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Some people bring up the fact that Romans and Persians were at war with each other taking a toll on both making it easy for the early Arab expansions. This is true, it did help but they bring it up mostly to dilute the credit of Arabs like how did they managed to kaput both in a relatively short time. But that's nothing to take credit away from them bcz this is how the world works, eggs and flour of history. U.S only became a superpower because the European colonial powers instead of agreeing to a power sharing formula mass slaughtered each other twice over mainly imperial greed, specially the first one. Similarly we are seeing again for ourselves NATO-Russia attriting each other and the biggest beneficiary of that is China.

I would go far and say this is another wake up call after that recent blue screen Microsoft failure for too much digitisation of everything. If they can blow up cell phones remotely certainly they can do something with your electric car controlled by an app and payments you make with your card or whatnot.

I wouldn't say just them I'm seeing lots of people using them. That paid Midjourney shit is good

IDF offering African Jewish folks accelerated pathway to permanent residency if they join the war in Gaza who historically have faced more obstacles and scrutiny for PR. Tbh Israel isn't the only one, other countries with shortage of manpower also do that or at least thinking of doing that because young people now don't see military as an attractive option more like a last resort

Saturday 21st September, 2024 Sunderland 0-2 Middlesbrough, 12.30 Rangers 3-1 Dundee FC, 17.30 Fenerbahce 1-0 Galatasaray, 18.00 Lecce 2-2 Parma, 19.45 Sunday 22nd September, 2024 Austin FC 2-3 Houston Dynamo, 01.30 Preston 2-0 Blackburn, 12.00 Arsenal Women 2-2 Man City Women, 12.30 Rapid Vienna 3-2 Austria Vienna, 16.00 Inter Milan 2-0 AC Milan, 19.45 Lyon 1-2 Marseille, 19.45

made me smile ngl

This Haitian stuff is even worse than post 9/11 hysteria imo. The latter started off after probably one of the biggest event of this century so far but this is being perpetuated out of straight lies over nothing

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Yeah Azerbaijan is so random in geopolitics. Although the country is secular and not that religious it is still Shia Muslim majority but has bad relations with only other Shia majority country around it, Iran. They are very close to Israel but also in the Turkish camp who all despise Israel lol

The question is asked on Quora as well and rule of internet is if it's asked on Quora it is notable enough lol https://www.quora.com/Do-you-believe-that-Catholic-Charities-and-other-organizations-involved-in-assisting-migrants-enter-the-U-S-illegally

In 1940s Mass Communication was a nascent field and prevalent paradigm was that of powerful effects of media, that media has direct powerful effects on shaping perceptions. This was supported by an event in 1938 when a Radio Station aired an episode of an alien invasion on Halloween in New Jersey and many people actually believed it causing a nation wide panic https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama) But a study was conducted for the 1948 (I think) Presidential elections by Paul Lazarsfeld to guage people's voting preferences based on media exposure. It found that there were four categories of voters. Early deciders, who made up their mind and voted accordingly regardless how media presented stuff. Waivers, people who thought of changing vote after watching media but eventually voted for their intial choice. Converts, as implied who changed vote after media exposure and crystalizers, people who just made up their mind on the voting day who to vote for based on media exposure. Study found Early deciders and Waivers formed the majority and concluded media doesn't have powerful effects but rather limited effects on shaping perceptions. The study also gave the idea of two-step flow of communication. It found that people were more influenced by how people around them interpreted media content rather than direct effect of media i.e Famous YouTuber doing his reaction of Trump Kamla debate might influence you more than watching debate yourself or even your dad or uncle giving his analysis might influence you more This study was monumental as it brought a new paradigm in the world of communication studies and gave impetus to further studies that shape our discussions till today.

This is Tom & Jerry stuff

Speaking of Latino-Americans being more religious I came across this talking point that Catholic Charity institutions help illegal immigration from Latin America bcz they want to maintain good number of Catholics in the country. How true is that ?