Quote from: Zoupa on Today at 12:48:45 AMhttps://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-increases-gasoline-imports-belarus-domestic-supplies-shrink-2024-03-27/#:~:text=This%20year%2C%20Russia%20has%20again,were%20no%20shipments%20from%20Belarus.
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on March 03, 2024, 02:59:24 PMThere is some selection bias although in my own experience juries tend to be much more varied in backround. There is something about the experience of being in the very formal setting of a courtroom, the process of being sworn in and seated in a special section, and all the pomp and cirumstance, that socializes people to act differently then they would in their ordinary casual conduct. Everyday life is often about assuming different roles in different social circumstances and everything about the jury process pushes people into assuming the role expected of them.Saw an interesting story that touches on this about family courts in the UK. For many years the trend there has been towards informality. The judges aren't robed, often there's no "bench" it's all around a conference table etc.
QuoteI don't think criminals are eligible for jury duty?
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 05:54:30 AMI often run across seriously fucked up sounding Indian stuff when trawling Amazon prime and the like. The rise of the Hindutva shittiness is really concerning.Here's the trailer - a few sections that from Western perspective are a little bit "yikes"-y:
The rewriting of history to suit they engage in particularly irritates- Indian independence is a great story precisely because it wasn't some big nasty war...but that just doesn't fit the world they want to live in.
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 05:16:38 AMQuote from: HVC on March 27, 2024, 08:39:26 PMQuote from: Tonitrus on March 27, 2024, 08:36:10 PMQuote from: Jacob on March 27, 2024, 04:49:24 PMQuote from: Admiral Yi on March 27, 2024, 02:46:13 PMDisagree. It's my belief that the one interest group he considers absolutely indispensable is evangelicals. And Israel is their pet.
There are few things Donald Trump loves more than taking advantage of people and pulling something over on people who think he's in their corner.
One theme for the current American radical right is the way they've turned on and jettisoned previous shibboleths and purity tests for their movement. Sure they evangelical right loves Israel, but if Trump could find a way to turn his base against Israel for his own gain (or ego) he'd have no compunction not to. And if the Trump base is given a choice between Trump or Israel, I think they'll break for Trump in large numbers.
EDIT: Not right now, of course. But soon enough.
And even then...isn't the Christian evangelical support of Israel based on some mad idea that they'll bring about the Second Coming/Apocolypse?
Once all the Jews of Israel convert to the one true god the apocalypse will start, IIRC.
Isn't the second coming a necessary precursor for this?
But even in a biblical apocalypse I could well imagine a divide would remain over whether its first or second and the man himself going "Guys. Its my 6th." wouldn't change anything
QuoteBrazil's foreign ministry has summoned the Hungarian ambassador to explain why the South American country's embattled former president Jair Bolsonaro spent two nights "hiding" at Hungary's embassy in Brasília last month as federal police investigators closed in on some of his closest allies.
Security footage obtained by the New York Times showed that in early February – four days after two Bolsonaro aides were arrested on suspicion of plotting to overthrow the Brazilian government – the rightwing populist took shelter in the embassy, a short drive from the presidential palace Bolsonaro once occupied.
The New York Times said Bolsonaro's embassy stay suggested he was "seeking to leverage his friendship with a fellow far-right leader, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary, into an attempt to evade the Brazilian justice system as he faces criminal investigations at home".
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 06:02:57 AMQuote from: The Brain on Today at 05:58:50 AMQuote from: Josquius on Today at 05:54:30 AMIndian independence is a great story precisely because it wasn't some big nasty war
Partition?
That wasn't a war.
Quote from: The Brain on Today at 05:58:50 AMQuote from: Josquius on Today at 05:54:30 AMIndian independence is a great story precisely because it wasn't some big nasty war
Quote from: Josquius on Today at 05:54:30 AMIndian independence is a great story precisely because it wasn't some big nasty war
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