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Well, to be fair, every time the virus takes a step is by the means of a mutation. This means that the emerging virus is a different virus. Sure, it doesn't look good, but nobody has a clue about the virulence of a hypothetical human bird flu virus. We'll can only know if it finally happens. | For the comments, it seems nobody has read the article. It basically says that, for the first time ever, we have observed a mammal catching bird flu from another mammal. Until now, we only saw mammals getting it from a bird, but the virus was unable to go further. | 0 |
You are asking this question here for the gazillionth time while you spam the typical Pro-Israeli narrative "Palestinian invaders aren't native to the land ". | You claimed everything is “Palestinian land”, and that Israel exists over “Palestinian land”, I refuted your claim. | 1 |
Oh yeah, Jordan fought a war with Israel half a century ago. Since then Jordan has been the most conciliatory and neighborly country towards Israel of all of the Arab states surrounding it. And Israel refuses to repatriate any of their refugees because their chief domestic policy is ethnic cleansing. | Jordan is the most stable country of all of Israel's neighbors, and they've put up with a lot of bullshit, and their population is already like 20% refugees from Israel, Syria, & Iraq. But yeah, I guess they draw the line at Israel potentially doubling their refugee population with a flood of new deported Palestinians. | 0 |
There's literally no point in trying to argue against it and, honestly, arguing against it can be as nonsensical as the thing you are complaining about. | By whining about it and shitting on it, you're taking all that away from them because you're annoyed by the repetition of it without ever understanding or caring about it's actual purpose. | 1 |
An a liberal Democrat understanding that Biden had a 50-50 Senate tie (with Harris breaking), Manchin and Sinema sandbagging him, and only a few seat lead in the house he got... | It would be quite something but really not all that shocking if Biden managed to gather votes from Republican House members to keep things moving (at least avoid likely shutdowns). The GOP is doing some soul searching right now, and a few might just sober up and realize that governing effectively has a positive effect on approval. | 1 |
Sure, but even after reducing overdoses and other impurities there's still the dramatic health effects and addiction that will ultimately lead to death anyway. | What makes street heroin dangerous is the chances of it being impure, other than that it's just as dangerous as any form or legal heroin. Still just as addictive. | 0 |
Democracy is obviously better than dictatorship, but sometimes it can be really tiring to see policy just shift on a dime for no other reason except that a different political party got voted into power. For a while South Korea and North Korea really seemed like they were making actual progress, but then the government changed and now it's back to saber rattling. | North Korea knows better to start a war, to be honest it should be fair game for South Korea to shoot down anything that threatens them. North Koreans retaliate with anything they've not just South Korea to worry but the US itching to remove a thorn on the worlds ass for so long. | 1 |
Well sure its probably unfounded garbage. But is like... the reporting stinks, but theyre not even focusing on the stinkier portion of a story that stinks. | A bit like Charlie intentionally stepping in dog shit to cover the smell of the skunk that he let spray him. | 0 |
It’s right in line with Russia’s early justifications for this war — that a Ukraine aligned with the west poses a threat and as such, an invasion of Ukraine is legitimate (implying that Ukraine doesn’t have its own sovereign right to decide its own alignments). That’s terribly imperialistic on its own, but we also know it’s BS because it’s simply Russian imperialism, nationalism, supremacism, and expansionism that underlies their invasion of Ukraine. | It’s another way of saying that nations shouldn’t have a sovereign right to decide how to best maintain their own security interests (usually aligning themselves with military blocs like NATO in order to develop a balance of power). | 0 |
Flight time. Building a powered craft than can stay aloft for days to weeks at a time is difficult. With large sailplane-like drones clad in solar panels it's possible, but these are large, plane-like drones, and expensive to build. And, if you want it to move slowly to collect large blocks of, for example, narrow beam GHz transmissions which are undetectable from space, but a whisper of which can be detected if you're in the atmosphere, you have to plot a course that loops and circles your target because a plane-like platform is moving quickly. The multirotor vertical takeoff type of drone that most people think of are amazingly maneuverable in flight, but the tradeoff is they're incredibly inefficient in flight. You can't build one capable of days of flight time with current weight of materials, motors, batteries, and solar cells. | But, balloons are cheap, move fairly slowly, which is great for grabbing lots of long continuous blocks of transmissions that make encryption cracking easier, and, while not all that guidable, can be used to map a large area, identifying unknown sources and collecting data that can be compiled into a cohesive map if you send a lot of them. | 0 |
It's an excuse for losing. "They only pushed us back because they attacked when we were having a cease fire!". | There’s more to it. In Russian orthodox tradition, Christmas is on 7th of January. More Ukrainians than in 2021 decided to celebrate it on 25th of December to have less “ties” with the aggressor in their derussification attempt, but for Russians it’s like a blasphemy and spit in the face. So refusing to cease fire on Dec 25 and proposing it on Jan 7 is basically a big fuck you. | 1 |
for an old candidate who isn’t offering representation to them, the candidate will learn they can get free votes in exchange for nothing. | If you insist on not voting for either candidate, then your best bet is to still show up at the polls and just don’t vote for them. There are lots of positions on the average ballot and if you feel that strongly that you don’t care who wins, don’t chose either candidate, but there may be candidates who do interest you, and even if you turn in an empty ballot, that still signals that there was a vote that turned up that was missed. | 1 |
