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a female leader who defends her country's rights to the very end, who never bends or bows, and who speaks to despotic, populist leaders like donald trump in the language they deserve.

the english commentator put it perfectly. "it is not the last dance, it is just another tango!"

apparently fox is turning on a "star cam" feature for this match. throughout the game one of the cameras will focus solely on messi, and anyone who wants to can watch the match from that camera.

steer clear of men who've never been loved and don't know how to be loved. because the moment you start loving them is the moment you reach the relationship's finish line.

in greek mythology, the lord and god of mount olympus and the gods living there and consequently of all mortals. the youngest son of cronus and rhea. zeus took his father cronus's place by overthrowing him.

according to this legend, cronus, who was told that he would be brought down from his throne by one of his children, panics (since he himself came to that position by overthrowing his father uranus, he knows full well how things work) and swallows his children one by one (hestia, demeter, hera, hades, and poseidon), but his wife rhea (also his sister) and his mother gaia deceive cronus by placing a stone inside the clothes of the still-infant zeus, and zeus is saved. afterward rhea takes her baby to crete, and there in a cave zeus is looked after by the sacred goat amaltheia. after zeus grows up he goes to his father and gets him to bring his siblings back out (according to one story, zeus has his father drink a potion given to him by metis, who helps him, and gets him to vomit up his siblings). later zeus starts a rebellion against his father and the titans under his leadership, and defeating them, sends them into exile.

after zeus takes control, he and his siblings divide up the universe; zeus takes the skies, poseidon the seas, and hades the underworld (the world of the dead). but zeus is forced to defend his newly established divine kingdom against gaia's other children (the giants, typhon, and the twins named the aloadae). after defeating them too and banishing them alongside his father, it's finally time for ruling and womanizing.

according to legend, zeus's first love is the goddess metis. but his grandmother gaia tells zeus that metis will bear him a daughter and that this girl's son will overthrow zeus. hearing this, zeus swallows metis, and thus, since he himself will also be the mother of the child to be born, he thinks the prophecy won't come to pass. but his wife and at the same time sister hera, hearing this, gets very angry at this relationship of his and at his being about to have a child without a woman's help, and she somehow impregnates herself on her own. and this child, named hephaestus, when the time comes, splits open zeus's forehead, and out from inside comes athena, armed from head to toe.

zeus has a whole bunch of other children besides this. his children from his wife: ares, hephaestus, hebe, and eileithyia; his children from the other goddesses he got up to business with: apollo, artemis, and aphrodite, the three horae (goddesses of the seasons) and the three moirae (the fates or destinies), the nine muses; and also his children from the humans he, unable to restrain himself, raped or deceived: the twins castor and polydeuces, clytemnestra and helen of troy, perseus, heracles, minos, rhadamanthys, sarpedon, and dionysus.

a sport that, when done correctly, works and gets your body into shape. i want to write some of the tips and tricks too, as far as i know them myself.

– warm up thoroughly and don't lock your joints. these are the biggest factors in injuries.
– make a plan. have plans according to your long-term and short-term goals.
– be patient. progress is a slow-moving process. patience is the golden rule of this sport.
– learn from your mistakes. the essence of this thing is trial and error. adjust your programs according to your own body type.
– stay away from bad habits. bodybuilding is a sport, not a hobby.
– take vitamin and mineral supplements. working muscles need these more than normal.
– take protein + carbohydrates after working out. you'll have placed glycogen into your muscles and raised your insulin level.
– rest well and enough. avoid overtraining or it'll backfire.
– don't work sore muscles. soreness is a sign that the muscle's renewal isn't finished.
– don't keep your workouts long. if your muscles just won't develop, the most important reason for this is that you're overtraining.
– don't give up on the basic exercises. do a few of them even if you're cutting. otherwise you'll lose mass.
– educate yourself. without knowledge there's no thought, and without thought there's no action.
– do your reps properly. don't deceive yourself. if it's too heavy, reduce it.
– eliminate body adaptation. your body is much smarter than you think, it adapts to anything that continues for a long time and lessens the effect. so catch it off guard.

