So do situations like this, when they become public, have a negative effect on relations between countries?

Humans can have unconditional love for cats, but the opposite is not true

Nature is just going to nature sometimes.

I think one of the reasons he did it was an executive from McDonald’s had stated that their food was healthy and someone could eat it everyday for a month without health consequences. His goal was to prove this was an obvious lie. Secondly how many low income people are stuck in a system where this is the only food that is conveniently available and how that is making generations of low-income households sick.

Not sure about the alcoholism - but this wasn’t a strict scientific trial so…

“The changes haven’t affected me (yet) so I have no problem with it”

because of a long established undercurrent of competition within departments (and even between professors) for recognition and advancement. That and there are some people that have very large but very fragile egos that can’t allow another person or discipline to grab more sunlight than them.

"You know the best strategy to counter this is to do nothing, it will burn itself out after awhile. If a few people die or get imprisoned well that’s okay as long as I don’t have to do anything difficult or will affect my portfolio and control. "

obviously I made this quote up but it is how I feel about the people in power that say they are against this administration but really are doing jack shit to support or engage the population. Sure there are some that are doing somethings and I appreciate that, but fuck man do most of the “opposition” party really not have a spine? Like what the fuck, there are millions of citizens that are genuinely scared for their life and freedom and all we are getting is crickets…

While I don’t think the lack of quality journalism is all due to OP not paying for it (I have no clue if they do or don’t) but there is a lot of complaining on Lemmy and Reddit about paywalls which is annoying. The idea that people want quality journalism but get pissed off when those journalist and news organizations asked to get paid for it is ridiculous.

It gets so tiring to hear over and over and over again that the only way to solve the budget problems is through austerity. You know there is another side that can help with reducing a deficit called taxes? Specifically taxing billionaires. But it seems that only the poor must suffer when making things more efficient.

I’m nerdy enough to want this be UFO/UAPs but seriously with all the different types of aircraft and drones that are on the market or not too difficult to build I kinda think this is human interference.

In the lead-up to November, LAist found through a public records review that—while on the Orange County Board of Supervisors during the height of the pandemic—Steel [the Republican candidate] had awarded a $1.2 million contract for meals for seniors to a marketing and printing company involved in her congressional election campaign

Elon Musk’s America PAC spent nearly $800,000 supporting Steel’s campaign and more than $500,000 opposing Tran, while the pro-cryptocurrency super PAC Fairshake spent roughly $2.8 million helping Steel.

Steel really was a “for the people” type of candidate. /s

I think a lot of people, including me just shut out all the crap after the election - So I don’t think it’s that people have a difficult time understanding it I think people just didn’t continue to follow the news and the see the final numbers a week or so later.

you’re right. I have to admit after the election I shut out lots of political media and really missed that it was closer than I thought.

I think the big media companies probably knew this too but needed to create a false horse race for ratings and clicks

I mean, either every single pollster in every major news organization was just terribly off on their prediction or there was a push from the ownership to make this election ‘more interesting’. (This is my own conspiracy theory and I have no sources to back this bullshit up with)

The rich throughout history have always been afraid of the working class it just usually just shows up in less obvious ways.

The way the wealthy talk about the working class

The way the wealthy always look to divide the working class into camps to fight amongst themselves

The way the wealthy demonize labor unions

The way the wealthy keep education limited and expensive

The way the wealthy use religion and media to drive their idea of goodness and justice

The way the wealthy try to make the working class envious of their wealth so the working class spends their money and time trying to replicate it.

Are all examples of an underlying fear of the significantly larger working class population getting control.

And it is such a winning strategy that it works on them in reverse. The wealthy will do whatever they can to keep their wealth and always try to pile more on because of the fear of being one of them (the working class) that they have demonized for generations.

EDIT: added more examples

hunger.

I don’t mean starvation I mean there are people that cannot sit with a slight uncomfortable feeling of hunger. If you have eaten enough to fuel your body in a healthy way then being slightly hungry will not harm you.

If progressives want to actually play with the big kids (GOP and DNC) then they need to quickly start to promote a truly left leaning fire brand candidate. Someone that will fire up not just the base but a large portion of the American voting public.

The murder of a insurance CEO shows that there are common frustrations within the population at large and I feel that if there was one person that would address this in a way that is exciting and motivating they would do well. Bernie is an example of this but he can’t be the only one.

Someone that is smart and has experience in debating the bullshit makers in the media and on podcasts. Someone that is willing to take the abuse and name calling that will come from the establishment and use it to their advantage. I genuinely believe that they would a least push the DNC away from the center - but it is something that needs to be started in the next 12 months to work.

If this happens there would be a blue wave that took over and would spend the next 4+ years trying to reduce the bleeding which is long enough for many non politically engaged people to forget it was the republicans that started it, who would then blame the Democrats for screwing up the economy .

The Secret IRS Files from ProPublica does an amazing job at outlining why this is

Well if every vehicle becomes autonomous then isn’t that just a large scaled high speed train?