adespoton

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There’s always the option to vote NDP.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Is that “criminal defense” lawyer, criminal “defense lawyer” or both?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Why not? It gives Russia 20 years to subsume Ukraine, so they’ll be fine with it, and Ukraine will be given the choice of “take it or be cut off from all further funding.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Maybe they watch it as a comedy or an instructional video?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Well… that’s one way to do things. For the past 20 years, I’ve refused all shipments via UPS from the US. I always ask sellers who they plan to ship through, and if it’s UPS, I tell them that’s a deal breaker. I also encourage others not to accept shipments via UPS from the US.

I’d switch to this method but it’s just such a headache to go through the dispute process.

I did have one parcel that arrived via UPS in 2020. They dropped it at the door without ringing, and sent the bill for their customs processing in the mail. I called them up and demanded they drop the fees because a) I don’t accept international packages from UPS (as the local UPS guy knows), and b) they have no evidence I ever received the package. When they investigated the signature, it wasn’t mine, but was the delivery person’s.

They dropped the charges.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So… you’re telling him not to communicate? Are you the embodiment of critical theory?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And if he needs an actual example of this… remember when Trump said that Oregon was one big riot and police were getting killed.

When the Feds rolled in, the local police very much stated that they weren’t involved in this and weren’t going to attack peaceful protesters. So when the investigation started, the illegal detainments were all on the feds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

So… internment camps and deportations to keep foreigners off US soil, and tariffs to keep foreigners from working remotely.

Have fun having to do ALL the jobs….

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

As the days go by….

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago

Oh, it has… just not in the ways anyone would desire to be considered exceptional.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (47 children)

I don’t get it. Current nuclear power solutions take longer to set up, have an effectively permanently harmful byproduct, have the (relatively small) potential to catastrophically fail, almost always depend on an abundant supply of fresh water, and are really expensive to build, maintain and decommission.

If someone ever comes up with a functional fusion reactor, I could see the allure; in all other cases, a mix of wind, wave, geothermal, hydro and solar, alongside energy storage solutions, will continually outperform fission.

I suspect that the reason some countries like nuclear energy is that it also puts them in a position of nuclear power on the political stage.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are those nine year olds also allowed to vote?

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