#global problem

[tilos-tagebuch]

📚 You want to write a book?

Stupid idea…

Source: https://www.0815-info.news/Web_Links-Niemand-kauft-Buecher-visit-11436.html

[reasonsforhope]

"Colombia’s congress has voted to change a law that allowed minors to get married with parental consent.

The proposal would make the minimum age for marriage 18, and seeks to protect the rights and development opportunities for minors. It still must be signed into law by President Gustavo Petro.

Currently, the country’s civil code allows person as young as 14 years old to get married with parental consent.

The initial proposal to reform the law – presented in 2023 – used the slogan “they’re girls, not wives” and aimed to prevent young girls from being forced to marry, to be subject to different forms of violence and to miss out on education and development opportunities.

“Minors are not sexual objects, they’re girls,” congresswoman Clara López Obregón said in a statement after the proposal was greenlit.

Child marriage remains a widespread practice worldwide and affects around 12 million girls per year, according to the UN’s agency for children, UNICEF.

But there’s been a global drop in child marriages over the past few years, according to the agency’s statistics. “Ten years ago, one in four young women aged 20 to 24 was married as a child. Today that number has fallen to one in five,” UNICEF said.

In Latin America, poverty is the main factor leading to minors getting married, according to UNICEF."

[zhenl]

Mapping Gender Inequality (Land and Asset Disparities)

Gender inequality is a serious global problem that affects all aspects of development and welfare. To fully understand its spatial distribution, the researchers created a high-resolution map of gender inequality, examining land and asset differences by analyzing more than 600,000 households in 47 countries. On average, male-headed households have 13% more asset wealth and 303% more agricultural land than female-headed households. The results show that there is significant spatial heterogeneity between regions with high inequality and regions with low inequality. Interestingly, regions with marked inequality in land ownership are different from those with unequal wealth. Indicators of gender inequality in land and wealth are less correlated with traditional poverty and development indicators, providing new insights into the dimensions of global poverty. This study highlights the need for targeted interventions and nuanced understanding to address the multidimensional challenges of gender inequality.

[thecatspasta]

Today I was talking to someone and Palestine came up and their response to it was 'Not my country, not my problem'

So let me just spell it out for you

It is your problem when you willfully ignore people telling you about Palestinians being slaughtered

It is your problem when you buy and support companies that are actively aiding in the genocide

It is your problem when you stand by, knowing full well that people are being killed in the thousands and deciding to let it happen

Do not stay quiet and be complacent in genocide. Do not ignore this, it is happening now. From river to sea, palestine will be free

[sizzlingsandwichperfection-blog]

(I learned this from Hank.)

[welcome-to-green-hills]

I don’t know if you saw but your PupPup will be playable in Sonic rumble

Hi Hon❤️✨

I saw! (And sobbed). He looks so precious! Unfortunately, Sonic Rumble is not available for players in the USA. It’s available in select regions around the globe.

To those that can play Sonic Rumble and get PupPup, please enjoy your time!

SOURCE in case

[regina-del-cielo]

Maybe it's a 'study finds water is wet' type of thought, but

considering it's an action movie whose overall plot is "immortal warriors Fuck Shit Up™️", I think it's significant that in The Old Guard the thing that makes Copley pull red strings through his Murder Conspiracy Board and say "[Merrick] doesn't care what [Andy]'s done with [her immortality]" is the people they save, not the ones they kill

Most of the Conspiracy Board is him circling random newspaper headlines and faces on old photographs to (more or less realistically) follow the immortals' treck through the world and big historical events. Which is, in-canon, not much different than putting portraits from different centuries next to a picture of Keanu Reeves and saying "they look the same, clearly Reeves is an immortal!"

But then there are the connections. A little girl holding Joe's hand in WW1 becoming the youngest (and first) woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize for Medicine (suck it, Kozak). Or the grandchild of a family that Andy saved from [something] helping people escape from the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia.

They are warriors. They have fought and been in the midst of countless wars, major or minor, throughout history. They must have killed as many people as they saved... and yet.

