BREAKING: Country music legend Dolly Parton has died at 80.
The Tennessee icon behind "Jolene," "9 to 5," and "I Will Always Love You" leaves behind a career spanning nearly seven decades, crossing music, film, and business while becoming one of the most beloved figures in country music.
Parton's death comes after she recently opened up about ongoing health struggles while insisting she was still working and looking ahead to new projects.
@angijones@LombardiBrett My interactions with human beings for the last few years have taught me to never underestimate anyone's capacity for stupidity
This is incredible.
This machine is capable of cleaning up 100 million kg of plastic ocean waste, and as of 2025, it has already collected about 500,000 kg of plastic.
It aims to remove 90% of ocean plastic by 2040.
They are not mentally competent.
Whatever the source of their incompetence (insanity, drugs, jist being severely low IQ, doesn't matter)
They are not CAPABLE of self determination
The only humane choice is involuntary warehousing in facilities with staff to manage them.
They are by no definition safe to interact with standard society.
Denial of this basic fact has multiplied human suffering.
@SavanaThePanda@Snow_Blacck Usually because their district has one-to-one text so they're just clicking sign on with Google. They're not writing anything
@MsEscoTeaches I invigilate IB exams, just finished mocks. Some of those kids are asking can I leave after 20 minutes. There's an hour and 55 minutes left my friend, of course you can't leave.
And stop assuming the bright kids finish first and are bored.
This looks like a free speech violation disguised as consumer protection.
Instead of letting people decide what tools to use for research, the state decides what information they’re allowed to access.
Banning AI from answering questions just protects licensing cartels from competition.
@JamieWhistle This "I love you" "we love you" is epidemic at my school. It gives me the ick - especially with all the anti parent sentiment I see expressed. It feels like serious boundary violation and unprofessional
🙋♀️Hello - Iranian here.
For those fixated on 'legality' to excuse the regime in Iran - F*ck You.
No, I will not let you be my voice. You don't get to narrate my story, you don't get to claim moral superiority. You don't get to tell me my feelings are wrong.
Is it legal to throw women in prison for strands of hair? Is it legal to mass execute people? Is it legal to turn a fertile land into a parched desert? Is it legal to rape? Is it legal to shoot innocent people? Is it legal to kill children? Is it legal to torture people to death? Is it legal to spread terrorism? Is it legal to deprive people of a livelihood? Is it legal to shoot people in the eye to blind them? Is it legal to silence people and take away all of their human rights? Is it legal to shoot down a passenger plane? Is it legal to drive millions to leave their country? Is it legal to jail women for singing and dancing? Is it legal to disappear people including children?
You will never experience anything like Iranians have experienced for the last 47 years.
Iranians have fought barehanded and they've paid a price. All up to 1,000,000 (one million) Iranians have been murdered since the regime came to power.
Your books on 'civil disobedience' and 'collective protest' are useless against an armed opposition that is ideologically driven and will kill all that stand in its way.
You want legality? The world has a duty to protect innocent lives. It's enshrined in R2P. Some people seem to think Iranians aren't humans. The murder, genocide and massacre of Iranians receives scant media attention - hence scant sympathy.
Those who proclaim to care about 'human rights' must think Iranians are animals and not worthy. Their hatred of Israel and US is so great they've lost all perspective.
Yes, Iranians are happy. They're happy someone took out Ali Khamenei and many others directly responsible for so much pain and agony.
And you know what? We're unashamedly hopeful that with the help of the world's superpower, we can reclaim our country and build a better tomorrow.
We know there's a long way to go, but give us this brief moment of reprieve, because daily we sit and try to tell the story of the lives lost, those at risk of execution, those under torture. We've seen the pictures and videos of massacres taking place.
Our dance and happiness comes with a heavy weight. We do so, in knowledge of the many who never lived to see this day.
The day of freedom will come to Iran, it's glorious - and we're not sorry if some outside help contributed to making that happen.
So don't speak on my behalf and stop excusing this regime on grounds of 'anti-colonialism'. and 'anti-Zionism'.
#Iran
@badwolf87418597@anon_opin I don't understand this idea people have that this was not a common thing. I grew up on military bases in the 70s and most high school girls were dating GIs, not other hs boys. Parents were fine with it and often had the guys over for meals etc
@SamaHoole Yep - in Literature this is shown in I think it was The Poisonwood Bible - the father brings seed with him from the US thinking he can just grow food because Africa gets great sun.
@MwendiaJnr Several reasons (US based): fewer people hang out laundry; pull ups and other incontince aids are better than they used to be so less leakage; kids are better hydrated so less concentrated urine to irritate bladder; more medical intervention for bed wetters