Yep. The sad fact is that if there was no eclipse, she would have rationalized it differently and blamed something else.

Perhaps a storm, the full moon, the spoiled milk in her fridge, etc.

Honestly, I think for many countries it might require very far reaching constitutional changes to actually tax the ultra wealthy.

For the USA, an amendment was needed to introduce the income tax.

Another amendment might be needed to introduce a wealth tax.

And a legal distinction would need to be made between the property of the common man vs. the ultra wealthy.

That 14th house, yacht and the hundreds of billions of the billionaire currently enjoy the same legal protections as the owner-occupied single family home and that family’s meagre savings account and the car they need to get to work.

I don’t think you understand the difference between sustenance and worship.

Conservatives have a deep need to feel superior to others.

The cruelty is the point.

If poor people have happy and fulfilling lives, then they can’t feel better than them.

Indeed, sounds like a legitimate win to me.

It’s basically a FOSS Chromebook.

I learned this back in the 90s, I’m surprised new research is needed.

The solution seems to be LED lighting. The right LED bulbs don’t trigger the bug brains.

Edit to add source (below) and I forget the detail: it’s about using LEDs with less blue light, since blue light affects the bugs.

https://phys.org/news/2022-10-impact-energy-efficient-streetlights-insects.html

I presume Blinken means Netanyahu with “he”? Or does he mean himself, Blinken?

Because Netanyahu is a genocidal psychopath who doesn’t feel any remorse for any of the victims of Oct 7th, the hostages or the civilians in Gaza. He just wants ethnically cleansed land.

Blinken, I do believe, will feel guilty for supporting these atrocities.

Heck, one of our longest serving Christian democratic prime Ministers was an ardent supporter of Israel during his time in power, but really felt guilty afterwards.

I, too, feel guilty for having ever been supportive of Israel. It’s just not right.

It’s not necessary for the person to be the sole target.

By comparing the persons DNA to 2 or 3 relatives in a database, it’s quite easy to identify whose DNA you have, or at least narrow it down to a few potentials. (E.g. the DNA is from a male that is a cousin of X by the male line and nephew of Y by the female line).

Let’s not forget, this is exactly how we ended segregation in the US and Apartheid in South Africa.

Activism works. Let your voice be heard.

This is also why bad actors fill sites like reddit with bots, to try and control the public narrative.

But bots can’t vote. Bots can’t demonstrate. Bots can’t boycott.

And also kudos to Lemmy and Lemmy mods for keeping this place relatively free from bots.

Excellent. One step in the right direction. Good guy Germany.

Ehh, you might want to read about the origins of the bakers dozen.

Shrinkflation has been a feature of humanity for a long time, probably ever since we started trading goods.

It’s just easier to give less when your buyer would prefer that to paying a higher price.

This is cool enough that all Indo-European languages should start calling salmon Lox again.

With the right strategy and current technology, we should be able to evolve all current Indo-European languages back to a singular language over a thousand years or so. That would unite half the world in language.

A highly noble goal. We could call it, the Lox plan.

Get out of here with your reasonable, scientific explanation!

We want our outrage porn about smoked salmon, dammit!

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This.

It was always a white lie to claim the US was sending Ukraine billions in aid. The Democrats liked to pump up the numbers, because supporting Ukraine was and is politically popular. And the spending bills also contained nice pork for the military industrial complex.

But it has almost exclusively been old stock being sent. Stuff that is very valuable, since no other Ukrainian ally has the huge stockpiles that the USA has, but it was always worth much less than it was being billed for.

Now Biden is following a more boring, but more honest (in accounting terms) procedure.

Similar to what the Germans did.

As for helping Americans, he has also explored every possibility to reduce debt and prescription drug costs and to invest in infrastructure.

For example, much more has been spent on student loan forgiveness than on Ukraine.

For student loan forgiveness, I believe the tally is $137B. And that is real cash. For Ukraine the total is $75B, but a lot of that is pumped up valuations of old military stock. The actual value of what Ukraine received is closer to $40B

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The Democrats outsmart Republicans yet again.

Next up: border secured just in time to win the November elections.

The real problem is that there is no one we can vote for that can make a difference.

One half of the politicians want to continue using fossil fuels.

And the other half wants to do mostly virtue signalling with policies that look good on paper, but won’t actually solve the problem.

I guess the second group is less bad, but politics is unlikely to save the climate.

Sorry, don’t have a solution. We could have solved it by continuing to deploy and develop nuclear after Chernobyl, but by now it seems like 2 or 3 degrees of warming is inevitable.

PSA: The old Opera guys have a new browser, Vivaldi.

It’s quite nice and I use it daily.