A serious incident in the Judo Bundesliga, where Leipzig fighter Akaki Japaridze brutally attacked his opponent Timo Cavelius with punches after the match, causing him to lose two teeth and suffer a jaw fracture, has caused outrage and is now leading to legal and sporting consequences. (translated)
A gente não sabe nada sobre o contexto desse vídeo aí, mas pelos bichos, vou lançar a hipótese de que seja um lugar abandonado ou inacessado já há algum tempo (embora a gente saiba que existem pesssoas que vivem em condições realmente precárias). O próprio amblipígio é um bicho de hábitos praticamente cavernícolas, que adora umidade e odeia luz. Não parece ser um bicho que se adaptaria bem à convivência humana diária. Para entrar um sapo-cururu adulto, no mínimo tem uma fresta considerável aberta dando acesso para o lado de fora. E se entra um sapo, entra todo tipo de invertebrado. E se o ambiente interno dá as condições necessárias para os bichos viverem, eles entram e ficam. Nem é preciso apelar para a ideia de inveja. #natureza #animais #meioambiente
On whose side is time in the Iran-US war? For now, it looks like the trend is moving against Tehran as its grip over the Strait of Hormuz slips. This means that Iran will soon face a choice: cave in or escalate? “The Iranian blockade is more leaky than the U.S. blockade.” My #Iran #US #StraitofHormuz #IR #US
Human remains, corresponding to at least two bodies, have been discovered in the basement of a house in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, raising identification challenges due to their advanced state of decomposition. (translated)
The Vercelli Prosecutor's Office has completed the investigation into the massive theft worth 15 million euros that occurred in 2023 at the Intesa Sanpaolo branch in Casale, with 12 suspects linked to an operation that involved accessing the vault through a network of underground tunnels. (translated)
À Marseille, la "police nationale" s'acharne sur Sébastien Delogu député insoumis de Marseille. Elle le provoque, l'humilie, le pourchasse, abuse de son pouvoir. Si le grand banditisme local ne se montre pas très inquiet, il en va tout autrement du reste de la population. Juges menacés à domicile, passant matraqué, défiguré ou mort à leur balcon. L'ancien préfet de police de Marseille, désormais ministre Nuñez, couvre par principe tout et n'importe quoi. Pour lui, traiter un député de "trou du cul" est un comportement normal pour un policier. Et mérite la garde à vue du député. C'est le monde à l'envers. Et pour un ministre ? Le supporterait-il ? Je le redis : cette organisation policière sera révisée de la cave au grenier si nous gagnons en 2027. Aucune personne honnête, aucun passant, aucun manifestant à Marseille ne se sentira plus menacé d'abus de pouvoir, d'insultes et de violences par ceux dont la mission est à l'inverse. #Marseille #Police #Justice
Why Weak Societies Choose Tyranny The pinnacle of tyranny would be a system that allows politicians, elites, and bureaucrats to control a population without force or coercion because the people love their servitude. Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World, an eerily relatable dystopian novel, with this idea at the forefront. Unlike Orwell’s 1984, there is no overt oppression. The state does not have to stamp on human faces with its jackboots or erect an inescapable surveillance state. Rather, the people of Brave New World happily chain themselves with meaningless pleasure and distractions. The authorities do not rule through terror and rage, the central elements of 1984, but instead give the people everything they ever wanted. A pharmaceutical called Soma becomes the opiate of the masses. Mustapha Mond, the World Controller, likens it to Christianity without tears. While religion requires years of moral training, Soma allows citizens to achieve peace simply by swallowing tablets. It is the perfect escape from reality, a holiday from the facts. Lenina, the female counterpart to the protagonist Bernard, cannot comprehend why he refuses Soma, preferring discomfort to something that can remove it. When Bernard states, “I’d rather be myself, myself and nasty, not somebody else, however jolly,” Lenina sees this as a sort of pathology and repeatedly encourages him to take the wonder drug. Bernard explains, “I want to know what passion is.” He understands that there is more to life than merely being content, craving genuine experience, including suffering and intensity, rather than being emotionally regulated by the World State. Lenina’s bewilderment stems from her conditioning to regard unhappiness as a technical problem, encapsulated in the society’s common saying that “a gram is better than a damn.” The people of Brave New World are not captives but satisfied customers. Children are produced by the scientific state, relieving people of the responsibility of parenthood. This grants them the ability to engage in promiscuity, where everyone belongs to everyone else, while filling their free time with cheap entertainment and endless sporting events—what would be referred to as slop today. As Neil Postman observed, Orwell saw totalitarianism through the lens of fear, while Huxley saw it through pleasure. There was no need to ban a book in Brave New Worldbecause there was no one who wanted to read one. An abundance of low-quality information rendered censorship unnecessary because no one could hear the truth through all the noise. Huxley threw shade at civil libertarians who passionately opposed tyranny because they failed to take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions. Humanity in its rawest form is portrayed