Em Adespoton

Every single time Russia has announced a ceasefire since it became a nation in the 90s, that’s been so they can move their troops into better positions unhindered. Often it has been followed by a brutal attack that cares nothing about civilian or Russian casualties.

I’m sure Ukraine knows this already.

Foxes in places where they’re the alpha scavenger; raccoons where they are. What other top scavengers are there globally?

Threats and mixed messages? Is the US involved?

Trump getting elected turns out to be an inadvertent mistake….

Yet.

I think in this case it’s like global warming; the “it’s gone too far to go back now” point has long passed, but it’s still possible to prevent potential unchecked snowballing harm.

There’s more than one way to leave a country.

Ah; but that’s the beauty of it.

Trump has been doing the “throw everything at the wall and see what sticks” thing so that others have to scramble to keep up.

If the courts start jailing everyone who follows his orders, someone has to fill out all that paperwork to get them released again. Meanwhile, those people go to jail too.

Ah; but they didn’t say that laws don’t apply to a sitting administration.

So don’t impeach Trump again. But jail everyone who followed his orders.

First off, I’m Canadian, and yeah, you’ve pissed us off.

Secondly, read the lnk I linked; before Trump did this whole trade war thing, there was already almost a decade of work going into rebuilding the knowhow and supply chains needed. It takes time, but there are already companies who have been ramping up over the past 5-10 years — they just haven’t been able to compete with China on price or quality.

But now they’ll get their chance, as the US is running out of other options.

Meanwhile, the rest of us will hopefully also wean ourselves off of Chinese rare earths too, now that we’ve seen them actually weaponize them against the US.

Then again, rare earths processing is very environmentally destructive; there’s a reason China is doing it in Jilin and Mongolia.

Really?

Here’s a good summary:

https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2021/9/8/china-maintains-dominance-in-rare-earth-production

I lived through it while it was happening. Where were you?

Well, that’s a good thing in a way; china was previously selling at a loss to put the competition out of business. Now the other refineries have a reason to start back up again.

So… Zoom went down because GoDaddy mistakenly started resolving the domain to 0.0.0.0? That’s what it sounds like….

Ooh! Haribo sugar free!

Is this Chapter 7 or Chapter 11?

That’s next. Any faith org that doesn’t swear fealty to Trump will be on the list, as not swearing fealty to Trump is political.

It’s already poisoned.

They’re planning to drain it before the invasive species they stopped protecting against finish the job.

The National Guard will not be engaging with the public, but rather taking on duties that drain the time of sworn officers, like directing traffic. The troops can help secure crime scenes, distribute food and supplies to the homeless population throughout the corridor, transport prisoners, provide courthouse security and run drone operations used for locating suspects or assessing incidents.

Er, those things can’t both be true. Is the National Guard not engaging with the public, or will they be directing (public) traffic, securing crime scenes against the public, distributing food and supplies to the public, transporting the public, providing security to public buildings, and running drone operations used for locating members of the public?

I think I may have found part of Albuquerque PD’s problem. They’ve forgotten who they’re supposed to serve and protect.

In some cases, it’s people who’ve done the research and written the paper who then use an LLM to give it a final polish. Often, it’s people who are writing in a non-native language.

Doesn’t make it good or right, but adds some context.

Ukrainians have been buying John Deere tractors for years… and reprogramming them.

No reason why they couldn’t do the same with Teslas.