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  "Let them eat cake" moment. Jokes apart, the children of the rich are obese, the children of the poor are too thin. Both tendencies contribute to malnutrition. https://globalnutritionreport.org/resources/nutrition-profiles/europe/western-europe/france/

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  Religion is tricky. Most people search for meaning in life, and religions are an answer to that need. But linking religion to nations is the root of evil. Not being Catholic in Italy will cause you a lot of headaches, for example, yet you should be able to choose any religion you like and follow it freely. So I would say the real issue is the interplay between religion and power, and discrimination on religious grounds.

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  The car is a tool to move yourself and your family/friends from place A to place B. But James Bond, Batman, rap videos made a status symbol of it. They created a modern mythology around it. The transformation of the automobile from a means of transport into a luminous totem of status is a near-perfect case study of what Pierre Bourdieu theorised as the conversion and misrecognition of capital. Bourdieu argued that capital presents itself in three fundamental guises: economic capital (money, a...

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  The answer is actually "a mix of all three," and it really depends on which conflict you're looking at. For Afghanistan, it was exactly the first one: the only time Article 5, the "attack on one is an attack on all" clause, has ever been invoked. That happened after 9/11 and led directly to the NATO-led mission there. Yugoslavia in 1999 was a different beast entirely; that was NATO waging an air campaign without a UN Security Council mandate, operating far outside its...

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  That em dash you used is very suspect... 😆

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  It has been established that LLMs (aka "AI models") have been trained using copyrighted data without the consent of copyright holders. See: - https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/06/study-metas-llama-3-1-can-recall-42-percent-of-the-first-harry-potter-book/ - https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/hayao-miyazaki-studio-ghibli-ai-trend-b2723358.html

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  Usually it is who they consider their boyfriend who talks them into performing on OF. It is actually their virtual pimp.