Canadian of immigrant-ancestry here, thank you for sharing this - I and everyone I know agree with you + believe this. Colonizer capitalism needs to be reshaped/taken apart. hoping to help support the expansion of indigenous sovereignty/treaty-obligations as topics in the broader political discourse + more. thank you for explaining. | TLDR: Canadians broadly agree with the concept of healing these old wounds and support the indigenous, but vary widely on what that means practically (is it just politics language-magic? or a real money-down commitment?). The momentum is going in the right direction, but the movement is facing growing challenges + an exhausted, increasingly-stressed electorate that may be due for some austerity measures. No consensus on action, but the work seems lightyears ahead of where things are in the U.S.A re: native peoples - and that's the foundation imo for much bigger future work to come. Would welcome an indigenous perspective to learn from here, and again I speak only from my experience. | 0 |
Japan surrendered on the condition of sparing the Emperor among other things, the US wasn't even sure the peace was going to hold until nearly the formal surrender in Tokyo Bay. | Those were accepted because they were beneficial for the U.S. indeed when they tried to keep their Emperor in their first attempts to surrender those pleas were rejected. Surrender happened first, then the U.S. decided what Japan could have. Many documents were seized as a result of Japan losing. They weren't really a token Japan could throw in for favorable terms. | 1 |
Have you ever responded like this to a comment about AOC or Hilary, or are you just deeply disingenuous with your concerns about misogyny towards female lawmakers and politicians? | So, TL;DR is: No proof she is a sex worker, but despite being elected, she is neither a profound (nor qualified) lawmaker, or has even shown a margin of critical thinking on how to propel this country forward. This is why I wish everyone who represents us in this country actually has an accredited law degree instead of just having a big enough cash injection to be seen. | 1 |
Somehow the article tried to attack self driving when it did the best it could with an irresponsible user. And no one died. Shouldn't that mean the autopilot WORKED? | Lastly, autopilot in aircraft require training to use. Not only people generally don't know that, they also don't know what precisely autopilot does in a plane. Naming Tesla's lane keep assist / radar cruise control after "autopilot" is playing on people's ignorance on the subject. That's why people find the term very objectionable. | 1 |
After contacting the school and providing them with several variations of Santos’s name which he has used in public, Ed Adler, a spokesman for Horace Mann, wrote in an email, “George Santos or any of the aliases you [cite] never attended HM.”. | In the October 2020 interview, which resurfaced on social media Wednesday, Santos, referring to his parents, said: “They sent me to a good prep school — which was Horace Mann Prep in the Bronx. And in my senior year of prep school, unfortunately, my parents fell on hard times.” Santos went on to say that at the time his family couldn’t “afford a $2,500 tuition” and “I left school \[with\] four months till graduation.”. | 1 |
Them to top it off you organize them into a for profit criminal gang led by a guy determined to be the next dictator of Russia.... | In a country led by oligarchs and kleptocrats, where even the military is super corrupted from top military general all the way down to mere squad leaders, money always talks. As long as one can pay a sufficient amount of big bribes, he can walk away scott free and makec a \lot\ of "behind the scenes" deals. Or be relatively treated ok (or even with favors) while remaining in prison. | 1 |
I hear that, and I hope it is true. makes it hard for me to feel like it’s as true as various Texas Dems I’ve met seem to feel. | (And trust me, I really, really want Texas to go blue: PA born, but a sibling and their family transplanted there for work years ago, and aren’t GOP). | 0 |
Definitely not general advice. Here in Uruguay the leftists were the ones that got our economy out of a shit crisis and into a pretty respectable position. | Argentina has a bit of a problem where their democracy sucks quite a bit because you can't get a truly good candidate, and even if you did there's enough corruption around that it's all fucked anyway. | 0 |
Businesses don't give two shits about what the landscape will look like in 50 years. Sustainability would require them to give up some profits in the short term, which is unacceptable for most. Just look at the fishing industry! | Much of the fire losses in the US are due to irresponsible management and a lack of natural fire cycles, I assume Canada has similar issues. Still doesn't negate the damage we're doing by cutting old-growth forests. | 0 |
You do understand that if Israel actually wanted to wipe out Gaza, they could have done so in around 10 minutes, right? | Gaza has been blockaded for more than a decade now and you are saying that yeah we could've done more by wiping them out completely but haven't done it so be thankful to us. That is what you have said. Shameful. Gaza is blockaded by air and sea. Everyone knows that Israel has killed civilians intentionally there. They have shot unarmed protesters with live fire, killed medics and elderly. | 1 |
Ah okay. I always assumed the nato navy’s vessels out at sea would all at least try, and if it flies over and land those countries would also try. I understand shooting it down might still trigger the blast, but surely it’s safer over the ocean or miles in the sky as opposed to directly impacting a city. Then again wasn’t Hiroshima exploded at a height for max damage? | But breaking it down, would a nuclear strike be devastating? Yes. It would kill millions if not billions and change the earth's climate so suddenly we'd ve in an extinction level event many would find difficult to survive. But...humans would survive. Many, if not most, in all the countries involved would survive. The governments would likely survive. And the major countries involved would still be considered borderline uninvadable. This is to say nothing of the many humans living in remote or non-associated regions (like...would anyone even target South America? Africa? Australia?). Fact is, as big as nukes are, as many as there are, Earth is bigger. There's just not enough dakka to cover it all (and no, radiation wouldn't be much a thing either, the fallout lasts surprisingly little time for air bursts). | 1 |
