This seems to happen every time a technology company grows beyond some threshold of size/market share/revenue. I can’t think of a single exception.

The ethos of these people is largely about enforcing the dominion of men over women.* This divorce stance is about disempowering women. Abortion is about disempowering women. The move they are about to make against contraception, about removing agency from women. Age of consent, ditto. Given the opportunity, they would absolutely remove women’s right to vote, own property, maintain credit, and on and on. This is the culture that’s dominating the Republican Party and they face very little meaningful opposition right now.

• To be fair, they are also guided by a profound desire to enforce the racial dominion of what they perceive as white.

As an organization, they are actively and intentionally interfering with electoral politics. Their lifetime appointments were designed to remove them from that dynamic, but they have decided to bypass that principle. The structure of our federal government is designed to deal with problems like this by having the other branches check them when they step out of line like this. Unfortunately, neither of the other branches have shown any desire to take action. As a result we are currently caught in a self-reinforcing death spiral of anti-democratic corruption that will eventually undo the union unless something changes. What a time to be alive.

Given the breaking of the nuclear deal by the US, and the aggression of the US and Israel since 10/7, this is both entirely predictable and strategically logical.

The Al Jazeera report that you link to only claims that Houthis launched missile and drone attacks at a US ship. It makes no claim that they seriously damaged or sunk a US ship. Here is a BBC/MSN report that describes similar things. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c800j14y38xo?xtor=AL-72-[partner]-[microsoft]-[headline]-[news]-[bizdev]-[isapi] what exactly are you claiming is false in the Al Jazeera report? Both reports also describe US actions against Houthis targets, which would be a strange thing to do if the Houthis aren’t in fact doing something (even if it is a very ineffective something).

Stories like this reinforce my suspicion that the US deserves to be declining the way we are.

Hey Apple, you’re building it wrong.

“The arts help us learn to be more than consumers. They teach problem-solving skills, train children to work together and develop empathy for others.”

The prevailing culture in the US right now doesn’t value education in any regard other than workplace enablement. We want dutiful, controllable populace that contributes to GDP, and that’s it. I almost never hear leaders or even educators, talk about the value of education beyond its contributions to career development, job prospects and income. We are shortsighted and pathetic.

As penance, I suggest that the church dismantle itself, distribute its wealth, go away and do something actually productive, and don’t come back.

Lebensraum

JFC, the fact that the article says they’re planning to reach younger voters on tik tok is so perfectly symbolic of everything wrong with their candidate. Biden want to embrace the same stuff with one side of his mouth, that he’s berates as a national security risk with the other side. Just like he is both very concerned with the plight of Palestinians and also very eager to facilitate their extermination. He is a disaster of a candidate, president and human being, and deserves every bit of scrutiny that younger folks are giving him.

Now kids, don’t pay attention to what he’s saying or doing, just engage with our sick sick memes.

Wasn’t making fun of Biden for using teleprompters because that meant he was old and feeble and unqualified a big thing for trump and his minions not long ago?

Anger? Chaos? Excuse me but many Republican representatives have assured me that this was all very calm and patriotic and proper.

It’s not surprising that the lot of them are a self interested bigots. For some reason I continue to be surprised at just how intellectually weak these men tend to be and how willing they are to voice their ignorance. These guys either lack a lot of self awareness, or they’re just thriving in the post-reality culture that seems to be taking hold.

Thumb.

Nonstop whining is actually very very manly.

I’m old enough to remember when 24 hours ago the Biden administration said that a ground assault in Rafah would be crossing its red line. It’s pretty easy to remember because that was about 48 hours after the Biden administration said that just ‘going in’ to Rafah would be crossing its red line.

Imagine how much SpaceX could learn if they blow up a crewed starship.

• Musk toadie (probably)

A further symptom of the fascism currently metastasizing across our society — fueled by greedy self-interested Republicans and facilitated by a cowardly self-interested Democrats

“and about just as many view it as a belief in Israel as a Jewish and democratic state (72%),”

This, right here, is a big part of the problem. The notion of an ethnostate is antithetical to a democracy. You cannot be both. It’s definitionally impossible. A state practicing some of the mechanics of democracy does not make it a democracy. If the supremacy of one ethnic cohort is a fundamental tenet of your state, there is no amount of ‘liberalism’ or rhetoric that will turn you into a democracy. If you are part of this 72%, I implore you to examine the cognitive dissonance you are practicing. I strongly suspect that many of this 72% have not critically examined the fallacy of people’s claims of Israeli democracy. Of those that have, I suspect that many are intentionally misrepresenting the situation since afterall, actively supporting a violently oppressive ethnostate isn’t a great look.

Edit: spelling