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If the moments comes where Ukraine pushes Russia out of their country, he will simple stop sending his forces over the border and just say "Mission accomplished" while never losing a word about this. | With all the abandoned Russian gear getting fixed up and being used by the Ukranians maybe Russia should just attack itself a bit to slow down the militarization! | 1 |
Maybe one day we'll run a decent Independent that will force the Dems and Republicans to change their platforms, or lose. | Well, i may not be into that party, but i do think people are tiring of the political parties. I've been an Independent for years, and do like the Progressive Dems, but they too get corrupted by the Corporate Democrats. | 0 |
I agree. Unfortunately NATO is doing what other countries did before WW1 and WW2, they are acting as though by averting their eyes they will not be attacked by Russia. So probably NATO will be late to the war in its role to defend against Russia. | How could it be a wider war when Russia is losing to an indirect conflict with NATO? Them expanding to Moldova, etc would just spread out their forces even more, absolutely crippling them. Are we about to see the Russia Govt/Oligarchy collapse? | 1 |
(Here in Norway we went from "bicamberal" (for two readings of laws, not when agreeing upon budget) to unicamberal in \checks notes\ 2009. "Nobody" noticed.). | Yes. That’s the plan. Allow the wealthy to “cheat” on their taxes while punishing regular people who are already scared of an audit and probably did nothing wrong. | 1 |
That thing is nothing but a shameless murderer too cowardly to actually kill anybody so instead he just offends those who actually engage in the violence he just fantasizes about. | The number of undercover agents used to find these lunatics is well worth it, then, I can't imagine any halfway sane person being talked into going out to kidnap and murder someone because they resented having to wear a mask. It's not like some high school kids getting taked into shoplifting a six-pack of beer. | 1 |
One store I went to that has reasonable prices for eggs (all local farmers) was stripped clean of its eggs. Another store that is posting the price gouging was fully stocked and nobody was buying the eggs. | so that shortage creates higher prices as competition (Walmart/Kroger/ALDI) bids up the price to have eggs in stock so ..... | 1 |
I think what they mean is that Ukraine may overextend. Ukraine is just holding the line and has been practicing attrition warfare, but if they rush down into the Donbass it could leave them vulnerable to counterattacks. Basically, Russia can't "win" anymore, but Ukraine can still lose. | Ukraine wants to hurt Russian occupiers and make this costly for Russia. (This gives them a target rich environment where they can pick any Russian target in their land as a legitimate target. | 1 |
The right needs to be forced into confronting people they’re too scared to confront. If they’re going to insist on continuing this nonsense, then I’ll insist they go all the way & include everyone. | This is ALL about their political careers & they couldn’t care less about real people’s lives. I feel as strongly as I do because both my parents are survivors of the Indian Residential Schools & the horrors that went along with those places. Even in their late 70’s they still have not been able to find some sense of safety or community or anything. Those schools made it so Indian children didn’t even trust each other. And so when I see what the right is doing with LGBTQ people I see much the same pattern weaving religion & shame & trying to make their existence just go away. I can tell you from experience that does not work. Whats worse is these politicians KNOW this. | 0 |
Live In the Midwest too. There’s amazing polish and German places. Pretty good Italian places(mom and pop Italian places that make different homemade pasta noodles each morning), great Mexican food, a great Salvadoran restaurant. There’s also really good Vietnamese and African restaurants. Plus others in forgetting. That’s all within a 20 minute drive. | Not sure how to explain it other than I just didn’t have good food? I spent about a month in each country so I had a fairly good idea of the food. 90% of my meals were at food carts or little local restaurants with those tiny plastic chairs. So the type of restaurants I went to were all the same across Asia. | 0 |
FYI: "Starting around February, those 21 and older can apply to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services for a home cultivation card. A license costs $100.". | Idk. If you hang out on liberal circlejerk forums (like this one) on liberal circlejerk websites (like this one) it can get pretty hard to know what actual conservatives actually believe - you'll encounter a million folks claiming that, say, conservatives believe a black dudes criminal history justifies police killings him before you'll actually encounter a conservative saying it. | 1 |
We also don’t have condos in Australia or New Zealand. We have apartments which you own or rent from a private owner. The owner of the apartment pays fees to the apartment buildings owners corporation (strata) which every owner is a part of and to the local council for things like garbage and water. | Cause in Australia that's still an apartment. I've lived in a 6 million dollar apartment on harbour with a rooftop, gym, and full time concierge but it's still called an apartment. I bought a very nice but small apartment in a low density block that has no amentities and that is still called an apartment. | 0 |
The missile can blast targets at a terrifying 16,000mph and has a range of over 11,000 miles, reports The Sun, making it 1,000 times more powerful than the bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during the Second World War. | I swear it’s using the range of 11,000 miles and comparing it to the range of the bombs (when exploded) in Japan. Atleast that’s what the sentence makes it out to be. | 1 |
