It's genuinely great to hear that that wasn't the overall goal or intention of the idea.

That said, I think it also does need to be acknowledged that there absolutely were prominent influencers on social media who preached HAES literally - as in, posting videos vehemently declaring the doctors are lying to you and obesity is actually perfectly healthy.

I guess as with many other things, it's a case of the extreme outliers (who in this case, as you say, didn't even get the point) getting the most attention and spoiling things for the sane people.

I think there was a proposal floated with the idea of a new name in Chinook, "Illaheechuck", but it failed to - as you say - get buy in from the public at large. I like the idea of a name in Chinook, though - what better bridge between native and settler than the language they mutually created?

I'm just curious, could you expand on what the rules are pertaining to this subject here? This is the first I've heard of it, since the Rules on the sidebar don't mention it.

"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing."

Of course I don't condone shooting perps or their lawyers, but I frankly don't have any difficulty whatsoever in understanding him. This case is one of the most vile crimes I've seen in our province, and I can't imagine what the family has had to go through.

And to add to that, while the defence lawyers certainly are just doing their job, their arguments were utterly revolting. An insult to the victim, her family, and the collective intelligence of the people of this province. Supposedly the perp's lawyer has received copious death threats, and again - I'm sure none of us condone shooting lawyers, I think it's hard to blame people.

I'm just glad the jury had none of it and found him guilty.

Anyone who has followed this conflict closely can see alarming gaps in the Forces' equipment. The lack of systems like self-propelled guns, rocket artillery, and weaponised drones / loitering munitions would put our troops in a seriously bad position if push came to shove.

The brutal reality is that Putin's Russia embodies everything the Trump Republicans dream of for America: a boundlessly corrupt, white supremacist, ethnonationalist fascist state whose oligarchs possess limitless power so long as they obey The President.

They call themselves the "party of Reagan", while they trip over themselves to sell the geopolitical future of Europe down the river to Moscow...

I see that they used the wrong tense for "described", but that could be a typo. Other than that it seems grammatical to me. I guess "alluded to" and "described" are redundant, but that's more a stylistic defect than an actual error imo.

I know here in BC the Labour ministry has job centres called "WorkBC" that not only help with resumes and job searches, but actually have dedicated classes specifically for newcomers from Ukraine.

P.S. Welcome! We're glad to have you, and I hope everything works out without too much trouble :)

"Chinese officials visibly nervous at the outpouring of public praise for dead leader [who they had sidelined and demoted]."

Русский, no — Российский, yes.

Here is a bypass.

The monthly prices users pay per maid are according to race, the website states – with employers charged less for the services of a black maid. “Filipinas AED3,500 ($952)/month” and “Africans AED2,700 ($735)/month,” it states

The website states that Filipina maids require a bedroom of their own to sleep in, while African maids do not.

Nobody does racist slavery quite like the Gulf Arab countries, do they? I don't know which is more grim, that or the disclaimer:

“Zero legal liability. Maid stays on our visa, so you’ll never have to worry about any legal consequences. If anything goes wrong (eg runaway maid, pregnancy), we’re responsible to deal with any lawsuits or visits to police stations, not you.”

IE, you can sexually abuse your underpaid migrant worker without fear of legal consequences, and the employer can then revoke their visa. What a great service! /s

Good. Fuck 'em.

"State-sanctioned criminal violence"?

No, sorry Mr. Modi, you're thinking of Gujarat in 2002, not Canada in 2023.

This article has confirmation from the GUR, Ukrainian military intelligence, that Kadyrov is critically ill. There are no exact details on what he has other than that it's related to a chronic health condition, potentially kidney failure given his facial swelling. It's also long been reported that he's an addict.

I also call attention to the fact that Kadyrov allegedly had his personal physician executed in suspicion that the latter was poisoning him. It would truly be poetic justice if denying himself that medical treatment in a fit of paranoia precipitated this (hopefully terminal) episode.

"Great Patriotic War" is the fine conceit of historical revisionism that lets the Russians neatly overlook the unpleasant little detail that WW II started with the Soviets fighting as cobelligerents with Nazi Germany to invade Poland.

Where was that? I hadn't heard of it, but I fully believe you.

This summary leaves out that said "cease and desist" notices also threatened execution for noncompliance — at the same time as the head cultist was urging her followers to kill nurses administering vaccines, prompting her followers to post pictures of their firearm arsenals.

It is only a matter of time before the cultists kill someone.

That's great. Those hideouts always had an eerie horror ambience even in vanilla Morrowind — I look forward to seeing how they're all realised in SkyWind!

