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Forbidding the iranian team coaches from entering the country and forcing them to direct the game from MEXICO through a tv

Players from non european countries being stopped and searched like criminals with dogs

Deporting african referees just because of their nationality

Forbidding interviews from being spoken i'm languages other than English and forbidding journalists and players from speaking their native languages

México City was "modernized" to be appealing to tourists, not functional to people living on it. We have a housing crisis, gentrification issues, several problems with public transportation, and the government has tiptoed around those to prioritize appearances.

Madres Buscadoras, groups of mothers that search for their missing family members, have been ignored and criminalized by the president, attacked by cops guarding the stadium, alongside other protesters like farmers, teachers and students. Students and reporters were arrested without explanation, threatened with violence (women with sexual violence) and then released.

Adding to this, the number of missing people in the country is 133,000. Twice the capacity of the Azteca Stadium. Families tried to raise awareness by pasting posters with the faces of their missing people around the stadium. The governor of Ciudad de México sent workers to take them down.

To avoid "showing a bad picture of the country" streets around the stadium are being closed, hours before the games, in order to deter protestors. People living in this area (like myself) are unable to move freely.

Our president, Claudia Sheimbaum, on one of the morning reports, said México is happiness, said we don't have issues, criminalized the protestors and said they want to show a bad picture of México. Avatar fans actually compared the report to this same scene, the "There's no war in Ba Sing Se" scene.

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a) you really do pick it back up shockingly quickly

b) my eyes being too shitty to ever be trusted with a motorized vehicle, I think this was genuinely the fastest I've ever moved in a situation where steering and control were in my hands? No idea how you maniacs don't have heart attacks going several times the speed in multi-ton death machines every day

"In the middle of a "forcing party" where friends and I are forcing one another to do the things that we've been avoiding.

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Progress.

like any time someone brings up the "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" as an unsolvable philosophical conundrum, i am compelled to be like "well the existence of hard-shell eggs predates the existence of chickens by millions of years so it's definitely the egg"

and even if the question is specifically "what came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?" the answer will still be "the egg" because the mutation that forms the reproductive barrier will occur in the offspring not in the adult. so the first-ever chicken came from the first-ever chicken egg that was laid by a not-chicken. that's just how speciation works

of course you can keep pushing it further because species boundaries are fuzzy and often poorly defined and introgression occurs in all kinds of populations and you can argue that it is impossible to draw a hard boundary where "chicken" and "not chicken" are distinct categories. but unfortunately i wrote my master thesis on introgression, and fuzzy categories in biology is one of my all times favourite topics to discuss, so. uhhh.

No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.

Pennsylvania is currently working on its budget, and one of if not THE main sticking point is funding for public transit—all transit in the state, but mainly for SEPTA, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, which serves Philadelphia and its surrounding counties and is facing a $213 million budget deficit. The PRT, which serves Pittsburgh, is also in danger.

As of this morning, SEPTA has to start the process of cutting services by 45%—canceling some train and bus lines entirely, implementing a 9pm curfew on subway lines, reducing frequency, and canceling sporting event services (all of our professional league stadiums are accessible by one subway line and a significant number of fans take it)—all because politicians in rural counties have been demonizing SEPTA as a “chauffeur service for city residents” that doesn’t benefit the rest of the commonwealth. I am not joking. A state rep literally sent a letter to constituents describing buses that way.

But what is so fucking infuriating to me is that at one of the rallies, I learned ONE SIMPLE FACT that, in my mind, should have ended the entire debate: Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties are the only revenue-positive counties in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The money to fix roads and bridges in every other county comes from Philadelphia’s economy, which is supported by the fact that people take the train in from collar counties to work here, and people go to sporting events here and spend money, and residents who are paying significantly higher rents than anywhere else in the state but still living in poverty can get to their jobs without having a car. (Not to mention the fact that our cash-strapped education department saves money by having kids take SEPTA instead of school buses.)

If no agreement is reached and these cuts fully go into effect—some of them are starting by the end of the month and a second round in January—it very well may cost thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue, which will have reverberating effects on every county in the commonwealth, including the poorest who are most reliant on state funding.