Now, an anthropologist is likely to dedicate some paragraphs of his work to just talk about the history of the terms and how they are applied and then choose, either arbitrarily or in accordance to what their teachers do, what meaning they want to ascribe to it. Which means it, funnily enough, kinda depends on where you’re from.

Some traditions/places will claim that both clans (families) and tribes are tied to a common ancestry (which is either real or invented). The difference there being a matter of clans being sub divisions of tribes.

Other places will claim tribes as a cultural subgroup, somewhat similar to the older european notions of ‘nation’, while clan is what’s driven by common ancestry.

If this sound arbitrary it is because it is. These words - tribe, clan, ethnicity, nation, etc - are arbitrarily translated between languages and cultures. Tribal belonging for the native tribes in the United States is a concept of their own, which exists for their own needs. Tribal belonging for an arab levantine in a modern nation state is, likewise, different from tribal belonging in the valleys of Afghanistan. Notions of cultural ties, commonalities and ancestry are essentially in a spectrum and they affect which word is used. And then there’s what we used to have in industrial and post industrial societies, ‘cultural tribes’ forming around aesthetics and fandoms.

the thing is that sinwar didn’t hide oct 7. israel was perfectly aware of it. the intelligence and military services were all sounding the alarm. israeli civilian leadership chose to let it happen and it’s not at all clear wether it was solely due to hubris, or if netanyahu just needed a good excuse to stay in power.

haven’t watched the video, but right now in Brazil legalized sports gambling is such a menace that its driving a substantial portion of the poorest into debt. influencer driven online scams are one thing, but sports gambling goes to the heart of what little community we have left via sports.

many molecules inside those ship’s hulls are russian in origin

In the Danish city of Odense, the mayor is malding that he can’t ban ships from legally and peacefully docking in the local harbour:

Oh, dense.

However, the Danish leader knows what to do, the “international community” should simply “take over and say that this is not just a matter for the middle east, it is a matter for the entire world and therefore we must force a two-state solution through.”

Someone should have followed up with asking which army will evict Israel and its settlers from the West Bank.

We know they can make good sims games because they made 2 and 3

You see, that’s kind of a problem right there. Game companies are like the ship of theseus. The people and, more importantly, the teams who made Sims 2 and 3 are not there any more.

The question is how you see this move.

One very politically useful spin would be to say that Bernard is a fundamentally humane congressperson who simply could not fight the entirety of the US estabilishment and AIPAC. After all he’s only one guy.

Or you might say that Sanders is simply the latest liberal who gets the spotlight of powerlessness. American politics the way it is disciplines the center left, liberal and left voters with a series of rotations. A rotating villain to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory (Sinema, Manchin), a rotating hero to protest and take exception at the atrocities of Empire - but who is ultimately unable to change any policy because policies are not up for election.

Now I don’t believe the latter. At least not entirely. But I can see why someone might. Bernie was as bloodthirsty and pro Israel as anyone in Congress was expected to be. And the reason why I think that was the case was simply because he’s a politician and there’s literally no room for maneuver in the US political sphere when it comes to Israel.

So there’s no baby to throw out with the bathwater. It’s business as usual. The best case scenario here would be that some very timid factions in the US State are using a jewish congressman to signal that Israel is going too far. That’s the best you can expect from US foreign policy.

here’s the thing though, remember that part of the story where hansel and gretel brutally murdered the witch’s baby

whoever introduced that (the DM) chose to humanize the monsters. if they expect you to kill the babies nonetheless, then they are fucked up.

i’d be concerned if my DM’s worldbuilding was driven by hentai like that

you know besides the genocide apologia

quebec is finally free

So is Brazil’s or any poor/middle income country’s. That doesn’t mean we’ll weather demographic collapse well. It just means we already consume fewer goods and of a poorer quality than westerners. And that it will only get worse in the coming decades. If Russia does fine, it will be because of their political economy going forward. Not because the cost of living is currently low relative to that of the imperial core - the cost of living has to be low relative to the median purchasing power of the people.

From what I understand the russian political regime is not ideologically wed to anything whatsoever. Worldviews are exploited, discarded and distilled for whatever is (perceived as) useful for social cohesion. Russia, like any other post soviet country, saw a religious revival amidst societal collapse. It is also going through the final stages of the demographic transition. Religious traditionalism and religious nationalism are both powerless but all too common choices for states in this position.

“kids”

thats only because the american government knows it won’t do any of the sort but cannot trust foreign governments to be equally undemocratic.

It’s good to note that the parts of Europe being otherized here are not Belgium or England. They are on the east. Which had always been subject to Orientalism in the first place. Everything from the accusations of slavic byzantinism to the allegations of turkification levied against cultures of the balkans was part and parcel of how Europe (western europe) sees the world: a series of imagined others which exists only as a contrast to itself.

That european identity expands and contracts at will. There are moments when the spanish and the portuguese are regard as too mixed and too arabized to be European. There are moments when Ukrainian-Russians are regarded as western while Russian-Ukrainians are part of the mongol hordes.

in my experience every english speaking r/nationality subreddit is populated mostly by very racist canadians

The context here is that Elon’s legal representative has the job of being a scapegoat. They know Elon is gonna continue breaking brazilian law, and so they’ll be arrested in his stead. For some reason nobody actually wants that job.

No, from what I’m told its very specifically about a system of item loss upon death / other players can find them / if they do you get them back that Legend of Arceus implemented and which Palworld also uses. Creating the ability to patent troll mechanics that specific would be a bad precedent.

It’s a big deal because this is a patent lawsuit, not a copyright infringement suit. Nintendo isn’t accusing Palworld of breaching Pokémon aesthetically or whatever. They are accusing Palworld of breaching their patent of a gameplay mechanic.