This is terrorism. They have been doing this in Patagonia for months.
Multiple IDF grenades have been found near the forests and it’s getting almost no media coverage because Milei (the president) is an Israel sympathizer.
Watching this happen just days after the US bombed Venezuela makes it a really scary time to live in Latin America.
From the bottom of my heart I hope every Israeli gets what they deserve.
Okay normally I’m on the side of “words mean whatever we need them to mean”.
but guys, I don’t like the suggestion that it’s what is happening here. Being unfamiliar with the term, and guessing its meaning based on vibes, doesn’t mean you have equal authority on whether it’s “correct” with the community who actively use this word in a technical sense.
please do consider that if you haven’t been exposed to the word in the context it’s used in, “both are correct” and “you can interpret it differently” and “there is no right or wrong answer” and “it feels like it SHOULD be X” cannot be a fully realised take. Sure, linguistics recognises there are rules in which meaning changes - but “laypeople being unfamiliar with the word, and liking vibes better” isn’t one of them.
You can do that with most words, especially slang, and shape them to the needs of the majority, but this isn’t like… a fanfiction word, invented for fanfic and, like, solely used for injured hockey players where it doesn’t matter if the injured limb swaps sides 4 times in a sex scene and phases through a stomach. It is, in its context, a bit more load-bearing (ha) than that.
It’s fine to be unfamiliar with the context, and it’s fine for words to change, but do just take a quick second to hear it in a native sentence!
One of the most common ways of using this word is to assess four-legged animals. “Favouring” is a specific grouping of behaviour - a hesitancy in gait, stiffness, reluctance to put weight on a limb. It’s often inconsistent, as the animal tries to compensate or conceal the pain. It may not be a full limp or obvious lameness, since prey animals especially will actively try to conceal this; favouring is a subtle reluctance, and a useful word for a very specific recognisable behaviour that the animal is usually trying to lie about. (That’s probably why it’s used in romance fiction, as it’s an interestingly romantic and stoic way to react to pain, and doesn’t mean the limb is inconveniently disabled. A fictional character favouring a wounded leg can wince attractively when it’s jostled, but it doesn’t matter too much if the author forgets and has them run to the door suddenly - “favouring” isn’t incompatible with “running” in horses either.)
The sentence “Favouring the off hind” is equestrian jargon: it means “pain behaviour on the back right leg.” It does not mean “opposite-pain in the not-on deer” and is not confusing in its professional register.
If you’ve only vaguely heard of “myeloma”, and most people in a poll are guessing it’s a skin cancer, that doesn’t mean that myeloma and melanoma can now readily collapse into the same word - they’re under active use in their native contexts, where the people frequently using them do need to communicate the difference between skin and blood cancer.
A poll of laypeople misunderstanding “myeloma,” or non-horse-people misunderstanding “favouring,” isn’t quite enough to indicate a full semantic shift and change of meaning of the term. The community that uses the term “favouring” in the context of “limb injury” - vets, farriers, farmers, commentators, equestrians - knows what it means and uses it consistently in the same way. They’re not confused. because to them, it isn’t a vibesy, sex-scene-hand waving word. It’s a cluster of pain signals.
If you aren’t familiar with that usage, then that’s really more about your own lack of familiarity. Not all interpretations DO carry equal authority, especially when one is just confusion/unfamiliarity. You just haven’t met it before, and that’s fine.
Tl;dr: I’m all for words changing meanings, but we shouldn’t be too quick to declare that when it’s based entirely on unfamiliarity and vibes-based readings.
Very explicitly, in the video, the regular police straight up lie to the couple, telling them they will go to jail for harboring a fugitive if they dont hand the doordasher over, and that it doesnt matter if ice has a warrant for her arrest. NEITHER OF THESE THINGS ARE TRUE. You CANNOT be harboring a fugitive if the person you are haboring doesnt have a warrant out for their arrest! The warrant is what makes them a fugitive!
If ice wants access to someone on your property, do NOT hand them over unless you are shown a warrant signed by a judge! Make as much noise as you can to attract bystanders - it was the fact that a crowd gathered and started yelling at them that made ice leave in the video. And DO NOT expect the regular police to help you - they are just another arm of the state and will only do or say whatever they think is necessary to make you comply.
And make sure you film everything so you have evidence of what really happened if ice tries to enter your property illegally.
I’m an omnivore but a hot take of mine (albeit not a hill I will die on) is that it was counterproductive to turn vegetarian/vegan into strict identities and shame anyone vegetarian-adjacent who eats meat once in a while as weak-willed or a hypocrite. I think someone who has a pork dumpling every now and then still exhibits discipline and has more in common with a vegetarian than someone who eats steak and bacon every day and turning reducing meat into an all-or-nothing thing just discourages people
tv pitch: a completely average workplace sitcom except that it’s established at the end of the pilot that it takes place on the 90th floor of the world trade center in 2000. every episode the date is shown, just to build the sense of impending doom. the show is otherwise a completely generic the office ripoff. the intro sequence is a montage of airplanes taking off.
at the end of the second season, we reach 9/10/01. after six months of waiting, season 3 drops. now it’s 9/12/01. nothing has happened. the characters carry on as normal. fans of the series go insane. the show never explains what happened, and continues to pretend it’s a normal sitcom.