Do you really want our entire government to act to stifle progress for the foreseeable future due to political games, instead of just half of it? | I may sound a little harsh or condescending here because I see this thought process a lot, and I think it is half-considered. It ties in with the general view of "criminals" in our country. | 0 |
Except, it is a kangaroo court... made up of Republican ideologues forced on the court with zero Democratic support. | I am not trying to excuse the Republicans at all, however they weren’t alone in creating the current partisan court. I do not doubt in the slightest that had the shoe been on the other foot our court would be equally partisan just with a liberal bias. Hell, if you look at the voting record of the court up to 2016 (haven’t looked since our former president started nominating true crazies), the liberal justices overwhelmingly voted as a single block and the conservative justices had a much more varied record where they would cross over and support ideas the liberal justices supported. That has likely changed with the three new justices though. | 1 |
Romney has a better chance of solidifying the GOP base back to the norms pre-trump. He's still a pro-corporate dipshit, but he has morals. Unfortunately, the GOP has gone into the direction of embracing nazis and authoritarian-lite ideology to win elections. | I like this response. Especially bc in 2016, everyone believed clinton would win the presidency bc the polls showed that. Instead, we got trump creating a massive upset. So, true. 2024 is still a long way from now. | 0 |
Religion sucks because it is always being hijacked by assholes and is difficult to fight against, but it doesn't turn people into monsters on it's own. | Also religion doesn't stop <insert Abrahamian religious group of people here> from conducting murders or killings. | 1 |
Sanctions aren't working, means send more military and put pressure on other countries trading with Russia. | The west realizes this is going to be long war and is letting Russia bleed itself. The west is invested in keeping Ukraine out of Russian control and will continue with its military support for the foreseeable future. | 0 |
There is no such thing as freedom of religion without also having freedom from religion, how can you have religious freedom while being forced to follow someone else's religion? | But it does guarantee freedom OF religion, which implies no person can be compelled to behave along the lines of someone else’s religion. | 1 |
These types of generalizations are completely unhelpful and only serve to drive Serbs away from the EU and towards Russia. Obviously the government of Serbia would not be involved in this type of plot, the risks would be far too great even if they felt inclined to do so. However, it's no secret that a substantial of the Serbian population has a pro-Russian sentiment and thereby serves as a potential recruiment pool for Russia. | That does not mean "Serbia" is helping Russia, it means some Serbs may have been recruited by Russia. Big difference. | 0 |
It would mean that other people potentially wouldn't have access to blood that would normally be made instead. | Blood donations aren't like in the movies; you can't just hook a tube up to someone and stick the other end into someone else. You need a blood bank to process and standardise the blood, which would need to be done even in this case. What if 2 of the 20 volunteers have gotten their blood type wrong? That would kill the child. What if one of them has meningitis and doesn't know? Or HIV? Or one of many other blood borne illnesses? Not only that, but what happens if they only get 3L of usable blood from the volunteers and then end up needing more than that? | 1 |
Secondly, it states it's a factor in deciding whether to invite a state to join. In other words, this is not a hard binary yes/no. It's not saying that countries must have settled their disputes to be members (or many existing NATO countries should not be in NATO); rather that they must show a commitment to settling them in that manner. | And again, it's about showing the commitment to resolving these types of conflicts according to international law. Ukraine has shown this to be the case. The fact that a hostile power has illegally invaded them doesn't change that. | 0 |
Everything that can be realistically done should be done. Even making 100% sure the violent regime won't get it's hands on nuclear bombs will go a very long way into giving the people a chance. | Yes, and Iran knows this, which is why they've structured their nuclear weapons program to make it impossible to wipe it out with a one-off strike like this. | 1 |
"Men cannot be lesbians" was a statement targeted at a trans woman who identified as lesbian - the potentially offensive nature of the statement is that this filmmaker referred to a trans woman as a man. | In this specific case, the statement "men cannot be lesbians" appears to be part of a pattern of repeated harassment of a lesbian trans woman. Norwegian law covers hate speech based on gender identity as well as other categories such as race, so it's possible that applies here. | 0 |
Lmao keep gobbling up bullshit ass news sources. How would the user base grow and they lose more money than before? That makes no sense. And who at Twitter was better at running a company than Elon? | No way, news sources would never all collectively lie to form an agenda. Like they did about a certain laptop now they're starting to admit the laptop is real..whoa... | 0 |
Hmmmm well that energy charter treaty sounds like a pretty good way for companies and countries to receive long term support for investing in a 0 carbon form of energy, like nuclear but the Germans wouldn't want to build power plants that have proven to provide baseline energy reliably. Much easier to quickly build a few more gas plants and improve slightly statistically but not focus on how to reliably power their countries carbon free for the coming centuries. | Nuclear is maybe carbon free(at least when the fuel rods providing energie, not the plant and all the process around it) but it is for sure not the cheapest and arguably not saver than solar or wind. I don't get all the hate Germany gets only bcs they don't go nuclear. Like pls, if they manage their goal without it be happy. | 1 |
