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BBC wrote:A German court has ruled that seven Muslim men who formed a Sharia street patrol did not break laws against political uniforms.
The group sparked outrage in the western city of Wuppertal in 2014, when they approached people in orange vests bearing the words "Sharia Police".
They demanded that locals stop gambling, listening to music, and drinking alcohol.
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So-called "Sharia patrols" by ultra-conservative Muslim men have been seen in other European cities including London, Copenhagen and Hamburg.
CorruptUser wrote:Technically, it's free speech. On the one hand, if you don't believe in a freedom for the people you don't like you don't believe in said freedom in the first place. On the other hand, if the freedom ends up being twisted into "restrict others' freedoms", empty platitudes are just that, and I don't feel any remorse if the courts trample all over those "rights".
KnightExemplar wrote:Trump breaks another campaign promise: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... ge%2Fstory
I'm glad to see he's not a total nutjob. But I know a chunk of people who actually did want to "Lock her up".
Side note: The 2016 Presidential election is over... so I really don't feel like talking about post-election stuff in that thread. If the mods disagree, I'm willing to comply of course.
He is proposing dramatic economic reforms that include slashing 500,000 public jobs, ending the 35-hour week, raising the retirement age and scrapping the wealth tax.
A single dose of psilocybin, the active ingredient of magic mushrooms, can lift the anxiety and depression experienced by people with advanced cancer for six months or even longer, two new studies show.
Researchers involved in the two trials in the United States say the results are remarkable. The volunteers had “profoundly meaningful and spiritual experiences” which made most of them rethink life and death, ended their despair and brought about lasting improvement in the quality of their lives.
Around 40-50% of newly diagnosed cancer patients suffer some sort of depression or anxiety. Antidepressants have little effect, particularly on the “existential” depression that can lead some to feel their lives are meaningless and contemplate suicide.
The main findings of the NYU study, which involved 29 patients, and the larger one from Johns Hopkins University with 51 patients, that a single dose of the medication can lead to immediate reduction in the depression and anxiety caused by cancer and that the effect can last up to eight months, “is unprecedented,” said Ross. “We don’t have anything like it.”
The results of the studies were very similar, with around 80% of the patients attributing moderately or greatly improved wellbeing or life satisfaction to a single high dose of the drug, given with psychotherapy support.
Professor Roland Griffiths, of the departments of psychiatry and neuroscience who led the study at Johns Hopkins University school of medicine, said he did not expect the findings, which he described as remarkable. “I am bred as a sceptic. I was sceptical at the outset that this drug could produce long-lasting changes,” he said. These were people “facing the deepest existential questions that humans can encounter - what is the nature of life and death, the meaning of life.”
But the results were similar to those they had found in earlier studies in healthy volunteers. “In spite of their unique vulnerability and the mood disruption that the illness and contemplation of their death has prompted, these participants have the same kind of experiences, that are deeply meaningful, spiritually significant and producing enduring positive changes in life and mood and behaviour,” he said.
Mutex wrote:Pretty sure that's a hoax? I don't see any mention of it anywhere else. And it was posted three days ago.
BBC wrote:Avoiding anti-Western rhetoric - by Sarah Rainsford in Moscow:
This was a speech short on slogans and snappy soundbites. If there was a theme, then it was one of unity.
It was a call to Russians to pull together as patriots, in what Vladimir Putin admitted were still extraordinary, tough economic times.
He has long tried to achieve that by highlighting Russia's external enemies. But with a potential US ally now on his way to the White House - and perhaps sniffing an end to sanctions - Mr Putin has toned down his rhetoric.
In fact, he pushed international affairs right to the end of his speech and talked of needing friends, not enemies.
Mambrino wrote:Hollande won't seek re-election.
Putin addressed the nation in a yearly speechBBC wrote:Avoiding anti-Western rhetoric - by Sarah Rainsford in Moscow:
This was a speech short on slogans and snappy soundbites. If there was a theme, then it was one of unity.
It was a call to Russians to pull together as patriots, in what Vladimir Putin admitted were still extraordinary, tough economic times.
He has long tried to achieve that by highlighting Russia's external enemies. But with a potential US ally now on his way to the White House - and perhaps sniffing an end to sanctions - Mr Putin has toned down his rhetoric.
In fact, he pushed international affairs right to the end of his speech and talked of needing friends, not enemies.
I can't find a source right now, but I've heard Russia will run out of their oil money "under the mattress" in about a year if nothing changes.
There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.
morriswalters wrote:The Snowmobile, a semi-truck with 100 petabytes (or 100 million gigabytes) of storage. I have got to have one of these.
Mutex wrote:You could drive to work and have your entire music collection with you to listen to.
Thesh wrote:Mutex wrote:You could drive to work and have your entire music collection with you to listen to.
I think you are understating the amount of storage this has. Not only could you have your entire music collection with you, but your entire book collection as well.
SecondTalon wrote:*swoons* I love you, all powerful pseudoidiot!
ShootTheChicken wrote:I can't stop thinking about pseudoidiot's penis.
Mutex wrote:You could drive to work and have your entire music collection with you to listen to.
Diadem wrote:Mutex wrote:You could drive to work and have your entire music collection with you to listen to.
Only if your music collection is tiny.
To bring along a recording of all speech ever spoken by every human being ever you'd need nearly half a million of such trucks. So clearly this truck is utterly insufficient.
Christina Maslach is a professor of psychology at Berkeley. She's been studying burnout for years. She says companies often look at it wrong.
CHRISTINA MASLACH: To somehow characterize it as it's something within the person. All the research is pointing to the fact it's something about the situation, the social relationships, the job.
CorruptUser wrote:Jobs are like girlfriends/boyfriends. Interviews are dating. If people keep quitting you, the problem is you, not them.
Mambrino wrote:CorruptUser wrote:Jobs are like girlfriends/boyfriends. Interviews are dating. If people keep quitting you, the problem is you, not them.
It's quite rare nowadays that you are dependent on your spouse's monies to eat and have a roof over your head, and that's a situation which creates a possibility for terrible relationship, especially so if the spouse considers you an exchangeable tool for their purposes.
CorruptUser wrote:Really? Quite sure most people don't want to date an ex con if they can avoid it.
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