This, exactly. They’re letting the violent bullies dictate the terms.
And that never ends well.
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Everything in the link you provided says that Obama could have done a shitton more to ensure that the Senate Judiciary Committee actually did their jobs.
Instead, they played political bullshit, Obama blinked, and as a result, America is now two good shakes away from a Fascist dictatorship. The midterm elections - or America’s own “Night of the Long Knives”, which seems all the more likely due to the rhetoric surrounding Kirk’s assassination - Will cinch this future in the bag.
The fact that Obama didn’t fill the position that Scalia opened when he died is probably one of the biggest missed opportunities in America’s recent history. Had his position been filled with a left-leaning Justice, especially a young one with many decades of life left, much of America’s Fascist changes could have been opposed.
As it is, the SC has become a rubber stamp for whatever the current Fascist/Authoritarianist regime wants.
Jerry: if you don’t think Israel is evil, it’s because you are, too.
Genocide is never OK, which is why I stand with the Palestinians.
I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.
Clarence Darrow
there's a lesson hidden somewhere in here
“People should be careful what they wish for.”
Particularly, his own admission that the deaths of innocents should be perfectly acceptable for 2nd amendment rights to be upheld.
Well, he sure set an example, now, didn’t he?
Meanwhile, in Canada, we have had less than a dozen school shootings in the last century.
And that’s including post-secondary institutions.
And no, plenty of us own guns. We just don’t own guns that can send 60 bullets a second downrange, and easily-concealable handguns are highly restricted.
Meanwhile, in Canada, we have had less than a dozen school shootings in the last century.
And that’s including post-secondary institutions.
And no, plenty of us own guns. We just don’t own guns that can send 60 bullets a second downrange, and easily-concealable handguns are highly restricted.
I kept reading about people having trouble during the restore process.
It is Duplicati, and IMHO restores work best if they aren’t restores-in-place. As in, dump the restores in a central location then drag-and-drop the data into place. Most of the issues I have heard of involve restoring data and settings back to where it originally was backed up from, and restoring directly back to those places - other than fully user-controlled directories, such as Documents or Photos - seems to be problematic.
Other than that, I have been using it for nearly a decade and have done a number of restores - after total drive deaths, so not just accidentally deleted files - to great success.
The downside is that tweaking backups from within the hidden
C:\Users\[username]\AppData\directory involves many days of whack-a-mole to exclude untouchable normally-in-use files so you don’t get scads of errors in the backup process. Plus, there are a fair number of entries in there that don’t really need backing up. But once you get that to settle down, it’s largely smooth it’s-set-so-forget-it sailing.British Columbian here, what part of Canada was that? Because it wasn’t this end…
Maybe Alberta, the Trump-loving Texas of the North?
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It’s almost as if rampant corruption, greed, and cowboy economics have consequences.
The last free-to-run version of Sketchup is from 2017, and ironically you can download it from the official website, you just have to dig for it. It isn’t immediately available, and they try their best to sell you the latest version.
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A rationality check for you, specifically, from a purely biological standpoint:
For a woman, peak fertility occurs between about 16 and 28. After 30, fertility starts dropping more and more rapidly every year, with pregnancies after 35 being classified by the medical system as “geriatric pregnancies” due to their age-related risk.
By the time most women hit 40, they need to put forth up to 30× the effort to become pregnant as they would have when 18, and by 45 most women are considered by the medical system as being functionally sterile.
That’s not to say that women cannot become pregnant after the age of 45, it just becomes highly unlikely without many tens of thousands of dollars of medical assistance.
Natural pregnancies after 45, and without any medical assistance, really only happen to women who have - ironically enough - been pregnant for most of their adult lives, because pregnancy pauses the natural cycle for up to 9 months. This pausing of the ovulation cycle prevents eggs from being expended, and pushes back the decline of fertility by up to as much as a decade if full pregnancies occur often enough. However, since this means carrying a full pregnancy to term each and every year from the teenage years onwards, I seriously doubt that any woman would willingly reach for brood mare status just for a longer fertile window.
So if you have any desire to have a child safely and easily, now would be the time to do so.
Your husband, on the other hand, is likely to continue being fertile until the day he dies. The only risk he faces is a significant rise of mutations in his sperm (starting in his late-40s) that can lead to rates of genetic diseases and birth defects in his children that directly correlates to his age. As in, he ought to be motivated to act soon, as well, but has far less pressure to do so than you do.
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Have the day you voted for!
so we must escalate the security dilemma
There is no escalation dilemma here. History is overflowing with examples of countries with good militaries stopping much larger and more powerful countries from invading.
You think Switzerland just told the Nazis “pretty please don’t invade”?? No, their entire population was armed to the teeth and the entire country was geared for war and a strong defence, along with defendable topography. Had Nazi Germany actually invaded, it would have likely crippled itself from the attempt.
Now, maybe that would have been a good thing, historically speaking, but bullies are only stopped by people they think they cannot easily bully. And for countries and unions of countries, that means a strong military and leaping to each other’s defence.
Conversely, Russia only invaded the Ukraine because it saw that country as weak and an easy invasion target. Europe failing to back Ukraine tells Russia that it can walk over Europe, taking out countries in sequence, and no-one will make any serious attempt to stop it until it is too late.
Your comment seems to be steeped in reality-free ideology, and bereft of practical history.
To focus on political structure when Europe is under immediate threat of an emboldened Russia is bikeshedding at its worst.
Given a choice between enlisting for a country in it’s defence - or the defence of the entire continent of which it’s a part of - and being exterminated by the invader who threatens all countries there, I’ll take the former any day of the week.
The greater evil is the imperialistic-driven extermination of you and everyone you love, not serving in the military for a war that you would prefer not to be in.
I said absolutely nothing about patriotism. Patriotism in many cases is toxic to humanity and peace in general.
And an aggressor like Russia will roll over Europe if there is no military opposition regardless of the system in place. Better to have a military-industrial complex providing viable opposition than having entire nonmilitary populations being forcibly exterminated as Russian forces are wont to do.
I advocate dealing with the aggression first, and then figuring out an ideal system moving forward afterwards, rather than bikeshedding away any advantage that may currently exist.
TL;DR: Use the tools that you have right now, and figure out something better once you have the breathing room to do so. Because right now, Russia ain’t planning on providing Europe any breathing room. It would gladly retake all of Eastern Europe given half the chance.
Looks like the future country of Cascadia is finally starting to make some moves.
The agreed-upon future name is Cascadia.
About the same point that the Americans figured it out. Some of them haven't yet.
MAGA farmers voted that shit in because they thought all the bad shit would happen to someone else.
Problem is, Fascism/Authoritarianism doesn’t give a shit who it hurts, only that the ultra-wealthy benefit.
And so, all working class voters must be hurt, even those who voted the Fascists/Authoritarianists into power.
Before you reuse it, please crack open an image editor and correct the last word in the title by removing the apostrophe. Anyone who took English classes past Elementary school will thank you for that correction.
You need only to look at his ideology to realize that Charlie Kirk was 100% in support of his own assassination.
And that he would have also been 100% in favour of this professor’s right to speak her mind.