Much like how progressives are more passionate about preventing insufficiently left wing Democrats from getting elected than they are about preventing far right Republicans from getting elected. | That's because a lot of New York "Democrats" are actually Rockefeller Republicans who want to vote for moderate Republicans, but moderate Republicans don't exist anymore, so they're forced to vote Democrat instead, and they drag the party rightward. | 0 |
Walker does not have DID, he just uses that as an excuse to dodge accountability for legitimately horrific acts of domestic violence ("it wasn't me, it was an alter!"). | Yep. The last time I voted for a Republican was 2012 iirc; I voted for the Republican (who cast the deciding vote for an anti-discrimination bill that passed) that was running for Lt Governor rather than the Democrat that was... well. Let's just say that from what I could tell at the time the Dem running was further to the right than the Republican. | 1 |
Makes me think this would apply to intersex people a well. So that means they would be going after people who were literally born with both sets of genitals. | Edit: I'm dumb for not knowing that transvestite and intersex aren't similar. It's still a fucked decision though. As long as it's not hurting someone, who the fuck should really care? No one. | 0 |
Nope, it's not, and that's why people here are saying it's odd the media is focusing on it. Asbestos is bad to work with because it's basically just lots of tiny glass shards, it gets stucks in your lungs and never leaves. | The danger of asbestos is mostly, that the broke off dust particles harm the human lungs, just like moondust(regolith), and inbedding itself in the tissue. | 1 |
"Anyone wishing to hold on to their weapon and join the ranks of France’s 5 million legal gun owners can do so if they seek to obtain a legal permit.". | Yes. In big cities like Marseilles or Paris it's mostly gang related with more modern weapon or ex soviet stocks coming from Eastern european countries but in the country side lots of murder or aggression are made with these old timers weapon. It's not the same volume as gun violence in USA mind you but still. | 1 |
Ask yourself what the midterm elections would have looked like if Democrats hadn't passed an infrastructure bill, or a prescription savings package, or invested hundreds of billions in climate change mitigation, it might not have moved the dial much, but it wouldn't have to. | Without the ability to pass legislation the job of advocating for the Democratic party falls on us, the folks who want to see them elected and in control, Nancy Pelosi can't force action in a majority Republican House, the minority party has practically zero power in Washinon, DC. | 0 |
We are held to a higher standard and often held accountable for fuckups like you mentioned above. But it is war and shit happens. Domestic law enforcement attacking civilians and it’s not even a war zone? What’s their excuse? | Shit happens in the fog of war. I’m not justifying or excusing it. I find it reprehensible as fuck. It’s why I didn’t renew my contract after the second time. I did 12 years and got out under Obama. Believe me, I know there’s a lot of former military dudes now in law enforcement. A few police agencies tried recruiting me after I got out and I told them to kick rocks. | 0 |
If you want an example on the left of what happens when you don't reach out to those who don't agree with you, look at Bernie Sanders' Presidential campaigns. Bernie never expanded his base of support much beyond young upper middle class White liberals because he didn't reach out to establishment Democrats, or temper his campaign message to appeal to moderates, or vary his stump speech to speak to the concerns of a varied electorate. Bernie expected voters to come to him and it doesn't work that way; one of the critiques I remember from his 2016 campaign was that his phone volunteers were more interested in winning arguments with the people they were calling than they were interesting in making more calls and swaying more voters. | ' his phone volunteers were more interested in winning arguments with the people they were calling than they were interesting in making more calls and swaying more voters. '. | 1 |
You can't just ignore the toxic processes used to create the leather, though. It is not some "all natural" product with zero environmental impact. Tanning chemicals are not biodegradable. | Google says 90% of leather is made using a chromium tanning process, and chromium tanned leather is not recyclable or biodegradable. It also causes heavy metal pollution, which I'm not sure is the case for. | 0 |
When you start applying the term “terrorist” to people that are attacking legitimate military targets of a foreign invader…that’s where you lose me. Especially because we have killed a horrific amount of innocent civilians. If a country invaded America and accidentally blew up my wife and kids, I couldn’t give a fuck less if they didn’t mean to. I’d be on borrowed time, and taking as many of the invaders with me as possible. It wouldn’t matter if they were directly responsible for the death of my family, if they were a member of the military that did it…fuck em. | I was just pointing out that if someone is wearing a suicide vest and blows it up, they probably weren’t an innocent civilian. | 0 |
I am reminded of South Korea’s development of their steel industry, and Britain’s preconditions for promoting “free trade” after establishing a dominant industrial capacity. | That said, poverty is the biggest killer in Indonesia. Fix that, and solutions to secondary problems will evolve, just like the electrostatic precipitators that had to be installed to reduce fly ash pollution at that plant in Alberta…. | 0 |
