This makes no sense. The conflict started in 2014, you point to an article from 2014, how does that show years of bombs? In addition Russia no longer keeps up the lie that the 'little green men' that invaded Ukraine were just ethnic Russian Ukrainians already in Ukraine. They admit that they invaded with Russian troops. Soldiers will often have their service in 2014 hyped in online obituaries when they are eliminated now. Ukraine was responding to an unannounced invasion by it's much larger neighbor with the weapons is has at hand (weapon's that Russia also has and uses). What a non-point made with non-evidence trying to place blame on a country that was invaded. Do you also use 'how she was dressed was asking for it' as an arguement?
If it's more complex, why not add details of that complexity to the discussion instead your vague comments? You know, add know depth, knowledge, or detail instead of just saying 'but it's more complex'? Perhaps because they details don't justify a war of aggression? Because the details paint the aggressor in a starker light than your incredibly lacking 'a bit more complex'?
What reductionist drivel. Discussion involves making actual points with logic and examples, in this case that would be examples about why Russia's actions (killing tens of thousands of civilians when the year prior to the war only 21 people were killed over territorial conflict, mainly by mines) and motivations (launching a war of aggression against a neighboring country that did nothing in the immediate time frame to justify such a murderous ESCALLATION on Russia's part, there was no immediate need to resort to overwhelming force) and are not evil (even though their troops use rape, pillage, and keep authority over their own through violence).
Dude that is what I said. It's only purpose is so that Congress doesn't have to approve EVERY BOND issue. Congress can for sure approve a new bond issue separate of the debt ceiling. The Dems should put forward a special bond bill to fund keeping the government running that isn't a raise on the debt ceiling but just a bond bill for a specific bond sale. Good luck seeing the Republicans argue not passing that (it's not an increase to the debt ceiling after all). The debt ceiling is purely to make issuing debt easier but was created for and has no other purpose than administrative ease and lower the amount of bills Congress has to pass. It was never intended as a sword of Damocles, and it is definitely superseded by the 14th Amendment.
Hope the Republicans enjoy the civil rights violation lawsuits from everyone who suffers actual damages when their mortgage interest rates go up due to the Republican's violating the 14th Amendment so that the Republicans can benefit from that fallout. Especially now that the head of the Republican party is on the record stating that a failure to raise the debt limit will benefit the Republican's politically come election time.
Carl Icahn just lost billions betting against the USA. Your comment sounds interesting until you look at all the other countries in the world. We aren't competing with perfect, we're competing with a Europe still coasting off of it's Imperial power and forced wealth extraction from the rest of the world and China, a country whose central government has tangential control on it's regions, government is dependant on the sale of land to raise income, has levels of pollution that was horrific the last time I was there, population is declining when it is dependant on worker power to translate to world power, and brutal repression which does not lead to the independent thought necessary for dynamic intellectual growth. They are now removing economic numbers and discussion for the public and criminally investigating auditors which will surely to lead to a dynamic economic model that will generate growth for them.
The debt ceiling was created so that Congress does not have to pass a new bill for each time bonds are issued. It's purpose is to streamline running a modern country, not to be a weapon against the running of the country. It is not and was never intended as a sword of Damocles to keep debt down. It is also carries less weight than the 14th amendment as the Constitution supersedes laws created by Congress like the debt limit was.
No need to be so bleak. Your post makes for good scifi but if you look at spaceflight today it's largest proponent is a benevolent individual that exudes empathy, not a soulless company. He is competing with another extremely empathic and very human individual whose company goes to great care in making sure it's software is hyper aware of individuals at his distribution warehouses demonstrating he too cares about the individual. In Alien the AI (or in the case of Alien Ash the android) ultimately fails the crew because it had secret programming to force it to take action based on hidden motivations, but we would never force AI to have guard rails or generate results based on secret/agenda driven requirements in it's programming. We've known since 2001 A Space Odyssey not to do that and it's a very recurring theme we have thought about and is like the one basic agreement we should never do with AI. Maybe in 2000 years we'll forget and do something crazy with AI but for now we are good.
Spaceflight is in good compassionate hands. AI is in good hands and will never be told to lie/manipulate. Gene editing is not another genie being let out of the bottle. Alien really doesn't have a message relevant to today's realities.
Come on, they are both equally morally reprehensible as they erode trust in science and lead us towards darkness. Ends doesn't justify the means, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. This is basic level stuff.
The Supreme Court has held that anonymous speech is a huge part of the First Amendment as non-anonymous speech has a pretty chilling effect. With a surveillance state you are taking away the 'anonymizing' effect people felt of being in a crowd, that they could speak without being singled out.
I'm not doing research for someone as disingenuous as you (sorry I don't have a canned response file for reference on Government overreach/abuses) but this was a discussion on this website just yesterday:
I'm pretty sure since you made your way to Hacker New you can also Google the relevant information you are asking other who came to a random article to somehow have already compiled for you.
Personally I'd buy whatever car I want and add a radio if I cared that much. I'm not so single issue I would force a limitation on myself like that. But then having grown up in the USA from the 70s to now I love cars way more than I love AM radio.
