The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world
BBC 13 May 2019
Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts โ and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world
It was 49 degrees when I woke up this morning which actually made me happy ๐
Layla loves kisses on her silly speckled nose (sheโll never be a show dog), but is not as enthusiastic about boops.
Layla is all about belly rubs, though ๐ฉ
Ukraine uses British storm shadow missiles for the first time to hit Russian targets:
You canโt know how much your fierceness cheered me up.
Iโm still smiling. ๐
I know! Tomorrow morning itโs going to be 49 degrees here and itโs making me giddy.
Very cool. I think my join date is 11/27/2017, but I can wait until Alfred is locked and loaded to verify. ๐
I live in Texas and no one I ever vote for wins. When I lived in Hawaii it was the opposite. Having Brian Schatz as a Senator was the best.
Likewise.
It hurts, spending all that money for nothing.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light