Found an article (in Georgian) with a photo.

Upvote for a sincere question. Here's the wiki article on its use as a fascistic pro-war symbol. Kazakhs are unhappy with it because they too are a country that Russia makes territorial claims against and are thus largely opposed to the war and its symbols.

It seems implausible in the short term, but if statements like these are in any way reflective of long term strategic goals, or even official rhetoric, it's still ominous. Of course, given the fact it's state TV, it could be the General purely reciting the party line to give the public the impression that the war is going vastly better than it really is. But it also reminds me of what were purported to be strategic planning documents leaked by FSB sources early in the war, from when Russia still believed they'd take Kyiv in three days. It described a plan to conquer the country in weeks, then present their army on the Polish border as a fait accompli and declare a no-fly zone over the Baltics as an ultimatum to NATO.

Whether that's true or not, subsequent events showed that the ZSRF was incapable of even that plan, as you say. But the very level of disparity between nominal and actual capabilities that led Moscow to believe such a thing was possible to begin with certainly doesn't speak to their ability to make accurate estimations of what their forces are capable of.

Sounds about right. The internal narrative is to actually tell people what to think, the external just the "firehose of falsehood" to divide and distract.

True. I'd say this disinfo angle is targeted towards apathetic/low info RU public (which is most of them frankly) and western sympathisers in denial about how ruthless the regime really is.

They're just going to blame it on the Ukrainians, and/or "the collective west" to muddy the waters

Speculation runs that Dimi has been told by the Tsar that if he acts like the tough guy he isn't with enough bravado, he'll be allowed to sit in the big boys' chair and pretend to be president again.

More recent updates from RU state media report 4 damaged, so a nominal pricetag of $200m USD in hardware — though it may be less to repair, depending on the degree of damage. A great success, in any event.

Yes, and the watermark on the video is "total Ulan-Ude", which is a town in Buryatia, so it fits.

I understand the gravity of this consideration, and it's commendable to abide by our Convention obligations — but at the same time it's pretty rich to be lecturing Ukraine on the immorality of using against the invader the same weapons which Russia has been using against their schools, hospitals and residential areas since literally the first day of the war.

the US is not one of those countries.

It's interesting to look at the map of signatories.

Canada, Europe, Japan, and most of Latin America and Africa are signatories, while almost the whole of the Middle East and Eurasia + Brazil, Russia, India, China are not.

“Purebloods Stand Together,”

“right of protection and preservation of … the vessels of the souls of my children.”

Yeah, NBD, just a new cult religion forming in real time here.

"Purebloods Stand Together,"

"right of protection and preservation of … the vessels of the souls of my children."

Yeah, NBD, just a new cult religion forming in real time here.

@ChrisO_wiki@mastodon.social is a researcher who posts a lot of interesting stories sourced from RU news & social media relating to the home front — corruption, treatment of troops and casualties, protests by soldiers and their relatives, etc.

I believe it also includes a $50 rebate on all purchases of "qualified, energy-saving air-conditioning units" for everyone until the end of next month.

Also known as stalkerware or spouseware, these kinds of phone monitoring apps are often planted by someone — such as spouses or domestic partners — with physical access to a person’s phone, without their consent or knowledge.

Man. The fact that stalkerware is used so often on people's domestic partners that they call it "spouseware" is pretty fuckin' bleak.

Putin makes televised national address. Summary of speech:

• 1. https://nitter.net/wartranslated/status/1672501714253934593#m
• 2. https://nitter.net/wartranslated/status/1672501823377162241#m

TL;DR - Wagner is committing a betrayal, a stab in the back like 1917, and will face "inevitable punishment".

Footage of Prigozhin in Rostov, pictured with Deputy Minister of Defense, Colonel General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov (at left, from 0:13 on) — see the latter's official portrait photo for reference; looks like a match.

edit: and Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, deputy chief of GRU military intelligence 1

Partial translation summary: Wagner issues orders to MoD commanders it has captured; will "blockade Rostov and go to [ed: towards?] Moscow until we get the Chief of the General Staff and Shoigu" 2, 3

• Machine translation here. Highlight: Lt. Gen. Alekseyev tells Prigozhin, "the biggest thing that upsets me is... I hear there's a party in Kyiv. With champagne"

https://nitter.net/Tendar/status/1672463623078158337#m

Time to see once and for all whether the bastards are good for anything other than TikTok videos.

Prigozhin coup attempt endorsed by exiled billionaire opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky: "And yes, this is just the beginning.."

https://nitter.net/nexta_tv/status/1672442007782932481#m