It’s worth noting that in many Indo-European religions, the chief god retains an association with magic, but especially divination; which is one application of seiðr. Lugh, Jupiter and Zeus all retain an association with divination, and stanza 79 of the Hávamál mentions asking the runes.
Seiðr would undoubtedly have been considered ergi because it would allow one to indirectly harm an opponent; acceptable for a woman who was at a physical disadvantage, but cowardly for a man, who would be expected to be direct in conflict.
In his book Children of Ash and Elm, woke academic Neil Price claims seiðr staffs represented a phallus, despite the fact most examples don’t look even remotely phallic, and priests and shamans in many other cultures, related and unrelated, use staffs of their own, often representing the axis mundi. For this theory, he cites “some scholars” without naming any. It has no basis in the sources or archaeology.
It’s worth noting that in many Indo-European religions, the chief god retains an association with magic, but especially divination; which is one application of seiðr. Lugh, Jupiter and Zeus all retain an association with divination, and stanza 79 of the Hávamál mentions asking the runes.
Seiðr would undoubtedly have been considered ergi because it would allow one to indirectly harm an opponent; acceptable for a woman who was at a physical disadvantage, but cowardly for a man, who would be expected to be direct in conflict.
In his book Children of Ash and Elm, woke academic Neil Price claims seiðr staffs represented a phallus, despite the fact most examples don’t look even remotely phallic, and priests and shamans in many other cultures, related and unrelated, use staffs of their own, often representing the axis mundi. For this theory, he cites “some scholars” without naming any. It has no basis in the sources or archaeology.
Emerson Brooking, a disinformation expert at the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, said: "Back in the Wild West period of content moderation, like 2014 or 2015, maybe they could have gotten away with it, but it stands in marked contrast with how other companies run themselves today." "Like the bombing of the maternity ward in Mariupol," he said, "Even before it hits the news, you see the videos on the Telegram channels." On December 23rd, 2020, Pavel Durov posted to his channel that the company would need to start generating revenue. In early 2021, he added that any advertising on the platform would not use user data for targeting, and that it would be focused on “large one-to-many channels.” He pledged that ads would be “non-intrusive” and that most users would simply not notice any change. Telegram, which does little policing of its content, has also became a hub for Russian propaganda and misinformation. Many pro-Kremlin channels have become popular, alongside accounts of journalists and other independent observers. To that end, when files are actively downloading, a new icon now appears in the Search bar that users can tap to view and manage downloads, pause and resume all downloads or just individual items, and select one to increase its priority or view it in a chat.
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