PhilipTheBucket

40% poorer?

The ice age was caused by a difference of about 6 degrees C.

I actually am not sure that it's as big a deal as that.

For decades and decades now, China's leaders have gotten mileage as do a ton of various leaders around the world by rattling their sabers at the US. It's just a popular thing to do, and it's easy and usually pretty consequence-free. It's like talking about abortion or immigrants for US Republicans. I think if they wanted to start a war with Taiwan, they would have been starting some kind of war about something in the area of the South China Sea, as opposed to just shooting water cannons and making stern statements. Maybe start with something lower-stakes but really commit to it. They have not been doing that.

For as much as US and Chinese leaders talk shit about one another, and their intelligence services like to spy / undermine each other, they both benefit so enormously from the mutual relationship and there's so much at stake in terms of fucking it up if things really come to blows that I feel like it's not a priority. Maybe I am wrong and China will see their chance to snatch Taiwan while it's Trump, since Trump definitely will not do shit if they do. But I just feel like the upsides are a little limited and the potential downsides are massive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RHFFeQ2tu4

Legal case?

I am legit extremely surprised that they’re maintaining the fiction of charging him with anything. I thought we’d already crossed over into “fuck you we have the guns and run the prisons judges mean nothing” mode.

It is absolutely not an AI image. It's credited to a specific photographer and a specific plant. Here are some more photos (check photo 3):

https://apnews.com/article/4c0ec2408aec431b8063bddc1076a54f

It's a coal plant in Winfield, WV. Cooling towers aren't exclusive to nuclear plants and not all nuclear plants have them. They're needed for any plant that works by piping water around to absorb the heat from whatever it's doing and then releases it back into the environment. Here's more information: https://nuclear.duke-energy.com/2013/11/13/why-don-t-all-nuclear-plants-have-cooling-towers

Yeah, the headline is a little misleading. I edited it to be more clear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_MSFkZHNi4

“Hey, modern Russia is a capitalist state, also bigots. We’re going to start oppressing them now (actually have been).”

No no no we like those capitalists for reasons which I am super offended if you want to explore

Boy, I sure do remember when the beehaw admins were fussing with the Lemmy developers (which for the record I actually kind of take the Lemmy devs’ side of), and the Lemmy devs held up Hexbear as an instance that has been with us since the beginning, the ones who were really worthy of honors of being true believers as far as what Lemmy should stand for. Unlike beehaw and their moderation philosophy. That was a super normal and defensible thing for them to say.

Last week, Dodik traveled to Belgrade before heading to Jerusalem for an anti-Semitism conference organized by Israel's government.

Of course he fucking did

There’s a big grey area. Someone might be doing a podcast talking about a bunch of appealing topics for young men looking for their path in life, and every so often just slip in some talking points about immigrants buying up all the housing and that’s why their rent is so high, how badly the liberal party betrayed the voters and how the conservatives are going to give them their country back, that kind of thing. Le Pen got a raw deal, all she’s trying to do is save her country and the corrupt forces that dominate politics took her down for their own reasons. Look at this migrant who assaulted these innocent people, I’m just saying it’s a problem, it’s not racist, it’s reality.

And lo and behold someone might find out that that podcaster along with 200 others is being paid by Russia to destabilize British society and support the leaders that will serve Russia’s geopolitical goals. Should we put that podcaster in prison, or else force them to be honest with the British government about what they’re doing, so they can at a bare minimum keep some tabs on it? I mean, it’s not enough, but such a law sounds like a good start to me.

Russia has been exploiting the open nature of societies outside itself, and getting away with it to enact a whole lot of harm. Like a lot. It’s time to stop being polite with them and the people that are helping them do it.

a bench warrant was issued for Sullivan.

There you go. Go after the little people. Put them in prison. They're committing crimes, kidnapping and battery among others. Tackle them and put cuffs on them. Let their defense team explain how they were acting under legal authority, what statutes were involved, where their warrant was.

I understand that things have gone insane on the federal level, but they're still committing crimes in municipal places.

In a perfect world, we could impeach Trump for causing these things to happen, but it's still absolutely possible to interfere with the actual people who are committing crimes in order to implement the stuff.