This isn’t “I want to believe”, this is “it would be irresponsible to not consider”.

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Cake day: September 3rd, 2023
  • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.workstoNews@lemmy.world•Trump’s CIA Director Blames Biden Team For Allowing Communications On Signal App
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    14 days ago

    Traffic (2000)

    You know, when they forced Khruschev out, he sat down and wrote two letters to his successor. He said - “When you get yourself into a situation you can’t get out of, open the first letter, and you’ll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can’t get out of, open the second letter”. Well, soon enough, this guy found himself into a tight place, so he opened the first letter. Which said - “Blame everything on me”. So he blames the old man, it worked like a charm. He got himself into a second situation he couldn’t get out of, he opened the second letter. It said - “Sit down, and write two letters”.

    From a movie and not real, but basically the playbook they’re using.

  • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.workstoNews@lemmy.world•DOGE staffers flew to California to try and release water themselves during LA fires
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    1 month ago

    Because the water would go where they want it to go. You just don’t understand where they want it to go or why.

    You think they want it to go to where the fires are. That’s wrong.

    They want it to go into the central valley to refill the giant lake and swamp ecosystem that used to be there.

    They don’t care about the short-term needs of people who need to drink or put out fires or grow crops. They are making decisions entirely from the perspective of longtermism. They see restoring the central valley’s swamp ecosystem as the overwhelming long-term good, regardless of any short-term consequences.

    Right idea, reckless implementation. It’s also not clear that just dumping as much water as possible into the central valley is the best way to restore the swamp ecosystem. So much of the valley’s hydrology and ability to retain water have been damaged since the cotton farmers drained the lake after the civil war. This is a restoration that needs to be done slowly and deliberately, both to not kill people who currently rely on that water and to manage the environmental impacts on the basin of suddenly reintroducing water that it’s spent 150 years adapting to live without.

  • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.world•Grand Pop-tart Robotnik
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    1 month ago

    Humanity is many concurrent experiments.

    Yes, a rather important collection of them have rotted.

    The old world is refusing to gracefully build for the new one to grow into its place.

    What do we want to build after this wildfire?

    Vishnu’s defense against the rage of Shiva takes priority now. Vishnu must think and plan to defend what resources to preserve for Brahma to start growing something new.

    I’d say that caring for our planet, our planetary neighbors, and our people are more important than any profits, petroleum, plastics, wars, or mass surveillance spyware systems with giant data centers chugging our freshwater to inefficiently do things we had solutions for in the 90s.

    I had to fill out an outlook form on my phone for a job fair. Slowed down my phone so much I had to wait for the letters to appear after typing. Scrolling and moving between text fields was also a pain. Crashed once and I had to refresh the page and start over. Why isn’t this a simple html webpage? Submitting forms with text fields is basic html. Lightweight, low power use, works everywhere. The page needed nothing else.

    Web2.0 (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon Web Services) was a scam takeover of a free technology system by oligarchs just as the general public started to use it writ large thanks to smartphones. Everything since has been them using their oligarchic control over our societal brain to take over society itself.

  • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.workstoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Maybe tomorrow
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    2 months ago

    While the pizza rolls are in the oven, put peas, butter, and cheese into a saucepan and slowly heat them and mix them together. Maybe some gravy or broth if you have some to use up, or another source of salt. When the pizza rolls come out, add them and stir to coat them in flavour before serving.

    ₣rozen peas are tasty just on their own. Just pour out a handful to munch on as a snack.

    I tend to just do peas and gravy on all sorts of things, since I don’t have much butter or cheese and I have a lot of spare gravy base from bean making. Peas and gravy on french fries, on pasta, on whatever you want. It’s the easiest topping to make and it goes on mostly anything.

  • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.workstoNews@lemmy.world•Trump compared to mobster Tony Soprano by former envoy to Panama
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    2 months ago

    Feeley believed the most famous line from Thucydides’s account of that war – “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” – explained Trump’s bully-boy worldview.
    “[He’s doing it] because he can – because the asymmetry of American commercial and military power is so incalculable in relationship to Mexico, Central America, Panama, even Brazil, Argentina. They can’t really do much other than suffer the consequences. And so I think, in a sort of mafioso way, he is very adept at reading relative power,” said the former diplomat, who attributed his 2018 resignation to how Trump had “warped and betrayed … the traditional core values of the United States”.

    So he’s not Thucydides, he’s the kind of politicians that Thucydides was describing…

    “He’s a velociraptor … He kills anything he perceives as a threat.”

    We know nothing about velociraptor hunting / social / behavioural habits. Maybe they were friendly and social and trusting which enabled them to hunt in packs?

    I’m sorry but everything this guy says just smells like bullshit.