roguetrick

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[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Depends on how you present the voting options. If it ends up being random selection of human representatives then you've just reinvented sortition and that is generally better than most of what we've got.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Most of the weight is carbon that is breathed out actually, but metabolic water isn't insignificant.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And the sultan of rum didn't have any sugar cane liquor. Don't get me started on the lack of turkeys.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Still the same fucking LDP though.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Birds: look at what you hairy non feathered things must do to mimic a fraction of my power

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Even if the US drops the export bans, the party still views it as a critical security industry and will continue to attempt to outcompete foreign companies. And since they're willing to take that sort of investment stance that the US is not, then they will eventually do so.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

I think the arguments about direct psychological harm are a bit overblown. A bipolar person, like the one interviewed, who's buying a bunch of these blind boxes because they're manic likely isn't experiencing suicidal ideation because of the blind boxes but the bipolar depression on the other side. Sure you'll see correlation there, but not causation. That said, a business making big profits on poor decisions made by manic folks is intrinsically exploitative.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

We're resegregating the military.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well UK has been doing it for some time now too if I recall correctly.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
 

“I think it’s going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions. And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up,” Obama said at the fundraiser

 
 
 

I was aware that news and letters were brought into the city by carrier pigeons with microfilm, but I wasn't aware that news and post from the city(along with the carrier pigeons themselves that would later return) were brought out by constructing one way balloons out of the diminishing resources for a harrowing flight over occupied France with a shrinking pool of pilots.

 

Israel's government approved a plan on Sunday to expand Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights, saying it had acted "in light of the war and the new front facing Syria" and out of a desire to double the Israeli population on the Golan.

 

A center-left group in the U.S. sees a valuable lesson in the landslide victory of Britain’s Labour Party after nearly 15 years in the political wilderness.

The centrist Democrat think tank Third Way argues in a memo obtained Friday by POLITICO that Labour’s sweeping win shows that “centrism wins elections” and can undercut right-wing populism by appealing to the broadest segment of the population with a credible platform.

 

Warping is throwing an anchor either manually for a small ship or by rowing the anchor out and dropping it farther away for a larger ship. Then the ship would reel it to change position. Good for maneuvering in harbor. Etymologically related to "throwing" and essentially threading a needle across the sea.

Warp factor get you asses in the rowboat. Engage.

 

For the first time since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party swept to power in 2014, the party did not secure a majority on its own in 2024 national election. But the prime minister’s coalition is still expected to run the country for another five years.

Modi’s allies generally support pro-Hindu legislation, but making new policies could be complicated by coalition politics and a slimmer majority.

Despite a setback, many of the Hindu nationalist policies he’s instituted over the last 10 years remain locked in place

 

Interesting to note here: getting preteens to confusedly call Congress with threats of self harm and questions like "what is Congress" with a push notification is not the best plan

 

President Biden told a Democratic lawmaker and members of his Cabinet after the State of the Union address that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will need to have a “come-to-Jesus meeting.”

Biden’s comments, captured on a hot mic as he spoke with Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) on the floor of the House chamber, came after Bennet congratulated the commander in chief on his speech and pressed him to keep pressure on Netanyahu over increasing humanitarian issues in Gaza.

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