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What came out this morning in the hearings.
Trump did not like the results. So he insisted it was stolen. Even though all of the professional lawyers said no.
Didn't Trump convince the Saudis to cut production? Presumably to keep the US's production profitable.
Honestly it was probably to make more room for Russian oil...
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And how can you feel safe knowing that their next-door neighbor has a 10-kiloton atomic bomb, and you don't??
My god, how could you possibly defend yourself?
You think the next door neighbor can shell out millions to aquire a nuclear bomb and the roughy $1.8 million per year to maintain it? Really?
My god, do you even hear yourself?
Maybe not my next door neighbor but there are individuals who could. There are also corporations that could. But why choose the most extreme. The Oklahoma City bomber used fertilizer. Is C4 more affordable? How many people can you kill with it detonated at the correct time and place? I know I need it to protect myself from the nut cases in the government, roving gangs of thugs, and/or the next zombie apocalypse.
corporations are not people and I think we would all agree that treating them as though they are is a bad idea. It’s also extremely unlikely Gates, Musk, Bezos, et al are going to buy WMDs. They’ll buy politicians, cheaper and easier to do.
And how can you feel safe knowing that their next-door neighbor has a 10-kiloton atomic bomb, and you don't??
My god, how could you possibly defend yourself?
You think the next door neighbor can shell out millions to aquire a nuclear bomb and the roughy $1.8 million per year to maintain it? Really?
My god, do you even hear yourself?
So Roe v Wade as settled law and the Law of the Land is not lying?
Should the Justices who committed perjury under oath in their confirmation hearings be impeached?
I never felt the airplanes were the issue. unless the guy infected is setting next to you. With the effectiveness of masks reducing over time so your probably hooped.
I suspect the airports them selves are a pretty good petri dish.
How much less? Come on somebody, help us walk through this.
The judge does make a good point though about the law. Just because something like masks is absolutely necessary to keep hundreds of thousands of people from dying and millions from getting sick doesn't necessarily mean the CDC is the governmental entity with the authority to issue a nationwide mandate.
Except there wasn't any momentum. We tried a lot of things.
Retrain the police
Militarize the police
Community relations
Federal oversight
De-escalation training
Non-lethal weapons
Body cameras
Citizen lawsuits
None of these strategies held police accountable. None of it resulted in very widespread reduction of violent encounters.
So you're left with a very basic strategy. The less money cops have, the fewer no-knock warrants they can serve. The fewer cops are out on the street able to shoot, choke, and beat suspects. The less money cops have, the more selective they'll have to be about who gets a uniform, a badge, and a gun. The less money cops have, the fewer racially motivated traffic stops they can make.
There are other things that could work, potentially, but the best way to get there is to threaten departments with the one thing they can't stand - budget reductions and freezes.
Of course its easier to get along with people who attempt to do nothing.
especially since 99+% of the "privilege" is the absence of discrimination
I see the appeal, they want to help people. They are just freaking tone deaf to the national conversation and broader optics in how they're helping people.
Not really.
50 years ago the cell phone was already in development(April 1973), car phones already existed.
Everything else about it is largely just the application of miniaturization. While many advances in materials science are involved in making the modern smart phone viable. Nothing about it would be seen as "science fiction" as it is largely applications of science that was already understood by 1972.
Heck, the C programming language already existed by 1972.
The thing that would blow their minds, and is an ongoing issue for Japan to this day, is that software has almost become more important than the hardware. For a generation of people who went from non-mechanical to mechanical systems, the idea of hardware being that flexible in what it can do would be quite the mind-bender, but again, that's all about application, not the underlying science and tech.
IE: They'd be more surprised by how we're using it than they would be by what we're using. At least if they were working in science and tech fields in 1972. Everyone else would likely think it's sci-fi.
It's just interesting seeing a more realistic version of science fiction without faster than light travel or force fields.
This was an issue related to hospitalizations up to about a month ago when the reporting rules changed to "hospitalized For" from "Hospitalized With" so older statistics need to be looked at carefully. This is however independent of deaths from which have been accurately tracked for the most part despite claims from deniers.
Where are you seeing this new "for vs with" data? Most recent CDC is still showing "Hospital Admissions of Patients with confirmed covid-19...", which simply confirms TheDeamon's point above.
Once Fusion starts to look viable, they'll likely start getting into the "theoretical byproducts" (which may be radioactive) and the sheer scale and type of rare earth materials needed to build a plant and try to attack it that way. It shouldn't get anywhere nearly as much traction as it did with fission, but time will tell.
But a president appointing a Supreme Court Justice should look at the candidates Legal Opinions, experience and professional qualifications and choose the one that would make the best Justice.
