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My bad. It is Elon Musk who is getting involved in the case involving The Onion. The Damage Report - Elon Musk Pulls Aggressive Stunt to Block The Onion's Purchase of InfoWars There must be a better way to fund brave journalists without giving to media outlets, public or private, that might have issues with overhead, click-baity tactics, or stalwarts. Corruption and war journalists are brave people with integrity. That is, electoral democracy, the version with the kinds of deregulation that followed the Citizens United ruling, is what is proving weak and flabby. For that standpoint, it could be regarded as doing what it was supposed to do, which is serving corporate interests and protecting the economic status of the ruling class. Putin the oligarch knows this. They no doubt studied Marx's and Lenin's real views on capitalism and democracy in their school curricula. It's americans who've been condition by derogating reporters to not know the difference.

I think a lot a lot of these modern challenges can be explained via the false consensus effect. Maybe the term is more specific than what I'm remembering--I'm a rusty ten dollar wrench at this point. The false consensus effect merely refers to the way that our reticence about expressing countervailing attitudes or beliefs skews most peoples' perceptions of what most other people think. This is not adherence to norms, but the formation of those very norms, the breakdown of which leads to "antisocial behavior." The point: What nec209 is describing might not be a constant. Politicians who wield these wedge issues can ride these false consensus shockwaves, and in the process they legitimize these ideas. There is a double-edged sword though. Most people have "implicit bias" and prejudice as the side-effect of cognitive "schemas," but the least penetrating minds tend to be the most susceptible. The double-edged sword is that we can simultaneously hold negative stereotypes about the oppressed and their oppressors, which might explain our reasonable reticence. Although this is certainly a shift, a shift into decline, for my country, there is perhaps a more nebulous battle over the legitimacy of leaders who ride these sentiments and the effectiveness of that strategy. Will the dull-mindedness of the MAGA blunt instrument crash the whole machine before this idea spreads to new frontiers? Apparently the RNC is trying to stop The Onion from buying the now failing InfoWars media outlet. That should give you an idea of what is happening.

It's been a few months since I read this thread, but I had an interesting epiphany. I think the most offensive and off-putting features of this Israeli assault echoes some of the problems with our current system of government in the US, which are the problems of un-accountability. The disgust is not at Netanyahu's choice to strike back at Hamas, but the overkill of the response. Moreover, the issue is not that the US is aligned with Israeli, but that there seems to be no conditions upon which the alliance is predicated. In our own democratic process, we are constantly trained by the media to view politics through a two-party lens, but the fundamental problem with the current situation is a lack of accountability, a problem which this two-party lens offers no solutions for. Approaching accountability as a politically partisan problem assumes that conflicts of interest stem from party allegiances and not from the perpetrator's personal interests or his personal relationships to whomever are the direct beneficiaries of his corruption. The current system of deregulation championed by the likes of Ronald Reagan, Billl Clinton, and Newt Gingrich (and Jimmy Carter too if he hadn't been outflanked) is not a system of unilateral, top-down accountability, but a system of diffuse, decentralized conflicts of interest. It was championed by the same greedy people who bend the rules with the cost-benefit analysis of what if I get caught. Moreover, the conflicts of interest it has unleashed are not solvable thought a party-based system of accountability. Nonetheless, our minds always go back to the "tactical framing" encouraged by media. "But the Republicans are even more ultra-wealthy and corrupted than the Democrats," they moan. Moreover, when Netanyahu's IDF bombs another hospital or schoolbus, they just cry Hamas. Part of the reason Hamas gets so much flak is because their actions are shrouded in the moral ambiguity of being the underdog, because Israel has the upperhand. You can't blame the Israelis for wanting to have the upperhand. We are inherently self-interested (egoistic), which means we want to do what we want and not what somebody else wants, and self-centered (egocentric), which means we think our perspective and ourselves are right and that contrary perspectives and people are therefore wrong. Moreover, Israel inherently wants to have the upperhand. Why wouldn't they? And that is why we've chased the Gazans into the corner where they're currently trapped. However, the overkill of the response from Netanyahu's IDF is not just a predictable response to the trials of conflict, it is an underhanded way of dealing with the situation. When it's in secret, it's called cheating. Out in the open, it is called political violence. Netanyahu rose to power with the help of political violence, and he uses Hamas's violent tactics to justify violence against non-violent Palestinians. He can operate in this way because he has dismantled the mechanisms of accountability from within and his US alliance has no clear conditions he's violating. Netanyahu was on trial for corruption prior to the October seventh attacks. Moreover, the US is also guilty of war crimes, so that probably wouldn't be a condition upon which the Israel alliance rests. The solution to these problems doesn't come from switching to the other side, it comes from holding people accountable. If I knew what the words "Apartheid," "Colonialism" or "Genocide" meant, then I could explain whhat they mean in this context. For now, all I see is brutality caused by brutal tactics from amoral people who've calculated that they likely won't be held accountable. Biden is looking to alleviate the burden of Netanyahu's assault on Gaza, but the hope for accountability, accountability for anyone other than Hamas, was killed when Netanyahu dismantled the courts. Make no mistake though, Netanyahu is just another agent of unaccountable corruption looking to implement more deregulation, to personally benefit from it, and especially to dismantle anything that would hold him accountable. He was on trial for corruption, until he intervened.

