Wildly untenable concept in modern society…

I’m sure it would work great in a video game or something, but In the real world, this shit goes crony AF guaranteed.

We don’t measure aptitude or ability in our society, we absolutely suck at it. A person’s ability is measured by what pedigree they purchased at degrees R us, or worse, by how articulate and verbose they were when typing a resume. Occasionally, ability is measured by how well someone likes a person even…

Competence is valued in a very select few enterprises. Trades, IT, and at higher echelons, math nerds… That’s about it…

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The Biden White House has also maintained the tariffs on Chinese products worth $370 billion imposed by predecessor Donald Trump.

That’s a hell of a sentence :) I guess we can agree on some things… Tarrifs on china, truly bipartisan…

Does it cost the same? Could just be the “no ice” concept… No ice, more actual drink. Maybe they feel like they’re getting more of what they’re paying for with an extra shot added.

Hey, I threw a few humorous bits in there… ;)

Soviet Union was big, included many states. Socialist economy imploded, Soviet Union became Soviet non-union. States declared sovereignty as independent countries (mass brexits, kinda?).

Russia, who used to be able to socialize assets from all the smaller countries, wants to be able to socialize the assets again, and as a bonus, is salty because some of those countries are hooking up with NATO, which is by and large a union of capitalism…

Instead of trying to create a union again, and getting others to join via diplomacy or negotiation, Russia is just trying to press its neighbors into joining the reformed union via military occupation, and hit a slight snag with Ukraine, because all this shit is a little too recent for Ukraine to have forgotten how shitty a lada is.

To describe phenomena on the scale of atoms, we use the second great theory: quantum mechanics, which differs from general relativity in basically everything. It uses flat space-time and a completely different mathematical apparatus

It’s weird to me, that the common method of attempting to describe a four dimensional thing is to immediately reduce the three dimensional thing to two dimensions…

The word “curved” is problematic for the concept of space-time because it invokes one or two dimensional thought. Space-time is a four dimensional model.

The best description of the effect of gravity on space-time on my opinion is actually a joke… Gravity sucks :)

Do I understand this correctly, that a court order states that one party can’t post on their own social media about some other party, because a random third party might see the post and do the stupid?

A judge actually blessed off on this?

There’s more to this, right?

A couple quotes…

Be who you are and say what you mean, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

God, give me grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

Both are difficult in terms of original source, but the best quotes usually are ;)

Point is, there’s three classes of problems. Most are type one - not my fucking problem.

Type two is what you’re talking about here, your problem, but you didn’t cause it. I’ve found that like 90% of these require serenity, because you can’t fix stupid… You kinda just gotta consider that until the light bulb comes on I guess? I’ve never had any issue with this one personally, it just always seemed self evident.

I’ve always struggled with type three, the things that are my problem and I caused them. That’s the shit I dwell on, because you can’t take it back, and sometimes, you can’t fix those either. You gotta swallow the pill on the fact that you did a stupid…

You weren’t the guy doing the stupid, ya know?

This is a ridiculously well authored article, and it makes it harder to read than the typical “just say what the audience wants to hear” clickbait that news has become, but it’s well worth the effort :)

Primary extraction (of rare earth metals) in the US is limited; only one active mine, the Mountain Pass Rare Earth Mine and Processing Facility in California, produces rare earth elements domestically.

That stood out for me :) I’d expect California to have more stringent mining requirements than anywhere else and be less likely to have a mine looking for these very contemporary materials… Dafuq is going on here Oregon? New England? Both have rare earth reserves, let’s go…

I’ll object to their tequila, but everything else I’m totally on board :)

I’d expect more acquittals tbh. It was, at the outset, a legal and constitutionally protected protest. I’m still not entirely on board with calling it an insurrection, a coup, etc. but it definitely devolved into a non-peaceful event, and I’m pretty ambivalent when it comes to the prosecutions due to that. They fucked around, they should find out. You don’t wander off with the speaker of the house’s podium and not have the full focus of government come down on your ass.

I would 100% expect acquittals for anyone who stayed outside though, as a hypothetical condition that might warrant acquittal… That for me would be a solid indicator that their intent was limited to peaceful protest. Could very well be that there were only two people who did so.

I’d also like to read an article on the acquittals, but I find their presence to be encouraging, and I’m assuming you don’t feel that way.

On the left side of the fence though, the presence of acquittals, even so few, lends a great deal of credibility to the cases… Does it not? Wasn’t a kangaroo court if it wasn’t 100%, right? I think so anyway :)

It’s a girl, My lord, In a flatbed Ford…

Word of the drawdown came ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken to the region and after the Biden administration bypassed Congress for the second time this month to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel.

That weapons sale was a few hundred mil worth of artillery shells… I sincerely hope that and the draw back of troops aren’t actually related and it’s just happenstance that it got mentioned here.

Browser gets a vote when it comes to HTML. Loading the site on your browser might not look the same as it does on someone else’s.

Hell… The author could have an adblock plugin themselves… :)

If they allow international journalists access to the area, we’ll either get better information about what’s happening, or the numbers will go down…

If they allow international journalists access to the area, we’ll either get better information about what’s happening, or the numbers will go down…

Theres a very easy way to sort out the issue of bias that’s gonna be inherent in journalists reporting an alleged bias against journalists…

(From NPR)

Over a month into the war in the Gaza Strip, international news organizations have little, if any, access to Gaza. Israel, which is bombing Gaza in response to the deadly Hamas attack on its soil, controls access. And with the exception of brief tours with a limited number of reporters, Israel has not been granting journalists access to the region.

Address that and the answers will come…

Bomb the manger on Christmas…

Is isreal really that oblivious to world opinion and how it might affect them? Seems that way…

Title reads like it’s an article on the lack of depth in US media in the middle east in general, content seems to be borderline unrelated…

The lack of depth in US media is a solid point. Why not write specifically to that?