It felt like Jerry Springer.

Pretty sure you can follow people on mbin.

I wish Friendica would take off more.

Sodastream have a nasty habit of looking for a vulnerable, oppressed population, building a factory on illegally stolen land, hiring a few of the locals for peanuts and then screaming that they are “helping” them.

Did it to the Palestinians in the West Bank and when that failed relocated it in land confiscated from the Bedouins. It’s in an artificial forced resettlement area where Bedouins have been forced to live in an Israeli-constructed town and industrial park.

Visiting a failed state just sounds even riskier.

As far as I can tell the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone are both located in Republican stronghold areas so would possibly still be acting like this to tourists, but it would be harder for my country’s embassy to rescue me. Solitary confinement can cause long-term mental health damage.

Thanks for trying to cheer me up, though! I was genuinely a bit disappointed (though, very glad I read this article) but it’s a reminder to think outside the box and look for other of nature’s wonders that maybe aren’t talked about so much and are located in places that are safer to visit.

Taking advantage of someone being attacked so you can extort their mineral rights is a low thing to do. No need to act like vultures.

Thanks very much, friend. That looks amazing. I just checked and Mexico also has some national parks with North American wildlife and even volcanoes! This one looks great.

I have to admit: I just crossed the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone Park off my bucket list whilst reading this story.

The police firearm homicides always felt a bit iffy but this clinches it. Definitely not going to try to visit that country. It’s not a risk I’m willing to run.

Yes, you should have. Several people in here seem to be reacting to the mistaken idea that Europe’s only focus is Trump.

You’re arguing against a straw man. They’ve been using 2000lb bombs the whole time anyway.

the party that sent 2000 lbs bombs

That would be both of them. By June 2024 Reuters was reporting that the US had sent Israel 10,000 of the 2000 lbs bombs.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-sent-israel-thousands-2000-pound-bombs-since-oct-7-2024-06-28/

why didn’t he run away sooner? Usually perpetrators escape after the abuse

No, they don’t. Statistically the majority of rapes are by people who know the victim personally. In cases of intimate partner rape the perpetrator does not typically “run away from” his wife or girlfriend etc afterwards.

“Settlers” isonly weird to you if you discount all the other times settler colonialists stole land and committed ethnic cleansing and genocide.

Bit of an emotional rollercoaster for the poor guy.

Shark attack.

But I escape.

But my leg is now missing.

But hey my leg just washed up.

I would actually watch dressage if it only had pantomime horses.

That country is sleepwalking into full fascism.

“Civil war” is a ridiculously polite way of putting it. It’s an attempted genocide.

He got the Peace Prize for his alliance with Eritrea, the North Korea of Africa.

He them teamed up with Eritrea to genocide some of his own countrymen in north Ethiopia.

I agree.

Polio used to kill or paralyse about a million people a year. It is highly infectious and once you get it, it has no cure.

The world had almost suceeded in eradicating polio. It is easily preventable with vaccination. The fact that it is likely to be allowed to roam through the population of Gaza is disgusting.

The killer was pretty obviously insane. He was making a sacrifice to a demon which he thought would allow him to win a lottery. He’s also in jail for life.

I can see it could be harder to forgive someone with no real excuse who just violated your dead daughters’ privacy for clout.

Well that’s annoying. No more wearing Adidas.