“wahh i only like enemies to lovers if it’s gay bc i don’t want men to be mean to women” what about a woman doing heinous shit to a man and that man (who also sucks) being pathetically psychosexually obsessed with her. you people have no fucking vision. if you were willing to read & write women doing actual wrongs this wouldn’t be a problem. let that female character commit atrocities with the sole goal of ruining one guy’s life while they have weird sexual tension about it
Underneath the ubermensch tones, this feels like a precursor to food safety standards being lowered for meat. They’re just tapping into toxic masculinity as a way to repackage what they want.
Americans, if you’re able to shop from local processing butchers, especially halal/kosher ones, I’d suggest preparing to make the switch.
I see in the notes people engaging with the White House’s announcement at face value and pointing out this is hypocritical/nonsensical.
Of course it’s both.
“The War on Protein” is just a slogan to make it look like the previous administration and the Left in general were/are deliberately trying to keep the nation weak. (This slots in well with white supremacist fears about the Great Replacement, etc.)
This is deliberately to rile up folks and further draw Us vs Them lines. In addition, their current base that actually knows science will be forced to parrot this nonsense as a loyalty test.
It doesn’t matter that we see protein added in all sorts of things these days, even bottled water. It doesn’t matter that America is the land of burgers, hotdogs, and steaks.
Treat this as an example of how this regime tries to sell its bullshit as “beneficial”. See how everything is now a “war”, and how America needs to be “strong”.
This is most likely propaganda to disguise a campaign to lower food safety standards. Probably also to change requirements for food lunches to favor corporate donors whose food is unhealthy/unsafe.
The formula that worked so well to cast public doubt upon COVID and vaccines is being used here to do the same food safety. Expect to hear that regulations are “unreasonable” and actively hurting America.
Again, do not engage this regime with the surface content of their messaging - treat everything as propaganda and look for who stands to benefit.
Guys, it’s not about deregulation. It’s about the new food pyramid guidelines. The “war on protein” they’re talking about is previous guidelines that recommended limiting red meat and had a lower protein recommendation.
I don’t know enough about nutrition science to say if the new guidelines are actually healthy - per the article the response from nutritionists has been “mixed.” My guess is no, but my guess on this is worth very little, given I have no training or background in this area.
I agree that the language used is intended to evoke reactions, and plays on associations between meat and strength.
But please stop telling people they can’t trust their food to be safe based on vibes and assumptions
But regulatory oversight and testing literally has been cut in 2025. In part because there is an effort to shift regulations at the federal level to the states, many of which are underfunded.
Many things can be happening here at once. In fact, a new food pyramid combined with easing regulations and testing sort of goes hand in hand.
Not all of these examples are directly meat related, but it still points to a pattern where public safety has been impacted.
There have been enough listeria outbreaks since 2025 to where I will no longer buy bagged salad.
And from where I sit in federal space and the cuts and sleight of hand I’ve personally witnessed on my own program - even while not CDC or USDA related - I am inclined to believe many decisions by this administration are to line pockets at the expense of public safety.
Call me paranoid, fine, but as has pointed out in the notes, making at effort to patronize local butchers, especially those from underrepresented communities, is good from a community-building standpoint.
I’m not done with the connections behind this announcement.
This promotion of protein also ties into rewarding the production of meat, which has climate and labor impact.
And with immigrants being so under attack in the US, that means a huge source of labor is dwindling, likely to be picked up by prisons. (Tyson foods is a big offender here.)
We already know this administration is denying climate change, which is convenient for an industry that contributes so much to it.
This isn’t “just” a new food pyramid. It seeks to prop up a system that is already rife with abuse.
Am I saying you should be afraid of your food? I dunno, maybe a little, to where you need to be more keyed into recalls and the like. The quality of consumer goods has dropped so much due to capitalism that it feels naive to assume food won’t follow suit.
You definitely should be more mindful of where it comes from and make the choices that are the most positive and impactful for you and your community.
Ocean Ramsey and her team encountered this 20 ft Great White Shark near the island of Oahu, Hawaii. It is believed to be the biggest ever recorded
I don’t have the time to talk about how Ocean Ramsey is a setback for ocean conservation and acts as more of an influencer than a conservationist.
This is NOT Deep Blue, the largest great white shark ever recorded, it is Haole Girl, who was theorized to be pregnant at the time of filming.
You DON’T interact this way with sharks, you DON’T reach out to touch them this way. They are apex predators, and should be respected as such. Repeatedly touching a shark causes stress, and even if they aren’t pregnant, you don’t want to aggravate a shark. As much as I like to babytalk them, sharks are not ‘sea puppies in search of a belly rub’, they’re meant to be admired from a distance or from a diver wihin a cage.
I’m not here to dictate ‘what counts as a scientist and what doesn’t’, but Ocean Ramsey’s practices are dangerous and could get someone (and following, dozens if not hundreds of sharks) killed. She strikes me as someone more interested in getting pretty photos and videos than actually raising awareness for sharks and nature in general.
Lots of actual marine biologists exist, I personally recommend Dr David Shiffman on Twitter.
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