The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
22d ago
They both want victory, but Iran clearly cannot achieve it. Israel can't either, though they may think they can. Peace may be the next-best-option.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
23d ago
It would be much harder to accuse Israel of genocide if they studiously avoided anything that hit the general populace. Water, power, etc.
Sure, and then they couldn't hit Hamas. This is the same Hamas that builds command centers under hospitals, then accuses Israel of war crimes when said command center gets bombed. Anyway, the various violations Israel is accused of are typically either nonsense (that is, there's no such rule in international law) or they are violations of treaties Israel has not agreed to, such as Additional Protocol I of the Geneva Convention.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
We don’t know all the clients of Epstein because the client list wasn’t released.
Why would there even be a "client list"? Epstein wasn't a straight-up pimp brokering fee-per-throw or fee-per-hour transactions; he would have parties where the guests could make use of underaged prostitutes he provided. If there's a list of exactly which guests used exactly which underaged prostitutes (or video of the same), the FBI probably doesn't have it.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
19d ago
The NIST-accepted theory is that the fire caused the floor trusses (not beams) to lose stiffness, sag, and pull the outer columns inward, which initiated the collapse. Loss of stiffness and strength due to the fire was a cause, but not the proximate cause, of the collapse -- the buckling of the columns was.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
23d ago
Gaza is already ethnically spotless; it's basically all Palestinian Arabs, and all Sunni at that, with few exceptions.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
23d ago
Chatter on twitter is that they targeted some existing ventilation shafts (Yes, straight up Star Wars/Top Gun style) to increase the effective depth on the bombs.
They did that sort of thing in the Gulf War, they're probably much better at it now.
Doesn't look like there was general subsistence of the land in the BBC imagery, so they probably didn't literally collapse the place. I wonder if Israel or the US has drones capable of being sent in remotely and going down the holes for damage assessment.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
24d ago
is your claim the organization which controls syria's only connection to al qaeda is it's controlled by the emir of al queda branch and that this means they're not al qeada?
I mean it is not al-Qaeda itself, though it is affiliated. And I don't think al-Sharaa answers to al Qaeda.
bombing and killing al qaeda leaders didn't beat al qaeda and it's not the reason they're not longer a threat to the US
So you say.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
24d ago
The Houthis haven't attacked commercial shipping since December and haven't attacked US ships since the bombing campaign.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
24d ago
It did work on Al Queda; they're no longer a threat to the United States. It won't work on Hamas because Israel would have to kill basically every Palestinian before they got to a point where the remaining ones won't re-form something like Hamas, but I don't think Iran's enmity of the US, while deep, is quite that deep. Iran's enmity with Israel might be, though.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
28d ago
War is going to be as quick and painless as running an algorithm.
There's a Star Trek episode about that ("A Taste of Armageddon"). It didn't turn out well.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
29d ago
OK, so China flattens the island (incidentally destroying any facilities of value they might want, or they're destroyed deliberately to deny them to the invaders), but hasn't at all harmed the ability of the US to deny landings or blockade China.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
2d ago
Obama is frustrated over not having EVEN MORE POWER (as is Trump), but neither consider power a curse. Nor Clinton, nor Trump.
I can think of two rulers throughout history who were actually reluctant -- and the second (Washington) is probably just American lore.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
3d ago
It's not, the product is still not available. Which makes me suspect "entirely fake".
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
What is your excuse for why China is able to do it while having a one standard deviation higher median IQ over America?
They likely don't; all those rural laborers don't show up in the IQ stats because they don't take the tests.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
7d ago
They actually police fraud much less than low-trust ones, take people at their word and generally assume their good faith.
This is an unstable situation, though, unless fraudsters actually are punished a good bit of the time. If they prosper, your high-trust society days are numbered as the chumps figure out they're chumps and stop trusting and/or turn to fraud themselves.
If we're talking about some less-than-Dunbar's number small community, that's pretty easy, if Aaron Stevenson Stoltzfus invents lying in some small naive Amish community, then even if he doesn't get formally punished (which he likely would be, the Amish not actually being naive), word's going to get around and no one is going to trust him. Anything larger and it's a lot more difficult.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
9d ago
Note my trade is not at par for QALYs, it's at par for unadjusted LYs.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
14d ago
It's a euphemism.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
15d ago
I don't think we are going to get on the same page about this, but as a fact matter - if your friend was psychotic under the influence of a substance at that time he had poor judgement and insight, if they were committed involuntary (the correct response to oh holy shit the walls are talking to me is to you know, get help).
Someone experiencing a psychotic episode is often not aware that they are no longer aligned with reality. They are experiencing not just hallucinations but delusions. Yes, obviously they have "poor judgement and insight" while actually experiencing the psychotic episode; that's not reason to deprive them of fundamental rights forever.
One of the challenges of managing society in general is what to do with people who are "fine" most of the time but dangerous while in a certain state (like decompensated mental illness, tripping balls, or just pissed off).
That's pretty much everyone.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
23d ago
So if the IAEA says they are in compliance --> they are in compliance.
No. I think the IAEA will generally say they are in compliance regardless of whether they are, and most likely they have not been for quite a while.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
16d ago
I really wish he will win. And I really wish he succeeds in implementing his program, just so that USA will see first hand the results of those policies.
Doesn't work. First because he'll declare it worked even if it didn't, and the media will back him up. Second, because "the Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire"
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
19d ago
Nerds were the first to have access to online conspiracy content.
Almost tautological because of "online".
Jet Fuel Can't Melt Steel Beams!
The Jet A open air burn temperature is 1,030 °C, considerably less than the melting point of even lower melting point steels. Alas, sneering at the actual TRUE things conspiracy theorists find is pretty typical for deboonkers, and demonstrates they are merely accepting authority rather than thinking.
Muh Magic Bullet!
That's a lot older than online conspiracy theories.
I want the old America back where children were born without marriage, didn't try to change their gender, and got all the vaccines their pediatrician recommended.
There were a lot fewer recommended vaccines.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
Imagine trying to convince my 1800s great great grandmother that my great grandmother, who just kicked her from the inside, was not a baby.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
7d ago
This story made the NYC radio news. One of the examples they have was grok responding to a post calling the girls killed in the Texas floods "Future Fascists of America" with (from memory) "Hitler would know how to handle this sort of anti-white racism". No recognition at all that the original post might have been bad.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
24d ago
yet I'm increasingly falling in the delenda est camp just because the Israelis have proven time and time again that they are unwilling to compromise on their monomanic obsession to capture and subjugate
The Israelis withdrew from the Sinai; they withdrew from Gaza as well.
Do the Republicans have a credible plan for that? I haven't seen one. (No, tariffs aren't going to do that)
The good news is housing costs are set to turn around for demographic reasons. The Silents and older boomers are already dying.
Creating a tight labor market drives up inflation and erases the gains.
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