What’s the issue with effective altruism?

What does it mean?

Oh. That government has been campaigning on this for years now. I didn’t even realize it would mean something different to the wider world. Of course it does. My bad. Yeah. It’s all about veiled women. It’s all very xenophobic, islamophobic.

Québécois here. I’m surprised by the positive reception here.

First because normally, anything about Québec policies on reddit (unless it’s on a Quebec-related sub) is received very negatively, and harshly so, while I may support, be neutral, or against but with understanding where it’s coming from. But that may be a Reddit-Lemmy difference. And that’s welcome. I don’t expect people to agree with everything Quebec does, but I do value reason.

Second, because this time, I’m very much against. I’m an atheist, antitheist even. But what would banning headscarves in daycare centers even achieve? Do you think children growing up will be convinced to become Muslim because their educators were veiled? And for the negative impacts:

• From what I see as a parent in Montreal, nearly half educators in anything daycare in the city are veiled. If they decide to stop working, it will have terrible economic effects.
• Veiled women being made to feel unwelcome, antognized and ostracized.

British.

Unsuspected to all, those sequoia forests hide surprisingly hardy cocaine farms.

This is a way to get European countries to give less aid to Ukraine by making them hesitant to depart from military stuff.

There’s no way Russia can take on all of the EU or NATO when they can barely invade Ukraine.

But the two countries have forests. Colombia even has mountains.

Or meat out of the garbage bin in the park. Or cum from disposed condoms in the park.

Netflix did encounter issues. I couldn’t access it yesterday at noon EST. And I wasn’t alone, judging by Downdetector.ca

It feels like ancient history now.

It’s more for when things have settled down a bit. Imagine you’re leading a group of people who secured a good territory and you’re growing more potatoes than you need. You may want jewelry made of gold to show how powerful and prosperous you are, both to your followers and to those outside. And you can give gold to particularily important followers, and to other leaders, in a very public ceremony, to show everyone that those leaders are beneath you.

Do you have recent data? I could only find like up to 2023.

They’re at that level for a reason. The problem is that most people are ignorant or give little consideration to human life.

More like 1933.

Neo-nazis do that too. “There was no holocaust. But the Jews would have deserved it if there was.”

This seems to be common across all the far right.

As a man, I’m happy to know that about Lemmy.

Also, I’m pretty sure Pakistan is considered to be in South Asia, not Central Asia.

I think it’s a feedback loop.

Of course, delaying elections. How could I have forgotten? This is likely the main reason for Trump.

Of course all of this was orchestrated since the beginning. It was just a show for the people. The administration was already decided on military intervention.

Now, for the reasons. I can think of some, though I can be wrong of course:

• A way to increase Trump’s popularity ratings. A strong leader defending the US that are threatened by drugs.

• Oil. Venezuela is well know for its oil deposits. And the oil extraction is nationalized there.

• Trump’s opinion of Putin has been falling. Attacking one of Russia’s ally might be a way to attack him.