Some of the opinion pieces in the sidebar while I was reading this:

BadEmpanada made a video arguing that the term "genocide" should be done away with because of how much it muddies the waters (as an example he compared the Srebrenica Massacre, declared a genocide in court, versus comparable massacres elsewhere in Bosnia that weren't). It also overlaps with a bunch of other legal terms like crimes against humanity, so it ends up diminishing atrocities that come close but for one reason or another aren't considered one.

I'm ace and while I do look at horny images from time to time, full-on pornography or sexually explicit talk still grosses me out, I sometimes feel prudish or childish about that as a result.

I feel in a weird place when all this talk is made about normalising sex while being sex-negative, I don't want to push my preferences on all of society, y'know?

Whenever I personally referenced the "volcel poIice" meme it was intended to be lighthearted, a friendly reminder that it got weird in a way that could give a chuckle.

for me I guess...

I recently decided to apply for electrical engineering lol

Kinda funny when they say the rally took place in a "rainy Taipei" meanwhile the stock photo shows it being sunny.

The KMT opposes independence like the DPP wants and they advocate for "cross-Strait dialogue" with China. They're the legacy party that founded the Republic of China. They are lean older and more conservative, whereas the DPP is associated with the youth.

[Scott Bessent] joined Soros Fund Management (SFM) in 1991 and was a partner there throughout the 1990s, eventually becoming head of the London office. In 1992, Bessent was a leading member of the team whose bet on the Black Wednesday collapse of the British pound garnered over $1 billion for the firm. His bet against the Japanese yen in 2013 brought additional profit.

He absolutely meant it in an antisemitic way though, there's no other reason to use that as an insult (maybe for anticapitalist reasons I guess, but to specificy Soros specifically would be sus, also we're talking Elon here)

From what I can tell a lot of Israelis are anxious about having a "Jewish nose", so combine that with general social media toxicity and the bougie, superficial nature of Israeli society and you get a relatively high number of "nose jobs", though plastic surgery in general is prevalent too.

So they kind of become a representative of the superficial and toxic nature of Israeli society and its defeatist, ass-backwards approach to antisemitism.

These increments are getting more and more meaningless, it's becoming a joke.

Just want an excuse to post this