That's like saying a boxer isn't weak if he goes up against a child and he manages to barely stay in the fight for 10 rounds. | Not much more than a year ago is a strange way of saying Nov 2019, which was over 3 years ago, during Tump's reign. Macron had good reason to say it at the time. | 0 |
So many "Christians" would be gunning for him, labelling a terrorist or worse. The other half would be trying to figure out how to make a profit off him. (There's a prophet/profit joke in here somewhere, lol!). | Yep. You later find out they mean "Love thy White Cisgender Christian Neighbor who better belong to the same church as you and HATE all thy other neighbors". | 1 |
No. Zelenskyy knows that the public will never support anything Putin says. If Putin said “return to February border lines” the public would go “no, Ukraine deserves part of Russia!”. | Obviously this is something advantageous for Ukraine to which Putin will never agree. The issue regarding open negotiations like this between the invader and invaded would require the public discussion/admission of responsibility regarding things like troop numbers, civilian casualties, etc. that Putin really doesn’t want to discuss. | 1 |
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It's horrible what's happening in Yemen, but don't start pretending those murderous bastards are some sort of freedom loving local heroes. | Houthis arent fighting for freedom, they're an extremist terrorist group backed by Russia, Iran and North Korea. | 0 |
It's important to note, DeSantis is being championed by the propaganda pushing media arm of the GOP, as an alternative for Trump. | He has no "brilliant businessman" narrative. He doesn't brag about sleeping with models. He doesn't shit in a gold toilet. He's a bully sure, but he's not punching down in quite the same way. | 0 |
Yup, and i believe that the capital of South Korea is well within artillery range for the North Korea. | I mean, in the event of a war, isn't North Korea using a significant amount of its artillery fire to pound a civilian centre a good outcome for the South Korean military? Like all the enemy artillery are shooting at a target that isn't posing them any harm, and largely wouldn't hurt the South Korean armed forces, and are letting counter artillery radars locate exactly where they all are. | 1 |
Sure, and similarly there is no way to prove to someone else that you voted a specific way with mail-in voting. So it's not really clear what point you are trying to make. Everything you have mentioned so far applies to both in-person and mail-in voting. | In a state where well above the majority of ballots are mail-in ballots. Asking a judge to unilaterally decide by themselves to throw out most of the votes, yeah...that's not going to go well. | 1 |
On the other hand, the 4th Guards Tank Division (which is a part of this 1st Guards Tank Army) was more or less completely destroyed when Ukraine encircled Izium. | When the Karkhiv counteroffensive happened, the Ukrainian army attempted to encircle 4th GTD at Izium. The 4th GTD then retreated back into Russia, however they lost what would have been 50% of their tanks when they were at full strenh, considering their losses prior to being sent to Kharkiv, this loss here meant that the 4th GTD no longer existed as an effective fighting force. | 0 |
Fraud was rife and Trump And Kushner both received millions in PPP funding. How is that not illegal and why aren’t conservatives asking for lynchings due to all the waste of tax payers money? | It confounds to no end how the GOP can whinge about misappropriated government spending... And then waste all of our time and fucking money investigating a gesture to save the citizenry time and money. | 1 |
It Depends©. It's possible that Russian oil was always the better short term option despite being the worse long term option, and this will kick short term profit focused corporations into actually making the better long term move. | Plus it doesn't matter for the purposes of sanctions whether India buys and resells Russian oil, all that matters is that Russian oil is having to be sold at a price much lower than the market price. You wouldn't want to drive Russian oil out of the market entirely because that would push the price of all oil up and hurt developing countries. This mechanism of a price cap that only affects the price of Russian oil is very clever. | 1 |
It’s sort of a natural consequence of how the UN operates in regards to Israel. They spend a lot of time and energy passing resolutions condemning Israel, far more than any other country, and for at least a few years now more than all other countries combined. You can criticize Israel and still think that’s nuts, and still understand why Israel would stop listening to the UN. | This situation is absolutely sick and if Israel truly wanted peace, they'd at the very least halt building settlements but they won't even do that. | 1 |
On top of that, Japan just had serious dispute with a Korean cult called Unification Church which has a strong tie to Ukraine and one of the most prominent "online" speaker for Ukraine is with that cult, obivously it doesn't really look good. | But besides that, enough people also have bad image towards Russia and have strong belief that they need to be on "the winning side" for whatever wars to get on top of the food chain. | 0 |
And if North Korea sends troops to Ukraine, South Korea must seriously consider doing so as well, or at least a very large number of non--combatant Abrams and F-16 maintenance technicians, fully equipped. Just as Israel and Saudi Arabia Iraq, and Turkey must more than respond to what Iran has done in Ukraine. The Pacific Rim nations must respond to what China and India (after their abstention votes in the UN) are or are not, doing in Ukraine. As the worlds most populous neighbors, they both have the most to gain from the "support the non-aggressor" precedents increasingly being reinforced in Ukraine. | This is dangerous on it's own, because it sets a precedent for someone else to come to Ukraine's aid. A certain neighbor with an axe to grind with Russia, perhaps. | 1 |
