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"trump is the highest scoring individual in a number of areas. As an example, trump is the national all-time leader in being impeached as President."

100% agree. The biggest overlooked benefit of immigrant culture is the mirror it offers us on our own practices and beliefs. When seeing what others do it gives us the chance to reaffirm that our actions are correct, or even more important, modify our actions for the better by adopting their view on something. We get to cherry pick the best parts of cultures around the world and discard bad practices that are perhaps "traditional" because we see our immigrants have a better approach. In the end of either we get the chance to be the best versions of ourselves with constant exposure to new ideas and ways of doing things.

The paper, which I co-authored with Stephen Semler, found that 54% of the Pentagon’s $4.4 trillion in discretionary spending from 2020 to 2024 went to military contractors. The top five alone — Lockheed Martin ($313 billion), RTX (formerly Raytheon, $145 billion), Boeing ($115 billion), General Dynamics ($116 billion), and Northrop Grumman ($81 billion) – received $771 billion in Pentagon contracts over that five year period.

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It would be one thing if all of the hundreds of billions of dollars lavished on weapons contractors were being well spent in service of a better defense. But they are not.

This article loses credibility to me because the author cites these dollar figures spent on defense contractors, but then only talks about the weapon systems spending. "Contractors" from these companies and others (that the headline speaks to) are doing far more than building weapons. They're running logistics systems coordinating shipping of supplies, they're serving food in mess halls, and staffing lots of regular office jobs all over the military.

Contractors are hired for a couple reasons over using employees (or service members in this case). A contractor could be hired to service a general labor role or possibly a highly skilled specialty unrelated to war fighting. When staff reductions are needed, they are easy to stop that spending by firing the contractors.

I widely agree with the authors that cuts to VA benefits and many expensive weapon systems are bad use of the funds, but completely ignoring where a large chunk of the money is going and cherry picking the most decisive point to disingenuously support a headline does the good reasons for the argument a disservice.

This is heartwarming news that two nations which have been such bitter enemies are looking to a long term peaceful coexistence. This can only benefit both nations and their citizens.

This is a surprising development. The usual path for being pushed out of RB is to be name the 2nd seat driver for the team before being sacked.

I don't know if its possible, but when reading instead of focusing on the pronunciation of a word (because its not needed at that time when you're just reading), I skip right to determining the meaning or the concept the word describes. The only time this gives me difficulty is when the author of what I'm reading is trying to do word play or make something rhyme. Since I don't "hear" it, I don't get those meanings. This is rare though. Other then that, this gives me the most comprehension when I'm reading in my non-native language.

TSA logic:

If you're not willing to concede that a future state of people skipping beef meals does lower demand compared to those same people choosing to eat beef instead, then I don't think we have any basis for continuing to have a discussion.

I couldn't figure out what pedantry you're trying to play at, nor any value for it. The best I could guess is you like dancing around on word play for some reason. That is not an interest of mine. Then I looked at your post history and see this behavior is entirely on-brand for you with your conversations with most folks. Feel free to reply to the void. I'm not interested in your games and won't be interacting with you anymore.

some people are eating fewer beef meals

And for those people that eat fewer beef meals that does help. That is unambiguous. We're talking about choices individuals can make for themselves to affect positive change. Those that eat fewer beef meals remove themselves as demand drivers of beef for those beef skipped meals. Were those individuals that would have eaten beef chose to eat beef for those future meals, then demand would be even higher with even higher climate impacts.

Do you disagree?

I was thinking this pullback wouldn't have occurred until someone made an asbestos t-shirt and wore it on a tour of a government building, then casually mentioned the shirt materials on the way out. If the trump administration would have said asbestos was safe, then this wouldn't have been a problem right? I'm glad cooler heads prevailed and asbestos ban is still on.

I'm sorry to see you go. If you change your mind, we'll be here to welcome you back with open arms. Be safe.

it’s not theoretical. plenty of people (claim to) have cut back on beef, but production continues to rise.

Then you skipped the entire first half of my statement where I said "If people are eating fewer beef meals," So sure, if you ignore half of what I said then you can say I am wrong. At that point what are we even talking about?

i don’t think that’s true, if meat production continues to grow.

If people are eating fewer beef meals, where is the beef production growth coming from in your theoretical?

The most important takeaway for the target group:

“If you’re trying to reduce your carbon footprint, eat less beef,” Rose advises. “You don’t have to give it up entirely, but cutting back or making substitutions can make a significant impact.”

Any fewer beef meals you have helps. We're also just talking beef here. If you choose pork, chicken, fish, or even game meat over beef you're helping the climate.

"allows"

The meme game is incredibly weak compared to here (thanks PugJesus, The_Picard_Maneuver, cm0002, Stamets, LadyButterfly, etc.). Lemmy has an incredible amount of fantastic memes for it’s size.

I'd like to echo this. My entire knowledge of meme culture is supported by these diligent individuals.

I'll also add the prior work of @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world . Miss you, squid. Hope you're doing well in your new home.

"The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, officially the Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,[1][2] and also known as the Hitler–Stalin Pact[3][4] and the Nazi–Soviet Pact,[5] was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe.[6] The pact was signed in Moscow on 24 August 1939 (backdated 23 August 1939[7][8]) by Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.[9]" source

The time, yes, but the resources? There are monetary limits to many "firsts".

First, I think you should stop living in an AI generated picture.

Nonstops being cheaper makes sense to me. Planes make money in the air, not sitting on the ground. A connection means one plane has to land (and stop making money) before another can take off (and start making money again). The whole process of deplaning passengers, unloading baggage, cleaning a plane for the next flight, and restocking the service items is at least doubled with a single stop, and tripled for two stops. None of that makes money, and only costs the airline. Also, airlines have to pay gate fees at airports. A direct flight means one gate fee, connections mean multiple gate fees.

Direct flights costing less are how the low-cost airlines got started. They weren't burdened with providing flights to everywhere (with frequent partially filled planes). Low-cost carriers could cherry pick the best direct routes, and pack the planes full selling nearly every seat. The traditional airlines, seeing their lunch eaten by the low cost carriers, started using the same business model and introduced the "basic economy fare". That may be part of what you're seeing with cheaper non-stops.