there's no line or anything, folks, first they look at whether they can fob off some other watch on you, gold ones and the like. and if you already have a prior purchase history, you get the model you want with no waiting.

go ask for a steel daytona, a gmt pepsi batgirl, a mint-dial datejust and they'll tell you to get lost if it's your first time buying a rolex. these are the models you could sell the moment you walk out of the dealer, immediately turning a profit. but ask for a two-tone gold-and-steel or full gold model and maybe they make you wait a week tops for show, or you just buy it straight from the store and walk out.

a fast-food chain that's been invaded by turks in los angeles and san francisco before and after the matches thanks to the world cup effect, everywhere you look there's a turk.

the game that cost $2 billion to make and i still don't get why there's been no in-game footage of it.

carl jung: "everything we cannot bring up into our consciousness comes to meet us in life as fate." the other day i came across an interview with jung. in his elegant suit, pipe in hand, he was explaining this saying of his;

"the most dangerous psychological sign is not panic. neither anger nor grief. the real danger is an unnatural calm. the moment you don't feel what you ought to feel. if a person looks at their wound and feels nothing, don't be quick to call this 'strength.' most of the time this is the mind's last line of defense. the soul numbs itself so the ego can stay standing. this moment is the moment life quietly becomes mechanical. you talk, you work, you laugh. but a part of you has withdrawn into the darkness. i've seen this calm many times before collapses, before ruptures, before sudden disappearances from life. because when emotion dies, conscience most often follows after it. when conscience goes silent, the mind begins to bargain with you in secret. it says 'there's no problem,' it says 'nothing matters.' it presents cold solutions with a warm logic. this is exactly why you have to stay on guard.

the unconscious speaks in symbols. a dream with empty rooms inside the house, a face that feels familiar yet foreign, a mirror that reflects nothing behind the eyes, these are not poetic coincidences. these are wounds. a healthy mind feels the pain and can stay there. a dangerous mind, on the other hand, feels nothing and gives this the name 'peace.' so don't sanctify this calm, sit with it. that is, if you're noticing this calm, this numbed, deadened inner climate, ask yourself this question; 'what did i bury alive?'. because the thing you refuse to feel does not disappear, it waits. and it comes back, but this time not as emotion, but as fate."

as you get older it's almost like the time in the final section of this exquisite song evolves from the simple future tense into the conditional perfect and turns even more heartbreaking. people over a certain age shouldn't listen to this song. it's more dangerous than cigarettes or booze.

what we hear listening to it at 20: i know someday you'll have a beautiful life, i know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why why can't it be, oh, can't it be mine?

what we hear listening to it at 40: i knew someday you would have had a beautiful life, i knew you would have been a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why why couldn't it have been, oh, couldn't it have been mine?

if you want quality football, go watch club tournaments, watch the champions league.

the world cup is about something else: the whole world in one place. it's the smaller nations nobody expected, the fans who travel across the planet, the colors and noise and pure joy in the stands from people who waited four years for this. that variety is a breath of fresh air after a season of the same polished european sides.

the roman empire was essentially the world’s first luxury superpower, a civilization that conquered continents, siphoned wealth from every corner of its reach, and then spent centuries arguing with itself about whether silk, purple, pearls, and fancy dinners were ruining its soul. it was a place where armies marched in iron discipline, but senators still passed laws about how many oysters someone could eat at a party. in other words: a giant engine of power constantly wrestling with its own taste for glitter.

one of the most interesting aspects of the roman empire was its laws regulating luxury consumption. these sumptuary laws, which began in the republic and continued into the imperial era, were meant to protect public morality, maintain class order, and prevent economic excess. as rome’s military conquests brought in massive wealth such as gold, silver, silk, pearls, spices, and exotic goods, the elite began living in extreme luxury. these laws attempted to restrain that growing extravagance. ironically, they were often ignored, especially by the upper classes and sometimes even by emperors themselves. some of the most notable examples:

lex oppia

one of the earliest and most controversial of these laws was lex oppia, passed in 215 bce during the harsh years of the second punic war. with the treasury nearly empty, the law limited women to no more than half an ounce of gold, banned brightly colored clothing (especially purple dye), and forbade women from riding in carriages within the city. the goal was to encourage frugality and direct resources toward the war effort. luxury was seen as encouraging greed, which in turn fueled corruption. when the war ended and carthage’s wealth began flowing into rome, women grew increasingly frustrated. in 195 bce, they organized large street protests demanding the law be repealed, and they succeeded.

