I believe I read that not only are micro plastics unavoidable, the amount entering the environment produced by any organization is an order of magnitude higher than anything we produce at home.
Especially anything that comes in plastic wrap.
Ok my prediction: Someone Trump respects more than Hegseth said Hegseth will get them all killed.
Using Islamic terminology to describe the driving force of a Christian nationalist coming to the aid of Jewish Zionists to fight an Islamic Hegemony has my head hurting in new ways.
This whole thing still has me scratching my head.
Such a large portion of the West gets a raging boner about coming to Israel’s aide. I get it from the strange doomsday cult belief where something about Israel at war triggers the rapture or some shit. But I don’t really believe that’s what the western world leaders actually believe.
Trump has his own reality, and only a divine entity understands what’s going on in the space between his ears.
Ignoring Trump and the doomsday cult thing, the other things I can think of:
US and Europe want an established western sympathizing military power in the middle-east. Some sort of remnant of the Cold war.
US and Europe want a military western sympathizing military power with close proximity to the Suez Canal and red Sea, as well as the Mediterranean.
The “Sampson Option” that Israel has is completely legitimate and Israel is ready to obliterate everyone if they don’t get their way.
There’s some economic or strategic value the West won’t acknowledge.
Even with all that, attack Iran? Iran is not remotely similar to Iraq. Iran will put up much more of a fight. It also won’t be a “forever war” like fascists dream about.
So if I get this right, people will exchange the dollar, a fiat currency, for a stablecoin. The stablecoin, itself, being a fiat currency.
So basically, if I want to own something that isn’t purely speculative, I’m going to be forced to own real estate or gold?
What’s the point of all this liquidity?!!?!
Ok, I looked this up as you were being serious. And I didn’t realize Russia had a price cap as the sanction, rather than halting all oil production. So it’s not that Russia undercuts the market, it’s that Russia isnt legally allowed to sell it for any amount above it.
You’re right. They would want the price of oil to go down.
But the point still stands that the US needs the price to go up to be profitable. Which puts this all in a really weird lens.
I’m sorry I really can’t figure out if you are being serious or not.
No. Oil has to be a certain price per barrel for extraction to be profitable. Currently the price is below that level for the US, which is primarily done by fracking.
Russia has to undercut already low prices in order to get China/India to accept the sanctioned oil. Any rise in price means they get to ask more while still being cheaper.
Edit: I was wrong. Russia is allowed to export at a maximum price of $60/barrel. Price going up gives them no benefit.
Iran is the principal source of regional instability and terror.
Ok does someone want to catch me up on this opinion shared by world leaders but quite literally no one else?
Like yes, Iran is a terrible authoritarian state that is very dangerous. But so is Saudi Arabia?!
So like modern tanks have nuclear, radiological, biological and chemical protections. Does that mean that they are rated to survive a nuclear detonation at a certain radius?
That’s why the US is getting involved in Iran so quick. It has nothing to do with Israel - it’s about driving the price of oil to extreme heights.
I didn’t call it, but there’s nothing quite like a war to distract the population from rampant decline at home.
This one is weird though, Iran is allied with Russia. Israel is allied with the US. Historically, this made sense.
But Trump and Putin playing war together would benefit both of them. It allows Putin to pull out of Ukraine because “Iran provided us much help and they need us now.” And it allows Russia to maintain the war economy. It benefits Trump because he wants to play war.
Neither leader would have any actual skin in the game, it’s just people’s lives that would never contribute in another meaningful way to their power.
I don’t like this. This is feeling more 1984 than 1984.
Edit: I like this even worse after I read the specifics of the KC-135R and KC-46A. Each can carry about 200,000 lbs of additional fuel. A single F-15E can hold 13,000 lbs internally. 30 KC-135Rs can refuel an entire F-15E 460 times. Israel has 7 KC-130H (60,000lbs) and 7 Boeing 707s (which is what the KC-135 was based on). This isn’t just escalation, this is staging for invasion.
And then I’m a single father, so I’m just fucked!
Alright. Credit is due where credit is due.
The billionaire run media may not have been covering it, but they had a suspect and didn’t need to plant evidence on an Italian in a McDonald’s to arrest him.
I guess you missed the memo lol.
He had to say that because the assassin is still at large. He knew it wouldn’t stop the protests, not if the protests really mattered to the people.
And boy, from what my friends up there showed me, they showed up.
It’s not the standard democratic party. It does caucus and fund with them, but DFL has historically been much more progressive than the DNC.
It’s part of why they don’t drop the FL.
From all available intelligence, no. They clearly have a nuclear weapons program (which are insanely huge to begin with) but there has never been a measured test, and no evidence of enriched uranium at a high enough purity to be weaponized.
It’s insanely hard work to created weaponized enriched uranium. With the sanctions Iran has had for decades it would be next to impossible for them to get all the stuff they need to create it on their own.
You are you when you’re hungry. Grab a Crayon.
Wait wait wait
'Merica
'Merica Cult Figure
No More Children of 'Merica
Hog Emperor of 'Merica
Slaughterhouse: 'Merica
Worshippers of 'Merica
The Magat Jihad
'Merica: The Human Crusade (see what I did there, freaking brilliant)
'Merica: The Battle of Cleveland
Shoppers of 'Merica
Wormthings of 'Merica
(I haven’t read the other books, I’m actually kind of surprised Brian kept going)
So, it sort of makes me think, if a vaccine panel is staffed by anti-experts, couldn’t the former vaccine panel, you know, still make their decisions and give their recommendations to hospitals?