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According to the report, since autumn, the 63rd Brigade had been neutralizing dark-skinned Russian mercenaries who approached Ukrainian positions armed. They carried no documents, so identification was impossible.

“That changed just before the New Year, when a barely alive, frozen African man arrived at one of the checkpoints near Lyman. He was unarmed and crying for help. It turned out to be Richard from Uganda,” the brigade said.

The captive stated that he had come to Russia to escape poverty, taking out a large bank loan, after being promised “a good job for good money.” He claimed he was not informed about participating in combat and believed he would work in a supermarket. However, upon arrival in Russia, he and three other Ugandans were confronted with the fact that they were now in the Russian army.

Nabil — who asked that his real name not be used — said he was lured by promises of lucrative employment in fields such as “security” and “engineering”, hoping to earn enough to complete his studies. A few weeks later, he was holed up with four other recently arrived Yemenis in a forest in Ukraine, dressed in military fatigues with Russian insignia, their faces masked by scarves. “We are under bombardment. Mines, drones, digging bunkers,” said one of the men in a video shared with the FT, adding that one colleague had attempted suicide and been taken to a hospital.

It's easy to see how this could happen: imagine there's a directive from management: "Users are complaining about the number of crashes. Reduce crashes by 50% this year, your promo depends on it." What's the easiest way to do that? It's taking all your code and wrapping it in "try { ... } catch { log.error() }" blocks all over the place. Now the crash is gone, and instead whatever operation you were trying to do just silently fails and nothing happens.

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Anyway, trying a little harder to engage with what memes like that are getting at kind of leads us to a place where we're saying that gender medicine is comparable to cosmetic surgery/treatments for looking younger / "better" / more conventionally attractive. Which I'm not sure is the message anyone defending gender medicine actually wants to be going for? (It's not 100% not valid, but it would seem to be overall the wrong take, I would think.)

Male-pattern baldness is male (biologically), but it's not masculine (culturally).

Also I made one:

@kiltedkeefe a few problems with that explanation; German-Americans weren’t exactly the most powerful and favored ethnicity in the United States at that time, I am not seeing anything suggesting they tried to influence American immigration policy (German Jews were counted under the German immigration quotas that the members of German-American organizations had themselves recently immigrated under, so I doubt they would have wanted to reduce immigration from their country of origin, as in the current day immigrants are expected to support continued immigration from their countries of origin), and in 1935 the Nazi party wanted German Jews to emigrate, so why would agents of Nazi Germany try to prevent Jewish emigration from Germany?