Because the US and most NATO countries don’t have 30+ year old Soviet tanks laying around, and training the Ukrainians on the Abrams tanks would be too expensive/take too long. | Ukraine already has experience with anti-tank TOW missiles and TOW missiles on Bradleys destroyed more Soviet-made Iraqi tanks than did Abrams tanks did. | 1 |
There is such a bad stigma around pitbulls that they are often unwanted/discriminated against, a byproduct of this is that they are the most common dog found at shelters. Now that they are the most common and affordable dog, a lot of the adopters aren't going to do any proper training. Some of those untrained dogs will go right back to the shelter willy nilly because there wasn't much of an investment to adopt them to begin with. It's really a vicious cycle. | It's really easy to say "shitbulls" or "all pitbulls are fucking trash" but its not easy to ask and understand why these things are happening. | 0 |
Ukraine isn’t third world, they are best described as former second world (soviet bloc) and now first world (aligned with US and western Europe). | the meaning of “third world” shifted over time to just mean “poor countries” but Ukraine isnt that either. | 0 |
Considering the precedent establishing gay marriage was the 14th amendment and not the 1st, the argument does not hold any weight. | My personal outrage aside… The restriction of marriage (as a legal process) based on a religious ideals makes the 1st amendment relevant here. | 1 |
Yeah I'm aware of that. Just because it's a possible side effect doesn't mean 100% have a peoblem. Hell, there are developing youth having problems gaining bone mass that aren't going through a transition of any kind. And that's a worry too. Thank god there's people who help them along. I hope they all get what they need for stability because that's super hard to come by. | I'm short too in fact and probably more people have had their height stunted during development from stress over Rx's of any kind. And what does height matter when your bones are so weak you're in a wheelchair at 30? That's where bone density and growth can be an issue. Is it happening to everybody in the trans-youth category? Obviously not or we would hear an awful lot about it. | 0 |
I’m guessing you don’t know much about water treatment in general, much less the specific type of treatment plants used in East Palestine, a tiny rural community. | As someone who has experience with both rural water and Superfund clean up sites, your concept of water purification is of systems that do not exist in the real world. | 0 |
If you had paid attention to what he'd been saying during the campaign you'd see that was his stance all along. He never had a stint where he was tough on Russia. | I have a Russian friend who got out of Russia before the war. They've met up with their friends and family who are still in Russia in either Dubai or Doha, can't remember which. That's an option. Although, OP will likely need to pay for the family members tickets, as their bank account are likely frozen so they can't pay for tickets themselves. | 1 |
But what would Newsom add as the VP pick? California isn't going to be a swing state anytime soon and there are other white male reps or Senators to pick from that would make more sense, imo. | We need to see more from Shapiro, but Whitmer has a bright future if she can use the new Democratic majority in both Chambers of the state legislature to their fullest extent. | 0 |
If by a bunch of old white men owning or affecting the value of almost everything and/or making laws to bestow and keep power…then yes, we do have a white supremacy problem. | What are you talking about when you say that black people stood in line to send a black democratic senator back for a full six-year term because of...white supremacy? | 1 |
This starts to look like a crisis. If there are no clear objetives, probably there's fighting in the high command of where they want to go. Not having a global strategy will exacerbate the lack of military cohesion. Maybe this opens new options for Ukraine either trying to create more confusion in the Russian State or more effective strategy on the frontline. | What do you think is more unnerving to Putin and the Kremlin, NATO and their allies giving Ukraine long range weapons or Ukraine developing their own? Ones that no one knew they had the ability to make or use prior to the war? | 1 |
To learn more about that impact, researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research drilled ice cores to create a "high-quality reconstruction" of temperatures in central and north Greenland from 1,000 AD to 2011. With that data, it became clear: Not even some of the coldest, most remote and highly-elevated areas of the world can escape the impacts of global warming. | Aside from complications in determining climate from the deepest cores, it's important to keep in mind that while man made global warming is real, the era of humans has occurred in an interglacial period that's been relatively colder than in the past. The last "hot house" period happened before humans existed (several million years ago) and saw a consistent decline in temperatures until the current day where they are suddenly and rapidly increasing. Due to this man made increase, it's unlikely that humans will ever see another ice age again. | 1 |
Unfortunately the U.S. deputy ambassador recently told the U.N. Security Council that Haiti must address its continued insecurity challenges. It doesn't look like there is much interest in helping Haiti. | Well put that on a Hallmark card I doubt anyone would disagree with the deep and insightful advice that Haiti needs "a good leader.". | 1 |
I think there is a repeated sense of preferring to overestimate enemies than underestimate them but this is compounded by the fact that Russian forces regularly lie up and down the chain. Western intelligence seems like they’ve gathered some intelligence directly from mid or even high level Russian sources but if all those reports were wildly optimistic for Russia and the west generally assumed competence then it’s easier to say how they got it so wrong. | I'd wager that even if signs pointed to Russia's now obvious problems, the West still would have overestimated just because it's better to be overreacted than under. | 1 |