Of course diplomacy will involve reconciling differences of perspective and distrust of a purported perspective. It seems like the perspective, for these purposes, would have three main components: the perspective on what is, the ideals about where to, and the power dynamics of how, or with what means/by what means. Of course, a person who privileges his own ideals or own purposes might utilize deceptive means that misrepresent any of these, so we try to embed aspects of our ideals into the power dynamic itself, such as ideals against misrepresentation or deceit. It is like agreeing to the rules of a game. In diplomatic frameworks, players agree to certain rules. Perhaps, like how two checkers players agree to the rules of checkers. Of course, the checkers teams legitimately might prefer checkers to mahjong, or agree to the rules for the sake of fairness and honest cooperation. That would be diplomacy. Moreover, if some guys are playing mahjong, you might then point a weapon at the people who don't play checkers or don't play according to the rules of checkers, viewing them as unpredictable, incomprehensible, or mischievous for playing by their own rules which weren't yours. In that case, genuine idealism, or perhaps correct trust in what really is genuine idealism, where the idealism regards the rules of how the game is played, seems to be the way out of this unstable dynamic. We can of course look at history through other lenses with other values. If you value human life, then you're against genocide, and you probably don't want a leader like Maoist Polpot, capitalist Pinoche, or fascist Hitler or Mussolini.

Nothing, if it can rotate. Oh, just delete this. I had two proofs.Everything after the first *spoiler* bracket disappeared. I'm running NoScript on Ubuntu Firefox.

I have no skill here, but it's an idea. It seems like it would be possible to create a robo-mod, separate of the forum software, that would take whitelist or blacklist requests from a pinned thread. It probably will need to un-delete accidentally deleted threads. For security, run from any system or VirtualSystem or any network or 5Gbs/month hotspot. It only needs the scripts and the account password. It would navigate with the keyboard: Tab + Enter to navigate; arrows and Ctrl+C/V to copy/paste thread titles; Ctrl+Alt+T to open Ubuntu Terminal and then to paste posts or titles into Bash scripts, scripts which then decide whether to repeat the same macro or execute a new macro that will execute a new script, for example a script that deletes the second or third thread in All Activity after the top ones have been whitelisted. Possible hurdles: it will need the power to un-delete threads that are not whitelisted in time, or else it cannot run constantly and run on a whitelisting principle --it shouldn't accidentally delete a whitelisted thread if it doesn't have to reload the page, unless it isn't whitelisted in time--; it may need to ignore troll posts by simultaneously copying the username or user status and the user's posted content, which are in separate boxes; the robo-moderator would preferably have forum privileges limited to deleting or undeleting threads; OR ELSE, it needs a very clever algorithm for combining the lists via commands like Bash diff command; Ubuntu Terminal, which would take script prompts, only takes paste commands via mouse and not keyboard. *KEYBOARD NAVIGATION: mouse navigation would have to respond to differences in box size, but the keyboard can hit Tab 27 times or 27 + 5*Z number of times.

