> "Cancer village" refers to the shanty towns near the mining and refining sites

"Cancer villages" are definitely a thing in China. In the USA too, where they're called "cancer clusters and sacrifice zones", and Canada definitely has some too.

Hard to tell who has it worse per capita but the issues don't seem related to rare earths

> True, though we're not running out of it any time soon.

Isn't most usable land already owed by some entity making it a fixed amount?

> You don't have to trust Gemeni

You can ask yourself and read the referenced links.

> you can hear [youtube.com] from someone who was there [youtube.com]

Doesn't help, I see the Clinton of then as more of a host than a negotiator, and the Clinton of now as someone with a biased narrative.

> The Palestinians didn't want a two state solution then, and from the Palestinians I've talked to, they still don't want that today

I don't like your "The palestinians", it is obviously an over simplification, and if you're going to use that kind of rhetoric you might as well say "The Israelis" didn't want a two state solution then or still don't today.

But what's the point of doing that ?

Phantom,

It seems your over simplifying the process, from Gemini:

"The Oslo Accords failed due to unresolved core issues (borders, Jerusalem, refugees), mutual distrust fueled by extremist violence (Hamas bombings, Israeli settler massacres), the assassination of Israeli PM Rabin, continued Israeli settlement expansion, weak Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership, and the breakdown of final status talks (like Camp David 2000). They created an interim framework with vague goals, but key final agreements never materialized, leaving the two sides further divided and disillusioned."

> The PLA rejected the OSLO accords. Now what are you going to do?

Fix the points of disagreement I would suppose.

If the idea that one side started it is moronic then it seems the the idea that the other side started it is moronic too.

> The important part is who started to kill people first.

Why do you think you get to decide who and when the escalation started?

Are you in effect saying "should there be a right to anonymous speech"?

From last week's article, usually Meta doesn't ban an ad reported or automatically flag as fraudulent, instead they raise their fee:

"But the company only bans advertisers if its automated systems predict the marketers are at least 95% certain to be committing fraud, the documents show. If the company is less certain – but still believes the advertiser is a likely scammer – Meta charges higher ad rates as a penalty, according to the documents"

This is big business for Meta:

"Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show." - https://www.reuters.com/invest...

And of those 16 billion dollars, we see today that Meta is making about 20% of that amount from advertisers in China:

"more than $3 billion -- was coming from ads for scams, illegal gambling, pornography and other banned content [from China], according to internal Meta documents" - https://www.reuters.com/invest...

> USA: 4,453,908 Muslims. Funny.

US seems to have about 1% Muslims and Switzerland about 5%.

> Incidentally, Germany has more Muslims per capita than Switzerland.

Yes they do. The GP didn't say otherwise.

> And what does LGBTQ rights have to do with whether "Islam has always been an integral part of the Swiss experience"?

That was a response to the GPs second part of the sentence: "Islam has always been an integral part of the Swiss experience
just like men have always been able to become women". I read that as meaning that trans or LGBTQ have also "always been an integral part of Swiss experience". Awkward formulation by NoorElahi1776, yes, but relatively true and in my opinion not an unreasonable interpretation.

I thought you would get that.

> Are you mentally challenged?

Are you offended by my comment? I just stated facts that I see as positive and not in any way a negative reflection on Switzerland, quite the opposite, and NoorElahi1776 was responding, I think in a generally positive way, to a comment that gave a very negative image of Muslims in Switzerland.

> News to me. And I have been living in Switzerland for 25 years now.

Nearly 500 000 Muslims and 4000 mosques in Switzerland - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

"LGBTQ rights in Switzerland are some of the most comprehensive by world standards" and they are allowed to serve openly in the military since 1992 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

> That and there are between 1.5 million and 3 million successful gun defenses per year in the US

Yes, those are based on self reports from the 2021 National Firearms Survey. The Gun Violence Archive reports around 2,000 and the National Crime Victimization Survey around 87,000. In other words definitions and methodologies can have a very large impact.

By the way, the US seems to have higher rates of violence against women and children than the UK or Canada.

Here’s How Every Country Ranks When it Comes to Child Abuse and Child Safety - https://undispatch.com/here-is...

Most Dangerous Countries for Women 2025 - https://worldpopulationreview....

> Still beats the alternatives. The people remaining in Venezuela are fighting over what scraps of food remain.

Why include as an alternative, a country which has been subject to over a decade of sanctions that are having a massive negative impact on it's economy?

> every dire prediction from the past FIFTY YEARS all turned out to be wrong...

Climate models have accurately predicted global heating - https://www.theguardian.com/en...

> Why?

How about this:

Because the ability to pull the cover more over to your side of the bed isn't the kind of behaviour that warrants more voting power.

> I've never seen any actual controlled studies showing those were effective

Related studies:

Watching-eye effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...