They were described as only a little larger than a humming bird but would attack in the hundreds on one target and if they found a large group of targets were able to call for more drones. | Imagine the drones that identify people and armour sending telemetry (aotomatically) to call in more drones or artilery.. You could coordinate a strike of 1000s of artilery and drones to hit in the same few seconds. | 1 |
If the Russians are really planning an offensive then it's just much better to sit behind your defenses and let them rush across the open fields instead of attacking yourself. | If a russian building hoarding ammunition stands in the way of our new missiles, we could ignore it's deep in russian territory and housing conscripts again. | 1 |
Edit: My main point still stands which is that the resistance in Russia has no chance unless they get more support. | And there are Russians resisting. The difference there though is resistors in Nazi Germany knew if things went their way Germany would be invaded and the Nazis toppled. That hope doesn't exist in Russia. No one plans on invading Russia. | 0 |
Just look at the political lean of Millennials and younger, and realize that in just a few decades, They'll be the oldest generations. | Fortunately, some Democrats are already talking about doing the smart thing, and getting rid of the Electoral College, when they get the power to. | 0 |
The modern era would seem to support that the ability to build "Modern" Naval weapon systems was key. Today the West appears focused on building a carrier centric Naval fleet that can win a WW2 battle. | The US is investing billions in Aircraft Carriers, while China invests millions in ballistic anti-ship missles? | 0 |
I personally don’t think it needs to be as restrictive as a complete ban on all property ownership but some reasonable restrictions to prevent corporate ownership of American land would be wise. Individuals immigrating and owning a residence should be fine, assuming there is a sort of participation in the path to citizenship / permanent resident / etc. or other worthy proofs of legitimacy. | It’s really hard to say what the initial benchmark should be, but it’s most likely solved through ongoing audits and housing is something that should have more protections as it is objectively becoming harder and harder for people to own a home. | 0 |
That level of certainty requires them to 1. Know what we would use against them in order to avoid it. 2. assumes they are like us where thoughts of weapons are front of mind. A species that comes from a peaceful planet and doesn't participate in violence is unlikely to come prepared to fend off an unknown attack from an unknown species. 3. assumes they didn't send these probes into our atmosphere for the purpose of observing our response. | To say that aliens would be beyond our ability to shoot down requires an understanding of their technology that none of us has. | 0 |
That social data is just as valuable as the pictures they could be taking, that balloon’s basket could have some insanely high new groundbreaking tech, but it could also be empty. Why spend a shit ton of money on something that you know is going to be shot down and recovered or risk that stuff ending up in enemy hands? | Decent chance they actually wanted to see how different governments and civilians would react to “spy balloons” from hostile governments hanging out in their air space, or are testing the waters. Everyone talks about pictures and data and radar and etc, but there’s valuable social information to be gained. | 0 |
Water boarding was bad, making dudes get into a pile whilst naked was bad. But shocking a dude’s genitals for no reason? Arbitrarily murdering, raping and abusing human beings? That is some next level evil. | Generally speaking, westerners gave up this sort of thing. Not that it doesn’t happen, but when it does it is roundly condemned. | 0 |
I know people will say this will lead to end of the world if NATO retaliates. But the must, if Rusdia realizes they can land bombs in a NATO country without a response, Putin will know he can get away with even more and escalate on his end. | The side effect may be that towns like Zabolottya in Ukraine may gain anti-missile coverage, just because of their proximity to Poland, but I guess Russia wants to play that game. | 1 |
Well interesting as in it implies where the sympathy lies, then again its no surprise there are issues between India and Pakistan but as far as journalism goes not a great headline. | So why is India pointing the finger at Pakistan and calling it a backstabber if Pakistan are only engaging in their own self-interest as India does? You can’t have it both ways if you wish to be taken seriously. | 1 |
That’s -80.86 ° F. I live in Montana and so far this winter it’s gotten down to -42°F. I can’t even imagine twice as cold as that and most people can’t even imagine -42°F. | Always amazes me that people can live in such extreme cold. Like as of this post, it’s -51 F (-41 C) real temp, but “feels like” -67 F (-55 C). | 1 |
When it comes to the toll on your body then I believe stimulants like amphetamines (meth especially) are much worse. A long term amphetamine addiction is going to wreck your body. Withdrawal on amphetamines isn't as hard as opiates physically but it can be tough mentally, potentially causing a lot of anxiety. They are also likely starved and have a deficiency in various things. | Then you have benzo. Benzo and alcohol are the only drugs that you can die from quiting cold turkey as far as I am aware. | 0 |
“One potential takeaway from [the midterms] is that the US is a center left country with a gerrymandering problem.”. | “One potential takeaway from [the midterms] is that the US is a center left country with a gerrymandering problem.”. | 0 |
I was standing at the last link's fire when the first car went up and watched it burn through the first car, hit the fuel tank and then get all the 5 cars adjacent to it, and they caught all the cars near them and so on. I used my fire extinguisher, and in the time it took the on property ready fire crew to get there, there were dozens of cars already burned out. | I saw a small engine bay fire destroy many vehicles parked next to it. This is anecdotal. But it was a small gas leak in the engine bay of one car parked in a long row of cars. The fire kept spreading car-to-car. | 1 |
