"Let them eat cake" moment.
Jokes apart, the children of the rich are obese, the children of the poor are too thin. Both tendencies contribute to malnutrition.
https://globalnutritionreport.org/resources/nutrition-profiles/europe/western-europe/france/
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Your guess seems to be confirmed by a peer reviewed paper in Sociology, The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields by Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell:
the engine of rationalization and bureaucratization has moved from the competitive marketplace to the state and the professions. Once a set of organizations emerges as a field, a paradox arises: rational actors make their organizations increasingly similar as they try to change them. We describe three isomorphic processes--coercive, mimetic, and normative--leading to this outcome.
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The car is a tool to move yourself and your family/friends from place A to place B. But James Bond, Batman, rap videos made a status symbol of it. They created a modern mythology around it.
The transformation of the automobile from a means of transport into a luminous totem of status is a near-perfect case study of what Pierre Bourdieu theorised as the conversion and misrecognition of capital.
Bourdieu argued that capital presents itself in three fundamental guises: economic capital (money, assets), cultural capital (knowledge, taste, credentials), and social capital (networks, group membership). These are not static silos; they are constantly converted into one another to legitimise and reproduce social hierarchies. The car, in its purest state, is merely objectified economic capital, a purchased good with a clear use-value: to move from A to B. But the moment it enters the cultural field, it is inscribed with meaning, and it becomes a vehicle for symbolic capital, which Bourdieu defined as the form the other capitals take when they are perceived and recognised as legitimate.
https://archive.org/stream/bourdieu-the-forms-of-capital-1/Bourdieu%20The%20Forms%20of%20Capital-1_djvu.txt
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It has been established that LLMs (aka "AI models") have been trained using copyrighted data without the consent of copyright holders.
See:
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I heard another version. According to that version, the man was a former soldier who recognized the tank model and wanted to know where was it built and who were inside it.
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Religion is tricky. Most people search for meaning in life, and religions are an answer to that need.
But linking religion to nations is the root of evil. Not being Catholic in Italy will cause you a lot of headaches, for example, yet you should be able to choose any religion you like and follow it freely.
So I would say the real issue is the interplay between religion and power, and discrimination on religious grounds.
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That em dash you used is very suspect... 😆
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'''r/Chodi''' was an ultranationalist Hindu subreddit banned in the year 2022, after the ban, several users migrated to Telegram, r/IndiaSpeaks, r/Indiadiscussion, and r/bakchodi.
r/Chodi promoted Islamophobic and Christophobic speech, in addition to hateful messages against LGBTs (transgenders included), sexist and misogynistic messages and other types of attacks on ethnic and religious minorities, use of misspelled sexual terms to circumvent the Reddit software.
Their religious extremism and reactionaryism made the urban dictionary classify them as close to Islamic extremist groups such as ISIS.
https://partners.time.com/6160519/reddit-international-hate-speech-ban/
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The answer is actually "a mix of all three," and it really depends on which conflict you're looking at.
For Afghanistan, it was exactly the first one: the only time Article 5, the "attack on one is an attack on all" clause, has ever been invoked. That happened after 9/11 and led directly to the NATO-led mission there.
Yugoslavia in 1999 was a different beast entirely; that was NATO waging an air campaign without a UN Security Council mandate, operating far outside its traditional defensive boundaries to stop ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
When you look at Iraq in 2003, NATO as an organization sat it out, but the war was obviously started by key NATO members like the US and UK, and the alliance itself only stepped in later to help train Iraqi security forces.
Finally, the 2011 Libya intervention was more of a formal NATO operation, but it fits the mold of an unofficial proxy war of sorts, as the alliance used a UN mandate to protect civilians as the basis for a bombing campaign that ultimately helped rebels overthrow Gaddafi
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Usually it is who they consider their boyfriend who talks them into performing on OF. It is actually their virtual pimp.
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Songs in Russian minorities languages:
- In Bashkir language Homay by Ay Yola
- In Tatar language Piala by Aigel
- In Chulym language Legend by Otyken
AY YOLA - Homay (Premiere 2025. Official music video / Премьера 2025. Официальный клип)
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Former Socialist country man speaking: «everything they told us about Socialism was a lie, but everything they told us about Capitalism was true»
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Ого! Я не знал что так можно было! Очень красиво!
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