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I mean look, it's cool that they're doing this and all, and the idea or a trans Atlantic flight in 3 hours is neat for sure ... but air travel is already really damn fast, could we focus on making it less shit in other ways?

• Can we get the carbon footprint down so it doesn't contribute so much to the end of the world?
• Can we cut fuel costs significantly so it doesn't have to be so miserably expensive?

Yeah... mid 30s, stable healthy friendships, been with my long term partner for ten years, we have a nice house and two dogs, my career is going great, we're comfortable.

I've got chestnut trees in my yard, but they're Japanese chestnuts -- yours might be, too.

My dad has been obsessed with this my whole life. The dude just really likes American chestnut trees.

He's part of an advocacy organization that is testing blight resistant genetic hybrids, and planting chestnuts in their yards to preserve them in the meantime.

If you, too want to be obsessed with chestnut trees, I believe it's tacf.org

Not any of the materials I've received until recently, and those folks have been spamming me for the better part of 20 years.

Because the only source for that (at present) is the Wagner Group, who have a (dead) dog in the fight and are not bastions of truth. NYT will be trying to confirm it before saying so.

His officers thought his odds weren't good and wouldn't back him, is the word on the street. Top guy gets killed, not levels 2/3

Hate to say it but geopolitical, America's got a brighter future than just about anyone else in the world right now. Something to say for lots of reserves of your own resources, your own continent containing only healthy, friendly trade allies and demography that isn't in the midst of collapse.

Knowing America we'll burn the place down to spite ourselves, but hey

It may have taken 64 years but at least we got The Death of Stalin out of that one guy's enthusiastic genociding, it isn't all bad

Can we find a medium place?

"No it was totally an accident, no way Putin would kill a whole plane full of people just to get this one guy!"

Not me, I thought he was going to be overtaken with remorse and bludgeon himself to death from behind in a tragic suicide.

So like... yeah, sure, that's true. At the same time overturning a judicial precedent this well established is an absolute first, and public support for Roe v Wade started relatively low and has been steadily growing since then.

So when you've got all kinds of immediate, pressing issues, why waste a narrow political margin on alienating a big swathe of voters by publicly confirming a right that everyone already has?

I can't fault any individual administration for not focusing on this... I can fault the voters, though.

The shareholders can go and buy a diversified portfolio on their own, by investing in many companies, so they can derisk their portfolio without conglomeration.

If they already own shares of the conglomerating company, its returns will be lower (they don't care that it's less risky; they've diversified already). Similarly, the returns of the company that is now becoming part of the conglomeration will likely be reduced, which negatively affects shareholders of that company.

The benefit is really only for the people whose prospects are deeply tied to this company, and only this company... its management employees, who are compensated by the company (often in the form of stock that they can't sell till they leave, or that vests over a long time frame).

Ah yes, "fear", the notorious antonym for "attraction."

Phobia is the opposite of philia; they're Greek suffixes, and they meant, and still mean, "fleeing from" and "seeking out"; the connotation of "fear" arrived considerably more recently, because of psychiatric conditions being named ... in Greek.

If you're going to a pedantic dummy about etymology, at least take the time to learn a little before you dive in my dude.

For instance, you could object that "homophobia" originally referred to someone who irrationally avoided other humans, and then demand that words never change their meaning and immediately begin proudly speaking fluent proto Indo European.

I'm a very hairy dude with a thick, thick beard. I use a new blade every other shave. Recommend using a safety razor, it's much cheaper and better

You're confusing cause and effect, mostly.

If you've:

• Met a bunch of people that don't look like you or live like you
• Have a high paying job that requires a good education
• Encountered a ton of new concepts and ideas frequently

You're more likely to be a liberal. These things also tend to occur at much greater frequencies in cities.

It doesn't really have all the communities I'm interested in ... but for most of my looking-at-memes and commenting-on-things needs, it works great. I use lemmy exclusively on mobile and haven't touched reddit on my phone since sync went away, but I still engage with reddit periodically on desktop.

Guy wanted me to burn him with cigarettes, but he didn't smoke and neither do I. After spending 20 minutes looking for a convenience store that was open, the mood was kinda gone.

Wow that sounds awful, I guess my imperialist government really misled me! Thanks for finally telling me the truth