KillingTimeItself @ KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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if it's not a belt, they aren't wearing pants...

none of these things would count, because none of these are relevant to the living human body, even in reference, a tail would be fabric, foam, and fur, maybe some other shit as well, that's it.

Unless they mean animal physiology, which is loosely adopted for "furry" rules, in which case it wouldn't apply at all. Maybe they mean literal surgically implemented "physiological" adaptations, in which case, why is this for children????

im trying to figure out why surgical is even in this? Does it outlaw shit like burn victim as well?

WHO WROTE THIS BILL BRO

i cannot begin to describe how utterly fucking stupid this is.

I genuinely thought i died and went to hell when i first read this, this bill doesn't even make any fucking sense. Child exhibiting "non human behaviors" could be considered "child abuse" according to this bill.

How the fuck do you even enforce this?

it's an interesting time to be alive in, that's for sure.

if you're of Russian descent, i can understand the concept of just, forgetting about certain problems, they were notorious for that one.

But i can assure you, the F35 has the ability to make up for those downfalls, it's like you said, a trade off. You trade stealth and maneuverability for additional hardware and functionality, it's a fighter positioned for a different role in modern warfare, it's not meant to solely defend itself, it's meant to be a functional piece of a military force.

The F22 can take on multiple F35s at the same time and smoke 'em.

The F22 is also an incredibly capable fighter jet, even more so than the extremely capable f15/f16 that's been around for damn near ever. In fact, the F22 and F35 are probably supposed to work together, rather than separately. The F35 covers roles the F22 cannot, the F22 covers roles the F35 cannot, it's the basis of most military strategy.

I'm guessing the F22 is beating the F35 specifically in dog fighting, a task it's literally not meant for. Given that it's also a recent addition to the fleet, it's not uncommon for the military to put new tech in all kinds of weird situations to battle test it, ensure that it can do what it should, and to (this is really important) understand it's weaknesses in the event that it becomes relevant.

Interestingly enough, the fact that the F35 carries weapons at all is pretty impressive, given it's technical feats.

in the context between shooting yourself in the head with a 12 gauge slug, and stubbing your toe really badly. I think most people would agree with me when i say that stubbing your toe is the best option. Comparatively, a good option.

Of course if you compare it to things like, randomly finding a billion check on the ground, nothing compares to that, but that's an unreal comparison, you literally cannot base a reference point on them.

https://www.imeupolicyproject.org/postelection-polling

Sample Online sample of 604 voters fielded from December 20 to January 07, 2025. Margin of Error ±4.5%

thats uh, a really small sample size. Especially for a sample that's supposed to consist of multiple swing states. Not to mention that organization is clearly either deeply embedded into the arabic culture, or arabic itself (didn't look that hard) obviously that's not an issue, we have things like AIPAC here in the US, it's just, probably very biased. Which is why they exist in the first place. That's kind of the whole point.

Don’t move the goalposts. Here’s what you said:

What's the other available option? Voting for jill fucking stein? Who cares what i said, the facts are plainly evident, you have one really bad choice, and one decent choice.

We’re talking about Harris on her own merit, not about Trump.

and if we're talking about her own merit specifically, i'd say she's still a pretty competitive candidate, the voting numbers seem to agree with me on that one.

Like? Give me something specific she clearly said she would do for the working class and a link of her saying it in September or October.

she ran for a bunch of shit, notably the child tax credit, the housing crisis, the food crisis, corporate taxes, capital gains tax, there are a number of other things, those are the ones i can remember off the top of my head.

He did well on the economic recovery front, but he or example didn’t go after price gouging. His economic policies were a step in the right direction, not an end state to campaign on.

the price gouging one im not sure on, there was only really significant price gouging of medical equipment and consumables in the early pandemic months, which was quickly shut down, as it was deemed illegal, beyond that you're talking about things like food, which struggle with inflation, and are also affected by things other than the economy, notably the avian flu for eggs. Consume electronics have gotten more expensive in some capacities, the GPU market specifically, but that's obviously due to AI. That's about it, everything else is probably going to be related to inflation.

Again, that is literally not what we’re talking about.

Who else are we comparing it to? Fucking god? IS the heavenly father himself going to come down and run our government for us? What's the frame of reference we're holding here?

The UN says its genocide. The ICC says it’s close enough to genocide for the Israeli government to be arrested, every non Israeli historian with a specialty in genocide says its genocide.

IDK about the UN personally, because people have only ever sent me articles about the UN discussion how it "could be genocide" rather than how it is, or they simply point to UN law and go "look it meets the broad definition they supplied, that hasn't been legally scrutinized yet" If they do have an official statement on it, then i guess i just haven't seen it until now, because I'm not aware of one. The ICC specifically, I'm aware has arrest warrants for various war crimes, genocide is not listed among any of them, and AFAIK has not been attached since then, could be wrong on that one though, IK a lot of people point to the ICJ, but the ICJ literally refutes that claim themselves, they have stated that it could be "subject to conditions that would create a genocide" which is a rough paraphrasing, but as far as i know that's the most official statement they've made.

