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One can only hope.
But, as you point out, they still make oodles of money, so...
But, as you point out, they still make oodles of money, so...
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I'm guessing there's a lot more gay people in Russia than reporters. And many of them live in fear for their lives if discovered, so the comparison is apt. Apt, I say.
Is there a giant To Do list of things that need to fixed with countries, and only one issue can be addressed at a time? Or is stopping homophobia and anti-Semitism a "luxury" cause? Maybe the USA should have delayed the civil rights movement until the economy improved?
Is there a giant To Do list of things that need to fixed with countries, and only one issue can be addressed at a time? Or is stopping homophobia and anti-Semitism a "luxury" cause? Maybe the USA should have delayed the civil rights movement until the economy improved?
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No, it's "interned". They're not paying him.
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One down, a couple million children to go...
Poverty is rampant in Manila. People live in shanty towns of corrugated metal and whatever else they can scrape together, and send their children out to beg in the middle of the street. I can remember one intersection where as soon as the light turns red, these beggar children run in between the cars (4-5 lanes), and start tapping on the windows for spare change. Many of the kids are not even tall enough to be seen clearly.
It's a feel-good story, but they can't all get scholarships.
And yes, English is the lingua franca for the PH. Someone from Manila may not understand someone's dialect from Baguio, so they communicate in English.
Poverty is rampant in Manila. People live in shanty towns of corrugated metal and whatever else they can scrape together, and send their children out to beg in the middle of the street. I can remember one intersection where as soon as the light turns red, these beggar children run in between the cars (4-5 lanes), and start tapping on the windows for spare change. Many of the kids are not even tall enough to be seen clearly.
It's a feel-good story, but they can't all get scholarships.
And yes, English is the lingua franca for the PH. Someone from Manila may not understand someone's dialect from Baguio, so they communicate in English.
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Read that as if it took the "A-Team" three years to build it. But, of course, the A-Team would have built it in a three-minute montage.
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He would have had to go through some warning lights or barrier, wouldn't he?
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Better a van than a cliff.
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My first thought, too. But the rear and back windows at a glance could just look like panels rather than windows. Rust on the sideview mirror would be odd since those aren't normally metal.
It's best not to think too long about it.
It's best not to think too long about it.
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You're right, rcxb. The Monica Lewinsky thing wasn't an Internet thing, but I guess was sort of an early example of the pattern.
The whole thing was sordid. Bill lied, Hillary lied, and I think politically a lot of attention was pushed onto Lewinsky to distract from the fact that it was blatant sexual harassment.
The whole thing was sordid. Bill lied, Hillary lied, and I think politically a lot of attention was pushed onto Lewinsky to distract from the fact that it was blatant sexual harassment.
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Of course it left out "name and shame" laws, since those were not in the scope of the article. You neglected to mention the age-old practice of putting the names of men who are arrested in prostitution or bathroom stings, in the newspaper. The point of those was to discourage illegal acts by public shaming.
This article was about how some embarrassing behaviour was recorded and subsequently went viral thanks to the Internet. In that article, the woman who didn't clean up her dog's poop on the subway, was ranked appropriately.
This article was about how some embarrassing behaviour was recorded and subsequently went viral thanks to the Internet. In that article, the woman who didn't clean up her dog's poop on the subway, was ranked appropriately.
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I would probably get stuck in the middle of the Outback, without being able to close it all up again.
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Plus: two lines in, and he got the words wrong.
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Never heard him before. Never want to again. I stopped it after the first two bars of his butchery.
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It's not a surprise attack if you tell everyone you're going to have a surprise attack.
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Not sure why you feel that addressing more than one issue at a time has anything to do with "fix stuff" fairy dust. I think you're saying that you can't fix anything until you fix those items on the list that you consider basic, so addressing any other issues is just wishful thinking. You may have a (cynical) point, but why not address these things? Otherwise, marginalized people will continue to be oppressed and die in silence. That's no solution.