U.S. sanctions on Russia meant that Starlink satellite connection near Crimea could not be turned on for a Ukrainian military operation without permission from the U.S. president, Elon Musk said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Sept. 12.
Republicans have spent a literal lifetime sabotaging the government at any opportunity so stuff can be privatized...
That's already the alternative, we don't need to find one. We just need to go back to taxing the wealthy, and using that money for public services.
Internet should be a public utility, and all the money we give to SpaceX should have went to NASA where the government would have gotten a return on investment from parents.
People laugh at how crazy the predictions of the future from 1960 was, but if we kept funding NASA we might all have hoverboards and flying cars by now. We got a lot of really cool shit from just a decade of NASA in their hey day.
Isa Balado was reporting on a Madrid robbery on Tuesday when he walked up and appeared to touch her bottom, which he denied when she confronted him....
Nah, continuing a task while trying to process something like this is something the vast majority of humans would do.
I remember a common repost on reddit. A female reporter in the 60s asked businessmen on the street about sexual harassment and if it was ok to touch their secretaries. The ones that would say it was ok shed start sexually harassing them and they had no fucking clue what to do.
They reacted the same way, trying to continue the interview but obviously uncomfortable (even tho they had just been flirting with the attractive reporter).
I'm a guy (a pretty big guy at that) and I've had women grope me out of nowhere during my bar days. It's a mindfuck, and you just kind of go on autopilot while you try to rationalize what's happening.
The woman's reaction in this video is completely normal.
I mean, the war didn't start because the North wanted to end slavery in the South...
It started because the federal government wouldn't force northern states who had abolished slavery to return escaped slaves to Southern states.
The part about abolishing slavery nationwide didn't come up until the war was going on, and that was more an economic sanction than anything else.
So it really did start because of state rights, it's just it was the northern states fighting for that and the Southern States wanting a federal government that was willing to force states to do stuff.
Not to mention they forgot the leaders of those African countries who make deals that give them personal wealth at the expense of their people.
In some cases 1st world countries have installed those leaders, but that's not really that common.
And the citizens can't overthrow them their selves, and the other countries who are benefitting have no incentive to "spread democracy" even if they actually mean it this time.
Pretty much everywhere was founded on colonial genocide...
It's just how recent it happened.
Like, you're giving America shit for what the English, Spanish, and other countries did before America even existed. But it's hard to really blame even the English. It wasnt the English people doing it, it was their royalty who were French.
For the vast amount of human history, some random group you may never have even heard about could just roll up and conquer you and take all your shit.
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan delivered one of the most famous lines of his presidency: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” It has become a political maxim that highlights the fundamental distinction between American…
Musk has been one of those "silent majority" jerkoffs for decades now.
They all 100% believe that everyone else agrees with them, they're just too afraid to say it publicly.
So if no one agrees with them, they can rationalize it as people were censored. If people disagree with them, they champion that as "I let peoples voices be heard, unlike the other side".
No matter what happens, it reinforces their own beliefs
Until eventually they're spending $44,000,000,000 on a social media site just to burn it down.
Since countering Aldean’s claim the video only contains “real news footage,” Destinee Stark has received a wave of hateful messages from defenders of the song.
And he wasnt convicted, but was going to. The state had a "medical expert" show up and testify that there was no way an adult woman could look like that. Just 100% sure of himself and smug as fuck about it.
Then the defense called the pornstar to the stand and she was in her late 20s or something and working in the industry for over a decade.
It was something that never should have made it to trial, and gets used a lot as an example for how shit expert testimony can be. The prosecution doesn't try to find the person who knows the most, they find whoever can do the best job of convincing a jury that the prosecution is right. So the people who do it (some are professional "expert witnesses") are just the most overconfident people. Even if they're not sure, they play it up that there can't be any doubt.
Russia has taken to chemically lowering its soldiers’ inhibitions to guarantee these ill-trained civilians and convicts continue to fight no matter the odds in the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a UK defense think tank.
Musk says he didn't turn on Starlink near Crimea due to US sanctions on Russia (kyivindependent.com)
U.S. sanctions on Russia meant that Starlink satellite connection near Crimea could not be turned on for a Ukrainian military operation without permission from the U.S. president, Elon Musk said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Sept. 12.
Isa Balado: Anger in Spain after man appears to grope reporter live on air (www.bbc.com)
Isa Balado was reporting on a Madrid robbery on Tuesday when he walked up and appeared to touch her bottom, which he denied when she confronted him....
Kids' Cartoon From Conservative University Claims That Slavery Was 'No Big Deal' (www.comicsands.com)
The Relationship Between Europe and Africa (media.mas.to)
🇨🇦Can't call it "Genocide" if you dont consider them "people"🇨🇦 (lemmy.world)
Fun fact: the last residential school for native children closed in the 90s.
Kevin Spacey cleared over all sexual assault charges (www.bbc.co.uk)
US hypocritically attacks China on climate change, while Beijing leads world in renewable energy (www.youtube.com)
From Right or Left, government intrusion is never a good idea (www.washingtonexaminer.com)
In 1986, President Ronald Reagan delivered one of the most famous lines of his presidency: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.” It has become a political maxim that highlights the fundamental distinction between American…
Never mind they never went away, but they're gaining back ground. And they will not stop voluntarily. (files.catbox.moe)
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TikToker who debunked Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' video receives racist, violent hate mail (www.nbcnews.com)
Since countering Aldean’s claim the video only contains “real news footage,” Destinee Stark has received a wave of hateful messages from defenders of the song.
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Lemmy.world active users is tapering off while other servers are gaining serious traction.
Seems to me the fear of overloading one instance over another will not happen after all....
Russia is sending 'disposable' soldiers to fight Ukraine high on amphetamines to ensure they 'still run at machine guns,' military expert says (www.businessinsider.com)
Russia has taken to chemically lowering its soldiers’ inhibitions to guarantee these ill-trained civilians and convicts continue to fight no matter the odds in the ongoing war in Ukraine, according to a UK defense think tank.
There's a person who is spam creating hundreds of communites with impossibly long descriptions on world, why haven't they been banned yet? (lemmy.world)
Elon Musk launches his new company, xAI (www.cnbc.com)
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