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  • jjagaimo@sh.itjust.workstoPolitical Memes@lemmy.worldI miss him
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    14 days ago

    Trump cancelled the deal. With no deal, there is no longer any reason for them to follow the agreements. Trump bombed iran for the same reason previous presidents have messed with it; Iran was attempting to subvert the american petrodollar, in this case by trading with china in chinese currency as opposed to USD, which would have prevented us from being able to sieze, tax, track or sanction it as it passes through US banks, and threaten the USD as the global reserve currency.


  • Plants absorb light in the red/ blue areas of the spectrum and reflect green, so likely not much self-absorbtion

    One theory (“purple earth”) is that simpler now extinct life used to use retinal for photosynthesis which uses the most abundant color in the suns emission spectrum, green light. This left only red and blue light which other organisms evolved to use (now plants). Retinal is fairly unstable and thus those organisms needed to use tons of energy just pumping out retinal to co tinue operating, while chlorophyll is relatively stable in comparison, so those organisms had higher net energy intake even with lower energy available in the red+blue areas of the spectrum since they expended less on just existing, and were able to grow and outcompete the purple counterparts.

    For advantage, not necessarily- it could attract pests or animals that eat or damage it, resulting in it dying faster.









  • The total seats / number of districts is capped and set for each state. It should be uncapped but that is besides the point

    . The redistricting / gerymandering makes use of packing (putting as many X voting areas into a single district to give them less voting power by basically wasting their vote since their candidate wouldve won that distric anyways) and cracking (splitting X voting areas up into multiple districts which will be majority Y voting).

    This means that with even numbers of X and Y voting people, they can be partitioned so that 9/10 districts for example are 55-45 for Y, and the remaining X voting people can be packed into the last district. The end result is Y winning 90% of the districts with only 50% of the overall support.