Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
Messengers of state and embassadors were considered sacred, sacrosanct or had some kind of official immunity in most states throughout history.
It was a fairly common practise because it’s just really hard to conduct affairs of state if anyone you send fears for their life.
When you want to provoke someone into war, killing their messengers is a tried and true method. I believe that was the goal of the khwarizmian shah when he killed those mongol messengers.
The best bits of 30 rock are when they make fun of how genuinely bad snl is most of the time.
Having a sad life is not the same thing as depression.
Depression is a condition that persists regardless. Bad bouts are often triggered by legit shitty things happening, but unlike non-depressives who can react appropriate to the scale of the shitty thing and remember that it’s a temp problem, depression encourages black and white thinking.
Depression is knowing in your heart that this is the worst thing in the world, is because you’re irredeemably broken, and will never change or get better. In reality, that’s not true.
Like most chronic health issues, symptoms ebb and flow, so sometimes you can be talked down or see the light yourself. Othertimes you cannot.
Pointing out what a shitbag someone is seems entirely appropriate for the comments of a shitposting community though.
I think the headline is designed to be misleading - the dramatic tone implies a worse situation than the actual words describe.
It’s not how headlines are written now, but it would be more honest to say: Dubai to rely less on fresh food Perishable food in limited supply Fresh fruit and vegetables affected by war in iran
The UAE is not about to starve. It maintains strategic grain reserves and holds significant stocks of frozen and packaged foods, meaning the country is not facing a broader food shortage.
Baby-talk is a universal human phenomenal and almost certainly plays an important role in helping kids learn language.
The implication that not using baby talk somehow unlocks rapid development of language is simply not true.
A lot of the bigfoot people i’ve met are into astral/dimensional/dream bigfoot - bigfoots that don’t rely on a physical presence to be real.