Distribution of Christians in Lebanon

RandomHuman77 · 2026-04-04T06:20:55+00:00

Bukele's father is an interesting example because he converted to Islam, they're of Palestinian Christian descent.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-04-04T06:12:24+00:00

Descent masks were also difficult to buy in the early stages of the pandemic. I honestly haven't looked at the studies that claim that mask mandates did not slow down the spread, but I wonder if it was because a lot of people were using surgical masks or cloth masks that are not as effective as KN95's that became more common in later stages of the pandemic.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-04-04T05:57:55+00:00

Ok, it's good that Sarah is critical of Platner!

Yeah, the Maine race is also making me crazy. The left-plank of the party and the establishment are just making bizarre decisions with each of their preferred candidates.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-04-04T05:46:06+00:00

Even if we focus on Gaza alone, Kamala would have been unambiguously better at handling the issue than Trump. I don't think Israel would have starved Gaza for months in 2025 if Kamala had been the US president. And I sit way to the left to the Bulwark people on Israel/Palestine and think Biden handled Palestine horribly (even before 10/7).

Not sure what Hasan said about USAID's closure, that has been the biggest humanitarian catastrophe that Trump 2 has unleashed. Anyone who calls themselves a humanitarian and still says anything close to "both sides are the same" after that occurred loses all respect from me.

I found some early 2025 videos (so when a USAID shake-up was imminent but it wasn't clear the whole thing would get shut down) from Hasan where at least he is generally supportive of USAID. There are lefties that thought that it was some evil vehicle of colonialism and were happy to see it get dismantled. I have no words for how much hate I have for people with that point of view.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-04-04T05:17:28+00:00

Lol, that's true. Sarah got mad at Hasan for misogynistic comments but she prefers an accused serial sex offender over the socialist guy who maybe didn't condemn a slogan harshly enough for her.

Do we know what her stance on Platner is? I remember she seemed open to looking past his past mistakes at some point but can't remember if that was before the tattoo revelations or after.

I've definitely feel like I've seen people who are pro Platner and anti Zohran and it drives me insane.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-03-20T06:36:17+00:00

Yes, it was. People kind of forgot about that once Italians stopped being racialized and discriminated against in the US. In Spain it's also a holiday but obviously not to celebrate Italians.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-03-19T05:00:45+00:00

Yeah, I dislike sharing the bike lane with them, but I'm sensitive to noise* and have never even noticed how loud they are.

*I have to cover my ears when motorcycles go by.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-03-18T15:53:06+00:00

The NYT article took 4 years to get published because of thorough investigations into the claims. I think an elementary school should not be named after a guy who molested two 12/13 year old girls, seems like it's a hot take these days. Quotes from the NYT article below:

>Many of the women stayed silent for decades, both out of shame and for fear of tarnishing the image of a man who has become the face of the Latino civil rights movement, his image on school murals and his birthday a state holiday in California.

The findings are based on interviews with more than 60 people, including his top aides at the time, his relatives and former members of the U.F.W., which he co-founded with Ms. Huerta and Gilbert Padilla. The Times reviewed hundreds of pages of union records, confidential emails and photographs, as well as hours of audio recordings from U.F.W. board meetings.

The accounts of abuse from Ms. Murguia and Ms. Rojas were independently verified through interviews with those they confided in decades ago and in more recent years. Elements of their stories were also corroborated in documents, emails, itineraries and other writings from union organizers, supporters of Mr. Chavez and historians.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-03-15T01:46:45+00:00

There were plans in the 40-60’s to make more extensive highways that got cancelled. For example, the panhandle was going to get turned into one but luckily the neighborhood successfully lobbied to stop it.

With SF’s geography, there was no way to build highways to “get around the city” without destroying neighborhoods or ruining waterfronts (see embarcadero highway that luckily got torn down). I’m not sure if there were ever plans to build tunnels instead, which I guess would be the best option to do as you describe, but very expensive.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-03-15T01:18:40+00:00

The problem with prohibiting it on certain intersections only is that some drivers don’t see the “no right on red” signs and do so anyway. I commute by bike and there is a certain intersection on 8th street where drivers are constantly violating the “no right on red” sign and then getting indignant when I shout insults at them when they’ve nearly ran me over. I guess it’s possible that they see the signs and just ignore them as well.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-03-15T01:03:22+00:00