I agree, the cows need to stop reproducing. Feel-free to Popper or Whewell me on this. Define "crazy." That's your hypothesis (Step 2), which solves an emergent system, and regarding the system: Are the inputs clearly observable or at least definable, or the outputs? Are some inputs potentially wrong or still unknown? Is the whole system and its outputs complex and noisy, or homogeneous and null? Can you tell? Can you observe the whole system well, or the relevant outputs? 1. Observe precedes 2. Hypothesize. You can "work backward" (i.e. backward chaining) or work forward. To falsify, reduce to definable inputs that constrain emergent outputs. Assuming this isn't just philosophy, some inputs are ill-defined, wrong, or obscuring/obscured. Try working backward. Working backward ramble, because WTH: The biosphere isn't a big ball of gas, and we aren't rocks, we're endotherms. If the biosphere receives unexpected complicating inputs, they are likely biological and metabolic, and the single most likely complicating input is us, a lot of us. Except, it's in an indirect way, because our brains have invented extended homeostasis with artificial metabolism. A brain will tell you that brains and their conversations are notoriously hard to reduce, but their metabolism is simpler, and inventions simpler still. We need to simplify their metabolism by removing the livestock animals and the extensive enclosures, or by integrating them with the natural ecosystems. The sun's nuclear fusion and the chloroplast (/cyanobacteria) are nature's ultimate power source, and man-made systems clearly subvert this, unintentionally destabilizing species, ecosystems and the biosphere. Blam! There it is! We subvert the natural metabolic order because we're hungry, cold, and artificially smart. Applied to livestock farming, we are growing cows instead of growing photosynthetic food for wild bovines, which would be more sustainable??? Sorry, it has been more than a decade.

Future generations to sort out how? By disrupting more ecosystems? Co-occurring anthropogenic stressors reduce the timeframe ofenvironmental viability of the world's coral reefs Ala dimreeper, it's looking like Doherty's "F*cked Forever."

Further commenting on this careless decontextualizing of categories. The personality disorders framework can type the pathology where pathology has presented, but not normal individuals like the five-factor model does. To type normal personalities, lowering the thresholds could impair the fitness of the model from which these categories arise. For example, maybe a normal-range person meets multiple criteria sets simultaneously, but maybe those "exclusion criteria" were meant to cancel eachother out in cases of extreme imbalance. Psychopathic, narcissistic, and antisocial personalities shared antagonism (reverse-Agreeableness) and grandiosity (reverse-honesty-humility). Antagonism: unsympathetic, unsharing, and opaque, and usually grandiose. Grandiosity: attention-seeking, entitled greed, and instrumental exploitation. The low consientiousness that distinguishes psychopathy and antisocial personality particularly is impulsive, improper, reactive, and over-stimulating. 'Grandiosity' is mania, but I lack a better term. Obviously tendencies can be amplified or suppressed, like through feedback, like a game that (is supposed to) keeps you alive. blah... groggy

Paranoid conspiracist cap on: Does the biohazard mail service run from China to USA? Could we maybe eventually prove what happened, based on what was shared? Presumably, the zoological samples were already in stomach acid, and that's the thing noone is talking about.

Psychology is categorically obscure, but reducing psychology to brain imaging is like reducing physics or biology to telescopy or microscopy. Quantifying the content of communication should matter. Neuroscientists, like all scientists, rely on the reliability of a basic willingness to communicate. Psychologists and anthropologists quantify not only communication, but communication patterns and ability, and the emerging social behavior and cultural activities. You can ignore good communication when it works and superfluous communication when it's insubstantial, but don't forget that bad communication will waste resources, time, cognition, public trust, and everybody's credibility. Of course, that might seem insubstantial to a narrow-minded person awaiting a paycheck. How about any logical framework of mental representation, adaptive behavior, or verbal communication that mutually reinforces the data analysese?

Psychologists use experimental and mathematical techniques to more precisely quantify the relationships among the observable variables that are only passively observed by the layman, like personality traits for instance. If the development of a reliable and precise measurement tool isn't scientific, then what is? But the layman might not understand the math, and what is psychology separate of these mathematical techniques if there isn't any unifying psychological theory that unites the discipline of psychology? This can make it seem more like a massive data collection operation than a scientific endeavor. Or Behavioral Ecology bolstered by the occasional MRI data. Most measurement tools are trained on ordinary people whom the rater already can intuitively understand. Yet, the most extreme aberrations are the source of the most intrigue and the most worry, and they may have nothing to teach, especially if they're lying. Nature doesn't lie, nature isn't machiavellian. Many would probably fancy themselves to be the real psychologist in the room.