lex orchia

some roman senators tried to win elections by hosting extravagant public banquets or directly bribing voters with wine, oil, or money. this practice was called ambitus. to combat it, the lex orchia law (182 bce) limited the number of people who could be invited to such feasts.

lex fannia

however, romans quickly found loopholes. since lex orchia restricted the number of guests, wealthy hosts simply claimed everyone present was a family member. so in 161 bce, lex fannia shifted the restriction from the number of guests to the cost of the banquet. spending limits were set at 10 asses on ordinary days, 30 asses on holidays, and 100 asses for weddings. luxury foods like oysters, imported fish, and delicacies like songbird tongues were banned. this law applied only within the city of rome.

lex didia

wealthy romans then began hosting extravagant feasts outside of rome in places like pompeii and capua. so in 143 bce, lex didia extended the limits of lex fannia to all of italy. it also rewarded informants. a slave could report a luxury violation seen at market, and authorities would confiscate part of the owner’s property. this was the beginning of a formal informant culture.

lex aemilia sumptuaria

by 115 bce, demand for luxury goods had grown so much that prices rose dramatically. lex aemilia imposed import restrictions on sweets, incense, and foreign wine, and set maximum legal prices for many goods. even asparagus was given a government approved price limit. purple dye and silk were the most restricted luxury items. tyrian purple was made from thousands of sea snails and cost more than gold. only the emperor could wear a fully purple garment. senators were limited to clothing with a narrow purple stripe. during tiberius’s rule, silk clothing for men was banned entirely as both morally corrupting and economically harmful because it drained rome’s gold reserves through trade with china.

lex julia sumptuaria

in 46 bce, julius caesar introduced lex julia, which banned extravagant furniture, pearls, and expensive perfume. ironically, while enforcing these laws in rome, caesar was said to have received a pearl worth around six million sesterces from cleopatra. at that time, a roman soldier earned about one sesterce per day. even lawmakers did not follow their own laws.

later developments

in the 1st century ce, emperors augustus and tiberius continued restrictions on silk and purple luxury items. nearly two centuries later, as rome’s economy continued to weaken, emperor diocletian issued the edict on maximum prices in 301 ce, attempting to set price caps on nearly every good and service in the empire. it also failed, and soon after, rome entered a long period of decline and fragmentation.

in short, in ancient rome the color purple caused endless political and economic problems. purple was not just a color. it was a symbol of power.

a country where almost one in ten people relies on food assistance.

right now, benefits from the snap program (supplemental nutrition assistance program), which helps about 42 million americans buy basic groceries, are at risk because of the government shutdown.

there’s a real possibility this could turn into the worst hunger crisis since the great depression.

according to the president and the gop, who seem more eager to bail out struggling corporations like boeing than to feed struggling families, these benefits don’t always go to the “right” people. in their view, if you need help, it must be your fault.

let's clear up a common misunderstanding: is it "ethics" or "morality"? what's the real difference between the two? a straightforward answer: technically, there isn't one. you can use them interchangeably without being wrong.

the word morality comes from the latin term for "customs," while ethics comes from the greek word with the same meaning. in that sense, they're essentially synonyms, the only difference lies in their linguistic roots.

but over time, some philosophers have assigned different meanings to the two. for example, kant viewed morality as a system of virtuous principles, while ethics referred to the practical application of those principles. other philosophers have argued that morality concerns our duties toward others, while ethics is more about personal wisdom and the path to inner fulfillment.

why not? there's no rule against giving these words distinct meanings but there's also no requirement to do so. the overlap is natural, and most of the time, using one or the other comes down to context and personal preference.