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Not surprising in a country where it's whatever the opposite of freedom is that reigns supreme, according to Singapore Statutes Online, singing, reciting or uttering any ballad or song in public is illegal. 

Question is, how will Taylor avoid being caught breaking this Singapore law, and not land a 3 months’ prison sentence, a fine, or both?

Small town America is very, very, different from the major cities.

Agreed. It's way better. The amount of nature, trails, parks, etc within a short drive of these small towns is worth it alone. If you're the kind of person who likes to be out doors a lot, or value real, down-to-earth, friendly people, it's definitely the place to be.

During my various trips to the US I have been consistently blown away by Appalachia in particular, a stunningly a beautiful place with a rich culture that should be celebrated. If Kishida is somehow able to facilitate potential for further manufacturing in West Virginia/East Kentucky in particular, that would be great. After the closure of the coal mines - the lifeblood of many of those communities - they need all the help they can get.

Well done, Jay, you are a hero of doing your own research.

Thanks Moony. I hope all is well with you and the flock.

Personally, I couldn’t be happier with my decision to think for myself and exercise my right to bodily autonomy. So happy I didn’t crumble to all the bullying, lies and disinformation. I trusted my own common sense and research from ethical, non-biased professionals in the fields of immunology, toxicology, epidemiology and evolutionary biology. I never got sick and like the majority of people, did not need a jab.

High five to Thuban, Quo Primum and everyone else who still has their health, integrity, autonomy and DNA intact in 2024.

For surely now more than ever, it's become evident that people who once existed on the periphery with "marginal" views were, in fact, the adults in the room.

Those of us who were asking:

"Have they had enough time to conduct these clinical trials?"

"Are you sure there aren't serious adverse effects?"

"Does natural immunity suddenly mean nothing anymore?"

"Are we supposed to vaccinate in the middle of a pandemic?"

All of these questions - that sounded perfectly reasonable at the time - have now been officially deemed reasonable, as the result of the largest ever multinational study, that has revealed that Covid vaccines can and do cause serious, adverse events.

The United Nations has strongly criticized the Taliban for carrying out public executions, lashings and stonings since seizing power, and called on the country’s rulers to halt such practices.

As usual, the U.N. does nothing but whisper empty threats.

Someone kindly remind us the point of this useless organization that does nothing but suck up public funds?

growing threat of right-wing Hindu nationalist violence because humans appear incapable of learning from the cruel, blood-stained history of our species.

Yes must be, because other than the 40-80 million under Mao, 7 million under Stalin, 3 million at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, and thousands during the regimes of Castro and Chavez, no one has ever perished under left-wing governmental rule.

Come on Reamer, we're better than the than that sort of nonsense.

It's a human thing, not specific to Japan, so I would be surprised if there weren't any such studies somewhere in the world.

Not unique to Japan, but every other country I've lived or spent any significant amount of time in, such crimes are rare.

The sheer prevalence at which it occurs here irrefutably make it somewhat of a uniquely Japanese phenomenon.

The question is: why is that?

Another day, another bizarre sex crime. These offenses seem to occur with such alarming frequency the Crime page ought to have its own Voyeur section.

Question to the audience: Have any academics/sociology majors ever looked at why this is, and perhaps if there are any social/cultural factors that contribute to such a comparatively high prevalence of up-skirting and general voyeurism over here?

Has anyone seen what googles ""AI"" has been doing, its been off the charts stupidly woke revisionist non-sense of the highest order......dont believe me, google it LOL!!!

Google were forced to apologize this week after their new Gemini AI refuses to show pictures or achievements of White people.

Looks like they've programmed non-negotiable "inclusivity" into the image generator, making it almost as historically inaccurate as its creators are stupid.

"Google says its AI image-generator would sometimes ‘overcompensate’ for diversity:"

https://apnews.com/article/google-gemini-ai-chatbot-imagegenerator-race-c7e14de837aa65dd84f6e7ed6cfc4f4b

More like, Vice was destroyed by its own radical nutcrackery.

Unfortunately for the comrades, the only Left-wing media is now corporate media, which much really struggle having to rely on the backing of tiny companies such as Google, Amazon, Pfizer, Nike, and Disney.

Independent media not outside of this political spectrum get to bathe in the luxury of being sponsored by a pillow manufacturer or selling whatever random vitamins they found in their hoarder's pile.

Independent publishing and journalism is being demolished by private equity.

"Corporation bad."

Corporation changes logo to a rainbow for Pride Month.

"Corporation good!"

Triggered because r/The_Donald was banned?

Was it really? Hardly surprising though.

No, I think the biggest issue is that modal Redditor is a skinny-fat, usually bald White American typically typically sporting some sort of ridiculous-styled facial hair who, owing to their poor life choices, skews strongly toward the "American Far Left."

Here's a snapshot of the typical Redditor philosophy on a variety of topics:

Religion = we're militant, nihilistic atheists

LGBT rights = we believe transsexuals should have more rights than biological women

Environmental issues = if you're not a climate catastrophist you're a "nazi"

BLM = if your avatar isn't a black square you're a racist

Drugs = Legalize all of them

Capitalism/socialism = we should be centralizing power to "trusted" authorities

Geopolitics = we're a non-negotiatable 'yes' for Ukraine/Palestine

Personal responsibility = nothing is my fault, it's theirs!

Toxicity at its absolute worst.

The question is, will this AI integration allow Reddit to continue to devolve into even more of a sad, fedora hat-wearing, skinny-fat, zit-faced Marxist cesspool?

FDA officials are supposed to be watchdogs over the pharmaceutical industry, instead it's hardly any secret that they're constantly courted by the pharmaceutical industry.

