Does not the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter yet these are not strangers to our land?

So disappointing and depressing

It reminds me of a story, forget who told it. During a celebratory and private dinner with Obama during his presidency, table had all the true believers, socialist, leftists when one of attendees ask Obama why despite promising to shut down gitmo he hadn’t done it.

Obama had looked at him and said something along the lines that basically the life of his daughters had been threatened and that even he wasn’t going to risk the lives of his family to change this stuff.

Considering we are seeing one of the most vilest, most evilist conspiracy of child raping torturing murdering psychopaths play out in front of our very eyes this story, of incredibly powerful oligarchs, working with some of the worst regimes on earth, using violence, extortion, blackmail and coercion to further their malfeasance, this story about Obama doesn’t seem that far fetched.

It wouldn’t be surprising if Mamdani has been warned that he can push things only so far.

That said excluding the conspiracy take, the other explanation for his actions is that the city of New York is broke (considering the crapulance of Adams that wouldn’t be much of a surprise) and Mamdani is super dependent on the State providing or at least underwriting, loans for Mamdani to meet his initial promises ie universal daycare and subway/bus travel. In return for their support he has to endorse what’s her face’s run for governor.

Still really fucking depressing.

Everything reminds me of her

Yanks killed 4 million Vietnamese, literally salting the earth with chemical weapons all without a single declaration of war.

The idea US presidents need it is laughable. Shit it’s even more laughable that the Republicans would ever restrain a US president from a war of aggression is even more laughable, even if it was a democrat pushing the button.

For the republicans every problem is a nail (and boy do their corporate overlords have a great deal on hammers).

Why not both?

but my partner can’t drink a sip of coffee without projectile vomiting

Well tell them to stop mixing their Ayahuasca in with their morning coffee.

I used to but boy teams meetings used to be really hard with you were going into another realm

I don’t think people understand how completely different French nuclear weapons and doctrine is compared to the UK and NATO.

The French have a nuke first strike policy "dissuasion du faible au fort”, deterring a stronger power by threatening unacceptable damage.

Their policy, is to use a Rafale to, from a Carrier, fire a ASMP-A nuclear tipped cruise missile across the bows of anyone dumb enough to antagonise them.

Conversely the British have no tactical nuclear weapons like the French. All they operate are the Trident II D5s from their ballistic missile subs, even then they only carry 5 MIRV (est) warheads per missile.

And no first strike policy either.

Don’t get me wrong. I very much favour a European military alliance that pushes Europe off the US teat. But the idea of the UK and France changing their doctrine (and a host of other elements) without non nuclear states contributing a significant amount of money is pretty unlikely.

The problem isn’t that PFASs are in fire fighting gear.

In fact it’s PTFEs that are in firefighting gear, and due to the stability of this chemical and how this gear is disposed of its very unlikely d that their clothes are being dumped in the environment.

PFAS are, by and large a by-product of Teflon / Gore-Tex production, and even then from decades ago (as most manufacturers have exited or are exiting the use of PFAS, whilst there are much tighter controls on effluence now days).

So the majority of PFAS pollution in the environment is primarily due to the dumping of effluence from these facilities, accidents and firefighting foams, especially that used by the military fire suppression and in their use to fight fires.

Take the Blue Mountains region in Australia. Pristine environment, massive national park. In 1992 and 2002 we had two petrol tanker crashes. Now understandbly the authorities were pretty much get those tanker fires under control before the whole park burns up. So fire-fighters used PFAS imbued foams to suppress them. This in turn caused horrendous amounts of this chemical to be washed into the water table.

And thus this beautiful environment now has some of Australia’s worst PFAS pollution.

Same for land surrounding airbases where they regularly practice fire suppression.

Worse is how PFAS is evaporated from polluted waterways and bodies into clouds. So you don’t even need to live near a pfas polluted area to become exposed.

Veritasium has a great video on this awfully depressing subject https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY

https://pfas.australianmap.net/

https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/ (for the US)

I’m sorry but I feel like I’m having a stroke reading your reply.

Can you dumb down what you’ve written?

What people don’t realise is when they’ve blacked out on benzodiazepines is that they haven’t actually passed out

Instead just like when you’re drunk and blacked out you’re still going. Do crazy ass shit

That said if do want black out and pass out zanax is shit for that.

Cool kids do Rohypnol

Really one day I realized I rather eat lunch with my cats than any of my coworkers and have never looked back

I know right. Being with my animals, (and I suppose, even my family) is priceless to me.

I’ll have a puddle of cats on my bed whilst the GSD is wedged between my chair and the bed, my lights are off, my room is dark and cool with a silver of light coming through the top shades. I got my tunes playing and I’m not getting interrupted.

I got my computers around me, I’m running multiple processes. If I get tired I can roll onto the bed.

The dog and cats are just happy to hang, we play, do commands and I get to take my dog out for a long lunch time walk.

Sure the cats do talk back a bit but it’s so much nicer to hear them meow then colleagues crapping about crap.