Sort of irrelevant, but another question I've been curious about is how many countries actually care enough to call it genocide, and i think that's up to two now? South Africa, obviously, and i think turkey? I'd have to check, both consider it a genocide. I don't know about any other countries, it's kind of an arcane thing to search for anyway. I know a lot of members of parliament have stated their concern, but those are representatives, and they can say basically anything.

And yes, the questions have been “do you support the governments actions against Gaza and the Palestinian people”,

ah interesting, so the question wasn't literally "is this genocide" and to be fair, i was being a little harsh on that one, but i think it's fair given the extent of the accusation being levied. Realistically, this is because both countries seem to hate each other, and haven't stopped hating each other for about 70 years now. Last i checked the middle east generally isn't very kind about these sorts of spats, they usually tend to do what they're doing right now. At least, in recent history, among recent conflicts.

There used to be 2 million people in Gaza. There’s now at most 1.2 million by most outside estimates. Deaths stopped being counted when all the hospitals, and that’s not an exaggeration, were bombed in Gaza. So no one has been counting the dead.

this is definitely a huge problem, frankly not sure why this is even a thing that's happening (people not being allowed to leave, that's a pretty substantial problem) it's extremely difficult to justify that kind of action, and i don't want to say it's expected, but given the length of the conflict, and the history behind it, I'm hesitant to say it's also unexpected. Palestine hasn't exactly been the most cordial negotiator throughout this, and neither has Israel. It's sort of like the two worst people in the world, having a stand off. It's just not going to end well.

You don’t get to say Ukraine has it worse, because they don’t. Objectively. No part of their experience is pleasant, but it’s simply incomparably better.

a lot of it is definitely better, but a lot of it is also very similar. It's just interesting to me that so many people seem to care so deeply about the Palestine issue, but barely anybody seems to even think about Ukraine at all these days. There are or were, maybe all of them were bots lmao, that seemed to be so heavily indebted into the side of Palestine that I'm not sure how they managed to be a functional person outside of that belief. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to tell you that a one state solution is simply, not going to work. Two state isn't perfect, but it's certainly better. Arguably the best possible result.

but people keep voting for them???

Why does every dumbass on this site keep saying "BUT THEY AREN'T POPULAR" only to see them get literally 40-50% of the votes. If they truly weren't popular, they would get like 30% of the vote.

But i guess your entire counter argument is probably "WELL BUT HOW DID TRUMP WIN THEN?" anti-incumbency. Plain and simple.

good job, you actually did something! Why are you here then? Go yell at your representatives or something, nobody cares.

Your party responds to all sensory input by moving right and punching left.

bold assumption.

You assume anyone who has a problem with that must be a nonvoter.

statistically, it's very likely to be true, the primary demographic among the progressive left is younger people, the youth, the primary voting block is older people, the elderly. Statistically, this is bound to overlap in such a way that most people out here yapping online about stupid political shit like this, are not voting.

very observant, yes that is arguably part of the shtick.

what are you supposed to do? The congress controls the budget, literally as defined by the constitution, the executive is currently trying to pretend that isn't the law. And the supreme court doesn't exactly seem content about doing anything over it, so it's not like you can do much as the congress. You literally can't win here, we have to wait for all the lawsuits to hit for anything to begin happening.

it's a lose lose, you either push the funding through, and lock in existing funding, and bypass any weird shutdown bullshit, or you push for a government shutdown where (apparently) the executive can just make up funding numbers and start moving money places.

So, take your pick:

• do something: Maybe everything fucking explodes
• do nothing: everything is already exploded, but we're atleast aware of what's happening

They’re not more likely to have clout or death squads (of their own, at least) than other major industries of comparable size and importance, and everything is structured in such a compartmentalized way that they couldn’t really leverage that against the government if they actually wanted to throw down.

now if they have influence over the military... That's what starts coups.

because that's the entire crux of NATO, the post war world, and most of the military stability that currently exists throughout the western world, and beyond.

Who knows what happens after this point.

presumably NATO could group up, and vote to kick a country out of NATO, i assume this would be one of those cases, if they really caused trouble.

that was also the logic that lead to russia thinking they could beat ukraine, uh, didn't work.

it's trash, if you ignore literally everything it's good at, which is basically everything it's designed for.

Turns out cars aren't very good at crossing the ocean. Who would've thunk a fighter jet not designed for dogfighting wouldn't be designed to dogfight. Truly a baffling conundrum.

By all metrics available, the F35 is literally the most capable jet in existence, it's technological capabilities are literally unmatched.

America has shown it wants Donald or a Donald substitute.

well they also voted for kennedy, and they still killed him, assuming that's how that works.

Other countries changing military suppliers isn’t going to change back to america for 10-15 years (hell, maybe even longer, I dunno what the service life of a jet platform is).

Other countries changing military suppliers isn’t going to change back to america for 10-15 years (hell, maybe even longer, I dunno what the service life of a jet platform is).

the service life of the f16 has been like forever, i think it's been close to like 70 years now? Hell of a modernization in between then and now, similar story with the f22, although it's quite a bit newer. Military equipment doesn't really have a service life, it's more so an effectiveness constant.