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Killer robot posted:That "A gallon of their blood for every drop of ours" reply to stories of Americans killed on 10/7 wasn't a policy statement, but it sure was a statement. And reminds me of lots of 2016 "Aww, it's just rhetoric, don't take it seriously" campaign promises he kept, like dropping more bombs than Obama and killing more civilians. I don't know if we can tell if he kept that last 'promise', because the first thing he did was to order the forces to stop keeping count of civilian casualties.
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DeeplyConcerned posted:Sure there's no mechanism right now but that doesn't mean we couldn't make one. If every count of forcing someone to work on election day was punishable by five years in prison and a $500,000 fine i'll bet you'd see it happen a lot less. Would this mean that everything, including emergency rooms, closes completely for 24 hours? Why is that even necessary? Why not just make election more flexible so that you don't need to go vote on a specific day?
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Kagrenak posted:lmao at touting that ABInbev has a workforce comprising of 2.3% veterans, a rate 3x lower than the general population. Otoh I would be concerned if they had a proportionate number of Korean and Vietnam war veterans on their pay roll 
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Feb 7, 2024 17:22
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I honestly don't know which is a worse gaffe, mistaking Mexico for Egypt or Nikki Haley for Nancy Pelosi. The more important question is does it impair their decision making in any way. Maybe the debates should have a section where candidates draw clocks and name animals.
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Feb 9, 2024 10:11
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:My guess; Mexicans exist, and are on our border America is surrounded by dangerous enemies in all directions! South: Mexico, Cuba. North: Canada West: Asia East: Europe
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Feb 14, 2024 19:16
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Whatever it is, it needs to be taken seriously. Turner is the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee; he must be highly intelligent to be chosen for that job. So it's new pictures of Hunter's dick?
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Feb 14, 2024 19:28
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zoux posted:It's crazy how all the terrible poo poo that everyone said was going to happen after Dobbs is happening. Who could've foreseen this, aside from everyone. You're supposed to have babies the NORMAL way - accidentally when contraception fails, or due to being raped. Not any of this in vitro witchcraft!
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Feb 22, 2024 16:34
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Meatball posted:They'll get rid of birth control, too. Probably as soon as they can. I'd love to see them ban the pull out method  seriously, I hope they ban it and install surveillance cameras in bed rooms, that's my kink 
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Feb 22, 2024 17:16
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zoux posted:So it would be simpler to order Mexico to stop all migrants at their southern border, why isn't Mike Johnson doing that? In fact this would be a lot cheaper to, build a wall across Mexico's southern border with US funds as it's so much shorter than the US border, and you can use cheaper work force too. also if you go with the galaxy  brain "make a gigantic wall of old car tires that gather water and become nests for all kinds of snakes and other hazards", then southern Mexico is a much better place for that
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Feb 29, 2024 22:19
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zoux posted:Maybe the angels don't want USAF fighter jets shadowing them in the sky, seems risky. They might also be pissed about Blue Angels infringing their copyright
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Mar 1, 2024 20:59
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The problem with interstellar travel is that all civilizations that have learned space travel have also learned nuclear weapons, and thus will not live long enough to colonise other systems.
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Mar 1, 2024 23:59
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It's Trump vs. Obama, just like in 2014
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Gripweed posted:As the largest socialist nation in the world, China has a fair claim to that authority. India is bigger.
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Shooting Blanks posted:As has been pointed out many times, one of the smartest things Trump did was put his name on the COVID relief checks. People remember that poo poo. And then he lost.
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Mar 11, 2024 20:00
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Piell posted:No, the RNC is broke because all the money has been going to Trump directly, this is going to accelerate that, Trump is going to suck up all their money and leave none for anyone else. Why won't someone do something
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Boris Galerkin posted:"He wasn't concerned about safety" Of course not, he was a former Boeing employee 
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Mar 15, 2024 16:52
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Dapper_Swindler posted:this. they still exist and are still doing horrible crimes, but the ones that did it for imfamy and stuff just do mass shootings now because its quicker and easier. It's also a lot harder to get away with two murders and then continue to the third one these days. The likelihood that they will find your DNA on both sites and start a manhunt is pretty good. And everyone carries a cellphone these days so you might get caught while attempting the first murder. It's hard to become a celebrated serial killer if they catch you before you get a good streak going, Netflix don't give participation trophies y'know.
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Mar 18, 2024 20:04
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FlamingLiberal posted:Then Reagan got shot just outside of his limo It's incredible that Obama survived eight years not getting murdered by some white pride birther gun nut, and a testament to the surveillance state created after 2001.
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Mar 18, 2024 20:08
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There was also that time that GWB was almost taken out by a pretzel.
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rkd_ posted:They call it a 15-week abortion ban, but isn't this effectively legalizing abortion up until 15 weeks? That's more generous than a bunch of European countries. brugroffil posted:It would set a hard cap at 15 weeks and let states go lower Yes, the important difference here is that there is no European abortion legislation. Each country has its own laws. Now, the European Court of Human Rights has made rulings that have led to changes in laws that have clashed with the European Convention on Human Rights. But some countries have a lax abortion legislation, some very conservative, and it's not uncommon for women in some countries to travel to neighbouring countries to get the healthcare they need. Meatball posted:We can discuss having a European style abortion ban once we have European style healthcare. It's also worthwhile to point out that there is no European healthcare, each country has its own system. Though the contrast to US healthcare is obvious and people generally have the expectation that they deserve to have affordable public healthcare and get angry if it doesn't work that way. The well to do skip the queues and go to private clinics which are also part of the system.
