Bauxite is the obvious one. Bringing bauxite to Australia. How could you forget about bauxite?
Mostly kind chonky weirdo. Gentle nerd freak of the pacific north west. All nation states are vermin.
Bauxite is the obvious one. Bringing bauxite to Australia. How could you forget about bauxite?
I generally recoil from comparing biden to putin but this really requires russian levels of post-truth politics.
Israel is committing war crimes like trump commits all his crimes - openly, in public and shielded by US elites.
That code is to computer porn as the Hunt the Wumpus is to computer games.
Boeing is an important part of our military industrial base and thus an important part of the broader structure of US power.
That’s why they’re allowed to kill whistleblowers without repercussion.
Think of them as 2 methods for determining policy
They’re not though.
Democracy is a strategy some states use to achieve legitimacy in the eyes of the populace. Science is a method for producing knowledge.
Policy is determined by the financial interests of our elites, our global imperial interests, and the form of our bureaucratic institutions.
Democracy, science and policy are three very distinct domains.
Civilization is one of those great words (like Innovation) where if you’re using it, you’re definitely using it wrong.
When you say civilization, do you mean: The State, Justified Violence, Official Oppression, Bureaucracy, A Standing Army, Cultures you Agree with, or just Table Manners?
if politicians would grow a backbone, most of the problems we have would be solved
Politicians aren’t scared to do what’s right. Their job is to act in the interest of their fellow elites. The most successful at empowering their fellows are given more power. Solving society’s problems isn’t remotely on the agenda.
If anything, we want more cowardly and timid elites. Politicians with a backbone are just more dangerous predators.
For those who are truly into etiquette, we understand that it is a gift we give to others and hope they will choose to return in kind.
What well-wrought words!
I feel like there’s a picture of etiquette where it’s always stuffy and exists only to reinforce unjust hierarchies. Etiquette as a gift given freely with hope but no expectation of return is a great alternate model.
**Except for allergies or ARFID or something
You take the automatic RFID chip out of your food? How else will the app know when you’ve finished digesting?
One of the many things I loved about Taiwan was that people leave the left side of the escalator free for those who want to walk up or down.
There’s one single file line of people standing on the escalator. Even during the evening commute, there’s a single file line snaking back down into the station. But then as you get close there’s a much smaller line to the left moving much quicker of every who plans to walk up.
It’s so civilized.
Medicine existed in some form as long as humanity has
Probably longer. Most or all primates eat or rub plants with anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties. Some monkeys, bears too I think. So medicine probably predates the emergence of homo.
A lot of archaeological dicks are apotropaic - they ward off evil. Some are for fertility of course. Today I feel like it’s often seen as a minorly transgressive act, drawing something ‘rude’. It’s so fascinating that we keep doing the same thing and just change what we say it means.
There’s a minor fortification somewhere, I think it was roman. Outside the walls they found a fawn skeleton, fully articulated, with no butchery marks and a broken leg that had healed a bit before death. Nearby is the fully articulated skeleton of a cat.
The thinking is that a soft hearted soldier, child or spouse found a fawn with a broken leg. They tried to nurse it back to health and when it died they buried it near their cat.
Oh, this looks interesting! Written by… malcom turnball? No thank you.
Yep, Israel is too dependent an ally in a region vital to our interests. The Senate is loyal to the Empire, if not the Emperor.
peasants not liking
I’m slightly less skeptical - I think the castle is slightly concerned and we may see some tangential policy concessions, like that delay on Palestinian deportations. Mostly we’ll get a lot more public pretending I expect.
Lol that’s like asking for evidence that the daily mail is a tabloid.
NYT is just a mouthpiece of the US empire, but SCMP is the official forum for china to troll english language speakers.
Cover the product in camo, retweet some racists from your official account then just grift your way to retirement.
Why shoot up a public concert hall if your enemy is Putin and not the general public.
Why do any extremists - or russia, the US or israel for that matter - target violence towards civilians?
Maybe they believe the cause is worth it, the tactical calculus still comes out in their favour, or they just hate all russians? General destabilization? Forcing the state to devote more resources to protecting soft civilian infrastructure. Making people feel unsafe. Inspiring similar atrocities. The logic of tactically deploying murder isn’t always clear to an outsider, especially before we have a firm idea who did this.
I strongly doubt this is an “honest-to-goodness sign of revolution”. Shooting concert-goers is obviously not that. But I don’t think it’s logically sound to rule out an anti-putin motivation just because civilians were killed.
Of course, putin is not above killing russians if it benefits him. But russia has plenty of natural sources of potential extremist violence. As climate change and resource scarcity pile increasing pressure on individual humans and whole societies, events like this become more common.
Sometimes, if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it might just be a duck.
Let’s at least wait to see what putin does in response before we jump up and down shouting about putin’s 1999 apartment bombings.
Obviously there’s a proxy war between russia and the west in ukraine, but I don’t think the US wants a long attritional war.
They could have done more to not end up in one, but I think escalation management really is driving a lot of decisions in washington.