by John the Savage, an outsider free from the World State’s conditioning. Upon coming face-to-face with this spiritually neutered society, he completely rejects it: “I don’t want comfort, I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.” Huxley’s dystopia is not imposed on an unwilling population but instead requested by a hollow one. Which leads us to the question: How do people become so weak that they get on their knees and beg for totalitarianism? Good times make bad times possible. Once a certain level of luxury and safety is achieved, people start to resemble the hobbits from the Shire. They are so far removed from evil that they forget it even exists and become defenseless in the face of it. Andrew Lobaczewski, who studied the psychology of totalitarianism from inside Poland’s communist takeover, wrote: “During good times, people progressively lose sight of the need for profound reflection. They lose the capacity to differentiate human nature, and emotion begins to dominate intellect. Once a critical mass starts operating on the pleasure principle, any excess mental effort seems like pointless labor.” Lobaczewski warned that it is not as simple as some people losing the ability to think rationally. It is worse, because those people then shame anyone capable of doing so. A clever, liberal, and merry individual is a good sport. A more far-sighted person predicting dire results becomes a wet blanket, a killjoy. The ability to have uncomfortable conversations without emotion taking over is, in Lobaczewski’s view, an indicator of whether a society’s future will be good or bad. It is easier to think about pleasant things. This leads people to eliminate any data or facts that cause them discomfort. That becomes a habit and eventually a custom accepted by society at large. Once the general populace accepts that inconvenient truths should be left unsaid, it becomes incapable of reaching correct conclusions. After all, how could you ever describe a picture that you refuse to look at? “Catastrophe waits in the wings of the communities that lose the capacity for psychological reason and moral criticism,” Lobaczewski wrote. “It is on the other side of this weakening of thought that the processes of the generation of evil are intensified at every social scale until they give rise to bad times.” It is precisely man’s dreams of happiness that can lead to chaos and suffering. This hedonistic view of happiness contains the seeds of misery, feeding the eternal cycle whereby good times give birth to bad times. Friedrich Nietzsche viewed socialism as demanding comfort for the greatest number of people possible. To question whether it is good for the masses to live in comfort has become a form of heresy. This reveals the spiritual atrophy that so many suffer from. Considering only the weak believe comfort to be a virtue, it is what Carl Jung would describe as the infantile dream state of mass dependency: the desire to gently slip back into the kingdom of childhood, into the paradise of parental care. Except this lack of friction has consequences. The perfect state destroys the soil in which great intellect grows. Genius, struggle, passion, strength, and wisdom are required to build a safe and abundant society. Yet once a certain level of comfort is achieved, it can destroy the very virtues required to obtain it. Nietzsche observed that it is the warmest heart that aims to alleviate suffering and hardship but fails to realize that it thereby wills the destruction of its own foundation. Comfort breeds mediocrity, which is then called good. Small people want one thing above all: that no one hurt them. We have taken this pathology to such a degree that we now obsess over hurt feelings and call this virtue. Pleasure, in its proper place, is a byproduct of meaningful goals, not a goal in itself. Aristotle saw that pleasure and comfort distort perception and proper judgment. While they do not cause us to misjudge something like geometry or mathematics, they can destroy our ability to decide what is worth pursuing and, therefore, what to do. Consider The Odyssey. Homer depicts Odysseus’ men on the island of the Lotus-Eaters, where they taste the fruit and lose all desire to go home. Much like Huxley’s Brave New World, they are not imprisoned. Rather, they simply stop wanting anything more. Odysseus has to drag his men back to the ships while they weep to stay. This is what comfort can do to men. It empties them of purpose. We intuitively understand this but fail to apply it to our own lives. We must make the same choice as Odysseus when he refuses Calypso’s offer of endless comfort and immortality. He knows she is more beautiful than his wife Penelope waiting at home. He knows that he and Penelope will grow old and die, a fate he could avoid by staying with Calypso. No one who reads these stories wishes he had stayed. We want him to choose the hard way home because if he took the offer, he would stop being admirable. Yet staying is exactly what our modern society asks of us. We are told that the island is the good life. But what happens to the man who caves to this temptation? In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche imagines a risk-averse society taken to its logical endpoint. The elimination of all struggle produces a man so diminished that he fails to possess even self-contempt or higher aspiration. Safety and sameness become the highest goals, creating “no shepherd in one herd.” Anyone who seeks to be anything more than normal becomes an aberration to be dealt with. Or, as Nietzsche puts it, they have “made the wolf a dog in man himself, man’s best domestic animal.”