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Mar 21, 2024 22:17
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Professor Beetus posted:I personally find it pretty gross that many countries in Europe apparently have a 15 week ban and feel like they should do better for their citizens. It's 12-14 weeks mostly, and it's more complex than that. For example, this is the rules in Finland: quote:According to the Law on Termination of Pregnancy (239/1970, Abortion Act), pregnancy can be terminated at the request of the woman up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. The request does not have to be justified. Criminal and foetal grounds are also covered if the pregnancy lasts up to 12 weeks. There's no hard ban, but 12 weeks is the limit for deciding on your own. Then you need to have some reason to get permit. Meanwhile in Malta abortion is always illegal except if you get three specialists to agree that a woman's life is at risk. Which is bonkers.
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Dull Fork posted:So not only do you need to get a second opinion but a third? They would ask for more opinions but there aren't that many doctors on Malta.
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They should build two bridges side by side. Then next time this happens, there will be one bridge left standing while the other is rebuilt.
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Mar 27, 2024 10:31
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Barrel Cactaur posted:It's a bit of an oversight but often the only way to inform them is to walk out/drive, especially if their home office isn't open yet because it's 6 in the morning. Not necessarily a way to get a cell number or radio frequency on the spot. No way to do it without putting more people in harms way. There may have been several factors in play, in addition to what has already been mentioned apparently most (all?) of them were from Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador. So there could have been a language barrier if they got called by phone. Or it could be that the contact phone number was of the pothole repair company they were hired to, but the boss was sound asleep when his phone rang or there was some other disconnect in communication. Or all of their phones were ringing, but they had left them in the truck because it's wet and cold and boss had warned not to play with phones or they couldn't hear them because of wind and passing cars. It could even be that the traffic control didn't realize soon enough that there were workers on the bridge. So yeah, it doesn't surprise me that in the limited time they didn't get everyone out of there - the last car got across when the ship was already scarily close. There are things that can be learned from here for sure, though I don't know if container ships losing power and bulldozing bridges is a common enough occurence to merit totally new safety rules. But instructions for how to reach work crews in general should be checked.
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Staluigi posted:ianabrd but i would assume the pilot has their own communication equipment or something I would also assume that the ship radio must be able to work independently of the general power system exactly for power outages.
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The Artificial Kid posted:Descriptions of Havana Syndrome read like a checklist of “symptoms that someone might present with if their issue is primarily psychological”. This is made even harder to evaluate because humans have an innate tendency to mass psychogenic illness, so even if some members of a work community are having real symptoms of something external affecting them, others may experience MPI and it's very difficult to tell them apart if there are no clear physical signs.
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Name Change posted:Trump is not on the same page as far right hawks right now, probably because Netanyahu dared to recognize Biden as winner of the election, never mind that Netanyahu openly endorsed Trump. Is it possible that this is more about Trump trying to play against congress passing any kind of bill for support for Ukraine and Israel and border, because that would be a 'win' for Biden? It seems like he only cares about Trump winning in November because he sees it as his only chance to wriggle away from facing consequences. For that purpose he would rather the congress do nothing, but maybe he has been warned that the Israel hawks in GOP will eventually yield to Israel lobbyists. The offensive coming to an end would reduce the pressure on them to negotiate with Dems.
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Goatse James Bond posted:I was attempting to make a joke that we should invade it and make it the 51st state. My actual serious response is that Tate is hosed, Romania has him dead to rights and is also annoyed with his flight risk antics. I guess USA was built on a Roman model. But then it would become USAnia.
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I think it's wrong to say that Donald J. Trump and his type wants to ban abortion. He only wants power & money. Abortion bans don't affect the rich and their daughters and mistresses, so politicians are able to say things that they personally don't really support.
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If someone who owns a gun tells his loved ones that he's not going to kill himself, he's absolutely planning to kill himself. Every time.
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Apr 10, 2024 16:52
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:The alternative would mean admitting Trump has a free license to commit all crimes, because he can never get a fully neutral process due to all his extremely well publicized criming. What could be more fair than trial by combat? Pit Trump against Stormy Daniels with swords and let's see which truth God favours.
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Apr 16, 2024 11:36
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Majorian posted:Oh, I agree 100%. This isn't in praise of Trump himself. It's just an area where I expected him to be worse than he turned out to be. That's 200%.
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Apr 17, 2024 20:03
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Is this election only about a single issue? I would think that Trump winning would be a nightmare for everyone, not just Gazans, but for them too.
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Apr 18, 2024 09:10
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celadon posted:If this occurred in China, where someone 'committed suicide' after blowing the whistle on a massive company that was vital to national security during a trial, would people just uncritically accept that it was a suicide? Or is the US an extra pure and noble state where this sort of thing doesn't happen. If there's zero evidence that it was something else than suicide, then who cares?
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idgi why anyone is using Tik Tok when there is Truth Social 
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What is he planning to do after the pause? Yet another four years?
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Zodiac5000 posted:Okay I'm sorry maybe I'm missing something fundamental here , but it feels like you just described the state keeping a database of child support agreements and parties to said payments. You know there's records of every jay walking ticket handed by authorities over the years somewhere, but that's not the same as a Federal Jaywalker Register. Right?
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One thing about charging in garage that may make people change the way things are built is the fire risk. It's not actually huge, like I think that EV's have about the same risk of catching fire as ICE cars. But with EV's there's a heightened risk of it catching fire while parked inside or next to your house plugged to recharger, and when that happens there's no way of extinguishing it so if the car's parked next to your home it's not just all your property at risk, it's also the lives of your family. Insurers are going to start paying attention to this sooner or later, and that will reflect on how we build homes and garages. Maybe future houses will have a recharging pit that can be filled with water in emergency.
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Hasn't USA subsidized Elon Musk enough?
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Failed Imagineer posted:They were really close to making it that Senators and Presidents would have lifetime appointments as well lmao. At least that would have destroyed the country a lil quicker That might have been a better system. Who says how long a lifetime must last? 
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