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UAP business aside, I’m glad congress is asking questions. We shouldn’t be paying taxes and then have our money just disappear into a black hole with zero accountability and oversight.
UAP business aside, I’m glad congress is asking questions. We shouldn’t be paying taxes and then have our money just disappear into a black hole with zero accountability and oversight.
Nuclear takes too long to build out and costs way more than renewables + storage. Why advocate for wasting money?
If it’s replacing coal and gas, it’s a big benefit.
Some good advice here. I’d add that you should figure out what your range is, don’t torture yourself trying to hit notes outside of it.
It’s not a direct attack on NATO though. If Russia launched a missile at the UK then it would be on like donkey kong.
NATO is a defensive pact, you fuck with one of us, you fuck with all of us. Ukraine isn’t a member but I support it’s application to join.
Thanks! I looked it up:
"Prince Alwaleed bin Talal agreed to roll over $1.9 billion worth of Twitter shares through his Kingdom Holding Company to Musk’s new private company, making him the second largest investor in Twitter. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, owns nearly 17% of Kingdom Holding, according to Reuters.
Meanwhile, Qatar contributed $375 million for the financing of Musk’s Twitter purchase."
I wonder if they’re happy with how their investment is going?
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t the Saudis finance the deal to buy Twitter? Given the platform was used extensively by protesters during the Arab Spring, would it be worth it to them to pay for Musk to destroy it?
Bunkers have air vents, right?
It just sounds like a bunch of basement dwellers lucked out and got rich but nothing else changed.
Sure, bud. What happened on 5 December 1994?
Your understanding of the situation is somewhat lacking, I’m being very generous here.
Now this I can get behind.
R.I.P. Mimi :(
I’ve seen the opposite in places like the UK where privatization of public utilities has lead to very high prices, poor customer service, and under investment across the board.
One thing about sealioning that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that it’s a tactic designed to utterly exhaust the other person by asking question after question with no willingness to listen to the answers. It’s there to waste time and grind down your opponent until they have had enough of your bullshit and tell you to fuck off. At that point you can feign offense and declare victory.
I wouldn’t say they’re authoritarian, as there is no strongman they want to appoint to govern.
A cynic or a realist? All political systems have to have some checks against human greed and avarice or things quickly turn to shit for the average person. If you can’t vote someone out, that’s an important check you’re giving up.
I’ve seen plenty of people start off with good intentions and then they change when they get a taste of power.
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.” - Lord Acton.
All of that whataboutism doesn’t stop nuclear from being a ridiculously expensive form of power generation.