This addendum is probably not premature. I'll also add that kombucha usually seems to work even though it is low sugar. The last thing I tested was a mouthwash, and it didn't work. I awoke after 4-5 hours. Sleeplessness is one of two major effects I might experience when the rinsing liquid isn't effective. Then I was awoken again, still tired, when we began moving the furniture. That night I tried a sugar free energy drink, swishing some around and drinking the rest in the morning. I awoke after 4-5 hours, and I drank the rest of the energy drink and showered on the next morning. My tiredness combined with the circus-sized showerhead and lack of water pressure adjustment caused me to splash some droplets onto my lips. This would normally be expected to interfere with the outcome, but this was shower water from the new house, not the old house. On the next night, I tried a different sugar free energy drink, and I awoke after 4-5 hours but sleep returned surprisingly easily. Since then, the old set of effects have changed and the sleeplessness hasn't returned. It would appear that sugar free energy drinks and mouthwash do not work, and that was the last test I could do. Nonetheless, a morning stuffy nose, the other main symptom and a symptom I've experienced for the last decade, is what persists. I swapped my toothpaste out, and I still awoke with a stuffy nose. I will have to figure out what is different with the water here before I continue onward. I've also had a sugar-free, carbonated drink called Xevia. It is about as ineffective as water for this purpose, but it appears to allow the stuffy nose to persist whereas diet soda at least eliminates the stuffy nose. It is the sleeplessness that has disappeared completely. The mushroom juice did allow me to sleep, but the mushroom juice was the only thing that kept me from falling asleep with a clogged, leaky nose symptoms that I usually experience when I accidentally touch my food. I guess the ineffectiveness is two-dimensional, but the mushroom juice was the only thing apparently exhibiting this second dimension of ineffectiveness. Addendum to that last part: I have had states where I would consistently sleep for 6-1/2 to 7 hours and then sleep would not return even though I didn't reach seven hours of sleep. It was like something else counteracted the sleeplessness, but only for 6-1/2 hours. The mushroom juice kept me up for so long that it might have overridden that.

I never hallucinate; I've always only had pseudo-hallucinations. I was diagnosed over seven years ago. Why would I pay outrageous american healthcare bills if it will not help me? Someone who owed money still owed me another $200 which they aggressively disputed. I cracked a steam method, but I'm trying an easier method. I will have in in under a week, and we will be moving in over a week. The toothpaste is reacting with something on my pillow, creating a cocktail that is alternately focus impairing, scatter braining or conversely energizing, angering. Although room temperature water is ineffective, what appears to be more effective is drinks and maybe especially sugary drinks and canned vegetable juices and soup liquids, but maybe not oily mushroom juice and some olive juices. If anyone has a liquid to recommend, recommend it now. I will have the final results in a week, and then we will be moved. I won't have time for the complex task of pouring hot water over my pillow case as it is elevated above the ground or placed over non-porous surface covers like tin foil, so I'll probably be putting it on a clothes line. Thank you. Preview Preview: the steam method involves steaming your face and then wiping your lips with a wet tissue. The wet tissue doesn't need to be hot if the steam was hot. However, you also have to dunk your toothbrush in hot water and remove it before the water cools. Something on the tooth unsticks in the hot water. It begins to restick as the water cools, making the method incomplete and rendering the container un-reuseable. The new method involves rinsing your mouth as you brush your teeth, but water as it turns out does not work, or not room-temperature water. Don't gurgle it or tip your head back or leave the toothpaste in your mouth too long, but spit it out and rinse it out ASAP as or after you have brushed your upper teeth front and back and the toothbrush has contacted your lips at the corners and the base. on the tooth*brush*

Sticky stuff on my toothbrush. Thinking about it, I think it may be most important to distinguish between the formalistic communications of science and the informal dialogues that have occurred since before humans could write. We speak informally all the time, but a scientist would be wrong to express his atheism in his capacity as a scientist. Ideas about the divine are informal, and they might not be scientifically meaningful let alone scientifically testable. Thus they should be responded to in an informal way. In science and the peer review process, the aim is an objectivity that is independent of the observer, and it would be important to disclose subjectivity if statements were subjective. In informal communication, it is already assumed that ideas are subjective, contextual, or approximate. Thus it would be redundant to preface a statement with terminology like "My feeling is that..."/"I think that..."/"What I'm saying is..."/"I imagined that..."/"My tentative conclusion is..." Informally speaking. Also, can the scientific method be tested scientifically?

Admittedly, this is more mathematical and logical but not very scientific. Anywho. If the concession was on the table already, Putin would know the probability or the threshold is possible enough that the concession was on the table already, it hypothetical can go on the table, and it might be placed on the table again. Even if military withdrawal is inevitable, Putin may hold out for the concession anyway, knowing what he knows. IMO this is the problem of post hoc negotiating: shifting goal posts, and setting bad precedents. Fortunately, most people, who do not have inflated egos or a self-absorbed desire to over-extend their control, can be reasoned with about certain ground-rules and their benefits to community and the shamefulness of violating them. Unfortunately, they can still have massive blind spots.

