Put the absent father in jail for not providing nafkah. Ban all domestic and international travel, ban from marrying again. Banyak je boleh buat untuk ajar akibat pengabaian anak untuk lelaki. But time and time again, it's the women who have to step up for their lack of action
It’s late but I want to post these photos anyway. These are taken by my baby brother and we had a nice museum and library visit last week. Might be biased but he took such nice photos of me (probly bcs he loves me a lot hehe)
And a lot of them are going to be built to support AI use in sg. I would not be pleased about this if i were malaysian. There are already sg-based data centres in jb leeching off malaysia's resources.
Malaysia wants to become a regional hub for AI & data centres. A data centre can use up to 25.5 million tonnes of water annually. This amount can support 300,000 people every single day.
Nothing can replace our freshwater ecosystems once they are destroyed & drained.
We’re obsessed with the idea that poor people might take more than they need, but we rarely question why some wealthy people are never satisfied with what they already have.
As a woman I am extremely aware that the reason I have my rights is because a woman somewhere got up, got MOUTHY, organised, raged, made herself INCREDIBLY inconvenient until things changed for the better for all of us. Which is precisely why I see women who uphold the patriarchy as traitors to all women.
Raucous debates on fuel subsidy reform in M'sia😅
3 facts with some nuances, fwiw:
#1. Govt's been footing an untenably rising subsidy bill, which has risen ~10x since the war
--> Price signals now need to flow to users as that gives incentives to consume fuel more efficiently
#2. "Govt" footing bill is, really, the "taxpayer" footing bill. And there's a lot of debate ongoing that Tx as taxpayers contribute the most
--> While that is true -- indeed, many M'sian workers fall below the taxable personal income thresholds -- they still contribute to the public purse, for ex, through (regressive) SST & excise duties whenever they buy most goods & services. Not as much as the Tx in absolute terms but to say they don’t pay any taxes whatsoever is a bit misleading
#3. There're no solutions; only tradeoffs, both economic & political, which are getting harder to manage
--> Politics may win in the short run, but economics wins in the long run. Having a longer-term vision is essential...and while it’s easy to blame politicians, politicians also respond to incentives, and reflect the will of voters (or risk being voted out in democracies)…so it’s ultimately about what kind of social contract M’sians want with each other in the context of subsidy reform
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One of the most striking indictments of US news media made in the Kristof piece, unintentionally, is that we are given an incredible example of how the word of Israelis is taken without any shred of evidence while Palestinians must provide every detail imaginable of the violence inflicted against them, and even then their suffering is treated, at best, as secondary if even acknowledged.
Also worth noting that Screams without Words was an official investigation by the New York Times and this report is in the opinion section.
I’d like to share this quote by Saidina Ali ibn Abi Talib with the Malay Muslim monarchs, whose thrones were built on the backs of the masses:
“How can I eat soft bread when there are poor Muslims in the Ummah?”