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4·8 days agoI love that something like this exists for these workers and demonstrates how freely accessible health care saves everyone (including the company) a whole bunch of money.
I hate that this is a: reliant on the goodwill of a private company and b: bold and revolutionary for the US.
7·8 days agoIn 2021 Netanyahu was indicted for bribery, fraud, corruption, breach of trust, etc. The trial is actually still ongoing, but basically as long as he’s Prime Minister, he’s probably not going to see the inside of a cell.
So in order to stay Prime Minister he needs to keep his coalition of various nationalist religious conservatives together and he needs to not have another election.
As long as there’s a war going on, he can postpone elections, and as long as he’s clearing land for settlers he’s appealing to those same nationalist religious conservatives.
So basically he’s trying to start a forever war so he doesn’t go to jail.
https://geology.com/articles/arctic-oil-and-gas/
This makes the Arctic an incredibly rich area. It is about the same geographic size as the African Continent - about 6% of Earth’s surface area - yet it holds an estimated 22 percent of Earth’s oil and natural gas resource.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-021-01087-6
A more accessible Arctic will create new opportunities for shorter, potentially more economical, northern maritime trade routes imagined by global leaders for centuries.
Not to mention the strategic use of the Arctic, aka, the reason NORAD is a thing.
7·9 days agoRocking up to the range in knee-high stockings and cat-ear-muffs looking to hit some center mass targets babyyyyy
103·10 days agoDisagree: if you start at the top and work down, then the wet spots don’t drip down onto the parts you’ve already dried.
Fascists and “strongmen” appeal to the weak and insecure.
I once got to go behind the scenes at a zoo, including their vet’s operating room. They had a bunch of interesting stories about how they tranq and operate on different animals of various sizes, but the worst experience they had was with an otter.
Poor little guy woke up partway through surgery, panicked, and went fucking berserk. Those little claws left gouges a foot long and an inch deep in the vet. And then, because they’re so small and fast, trying to re-anaesthetize it was a huge pain.
Anyways, I think about that story a lot when I hear about otters.
Right up there with the ergonomic comfort and ease of use of the N64 tripod!
3·2 months agoSee, I figured the point wasn’t so much computing the ratio, but the simple idea that homeless people and empty homes shouldn’t co-exist.
24·2 months agoExactly right. I think the unsaid part here is that white guys are generally dismissing hardship and mistreatment in the workplace until it happens to them. Frankly, it shouldn’t require a personal experience for someone to care about another person being bullied or harassed in the workplace.
Empathy and allyship should not require shared suffering.
In fact, you can copy and paste this for pretty much any business large enough to have shareholders.
Basically liberalism tends to be capitalist, whereas leftism tends to be anticapitalist. Historically, there’s been a pattern of centrists and capitalist allying with authoritarians and fascists against leftists, so the insult boils down to “you’d support a fascist before you went against capitalism”
15·2 months agoOnly if you think the campaign means that companies must pay for the multiplayer servers forever which Ross has said on MULTIPLE occasions is not reasonable and not what he wants.
Giving players the tools to host their own servers or adding LAN functionality, though? That’s entirely reasonable seeing as that’s how multiplayer always used to work. I mean, there are still plenty of Unreal Tournament servers active today without any involvement from the developer in decades.
Especially since, if this initiative works, developers will make games with that functionality in mind.
See, I like RTS for the same comp-stomping enjoyment because I like the spectacle of it more.
Fun History Fact!
While the Royal Canadian Navy began WW2 with only 13 ships, by the end of the war it had 1,140 surface ships listed as having been in service giving it the third largest navy in the world!
$1000 is a rather modest proposal!