Apparently most Ukrainians know Russian, both Slavic languages along with polish, but not vice versa. Russians are obviously slavophobic toward Ukrainians, and that is why they assumed an easy victory / easy reunification, with a people whose language they don't even understand. Russian-speaking Slavs need to make sure that this war inflicts maximum damage on Putin's popularity and legitimacy, which amazingly has not happened yet. Let's withhold nukes from all unilingual societies. I learned a little Spanish in highschool, which I never used. 😕 Bilingualism is linked to "cognitive flexibility", and "verbal intelligence" is inversely related to prejudice.

I would say, long-game is de-radicalization, or to counter pro-Putin propoganda in Russia and neighbors like Belarus or Azerbaijan (where another conflict is ongoing). Then, short-game is to engage in diplomacy with everyone interested in peace, at the official level, popular level and international level. Nobody threatens a counter-attack hoping to be called on their bluff, unless they're a weapons manufacturer. Has Putin already suppressed the protests in Russia?

REVISION OF: "The problem with using too much liquid is that the substance will get washed into the mouth before it is removed, but it needs plenty of motion, not plenty of liquid. ... You can't rinse all of the inside of your lips without accidentally ingesting some of that water, even if you spit it out and try rinse it out. ..." This was based on a hypothesis that seemed to be the only hypothesis that could account. It's also true that solids would pick the substance up if the lips had been wet within the hour. This is potentially a confound since the act of rinsing was also incidentally moistening, and I would typically eat after doing it whereupon the solid foods picked it up. This became a repeated observation. However, I distinctly remember thinking that I wasn't going to drop the other hypothesis even though the two hypotheses potentially confound one another. However, I found more corroboration for the hypothesis that foods could pick it up if the lips had been moist, and I would privilege it over the excess-liquid-spillage hypothesis, if the latter didn't also make a lot of sense and moreover to find corroboration. That is, finding corroboration in the unsafeness of drinking from large bottles upon awakening, rather than small bottles, and how this was consistent with a spillage hypothesis that was only a small leap and could seem to be operating in at least one other context where no other hypothesis seemed to suffice.

I won't be able to finish because people are withholding all money from me, into starvation. This much became clear: Whether it starts on the lip's corner from sleeping on my side (it probably does), it inevitably migrates across the lips where it becomes stuck on the surface, or dare I say in the epithelium, but the lips are sticky. You can remove it by getting the lips mildly wet (?: setting for between immediately and twenty/thirty minutes) and applying plenty, plenty of motion (?: with two different paper surfaces). After going through ten tissues, I removed most of it, maybe close to all of it. The problem with using too much liquid is that the substance will get washed into the mouth before it is removed, but it needs plenty of motion, not plenty of liquid. ?: Why accidentally rinsing any liquid into the mouth causes detectable effects, (?: is that it probably has some sort of rinsing half-life, (?: or whatever is exposed does before more of it loosens up and becomes exposed)). (-- In that case, avoidance is probably a much worse strategy compared to removal.) The thing causing delayed sniffles has disappeared again. Alas, if your wipe doesn't accidentally contact your face, you don't need to wipe your cheeks or the cheek that was on your pillow. You should wipe outside skin before inside the lips, starting from a broad cheek area, moving to a narrower cheek area, then start wiping in the lips. This seemed to work before this mystery substance disappeared again. This also seemed to mitigate the other substance's effects slightly even though I didn't do the entire lips, but I might not be able to confirm this. You can't rinse all of the inside of your lips without accidentally ingesting some of that water, even if you spit it out and try rinse it out. I slept like a baby. 😂 I have had dark circles under my eyes for some months or maybe a year. You can stick your tongue at the can, if you're choosing avoidance over removal. Without the tongue, the can's liquid goes toward the corners, and this tongue-ing seemed to mitigate the effects. The mystery substance that caused a more delayed sniveling seemed to sit around in the saliva. This became clear when I experienced its effects immediately after lying on my side. However, it still had a pretty consistent onset time of two-and-a-half or three hours. Finished!

