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I didn't really read it that way, but see what you mean.

But along those lines, I'm a "vote blue to keep the troglodytes out" type, and supported the ACA as an incremental step, but I'm also appreciative of the criticism coming from further left over current healthcare policy. If the ACA really was an incremental step, then we shouldn't be talking about backsliding -- the administration should be prioritizing a push in the other direction. We can debate what that entails, and may be about to today, but the discussion should be about getting more folks covered.

Awesome game so far and remarkably well-polished due to the early access. My only real gripe is that the camera control is a little fiddly. It may be that I'm just not used to it, but a click and drag to rotate the camera would be chef's kiss

Nice

If they actually have that level of self-awareness, which I doubt they all do, then we should just reclaim the term. As in, “Yeah, I’m woke. Fuck you”.

I believe congratulations are in order. Getting a good surface finish on a lathe can be really hard, but you did it!

Isn’t the poor track record about to catch up to them with the next general election, or is that just wishful thinking?

The grim irony is that a lot of the pain will be felt in red Southern and Western states.* When the power grid goes down for good in Texas in 15 years or so, nursing homes filled with a lot of these climate skeptics are not going to be fun places.

*Yes, pour one out for SoCal.

No pithy comment from me. Just a hearty ‘thank you’ for posting up an evidence-based article. We need more of this.

The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire is cut fro the same cloth as the Westboro Baptist church. Their ideas are insane, and deep down I think they probably know they are, but instead of reflection they double down on the crazy and confuse outrage in others for validation. Mock, block, and roll is the way with these guys.

He is going to argue that he was fed bad information by his alleged co-conspirators and had reasonable concerns about the integrity of the election. No mens rea, no conviction. Bullshit, of course, but it doesn’t take a whole lot to hang a jury, and I would think that is particularly so in a politically charged case. I have seen a lot of good arguments to the contrary, but folks have to understand that proving this part is harder than you might think.

He is in greater immediate jeopardy with the documents case where it is impossible to see him mounting a successful defense, at least if the law is followed. The question there will be the severity of the consequences. Will he plead out? Will he get a slap on the wrist?

Edit: interesting short blurb here where Bill Barr is quoted as saying he thinks prosecutors have additional evidence establishing intent.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/politics/bill-barr-trump-arraignment-2020-election/index.html

Imagine sending your son or daughter, or signing up yourself to serve your country, only to die far from home in the service of … Saudi Arabia.

Given how compartmentalized secret military programs are supposed to be, there is a good chance that there is some secret squirrel program out there about which a rumor gets circulated by those in government but OUT of the know, and it gets wilder and wilder in the retelling until … aliens.

Good point. Yeah, that's pretty good. I guess I'm just a pessimistic git on this one. Never in the history of the world will I be more happy to be proven wrong.

I read it just now. They seem to be depending on the argument that because so many of Trump’s own people told him there was no evidence of ‘outcome determinative’ fraud, he had to know he was making false claims fraudulently. Which would work on 99% of the human race.

But this is Trump. That crazy fucker will argue vociferously (or his lawyer will) that he got bad advice from the co-conspirators and he actually believed it … and was reasonable to do so. May well be enough to plant doubt in the minds of enough jurors to hang the jury or get an acquittal.

Or maybe not. Point is, they’ve got him on the documents. This, while more egregious, is going to be an uphill battle, I think. Best not get our hopes up and leave room for a pleasant surprise.

Bad hot take (maybe): I think they have him dead to rights on the documents case but this one is going to be harder to make stick. Mens rea and all that.

Y’all are doing yeopeople’s work! The transparency is much appreciated.

I am sorry that you have to deal with this, though I am secretly relieved that my country isn’t the only one that has lost its fucking mind.

Are Finnish Nazi wannabe politicians as comically dumb as the ones in North America? Ours are still dangerous mind you - maybe even more so because of it - but a few of them are really, really dense. Like, neutron star dense.

For me the reason is obvious, school is perhaps the one field in life where the sexist upbringing of girls gives them a slight advantage because they are raised to be pleasing and responsible.

I can definitely see where that reasoning is coming from. It would be interesting to cross reference school performance against a survey of gendered parental attitudes regarding classroom behavior and to see if there have been shifts over time.

Please keep it positive (both comments above). Against my better judgment I got involved in this discussion so now it would be wrong to start swinging the mod hammer, but please let's remember this is the nice Lemmy instance. We need to keep the personal comments out of the ... comments.

We're here to discuss tough issues in good faith and learn something. Hopefully. Possibly. Maybe on Tuesday.

Unless I'm reading it wrong, this is showing a modest but positive increase in the percentage of male elementary school teachers since the 90's.