That already exists. It’s called arXiv, and is used by mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists. Everyone else has to pay up.

If a violent criminal tried to break into my house, I would definitely not try to fight them alone. I do not have a death wish.

Of course Russia should not occupy Ukraine (and neither should Ukraine act as an occupying army towards its own Russian minority). But questions of what is right and what is wrong will not be decided on the battlefield. The only thing that will be proven on the battlefield is which side has a bigger army, and we already know the answer to that question.

that is definitely NOT taking a side lol.

Under the current circumstances, the only moral position is to support peace. Once a peace - or at least a ceasefire - is achieved, Russia, Ukraine and the separatist regions may be able to negotiate a settlement and those who started the war might even be exposed and punished. But if the fighting continues, thousands of random people will die needlessly.

Closest comparison I could think of. What I understood is that these guys get a government job, and in return are expected to stop their hooliganism. But OP says below that it was originally a volunteer system that got corrupted over time.

Plus Bengal is weebland so they’ll understand.

According to my Bengali friends, he belongs to an institution called ‘civic police’, and they are apparently often ex-hooligans. (If you’ve read One Piece, their relation to the local government seems to be similar to that of the Seven Warlords to the World Government.)

If the accounts spreading on WhatsApp and Telegram groups are true, the incident is far worse than ‘just’ rape and murder. The lady allegedly found evidence of expensive medicines being incorrectly listed as given to patients, and then being sold outside. The attack is alleged to have been meant to silence her, and scare other employees from speaking out. After her death, the crime scene was disturbed by the college authorities as part of a ‘renovation’. Her body was cremated after a post-mortem done in the same hospital where she died, possibly by the same people who wanted to cover things up. Her death was initially called a ‘suicide’, despite her having multiple injuries on her neck (allegedly due to strangling), ankles, wrists (due to being tied up and beaten) and female organs. Finally, yesterday an unidentified mob broke into the hospital at night and vandalised records, just before the CBI were to start their investigations.

Without a command economy, if we want to bump up our shell production for instance, we need a business that is willing to build a factory that makes and sells shells.

I don’t know, maybe don’t leave the security of your country to private businesses?

English is the lingua franca of India. If the signs were in Bengali, only people from West Bengal and nearby states would be able to read it.

Yes. This offer could be aimed at persuading them to return.

I don’t know enough about this specific situation. But the history of the IMF and World Bank is such that, if they were to put out a statement saying that the sky is blue, I would immediately go and check if it had somehow changed colour.

The US and UK have been trying to coup the Venezuelan government for years; their opinions have zero credibility here. But Gabriel Boric seems to be a reasonably sensible and neutral leader, so I think his reading should be given some consideration.

Neither side wants to station troops on the Himalayas. It is far too dangerous and expensive. During the last India-Pakistan war, more soldiers died due to the weather than in the fighting. A mutual withdrawal that both sides can trust is the best outcome.

India controls Arunachal. China can say whatever they want. That’s not a reason not to work for peace at the border, particularly since we stand to gain significantly from having more trade with China.

The Russian sanctions episode has shown that (1) western governments don’t want trade with Russia and China, and (2) western companies need components from Russia and China. If we (India) can maintain decent relations with all the parties involved, we can act as a gateway and make a lot of money.

Some people in our government are concerned that relations with China and/or the US might collapse at some point in the future. But considering the state of our economy, the unemployment rate, and so on, I think we should take the risk and do it.

Considering lemmy’s demographic, you’re more likely to nerd-snipe someone.

Do you realise how little that narrows it down?

Mint has three prebuilt options, Cinnamon is just the default. Beyond that you can also install other desktops.

Genociders shouldn’t be welcome at the Olympics. Why is that controversial?

I thought it was a Dragon Ball Z reference.

The Hindu’s website is a UI disaster, which is sad as they are probably the best newspaper in India in terms of content. If you have Firefox, try using Reader Mode.

As of now, it seems the court’s ruling is that the state should not discriminate between couples on the basis of gender, at least for spousal benefits.

For Asia as a whole, three places - Taiwan (decriminalised in 1991 / full equality in 2019), Nepal (2007/2023) and Thailand (1956/2024) - have full marriage equality, while China (1997/2017), India (2018/2022) and parts of Japan (1882/2020s) recognise same-sex relationships in some form and give them some benefits.

Most remaining countries neither prohibit nor legally recognise same-sex relationships. Some West Asian countries have bans on homosexuality, with varying levels of enforcement and punishment.

Another point to note is that in most parts of Asia, being transgender is much more acceptable, so same-gender couples are often pressured to become ‘normal’ by one partner transitioning - at least on paper - to the other gender. Iran is probably the most extreme case - homosexuality is a serious offence that can be punished with jail or even death, but gender transitioning surgeries are subsidised and gay people are pushed to use them.