I hate going to work. I’m sitting in my office (forced to come in several days a week) and I realise I do not want to speak to a single person. Sometimes I try to avoid speaking to people for an entire day.

I guess it’s the 20 years I spent running frontline customer service teams that makes you despise humanity. I am in absolutel awe that the vast majority of humans have mastered the skill of inhaling and exhaling. I’m still astounded that people have worked out how to use the buttons on their shirts, or worked out how to pull clothes onto their bodies.

Seriously I used to image customers sitting at the kitchen table with a shirt over their face and various items of clothes half on their limbs alwhilst trying, but missing, to insert a spoon of cereal into their mouths.

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve had to make sure the goddam fucking computer was turned on (“oh is that why internet didn’t work?”) before going through troubleshooting steps, only to be meet with a “oh wow it’s working”.

Argh.

The other thing about work from home is that 10 years ago when I started my job I might have taken 8 hours to do a particular job.

Now I’m able to do it in 1 hour (ok fine, 5 mins via scripting and shit). I don’t need to explain or justify to my boss what I’m doing in the 7 hours as long as the job he pays me to do is getting done (I do time sensitive shit so it’s also being available at a moments notice to jump into action).

Most jobs come down to attitude. Now yes I’m doing my own stuff, picking the kids up at 3pm, walking my dog at lunch, but when the shit hits the fan I’m up at 2am, getting stuff back up and running and hitting/beating deadlines. I don’t mind the messy complex fucked up job and I don’t whinge/give my boss grief (unlike most of the staff I work with). He knows he can give me shit and it’ll get done, properly (not half assed), returned with even a bow tied across it and ready to present to his bosses without any further handling.

Otherwise WFH is just so superior to WFO, from a cost, time and sheer efficiency point of view.

Free the boys free the boys free the boys!

It wasn’t the lips on his face that was syncing with the music… It was his ass

Now that’s a completely valid concern; being cut off from firmware updates would seriously degrade the capability of that part of our fleet over a long enough time horizon, which is one of the reasons why we’re considering taking on a large order of Gripens as well. But it’s not a “Stop your planes from flying” scenario. Even without the latest firmware we’d still be able to put an F-35 in the air and have it engage and destroy targets.

Also if the US refused to provide firmware their f-35 fleet would eventually become completely grounded and useless as a large amount of the f-35s parts are made across the world.

Who’s Gavin?

I’m at 5,557 hrs. I end up building settlements where I have to clean up (scrap everything) all the rubble and dirt and grass mounds. I’ve scrapped thousands of rubbish mounds. I can’t help myself. All I want to do is clean the roads and other surfaces.

Whilst building a a myriad of wooden paths, (coz how on earth do the settlers keep their boots clean and avoid walking through mud???). Also lots of fencing to avoid people falling off (because OH&S is super important).

I do operate SS2 but I tend to make most of my settlements myself.

I’ve only ever finished the game once despite playing it since day 1.

Lots of concrete walls. And building steel supports for overhanging buildings.

All it took was a little hand-me-down.

If only OP had kept it for himself, he might have been the IT boss.

Are they saying that we’ll have GTA 6 when the PS6 is released?

Or entanglements is explained via the MWI (Multi World Interpretation) and there is no FTL breach.

Oh the regimes biggest protector of child raping scum are the Abrahmic religions including fundamentalists such as:

• the Catholic church ran an industrial scale child raping, torture and incitement to suicide system. This pushing people to kill themselves was a key policy by the church leadership, to avoid paying compensation of their victims even after the raping priest has been imprisoned and guilt could not be mitigating

suicides(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church_sex_abuse_cases_in_the_United_States

“Church officials followed a “playbook for concealing the truth”, minimizing the abuse by using words like “inappropriate contact” instead of “rape”.”

And that’s with a head buried in the sand approach that US authorities take with religion ie it has to be so blatant and undeniable before they’ll investigate.

However from Ireland to Australia in those two countries alone the Catholics abused tens of thousands of children. There are as many or more cases in the US and yet its clear the authorities are happy to pretend otherwise.

Worse the abuse and active protection and cover up went to the Cardinals themselves, both Cardinal Pell and Clancy were rapists and rape protectors.

Southern Baptist Churches

SBC’s executive committee, detailing that SBC leaders had stonewalled and disparaged clergy sex abuse survivors for nearly two decades. It also listed the named cases that involved the admission, confession, guilty plea, conviction, judgement, sentencing and registered sex offenders. It did not include cases that did not relate to sexual abuse nor cases that ended in acquittal. The report listed more than 700 entries within the parameters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_cases_in_Southern_Baptist_churches

• extensive sexual abuse in Hasidic and Haredi jewisg cults

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_cases_in_Brooklyn's_Haredi_community

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hush_(novel)

The leadership of religiious organisation are devoid of the moral and ethical leadership their organisations claim is a God given.

It is little surprise they are happily refusing to mount any meaningful protests against the Trump regime.

Shit the the closes I’ve ever seen religious organizations protests the Trump regime was the grassroots spontaneous protest of various clergy in the Minneapolis to stop airlines from running ice deporting/transfer flights.