You can have my coffee over my cold unemployed hands.

Why TF is China talking to Brazil, Indonesia, and SA about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine??

Have they, like, tried talking to Russia?

I have a canon printer, and canon DRM’d the maintenance cartridge so you have to keep buying new ones, even if they aren’t close to full. First and only purchase on ali was a device to fix that little issue.

Some good / some bad. Mostly, I would argue, due to the greed of corporations.

A banana is to a mile as a banana peel is to a square mile.

A banana peel is 181.48 sq cm or 7.007 × 10^-9 sq miles, so…

(386.1 (sq miles)) / (7.00736808e-9 (sq miles)/(banana peel)) =

5.50991464 × 10¹⁰ banana peels.

So 55 billion, give or take.

As is tradition: 386 square miles.

The countermeasure is to bury them with large bulldozers, but this still forces an insurgent army to cross within a focused area, as opposed to anywhere along the border. They buy time, advanced warning, and restrict enemy maneuverability.

Is this guy the motivation behind Run Ronnie Run?

The trailer alone is great: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TbZ-jbVwc4g

Oh no, did they cross a line?

Yes, but did they take it seriously?

Perhaps we shove them into “education” camps instead?

(Like high school / secondary school)

Man, it’s s full blown insurgency at this point. All because we outlawed plants.

The Day* After Tomorrow

I think everyone has the right to shoot down everyone’s missiles. Beyond that… I make no arguments.

In another story, Belgium making arrests for terrorism related to France: https://apnews.com/article/terrorism-belgium-suspects-olympics-966191331732ea4d1e663a65d96a9e49

I wonder if these are related.

I don’t see this as a requirement to “tolerate intolerance”. I see this as an explanation of why we’re seeing the results we do. I’ve always had a kind of feeling that the extreme resurgence of the right is a hard reaction to the specific reforms of the left. The more reform, the more angst and reaction. It’s just nice to know this “feeling” has a name, and a proper theory.

Basically, the more social woes we fix, the more conservatives get pissed. Like they need time to adjust to their new reality or something.

So our options are: Pick and choose priorities, and slow it down, or face the right’s backlash, populism, and calls to arms, risking political turnover. This is not arguing appeasement. Just explaining their behavior, and the choices the left needs to make in how they govern. I.e., Slow and steady, or risky business.

Finally, I don’t think the right will ever stop trying to pull us towards The Handmaidens Tale, but given time to adjust to significant societal changes, their base becomes less charged and the backlash is less severe. See: Abortion rights.

You should maybe check your dates.

This article doesn’t cover it (specifically) so I went digging to see if this might compete with weight loss drugs as well:

Victoza (liraglutide) is also used to treat obesity. While it was originally approved for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, it has also been approved under the brand name Saxenda for chronic weight management in adults with obesity or who are overweight with at least one weight-related condition such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, or dyslipidemia. Saxenda and Victoza contain the same active ingredient, liraglutide, but they are marketed and dosed differently depending on the indication.

Google said:

As of April 2024, the list price for a 30-day supply of Saxenda (liraglutide) is around $1,350, but the actual cost can range from $1,590 to $1,656 without insurance or discounts.

The original article contains 287 words, the summary contains 288 words.

Bad bot.

Or because we are comparing rates now to those when COVID restrictions were in place?

I already provided the reasoning. Where does it say, “because they’re communist”?

(Let me know if you have a processing deficiency)