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  • Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief

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  • If you’re a (western) European leader returning to Russian energy is at best shortsighted amnesia, at worst blatant malfeasance. There’s several reasons to not go back to Russia:

    • Official legal based sanctions on Russian energy
    • Ukrainian drone based ‘sanctions’ on Russian energy
    • Russia’s track record of energy blackmail/hybrid warfare
    • LNG and oil production available in your EEZ/the EU, albeit at higher cost than imported
    • Domestic solar, hydro, and wind manufacturing/generation is ramping up
    • French nuclear energy exports
    • Domestic politics ie. voters turning against Russian imperial aggression/expansionism

    Eastern Europe has a slightly different incentive mix, but there’s still a lot of reasons to not

  • 'Sobering reality' for Trump as he rages at night to friends about negative press: report

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  • Absolutely. My best learning experiences in life - both collaborative like mentoring/educational setting, or competitive like sports - have been when I was massively outclassed. Because if you put aside your lizard-brain feelings of being less than or inferior and listen/observe, you can see how it’s working for them and understand what it is you are/aren’t doing or do/don’t know.

    Observe. Ask. Understand. Decide… and Review.

    But humility is understated. It doesn’t sell on TV, it doesn’t captivate a crowd or rally the masses. “I don’t have the answer, but let’s find out” is honest but doesn’t have the same pull as “the problem is clear, and I know the solution”

  • 'Sobering reality' for Trump as he rages at night to friends about negative press: report

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  • And all he had to do was shut up, and take credit for the federal apparatchik doing all the work for him with COVID. Blather at a press conference to his followers to stay home and ‘beat the China virus so America stays strong’ - and then play golf. Push on industry and suppliers to build ventilators, hospital capacity, and facilitate lockdowns and remote school/work.

    Imagine if instead of nearly a million direct deaths, we had a mortality similar to Europe - better even as we bought our way to the front of the vaccine line. An actual ‘America first’ in recovery from COVID and the economic slowdown, instead of fumbling the ball so hard in his fourth year and making Biden president.

    How anyone thought that he would be the right choice to manage any crisis, let alone economic woes is dumbfounding. The ‘smartest person’ in every room he enters, he’s incapable of anyone else to having the right answer.

  • No Connection, No Flush

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  • FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS

    I will bulk purchase grey-market bootleg toner from shady overseas websites before I go back to a inkjet…

  • If infowar "veterans" get a coin what do noncredible defence veterans get?

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  • ghibli posting

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  • Is it ableist to not define AI art as art, when handicapped people can't perform the same actions?

    Please reconsider this like of argument in the future, it just comes across as cynical using the disabled for arguments sake. There are plenty of blind/deaf/handicapped/motor impaired/etc people making art of various forms. Deaf musicians. Blind painters. Non-verbal writers.

    What makes art, “art” is the human creativity of original thought and intrinsic meaning, even if it is derivative. A jazz beat sampled on a rap track is art because it has social/familial meaning - beat makers often unwittingly share their childhood memories listening to their parent’s music at home. A painter may be influenced by their surreal visions, or the war and horrors they witnessed.

  • Russia has depleted its tank stocks: the industry is not covering combat losses

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  • Devils advocate, but given the way they’ve been building metal sheds around the prior tanks and almost completely negating the main gun, a missing turret might just be a weatherproofing issue for the Orks Russians.

    It’s not like a main gun helps you survive a mobility kill from the umpteenth TM-62 in the dirt that got replanted after the last assault failed.

  • TIL you can ask Google to blur your house out on Google Maps

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  • If you can't make your point without moving the goalposts over the horizon, you don't have an actual point.

    I made my point, twice even. That final example is what’s know as hyperbole, trying to make the point get across to you by over exaggerating. You ignored two examples (stalkers and burglars), to focus that. Moving the goalposts is an entire different thing.

    hyperbole

    1. Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.

  • TIL you can ask Google to blur your house out on Google Maps

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  • People passing by and getting a temporary snapshot with their eyes? No problem

    A tech monopoly putting photos online, for anyone anywhere at any time to see, and constantly updating the photos? Thats a problem.

    Without even thinking hard I can imagine several malicious uses like stalkers finding their victims home, or burglars casing neighborhoods for gates or cameras.

    You naïveté does not define the norm for everyone else. Would you livestream video on the internet of your front door online, 24/7? Of course not.

  • 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓐𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓦𝓪𝓻

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  • “ANOTHER FORK?!? Unbelievable, don’t these people have any original ideas?”

  • Always guard against overrating your "talent"

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  • If you dare to unpack “the situation” you might understand more of why women ‘give it up’ or just lay there under societal/individual pressure to be sexually available. And yes, that’s an uncomfortable conversation but likely not in the way you’re imagining

  • Always guard against overrating your "talent"

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  • I can't handle the fact that sex is complex and it's ok to need to work on it and figure out what works for both partners

    There’s working on it, and trying to flex on Twitter. After-care is working on it. Discussing go/no-gos or dominance roles is working on it. Asking why she’s not invested is working on it.