Did they rise to power because they were religious? Or because their was an unstable political regime that fueled their rise? | It was not about religion. The major rebellion rose from famine and socio-economic reasons, famine caused people to move for labor, rich people took advantage of the cheap labor, only making it worse, ontop of high taxation and a weakened han government, rebellion was imminent. It just happened to be a religious group that rose to prominence in a chaotic period. | 0 |
They want to allow other countries that bought weapons for their own defense to aid Ukraine rather than having Switzerland stop them from doing so. | I would guess that our government will attempt to find a loophole to allow sending weapons to Ukraine, but from my experience, swiss neutrality is here to stay for the forseeable future. | 1 |
The power to give people security clearance is derived from the executive. Likely someone from the IC came to him and said "Jared doesn't pass our standards for security clearance" and Trump waved it away saying "Give it to him anyway." And they did. | Well, yes. We don't know. I just know that with that lot, every denial is an admission, and knowing Giuliani, he got confused and tried to sell classified documents to Borat's niece. | 1 |
It is a very shitty narrative. High school students and university students are our future. They do vote (or will shortly when they turn 18). Good for them standing up for what they believe in. The right to peacefully protest and make their voices heard, that is what freedom is all about. | True except conservatives believe blocking a road in protest forfeits your right to life. Considering their opinions on guns I doubt age would stop them. | 1 |
Popular vote can be tyranny on either side. For smokers the flavor ban is extremely unpopular and just makes their enjoyment worse while not impacting consumption. | At least, based on the fact that they recently banned flavored tobacco products outright, by a majority vote. | 1 |
I understand thinking that way, but you have to remember it also dropped pretty low in 2016 when low gas prices would benefit the Democrats. So the price inputs are a lot more complicated than simply "election year, price it to help Republicans". | If you think the Industry, the one that spent $12.4 million just in the 1st quarter of this year, would be below manipulating prices to feed the Republican talking point and make a few bucks in the process, then I don't know what else to say. | 1 |
The massive European forests are gone. That's a fact and nothing can change that without time travel. But what's also another fact? Other forests are still here, so there's still a chance to save them. | On top of all that, Europe did cut their forests when the knowledge of agriculture was basic. Now we know a lot about it and have technology that our ancestors couldn't even dream of. There's no reason to cut down forests anymore. | 0 |
Then, Ukrainians get HARM missles that hunt radars, and Russian equivalent missiles don't work all that well, and it's all a huge game of cat and mouse now. | So... Russia strikes hard with air, jams the Ukrainians till blind, but then has to shut down their jamming to not interfere with own operations. | 0 |
The current century? It wouldn't surprise me if the Russian federation collapses before 2030. I'm not saying it certainly will, but if that does happen it wouldn't surprise me. | It's ironic.. Putin wanted to be remembered as a scary ironman and the glorious hero of Russia who restored it to a superpower.. instead he'll go down history as the dummass clown who took on a nation 10X smaller and miscalculated so bad he kickstarted the collapse of his own country. | 0 |
2) It can help break the stranglehold that the two party system has on our politics in that a vote for a third party, or independent, candidate is essentially a vote thrown away. But without throwing us into the chaos of a multi-party parliamentary system. | “One potential takeaway from [the midterms] is that the US is a center left country with a gerrymandering problem.”. | 0 |
They didn't say a complete change, they said a different virus, which is very much true. Mutation is difference, and they are right that we won't know how dangerous it is until it happens. | Sure, same virus as in it's the avian flu. It's different in that it behaves differently than the avian flu currently does, by being transmittable between humans. That's all this person was saying, not that it suddenly becomes some completely novel virus. | 0 |
If I wasn’t such a pessimist I would be amazed but a part of me also thinks Russia is testing anti missile defenses and we are just giving them easy access to test our defenses for weaknesses. | I guess no where in history battles were fought and won with no hidden agendas… everything is done at face value… u must be a high level strategist or chess player. | 0 |
I'm thinking of it as they see the rental housing as a way to make money are and investing 1bn in it. | So they are building additional housing capacity with the intent to have it as rental only. Yes, making only rentals available in the future is bad. However this is new housing, which should alleviate both rents and purchase prices in those areas. | 1 |
On some level, if vasagel were a real option and not perpetually 5 years away, I might prefer that, just as a hypothetical "maybe less damage and complication risk". But I'm also not really interested in having kids, so I just kinda bit the bullet and decided that I'd rather end the risk and quit worrying during sex with my gf. | When I was younger and dating I got two different people pregnant and I was extremely fortunate they were both on the same page as me and didn't want kids. Those experiences and the fear surrounding them shaped my sexuality for a long time. If I had gotten a vasectomy way back then, things may have been very different. I could have felt safer regarding sex which would likely have meant a more robust sex life. And that reason would have also been completely valid. | 1 |
