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@BashengaTheFirst , personally speaking I feel like no school, anywhere, adequately prepares you to be a "good" citizen, meaning conscious of your rights and duties and able to positively contribute to society.

However, last year I got to vote for the first time and I truly wanted to make the most of it, even though it was just the European Parliament elections, so hardly anything important. I read the program of every single major party (and in Italy there's way more than two), I searched for which group they belonged to, I looked for every candidate I could find.

My friends and I were debating a lot, day and night, for weeks until election day, and as I said, that particular election didn't matter for shit.

I get that there's worse problems in the world, but if there's one thing this first year of Mathematics at university has taught is that more often than not, to achieve great results you need to start extremely small.

Take the various, horrible, cases of police brutality that rose to prominence this year. The people blamed, and rightfully so, the corrupt system for not prosecuting the cops or for charging them with only minor crimes.

It's true, the system is flawed, but the DA that prosecuted those cops and/or was the boss of those who prosecuted those cops was elected by those same people.

I don't have exact numbers, but I'm sure that the turnout for DA elections is so low, that despite black people being a minority, if all black people voted for the DA, or at least the majority, you would have elected someone who could've sided with you in Court.

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TomLudo00·19h

I think the most astonishing side of the US is that you literally vote for everything, from local law enforcement officials such as sheriffs, to judges, to district attorneys...

At every level there's at least one important figure that is chosen by popular vote, meaning that if you actually cared to make some of the things Fra listed right, you would already have the tools to do it, and you've had them for centuries.

And yet nothing changes, people still don't go to the Hospital if they have a broken arm because they can't afford it, public schools are at such a low level that if you want to have any type of academic career you need to go private since primary school...

I've been to the US a few times, and it's always a terrifying thought that I still can't buy a beer in a bar, but in the last two years I could've easily bought an assault rifle.

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TomLudo00·19h

I have an incredibly high opinion of America's achievements, and yet an incredibly low opinion of America as a country and especially of the "average Joe".

I often wonder how did such a combination achieve such marvels.

As for the pandemic, you guys literally didn't handle it. Basically every country had bad results in containing the virus, us for example, but you didn't even try.

People were dying by the tens of thousands and nobody moved a finger to, say, get them temporary free healthcare during the emergency, which by the way should be a right of every citizen even in normal conditions in a so-called "First World" country.

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TomLudo00·2d

She was indeed.

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TomLudo00·2d

Moana Pozzi was probably the most famous Italian porn actress, only Disney realized AFTER they released the trailer in theaters.

Parents were rioting and they had to change her name to Oceania in the dubbing and title.

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TomLudo00·2d

@ABF that's random, but only one of them ever said "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic".

@Max, you just made me remember the fun we, Italians, had when Disney announced Moana, thank you.

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TomLudo00·3d

This arc is about the undoing of OMD, it's been going on for a couple of months and MJ just appeared on the very last panel.

If anything they're giving her a lesser role than she was supposed to have.

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TomLudo00·3d

Yeah that's a good summary.

TomLudo00·3d in General

COMICS!

I don't have much to talk about this week so I'll be brief with the introduction too, let's get it started:

Amazing Spider-Man #50.LR:

Seeing this sad, "cleansed" version of Norman wallowing in self-pity is rather obnoxious. That is not my Norman, and certainly not the Norman I want to read in a story like this one.

As I said last week, we'll have to endure the demonic versions of the Order of the Web as minibosses so Marvel can milk this arc for more issues.

Last but not least props to Federico Vicentini, by far the best artist I've seen on this ASM run, unfortunately he'll handle only the four .LR issues, hopefully he gets to the main book one day.

Conan the Barbarian #15:

This new arc of Conan is quite a letdown. The first half of the run had a lot of flaws, but the art was fantastic and some developments were not as predictable. This new arc has slightly more entertaining writing, much worse art and it's far too linear.

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TomLudo00·4d

@Moh, he's writing broken sentences on purpose, there's a mistake basically in every word

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TomLudo00·4d

Pourquoi?

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@Slyme, that's not really true. Björnsson's physique looks like that because he's a strongman, and while you put on muscle just for pure strength you also gain a lot of fat and water in the process.

Bodybuilders go through a similar process to build muscle, then go through a period of "cutting" to reduce body fat and water percentages, strongmen and heavy lifters don't because cutting reduces your strength and takes away time you could spend on building more muscle.

However, no "superhero" would train as a strongman, considering what they do it's far more likely that they'd train as MMA/UFC fighters, and resistance and aerobic training, which strongmen don't undergo, burns a lot more excess fat (and muscle), gives you more elasticity, gives you more stamina and helps prevent injuries.

That said Björnsson doesn't have a dad bod at all, everything he does is perfectly calibrated to achieve that physique, there's not an ounce of excess fat in his body that he didn't calculate, it's not a result of "not being able to be slimmer despite all the training".

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Stanley Lau aka Artgerm draws a male character for the first time of his life, probably, and wins the Cover of the Week title for it