Harris left a vacuum by not visiting Michigan families impacted by US-supplied bombs to help create a permission structure for their trust
Trump’s illegal calls for ethnic cleansing are horrific, but as on so many other issues
Shut the fuck up.
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They could probably get cattle cars for even cheaper.
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Ukraine secures preliminary deals to replace USAID funding for critical projects
(kyivindependent.com)
They're waking up, a little bit.
A lot of what made them change is the protests this week in DC, meetings with congresspeople, going to their offices in a big crowd, phone calls that are blowing up their phones to 4,000% of the usual traffic level.
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-suggested-approach-for-dealing
It's nowhere near what is required, they're still sleepwalking. But the pressure is working, a little bit, and a lot of the solidarity that's being developed to put pressure on them is going to be useful as things get worse and worse.
there’s nothing the state could do to prevent it
Whoever wrote this needs to go back and read Thomas Jefferson or pretty much any history of any collapsing authoritarian regime in history.
They could obey the orders. Or, they could say "lol no". What's he going to do, activate their remote-control collars?
The US military, National Guard included, goes through training that heavily emphasizes support for the constitution and what to do about illegal or unconstitutional orders.
It's actually pretty dangerous to start to bend the knee to an authoritarian despot in this way. By presenting Trump's illegal bullshit as some kind of pre-ordained structure that other people will have to follow, of course, because that's the system, they are normalizing it. Even if he were following US law, which he isn't, they'd have the option to tell him to go fuck himself, and they'd be in some excellent historical company in doing so.
If you read this collection and say science believes animals feel no pain you are either misinformed or lieing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_in_animals#History
The idea that animals might not experience pain or suffering as humans do traces back at least to the 17th-century French philosopher, René Descartes, who argued that animals lack consciousness.[14][15][16] Researchers remained unsure into the 1980s as to whether animals experience pain, and veterinarians trained in the U.S. before 1989 were simply taught to ignore animal pain.[17]
I was clearly referring to the past view, which is why I said we're not in those days anymore. I was indicating the pretty benighted attitude that science used to have about animal pain, and that some scientists apparently still do about ToM.
As of this moment there is no clearly accepted theoretical model on how animals or human consciousness works. Just lots of open to debate hypotheses. Because for all we understand about neurons and processing of the mind.
You're tangling up separate issues. The computational process which indicates that a creature's mental model includes other entities which are doing their own processing has nothing to do with consciousness. Even AIs can have a "theory of mind" about other entities or not.
You seem really committed to the idea of lecturing me on this. Not sure why. Anyway, I've sent you enough citations that you can educate yourself on the topic if you feel like, I'm pretty much done with talking about it.
The article is misleadingly phrased.
He “tried to fire” her. She’s obeying the law by not leaving, since he had the exact same authority to fire her that my nieces do. And there’s no “arguing” about it. She’s not arguing, she’s just ignoring his invalid order.
More federal employees should do this. Don’t just go along with his random illegal bullshit.
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it.”
― Seneca
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Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build
(go.theregister.com)
Unfair, it's been at least 21 hours since I did that.
I JUST WANT TO FIGHT ABOUT IT MORE, I WAS RIGHT
(Point taken, lol)
They're just making up bullshit. Somewhere down below, when I pointed out that Substack finally removed the ~three Nazis that still were on it, over a year ago, they said that they "have no information" about whether there are any still left, in the present day.
It's just a manufactured freakout over nothing. Well, it was that before they removed the 0.000whatever% of Nazis, now it's just a manufactured freakout without even a fig-leaf of legitimacy.
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This is a pretty ironic thing to write underneath this article.
Blame can be shared. We can blame Biden for continuing half a century of support for genocide as long as it’s a close US ally that’s doing it. We can blame the media for creating an environment where more Americans support Israel than Palestine, in one of the most morally unambiguous situations that has ever existed on the planet. We can also blame short-sighted political operatives who were unmoved by warnings that their efforts to “help” in Gaza by advocating against Democrats in this election were going to accelerate the genocide tenfold, if they accomplished anything at all. Now that the warnings are working out precisely as envisioned. I have very little sympathy for “Arabs for Trump” or anything g resembling it.
I’m actually not sure how much we can blame Harris, since she was handed a totally impossible situation where attempting to change course on Gaza would have lost her significant support from Israel-supporters, and I strongly suspect gained her pretty minimal support from Palestinian supporters. We may disagree about that. But regardless, I think the pretty reasonable claim “the Democrats have their heads up their ass as far as Gaza” is in no way a counter argument for the claim “and the uncommitted movement was, in retrospect, a big mistake.”