WalleyeWarrior

Yes, I read the article. The guy I responded to seems to think Diego Garcia is an Okinawa situation where the military is embedded alongside civilians, and that the local economy is benefitting from the US Naval base. Only the Chagossians are gone, forcibly expelled from the island over 50 years ago to countries that are not the UK. He’s just straight up lying and saying the Chagossians benefit from the current situation, which is comically untrue. Is like saying the best path forward for inhabitants of Bikini Atoll would have been continued nuclear testing of their homes.

The only inhabitants are US military personnel. The locals were all deported to Mauritius and the Seychelles in the 60s and 70s.

OHDoT is installing tons of roundabouts at rural intersections and it is so funny listening to locals bitch and moan about them. They aren’t hard, y’all are just morons.

Pretty much every town around here has lead pipes that are becoming a serious problem. Couple that with the de-industrialization that happened in the 70s and 80s, so anyone with ability got out of here back then.

People here straight up hate renewable energy. They vote against wind turbines and solar whenever it’s on the ballot. These farmers are so deep into conspiracy theories that they go to local government meetings and say wind turbines cause brain cancer. It’s been that way around NW ohio for decades now

I wouldn’t say “useful” but the military industrial complex does at least employ actual people to create actual things, where as an AI data center just siphons off the resources of an area and creates no jobs. This is avoiding any moral judgement on weapons production, simply saying that the energy that goes into it is creating an actual product.

Half of the episodes from TOS involve Kirk having to fuck some lady in order to save the day. My complaint is that we are Kirk doing all the cool shit in TOS, while we are mostly told how cool Picard used to be, but he always just seems like a dweeb that everyone is constantly fawning over.

Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans mostly

So what did this radioactive ring supposedly do? there had to be a reason that kids were excited to win one

Cannot stress enough how eager the Democrats are for you to keep over as well

Where is the condemnation from Democratic leadership for those individuals? This is what the Democrats want, they just want it to be done in a quieter manner.

Democrats just approved continued ICE funding. So clearly this is what they want

It won’t because the liberal parties are fucking useless everywhere. Look at Macron and Starmer as the main examples. Meanwhile the German government wants to keep shoveling money into the Palestinian genocide.

Because economist and even business leaders don’t actually have any control over the economy. They try to predict it and make changes, but they have no real power as was shown by COVID and the Ukraine war.

Spring is actually the worst season, at least in the Midwest. It’s cold and rainy all week and everything is just a mud bath, then randomly you get a day where it’s 80F, then more rain, then a snow storm,

And the Irish potato famine was small change compared to the deaths from the numerous famines the British caused in India in the 19th and 20th centuries

And their entire value is based on them having committed all their future shovels for the next 8 years. So what happens when all those contracts are cancelled because the buyers are bankrupt?

Enron was #7 before they collapsed. Nvidia will be the hardest hit when the AI bubble pops

Because there is no federally guaranteed paid maternity leave in the US

I saw OK Go in Detroit last year and at first the all ages concept weirded me out, but it was awesome seeing families take their kids and the band did such a great job interacting with the kids. I loved it so much