That’s not PCUSA doing that? They’re not even in the same organization with each other. PCUSA is a part of the World Communion of Reformed Fellowships while that Uganda church you linked is with churches more like PCA in the competing far more conservative World Reformed Fellowship.

edit: for the other links, the Lord’s Resistance Army seems to be some religious mishmash that doesn’t even seem to be affiliated with any established denomination, like they’re not even claiming to be any kind of Presbyterian conservative or otherwise? And on the anti-Homosexuality Act that is opposed by PCUSA on their own website.

https://pcusa.org/sites/default/files/TheGlobalCrisisforPeopleWhoAreLGBTandTheirFamilies.pdf

https://pcusa.org/news-storytelling/news/2021/6/17/refugee-and-lgbtqia-lives-intersect-every-day

Will consider for the future but in all honesty probably forget

Can you point out or link for us what specifically PCUSA (and not some other conservative denomination) is doing that is bad in Uganda?

As an example is what I intended, as there are other right-leaning Presbyterian alternatives than PCA such as Orthodox Presbyterian Church and Bible Presbyterian Church and so on so forth so I didn’t want to spell out PCA as the only one.

PCUSA and other mainline Protestant churches (ex. United Methodists, Evangelical Lutherans, Episcopalians, United Church of Christ etc.) are fairly resistlib coded and have protested or rebuked Trump and his policies many many times through his presidencies. It comes at a cost because they’ve been hemorrhaging conservative leaning people offended by their positions on immigration abortion social justice etc. to conservative alternatives (ex. PCA rather than PCUSA) or to new and growing churches in the “Evangelical” movement, and don’t get replaced because people more on the left are more likely leave the faith entirely than to go to a left-leaning church. But they still do protests and whatnot anyway, you just don’t hear much of them because their share of the population is much lower and less loud than the very vocal Evangelical section.

From the article this seems less like opening a full-on front in conception and more like a teehee wow our drone seems to have gotten turned around and flew into a substation sort of provocation. An unambiguous invasion will activate more or less everyone but relatively piddly incursions don’t typically excite as much of the population because many away from the area tend to see the cost of war as worse than the cost of tolerating those incursions. So ironically a well-calibrated attack in this gray zone kind of way that falls just short of the line can actually divide people in the victim country rather than unite them, and if a particular sort of incursion is tolerated once then it’s not a far step for Russia to keep spamming that out and take advantage of the additional flexibility. I think that the former is more of the goal because there is a burgeoning division in Polish society on aiding Ukraine or not that Russia is trying to make as wide as possible, things get much more dire for Ukraine if Polish help is cut.

Every once in a while Russia does screw up with where the line is (ex. when Turkey blew up a jet they were flying over Turkish territory) but even in that case where they did get a vigorous response they kind of won anyway because it drove a big wedge between Turkey and the rest of NATO. Then isolated and threatened-feeling Turkey sought to improve relations with Moscow and among other things actually started officially allowing Russian jets to fly over their territory to Syria, up until the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Probably install robust and efficient A/C in public spaces capable of handling many people so they have somewhere safe to go if they can’t afford it on their own, better post the dangers of unsupervised waters, and so on. It’s also easy to grow complacent later in the year as it gets cooler and think this was just a freak accident but probably something at least as bad as this will be back soon so don’t let up and when less people are interested in the colder months is a good time to keep installing but more cost-effectively and with less delays.

The US sanctions and airstrikes ISIS in West Africa

Definitely the top priority in a country being eaten up by ISIS

That’s likely true for the rescue operations not being established in time but I think the “even worse” in the title is referring to this part:

The government deployed the military to the disaster areas not to help but to diffuse any expression of public discontent. “Here there are more rifles than shovels,” a volunteer reportedly shouted in despair. Civil-society groups pleaded for the government to unblock access to social media and censored news outlets, even if only temporarily, so that people could get information. Instead, Rodríguez announced that local and international journalists would be subjected to further restrictions.

This is so tiresome

Yeah ancestral plants that became many crops look almost nothing like their descendants in many cases

The funniest I think are secondary crops like oats and rye. Our forebears weren’t even trying to grow a better version of those, those started off as just weeds that people were trying to get rid of in their wheatfields. In the course of purging them they accidentally selected for more wheat-like plants that people would be less likely to rip out until they became actual decent crops on their own, while also maintaining hardiness in areas that wheat couldn’t handle such that they spun off and became popular on their own rights.

Sounds like they should deliver reciprocal gifts to more refineries

1% of $44.69 billion is $446.9 million

Technically the four loans that were forgiven were interest free favors anyway, and Sudan before the war started owed $56 billion dollars to foreign countries in general (likely higher now) including about $5 billion-ish to China in particular according to Al Jazeera. So this doesn’t impact their interest payments at all but does make their debt to GDP ratio look marginally less horrific I guess.

I think this is more valuable not so much for a material economic difference but rather the positive signaling from China towards the SAF showing that it still continues to prefer the state of Sudan over the RSF.

You can distantly hear the UAE shrieking

I figured it was something like that haha just curious what angle you were coming from

On his Instagram fanpage in the comments people were posting RIP and some dude was gloating saying he died at Potrovsk in March according to some Telegram or something that popped up when I searched him up but not like an journalist’s article or anything that credible. I took it at face value but I guess it could be trolling albeit one really easy to contest

They already do

300% reduction would mean you no longer pay for heating and instead get paid twice as much as you used to pay