The US sent roughly 1,400 Stingers to Ukraine, reportedly around one quarter of its stockpile. Nobody's talked much about it since around May, when the US made some orders to backfill what they'd sent. It's uncertain if the US ever sent more since they aren't currently being manufactured and there's been some challenges in starting up the production lines again. | I'm somewhat annoyed by the focus on Patriot systems. Sending them is largely symbolic (signifying a change in what NATO is willing to provide rather than any substantial change in aggregated deployed capability), they're extraordinarily expensive to use ($4 million per missile for PAC-4) and there won't be very many of them. As such they will only ever be used extremely sparingly for the most important targets. And yet everybody acts like they're going to be some sort of game changer. | 0 |
Because of previous measures already taken very few people still smoke. They are already taxed through the roof and a pack of 30 costs $40/pack. Young people almost exclusively vape now anyways. If you smoke now you can continue to smoke. | And if you smoke outside and dont blow it directly on someone (who the fk does that?), how are u affected? | 1 |
Pfft, I’ve assembled an IKEA wardrobe on my own, send me out with a supply of Madonna CDs, I’ve got this! | Case in point, ask anyone who knows how to drive if they’ve ever read the driver’s manual to their car cover to cover. You would be amazed how many people would turn out to have skimmed it at most and couldn’t accurately tell you how many pages their car’s manual has to the nearest 100 pages. | 0 |
So.... how the fck can crap like this be allowed to happen? I understand "freedom of speech", but you can't go into a crowded theater screaming fire. Isn't blatantly lying about topics like this the same thing, especially when you have a audience of MILLIONS of people who trust you? | It's a very telling thing they would mock these claims and people but have a low enough opinion of their audience that they would think they would believe such ridiculous claims. | 1 |
But in reality the Russians weren't in a strong position to invade Japan after getting the Germans out of Russia. And the impact of those bombs was truly enormous psychologically. | Unfortunately, the destructive power of bombs has also come a long way since WW2. Normal explosive nukes aren't enough to end the world, but salted warheads definitely could. No one has really been crazy enough to build salted warheads, but theoretically, a barrage of a few hundred of those would make Ukraine glow blue for the next hundred years. Even resistance fighters in underground redoubts would be stuck and left to starve because they can't leave for fear of the radiation. | 1 |
Nowadays I believe it’s becoming part of your hiring contract when you work in a hospital. Eventually the list of things your conscience can absolve you from will not include abortions. So no punishment for abstaining medical staff yet but that won’t be the case forever. | I'm not saying that medical staff shouldn't have choice. I'm saying that their choice shouldn't override patient's choice. If doctor is not comfortable doing certain procedure then it should be his duty to find/refer someone else who is able to do it. That would respect patient's wishes, that would make me trust him as I would know that he has best interest in my wellbeing. But Conscience clauses are commonly used as "I don't want to do it, so you shouldn't either'. | 1 |
Usually it's okay because you stage demos that have "a few bugs," and when you get the funding/grant/investors you need you can fund people to bring everything up to the level of what was promised. | I'm positive the engineers knew it wasn't ready, but Musk left things vague and let people assume it's ready and safe for use. | 0 |
And Iran government has no problem of torturing and killing them. So the citizens of an violent regime has some sort of moral obligation to risk their lives and protest? Easy for you to say when you aren’t the one risking your lives. self preservation is a human right. Not to mention protest in non democratic country seldomly amount to anything at all without external help. | They show public support because it avoids drawing attention, bad things happen to people who don't support the regime. There are Russian civilians resisting via sabotage, those people don't want to draw any undue attention and probably "support" Putin to stay under the radar. | 1 |
) On the condition that water and coffee is refilled regularly and our service maintenance is being used bi-monthly at the current conditions. | ) How quickly and what version you can have depends on your freely adjustable annual Children Expectation Fee and the Special Deere Midwife service you have chosen. | 0 |
Turkey is just doing Russia a solid. All the rest is just window dressing. Sowing discord between NATO allies is basic Russian playbook and Erdogan is on good terms with Putin. | Enough with Erdogan playing politics at the expense of NATO. For playing joker on a matter important to security of organization for its own political gain Turkey need to be put on notice that this time it went too far and there will be repercussion once war in Ukraine is brought to conclusion. | 1 |
In the US, we deal with this in part by funding things like special visas, workforce housing, expanded medical care, and school programs for migrant families. It would be much better if we had a more sustained and consistent social safety net, but this way do make sure families are being cared for even as workers move around. We’ve also passed some pretty intensive legislation on hazard pay and workplace safety for things like extreme heatwaves and wildfire smoke. | Honestly, it’s not even just attracting British workers. Crop harvesting is serious skilled labor. The speed, strenh, muscle memory, and attention to detail you need is nuts, and the conditions are hazardous at best. Many folks would love to pretend otherwise, but you want skilled, seasoned workers for the gig. | 0 |
Russia is more than you guy's common enemy, and you are more to each other than just momentary allies. You're brothers, and you should look out for another. A rising tide lifts all boats, and a hurricanes waves will drown all of you all the same. Who cares which side of a randomly drawn border you're born at, what language you speak. Recognize who is the current asshole, and who are your friends. That's it. | We should always make different choices, work together to make ourselves whole where we can, and continue to work together and do right by each other where we can't. | 0 |
