Carrolade @ Carrolade @lemmy.world

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Just gotta say, that Colorado law is ridiculous. I'm all for good conditions for farm animals, but 1 sq ft per chicken isn't helping. A single square foot is about the size of a chicken. The thing is still in "a cage", that cage is just formed of other chickens now.

I wonder if lobbyists got to them to water down the law.

If an edible variety has any lookalikes that similar that can be found in your climate zone, you need to steer clear from it. This isn't the case for all varieties and all areas though. General mushroom foraging may be dangerous, but certain species can be safely selected, due to not having lookalikes you need to be worried about.

Which these are requires learning specific to your local area though. The skills do not transfer to other regions, and everything you know would need to be reconfirmed if you moved anywhere new.

Yeah, I think people need to recognize that this arms Kuwait, Tunisia, Lithuania, Oman, Netherlands, Chad, Yemen, Bulgaria, Tajikistan, Rwanda and Cameroon all with nuclear weapons. (Ranks 91-100 if we just go by number of military personnel, active and reserve, an imperfect but very convenient way to measure.)

If I'm not mistaken, two of those countries are currently involved in conflict. (Yemeni Civil War and Rwanda involved in Congo)

One aspect that doesn't get discussed enough is how effective their grassroots in predominantly young, male hobby spaces has become.

20 years ago, if you weren't that interested in politics, you wouldn't get much of it. Currently though, it has thoroughly infiltrated spaces like athletics and gaming. This was not an accident. They have a strong ground game, it just operates in spaces we're unaccustomed to thinking about in reference to politics.

I see, thank you for the detail.

According to the White House, El Salvador’s government received $6m (£4.62m) to take the detainees

Ahhh, that's the part I was missing. I thought the Central American govts caved awfully fast after initially protesting the deportations. This is going to get ugly, if they're basically being turned into a revenue-stream. El Salv will need to ensure they make a profit of some sort on that 6m.

... he's a Mennonite, lot of them won't even use the internal combustion engine. It's one of those low-tech sects of Christianity like Amish.

Yeah, I'm not entirely sure what's so surprising about a bunch of professional diplomats being diplomatic with their statements. It's not a group I expect a lot of outright, direct statements of their positions from.

I don't know where you get your info, but China and Russia have a frenemy relationship, a friendly rivalry, basically. This goes back to Stalin's limited support for the CCP in their early days, or even before when the Russian Tsar conquered huge swaths of land from the Qing Dynasty during their Century of Humiliation, about the time when we Americans were busy having our Civil War. We see it to this day, where China could have a huge and decisive effect on the Russo-Ukrainian War if they wished and fully threw in with Russia, but instead are happy to sit back and war profiteer while Russia takes heavy loses and the West spends money instead of making it.

Then Iran and Saudi Arabia are archenemies. Iran is a Shia-majority theocracy, SA is a Sunni-majority secular monarchy with a history of persecuting Shias, and even warming up to Israel before Oct 7th. They have a long history of conflict.

Not sure how Turkey gets on the list either, Turkey has consistently played both sides, always being in it for Turkey. I don't see the benefit for them to actually pick a side, thus losing their benefits from the other. We see this clearly, again, in how they've approached the Russo-Ukrainian War. Like cozying up to Putin, but hey, have some free Bayraktars, Ukraine!

I know a lot of people put a lot of effort into trying to make it seem like a real WW3 with fairly even sides is plausible in the near future, but it always requires a lot of cherry picking and ignoring realities for them to spin their stories together.

Heresy in the 17th century actually wasn't as big a deal as it was in the past. This was a couple centuries after the Protestant Reformation shattered the Catholic hold on Europe, leading to decades of war in which millions died, eventually resulting in the shitloads-of-denominations we see today, where almost all of them are "heretics" of some sort to all the other ones. I mean, modern day Mormonism isn't really even a monotheistic religion anymore. This all has its roots in the breaking of Catholic domination back in the early 1500s.

One major issue with this: The left and right are fighting for different things.

The far right would ultimately like a military dictatorship of sorts. In order to pull this off in a way the majority of the public would accept, they need people to be afraid, to have violent enemies that can only be defeated with organized military force.

The left, on the other hand, is fighting for civilian rule. This is based on the idea that laws need to apply to everyone, and that military force should not be used to suppress the public at large. In order to pull this off, it must be true that military force applied domestically is not actually necessary to have a functioning society.

Because these goals are fundamentally different, the methods of accomplishing them become different by necessity. Some methods strengthen and empower the goals of the right, other methods strengthen and empower the left. These are distinct, and it's very important not to be manipulated into playing into the hands of your opponent.

You don't need to have full mutually assured destruction for nukes to operate as a deterrent. It's a matter of degrees, rather than some sort of all-or-nothing safety.

Fair point. I suppose I would draw a distinction between education and athletics, though I know full well that is difficult to disentangle.

I think it's important to remember that it's not a decision for governments to make, but for sports governing bodies. The government has no need to or benefit from legislating how sports competitions are arranged.

Digital feudalism... I suppose that does make it easier to call up large armies of peasant levies when you need to wage an information war.

Also just fear of going out of business by alienating any potential customers. When your revenues have been steadily dropping for decades now and it's starting to look like you're going the way of Kodak, it becomes more tempting to pander to the middle and try to avoid pissing as many people off as possible. This in turn means you can't speak the truth anymore.

A relatively small minority of people through history have wanted wars. But if we look at the past 4000 years, we nonetheless find many, many wars, the vast majority of which people have never even heard the name of. You cannot escape this by simply disarming yourself.

What did you think "make America great again" meant? That "again" is a keyword.

My fav is just that the sun is, all by itself, 99% of the total mass of our solar system. Most of the rest of that 1% is Jupiter.

It's the "I know you are, but what am I?" defense. A real elementary school classic.