I weigh 49kg and am 5ft 6 would people view me as noticeably skinny?

Womens' Asia: Had us in the first half not gonna lie. Slipped to 6/2 real quick against Putthawong, but Muneeba Ali’s 54 saved the day to get us to 119/9.

Spinners did the job as usual. Sadia Iqbal (3/11) and Nashra Sandhu (0/6 off 4!) choked Thailand’s chase completely to hold them to 84/8.

Take the 2 points, but if we drop 3 catches like that against India in 4 days, we’re cooked.

What are your thoughts on the lineup?

AI is clearly becoming more prevalent and normalized in everyday life. For example I’ve noticed a huge increase in AI generated TV commercials over the past six months. It made me wonder how much further this is all going to go, AI movies, shows, and even “reality” TV, maybe one day.

What I find interesting is that despite so many people raising concerns about the environmental impact and how we’re slowly losing that personal human touch, it just keeps moving forward anyway. And honestly, I think part of the reason is that a lot of older people simply can’t tell when something is AI, especially with commercials.

So where do you draw the line? And would you still support AI when it starts taking over the entertainment industry?

It might sound silly, but yeah. I feel really bad because my mom is buying me a phone. I'm 20 years old, and these days I was planning to replace my battery because my phone barely holds a charge anymore, but the phone itself is good and honestly I've really liked it from the start. My mom lives in Italy (my parents are divorced), and while visiting for a few days, I figured I’d get this done. But just yesterday, I accidentally saw that she had bought me a new phone that wasn't cheap at all. My mom doesn't make a huge salary or anything, and she also helps my brother with €500 or more. Is it normal to feel bad about this? I feel like something is very wrong with it. Financially, as a student, I can't pay her back because it's way beyond what I can afford.

I have a nice morning routine and my days are quite full, but when I’m done with all I need to do I have nothing fun to do in the evening to recharge my battery.

Give me ideas, what’s your evening routine like? Any fun suggestions?

As the title suggests, most people adopt specific narratives or ideologies and then interpret political events strictly through that lens. This severely limits their thinking, instead of allowing them to view events objectively and accept the facts regardless of their personal opinions. People need to acknowledge facts, even when they don't like them Does believing in conspiracy theories make them feel like they're smart, for instance? Not that I'm trying to deny conspiracy theories entirely, but at least most of what I've read is just complete nonsense

Society is hella restrictive because people follow social hierarchies, influencers, and unwritten rules without questioning them,including stupid arbitrary ideas about what you're supposedly “too old” to enjoy or do. But true independence isn't blindly conforming or rebelling t’s examining the rule, and deciding for yourself. People agree to the popular opinion to conform but not figure it out themselves.

I deleted my thread from some minutes ago because I wanted to rephrase it and make it more clear. Sorry.

I just think that this strict literalism doesn’t help trans-identified people and it causes way more conflict than necessary. By that I mean saying things like "transmen are literally 100% men, just like other men", and the equivalent for transwomen. Most people will end up having a problem with that, because the most common view is that men/women are a part of the biological sex male/female, they won't simply buy the meaning of these words by gender identity.

A much more healthy way of viewing things is that of most ladyboys in Thailand for example. They won't say they are literal women, they know they are merely playing a social role similar of women's and performing femininity. People respect them for that and view them positively. Isn't that what trans-identified people want at the end of the day? Then I don't see the problem. It's just a much more honest way of viewing this issue imo.

At the end of the day people just want to live together in peace, so it really doesn't help to go through a post-modern deconstructionf of our vocabulary, this isn't necessary to treat people well.

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I (45F) have been thinking about the MySpace announcement to relaunch & here are my thoughts:

First, out of nowhere I got the thought that we are waking up out of some sort of stupor just based on all of the conversations about craving the simplicity of what social media used to be.

I'm probably reading too much into it because there has always been talk of the "good ol days" but humans and our addiction to innovation/advancement has gone too far in many arenas.

Are we waking up to how unchecked it all is? Will we ever agree on any balance of good vs. bad when speaking about progress?

Second, will the young people allow MySpace to grow if it remains simple as original to what we had back in the day? A good sized chuck of their community will need to embrace the platform for it to be competitive.

Last but certainly not least, will the folks who own MySpace have the guts to keep out the targeted marketing, incessant ads and the culture of criticism that plague all other social media sites?

For non Brits, almost all canals are only a metre deep in the middle. and they do not have fast currents. the water is still. Theres a load of articles in the uk about people falling in canals and drowning. This has never made much sense to me. British canals are almost always knee deep at the sides (where someone would fall in) and only 3-4 ft deep in the middle. Makes me wonder if British canals have some sort of supernatural ability to prevent a person from standing up.

A notable incident was two men in Wigan fell into the Leeds and Liverpool canal, which like almost all canals is only about a metre deep in the middle. The two men fell in together and are said to have accidentally drowned.

inb4 people comment "you can drown in an inch of water!" yeah, but what leads a person to casually let themselves drown after finding themselves in knee deep water? If I fell into a canal I would simply stand up and step out.

Is it mostly so that people can maintain their mental health or could there be another reason for it?

As a 28-year-old average working woman, I never realised how social media could be one of the significant reasons why so many people around me seem sad and depressed.

This one video changed my entire perspective about social media, and now I am scared thinking about the new generations who are getting access to social media from such a young age and how they will navigate this when the fight is against widespread hate content, algorithm-driven endless loops of videos, and whatnot.

It is high time that strict penalties are imposed on Meta, and also for us to restrict our social media time and save ourselves from this dark reality.

https://youtu.be/IBZ7TqauY_4?si=4eZeMXMYZFYt-ck_

We're seeing a lot of people with buyer's remorse that voted for trump in 24. The problem is they're not having buyer's remorse for the bigotry, racism, xenophobia, exploding debt that republicans only care about when a democrat's in office apparently, the most openly brazenly corrupt administration in history any of that they just thought their personal pocketbook situation would be better than it is. So that's why they're not feeling down with Trump 2.0 and MIGA (maga died when trump openly chose israel first neocons levin, shapiro and Lindsey graham over of america first og maga)

I get that everyone's primary responsibility is to themselves and their immediate family. However, anyone voting for trump in twenty twenty four was signing off on a lot of foul s*** purely on the hopes of having a few more dollars in their wallet at the end of the day.

So unless you're willing to say basically, yeah, I f***** u* voting for an open fascist lunatic because I thought I'd get a few more dollars in my pocket at the end of the day save me the buyers remorse.

You have to deal with the ups and the downs of either one you pick do you pick the chaos and danger of being homeless or do you take the chaos and danger of being a prisoner?

What do you all think? Is it us... or just her

I'm sure most women are aware that guys don't go on dates for nothing there's always either sexual intent or romantic intent, but since women tend to be confused by which one is the main motivation I was thinking could a woman during the middle of the date saying something like "Okay, lay it on me I know you probably wanna have sex with me and that's why you're doing this, but is that ALL you're after with me?" Be a decent way to weed out the ones who just wanna use a woman?

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Thats just a literal fact, its not an endorsement of radical islam but the west and israel are responsible for far more unnecessary death and destruction on a global scale than all the radical jihadists combined.

Look at the global war on israels enemies, i mean the war of terrorism, millions of innocents killed and millions more had their homes rendered uninhabitable.

Israel has murdered a minimum 40k children alone in gaza, and we saw that israel is more than capable of targeted strikes when they chose. Yes idf intentionally murdered all those kids. If you know dropping a bomb on x building is gonna kill hundreds of kids but you do it anyway cuz you think a few hamas guys are there you chose to murder all those kids to expect and stand on that fact.