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LOL, I actually really hope China flexes here.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of scoundrels.

From same article as above:

“Ekrem İmamoğlu’s only crime is leading in the polls,” Özel told crowds massing outside Istanbul city hall earlier this week. Speaking to reporters on Sunday he said: “Ekrem İmamoğlu is currently on the road to prison but he is also on the road to the presidency. The nation is repelling a coup through solidarity ballot boxes.”

More on this topic:

A South African government official confirmed that one of the team member's threatening behaviour was triggered by 'a dispute over a task the team leader wanted the team to do – a weather-dependent task that required a schedule change'.

The author of the email seen by South Africa's Sunday Times expressed immense concern over their colleague's 'increasingly egregious behaviour' and called for immediate action to ensure their own safety and that of the team as a whole.

'I am experiencing significant difficulty in feeling secure in his presence,' the author wrote.

...

'(The accused) has shown remorse and is willingly cooperative to follow any interventions that are recommended. He has written a formal apology to the victim and is willing to verbally apologise to all members at the base,' the statement, seen by The South African, read.

'The department has also implemented a longer term sustained intervention process through trained professional counselling services in order to restore the relationships and build a healthy working environment.

'The DFFE have also, in parallel, activated a Labour Relations process to deal with the matter as it relates to the alleged physical assault. An alleged sexual harassment is also being investigated. Reports of sexual assault are not correct,' the statement said.

Living in harsh conditions among a remote landscape and staggering temperatures of minus 23 degrees, the team rarely, if ever, leaves the base for their own safety.

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Alan Chambers, an explorer who completed a 700-mile skiing expedition in the region last year, said that from a 'psychological perspective' the South Pole is a 'very very lonely place'.

'There's very little interaction with humans or animals so if you're in a camp or a research centre you're with those people for six months, if not a year,' he told The Times.

'Everything becomes heightened. It's all white - there's no colour, no noise and nothing you would see as normal so everybody's behaviour - including your own - gets magnified and the little things become the big things.'

Mr Chambers warned the 'loneliness of the continent' majorly impacts behaviour and said that those who are stationed in Antarctica 'really have to be happy with yourself'.

He claims that due to the fact that one spend 'lot of time inside your mind', small issues with others can escalate into larger problems.

There has not yet been any word of a rescue operation to evacuate the research team.

Most research missions to the desolate wastelands of Antarctica and the Arctic go off without a hitch, thanks to the extensive preparation time, background checks and physical and psychological evaluations to which team members are subjected.

But there have been several instances in which scientists have suffered attacks at the hands of their colleagues, along with reports of sexual abuse taking place in isolated research centres.

In 2023, American authorities launched an investigation after it emerged that more than half of the women working at the US' McMurdo research base in Antarctica had experienced sexual violence.

McMurdo is stationed on the south tip of Ross Island and hosts up to 1,200 residents over the summer - a large majority of Antarctica's population.

Daily Mail

There's another article about it at NY Post that provides pictures and biographical data of the some people there, thogh all we know is that the aggressor is male.

Shagger

Which I have always heard is an obscenity in British English

On your first point, I think if it is established they aren't a citizen, it is easy to deport them. I'll never be at risk for deportation because even if I lose all my documents I exist in the database and even the briefest appearance before a judge can have me fix this. They are only able to resist deportation to some degree because of activist judges.

From your linked article:

On the heels of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s ill-conceived suggestion that Republicans are fine sacrificing white, women voters for “Julios and Jamals” (presumably meaning Latino and Black men), I think now is a good time to revisit a beat I’ve been on for the last several years: covering the GOP’s hapless attempt to sway Black voters.

Last week, failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy appeared to get a co-sign from rapper Meek Mill when the artist reposted a right-wing conspiracy theorist’s clip of Ramaswamy’s gushing endorsement of Trump in Iowa last week.

"Wait till yall see who the Black people in poverty vote for!" Mill posted on the social media platform X, somehow managing to load elitism, classism and an endorsement of Ramaswamy's bigotry into a dozen words.

Meek Mill later posted that people shouldn’t listen to him because he doesn’t know anything about politics (as if we needed that tip). But not before Republicans, including Ramaswamy, gleefully re-shared the rapper's post.

Elsewhere on social media, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene recently shared a video from social media conspiracy theorist "Tasha K" to imply Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis deserves to face criminal charges related to allegations of impropriety recently made against her by Michael Roman, one of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in his election-related RICO case. Tasha K is best known for defaming rapper Cardi B with gross and false sexual allegations.

And then there’s the raft of right-wing media who’ve been touting hip-hop radio host Charlamagne Tha God’s seemingly endless public attacks on President Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. The “Breakfast Club” host has pitched himself in recent years as a political expert on Black voters (specifically Black men), rather than a deeply controversial shock jock. And right-wingers have seemed almost giddy to present his critique of the Biden admin as one that's shared by Black voters (Fox News writes about him constantly, for example). I’ve seen little evidence to suggest he really has his ear to the culture, and I’ve disagreed with it even (with all due respect) when it’s been broached here at MSNBC.

