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Glemek

@ Glemek @lemmy.world

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  • Democrats grapple with their own message in Trump 2.0

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  • They have called hillary clinton, joe biden, and kamala harris woke and socialists. They will do that to literally anyone. As long as the dem candidates are bad policy communicators those labels will stick and be perceived as negative.

  • Heard he’s quite handy

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  • Another common Jaime L

  • Why eggs are selling for over $9 a dozen in some places—and when prices are expected to drop

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  • Eggs aren't a large part of my current diet, mostly because I am not cooking in the morning often right now, but there was a time when they were very cost effective. Where I was living about a decade ago they were about $1.70 per dozen, and I ate probably a little over a dozen a week. If I was still in that mode; seeing a dozen eggs for $9 would definitely stop me buying them, throw my meal planning into a bit of chaos and tick me off.

  • There is currently a bill in the NY State Assembly to require background checks for the purchase of 3D printers

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  • If I recall correctly the ones on the plastic coil can be put back on the coil. I definitely misremembered how nail guns work, it's probably been a decade since I used one with any regularity, and I have made a handful of compressed air blowguns.

  • There is currently a bill in the NY State Assembly to require background checks for the purchase of 3D printers

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  • You could probably easily add some fletching to them and maybe a little bit of a barrel to the nail gun to get a little extra muzzle velocity.

  • How Russia tries to turn desperate Ukrainians into traitors

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  • Sadly, even there; it would've been better if he didn't

  • The Ministry for the Future makes open source social media look easy.

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  • I love Kim Stanley Robinson, but yeah, he is definitely handwaving past a lot of the feasibility and hard work involved in many of the solutions presented. He is just a writer throwing out ideas more than working thru the struggles of implementing and getting adoption of those ideas.

  • Tesla shares slide after it reports first drop in annual deliveries

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  • Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100

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  • That's not an answer. What should he have done? How do you prevent the cold war in February of 1945?

  • Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100

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  • Oh. The Yalta Myth, I should've guessed. A contender for the founding enemy within type myth for the modern American far right.

    What do you think they should have done instead? Immediately gone to war with the Soviets? Congrats! WW3 is much worse than the cold war.

    The Soviets already held nearly the entirety of Poland by the time of the Yalta conference. The rest of the allies probably couldn't have done anything to prevent that level of Soviet imperialism, even militarily. See: operation unthinkable, the korean war, the chinese civil war

    A decent essay with citations, even if it is from a firmly neoconservative source. https://nationalinterest.org/article/the-yalta-myth-1052

    An article from an american liberal source, responding to the same W. Bush Speech as the previous essay, and whose talking points you echo. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/05/what-really-happened-at-yalta.html

    Finally, to round it out; a pair of articles by Alger Hiss, who attended the Yalta conference, and who was later investigated by McCarthy's House Unamerican Activities Committee, specifically by then rising star Richard Nixon. One from the 50s: https://algerhiss.com/alger-hiss/in-his-own-words/yalta-modern-american-myth/ Another from the 80s: https://algerhiss.com/alger-hiss/in-his-own-words/two-yalta-myths/

  • Jimmy Carter, former US president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dead at 100

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  • FDR died before the end of WW2? How would any betrayal of the US allies post WW2 be on him?

  • Battleship reformers are unironically more fanatical and non-credible than A-10 reformers

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  • Y not tethered awacs weatherballon??

  • Reject campism rule

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  • I'm not sure what your point is? Assad wasn't really stopping that, given that it seems turkey backed some militias that were able to mop him up in like a week with a surprise offensive.

    Turkey has already been waging war against rojava for years now, and has been perpetrating a genocide against the kurds more broadly for decades. Their situation has always been dire, but its not over for them.

  • Reject campism rule

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  • All the lefties I know were excited about rojava/ aanes. I've never met a lefty in real life that was pro assad, not saying they don't exist, but like: fuck em, assad sucked.

  • Assad and Family in Moscow After Fleeing Syria

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  • I don't see how this specifically spells more unsettledness. There are already lots of extremists in power in the middle east. Syria has been in civil war for over 10 years and state forces have barely been holding on to the point where a sudden offensive was able to completely topple the regime in a week, it was already unstable and Assad had already failed as a stabilizing force, on top of being a butcher himself.

    I'm not super optimistic about it, but the peoples of Syria do have an opportunity to build themselves more responsive governance and a better future, and I hope they will be able to make it work.

  • they were buddies rule

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  • We do really seem to be selecting for it based on who wins tho

  • syria wilding, everyone wilding

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  • Biden administration moves to forgive $4.7 billion of loans to Ukraine

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  • I don't know that biden truly had the ability to stack the court, any justice he wanted to add would have to get through the senate. Which was only very narrowly held by the dems, and a pretty minimal amount of defections would have scuttled the plan entirely while also having broken the taboo. I don't actually trust biden either, so the world in which biden destroys the democratic norms and seizes power in that way also is a really bad situation.

  • Biden administration moves to forgive $4.7 billion of loans to Ukraine

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  • Supreme court shot down the 20k for pell grant recipients and 10k for non pell grant recipients plan, and basically said that at that scale should require congress. So all the smaller programs have been calibrated to try to survive the court battles.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biden_v._Nebraska