Do it!

Abortion bans are part of a suite of misogynistic policies, including weakening penalties or outright legalizing rape and pedophilia, the purpose of which is to strip women of agency and subject them to men's whims.

Between 1990–94 and 2015–19, the average abortion rate in countries with generally legal abortion (excluding China and India) declined by 43 percent. By contrast, in countries with severe restrictions on abortion, the average abortion rate increased by around 12 percent.

Here's the global trend from the Lancet showing the same thing. “In countries with generally legal abortion (excluding China and India), [the abortion rate] declined by 43 percent. In countries with severe restrictions, the rate increased by around 12 percent.”

www.cfr.org/articles/abo...

The purpose of banning abortion is not to stop abortions, it's to hurt women. Women have abortions because of unwanted pregnancies. When they have medical and social support, including free contraceptives and medically grounded education, they have fewer unwanted pregnancies and fewer abortions. 1/n

Thanks so much for this.

Ok I just did the math quickly on that, turns out to eat an elephant it'd be a serving three times a day for 100 years. So, it is possible!

The comments in that reddit post tho, "so what if they're nazis, this is just a smear campaign" and, from the post author, "If you need to fact-check any of my claims, copy and paste the entire thing into any AI like Gemini or Claude". My god, what have we done?

We really need to denazify harder.

That they can unironically post that photo like it's a good thing is … well it sure is something.

I was in an anarchist group in Perth in the 80s, we leafleted warning people that Murdoch was an imminent threat to democracy. Feeling more vindicated every year.

Yikes, just went on a brief Wikihole for that family. It seems he's 3rd generation OG Nazi, like Thiel himself (and Musk).

This is an incredible idea. I doubt there's a larger industry more ripe for overturning than academic publishing.

Eugenicism, plus unintended consequences, plus upholding a stupid techno-solutionist philosophy instead of reasoning things through comprehensively.

CCO just means "I won't take you to court" it doesn't mean I won't call you out for perverting the dhamna.

If you're interested, here's my writing on AI.

sujato.github.io/meaningless....

"Just" violence is like adding sugar to lemon juice: is it sweet or sour? Is there a point it becomes one or the other? No, there's always sweet & sour, like there's always bad kamma in killing. In defense, lives are saved, but they're also taken, and one does not cancel out the other.

Buddhism has no Just War doctrine. There's no moral point at which killing becomes "just". We understand defense as bright and dark deeds with bright and dark results.

Nonetheless, Just War doctrine offers longstanding principles for guiding the reduction of harm in war.

This is the industry whose leitmotif is that information must be free.

He said one thing, but he was Göring to say something else.

Stats if OP: 135 comments, 136 reposts, 5 likes.

No. Also, nice ratio.

Jerry yeah nah

That's a really good point. I've seen examples in Europe that use mindful design to create public spaces that are safe for women, eg. bus stops. It'd be interesting to see what they've done in this case.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

“we may well pass that Amoc shutdown tipping point, where it becomes inevitable, in the middle of this century”

Falling birth rates and rising fuel prices are both good things.

Whether it's screaming about how teen pregnancies are bad, or screaming about how teen pregnancies are good, the right has a consistent position of thinking way too much about teens having sex.

These guys *remind* me …

JD Vance defends Trump amid spat with Pope Leo: ‘Stick to matters of morality’ Catholic vice-president effectively tells Leo to stay in his lane after pope criticized the White House over the Iran war

Politics is applied morality, and the Buddha had plenty to say on the topic. These guys me of certain "no politics" folks in Buddhism. Check their shrine, there's a photo of the Thai king.

Why tf does anyone point a microphone at these people's faceholes?

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Yeah, if this was him pretending to be the Buddha, we could see all the Buddhists protesting the blasphemy, and ask how many were protesting when children were torn from their families and bombs were dropped on Muslims.

I feel like Trump pretending to be a doctor is more offensive than him pretending to be Jesus. Given that doctors, like, exist.

No-one should have nuclear weapons. Their baleful existence is an indictment of the governments that built them, and those who enabled them.