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He’s a Kremlin shill. Trying to convince people that Russia is the victim of the west, and trying to liberate ethnic Russians in ukraine, etc. Etc.

Oh look, its the guy who claims Russia is the victim of the west, not under control of an kleptocracy at all.

Nobody said this administration was good at math. So… I mean its plausible

While I agree - Nazis are image focused. They have to look powerful, and look victimized, look successful, look like they know what they’re doing.

It’s not entirely a distraction - its a warning sign that they don’t intend to ensure peace.

That’s sort of disturbing itself given the symbology of an olive branch.

Also, why did they change it from 13 stars (from the original colonies I think) to 5? Nazis are VERY image based people (so much so they would probably get classified as a personality disorder thinking about it, self-harm, cognitive dissonance, splitting) so they mean everything they show.

Of coure he will. These guys is that they are all authoritarians. And it finally clicked in my head - authoritarianism is just narcissism wrapped in a hotdog bun they call governing.

1. That didn’t happen. <- he started here
2. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
3. And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
4. And if it is, that’s not my fault.
5. And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
6. And if I did, you deserved it.

What happens if the door turns into a jar though? Can you really do anything about it?

Nothing they do isn’t intentional.

‘Furries’ are a bit weird, so its an easy target. There’s apparently a disproportionate amount of pilot furries. Pilots affect a lot of people. Since furries are weird, they are an outgroup. The outgroup they are targeting is transgender. Saying the transgender group is both weird and threatening gets people’s attention weather or not its true.

They don’t intend to make anyone believe anything, other than the transgender outgroup is bad.

… wait. How does THAT improve things?

It IS a scare tactic. Anyone with any knowledge of polygraphs knows they don’t actually say squat. Its an interrogation method meant to make you THINK that they do.

A polygraph is just a way to get you to say shit that might incriminate you.

The only people who can’t afford socialist policies are the wealthy. And if you are reading this, that is not you.

Oh I don’t bank with them.

In fact Ive banked exclusively with a credit union since the 90s. I really don’t understand why people don’t ditch the big banks and find one.

The intetest rates are lower, they retain much higher asset to liability ratio, and have much more guided investment opportunities.

US bank is on there. Interesting.

“Communities that don’t take a data center, they’re making a mistake” because data centers create “tremendous amounts of jobs and money,” Trump added.

1. Not for the community the data center is in. 35 data center jobs at most.
2. I detect hints of threats coming. Yes, see, this is mutually beneficial. But it would also be a shame if, say, your community was occupied by ICE until it was built.

There’s nothing unexpected here so far. You’re causing yourself unnecessary anxiety 🙃.

With trend data or data over time, if you look at a small period of time, the only knowledge you get is limited to that period of time.

If we look at that small period of time where it behaves differently, we can say an event, independent of other events, caused the change. If we look at historical data, we can likely see that similar events caused similar changes. If we then take the data of the event itself, say the average temperature of the El Niño, and compare it to historical El Niños, we will likely see it is a worse El Niño, and maybe see that they have been worsening over time as well. That becomes evidence of climate change too.

Even those don’t mean it’s straight for rock bottom.

A tipping point means a point of no return. It will never improve beyond that point. Extent of ice won’t show you that. Otherwise when the extent is at its lowest in March, it would never come back.

Its why I hate being the “smart one” at work and amongst friends and family. The smartest people I know don’t automatically answer every question they get asked or don’t take it upon themselves to find an answer. I have some fucking horrible compulsion to find the correct answer to everything.

The smartest people I know can stick to their domain. They seem far less stressed. And they are able to be content knowing there are things they don’t know.

To me, knowing a lot doesnt equate to intelligence in the slightest.

The more you learn, the more you realize just how much knowledge you lack. And it never stops getting worse. At some point I started realizing there were things I didn’t even understand how I knew them. I’m sure all of you are aware of how disturbing that feels. The inability to provide knowledge of the self.

I would NEVER give medical or legal, or safety advice outside of the realm of electronics and softwate. I can certainly tell you what I know but I will also tell you that a person with a license and malpractice insurance behind them is necessary to tell you want to do with that knowledge.

People don’t like that. People don’t like it when they think you are smart and state something “without confidence like that.” They like it even less when they find out your knowledge was sufficient and they “wasted money on a professional.”

Trump does this shit the same reasons mid level and higher level managers do all their stupid shit. Because people prefer it when you are strictly confident, especially when you are confident about something that would benefit them, completely detached from the reality if it will or won’t.

Yep. I didn’t mean to imply something wasn’t happening, but that something isn’t what OP pointed at, and that something is evidence of climate change.

People need to learn that its a slow decline. It’s disastrous, but it looks like worsening wildfires each year. More tornados in Iowa and Minnesota. Lower crop yields. Beaches getting smaller by inches, ocean front property values declining and insurance rates increasing. More intense variations in weather and more difficultly forecasting.

No. This is a sharper momentary dip. Sort of expected with climate change.

If you look at the summer months for 2025, (January and February for the southern hemisphere) you can see ice sheet area declined far more rapidly rapidly than 2026 did.

Rates of change, particularly ones that are of more recent data, can be very misleading. Now if the same rate of change continued through the end of August, then it would definitely be anomalous.

Climate change does not make immediate impacts like this. Climate change makes the trend of the WHOLE line lower, and more volatile. Notice that 2025 and 2026 lines are at the lower end of the graph.

One (ugly) way to understand this chart better would be the area under the curve for a given year. As 2026 isnt over yet, you cant do this reliably beyond the most recent data point.

The “big” thing then would be if the result for each year was successively lower.

That’s a surprisingly progressive ticket. Who would have guessed that the 2024 election would be between a lawyer & School Teacher (before politics at least) and a dementia riddled real estate mobster and a couch fucker