to;dr: Republicans don’t want government money subsidizing insurance policies that pay for abortions.

They get their mandatory year of military service and during that year they are forced to sign up for actual military. That body of recruits isn’t going to dry up.

The Russian people will suffer, that’s a given. But will they do anything about it?

I started using Linux as my primary computer about 7 years ago. After a few months of distro hopping, I landed on Solus because it is stable and rolling. I didn’t want to deal with breaks during major upgrades. My system is still going and I have no complaints. I’m just a regular computer user, personal and work (non-tech job). I have to wonder why Solus doesn’t get more attention.

It is currently owned by a Swedish guy who previously bought out the Russian co-founder.

I’ll be honest, I’ve only seen a few images of hostages returned to Israel and all of them looked healthy. I had expected their condition to be worse. That said, I’ve not looked at any video and only a few images, so I could be missing something. What are the allegations and evidence of allegations being provided by those who have been returned? I’m not invested in either side of that conflict, so I don’t feel a need for either side to be the “right” side.

It requires more effort to spread intelligent ideas.

The description of events she provided should have produced physical evidence. Bruises at a minimum. Did she publish photo evidence?

Europe needs to figure out energy independence so they can say no to Russia without relying on America for energy.

Sensationalists claims stop being sensationalist when they are confirmed with objectively verifiable facts. That’s when claims should be accepted. Until then, the burden of proof is on the one making the claim.

Humans have always been stupid but today technology has made it easier for the dumbest among us to be more influential than any stupid person of any prior era. This, we are in the golden age of stupidity.

The problem is wages, not housing prices.

China won’t stop until someone gives them a bloody nose.

Do we know the proximate cause yet? Accident? Targeted?

Reading between the lines, I think there’s a corruption problem where someone is stealing wine purchased for the church and being sold at bars. A new brand/label might be an effort to change processes to make this type of corruption more difficult or easier to uncover.

Seems like irrigation stopped as people focused their efforts on war and survival.

Such unbiased sourcing!

Does theintercept.com have any way of knowing if her money was funneled into Hamas?

I sincerely believe that the world is a lot less extreme than what social media is telling us. Exceptions, yes, but those are exceptions. Most of the discussion that takes place anymore is driven by sociologically hacking us, done by interested parties to drive division and distrust. It happens on all sides. That doesn’t mean you should drop your support for peaceful protest, aid delivery, etc., but it does mean we should be aware of propaganda and manipulation that confirms our own biases. The effect of the rush to extremes is that we then create extreme situations. The world is getting uglier and uglier, largely driven by this problem.

When you work for yourself, your customers become your boss. I exchanged 1 boss for 2000 bosses.