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I have yet to read 1491, but yes I imagine that it would have been much more challenging without that first strike. But the weapons capabilities of the europeans were also going to make it happen one way or another.

Another appropriate word for the colonization of America is genocide.

I'm old enough to remember being taught how America was settled by expanding into the vast wilderness of the continent, and that sometimes they had skirmishes with natives but they found them new places to live.

It turns out it wasn't quite as neat and tidy as suggested.

It's both.

This will likely get flagged as flame bait, but I'm guessing that the accusations have merit -- that attack was almost like Israel's Pearl Harbor moment. See Project for a New American Century for how the US turned 9/11 into their own lemonade.

I love this kind of work. They had an ambitious timeline and the last entry was at the beginning of this year -- do you have a sense if they are still going strong?

Yep, but that's a third rail here -- plenty of otherwise intelligent people drank the kool aid (likely by their parents).

It needs to be understood by all citizens of the United States that there is an active effort to make it into a Christo-Fascist country. The current regime is all in on this.

Why should the re-evaluation happen just at renewal? I'm assuming that whatever threat assessment systems they use are updating as relevant data comes in.

They are tracking each and every one of us already, it's just a scam. Of course the bigger scam is TSA as a whole -- security theater at $11B per year.

Of course none of this matters for the elite because they just go to their private jets and don't have to deal with any of the indignities we human cattle go through.

I just had to pay to renew my TSA PreCheck. Because why? They already know my threat risk (zero), and in paying them again nothing changed except they took more money from me.

I do too. I was an Atari guy so it was even more of a vague curiosity at the time.

Who pays for the lawsuit? When do cops actually have skin in the game?

Qualified immunity is a joke. They have absolute immunity with the exception of when it is too politically hot and the cops were stupid enough to leave a trail that worked to convict them.

Policing in America is effectively a state-sanctioned mob. I get the need for the law to have teeth in its enforcement, but when the law doesn't apply to those that enforce it then the system is inherently broken.

Until this current regime, my assumption was a simple hierarchy of oversight up to the federal level but the current regime itself has no oversight and is absolutely fine with the system as it is.

Broadcast media is boomer stuff (disclaimer: I am technically a boomer). I expect its relevance to fade. That said, the failure to prevent media aggregation (e.g., Sinclair et al) is also a betrayal to the people.

As a boomer, I recognize the value of having constrained media choices: it was a unifying factor albeit at the price of milquetoast and "establishment" programming. Everything has a price...

The fairness doctrine should have been employed when Rush Limbaugh started his hate speech career that aimed to literally demonize half the population.

Sadly, not amazed. Flooding is a natural concern (but not natural enough to not build in a freaking flood plain), and most communities are not forward-looking enough to look upstream for solutions likely because it may be out of their township and "not my worry".

Los Angeles seems to be waking up to the issue: https://www.ladwp.com/who-we-are/water-system/sources-supply...

  [0] meh, what's the point?
  [1] was coming from a Marxist, and Marxists are going to Marxist.
  [2] had nothing about feminism

You're trying to muddy the waters with your positioning. Women's rights are just that. Commingling the concept with economic theory, other civil rights movements, government propaganda, etc doesn't detract from the core concept of: should women be second class citizens in this world?

And another commenter talked about rights as being via the State, but in the end, rights are freedoms, and in the concept of the State it's a handshake agreement that the State will honor those freedoms.

Those same rights are also being challenged by religious doctrine (arguably the State in earlier times).

It is a problem for millions of Americans: https://voteriders.org/article/who-doesnt-have-an-id-in-amer...

Systemic racism is very much a thing, and while perhaps not foundational in this particular issue, we see still see political fuckery that definitely targets by race: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/tarrant-count...

Right wing talking points. They see feminism as a threat (which it is to them, but for the good overall).

Women's rights are human rights. We all win when that happens (except for those that exploit and abuse them).

With freshwater increasingly being a problem, being able to slow down tributaries and allow the water to percolate and help rebuild aquifers is something that should be happening everywhere possible.

Lost cost, high reward. Not sexy enough to get the attention it deserves.

> We're definitely not trying to go after the market of people that are comfortable buying from Chinese suppliers and risking their health

Just being able to buy from a truly trusted vendor and not pay big pharma markup and I'm there. "Personalized" sounds cool, but all of that is fluff around affordable and trustable meds.

I get your point. In the US at least there's less of a paradox of choice.

The key problem is that most people don't want to pay attention to any of it because it's either depressing or just not within there range of interests. Add to that the fact that most people vote based on their emotions and those are stupid simple to manipulate on the Right: anger at immigrants and "others" works all the time.

Democracy is the least worst option, but FFS, it would be nice if the electorate were actually properly informed when they vote.

Edit: I kind of contradicted myself on the "choice" thing, but this is effectively like herding cats.

You too are correct, it was a "get it out there" comment.

My armchair assessment of the the electoral trap we're in:

  * first-past-the-post voting
  * dark money (money is not speech, it is power)
  * campaign finance reform (current model is legalized bribery)
  * eliminate the electoral college (popular vote for president)

The current administration is in a class of its own regarding corruption -- it is the principle driver of everything they do. The nazi stuff is just bonus for them.

At the turn of the century (yikes!) Clinton reconfigured the DNC to serve the corporations rather than labor. I left the party after that but am compelled to vote blue as the least worst option. Partisan politics allows capture of the government by creating a duopoly of power.

Washington warned us of this threat.

This kind of inept security should be punished at a level that makes it cheaper to do it right than to pay a small percentage of their profits to continue with their assault on citizens' private info.

I wish I could run. I recognize that exercise is a foundational facet of health all the way around. I'm "blessed" with enough comorbidities that make that a challenge but I am going to get a personal trainer to help me work through that.

I can roll with that. I do have executive dysfunction and other "fun" facets of a funky neurobiology. I also recognize that every body and mind is different and it's a personal journey to find the right tools.

I recognize that non-medical options should always be front line approaches but there can be a chicken and egg effect as to making that happen.

In my youth I adhered to a "better living through chemistry (wink wink)", I do now too (rip Mitch Hedburg) but the wink wink part is very rare and disciplined and now it's all about pharma and supplements to wring what I can out of what I've got left.

Thank you! It seems worthy of pursuit -- gonna bring that up with my doc.

I believe AuDHD is the common term.

I had a doc that prescribed me amphetamine. It was glorious for work, being in one of those horrendous open table environments with only a screen in front of you to keep from staring at the person directly across.

I was able to laser focus and jam through things but the side effects were not worth it and I backed off. I've yet to find a magic pill that does that without the side effects.

I understand this is your personal medical info, but could you drop any hints as to the nature of the misdiagnosis? I've learned late in life that I am neurospicy and learning from other's experiences in this domain has been quite helpful.

Matrox Mystique for my first build. Free MechWarrior and plenty of time burned there. Good times. It can be startling how thousands of dollars of premium gear can become e-waste in short order.