There is a troubling trend of conservatives leaning on Black media figures and media outlets that target Black audiences, particularly tabloids and rappers, to spread their viewpoint. Successive elections have shown conservatives to be out of touch with most Black voters. Pew Research projects that this November, there will be more than 34 million eligible Black voters, and a whopping 92% of Black voters favored Biden in 2020.

Yet, the GOP is trying to make inroads by leaning on some of the Black community’s least trustworthy voices when it comes to politics. Republicans evidently believe rappers, YouTubers and raunchy radio hosts are the best tools to chip away at that advantage. All while the party engages in overtly anti-Black acts such as suppressing Black votes and restricting access to books about Black history.

That's actually the whole article.

He isn't a MAGA mouthpiece, but he is a black person that saysthings that generally benefit the American right wing, and so people are embracing that. Which... Is fine.

Do black people have a right to abandon the Democrat party? Do they have a right to forge their own identity? Of course they do, we would all agree. Since there is no known money exchanging hears or dubious motives for any of these people, it seems questionable to call him a MAGA mouthpiece.

Agreed

I remember reading that, statistically, school teachers are a bit more likely than clergy to molest kids.

Obviously, the former also happens, but it is also the case that there are literally millions of clergy around the country, just as how there are millions of teachers, and some of them are bound to be dirt bags.... And, some of these even actively seek out these positions to gain access to children, whether as teachers or clergy.

It's just the case that there aren't many ideologues who weaponize teacher sex scandals much.

To be completely fair, the US DoD is absolutely full of useless contractor positions and various departments & subdepartments that do nothing.

When I was in the Army I could even say that there were offices that did virtually nothing and were overstaffed. Not as common, of course, but this is a very real phenomenon in the government.

Wow, it ain't just DOGE

This actually only caught my eye because I was told that Trump's people mistook "transgenic" for "transgender," but it appears that there actually are experiments on the books that focus on gender with animals like this.

There is an interesting passage in Maccabees that implies that Jews previously believed that there could be a process for atoning for the sins of the dead:

In II Maccabees 12:39-46, we discover Judas Maccabeus and members of his Jewish military forces collecting the bodies of some fallen comrades who had been killed in battle. When they discovered these men were carrying “sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear” (vs. 40), Judas and his companions discerned they had died as a punishment for sin. Therefore, Judas and his men “turned to prayer beseeching that the sin which had been committed might be wholly blotted out… He also took up a collection… and sent it to Jerusalem to provide for a sin offering. In doing this he acted very well and honorably… Therefore he made atonement for the dead, that they might be delivered from their sin.”

There is also this passage in Matthew 5:24-25:

Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison; truly I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny (Matthew 5:25-26).

Catholic.com

I think these hint at a period before heaven in which some form of atonement is possible, though I am not sure to what extent it fits the Catholic concept of purgatory as such.

Yeah, it's very unfair that this woman faces this...

But I do not think that the average Pastor or Priest is guilty of this.

Right, this is a controversial piece, and I never actually heard anyone in Orthodox Christianity outright say it. I actually heard the opposite, once, that people in hell could be prayed for and granted some relief through prayer but they remain in the torments of hell since this was how they had lived...

But consider that there was this split between Hades and Hell in some systems (though the language is not always the same), and Christ went down to preach to those in hell (1 Peter 3:19 - this is not the only interpretation, but a common one).

It may be the case that they are referring to someone who is not outright in hell, but someone who is in a state of limbo or who has not been resolved to heaven yet... At which point the author would still be mistaken in what they have put forward here, yes, I get that.

I am open to hearing any of your opinions on this as I am not fully committed to any position, and I am more curious about everyone's feedback than asserting anything. But I do like to counter-argue if only to try to help crystalize some new position or at least be charitable to the initial proposition.

Very excellent effort post, thank you.

I once heard that it was a third of all angels who fell, and thus there could be some reason to believe that roughly a third of all humans would also perish to hell. However, nobody can know. It's a great mystery.

If you did not know, the NCAA uses two categories of wins in order to try to be objective:

For years, the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee has tried to justify their seeding of teams through a myriad of numbers, team records, RPI (Rating Percentage Index) and the all important eye test.

Other factors also include a team’s ranking in five other metrics: the ESPN strength of record and BPI rankings, the KPI, KenPom and Sagarin rankings.

Now the selection committee has another avenue to determine the best teams in the nation, something known as the quadrant system.

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Quadrant one wins are those home games vs. teams RPI ranked 1-30, neutral games vs. 1-50, and away games vs. 1–75. For example, a home win against a top 30 team would qualify as a quadrant one victory.

A Quadrant 2 win are those at Home against the RPI 31–75, neutral 51–100, and away victories over the RPI 76–135.

si.com

So, the fact that they have so few quad 1 victories is extremely significant.

They realy shouldn't be there.

But it wasn't - someone above posted the AP News link.

lol right as the mass murder of religious minorities begins

This is correct - so much so that I feel empathetic embarrassment for the original author.

I appreciate the excerpt, thank you - it's certainly a very interesting case.