mirshafie

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[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Edison was a problematic person to say the least, but he was an inventor and he did not come from wealth. I think that nowadays it's pretty much known that he was an asshole that attached his name to inventions that he had very little to do with, but at least he did contribute some things. Elon Musk is a con-man through and through.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They probably mean that Moroccanoil (an Israeli-owned company that makes hair oil) is a main sponsor of Eurovision.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Grotesco could easily win Eurovision if they ever cared to enter. So many of their songs live rent-free in Swedish people's heads and this is hardly even top 10.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey now. Despite everything, Edison was an actual inventor and actually a self-made man. Musk doesn't have shit on Edison.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 1 week ago

Immigration leads to far-right nutjobs threatening politicians so they leave their positions?

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Right. So you just outed your specialized interest in a fringe issue. The thread is about female politicians leaving the limelight, and you just had to force a connection to your pet theory of how the world works, didn't you.

Nevermind that the reason they leave is almost always threats from far-right nutjobs.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah but the tide is turning, at least in Sweden and it seems in the US as well. It's decreasingly socially acceptable to shame people into going alone with war crimes and ethnic cleansing, and it is especially ugly to use accusations of bigotry to promote bigotry.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 5 points 1 week ago

I can see the ridges that cut across each segment in the rings of a fingerprint. And the fibers that make up the threads in a piece of cloth.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 31 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Good video essay on the topic by Lindsay Ellis.

Incidentally I love that the video has raised $800k for Palestinian Children's Relief Fund.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm very near-sighted. Also means I have a built-in microscope.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm not very sensitive to bright lights. But I can also see better in low-light conditions than anyone I know. Not sure how that works.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Quit your bullshit. The person who murdered Ing-Marie Wieselgren (national coordinator for psychiatry) in front of Annie Lööf (leader of Centerpartiet) in 2022 was Theodor Engström. This article is news because Anna-Karin Hatt (leader of Centerpartiet) quit a couple of weeks back, in response to online threats.

If you look at the incidence of violence against women in Europe, there is no correlation with immigration. Sure, Sweden is ranked as number 2, which seems bad and you might infer that it has something to do with demographics. Just one problem - Finland is number 1, with 1/10th of Sweden's immigration. Denmark and Hungary are also really high up. You can try to draw your own conclusions but a clear correlation to immigration is a hard sell.

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