TDLR: Apple is collecting data exactly how it says it is, while Mysk is using clever wording to mislead and file a lawsuit. | This is also the difference in Google and Apple, Apple shares data in a way that’s usually useless outside of app development, and developers generally can’t track back. | 0 |
Furthermore, utilizing it as a value engine to determine how well thought your idea was was also never a good measure of worth. | I dont think Elon Musk is worth more than Twitter, but I don't think the world will be less without either of them either. | 0 |
No need to include "for money" - "People that do this should be considered as traitors" is fine by me. Not only do these pilots get money, but they are likely provided lots of other comforts in order to get more info out of them. Honey traps are common tools. | Imagine if a Chinese pilot defected or provided these trainings to Australia - the reaction of the Chinese government would a secret massive hunt including repercussions to the pilot's family. | 0 |
Turns out being pieces of shit doesn't exactly correlate to winning over voters. And being pieces of shit obviously the only choice is to say fuck the voters fuck democracy and just seize control instead. | Yeah when you're gonna go full authoritarianism and stop supporting election results and openly try to overthrow democracy.... you MIGHT just split your party when you fail. | 1 |
seriously, if the germans had spent the two trillion euros building nuclear they'd be carbon-neutral and exporting gobs of green energy to the rest of europe. instead they installed solar and wind with a theoretical capacity of 200% of germany's needs and an actual output of about 20% of its needs. | the euros are building nuclear, right? they're not doing something stupid like spending two trillion euros building solar and wind in germany, a country that is neither sunny nor windy, are they? they certainly wouldn't do that while decommissioning their existing nuclear plants and switching to lignite, the dirtiest coal there is, would they? | 0 |
Now I just think they are dumb. Ignorance is fine not everyone knows everything. But being dumb is a choice, you can't stay dumb forever unless you actively block out new information. | Imagine actually looking at this guy and using him as an example of a smart/strong/sane person. It's been 6 years and I literally can't understand how this man has any supporters. I feel like I lost all respect for 38% of the country. I used to think "well they are ignorant, but they aren't necessarily dumb.". | 0 |
If I was a centrist republican, I'd try to get nine other republicans to vote present. It would make Jeffries win the speaker, and it would show the freedom caucus that they can't rule over the rest of the party. Then just let the freedom caucus realize that they overplayed their hand. Once they do, you can call a motion to vacate and put McCarthy in the speaker position. | If McCarthy/whoever agrees to any of those they will lose too many gop votes for speaker, I would think. And we can't trust a gop speaker to follow promises any way. | 1 |
I mean, in Australia we did a lot more and... it went well after like three weeks. A couple months of people voluntarily dropping guns off, and we have had well, not zero gun deaths in the last 20 years, but close and only one or two "mass shootings" since. | Sorry, off duty and retired cops should have no greater access to weapons than the rest of us, quite frankly, neither should on duty until they can stop murdering us. | 1 |
I agree to support Ukraine with tanks, but when you're actively helping Trump, who was impeached the first time for blackmailing Ukraine by withholding weapons... | About sending tanks to Ukraine, all one had to do is read my posting history to see just where I stand. | 1 |
Also explain to me how Putin surrendering a fight he was certain he would win, let's him save any face at all. He's not getting his territory back and he's not going to be able to end anything without losing more. | The article doesn't even address that part. It states that Ukraine is winning and want's all their territory plus Crimea back but they don't even touch on what happens to all that territory if Russia just end's the conflict. | 0 |
( For what I have seen it could send a mensaje of mistrust in some banking institución. Specially for china. But aside from that apparently it doesn't have any other negative aspect ). | Aside from that Rusia has been sanción because in Europe it was an ancient enemy and it kinda has a precedent of eating land ( like in 2014and like two times in the Cáucaso I think ). | 0 |
I agree with you to some extent when it comes to the burka - rather than a religious symbol it could be understood as a symbol of oppression of women. | I definitely agree with you about the burka, but the wearer will turn around and say she is a feminist and wears it by choice because she feels liberated (face-palm, head-shake). | 1 |
I'm not saying close Disney World in Florida, but expand and give families more options and it could give Disney options if shit like this continues. | As the governor of Florida he can only affect what's in Florida, which is the Disney World Amusement Park. The divisional headquarters themselves for the Parks Division and Cruise Line can easily be relocated. Disney itself, along with most of its other divisions, are headquartered outside of Florida. | 1 |
Dozens of rioters overturned and torched cars, set electric scooters on fire and pelted cars with bricks. Police moved in after one person suffered facial injuries, Brussels police said. | Riots broke out in several Belgian and Dutch cities after Morocco's 2-0 upset win over Belgium at the World Cup on Sunday. | 0 |
Studies show the middle actually has the least amount of empathy as compared to those who are considered staunchly left or, amazingly, right wing. | The holier than thou part is essentially making up your own standard for the word blatant. What do you want a signed confession? Her net worth ballooned while a member of congress, they are allowed to insider trade. We are not fuckin idiots. | 0 |