So, is that just switching to FPTP? Or do they mean still having a threshold for runoffs, but making it lower than 50%? Eg, you can win with a plurality of 45+%, but if the plurality winner only has, say, 40%, it would still go to a runoff? | But it's also possible to have runoffs with plurality winners. They could set the threshold at 40%, so whoever both gets the most votes AND exceeds 40% wins outright, but if the one with the most votes only got, say, 38%, it would go to a runoff election. This system wouldn't require majority support, but it would set a floor for a minimum level of support was needed to win (in my example, 40%). | 0 |
There is probably a reason, maybe even along the lines as to why the US is not capable to control a bunch of lowlife junkies within their more-than-decently developed borders keeping the demand for drugs going strong. | If you want to do something to stop violent drug cartels from being able to become so powerful stop doing so much motherfucking cocaine, heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine. Or legalize them. | 1 |
However, the conditions at these camps are terrible and allegedly people are almost picked at random by local government to fill them up just to satisfy quotas and mandates coming down from the central government. | The problem with the zero Covid policy is that is operates under the idea of a dictated reality: the central government says that Covid isn't endemic in China, therefore it isn't and can't be. The various local governments just don't do testing until they're forced to by case loads that they can't hide, and they blame people coming from other provinces, or , or just . Then they just do a few harsh and indiscriminate lockdowns for a while and juke the stats so it looks like it worked and everything is okay again. Then repeat that same song and dance all over China. | 0 |
Like I hated Schrader too, but the district was a highly competitive one, and even strong incumbents have been struggling in a lot of places. It wasn't an unreasonable decision to prioritize other races they thought they had a better chance in, especially when money doesn't translate directly into votes. It's not like we can say "If they'd spent X million, she WOULD have won" - all we can say is "Maybe she would have, maybe they'd have wasted a ton of money that did more good elsewhere.". | The bottom line is that progressive candidates just don't have a good track record of winning highly competitive districts, especially in challenging election cycles. And if progressives want to count on establishment support then the burden is kind of on them to prove they're good enough to win, especially when you're in the process of knocking off establishment incumbents. | 0 |
If the sheriff gets to decide on their own what is and isn't constitutional, that sheriff is above the constitution. | What a flawed belief, that law enforcement has the ability, legally or otherwise, to make judgements on what's Constitutional and what isn't. | 1 |
Nearly 20% of people think it's very bad for society, I'll take any odds you have that they're nearly all republican. That's a huge, well motivated portion of their base that will be against any republican who votes for it. | And both Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh have said that any Republican Senator who chose to vote yes on this bill should be kicked out of the party. That there should be some sort of a litmus test for the GOP. Good luck trying to win elections with 30% support of such a position on an issue as gay marriage. | 1 |
Have you ever been invited to the palace as a minority who has been repeatedly asked this question over your life — often by people who are only interested in parsing out how you don’t fit in and are different — only to hear the same question from a representative of the royal family? Maybe you have, and maybe your experience was different. You weren’t traumatized. She was. Wanting to understand how and why trauma can result from this type of interaction is totally valid. But “knowing” how we’d react to a certain situation isn’t enough to justify calling someone else a liar, which is sorta where we’re headed with this. For a bad analogy, consider someone having an allergic reaction — you might brush off a bee sting as no big deal; but others might literally die. Or someone who’s been badly beaten — one more hit could be lethal for them, whereas you’d be perfectly fine. Well for many people they’ve taken hits their whole lives and one hit like this, in such a setting? Of course that’s going to be traumatic. | So yes, this would be traumatizing, because the questions open deep existential wounds. Work in your empathy, people. | 1 |
I'm hoping they only use excess electricity for hydrogen production, otherwise it's pretty dumb to go from solar to hygrogen then back to electricity for no reason. Very inefficient. | There's no bigger picture. It's basic math. I think you're either misunderstanding how a power plant works or a misunderstanding of efficiency in the conversion. | 0 |
If you create a caricature based on a tragedy which killed 21000+ plus people and what’s more, on the exact same day as it happened, you are a horrible person no matter how noble your intentions are, there is a thing called “time and place” when choosing to do or say something. | A lot of people interpret it in such way, I would too if I were a victim of this. If a caricature was misinterpreted by most people as you say, then it’s a bad caricature. | 0 |
Please understand that I'm not saying Russia are the good guys. I'm saying there are no good guys, and least of all the US. What you are right about is that the points you have raised will all be used in western propaganda to convince us that spending our money on US imperialism is justified. | The US didn't get involved for the first 5 years of WW2, instead choosing to profit from weapons sales. It is difficult though to compare getting involved in a world war, with interfering in a conflict between two neighbouring countries on the opposite side of the world to you. | 0 |
A higher melting point doesn't necessarily equate to a better, more flavorful chocolate. Quality of cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar and other ingredients are important. That is why you have Swiss Nestlé chocolate bars that cost under $2.00 vs. high end chocolatier's bars from Italy, France, etc. that cost big bucks. | Sickening. And because they are such a colossal, powerful business entity worldwide, I'm sure that makes it even more difficult to prosecute them, under international law which is already fraught with problems. | 0 |
