

Russia’s search for alternatives in Algeria, Sudan, or Libya
The logistics of a Mediterranean naval base in Sudan would be something to behold. Seems like they’d have to cross the Suez. That or portage past the Aswan Dam.
Russia’s search for alternatives in Algeria, Sudan, or Libya
The logistics of a Mediterranean naval base in Sudan would be something to behold. Seems like they’d have to cross the Suez. That or portage past the Aswan Dam.
He can’t say that in a meeting that will obviously have leaks. It would be “value-destroying.”
What’s the point of having “Fuck You Money” if you don’t say “Fuck you” when it matters?
Whenever people act like disruptive protest is such a terrible tactic, I have to wonder what they think would work instead. Like, do they think the letter writing campaigns that have gone exactly nowhere in 40 years are on the verge of a breakthrough?
Or would they prefer the environmental movement to compile an overly literal companion reader to Andreas Malm?
The Prime Minister is de jure the acting president in case of a vacancy. Given the strength of legal institutions in Russia Mikhail Mishustin would have some work ahead of him to actually hold power.
Still, it’s nice to see a conservative think-tank take a position that isn’t just capitulation to the further right.
Not that it’ll accomplish anything (though maybe it’ll sway enough of the justices to make a difference in the court).
At some point, and we all have to draw our lines somewhere, which means this will vary person to person, we have to acknowledge that this deniability is no longer plausible.
Years of replying ‘good point’ to every “Camp of the Saints” reference on the social media website you bought followed by a Roman salute feels like a good place to draw that line.
Yeah, and the Capitol subway probably has loads of security. Can’t have a new Guy Fawkes Day in January.
I wonder how much of the rejection of real issues with marijuana are the after effects of nearly a century of it being demonized with sources like “we made it up” or “we just really want to jail black people and college students”.
Then again, we have people out there believing that the entire world was ruled by a single nomadic horde, the world was flooded with mud in the mid 1800s, and 1*1=2 so we might just have a broader issue with people rejecting facts they don’t like.
State charge. Garland can’t even claim credit for this conviction-without-a-sentence.
Blue sky (and just about anything else) is an improvement, but remember, there is no bottom, things can always be worse. Truth Social and Gab both still exist.
These websites, because they are all centralized, are all ultimately moderated in accordance with the whims of their owners, the effect of which was thrown into sharp relief after Apartheid Willy Wonka bought Twitter.
With a federated platform like Mastodon, no single owner would be able to do this. If an instance suddenly became terrible, they could be de-federated and they’d lose their reach.
Of course, if one instance became particularly large, the ‘whims of the owner’ problem would come right back, but at least the alternatives would still be readily available.
He said he was going to do what he said he would do.
Not that he wouldn’t do things he said he wouldn’t do.
The fact that they have intra-party disagreements about the budget.
Society will have to relearn a lesson like this every so often, because people kind of yearn to offload the mental energy involved in controlling some aspect of their lives to someone else. And while they’ll probably start by offloading or to someone competent and with their best interests at heart, eventually someone who wants to extract wealth from that position will rise in such a space.
Can’t get there. The Bosphorus is closed to warships
I’m saying you can’t get pregnant if you’re dead.
If they were worried about birth rates before…
What if your robot was just a guy?
There is, and has been, a large number of left-wing podcasts. But the Dems don’t want to pump money into Chapo Trap House, Five-Four, or the Cool Zone network. They want Ezra Klein to be as cool as Rogan.
Trump’s campaign was big on vengeance, and the various unjust kangaroo courts that are going to spin up are going to be a nightmare.
But I’m not sure Merrick Garland’s prosecution is going to get much sympathy from the left.
There’s no such thing as ethnic cleansing. It’s just a weasel word for genocide. It’s all it ever has been. When “ethnic cleansing” was going on in the Balkans in the 90s, it was just a genocide that nobody was intervening to stop. Same for Myanmar in the mid 2010s And for Karabakh in 2020.