[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 6 points 3 days ago

Today they have something like 7 minutes to decide whether to launch a retaliatory strike if missiles are en route if recall correctly, 12 hours seems like a luxury.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes, and there's precedent that he can still run even if he's imprisoned.

Debs ran for president in the 1920 election while imprisoned in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 4 points 3 days ago

Interesting read.

Even without the saltwater problem, drinking from the end of the Ganges sounds pretty bad considering how polluted that river is.

I have a hard time understanding the mentality of people having kids while complaining, there's not enough fresh water.

I suppose it's good that most of the local water supply here in ca comes from mountain snowpack melts.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 3 points 6 days ago

the only animal who produces milk is a cow

Some kids are gonna go hungry, no goats milk for ewes.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 204 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

More like, "we've invented a cure for cancer, but only people who have cancer right now can get it. People in the future are fucked once again and won't get the cure."

Loan forgiveness without making education affordable going forward doesn't solve the problem. It's pulling up the ladder.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 136 points 2 months ago

The one that passed: Lexus Teammate with Advanced Drive (2022-24 Lexus LS)

Saved you a click.

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Andy Litinsky and Wes Moss first met Trump as contestants on his reality show “The Apprentice.”

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Jon Stewart weighs in on the war in Gaza and offers up a solution for ending the conflict.

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The decision by Americans for Prosperity Action is another setback for Ms Haley after another Trump victory.

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Judge Engoron just handed Trump 355 million reminders that he is not, in fact, above our great city's laws.

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The Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Sunday U.S. actions in the Red Sea would harm the security of all shipping as the area had now become a conflict zone, saying the Houthis of Yemen would keep up attacks despite U.S. and British strikes.

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Conventional wisdom would have us believe the journey to a long and healthy life begins with 10,000 steps.

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Plaintiffs accuse the university of tolerating harassment, assault and intimidation of Jewish students

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Its lawyer rebuffs South Africa's accusations while defending actions in Gaza at the UN's top court.

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The strikes killed at least five people and wounded six, the Houthis said, without elaborating on what was targeted.

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The Michigan Supreme Court has rejected an attempt to remove former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot based on the US Constitution’s “insurrectionist ban.”

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Jonathan Schanzer informs the House Ways and means Committee about how Hamas funds student groups and charities in the United States.

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The National Labor Relations Board released its most important ruling in many decades. In a party-line decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC, the Board ruled that when a majority of a company’s employees file union affiliation cards, the employer can either voluntarily recognize their union or, if not, ask the Board to run a union recognition election. If, in the run-up to or during that election, the employer commits an unfair labor practice, such as illegally firing pro-union workers (which has become routine in nearly every such election over the past 40 years, as the penalties have been negligible), the Board will order the employer to recognize the union and enter forthwith into bargaining.

The Cemex decision was preceded by another, one day earlier, in which the Board, also along party lines, set out rules for representation elections which required them to be held promptly after the Board had been asked to conduct them, curtailing employers’ ability to delay them, often indefinitely.

Taken together, this one-two punch effectively makes union organizing possible again, after decades in which unpunished employer illegality was the most decisive factor in reducing the nation’s rate of private-sector unionization from roughly 35 percent to the bare 6 percent at which it stands today.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 199 points 5 months ago

Fucking Republicans.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 167 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"That's why it was one of the great presidencies, they say. Even the opponents sometimes say he did very well, I have to say. 'Take it back,' they scream. his people say 'Take it back.' From that day on, our opponents, a lot of opponents, but we've been waging an all-out war on American democracy."

Doesn't sound like a gaffe to me. He has been waging a war on American democracy, literally tried a coup.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 141 points 6 months ago

Russia looking a lot like their old enemy the Nazis these days.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 174 points 6 months ago

Firefox looking better all the time...

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 159 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Trump wanted US military generals to emulate generals of the third Reich and treat him like he was Hitler:

It turned out that the generals had rules, standards, and expertise, not blind loyalty. The President’s loud complaint to John Kelly one day was typical: “You fucking generals, why can’t you be like the German generals?”
“Which generals?” Kelly asked.
“The German generals in World War II,” Trump responded.
“You do know that they tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off?” Kelly said.
But, of course, Trump did not know that. “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” the President replied. In his version of history, the generals of the Third Reich had been completely subservient to Hitler; this was the model he wanted for his military. Kelly told Trump that there were no such American generals, but the President was determined to test the proposition.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals

Trump, not a man known for his literacy, kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed and would read it sometimes:

Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler’s speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.
https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2015/07/donald-ivana-trump-divorce-prenup-marie-brenner

Then there's this:

Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, “Heil Hitler,” possibly as a family joke.

Trump seems to aspire to be Hitler-like, and he even tried to take supreme dictatorial power through populism, lies and propaganda like Hitler did.

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 143 points 8 months ago

It's true!

Although it may seem safe to assume that one horsepower is the output a horse is capable of creating at any one time, that is incorrect. In fact, the maximum output of a horse can be up to 15 horsepower,[2] and the maximum output of a human is a bit more than a single horsepower. For extreme athletes, this output can be even higher with Tour de France riders outputting around 1.2 horsepower for around 15 seconds, and just under 0.9 horsepower for a minute.[3]
https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Horsepower

I must now once again question the nature of reality.

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