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a typically male-dominated and controversial Mexican music genre that’s soared into the spotlight in recent years.

The male-dominated part seems to make this an excellent choice considering the subject of her song. Not being familiar with it though, I wondered what makes it controversial. If anyone else is curious about that part..

Quintana’s new music goes further. She uses “corridos,” a type of northern Mexican ballads that has seen both an international renaissance and a backlash, with critics claiming that “narco corridos” — songs that glorify cartel violence and use misogynistic lyrics – have dominated the form.

The topic has grown so heated that the United States even revoked the visas of members of one band who projected the face of a drug cartel boss onto a large screen during a performance.

Instead of banning the corridos as a growing number of Mexican states have done, the country’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has proposed that the government promote a new style of corridos that avoid glorifying violence and discrimination against women.

“We’re not banning a musical genre; that would be absurd,” Sheinbaum said recently. “What we’re proposing is that the lyrics not glorify drugs, violence, violence against women or viewing women as a sexual object.”

Your thinking of London bridges. 🥁 (I'll see myself out).

a bumper sticker that says, “Have the day you voted for,”

Want!

Cost of doing business.

unless I am confusing it with another petition thing?

Yes. Obama had a petition thing directly on the Whitehouse website, and he would respond to those that got enough signatures. Trump obviously deleted it.

My general opinion of change.org is that it's just a placebo for people to feel like they're doing something productive when they should be calling their relevant political representatives, instead.

However, since the IA appears to have started this petition themselves, I agree with the other commenter that...

if the IA want these signatures, perhaps they need them.

In times like these, it's hard not to wonder if this wasn't the act of someone on the inside following the Simple Sabotage Field Manual.

More people should read it (it's short) for inspiration on what skills they already possess (or can easily learn in advance) to fight fascism when the opportunity presents itself

Edit to add excerpt.

Where destruction is involved, the weapons of the citizen-saboteur are salt, nails, candles, pebbles, thread, or any other materials he might normally be expected to possess as a householder or as a worker in his particular occupation. His arsenal is the kitchen shelf, the trash pile, his own usual kit of tools and supplies. The targets of his sabotage are usually objects to which he has normal and inconspicuous access in everyday life.

A second type of simple sabotage requires no destructive tools whatsoever and produces physical damage, if any, by highly indirect means. It is based on universal opportunities to make faulty decisions, to adopt a noncooperative attitude, and to induce others to follow suit. Making a faulty decision may be simply a matter of placing tools in one spot instead of another. A non-cooperative attitude may involve nothing more than creating an unpleasant situation among one’s fellow workers, engaging in bickerings, or displaying surliness and stupidity.

That's probably one of the goals. Small farms sell to either corporate farm companies, or billionaires.

Everyone should be aware that OP is clearly using AI to summarize the articles they're posting, and the summaries are garbage. This is the second one I'm calling out. Here's the first.

First sentence of summary;

The EU suspended its planned tariffs on €20.9 billion in U.S. goods after Trump paused his new 10% tariff on all EU imports, opting for a 90-day truce.

In the actual article.

Trump had hit the 27-nation bloc with a 20 percent duty on all goods. Under pressure as financial markets melted down, he halved the levy to 10 percent — the baseline he has set in his bid to bring investment and industrial jobs lost to globalization back home.

In short, summary says 10% tarrif was paused. This is completely wrong. The 20% tarrif was paused and reduced to the 10% baseline he set for everyone (which is still extremely high).

OP, if you're not going to proofread AI generated summaries for accuracy, don't use them.

Has anyone checked if she's an AI? That's the kind of thing an AI would screw up.

I'll give you one guess when he and his cronies are buying and selling stocks.

Whenever the topic comes up with leadership, I try to explain it in financial terms.

Tech debt is just like financial debt. There are times when its appropriate and necessary to take on some debt. But debt accumulates interest charges. If we just keep building up more debt without ever paying it down, it'll eventually bankrupt the company.

The engineering team doesn't always know when the finance team is accumulating debt or paying it back, but we trust that they are doing so appropriately.

You don't always know when the engineering team is accumulating or paying off debt, but you need to trust that when we say we need time to to pay down tech debt, we're serious. We'll all be out of a job if we don't.

They don't usually like to hear it, but when put in those terms, they don't have an argument against it. I'm sure if we could provide a statement showing we had $478,562.78 in tech debt at 4.75%, they'd be more understanding about paying it down.

Are we great again, yet?