StringJunky

I just thought: I know more about your politicians than I do about ours! I notice he's shedding lawyers like dandruff. As long as it does happen.

AP Today: Note the rof has been out of the car and there are barrels inside. https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-war-kakhovka-dam-collapse-investigation-f5b76fe1ddbf98aa5ff7e4dfd3199c38

The effect is global. I hope he gets his monogrammed Dior orange boiler suit and concrete bed and table before then. He deserves the Supermax prison schedule.

I think FB is the original source where the main shit metastasized from.

It's a new variable that is emerging.

The introduction of AI into social media could make it worse or better. Once it knows the social media landscape, it can multi-task much better on obvious moderation issues.

People tend to vote for who they think might help them in the next Legislative session. Thinking of the swingers here.

I'd find a doctor and see what is causing it. Chronic reflux can corrupt the cells lining your oesophagus, damage your tooth enamel, amongst other things. Don't Band-Aid it with chalk. This is the downer about private medicine... is THAT worth spending on?

He is Kim Jong Un material. We''ve a busy schedule: Putin, XI, Jong Un. I think we are in for a long period of instability.

TRUMP FOR PRES! Seriously, this is not a likely outcome. If the US brings him in again, I can only conclude that the US has a bigger problem than Russia. Regime change will be necessary in both countries. Half-joking.

Right. We can't create ideas in a vacuum. You have to tread the trodden path in order to extend what is already there and accepted by like-skilled people, who between them are the corpus of knowledge of that subject. Think of the big characters in science history. They are the pillars that people refer to , even though their work may have been superseded by newer research. Whatever ideas you come up with must concur with what still works elsewhere, otherwise you will have to form hypotheses to explain those as well, so that it conforms with yours.

Minorities need representing by the same minorities in the positions of influence and leadership. Whites doing it for them won't cut it. All minority youth sees is charity when whites do it in the absence of minority leaders, They should be inspired by people with similar histories. On nit-picking: You have to deal with the weeds before you can plant the flowers. Do you paint around the picture frame, or do you lift it away and paint underneath?

They created a product that they think fills a need; an antidote to the toxic partisanship. Should be a good indicator to each side how far apart they are. doesn't matter if they don't get the votes if it encourages more reaching over the aisle on both sides to avoid the bipartisans succeeding.

i think they are amplifying on their base because they know they don't have winning numbers. By the end of the year, I think we'll be hearing about a more moderate Republican manifesto.... if they can neuter the Freedom Caucus types. I think DeSantis will have probably run out of steam by then.

Where exactly have you promoted a better society. If you have nothing substantive to say, don't say it... But that's for you to express and not for us to assume. Would it be possible to avoid a Red Fest. As an avid reader of the Institute for the Study of War, it appears "conditions are being set for an attritional conflict..."

'A recent paper states the real pseudoscience is exactly those unperceivable things named with 'dark'. Throwing something into the unknown part of reality for solving the theoretical problem is not the real rigorous science. This study argues that It is time, from a much more general view, to consider the common defects in the principle behind all the previous measure methods or physical laws summarized by the predecessors rather than keep adding new theories or new phenomena for amending the old cracks. Otherwise, the development of science will become bogged down in mud and also lead all people not to the real nature of reality but to a totally strange magic one.' If I have seen further, it because I have stood on the shoulders of giants - Newton There is no creativity without prior knowledge. Learn it well.

Whatever. You are, right now in chess terms throwing your hands through the pieces.

The emphasis, to me, in the public sphere is material reparations are the remedy when the issues are of a more intangible systemic nature. E2A Material things are what everybody understands and can relate to intuitively.

It's not peripheral;, it's front and centre... evolution, not revolution. You don't fix these things in 10 years, try fifty from now. Small steps. Apply strawmen correctly. Well, this is half the problem, why things aren't getting done... beating on about events that are not even in most adults memories. People just go, like me "Yeah, ok". "Fuck off".... in my mind. Nothing gets done. And here we are. Do you fancy bouncing some more echoes at me?

Fine. You've got evidence, tangible stuff. You know, documented. Dealing with individual's or even families issues... not class actions for every perceived unquantifiable historical slight, which is what some of you seem to be promoting. The people alive today are wholly naive about their long-gone ancestors experiences imo. If they are alive today and they lived in that time, then obviously their experience counts.

Yes, these are people whose problems we can address. Address their problems of today, not half a century ago, a century ago etc. The long term cure is to get more ethnic representation where it is absent, so that their representative can present their case and with a better chance of being treated equally. I read an interesting article on immigration where the problem seemed to be inadequate political represention in the seat of power in the immigrant's country of choice. The article was about Palestinian representation in the US Congress relative to the Israelis. The Israelis are represented by hundreds of Pro-Israel lobbyists and hundreds of millions sitting in Israel biased/friendly US institutions. Relatively, the Palestinians have very little in that direction and are beholden to essentially unpredictable charitable whims by benefactors. you can't run a concerted political campaign on inconsistently applied charity. Israel has more than enough grease to get access to. US politicians. I think here needs to be a fundamental rethink about lobbying protocols in Congress and limiting how much facetime and 'grease' they are allowed to apply to the upper and lower house members. Political parties are limited in how much can be spent towards an election. This is a prime candidate for applying the same standards of conduct. I think it is antithetical to the principle of a fair democracy that those with means can completely override those less fortunate. Sound familiar?

'Reparations' - it's as vague 'woke'. Until you put meat on the bones and put numbers on it, it's just air. You can't fix spilt milk, you can only wipe it up and figure out why it happened. The milk has gone, just like all those historical slaves, Jim Crows victims are dead... kaput. their experience cannot be felt by people alive today in the US. As I said to a court head bailiff once, chasing him for debt: " Am I responsible for my brothers actions?" "Of course not" That was the end of that. It is reminiscent of what some countries routinely do, chasing a family member instead of chasing the person that's absconded/committed crimes. These are generally authoritarian regimes.

He's got a busy 2024 in court. Politico: Cue back-flip:

Sycophancy is the rule in the GOP. They are all wearing brown clown noses.