Your question would be much better applied to height discrimination, which is something that’s almost never mentioned, but is a lot more indicative of the nature of discrimination itself.

It is instinctual, as others have said, but it has nothing to do with tribalism or war, its about resources. Discrimination is almost always about resources (the notable exception being gender/orientation based discrimination, which I guess is religious?).

The discrimination against small people (and obesity and age as well), is more basic, and likely older (in evolutionary terms), and is oriented towards hunting and fighting. We think less of smaller, fatter, and older people because they’re assumed to be less capable of gathering (and fighting for or defending) basic resources.

Discrimination against races is more recent, and more societal, and is more about monetary resources, and isn’t even entirely a matter of race. Poor white people can be discriminated against in the exact same way for the exact same reasons. Racism is more classist than discrimination against height, weight age, etc. but is essentially still a matter of these classes being seen as less capable of getting resources.

You can see it more easily if you look objectively at the discriminatory tendencies of women (and I mean that in a very generalized way). They tend to be far more discriminatory towards resource based biases… Height, weight, physical condition… They’re often inexplicably attracted to overly aggressive partners, occasionally to their own detriment. The more instinctual a woman is, the more likely to pursue the overly aggressive men. Race isn’t anywhere near as much a factor, and there are notable exceptions in all factors for women if a man obviously has a lot of resources already (no indictment intended ladies, just is what it is, and generally)

And of course it’s more obvious among women for the same reason… The disparity (again, in a very general sense) between male and female in ability to gather and defend resources affects women’s choices of partners more so than men.

No… That’s spyware with less steps… Theres no cracking, hacking, Trojans etc. involved at all, it’s a direct and straightforward addition of the spyware under color of the states authority.

I absolutely defy the implication that US credibility is in any way whatsoever reflected by trump… Even if he manages to get elected again, he’d still obviously not be representing all of the US…

It’s like saying all Canadians are super liberal because they elected Trudeau… People know better.

I’d go with “reputation”, but not credibility.

They aren’t actually plastic though… They’re made of starch, as a biodegradable alternative to plastic.

Essentially, they’re Cheetos

These small devices also leak formaldehyde

Anytime I see this cited, I summarily dismiss the entirety of the article in question.

Why? Because you know what produces formaldehyde? Humans do.

So does a leaf blower produce less formaldehyde than the mouth breather in the break room at work? More than a Taylor Swift concert? Can’t tell without numbers… If you’re just gonna say that leaf blowers should be banned because formaldehyde, are you also suggesting genocide?

The Biden White House has also maintained the tariffs on Chinese products worth $370 billion imposed by predecessor Donald Trump.

That’s a hell of a sentence :) I guess we can agree on some things… Tarrifs on china, truly bipartisan…

Hey, I threw a few humorous bits in there… ;)

Soviet Union was big, included many states. Socialist economy imploded, Soviet Union became Soviet non-union. States declared sovereignty as independent countries (mass brexits, kinda?).

Russia, who used to be able to socialize assets from all the smaller countries, wants to be able to socialize the assets again, and as a bonus, is salty because some of those countries are hooking up with NATO, which is by and large a union of capitalism…

Instead of trying to create a union again, and getting others to join via diplomacy or negotiation, Russia is just trying to press its neighbors into joining the reformed union via military occupation, and hit a slight snag with Ukraine, because all this shit is a little too recent for Ukraine to have forgotten how shitty a lada is.

Nothing new here… I’ve never once used edge for anything except downloading Firefox, but that has nothing whatsoever to do with edge, it is entirely due to Internet explorer.

What problems did I have with Internet explorer? The same tired ass bullshit listed in this article. I was using ie to download Netscape navigator decades ago looking to do away with the pervasive popups and hijacking insisting that I use the Microsoft browser…

We haven’t just been bitching about it either. They got sued over it. The article is an elbow nudge, after decades of full on sledge hammer hasn’t gotten through. Complete waste of time and effort :)

Word of the drawdown came ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region and after the Biden administration bypassed Congress for the second time this month to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel.

That weapons sale was a few hundred mil worth of artillery shells… I sincerely hope that and the draw back of troops aren’t actually related and it’s just happenstance that it got mentioned here.

You’re assuming you still own your personal information… You should, but in reality you don’t (stated in this specific context, but I do mean it in a broader sense as well. Much broader than should be) .

They don’t need a warrant if the company consents… Its your personal information, but the company owns it. They can and do sell it, and the decision on wether to give it to law enforcement is on them.

I don’t think we should have patents on tech that helps us live longer, healthier, etc

That sums up the entirety of my concern actually :). Don’t care about apple watches one bit, but I’d absolutely love to be able to buy my wife a watch that’ll monitor her blood sugar in real time. From what I understand, it’s close to existing, but is being stalled by governments (not just US either) due to concerns about accuracy (preventing dangerous spikes and lows doesn’t require medical grade accuracy…).

If they allow international journalists access to the area, we’ll either get better information about what’s happening, or the numbers will go down…

If they allow international journalists access to the area, we’ll either get better information about what’s happening, or the numbers will go down…

This appears to me to be more about keeping accurate health data measuring in the hospital and not on your wrist… Just my two cents based on a cursory look at what masimo is selling. Follow the money on that and it doesn’t take you to a competing smartwatch, it takes you to products you find used in hospitals.

Theres a very easy way to sort out the issue of bias that’s gonna be inherent in journalists reporting an alleged bias against journalists…

(From NPR)

Over a month into the war in the Gaza Strip, international news organizations have little, if any, access to Gaza. Israel, which is bombing Gaza in response to the deadly Hamas attack on its soil, controls access. And with the exception of brief tours with a limited number of reporters, Israel has not been granting journalists access to the region.

Address that and the answers will come…

Bomb the manger on Christmas…

Is isreal really that oblivious to world opinion and how it might affect them? Seems that way…

Title reads like it’s an article on the lack of depth in US media in the middle east in general, content seems to be borderline unrelated…

The lack of depth in US media is a solid point. Why not write specifically to that?

My opinion is that it’s investors.

Plenty of people out there buy houses for cash, spruce them up, and sell them for profit to extract some of the equity inherent in real property. Over time, they collectively push up the perceived value by force, and occasionally, the people who are the ultimate source of that equity, the ones looking to buy a permanent home, will stop buying.

There’s been a chunk of time recently, a decade or maybe more, where those permanent home seekers, the true source of the equity, haven’t been buying property. COVID exasperated the issue, because the flippers went fucking crazy for a couple years and inflated the amount of non-homes. Now they want their equity back out, but nobody who wants an actual home is looking to buy one because there isn’t enough value for them.

So prices have to come down before the actual source of equity starts buying again. The bubble has to deflate some.

Again, the entirety of this statement is simply my personal opinion, so grain of salt, but this is what pure logic and critical thinking suggests is the true mechanism :)

Right?