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The Meaning of Life

9 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment kubo kazuya

If there were no meaning to life, it would seem more natural to think that I wouldn't exist or that I wouldn't be alive. I think that people who believe "there is no meaning to life" are being manipulated by societal values and are being metaphorica...

Summer houses, Germans and Astrid Lindgren - Thirty Years of Sweden in the EU

8 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

    In a recent reflection on Sweden's 30-year EU membership, Andreas Johansson Heinö, one of Sweden's leading liberal opinion makers and a member of the market-liberal think tank Timbro, highlights the significance of the 1994 referendum. Heinö desc...

Israel is acting more and more as a genocidal state

8 Dec 2024 1 minute read 1 comment Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Kaushik Jayaram and Melissa Munro's article "Genocide in Gaza: Revenge, Retribution, or a Means to an End?" published in The India Forum, critically examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza, arguing that Israel's actions resemble a slo...

Israel is still breaking the international humanitarian law

7 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Refugees International’s report Scorecard: Israel Fails to Comply with U.S. Humanitarian Access Demands in Gaza critiques Israel’s response to U.S. humanitarian demands during the Gaza crisis. The report, authored by a team of experts at Refuge...

Warning for CBDCs

7 Dec 2024 1 minute read 3 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Sweden-based economist Thomas Marmefelt critiques the potential risks of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). While CBDCs aim to counter the dominance of private cryptocurrencies, the article highlights their potential to centralize financi...

Elon Musk's "free speech for my right-wing bros" politics

5 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR An article by Hugo Bueno for The Unpopulist critiques Elon Musk’s inconsistent commitment to free speech, focusing on his handling of censorship orders in Brazil. Musk resisted Brazilian Justice Alexandre de Moraes’ orders to suspend accounts s...

The Cost of Europe’s Divisions in the Middle East,

5 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR The report The Cost of Europe’s Divisions in the Middle East by ECDPM critiques the EU’s inconsistent approach to international humanitarian law during recent Middle Eastern conflicts. While the EU condemned Hamas and Russia’s war crimes, its am...

Two AM

5 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments The Virtual Idealist

Its two AM in the morning, things are silent but its not boring.   Laying here staring at the ceiling, im out of order, lost somewhere in these feelings.   Its two AM in the morning, my mind in a loop remembering all your lies.   Yet no matter how ha...

Human security is not about gratitude but a necessity

4 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

TLDR Rebecca Buxton and Matthew J. Gibney argue that refugees are not obligated to be grateful to countries offering them asylum. They critique the expectation of refugee gratitude, highlighting that asylum is often a legal obligation or compensator...

Bruh team burns another 1.5M

4 Dec 2024 1 minute read 0 comments F.Khan

That's right over 1.5M of the total supply has been sent to the dead wallet! https://polygonscan.com/tx/0xd2e5a1b967af689e7d365a4143ed1cb397c7c301a86d6d43e874c3bbbf34fca4     The The News Bruh is a polygon project every day the team releases a daily...