It's not them taking out a random warlord or dictator or rabidly hateful politician that has tangible repercussions in history. It's the children and families they get out of war zones, save from accidents, protect from natural disasters. People to whom they give a second chance at life, and grow to change the world (or even just their own world), like a mysterious stranger once changed theirs just by holding out a hand or patching a wound.

I don't know I just think it's particularly neat

[nando161mando]

Why is this such a hard choice?

[polysyndetonaddictsupportgroup]

it already made since that Aizawa was going grey, but now knowing he is responsible for arguably the most famous people in the entire world and they won't stop making tik toks and backflipping in public I understand even more

See I actually really love this Aizawa because he’s sort of the definition of being stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Had any other class pulled this shit, he would have expelled every single one of them, and it would have been the right call. Because had any other class pulled this shit, it would have just been arrogance driving them to Yokohama.

Every other class had the benefit of a world with all might. They all would have never been in the situation to be the only thing between a city and utter disaster. They never had been faced with a disaster where the heroes fucking announced that no one was coming.

But they could come. They could make it in time.

Every other class he’s ever taught lived in a world where the system had not completely broken down. If they all went AWOL and showed up to fight fucking S-Class villains, they wouldn’t have to worry about the villains killing them, because he would have done it himself. It would take absolutely suicidal levels of reckless arrogance to show up to a fight you’re not experienced enough to handle and then get in the way of the trained professionals who can actually do this. He would have expelled every single one of them for their own good and for society’s good.

But that’s not what happened here.

Those kids knew for a fact that no one else was going to respond. They knew for a fact that the choice was their own safety or everyone else’s.

And the thing is that they really were the Big Fucking Heroes of the day. Like. It can’t be understated how much good they did in that one night.

It wasn’t just saving the people immediately at risk. The entirety of Japan was terrified when the news broke. A lot of those villains ended up in Tartarus after their own little reigns of terror—and All Might put a lot of them in there. They were all liable to massacre a few people when they hit the mainland, ultimately escape, go to ground, and start all over. They’d all have to be hunted down and recaptured. The expectation was that it was going to be months if not years dealing with the ramifications of this.

The only villains that weren’t recaptured that same night were All for One and Stain. All for One, well. Was a hugely embarrassing failure considering they publicly threw all their resources into recapturing him and fucking failed at it.

Stain was the only one the kids didn’t contain to Yokohama, and it’s because they didn’t try to.

There’s this entire dramatic confrontation between Stain and Iida in my head that I love. Iida was the one who ultimately made the call not to devote any resources to Stain. He was the only one who wasn’t attacking civilians and wasn’t liable to down the line. Hell, he stepped in a few times to stop the villains. Stopping Stain took him, Todoroki, and Izuku all working in concert the first time around. And granted, they’ve all grown since then, but he hasn’t forgotten how close that fight was. He doesn’t think that just one of them alone could take down Stain (except for maybe Shinsou, but he was on the other side of the city handling crisis after crisis and there was no way to pull him out for Stain) and they did not have the fucking resources for more. Fuck, they didn’t have the resources for one person to go after stain.

Going after Stain meant taking resources from people actively attacking civilians to go after someone who had never attacked a civilian. Stain could wait. Everyone else couldn’t. It turned out to be a nonissue because all of his brother’s sidekicks got together and hunted him down like a wild boar in the immediate aftermath.

Class 2-A isn’t credited just with saving Yokohama—they’re credited with saving Japan from the bloodshed that would have been all those villains loose on the streets for months after. People were actually buying tickets out of the country before they realized that the villains had all been contained.

Part of the reason why Toshinori, as a teenager, wanted a symbol of peace was because of the fear the public had when they went about their day. This is a public who had been in peace for so long that they had forgotten what it was like to be afraid in the streets, and they were remembering it tenfold.

There’s all these dramatic high moments in my head of the fight that night. And one of the biggest is Izuku and Mirio going after a villain team that had been considered the worst before the League of Villains. They had like, a nine month reign of terror before All Might and Sir Nighteye tracked them down and put a stop to them. People were petrified of them getting out again, potentially joining with the League, and unleashing havoc like never before.