Whilst a shifting polar vortex can cause temporary extreme cold events, the overall trend for Northern European winters is rapid warming. | “Northern Europe has warmed more strongly in winter than in summer, while in the south the warming trend is more apparent in summer.”. | 0 |
The UN is basically the assembly, a place to go on the record and say what's the real reason why such-and-such, with the aim of preventing unwanted wars of misunderstanding. | Not really, the UN is there to provide an outlet where all the countries can get together to discuss things peacefully. Arguably, the status quo is the entire point. | 1 |
From what I know about the iron dome(which isn’t much granted), it’s primarily meant to stop low altitude, low velocity projectiles like mortars, artillery, RPG, etc. | It is “impossible” in the sense that it wouldn’t protect against the high velocity of Russian missiles or the large number of artillery. | 0 |
St. Petersburg's mayor, on the other hand, is a full on Z-ultrapatriot actively involved in this stuff. My guess is it's because he feels his seat is vulnerable (he's in a feud with Prigozhin, who's rapidly gaining Putin's favor) and he has to lick Putin's ass even harder to keep it. | Anyway, in his opinion (and mine) Prigozhin overplayed his hand with his open play at becoming mayor of St. Petersburg, and the siloviki will probably crush his power base in retaliation once the war is over. Strelkov/Girkin though is someone we disagree on. I think Strelkov is going to be removed from any prominent position too, as evidenced by him being sent away from the front line and being trashed by Solovyev regularly. My "friend" however believes Strelkov is protected by Kadyrov and anti-Shoigu parts of the military and intelligence services. He believes that if Russia loses the war and Putin leaves office, Strelkov might be fronted by the military faction as the revanchist, anti-silovik, anti-oligarch presidential candidate. I find that extremely doubtful, though I am sure he would like to enter politics. Your thoughts? | 1 |
TBH two platoons reached Pavlivka and were able to hold there with no Ukrainian soldiers in it (they moved to the secondary defense line to let artillery work) for about 24h, so they could kinda report that they took Pavlivka. Kinda. | Yeah. Or until it's far enough away from the front line to not be a target. But well Kyiv is being attacked so their really is no such thing as being far enough away from the front line at this point. | 1 |
Converting heat from fusion to electricity (which is not done at the moment) would have an efficiency of maybe 30% or so. | Assuming ITER reaches its goal it won't be that far away: 300 MW electricity used to produce 50 MW of plasma heating which leads to 500 MW of fusion, converting that to electricity would give something like 150-200 MW. There is also some power for cooling and other stuff, but we are talking about a factor 2-3 to break-even instead of the 300 for inertial confinement. In addition it's already in a relevant power range - going from 500 MW to 3 GW is a smaller step than going from a shot per day to multiple shots per second. | 0 |
Here’s an explanation of one argument given by one of the LGBTQ+ rights organizations in Japan pushing for same sex marriage: | Same-sex marriage is a tricky issue in Japan because marriage being between a man and a woman is explicitly in the constitution. | 1 |
"He also claimed credit for Mr DeSantis’ 2018 election victory over former Tallahassee, Florida mayor Andrew Gilluim and said he “fixed” Mr DeSantis’ 2018 campaign and used the FBI and Department of Justice to swing that election to the Republican. | “I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win,” he said “I stopped his Election from being stolen and now, Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games”.". | 0 |
Kathy Griffin. What's interesting about that is that Democrats didn't rally to defend her. The joke was in poor taste and she was rightly called out for it. Also worth noting is that Kathy Griffin does not have the ability to bring about the violence she joked about. MTG is a member of congress who has actual institutional power. It's a very different kind of joke when you have the power to potentially make it happen. | For argument's sake let's give her the benefit of the doubt and say it was a joke. She joked that she would have made sure the rioters were armed so that they could successfully murder members of congress. Do you think Republicans would excuse a Democrat for joking about murdering Republicans? | 0 |
this ALWAYS happens. Breaking news drops and you get really reasonable takes in there (looked at their top post about this and the top comment is how all news, Fox included, with shareholders, lies to the people. Many highly upvoted comments agreeing that Fox is BAD). | The only feasible outcome I can see from that sub is them ditching Fox but moving towards NewsMax or whatever the far, far right media is now. | 0 |
To be fair this could work in Ukraine's favour. China really doesn't like the idea of legitimizing territorial separatism as much as they want to support Russia. | China doesn't want to establish the idea that a country can just take land from another or support separatist movements. Taiwan doesn't violate that worldview because it's an unresolved civil war and both sides, at least officially, claim to be the same country under different governments. China's deal is probably Russia keeps Crimea, Russia otherwise fucks off and Ukraine can join or not join any international organizations as it seems fit with Chinese economic support for both sides of they agree. | 1 |
Ask John Conyers. Guy can barely read himself, and made the statement that who can read this when he was an elected official. The idea was just pass it and see what happens. This was around Obamacare... | Basically they have people skim through and they make a decision but realistically they vote on whoever pays them to vote on something. | 0 |
