Mohamed Alaradi was arrested and tortured in the United Arab Emirates along with 9 other Libyan expats. Six of them, including his brother, have been imprisoned over two years. They now finally have a trial, which is alleged to be unfair.

The US ought to call on its ally to stop doing this sort of thing, but if it tried to, the example of Guantanamo would make the position hypocritical. Meanwhile, I wonder if the US is partly responsible for their arrests.

Trump acknowledges global heating when it serves his own business interests.

Australia sent refugees to prison in Manus Island, and demands they be allowed to settle in Papua New Guinea, but it is impossible for them to live there.

Reportedly mass-market toys nowadays are almost all media tie-ins -- that is, ads that you pay to show your children. Meanwhile, what children mostly use to play are proprietary games afflicted with DRM.

Atheism is not a matter of faith

However, the claim that gods exist is not merely devoid of supporting evidence. When argued as clever theists argue it, it becomes unfalsifiable by any evidence, and therefore void as a statement about the real world. That constitutes valid grounds to reject it outright, not merely to doubt it.