They can be taught to be cruel, though, and given formal or informal incentives for cruelty. Prisons are places that without careful intentional measures to uphold dignity easily generate rewards for cruelty.
If people were fundamentally cruel the world would be WAY worse than it is. The only reason any of this shit works at all is billions of decent people doing the right thing about 80% of the time. If everybody was cruel we would have ended ourselves ten times over.
“Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries – but it is a force stronger than crime.” – Robert A Heinlein “This I Believe”
Yeah cause it’s the kind of thing you propose building to appease the ego of a narcissistic leader whose army just got its asked kicked by a Black military general (Touissant L’Overture) and Black enslaved people who ran your troops off their island.
It’s a monument to ego and defeat. Perfect.
This makes me so happy
Great news 🥰
Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon.
At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software
Sure sounds like willful murder and nonnegligent manslaughter
Outrageous Ahmed Eldin has been imprisoned in Kuwait for 7 weeks for his journalism. Sign this petition. Call the embassy. Do whatever you can to fight for his freedom, just as he would fight for yours #FreeAhmedEldin
“Oil, oil, oil”
Bitch you’d better start thinking about fresh water scarcity real quick.
People take it for granted and clean drinkable water is so easy to lose.
People take it for granted and clean drinkable water is so easy to lose.
This gives all kinds of warning signs.
i really wish "children are people and people are not property" was not a radical opinion but unfortunately it's the central question up for debate with much of politics
Great article
Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.
This gives all kinds of warning signs.
My grandfather, Labour MP and CND co-founder Tony Greenwood, on a Ban the Bomb March from Aldermaston to London in 1963. He would be spinning in his grave at what the Labour party has become under Keir Starmer.
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A new independent audit says that Google, Meta, Microsoft are all still tracking users even after they opt out. 55 percent of the sites it checked set ad cookies in a user’s browser even if they opted out of tracking.
The companies all disputed it
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Take 3 minutes & save the irreplaceable Old Growth Forests in Oregon.
Losing them costs us:
- tourism income
- ancient forests we can never recover
- weaken the ecosystems that help keep our agriculture and food sources strong
❤️ Please, for the love of your community, protect our public lands. ❤️
Which makes me wonder why it's such a popular and seemingly acceptable trope in romance novels and porn. Like, really I don't understand.
“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears.
"She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.”
“'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..."
azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i...
Terrible
For the second year in a row, the Trump administration is proposing slashing federal funding for tribal colleges and universities. If the budget passes, all tribal colleges & universities would close within a year. www.wral.com/news/ap/baac...
A The New York Times analysis verified damage to 22 schools and 17 health facilities in Iran from U.S.-Israeli strikes, though Iran’s Red Crescent says the true toll is far higher: 763 schools and 316 health facilities damaged or destroyed.
That's an apartment building.
An A.I. startup did this analysis.