Like Stain, they weren’t attacking people. But that’s because they were focused on escaping, going to ground, and coming back worse than ever. Izuku and Mirio made the call that it would just be them who responded. They couldn’t afford to devote anyone else to it—they were massively outnumbered and overstretched as it was. That was the fight that the class was most terrified would end in one of them dying. They just barely managed the victory, and the world exploded when reports came through that this villain team had been contained. The first time around, their kill count had been in the high double digits, and everyone expected them to manage at least the same again if they got free.

On that vein, I don’t think it could be overstated just how much this fight did for public morale.

You know in canon, how society just sort of crumbled? Villains roamed the streets, people were in shelters, UA was full of refugees? Society isn’t there in pez because of this fight.

The LoV fully expected this to have crippled society. If the heroes took the bait and went after AfO without anyone left to defend Yokohama, there would have been a bloodbath. The public would have been completely disillusioned. There would have been riots in the street over this. And there would be a lot more villains out there to bring new terror.

This was such a dynamic story that people were ecstatic after it. They had more hope than they had before AfO escaped.

If AfO had escaped on his own, there would have been an upsurge of fear and unrest. But after this? The public was more emboldened and unified than they were before AfO had escaped. Fuck it, the villains hadn’t won yet. Fucking look at their funky little kids go. They’re so fucking proud of them. The worst villains on the planet losing to a bunch of high schoolers shouting “WEE WOO BITCH” while badly driving ambulances. They won Yokohama. They’ll win again.

So. There’s Aizawa. Who has never been so fucking afraid in his life. He’s got all of these brilliant fucking children who are so painfully young, and the entire world wants to eat them. The world doesn’t know that that’s what its doing, but it is.

He bitched them out in the aftermath, because he could have had to bury all of them, and it would have killed him too. He was so scared he couldn’t breathe and getting more scared, because even when it was only the morning after, he knew they had pulled off a kind of magic that wouldn’t be forgotten easily. It’d just keep getting harder to save them.

But he kind of wishes he didn’t bitch them out. He wishes he told them that he was sorry that they were ever put in that position, and that he’s so glad that they’re all alive, and he’s proud of them. He’s fucking proud of them, because they did something amazing.

[atishooo]

My old and shitty Artie headcanons that I don't have time to develop properly

i actually have other knights of gwyn too but oh man

Wanted to make someone young, soft, full of life worthy to be utterly destroyed by fromsoftware and somehow a bit Guts-like but my brains were critically damaged at this point so I've made a Kaeya

bonus doggo as if I'm good at drawing animals

[gayvampyr]

leftist: kamala said she would continue aiding israel and allow the “war” (genocide) in gaza to continue. she also promised to be harsher on border policing and immigration, and to make the american military the most lethal globally to further american influence and imperialism. these are all things she admitted and made key parts of her campaign

online liberals: so you wanted trump to win? you’re a russian bot aren’t you. this is a psyop. election interference. you’re puritanical . [slur]

[not-the-conversation-starter]

The Death Of A Website.

tl;dr click source to see an AU of my blog.

As many of you may not have heard, Cohost has gone read only. The website infamous for "Zero Discoverability" and its users "Not Being Funny." Servers will close down at the end of 2024, if not earlier, being backed up on the Internet Archive before that. Since their user counts were still low after 2 years (about half of all sign ups ever were from people evacuating twitter, which then didn't know how to use the site so most left almost immediately. Kind of hilarious) they didn't feel like anymore money bleeding OR the fact that a staff of only four people being on call 24/7 was worth it anymore.

However,

the people who DID use the site loved it. And they did some genuinely cool things on it, far cooler than anything I ever saw even in the glory days of Tumblr. You know, like Finn and Jake hi-fiving between 2 posts. Stuff like a playable maze, or a fully navigable 3d room you move around in with your mouse entirely within a post. They really did some cool stuff.

There were also a ton of really talented people, people like the composer Lena Raine(Celeste/Minecraft) who loved the site because you could just. Actually talk to people on it! Without an algorithm to boost their posts, the only people who saw it were genuinely looking for it.

Also some of them were just good posters, we did get Pikmin 18 billion and eleven from Cohost after all.

