Attacking Moscow the day before saying you want a ceasefire seems like a bad play. Like a little kid trying to get the last punch in before the parents intervene.
I know someone who thinks that drinking human urine will cure you of all diseases and it was made into a taboo by big pharma because it would destroy their entire industry for people to have free, accessible medicine. He believes he is the second coming of Christ, sent to spread the "Gospel of Urine," facilitating the healing of the masses which will wake them up and usher in a golden age of humanity. Sometimes he aged the urine to use topically and also partakes in a process called "looping" where he only drinks his urine and doesn't consume any other liquids. Around when I met him he would tell me he threw up sometimes from looping but had to keep doing it as a part of some sort of self purification process. A part of the prophecy is that, all the urine drinkers will hold hands and make a ring around the Earth, which activates some kind of portal or something which is an important part of the transition.
Since it is a mission from God, he is compelled to tell everyone he meets about it, and 99% of people are immediately disgusted and reject him. He has lost a lot of jobs over it, usually because a coworker complains about it. He also talks about how drinking most human fluids is good, has been able to get some amount of breast milk in the past. He says children's urine is especially beneficial because it has human growth hormone in it, but is clear to emphasize it is NOT sexual.
I've known him for over a decade and in the post anti-vaxx grifter world he has really gone all in on that stuff. He believes viruses aren't real, is a monthly subscriber to some fake doctor from new zealand who is apparently a leading figure in that scene, and believes if COVID is real, it's a bio-engineered ploy to get us to take vaccines which will turn us into slaves to big pharma and co.
Thanks for sharing your experience. Was there a lot of play and art and such things that could be considered fun by kids or did it already start feeling like preparing for academia at that age?
One more question I have, if you don't mind humoring me: if parents in China didn't care about pushing their kid to be successful via these metrics, can a child go through this education system without having to be put through such intense pressures? Does the school itself enforce as much as the parents are, or is it more an issue of parental pressure than baked into the education track ?
This reminds me of your post comparing the work conditions of car factories, with workers organizing to demand more hours from their bosses.
It seems like changing the gaokao and university entrance process is the only way to alleviate the concerns of giving kids more time off, which should be encouraged. I had heard school was competitive, but high schoolers at school for over 100 hours a week really puts it into perspective. How long is a school day before high school?
doesn't read as a split to me. he's reprimanding the cabinet for not being involved as much. they should be running cover for Musk's work, legitimizing it and facilitating it to be done more effectively. It looks bad for Musk to be directly firing people, Trump wants the cabinet to rubber stamp it instead of watching from the sidelines. Meanwhile this whole spectacle is public because it makes Trump look like he is the one in charge, not Musk. Trump is still going to take all of Musk's advice, but now the viewers are gonna be speculating about the imagined tension between them instead of soberly observing that they are continuing to be in lock step towards total privatization and consolidation of wealth.
If Trump's term enrages enough of his base through not following through on making their lives easier and more affordable, I could see a shift to a right wing white man dem candidate working out. Better yet, he will say Dems are too woke and become the new face of the Republican party, "saving it from the magas"
Does anyone know if there is a danger for a fusion plant to malfunction and somehow irradiate the area? If they fuck this up, does it become just a waste of money or does it potentially damage the environment?
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Come and take it