This is typically how it works: an FDA official will be courted by a, say, Johnson & Johnson, who will offer a position to be on their regulatory committee, then later approached by a, say, Pfizer, who will make a higher offer to be on their regulatory committee. Because of this inevitable bidding war between the large pharmaceutical companies, any FDA official knows that this is the jumping point between an average-paying government job to a very lucrative pharma job on the inside. This is part of their career path, and undoubtedly weighs heavily into their corrupt decision making process.

An obstinate proponent of the perpetual uptake of Covid vaccines, also staunchly defending an advocate for global depopulation?

I am shocked!

The author, like many of the incoming down-voters, is clearly a SINK or DINK (Single/Dual Income No Kids), and if he doesn't want children now, he probably will later. And if he never does, he's either deluded or eternally immature.

Think about this: every single one of your ancestors reproduced in an unending procession, lasting three-and-a-half billion years. And they're all wrong and you're suddenly right?

I don't think so.

Absolute nonsense from a thinly-veiled environmental catastrophist trying to sell his flawed theory that eventual human extinction is the best solution to the problems facing the Earth's biosphere and humanity.

On the contrary, pop­u­la­tion col­lapse due to severely low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civ­i­liza­tion than global warm­ing.

The best thing you can do is ignore extinctionist clowns and go out and have children - the literal meaning of life. If it weren't, none of us would be here.

A fetus only becomes a baby at birth.

By whose metric? I wonder if this "just a clump of cells" rhetoric used by pro-abortionists to justify their arguments would be just as concrete if they realized that a heartbeat can typically be detected at three weeks. Observing an ultrasound should be mandatory for anyone holding those views.

Abortions are legal in Japan.

Incorrect. Under Chapter XXIX of the Penal Code, abortions are illegal in Japan, and only medically permissible under the provable circumstances of the endangerment to the health of the pregnant woman, severe economic hardship, or rape.

Every mother/woman should have the right to a termination regardless of the state of the fetus

Sure, as long as they (and you) are aware of and comfortable with the fact they are killing a baby.

I think rather than Christianity or any other religion, it's humanity itself that is kind by nature.

Firstly Mark, very sorry for your loss.

Secondly, and respectfully, I think it's quite easy to be raised in a country like New Zealand, a nation founded on Christian values, and hold the belief that kindness is an intrinsic human virtue.

Kind acts undoubtedly existed before the establishment of many of the world religions, but wasn't espoused as a virtue to the extent as it has been in Christianity in particular.

I mean, praying for your enemies? LOL, who does that?!

Christians do. Even those without a spiritual bone in their body would have to admit, that's pretty dang cool.

While working as a church pastor, Migiwa founder Hiroki Matsubara, 55, set up a consultation center for women dealing with unwanted pregnancies. The first case involved a woman whose prenatal diagnosis revealed a fetal defect.

Discovering her child would be disabled, she said she would "kill the baby" if she gave birth to it. Her shocking words revealed to Matsubara the depths of her anguish, compelling him to start counseling sessions for women pregnant with disabled babies

When Christians are mercilessly mocked as "bible bashers" and Christianity derided as "regressive" and constantly under attack, remember people like Matsubara and remind yourself that you will not find a higher level of kindness or ethics than in a true practicing Christian.

Whether a believer or not, I hope we can all appreciate the values that true Christianity - not the organizations tarred by the despicable sexual crimes of a small percentage of the papal elite or the disingenuous money-grabbing activities of the Mega Churches - true Christianity, has provided humanity: the blueprint for ascension.

Thank you Matsubara for the amazing work that you do in saving these special lives.

Far too much aggression on show here - there should be zero, repeat, zero hitting of anyone at anytime.

I'm sure the next guy who cuts into your line will take on board that Cupcakes'N'Rainbows philosophy as he speeds away in your taxi.

Violence should never be the first answer, but it always needs to the second. A society that attempts to eliminate the real or perceived threat of physical repercussions for social misdeeds is an unhealthy one, and runs contrary to basic human evolutionary principles - violence has and continues to be a necessary survival tool, helping people secure food for their families, protect themselves against threats, guard their territory, and stop idiots stealing their place in a taxi lineup.

and the menace of a resurgent far right.

Indeed. Now it's only imperative that, in the interests of fair and balanced journalism, that we get an article criticizing the menace of the far left that has similarly led to the decline of Western Europe, with the centralizing control of agriculture, massive scale open-border immigration policies, disingenuous climate change catastrophism leading to hard-working people laid off from their jobs and societies where people are not allowed to define what a woman is.

The one concept some people don't seem to be able to grasp, is that reason why movements like this emerge is because the Left go so far in the opposite direction, that it makes figures/movements such as Wilders, Meloni, Milei, Brexit or in this case, the AfD, look somewhat half-decent.

It's scrotally unacceptable that this festival and modern times have been groin apart.

a weeks-long effort continued to remove it from mulch used in public places.

I guess they're doing their jobs asbestos they can.

Asbestos became popular in late 19th century as a way to reinforce cement and for fire-proofing, 

My grandfather worked around asbestos for 60 years and never developed any health issues. It did take 3 straight days to cremate him, but that's besides the point.

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You don't know that, and self-righteous moralizing is not only not helpful, it may even be the very reason that women go to such extremes.

A bit more self-righteous moralizing probably would saved those children's lives, Roy.

Uber uncool comment from you.

It is your decision to make but unless there is an objective medical reason to avoid the vaccine that still means getting a much higher risk from the disease. You would be taking the worse option.

Again, if faced with the choice of listening to a not-so-covert representative of Pfizer or the European Union, the vast majority of us would choose the latter, who have stopped recommending boosters for any demographic outside of the elderly and those with comorbidities.