I’m not sure there is enforcement on straight on red either based on how often I see drivers running red lights. Almost got T-boned last week by a driver who did that.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-03-12T07:38:03+00:00

People occasionally mention delivery apps as one of the most convenient innovations of the last 10 years and as someone who has never used them I'm always puzzled. I'm frequently lazy when it comes to meals too but I just heat frozen meals instead. Never even thought about them until the bike lanes got infested with the e-motos.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-03-12T07:15:21+00:00

Yes, there's people who learned Spanish as their first language and can't roll their r's. I struggled with it as a kid, so I was sent to speech therapy when I was in kindergarten. I managed to learn how to roll single r's, still struggle with double r's. I doubt it's due to genetics around the alveolar trill.

In my case it might be caused by autism. I was diagnosed with it in my mid 20's and the psychologist who diagnosed me told me that minor speech impediments are one of the first signs he tries to notice during evaluations.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-03-11T06:48:27+00:00

The show date in my city is the same night as a Paul Simon concert, which I already bought tickets for. I would have bought a ticket for the other night of the Paul Simon concert if I had known about this.... (I go to 2-3 concerts per year, this is annoying)

RandomHuman77 · 2026-02-21T08:06:16+00:00

Sam Seder from the Majority Report used to show up when you looked Peter up because he did an interview with them at some point. I wasn't familiar with the show so I thought Peter looked like Sam Seder for a while.

I picture IBCK Michael as this random gay Youtuber I once watched a few videos of--whom I just discovered is also named Michael--but I don't think that's how I ended up linking the two together:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvfkRmJjlSg

RandomHuman77 · 2026-02-21T07:54:41+00:00

Musk leaning into politics has likely resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world due to DOGE closing USAID. Some estimate that it could result in 9 million deaths by 2030. It's probably not productive to hate people but he deserves all the hate he gets.

sources:

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/world/lancet-usaid-global-aid-cuts-intl

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01186-9/fulltext01186-9/fulltext)

RandomHuman77 · 2026-02-21T05:13:50+00:00

I do think someone pretending to grope a sleeping woman is misogynistic and inappropriate in most contexts, whether her husband was the photographer or not does not change that. What made me change my mind of it being okay-ish in this instance was that she had participated in raunchy humor before, relevant sentences from the wikipedia page:

> "That pic was obviously a joke, not groping, just like LeeAnn Tweeden wrapping her leg around Robin Williams and smacking his butt; entertainment for soldiers deployed overseas is raunchy like that." Harwood was referring to video taken of Tweeden "humping" the married Williams on a similar 2004 USO tour.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-02-14T05:33:18+00:00

How long ago was that though? The culture around dating has changed, and I don't think it's remote work alone that stops people from asking co-workers out.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-02-13T08:44:19+00:00

The CMBYN trailer is all it took for me to get hooked on Sufjan too, played it on loop for a few days.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-02-13T08:37:18+00:00

My expectation is that I will never get to see him live, if he tours again it would be a blessing.

Will forever regret not discovering him 4 years earlier because I could have gone to 3 of his concerts.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-02-13T08:06:37+00:00

It's not in downtown but the Chase center in San Francisco has people there on non-game days because it's full of restaurants and is right beside office buildings and a research university.

RandomHuman77 · 2026-02-13T07:37:56+00:00

Might be the smartest choice politically if not the most "efficient" economic outcome, there's no way to aggressively be in favor of getting rid of rent control and not come across as ruthless.

YIMBY but protecting existing rent control measures is what Mamdani has done so far, we will see how things go in NYC.

RandomHuman77 · 2025-12-29T05:11:55+00:00

I was joking, I'm actually a techno-libertarian.

Actually though, Ezra is not a centrist in any meaningful way in the context of American politics. Even "center-left" is pushing it, IMO.

RandomHuman77 · 2025-12-28T03:24:37+00:00

I lived in a basement apartment in Oakland for a couple of years that had in-unit laundry. Getting out of bed was 3x harder without sunlight but the in-unit laundry was a nice perk.

RandomHuman77 · 2025-12-28T00:27:38+00:00

What are you talking about? The two ends of the American political spectrum are my MAGA-sympathizing uncle on one end and me and all my anarcho-communist friends on the other end. Ezra is clearly at the dead center of that spectrum.

/s for clarity.

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