The point is, I think if anyone outside of Cohost actually knew what was being done on Cohost, it would of succeeded. There would of been enough active users for them to invest more. If I knew about all of this I would of been there way more!

But rather than just you blindly believing me, I decided to spend (almost) every hour I would of on Tumblr, on Cohost instead. Clicking that link, or the source, or the link on the source above in the tl;dr, will take you to my Cohost blog. At least while it's still read-only.

You should check it out. I reblogged a lot, but the first page or 2 (every 20 posts, I kept trying to stop but I got sentimental and reblogged more) is pretty much just people's last posts. I'd say give it 3 pages to see if you're interested or not in exploring more of what the website has to offer.

If you've ever wondered what people would post on a dying website,

If you ever wondered what some of the best posts people were making on Cohost that got shared again in its last dying moments were,

If you want some reference for what inside jokes would look like to an outsider,

If you're just bored and need something to scroll through,

if you ever wondered what I would of reblogged on that website if I remembered my password easily enough to log back in easily...

You could think of my blog as a small encapsulation of a small website. There's only 60 pages, including the ones from before the announcement from me just rarely using the site!

I reblogged all kinds of posts. Goodbyes, sarcastic hellos, mourning, long speeches about the spirit of Cohost set to sad music, nothing burgers, inside jokes I didn't understand, The New Garfield, posts I flat out didn't read past the title because they were too long and I just wanted to move on really there's a lot of posts to archive, CSS crimes, stuff I found funny, "Where to find me" and webrings and website posts for people I never knew, Love Honk, reviews for movies and games I never intend to play or watch, 88x31 buttons, music recommendations and history, entire games, signing up for RSS feeds, asks and answers related to other stuff I didn't share on accident, regular memes, Intern Secretary Eggbug, a post that's just an image hosted off-site so it'll update even after readonly, and so on.

(Nothing overtly NSFW. Tag search still works if you want that)

One that I, personally, am sad is gone. That I'm glad I got to see at least in its dying days. That I genuinely hope someone makes another attempt at creating.

[tilbageidanmark]

A NEW MANIFESTO NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

There are only 2,700 of them, and 8+ billion of us. The math is simple, and so is the solution.

A spectre is haunting the world — the spectre of extinction. All the powers of elites have entered into a holy alliance to accelerate this spectre: The billionaires and millionaires, the American hyper-capitalists and the Russian oligarchs, the military industrial complex and white supremacists. The old Nazis are the new fascists.

It's high time to start a new liberation movement, French Revolution 2.0. For the children's sake, for the future of this dying planet - and before it's too late.

#2700 billionaires

[thepersonalwords]

A world without radio is a deaf world. A world without television is a blind world. A world without telephone is a dumb world. A world without communication is indeed a crippled world.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

[anghraine]

woman-of-many-fandoms replied to this post:

Let's be real though. Decker should have been in charge and the only reason Kirk didn't get himself and everyone under his command killed was because of him. If this was TOS days and Kirk had an admiral try to take over his ship, the audience would clearly know this was the antagonist but we let it slide because we are following Kirks story.

I totally disagree, actually (as is probably obvious from my post). I think Decker is completely temperamentally unqualified for the specific crisis at hand in TMP. For a significant portion of the movie, he doesn't seem to even comprehend the stakes of the crisis for the billions of people on Earth who would have died if Kirk took most of his advice. Apart from updating Kirk on the refits, something other people could do and which is at most temporarily useful, Decker's tactics are cautious and short-sighted at a time when they (and especially Earth!) can't afford either. They had to take the kind of risks Decker opposed (and continued to oppose after Spock fixed the technical problems) to have any chance of stopping V'ger. I think Uhura was absolutely correct when she said that Kirk taking over had doubled their chances of success. Kirk is a tactical genius who is willing to question himself but decisive in a crisis, none of which is true of Decker.

Doesn't help that Decker spends 80% of his screentime caring more about his ego than the mission or the most basic kind of professionalism, but his tactics are the real problem. He'd be fine in other missions, but this was not the one for him.

[ivelte]

Walter Bob didn't deserve this... T^T