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  • In some extremist religious movements, yes. Women get killed in the West and in the East for the same reasons: pathriarchy. The west is doing moderately better very recently (in historical times). But in the grand scheme of things, women have it bad everywhere, and the means of oppression are culture-bound.

    I live in a western country with a big Muslim community. Most of the women who cover their hair do it out of their own free choice, because its part of their culture, just like western women do their own women-specific things






  • From the website:

    Gigantic jets are a powerful type of electrical discharge that extends from the top of a thunderstorm into the upper atmosphere. They are typically observed by chance — often spotted by airline passengers or captured unintentionally by ground-based cameras aimed at other phenomena. Gigantic jets appear when the turbulent conditions at towering thunderstorm tops allow for lightning to escape the thunderstorm, propagating upwards toward space. They create an electrical bridge between the tops of the clouds (~20 km) and the upper atmosphere (~100 km), depositing a significant amount of electrical charge.