Self Driving is only safer than people in absolutely pristine road conditions with no inclement weather and no construction. As soon as anything disrupts “normal” road conditions, self driving becomes significantly more dangerous than a human driving.
speaking of an unrelated chip on one’s shoulder…
No argument from me. What Constantinople was to Rome, the US is to the British.
People are right to say Dems are different when it comes to domestic policy, but they agree with Republicans on almost all foreign policy decisions. A significant portion of the criticisms Democrat representatives made of the recent Iran bombings amounted to, “Hey, you didn’t give us a chance to agree wholeheartedly!”
And most of this “slide into fascism” is just taking foreign policies and applying them domestically. In that sense, Democrats hold a lot of the blame as well.
There was a bit of a moment after the USSR dissolved where the US was just kinda spinning its wheels without any clear purpose. We still had all the institutions for weapons manufacturing, intelligence gathering, financial strong-arming – they were still doing their thing, but without an overall narrative to give a unified sense of purpose.
You can almost imagine 9/11 being somewhat of a relief – like, oh thank god a clear external enemy, now we don’t have to struggle justifying our continued existence. And, of course, now our leaders can’t agree on weather we’re in existential conflict with Russia or China or both. This go round, we are the crumbling gerontocracy.
Everyone’s always quick to declare the beginning of World War 3, to pass every event through that lens. Inadvertently, it provides cover for the fact that Cold War 2 already started.
Terrorism is internationally recognized as when a group or organization unaffiliated with a recognized government uses violence to achieve a political goal. “Terrorist state” is a contradiction in terms.
Netanyahu is leading a genocide and starting wars, all to avoid the regular democratic and legal process of Israel. Why are you carrying water for him?
so is there an approach you wouldn’t dance around the R word to describe?
No, the BPAs in it disrupt the endocrine system and lead to cardiovascular disease. I’ve also heard it’s carcinogenic. Really should not be described as anything like synthetic estrogen.
I don’t wanna jinx it, but
They renewed the PATRIOT act while Obama was in office.
“Bogged down” is an excuse. The military is a logistics machine. If it takes longer to pull out, then it takes longer, fine. But “bogged down” is the kind of half-asses face saving language you trot out when you don’t actually want to leave, but don’t want to look like you gung-ho for staying.
Obama wasn’t perfect—not even great. But, those are weird things to lay on him.
yeah, yeah, fuck me for remembering what he campaigned on, right?
technically, you’re slightly more the egg, since we get no mitochondria from the sperm cell.
more than that, Obama had enough of a public mandate, he could have rolled back everything Bush did. The Afghanistan invasion, the extraordinary rendition, the “enhanced interrogation”, the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act. He could have ended all of those.
He could have had a historic presidency, could have redefined what the United States was going to be in the 21st century. Instead, he let the previous administration decide it for him.
fair
although I’ve met sooooo many yankees who, for all practical purposes, might as well believe the United States is the Holy Land. Mormons are just more upfront about it.
In Mormonism, angels are spirits that have yet to be born or have already lived their life.
It’s also a fairly common interpretation for a fair number of american Protestants. Actually, a lot of Mormonism is just taking various implicit assumptions and folk doctrine in mainstream US Protestantism and “officially” codifying it as holy text.
OK, but there are barriers of entry to piracy. You have to be tech literate enough to know what to do, and you have to be on top of the latest developments to know where to even go to get the files… and you must have heard about the book from somewhere, presumably some people had to buy and read it first.
There will never be a text published with 100% piracy rate. It’s a fantastical scenario.
Yeah, domestication was reciprocal. You see a creature into the world, care and provide for it and, eventually, see it out of the world.
You can frame it in spiritual terms, or as a symbiotic relationship that evolved over time. But however you put it, factory farming is a violation of that pact.
Damn Christians, they ruined Christianity!
It’s when you start including structures within cells that the complexity moves beyond anything we’re currently capable of computing.