H.J.Res.16 - Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States extending the right to vote to citizens sixteen years of age or older. | There's nothing in the Constitution or otherwise that I can see that requires a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age. | 1 |
Yep. Qatar pretty handily showed that most folks have few morals or values when it comes to voting with their wallets, and that many people in the Western world do not care that 10k slaves died to build a one-use stadium in one of the hottest, and politically most regressive/medieval, places on Earth. | Amazing to me how low FIFA & the world cup can sink, yet the vast majority of people still brainlessly watch it and support it whilst pretending to care. Qatar pegged their audience well, and this is quite the propaganda win for them with very little oil/blood money investment. | 0 |
Complain all you want about differences in political ideologies and agendas but to claim an entire political establishment that represents at least half of the population wants journalists dead is not only inaccurate, it’s inflammatory. | A very loud minority that calls journalists enemy of the people is not half the population nor inaccurate to blame republicans for the aftermath of their rhetoric. The only thing inflammatory is the ignorance not to see the connection between the shit republicans say and the violent actions their domestic terrorist base act out. | 1 |
The only way to enforce a naval blockade is by sinking ships, which is a really bad idea - same reason why NATO could never establish a no-fly zone over ukraine. | If Russia assists their cargo ships with military ships then it's up to a NATO country to force the blockade. I don't think that will happens. USA has shown zero interest in direct escalation. | 1 |
Japan has been tolerating a strong Chinese presence for decades, and continue to tolerate it regardless of their own impending buildup. No one in the region can do anything but tolerate it, as fighting a large overseas war in this age is impossible for anyone to win with the one exception being the US. Every country has a violent history, and any anger over Japan’s buildup should be directed at regional players who talk and act aggressively, forcing their peers to buildup or risk invasion. China and Russia had a pacifist nation on their eastern doorstep, but due to their aggressive rhetoric and expansionist plans, they’ll have a neighbour who will hit them back. | While the government might realise they need to build up a better fighting force to combat both Russia and China, the sentiment is not shared with the population. | 1 |
Now you want to lump together statehood and status quo. My original comment was about statehood alone. The results are not as clear cut as you’re making them out to be. You don’t address free association either, which is one of the options here. It’s a complicated situation and it’s not just statehood, status quo, or independence. | So not having statehood actually does have benefits, and not all the people in the territories want it. | 1 |
So because the right wing declared war against the truth, we also have to start spewing baseless accusations now? | If it is not okay for the right wing to throw around false flag accusations, why is it okay for us to do it? | 0 |
Removing russian language from class is just natural progression of what has been happening for more than a decade, especially as english really would be more useful for modern youth. | These days russian is practically useless due to ongoing Russian bullshit and Lithuania moving away from using russian language as secondary, the later began happening more than a decade ago. | 0 |
The Republican Party is extremely right wing and the religious right and white nationalists have more power than ever within that party. | Openly tapping white nationalism and christian nationalism was their scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to cling to power. It's been a slow motion disaster for 20 years. The unfortunate reality is it's probably a generational problem. People over the age of 30 rarely change their beliefs radically, I don't mean boomers specifically either, but rather people sort of lock in to their beliefs in their 30s. | 1 |
One sentence of explanation about what the holocaust is doesn't magically make the results more reputable or less worthless. The questions after Q11 are still very in depth. | It doesn't matter what people answered. Even if you get an explanation of one sentence about what the Holocaust is, you then have to answer 80(!) more questions about that topic you apparently previously haven't heard about. The result will not be very useful, other than that you could conclude that this percentage is ignorant or received poor aducation. But that's not the conclusion the headlines show. | 0 |
And that’s the problem. The midterms have democrats feeling big for their britches thinking people will vote for Kamala no matter what but the reality is she will get creamed by Trump or Desantis. She is a zero charisma candidate like Gore Kerry and Clinton and we know what happened to them. | What does it say that I’ve nearly forgotten that she was the Democratic candidate already? That’s the charisma you’re talking about. | 1 |
The argument apparently is that the federal court agrees that it was improper to suspend him, but notes that the federal court lacks the authority to reinstate him for violating state law. | And that judge did add that “These other factors could not properly be the basis for a suspension under the Florida Constitution—there were no blanket non-prosecution policies, no neglect of duty, and no incompetence.” Pointing out that Warren's removal was a violation of FL's Constitution, and was basically telling them to appeal in the state. | 1 |
Much of what we're sending is stuff that was going to "expire" soon. Ammunition has a limited shelf life, for example. We were going to buy new ammo anyways. By sending it to Ukraine, we're actually getting more "value" out of it than if we destroyed it (value in terms of stopping Putin from running roughshod over Eastern Europe). | Even if it were money, it's less than in the long run if we didn't send it. Ukraine is a breadbasket and also sitting on a lot of untapped oil and gas. If Russia were to take over Ukraine they'd control even more world food and energy markets. Also, they'd be poised for their target, probably Moldova. | 0 |
