Anyone who knows Nintendo’s history, knows that they go super hard on litigating. Don’t let the happy little mascots fool you, they’re as aggressive as Disney when they think they can get away with it.
Google, on the other hand, still has some software people in their management structure.
They’d bring back company script.
And then get eaten by bears.
I’m all for the establishment of a free Palestinian state, but Hamas has to go.
Preferably through police action rather than the genocide that is a military intervention by Israel.
Anyway, the Israeli government is in the wrong on all the counts you raised, but Hamas still needs to go. They’ve been fully co-opted by all sorts of outside groups, and their rule in Gaza before October 7th was one of fear and oppression. They are no one’s saviors, they’re just the meanest bastards in the prison, lashing out at the guards while abusing the other prisoners.
The actual path to peace is a multinational police and peacekeeping force to come in and take over from the IDF, keeping the IDF out of it completely, and then opening up Gaza and the West Bank to the rest of the world. Possibly even ejecting the settlers from the West Bank and giving the land back.
But a large part of this would be arresting Hamas leadership.
And don’t think I’d let the IDF and Israeli government off scot-free for their part in all this. I’m sure there’s plenty of room in the local prisons for all the bastards in this mess.
The end goal might be a single, secular state, where all people are guaranteed full rights and protections by the government.
Closer to Gitmo, in that a percentage of the prisoners are actually a threat to “peace” and have committed various crimes. Also like Gitmo a percentage are only in there because their neighbor wanted to steal their land.
Guardians 3 was good.
Mostly because they weren’t trying to shoehorn future movie plot setups into it.
On that note, the Holiday Special was also pretty good.
Shang-Chi wasn’t a bad movie… Not one I’m likely to rewatch much, but a good popcorn movie…
Other than that, no Marvel has started falling into producer interference mode, where every movie must explicitly set up the next, even if they don’t have a full plan for what’s next.
They’ve lost sight of the key to their success; telling a tight, self-contained story made by people who love the characters.
All good points except the Ranked Choice.
It’s somewhat of a poison pill.
On the surface, Ranked Choice looks like it would be a good idea, but when you break it down, it has some fundamental problems that are just as bad for democracy as First Past the Post.
This video is a great watch on the subject, it goes through all the problems in great detail, but the TLRW is thus, Ranked Choice is a flawed system, fatally so.
If you want to steal an election but make it look legit, Ranked Choice is your number one voting system. If you want viable third parties, Ranked Choice is not the voting system for you. It actually punishes viable third parties harder than FPtP.
A far better system in every way is STAR.
Done for, but also done to.
It’s that “Done to” that requires the largest showing of human decency now. After all, one of the first ways to make up for the wrongs of the past is to stop committing more wrongs.
Sadly, we have two old men to choose from. One of which feels really bad about the wrongs he’s committed, but still hasn’t stopped. The other feels no remorse at all, ever, and will gleefully commit worse wrongs, all while quoting Hitler speeches.
Basic human decency is relevant to the electorate. Well, to just over half of the electorate. The rest of the electorate seems to think basic human decency is a weakness that should be scorned.
A sharp increase in Carbon-14 would be visible for a few thousand years.
The rest of the elements released by nuclear testing? Not so much. Cs-137, and Sr-90 both have half lives of about 30 years. That means that after about 300 years, they’re both completely decayed into their daughter products.
Now, Cs-137 decays into Ba-137, which is stable. It’s also naturally occurring as about 11% of all Barium.
Sr-90 decays to Yt-90, spends a few days as such and then decays to Zr-90, another naturally occurring isotope. Zr-90 is a bit over 50% of all naturally occurring Zirconium.
A lot of that will eventually make its way back down to earth.
Some will still be there, especially in higher orbits, but the majority will eventually see orbital decay.
TPP was a horrible treaty. The entire process was basically Hollywood and a few other corporate entities writing out their dream laws that were too horrible to actually pass any legislative body. But once it was in a treaty, they could hound Congress to pass said laws to “meet international obligations”.
I was military before my first civilian job.
We had that lesson beat into our heads repeatedly, and yet there were still people who never quite picked up on it.
We had the consent to monitoring pop-up every single time we logged onto a government computer, and then had that consent to monitoring explicitly spelled out every three months as we had to complete a computer based training program.
For some people, it still didn’t take.
All that said, this particular thought crime detection effort is creepy as fuck.
They are indeed. But Palestinians are brown, so they don’t count.
We know that brown people don’t count because of how Israel has treated Ethiopian Jews.
But is it really?
Trump was described by one of his college professors as the dumbest student to ever walk through that class.
His “business empire” has been a long string of outright stupid decisions. If he wasn’t born rich, he’d be that one guy constantly losing his life savings on get rich quick schemes.
As it is, Trump actually lost a lot of money trying to get rich(er) quickly.
Also, saying that Trump talks like an imbecile on purpose is like saying he shits his pants on purpose.
If he could string a coherent sentence together, he would. If only to stop people from making fun of his stupidity.
My hometown had the Dairy Queen raided by the DEA back in the early 90s. They sold all sorts of drugs off of a secret menu.
Pretend to be something long enough, and you slowly become that thing.
I’m American, I know what all the words mean, but they make no sense when put in that order.
The Russian skating federation does take doping seriously, they put a lot of effort into doing it and trying to hide it.
They’ve even made participation in doping schemes mandatory for all Russian athletes.
Fun fact for those who don’t know. You can forge metal with a wood fire if you have forced air.
There are also ways to build a clay oven so that it has a natural updraft, giving it that forced air. It’s actually how people used to fire pottery.
Other than that, you can also use charcoal, which burns hotter with forced air.
Also, a hairdryer puts out enough air to forge with *unless you’re running a ribbon burner set-up. But if you are, you likely know that already.
-A fellow hobbyist blacksmith
*Edit to add a word.
I combine UBO with No Script and Privacy Badger. I’ve not seen any slow downs or ads or anything else.