TrippyFocus @ TrippyFocus @lemmy.ml

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I don’t think it will in the short term since Russia needs allies and the West has made it clear they will never be allies with Russia. Russia doesn’t gain anything by splitting with China now or in the short term.

Much longer term it was always bound to happen. Russia only gets critical support around here because it’s going against the West in this specific conflict. It’s still a capitalist country with reactionary views on a lot of things.

That’s going to eventually put it at odds with China and other AES countries unless there’s a change in power in Russia.

If you ever want to see an Elk close up I would definitely recommend visiting Estes Park during Rutt (spelling?) season.

Lived in Denver for a couple years and my wife and I would always drive up there to see them!

Glad to see the Elk showing solidarity!

I get the hesitation since in US politics they often get conflated and I can’t say I’ve followed him very closely but someone else shared this. I know he’s also advocating for city owned grocery stores.

Nowhere in this meme does it say that “both sides are the same”. It’s (correctly) showing how both parties don’t give a shit about the working class.

Republicans are horrible but you can’t expect the Democrats to save or help you from them after we have tons of evidence showing they will also break strikes, pass right wing immigration laws, attack protesters, support genocide, and do almost nothing to stop rising fascism.

Also trying to diminish supplying and funding a genocide to just “a single foreign policy issue” is pretty fucked up and not even accurate. Leftists were willing to overlook hundreds of issues we had with Kamala as a candidate if she could just do the bare fucking minimum of not actively funding and supplying a genocide and she couldn’t even do that.

Yeah I doubt this goes through especially after the reports that the US agreed to different terms already and then is changing it again.

As others have said no one source should have blanket trust.

Understanding the bias the source may have by looking up who owns/funds it and understanding how that might skew what you’re reading is important.

For news based on studies I usually will try to directly to the study which should list the methodology which will help show how well done it was.

If I have time later I’ll put together a list of ones I use and what I’ve seen as their biases.

Kvaal said defaults can be “tragic” for borrowers. In some cases, Kvaal said, defaults can negatively impact credit scores and future student aid, and several states revoke driver’s licenses over defaults.

Wish there was a list of states in the article because that’s just terrible policy. Revoking drivers licenses in a country with terrible to non existent public transportation basically means you’re guaranteeing they won’t have the income to pay you back.

Guess cruelty is the point tho.

Thank you for expanding, that’s what I was trying to get at but didn’t have time to comment everything I wanted since I’m at work.

The issue is Liberalism hasn’t worked for the majority of people especially when looking at the global south.

Saw this on another article lmao, did he just get a list of countries and start throwing numbers out at random.

Incredibly, it appears the Trump regime has imposed a 10% tariff on goods coming from the Heard and McDonald Islands, an Australian territory which lies in between Madagascar and Antarctica. Why is that incredible? Because the Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.

Heartbreaking, the fact that Israel continues to murder journalists and civilians with no restraint while the world just stands by thanks to Amerikkka backing them is infuriating.

Pseudoscience is always going to attract people who want to feel like they know more than others without putting in a lot of work on studying things.

Terrance Howard also believes 1x1=2 so wouldn’t put a ton of stock into his other theories but haven’t heard of this one specifically. Like the other commentator said if he at some point shows concrete evidence I’m happy to admit I’m wrong but he hasn’t had that for his other stuff so I’m doubtful.

Those organizations specifically? Not much, the major powers within them have always had a level of veto or other powers that effectively make them untouchable.

The other major powers, like China have to counter us more directly since we’ll likely see international orgs slowly become more inept as this country goes more mask off with its facism and imperialism.

I really hope Xiaohongshu doesn’t implement things to separate language users. I didn’t even use TikTok but have been using Xiaohongshu since it’s a lot more fun and unique seeing Chinese culture and memes even if I’m having to do a lot of translating.

Probably will push me to actually learn mandarin too

Oh I don’t want them to hold back new games performance just for the OG switch, that was pretty underpowered even when it came out. I’m hoping the switch 2 gets a good upgrade in the area since it’s needed.

More for indie games and things like that was what I was thinking.

Not too surprising they didn’t change much. The switch was a huge hit so fixing things like the joycons, adding a stand, etc. was the way to go.

My guess (hope) is that the only new titles exclusive to the switch 2 are ones that the original switch wouldn’t have the processor strength to play and that they won’t arbitrarily wall them but we’ll see.

Yougov was tied for the highest pollster rating from 538.. If you feel like polls in general aren’t accurate or that’s not a good rating system feel free to add some support to the contrary ¯(ツ)/¯

Wish there was an easy way to use these in a mobile app like voyager.

Gotta say I really appreciate that you do this. I try to varying degrees when I have the time since like you said it’s usually so lurkers can have their minds changed but it can be time consuming.

It’s really nice when others are jumping in to help and I see you posting great takes a ton.

Yeah pretty much all the issues in the country boil down to the accumulation of massive wealth in the hands of a few people and any solution that isn’t directly addressing the system that allows that is just a bandaid.

Unfortunately the answer is going to be organizing locally and working to educate people on what the actual causes of their problems are which is going to take time. The only silver lining is the systemic problems will become increasingly difficult to ignore which creates the opening for change, we just need to be ready to seize that opportunity.