I am also pissed in the sense that it's coming to an end - not because of anything to do with Kapow or local admin, but because of the failure of the Lemmy project to really be a place of free speech or anything like that.
It has been disappointing in the sense that we lose a lot of content we put up but it's a learning experience.
I had no idea that the storm was going to be strong enough to affect #Nevada like this - #Mexico must be getting its ears boxed right now.
42 jets is a ton, but these are fourth generation fighters facing fifth generation air defense.
They can serve a purpose but they cannot be game changers - a fact that I have brought up frequently in many conversations about the #Ukraine.
Don't be taken in by all this.
You can even think of it as the US unloading old equipment and getting marginal use out of them before they are completely obsolete.
Honestly didn't know fires could do this:
>Brita filters, devices connected to refrigerators or sinks and even robust, whole-home systems are unlikely to address the “extreme contamination” that can happen after a fire.
>“They will remove some of it, but levels that will be acutely and immediately toxic will get through,” said Andrew Whelton, a Purdue University researcher and expert in water contamination after wildfires in urban areas.
>The Maui fires damaged hundreds of drinking water pipes, resulting in a loss of pressure that can allow toxic chemicals along with metals and bacteria into water lines.
Honestly shocked... I stopped taking the subway because the train was seven five minutes late and that made me a minute late to work...
Today the train was seven minutes late... And I hadn't ridden that one since it was five minutes late five months ago.
What are the odds?
At the real bottom of the barrel of the conservative & Libertarian approach is an anti-utopian sentiment that no political system will be satisfactory enough to eliminate injustice, let alone some even larger and ever-shifting concept of poverty.
What actually keeps me sympathetic to certain planned economic policies, though, is the necessity to keep businesses in check and protect nascent domestic industries.
It isn't wrong to provide some minimal social safety net policies and to moderate the levels at which the oligarchs profit from their businesses.
I am not really sure what this is - just a sort of 'national Capitalism' with a social welfare state... But it's so unexciting as an ideology it is nameless.
Most of the injustices and imbalances that can be found in the free market will still be found in a planned economy... Plus many other new ones.
I got one... Want to have two, and moving towards that goal.
Absolutely love the experience - very honoring, humbling, and character building.
It has already been discussed in other places extensively that any fighters that aren't 5th gen will just be liabilities on the battlefield for the #Ukraine.
Of course they can function in other capacities - for defensive maneuvering, for limited recon and direct support on the zero line, perhaps - but we can also imagine them being suckered and baited to their deaths or... pilots heroically intercepting missiles & drones with their jets.
This isn't a gamechanger.
This regime is so butt hurt.
>Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy supposedly “deliberately participated” in organizing “genocide and war,” Mikhail Podoliak, an aide to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, claimed on Thursday. The accusation, posted on X (formerly Twitter) came after the former French leader suggested a diplomatic resolution to the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.
>The Ukrainian official blasted Sarkozy’s “fantastic” and “criminal” proposal after the latter suggested resolving the conflict, ongoing for a year and a half now, through a series of referendums under “strict” international control in the four new Russian regions and Crimea. Such a move would allow the territorial disputes between the two neighbors to be settled once and for all and help Europe avoid merely freezing the conflict, he told Paris daily Le Figaro earlier this week.
Sarko proposes that disputed regions undergo referendums to end this terrible war and the Ukrainian government lashes out so brutally...
Do I sense some lack of confidence that they would even win this referendums?
Just bizarre.
https://www.rt.com/russia/581422-ukraine-sarkozy-complicity-genocide-war/
To secure longevity, you really gotta watch what you put in your body...
And the American government isn't on your side.
>This is mainly because the zero-degree isotherm, the freezing level at which precipitation falls as snow, has moved to a higher elevation because of global warming
Honestly some fascinating content here - for instance, we learn that Delhi has some severe water issues:
>According to official estimates, around 2 crore residents of the national capital need approximately 1,300 MGD of water for consumption and daily needs. But the Delhi Jal Board can supply only around 1,000 MGD, leaving many areas grappling with water shortage.
We also learn that they will need to moderate power use - likely because everyone and their grandmother will be running fans at home.
This will only get worse as global warming becomes more of a problem.
I am not saying it is anthropogenic, but the environment is actually heating up, which will create more extreme weather events and more hot, humid weather (naturally!).
Seeing that new Argentine candidate Milei go off like that has really been amazing. I think he's a total loose cannon but I don't think that's a bad thing for politics at all. All broken systems need to be shook up.
Right, thank you
I agree with that - of course I do not think that the actual oppression of Polish people today is worse than it was in Soviet times, but I am open to listening.
>Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey signed an executive order last week that directs police to deprioritize the enforcement of laws surrounding certain psychedelic drugs, such as psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca tea, and mescaline.
Finally we got some of those talking points from high school stoners coming to the fore of American politics.
These little signs indicating potential entrance into the conflict by third parties keep popping up.
Would be absolutely disastrous to make this a true, full-scale war since who knows what Russia has in the wings...
More importantly: we know what kind of a world #NATO and the #CIA create.
A lot of people might think of this as a W for the West but, ultimately, it will just create the sort of pressure that negatively impacts global economics and the world as a whole.
Nobody should call this sort of thing a W.
I am curious as to what this means for the US in the long-term?