I don't know if I can conduct a test for it until I know what it is or at least how it is behaving, and the situation is becoming more complex as I collect more observations. I will definitely check it out for resonant observations. I also have my old chemistry textbook that I read the first half of. Stopped before Lewis Structure. I've been feeling agitated for the last five or six years, and I began thinking aloud after I quit the prescribed anti-psychotics. The agitation--the restless scatterbrained thinking aloud--got noticeably worse after I started rinsing my face with water. Something else, though, was causing the allergic response. Whatever was causing the agitation seemed to be remaining active for so long that it was sitting in wait on my pillowcase, where the contaminant would pass onto my cheeks where I would rinse it onto my mouth by pouring more water onto it. In contrast, whatever caused the allergic response seems to be more soluble such that it rinses away more easily, but the allergy contaminant also has the ability to invade the aqueous solution on the wet tissues. Recently, I've been wiping my mouth with wet tissues, but the wet tissues seem to pull in the contaminant from wherever they can: the surrounding face, or the edge of the plastic bag where the baggie opens. Imagine somebody trying to spot mop a floor covered with a dried goop, a dried goop that becomes liquid again whenever it contacts the moisture of the water from the mop. That dried/wet goop is the allergy-causing contaminant. The full coverage of the residue over all the lips is a problem because you will eat or drink it multiple times: you eat the inside of your lips, then your toothbrush will replace it with contaminant from the lower lip or the lip's corners, then you eat it again. I will say this tentatively, and I will revise it if I am wrong, but the best approach seems to be to let the external skin dry after wet wiping it externally and before wiping inside mouth. You also have to open wide for the corners and wipe the inside corners carefully, so you don't draw in more from the surrounding skin. I am not sure how long it takes to build up inside the lip's corners*. Regarding the lip's corners. I seemed to be experiencing poor concentration related to the lip corners, poor concentration that wasn't noticeably until twice it manifested as physical fatigue combined with overwhelming inattention that was hard to ignore. Get it? Overwhelming inattention that you can't ignore? Yeah, I need a method to asses it. I am not sure how long it takes to build up yet, but I had literal mental and physical fatigue when I finally noticed it. Anyway, it seems to peak after two hours or from one-hour to three-hour, and to last for a total of seven (7) hours. Incidentally, the allergic thing usually sets in after ten minutes, but when I began wiping my lips, it started producing a more enduring allergic effect lasting from two-and-a-half hours until five hours or so, and this happened regardless of whether it was ingested from my hands or from my lips. Talk about unnecessary confounds! How am I supposed to assess my own ability to concentrate? Anyway, the solution to these problems, tentatively, is to very carefully wipe inside the opened lips after allowing the external skin to dry after being wet wiped. Otherwise, there is an alternative and pretty straightforward, albeit messy, method: pour the water onto your lips while lying down. --> Pour the water onto your lips while lying down. Clear water that won't stain. Patiently pour gently from a small or low-filled bottle so you don't get it up your nose, or else it will be carrying something else with it. And get the bottom of your lip too, or else the remaining contaminant will get spread around by your toothbrush. In fact, a rectangular shaped section of skin surface is probably more optimal than a lip-shaped section. Other discoveries: Whatever is causing the diahrea, probably the stuff on my cheek, only has this degistive effect after being heated or being exposed to chemicals, including a disinfecting wipe and a sensitive skin wipe, but this chemical product also removes from the surface very, very. That is, if you don't toothbrush your way into a round two. The over-heated form might have an onset of less than an hour rather than more than an hour. Plastic bags as gloves still cause problems if you have to reach into a deep container, because you still have to touch the edge of the bag to open it. I will have to work this out somehow. Regarding soda cans, open them carefully with a firm grip, and do not pour anything onto the can after opening it with your hand.

Here is Francesca Fiorentini's reporting from early July, prior to Kabul's surrender. Afghanistan is 50:00 onward, and the finance angle is from 90 onward. (Empire Files is good for Israel Palestine.) From a scientific perspective, one might analogize that the Taliban, a supposedly "primitive" culture, pushed out the foreign invader like it was influenza, a naturally occurring viral infection. All the Taliban needed was a real boogeyman like what humans have evolved to detect. Although agnostic atheists are only pushing for what seems like the next logical step (i.e. why not ditch the God too?), it is worth noting how we've wandered, or carelessly stumbled, into a supposedly modern culture of hyper-individualism and continual oligarchy. What do the Taliban have that we have willingly surrendered to the marketing and propaganda that have mangled/modernized our values into accomodating whatever corrupt, lying oligarchs they propped up? Trump started the withdrawal, Biden carried through with it, and neoliberal imperialists and war racketeers were all-along profiting from mediocre work. Meanwhile, communist China actually seems to be adopting the empirial strategy of bolstering its allies through infrastructure projects of the sort that we cannot even commit to here in the continental USA. Another war finance story: we wasted trillions beefing up bulky fighter jets rather than improving on an older, lightweight design. It was TYT. I'll find it. Lockheed Martin. "U.S. Military Admits Trillion Dollar Mistake" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbzEMdJBagg