The apathy of many us citizens to the idea that their government could possibly matter to them is a direct result of a massive legal, and influence campaign by far right elites, their representatives in government and their allies overseas. A functional state is supposed to have institutions to combat that.

The effectiveness of the current far right coup is a failure of our institutions, and the low participation of many in the US is a symptom of that failure, not a cause.

30% of the adult population voted for him.

We’re not even a democracy, there’s literally no way he could represent anyone but the rich.

What was it the supreme court said about pornography - i know it when i see it? It’s one of those things that defy hard and fast rules, but are still identifiable.

Paying to be taken up everest requires a lot of cash and free time, it speaks to a level of vanity and it has that buying my name onto an accomplishment vibe.

Poisoning the rich is a victimless crime.

If we’re talking about the paleolithic we’d all have more free time, healthier food and for most of us about the same level of medical care.

Iran could win the hearts and minds of americans by feeding bezos shahed for breakfast.

A lot of the bigfoot people i’ve met are into astral/dimensional/dream bigfoot - bigfoots that don’t rely on a physical presence to be real.

What are the chances that someone got it to mine bitcoin, probe internal networks and make a reverse ssh tunnel, then lied about or covered up their shady instructions?

I presume we can rule that out if it got to livescience?

In 2015, Tu Youyou won the nobel in medicine for a breakthrough anti-malarial drug her team discovered by compiling and testing tcm malarial remedies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisinin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_Youyou

only apply to TCM products that are injected intramuscularly or intravenously, not to the remedies widely taken by mouth

The potential harm from injections seems like a good reason to tackle them. I suspect wider TCM has too much support to be worth taking on.

In fairness, TCM has produced a nobel prize winning medicine, so forcing more legit research on it could produce some interesting results - in addition to dispelling a lot of potentially harmful nonsense.

Right after he won best supporting actor as well.

I personally find marvel movies boring, and a misuse of wealth, but marvel films aren’t boring in the same way that cars going around in a circle is boring, and they’re not gruesome in the way that eagerly waiting to see real people injured is gruesome.

See i was gonna say good because all motorsports are boring and gruesome displays of misused wealth.

One of the gems of the latter simpsons episodes is grandpa mocking the complaints of an iraq war vet “It was too hot, the USO show was rob schneider, US objectives were and remain incomprehensible.”

The same will apply here, except the uso show will be kid rock.

Also israel’s foreign policy objectives.

considering this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader

As a sport hating atheist it’s very weird to agree with the sports minister of a theocracy.

But you gotta admit, that’s a completely accurate assessment and a reasonable reaction.

Maduro has no connections to cartels and the trump regime has released prominent cartel figures so ‘cartel threats’ is a lie.

If this is anything more than a publicity stunt, the only real threat is maga voters upset at her covering for pedophiles. Whether the victims are the innocent or maga, the perpatrators are always maga.

It’s going to make snr devs get fired, surely?

They either refuse to sign off when boss wants them to and get fired or sign off and get fired when ai code they signed off on causes issues.

The rich benefit in some way from almost everything that happens, that’s how being an elite works.

But that doesn’t mean that the regime intented to massively spike oil prices. They’ll have so much more voter suppression to do now.

Yes, they’re evil, but they’re also frequently stupid. They fuck up a lot.

I think the headline is designed to be misleading - the dramatic tone implies a worse situation than the actual words describe.

It’s not how headlines are written now, but it would be more honest to say: Dubai to rely less on fresh food Perishable food in limited supply Fresh fruit and vegetables affected by war in iran