    “You can’t handle me” is a dismissal I have seen used on the ’alphas’ who won’t take a hint that she’s not interested

  • Always guard against overrating your "talent"

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  • Edit: Man the downvotes, y'all really are telling on yourselves

    Imagine telling on yourself like this lmao

    I am so bad at pleasuring my partner that I have only experienced women tolerating me via starfishing

    I see no reason to question why these women aren’t more invested in sex with me; clearly she is a lazy pillow princess and not me who is the problem

    Also super gross how we’ve normalized/coerced women into “lying back and taking it” instead of asking why shes not active and engaged

  • 'Someone's butthurt': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hits back at Elon Musk's conspiracy theory

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  • Because for the right, the concept of people coming together as a grassroots movement and setting aside some political differences to unite as a group, was unheard of until Tea Party/MAGA.

    It’s an implicit admission - how else could ‘those radical lefties/gays/immigrants/etc’ get these crowd sizes except by astroturfing like the right has to?

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    Arrogant Donald Trump names new fighter jet after himself in unbelievable move

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  • Let the ‘hog die the graceful end it deserves - in the hearts and memories of ground pounders. The Frogfoots are getting wrecked in Ukraine when they try to do CAS, that mission is over unless you’re splattering goat herders, and even militants have MANPADs now.

    Super Tucano is all you need for low intensity/asymmetrical conflict and COIN, otherwise busting tanks is better done by ATGMs and AT mines.

  • If you can find the oil filter, I'll give you a quarter. If you can get it out after the lube tech tightened it to 325 lbft, I'll give you sixty bucks.

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  • The screwdriver trick is mid imo - you run a major risk of just shearing the filter body wall and now your problem is a leaky oil filter that’s much harder to grasp with other hand tools. Go buy a strap wrench that you can use to install and remove.

    Or for the very stubborn filters, these kind of tools are very much a one trick pony that only takes the filter off, but it’s a good trick - it has worked every single time for me.

  • it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior

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  • As a lurker who ends up rubbing shoulders with right wing culture spaces, can confirm. The right has heresy tests for their politicians, the left tests for their voters. However the left expects competency in government (because they actually believe in it) and will sacrifice ideals or policies, while the right can afford the luxury of rejecting good governance because they’re expressly transactional when it comes to politics.

    Rightwing voters are willing to cut off their nose in spite and become single issue voters - and it works for them. Pro-life or you’re dead to them. Pro-gun or you’re dead to them. Non-Christian? Dead. They get the political rhetoric and efforts they demand, which has left them severely ripe for opportunist political grifters who say whatever gets them access power. Like the MAGAs who build nothing, but hand out bones to voting blocs. Abortion overturned. No new gun laws. Ten Commandments in school and state houses. “Hurting the right people”. Migrants deported. Culture wars.

    Or in the more extreme examples, they’ll just outright co-opt the structures of power and governance to fit the voters whims. It’s why we have the political maximalist lobbying NRA of today, instead of the humbler sportsman’s advocacy group of yesteryear. Or Trump.

  • it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior

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  • Everything I don’t like is a psyop

    It’s not wrong to say that the right/outside actors made the issue more pervasive, but let’s not exonerate the “adults in the room” who decided it was better policy to unflinchingly support war criminals and a slow motion genocide, instead of defusing the wedge issue and forcing Bibi’s hand. Israel is nothing without US political support and weapons. Recognize “who’s the fucking superpower” and act like it when your client state gets out of line in a way that’ll cost you domestically. China does it with North Korea all the time when they got testy. Russia routinely interferes with domestic politics of CSTO members.

    Nor should we pretend that all criticism was astroturfing. Some of us wanted to drop Biden before “we beat Medicare” made him obviously unelectable. And called it that Harris was going to lose swing states like Michigan for maintaining Biden’s posture on Israel. If team blue is all I can realistically vote for, I’m going to call out shitty policy that loses elections and kills voter enthusiasm. It’s up to you to listen and understand that we need to do better

  • it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior

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  • Give them something to vote for.

    This. We saw the energy and joy when Biden dropped out, and it was reflected by Harris almost matching Obama’s small donor numbers. Hope. Change. They were simple campaign slogans, but people coming out of the Bush era wanted to believe, and had a candidate to believe in.

    It’s a damning indictment that my most genuine electoral engagement, in my entire adult life, was voting “Uncommitted” in the 2024 Democratic primary. That was my most enthusiastic, “I 100% support this” vote ever, because almost every other time has been against something/one, or accepting lesser. From ballot initiatives, Senate races, down to the local comptroller chair.

    Contrast that to my vote for Kamala in the general afterwards. It’s so unbelievably hollow to say “our democracy is strong” when the choice is always ‘well they’re better than them’.