I've visited Paris around the same time and have moved here a year ago. The difference is incredible.

I'm anything but a big fan of Jehova's witnesses, but the story surrounding August Dickmann's execution really made me appreciate their commitment to pacifism.

Having the support of major news media and the lobby arm of Big Agriculture (who partially incited the riots) surely helped more than their methods.

Yeah, but LA has a shitty public transport system.

Take a look at any major European city. Subway systems with a train interval of 2 minutes that get you across the whole city in 40 minutes max.

Just thinking one step further: If I have capital, I control the ads and content.

Thank god the rich are interested in human rights.

Same in Paris.

"What do you mean I have to wait 4 minutes for the next metro?"

Man sollte definitiv gute (und schlechte) Erfahrungen mit gegessenem THC haben bevor man stärkere Psychedelika probiert. Dadurch kann man einschätzen wie sich ein Kontrollverlust und Disassoziation anfühlen, und lernen wie man damit umgeht.

Wer natürlich Angststörungen hat sollte von LSD, wie auch von regelmäßigem Graskonsum, definitiv die Finger lassen. Das ist ja schließlich Teil des Sets.

Hartes Nein, Psilocybin und LSD sind definitiv eine einmalige, bewegende, teils sogar produktive Experience. Wer Psychodelika gut verträgt und ein passendes Set und Setting produzieren kann sollte es im Leben mindestens einmal in Erwägung ziehen.

The EU fined Meta multiple billions. You can always do more, but it's a start

Their substance laws are also way more lax than the rest of Europe.

You know, you can find the unjust bombardment of the Gaza Strip (and now also the West Bank unfortunately) wrong, and not compare it to the Holocaust at the same time?

Modi is really trying his best by constructing a god-cult around his persona, building up paramilitary forces and stoking hindunationalistic pogroms. The classic autocracy/fascism setup if you will.

Doing 50 that close to other cars would also be very uncomfortable.

The government can then know you use Signal. This may be problematic in heavily autocratic regimes, but besides those, what threat scenario are you arguing for here? The Sealed Sender concept disallows building a social graph. However, you can utilize a VPN to mask your point of origin or, if necessary, even use a burner number. Under the worst case scenario that the US gov takes over the whole AWS infrastructure and tries to correlate connections to users, there's still very high information entropy. At that point, we're talking about the US gov as a targeting threat actor. If that's your opponent, you shouldn't use everyday customer electronics or applications anyway. That's some spy shit, even domestic activists won't fall under that much scrutiny.

IIRC She earns around 400+k per year. Which is a nice salary, but rather low compared to other execs.

You completely disregard the largest zionist organisation in the US, CUFI, of which most members are American Christians.

The US support for Israel is the perfect storm composed of financial, military and religious interests of various groups in power in the US. The interest of the Israeli government and center to right wing happen to align with those. Thinking Israel is in control in any of this and doesn't have to pander to those American interest groups is delusional and a common, sometimes antisemitically motivated, misunderstanding.

These all sound like regulatory, issues. Nothing that can't be fixed with a minimal amount of political goodwill.

Actually, they claim to transition to a non-profit model.

As a cishet person, I like to keep to myself as much as possible as well. That way, you can call people out on their homo-/transphobic behavior and make them really regret what they said.