In the USA there is a statute of limitations to challenge wrongful convictions, unconstitutional sentences, etc. Imagine that. Yes the government agrees your were wrongly convicted but because you didn't get a challenge together in time they will keep you in prison anyways and deny you access to the courts. Also, when a certain standard practice is found unconstitutional or agent found to be breaking the rules, etc they do not automatically release everyone who was convicted using it. Each person must (within the time limit as stated above) file a legal motion in court in the correct manner and then win that motion. Things that hold up guys challenging are stuff like you can't file in the Court where you are held (say you are at the supermax in Colorado, guys think they file to the Colorado court) but at the Court that sentenced you. And no, they don't forward your case. And no, your time window to file the case doesn't start over once the Colorado circuit court takes 9 months to find 'lack of jurisdiction' on your first filing.
That's called the tyranny of the majority and it is absolutely not the point of small community creation on Reddit. Imagine you create a reddit and put it work to make it popular enough to get attention only to have some other group come in and say 'thanks we'll take it from here' and take away the community that you created and completely change it's dynamics.
I too when presented with facts think to myself 'but who is the person who typed these all out'. Do you have anything specific about these facts that you disagree with, or are you just spreading FUD to spread FUD? Did you eat up all the Microsoft FUD around Linux in the past too?
So you point to a change in your local normal climate as showing there isn't... climate change? Just trying to clarify what you are trying to say here?
I can't wait until Europe pays for it's own defense. I love that Europeans kept empires as long as it was profitable and then just ran away and left America to deal with the issues/conflict borders they created and then have the nerve to criticize the USAs trying to keep the world going, yet Europeans don't even have the morals to ban their corporations from using bribes/kickbacks to get overseas contracts (instead they get to deduct that expense from their taxes).
Think of walled off 'private communities' with HOAs. My take is people want the internet that self selected for only the certain social groups/classes of people that could afford the internet in the early 2000s without having to say that is what they want. Mainly college students and post-college professionals with enough disposable income to afford the limited practical use the internet offered back then. Maybe make a startup that only offers services to those in the RIGHT Discord channels, with the right social credit. Maybe job offers first go to those in your channels, so your same social circle that has already self selected out the 'wrong' types. It seems super gross to me but the other alternative complete sucks too. I just think this new direction is as classist and racist as private home communities with restrictive HOAs and the people hear need to be honest that that is what they want.
And the Islamic Golden Age itself is an oxymoron as much of the historical knowledge was Greek (large parts of these conquered lands had sizable Greek populations) and the many contemporary contributors were either non-muslim or raised in conquered cultures that had not been fully assimilated by Islam but instead maintained many of their pre-conquered traits.
To be fair many of these Arab lands were forcibly conquered and much of the institutions were vestiges left over from pre-conquest and/or contributed by conquered people/cultures. 'International' banking has a different meaning when you run an empire of conquered countries.
Why? If something is named after someone, if someone popularized something, why do we need to make is some larger deeper anything? It's funny that this comes in an article about the Islamic Golden age period where people's identity just gets erase to fit some narrative. Where Christian Greeks keeping Greek history become Arab Muslim's keeping the West's knowledge for the ignorant Christian West. Why is it misconception about the origination of the sandwich that is being discussed, not erasure of entire populations of subjugated people who get attributed as being their conquers creation and their accomplishments attributed to some 'Islamic Golden Age'. Maybe the Islamic Golden Age is in greater need of being deconstructed. Maybe Europeans and Middle-easterners would see each other as 'others' so much if history didn't so artificially try to create otherizing constructs.
Interesting that al-Rūmī like so much 'Arab Golden Age' or 'Islamic Golden Age' contributors was of Greek descent. I really wish the balkanizing narrative wasn't forced around this era of history I think humans would have found better understanding of each other and our connections/sameness rather than defining one specific and non-representative group running an empire of conquest as having 'uniqueness' 'specialness' and 'otherness' during this period of time. A lot of conquered people just get erased from history as if the people conquered in the name if Islam just one day became their conquerors. Why? How can we understand and learn from such strangely defined history? It would be like classifying the Sioux as European thinkers. We push that Arabs kept Greek knowledge alive when in a lot of cases it was greek knowledge that was already established in the region because the people that lived there were... Greek and the people keeping it were Greek. Then we call lands ran by Christian Germanic peoples and their religion ignorant/savage/anti knowledge because they lost this 'European' knowledge. So many traits being assigned by geography and losing all context of culture, understanding, or insight to fit a narrative.
Don't forget in China these little people have way higher attachment to their homes. They are often ancestral homes. The people that would be happy to be 'forced to move' have already moved to the city in most cases, with only those with high connections to their home remaining. In the USA we don't really have the same sort of attachment to ancestral homes and would be more receptive to paid relocation and view it way differently. Those that celebrate China's way and say the relocated people are happy to be moved from their ancestral homes and communities to concrete block apartments don't understand Chinese culture and provide cover to how soul crushing relocation is for those impacted.
Being the devil's advocate, when my mother was dying of cancer there were forest fires here. She had to leave the area and stay at a hotel far away at great cost/physical discomfort (at that point she had a hospital bed at home). There are people who physically can't handle the higher particulate amount, what do you propose we do with them? Let them suffer/die?
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I strongly disagree. My lower class sets of grandparents both had pianos. Other family members had violens, accordions, portable little organ things. Making music was the norm before the radio just like the original poster said. Do you think classic blues pianists came from rich families?