The joint Dem House & Senate investigation is now moving just to the Senate. And there are rumblings of Dem Senate investigation of Alito and Thomas. | Nah, forget that. Ignore or executive privilege every sham subpoena. Gym Jordan being chair of justice while being investigated for OBSTRUCTION of justice is just one of the many ludicrous unfit debacles of this GOP House. | 0 |
Abandoning Bakhamut would not stop that depletion, this is logic akin to if Ukraine was not fighting battles the soldiers would not be dying. | Yes, but they would be depleting it anyway, as Russia seems to be insistent to force attacks even if they won't work. | 0 |
I think it's a bunch of bullshit how they're treating trans people, just don't think this is a workable angle. | I think trans people are the test case, if it works, all sorts LGBT and women's rights will be removed, obviously women have already lost reproductive rights in Texas. | 1 |
The ironic part is that this ruling, if implemented, would appear to result in school funding increases in primarily rural, small town and republican parts of the state - not in Democratic areas like Philadelphia. | Nationally, local property taxes account for nearly half of public school funding, creating inherent inequality between wealthy communities that are replete with high-value properties, and poor ones, where properties are worth less. State and federal funding is supposed to help level the playing field, but it is often insufficient to make up the difference. And even if the funding were equal, advocates argue, students in poor communities often require more resources for things like special-education teachers and English language learning. It is why, for example, the federal government allocates extra dollars to schools that educate high concentrations of students in poverty. | 1 |
He is regulating where he can. For example last year he re-started the process for the 2-person crew minimum rule that was initiated by Obama and shelved by Trump. He also put a pause on a Trump rule allowing liquid natural gas to travel by rail while more safety analysis is done. | Another notable rail safety thing they did is pause a Trump rule allowing liquid natural gas to be shipped by rail. There were safety concerns when Trump's dot allowed it. Pete . | 0 |
Xi Meeting Blinken would be very much out of the norm and there has to be a purpose to showing "sincerity" and "good will". I can't imagine anything coming out of a hypothetical Xi-Blinken meeting that would tempt the Chinese. Nothing of substance came out of any of the Biden-Xi meetings then nothing is going to come out of a Xi-Blinken meeting. Has any of the proposed US-China committees from the 1st (or was it the 2nd) Biden-Xi meeting done anything yet? | Your argument is that the Chinese wanted this meeting because this meeting was scheduled. Your argument is that the Chinese wanted this meeting so bad that Xi was going to meet with Blinken outside of diplomatic norm. | 0 |
But you're obviously fishing for crap, knowing full well how inconsistent the conservative justices have been, and not just with inconsistent rulings, but also with making the rulings as wide-reaching as possible, to say nothing of the obvious bias shown toward one party when it comes to putting holds on certain policy changes that they wouldn't do in the inverse only a few years ago. | He is incorrect in gaslighting us by casting any criticism of the Supreme Court as merely honest disagreement of opinions rather than questions about legitimacy, corruption, and partisanship in the land’s highest court. I almost never agreed with Scalia, but I always believed his opinions were rooted in a deeply held judicial philosophy. By contrast, I have not seen anything in the current court that dispels the concern that their rulings are anything other than naked partisanship. By claiming people are just unhappy that a ruling didn’t go their way, Roberts does a disservice to the court’s legitimacy with such a response that amounts to little more than “How dare you question the Court’s legitimacy!”. | 1 |
But we are. While you may have the intelligence and personality of a wilted daffodil, you are not a plant, you are an animal. | All animals, including humans, will always choose to pick on the most vulnerable if it is deemed in their interest to attain something from another being. It's just common sense (if viewed from a purely risk/reward aspect). You don't see apex predators trying to take down the strongest members of a group of prey. They always go for the weak and infirm members. Lowest risk of expended energy, lowest risk of defence, and therefore lowest risk of damage being done to them by their prey. This gives the highest reward compared to going for the strong member of the group. | 0 |
Also, along that vein, the maximum punishment allowable for an impeachment is removal from office. Maybe the two taken together merely give the impression that Congress can only impeach in response to a crime, without that impression being factually true. | …which seems to say people in office who commit crimes must be removed from office if impeached, but does not say explicitly that impeachment can only be incurred in response to a crime. | 0 |
As it appears to me the GOP is part of strategic influence campaign to create the image of new gained omnipotence. It is more about image and an attempt to change the wave to their favor. I say just vote. | Fuck the polls, go and vote! Bonus fucking points if you can get someone else to vote, who may not vote otherwise. | 1 |
This makes perfect sense - it's the rate of fire that promotes mass shootings and what distinguishes a military grade weapon from a gun for sport or self-defense. | But I also think that looking at it objectively, that very thought, can be a part of the equation that leads to gun violence. | 1 |
3.2 million in the New Hampshire primary to run pro Buldoc ads while simultaneously saying that election denying politicians like him are a grave threat to democracy? | Besides outvoting them, what is it going to take to minimize if not fully prevent election deniers and insurrectionists from gaining political influence? | 1 |
You're essentializing ethnicity and hating people basically for where they were born. You're as fascist as the mentality driving Putin to ethnically cleanse Ukraine. | Yeah, and the Russians are actively proving that their monsters for what they’re doing in Ukraine. I’m just saying that tactically speaking, sending them back is only going to add to the radicalization of Russians. It’s not the “responsibility” of any country to accept the refugees, but it’d be a nice hit the Russian economy. | 1 |
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