints, I've never seen that kind of thing when I travel through airports or enter bars before, holy shit

After reading the Biden time magazine interview transcript I was looking at trump rally transcripts to compare and contrast and I found this excellent passage

In fact, I shook so many hands of policemen and law enforcement. This hand. They tend to have very strong hands and when you shake hundreds of them, they have very, very powerful hands. “Sir, thank you very much.” “Thank you, sir.” One guy’s fingers, like sausages. “Sir, do you mind if I shake your hand?” “Absolutely.” And he’s crying a little bit because he’s happy. He hasn’t cried since he was about one month old. ” Sir, do you mind if I shake? We have to save our country. May I shake your hand, sir?” “Yes.” You go, “Aww.” But that’s okay. We do it.

https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-rally-in-reno-12-17-23-transcript

Does it count as foreign election interference when ?

https://archive.ph/sbAPI

The Israeli government is behind a large-scale influence campaign primarily aimed at Black lawmakers and young progressives in the United States and Canada.

A network analysis found four other websites that used the same IP and promoted content designed for certain audiences.

One was the United Citizens for Canada site, which had multiple social media accounts and disseminated heavily Islamophobic material, including claims that Muslim immigrants were a threat to Canada and demanding a sharia state.

Another was the Arab Slave Trade site, which was copied almost entirely from Wikipedia and was aimed at Black Americans, trying to repeat the message that the Arabs had been slave traders in Africa.

Yet another site was called Serenity Now, which branded itself as anarchist and anti-establishment, sought to convince young Americans to oppose the creation of a Palestinian state because "states are manmade structures" and a Palestinian state "would hurt the goals of the progressive movement."

Codifying a definition of Judaism that inherently means thinking that genocide is cool and good - what could go wrong

I really hope that over the years China-Russia partnership gets stronger and that Chinese acceptance of LGBT equality grows, such that one day Russian chud attitudes towards LGBT issues are squashed out of the state.

A famous Greek warrior? Doing homosexuality? In my antiquities?

It's more likely than you think

Yes that's it lol. I included the run up to that because I think it makes the left turn when his head explodes even funnier

https://archive.is/n7Idf - sydney morning herald link

The resident who put up the palestinian flag:

“I’m not trying to hide – but it was an act of cowardice – scurrying in the night to plant your little bomb on my car – it leaves a bitter taste. There’s nowhere to spit but in this person’s face.”

Typical diogenes fan

This isn't a failure to do research, this is a useful lie that reinforces horseshoe theory bullshit. This isn't an accident

My partner and I were talking about the brutality of airstrikes vs other forms of killing people (knives, guns etc) and how airstrikes are depicted as less brutal and personal. I made the point that there is literally no American cultural memory of being bombed under virtually any circumstances.

One movie that I thought did a great job of depicting the terror of airstrikes was the battle of lake changjin, the 2021 Chinese blockbuster about the PLA's counterattack against American invaders in Korea. American bombers were terrifying in that film.