PISSI used the prospect of raping captured women, and having female slaves, to recruit men.

I see a resemblance between this and the Republican Party.

Many women joined PISSI and were married to jihadis, and had children. Now they and their toddlers are outcasts, shunned in Iraq by local people that hate PISSI, and excluded from their (or the PISSI men's) home countries in many cases. European countries think even toddlers could have been radicalized already.

People that get married are often deluded about the prospects of their marriage: they think that marriage will assure a good relationship. The wedding industry builds up this myth, by teaching women to focus foolishly on a "dream wedding" rather than on what makes for a good relationship over time.

I will never promise to love someone forever. The commitment that makes sense to me is to continue making efforts to have a good relationship and to keep it good, for as long as I see any chance of achieving this.

For many women in their 20s, the anticipated wedding is the adult replacement for presents from Santa Claus on Christmas morning. Just as adults often don't dare to tell 5-year-old's there is no Santa Claus, they don't dare tell marriers that marriage doesn't mean you live happily ever after.

Growing food crops to feed animals will cause over a trillion dollars a year in losses, by 2050, if current trends continue.

I think that the current trends are so damaging that they will cause a crisis before 2050.

US citizens: Call for impeaching the troll before he starts a nuclear war.

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The US government no longer reports on what fraction of Puerto Ricans lack water and electricity.

Restoring potable water to half the population is probably quite an achievement given the extent of devastation.