Jessie Cave, known for her role in 'Harry Potter,' has turned to OnlyFans to survive after years of unemployment, managing to earn more in one year than throughout her entire career as an actress by focusing on hair-related content instead of pornographic material. (translated)
Marseille (13) : Arthur, 19 ans, frappé et menacé au couteau pendant 45 minutes par son ancien camarade de collège, Nazir, et un complice ; ils tentent de l’attirer dans une cave pour le dépouiller, Nazir condamné à un an de prison ferme https://t.co/NAyA1kcLKf https://t.co/MO7XHDUCmV #Marseille #Justice #Violence
Lo escocidos que están en la caverna es una cosa bestial y te das cuenta de la grandeza del fichaje. Hace dos semanas era el mejor fichaje del verano y vital para su equipo. Ahora está acabado, no tiene rodilla, viejo y no le necesitan. Son los reyes del relato, nunca pierden. https://t.co/y3BoTXu2DW #Fútbol #Fichajes #Deportes
Wow, while they want to execute me for trying to negotiate something we lost half a century ago, the red-brown cave applauds the Russian-Iranian of the Spanish army, Colonel Baños, for wanting to directly hand over two Spanish cities, Ceuta and Melilla, to Morocco! (translated)
Jeannette's death revealed a closely guarded family secret, namely that she had been married and divorced during the war, which explains her desire to be buried outside the family grave of her second husband, Marco, highlighting the complex dynamics and taboos of a time when divorce was considered shameful. (translated)
More coverage @sciencefocus of the recent claims of a limit to human lifespan due to somatic mutations, with some of my thoughts and caveats given the speculative nature of the study. #HumanLifespan #SomaticMutations #ScienceDebate #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
¡VINICIUS RENUEVA POR 6 AÑOS COBRANDO 50 MILLONES DE EUROS!🤑🤑🤑😱😱😱 Mientras todas las cavernas (la primera la catalana) siguen engañando a la gente poniendo la cantidad neta, la cantidad real es de finalmente 50 millonacos de euros para VINNI que se ha salido con la suya porque si bien no llegó a los 60 millones que pedía, pasa a tener un control mayor de sus derechos de imagen por lo que recibirá más dinero y el Real Trampas menos. Vamos a ver cuánto le pagan a Bellingham en la próxima revisión. Mucho suelo deportivo van a tener que recalificar de seguir así... Oye @Tebasjavier ¿aquí nunca hay problemas de masa salarial no? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Tranqui, mañana que te pongan un micro y nos cuentan la novedad de lo fatal que te llevas con Florentino!! #Vinicius #RealMadrid #Futbol
The Cavendish banana, popular worldwide, is facing the threat of extinction due to an aggressive fungal disease known as Panama disease, which is spreading globally and for which there are currently no effective treatments, while scientists are seeking solutions through genetic and traditional plant breeding to develop more resistant varieties. (translated)
The Cavendish banana, the dominant variety that is sold the most in supermarkets, is facing the danger of extinction due to Panama disease, which is spreading worldwide and is exacerbated by a lack of genetic diversity, while scientists are trying to develop more resistant varieties using classical breeding and genetic technology. (translated)
Nunca o João 8:32 foi tão real… Obrigado, @jairbolsonaro Colocou Platão e o seu “mito da caverna” no chinelo, pois levou LUZ a uma nação inteira. Feliz daquele que enxergou isso. Eu sou um desses privilegiados.🙏 #Verdade #Liberdade #PensamentoCrítico
Giovanni Delle Cave reported the ASL after his sister Chiara, who died in the hospital due to a cancer discovered a few months earlier, was informed of her death only 24 hours later, raising questions about the management of today's communication and ethics by healthcare staff. (translated)