Nah. State courts very clearly have the authority to rule on election maps and very clearly have no authority to draw their own maps. A ruling that reflects that reality is more than fair. | A narrow ruling might be a desirable outcome. The problem is that it doesn't make any fucking sense. The only way that this is a federal issue rather than a state issue, is if the state courts lack the capacity to decide that a state law governing federal elections violates the state constitution. If state courts can decide that, at all, then this is purely a state issue and the Supreme court has no jurisdiction over this. | 1 |
I debate the abortion issue a lot. People have, on several occasions, brought up the United Nations' take on abortion. I realize the United Nations and EU are obviously completely different, but the situation is the same for the language they use. Doublespeak to appease less progressive Nations. People will point out that the United Nations doesn't view forced birth as torture. And doesn't guarantee access in all cases: | "States parties must provide safe, legal and effective access to abortion where the life and health of the pregnant woman or girl is at risk, and where carrying a pregnancy to term would cause the pregnant woman or girl substantial pain or suffering, most notably where the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest or is not viable.". | 0 |
Thanks to their range they'd be far better at providing AA coverage, they'd basically be one shot kill weapons vs a drone and drones should be well within their targeting capabilities given the speeds involved. | However, i do believe that to counter drones, one does not require missiles, but anti-air guns/flak cannons, which i would imagine is much cheaper than a missile (that can track a target). Therefore, it is essential to develop ground based tracking, gun-based anti-air. The amount of bullets spent to blow the drones up must be made cheaper than the drones themselves, or it's a losing battle. | 1 |
I'm grown sick of transphobes dispensing medical advice about my healthcare without a goddamn clue of what they're talking about. | You're reading a simplification of what was likely a drawn out process with multiple warning signs before the kid said "I'm trans". Also all scientific evidence points to children actually having a very good grasp on their gender. The idea that they have no clue is unfounded. | 1 |
Covid won the war on covid and because no one has any idea what to do to both stop it while keeping everything exactly the same... Well at that point it just keeps crumbling. | I think there's the additional angle of, Covid isn't going to be eradicated. There's always going to be a possibility of a new coronavirus, just like there's a possibility of some new turbo flu. | 1 |
-In the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Wagenknecht was a prominent defender of Russia and its President Vladimir Putin, arguing on February 20, 2022 that while the United States was trying to "conjure up" an invasion of Ukraine, "“Russia has in fact no interest to march into Ukraine.”. | -Wagenknecht opposed sanctions against Russia over the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, and, in a speech in September 2022, accused the German government of "launching an unprecedented economic war against our most important energy supplier". | 0 |
Also post Brady Bill, he ordered a case of 7.62 steel core ammo. Dude had loads of 7.62 ammo, so we continued blasting the hell out of the woods with AK-47's and SKS's. The 47 was particularly fun to wield with a 75 round drum magazine. We thought the ammo with steel casings was the cheap, corrosive stuff. Turns out my pal had been hooking us up with the armor piercing ammo for years. Didn't find out til that case was down to like 3 boxes. His dad was passed pissed. | A pal's dad had a federal gun dealer permit. Back in the 80's, he had a fucking arsenal that occasionally included a few fully automatic weapons. However, the ones we always took to the woods were semi auto ak-47's. Post Brady Bill, he got some 74's and SKS's. The AK-74 was chambered in 5.45 and was shorter than the AK-47. The SKS was chambered in 7.62. | 0 |
If China were stupid enough to engage mainland US on US soil, then lord help them, because they don't stand much or a chance. Whether you're pro, anti or controlled 2A, I'd wager most gun nuts and hoarders would hand a weapon to their non armed next door neighbour to defend against an invasion. | As a Brit, we know that what ever war US is in, we'll like be in too. Now, I don't doubt the might of our respective countries, but do not underestimate an opponent. Besides the huge amount of military spending, one of the US militarys biggest boons is in sheer numbers. Its, from my understanding, one of the big tactics the US uses, overwhelming numbers. Should the US get pulled into a war with China, it must be remembered that China has almost twice the amount of personel. They also have a larger amount of naval ships than the US. Their budget however is smaller (2nd to the US). | 0 |
Look, it is all good and well to have MAGA defeated at some level, but voters of all kinds must not stop until the root problem of unaccountable government is addressed. | Campaign finance caused Trump because it crippled consensus lawmaking in what decades ago was a somewhat accountable congress in favor of a politburo of unaccountable lobbyists. Republics usually have to fail for weak and incompetent dictator types to win elections. This failure was aided by voter failure to oppose legalized corruption that made traditional politicians useless to voters other than for ineffective social justice. Voters figured out they didn’t matter, but they didnt know why so they hired Magic Donnie to fix it because he said be knows everything and is a rebel. Gonna. Happen. Again. | 0 |
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