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03/01/2025

03/01/2025

"I am Olena Zelenskyy, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodmymr Zelenskyy. I met my husband when we were schoolmates, but were never acquainted. He once said that he knew many of my classmates, but not me.
We got acquainted much later — when I was studying at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Kryvyi Rih National University. We dated for eight years before getting married on 6 September 2003. On 15 July 2004, our daughter Oleksandra was born. On 21 January 2013, I gave birth to our son Kyrylo.
Aside from being First Lady of Ukraine, I am also a writer and architect. I am also being targeted for death by Mr. Putin."

01/04/2025

the full story:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/us/fbi-explosives-virginia-farm.html #:~:text=Investigators%20discovered%20more%20than%20150,outside%20Norfolk%2C%20court%20papers%20say.&text=A%20Virginia%20man%20was%20arrested,in%20the%20F.B.I.'s%20history.

01/04/2025

Fact check

05/19/2024

Some of the US’s most profitable corporations, including General Motors, Citigroup and Netflix, have slashed their tax bills in the years since the passage of the Trump tax cuts, with nearly a quarter paying rates in the single digits and 23 paying nothing, a report has found.

Credit: https://www.facebook.com/instituteontaxation

If you’d like to know more: https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/29/trump-tax-cuts-us-companies

05/03/2024

The bear wouldn’t pretend to be my friend”

“If it’s a bear and I yell, someone might help me”

“The bear would only kill me, not tell me to enjoy it”

“If it was a bear, no one would ask what I was wearing or if I drank too much”

“A bear hunts to survive, a man hunts for fun”

“A bear wouldn’t record it and use it as blackmail”

“A bear wouldn’t brag to his friends”

We aren’t choosing the bear because we think we would survive, we choose the bear because we know there are worse things than just being killed.

05/02/2024

A few things that people (fellas) seem to not understand about the bear vs man thing:

1. The scenario is, a woman is walking through the woods hiking alone.

Whilst hiking, would they rather come across a bear or a strange man?

The question is not:

Who would you rather get in a fight with?

It is not “A man you know vs a bear you don’t.”

They are not being asked to hug or provoke the bear or man.

They are just walking, in the woods, and come across either a bear or a random dude they do not know.

And most of the women in these comments, as well as the ones we have talked to, plenty of whom have gone hiking alone and who have come across both bears and men whilst doing so, choose the bear as a preference to run into.

Because the threat of the bear is a known quantity and thus a much more controllable one. A bear is more likely to just keep foraging and move on its way than outright attack you, unless under very specific circumstances.

The man is not a known quantity and whether he openly displays aggression or not, a woman cannot know for certain what his intentions are.

05/02/2024

From Kate Lister, who wrote the original article man vs bear.