Idk, a basement is starting to seem like the best place to put RFK Jr now.

They have to have a degree on the relevant topic. I assume most of those influences have business degrees or whatever that wouldn’t qualify them to speak on the dangers of vaccines.

What they deserve

Like heading the department of health and human services?

In the UK (and like many places) there are 2 systems of water drainage

Not necessarily, older systems tend to be combined systems where sewage and rainwater go down the same pipes and are treated before going into the river. London (where this story takes place) is like this as the system was built in the 1800s when they didn’t care about treating water before it went into the Thames. This becomes a problem when it rains too much and it overwhelms the treatment system so they just dump untreated sewage into the Thames like the good old days.

Then again maybe they’re building a parallel separated system to try and reduce the load during heavy rains. Ie. We were rebuilding this road anyway, might as well connect it to a new storm water drainage system instead of sending it to the old Victorian one, and that’s why they don’t want people dumping.

Your main point is correct for most people living in places that were developed in the 1920s or later, don’t dump shit in the storm drains.

Here’s hoping this ends up like the last time a king Charles got a little too cozy with the Catholics

Due process would be great if there was a functioning court and prison system, but Israel bombed all that

Maybe, but those specific targets were more often than not killed. So yeah, people who survived may say the russians were worse because you can’t ask a dead jew who they thought were worse. The Germans killed 36x as many people during the occupation. Yeah the soviets taking your shit and trying to suppress your culture and autonomy sucks but that’s better than the Germans doing the same while sending a good chunk of the population to death camps

Again, I think that perspective is more shaded by the more recent soviet occupation after the war. If the nazis won and implemented their full lebensraum plans for Poland, nobody would be saying the russians were worse.

Poles hating russians makes sense historically, but historically Germans, both Prussian and Austrian , have been just as bad, if not worse with the nazis, so why don’t they hate them too?

I think the “russophobia” today has more to do with current events than history. If Germany did anschluss 2 and invaded Austria, I think Poland would be just as scared of them.

Good, now do the authorized use of military force from 2001 that every recent president has used to bomb whoever they want.

Though I guess it doesn’t matter as trumps ust bombing Venezuelan ships now without even citing it.

And just like in Italy with Giorgia Meloni she’s a right winger.

Watch out Germany, Alice Weidels gonna get elected next and bring back the axis, but with girl bosses this time.

No it was a flare that they launched at there own ship because they wanted attention, the hasbara bots told me so.

Seems like it could be like music production software becoming widely available. Now you don’t need to get a drummer, a bass player etc. Together to make music, you can just make it at home on your computer. It enables lower level people to get off the ground as they now have the tools that the pros do, you want a saxophone but don’t know anyone in town who can play or can’t afford one, just use a synth that sounds like one. Once you get signed though and you have a label giving you studio time you might hire an actual saxophone player because it sounds better.

Same with movies, AI could be helpful in making small low/no budget indie movies, but I don’t think it’s at the same quality as real actors for big budget movies where people expect more, so maybe the wealthy studio execs won’t benefit from it much right now.

Likud and the settlers bare just as much responsibility for Oslo falling apart as hamas. Probably even more so since they funded hamas in the first place.

Would’ve been nice if they did this 80 years ago when they started this whole mess

✅️ France running up huge deficits because it can’t tax the wealthy

✅️ Wealthy obstruct any attempt to make them pay there fair share

✅️ prime minister after prime minister go down trying to fix the financial crisis

☑️ frustrated king president calls the estates general

…

☑️ this guys head in a basket

No, probably Korean incels. They’ve become a real problem recently and have started to become more political.

Not only is natural gas dependence a climate threat to Europe, good luck when the jet stream turns off, but it’s also a security threat. As long as they have to keep paying there main geopolitical adversary billions to keep from freezing in the winter, they will never be truly sovereign.

The leads buried pretty deep:

It was in summer 2020, in the early months of Covid, Zhu says, that he made the decision to leave the US. He cited his disaffection with the direction of the AI community and the hothouse of American politics – both its leftwing brand of campus progressivism and the Trump-era national security crusades. There was also a personal factor. His younger daughter, Zhu Yi, is a figure skater who was recruited in 2018 to compete for China in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

In general he seems more angry at the direction silicon valley ai is going rather then how US politics are going. He thinks larger more traditional explainable statistical models are the way forward as opposed to the black box neural networks and transformers that power llms and most other models in this recent wave.

China is giving him hundreds of millions in grants to pursue those theories, whereas silicon valley vcs probably won’t give him a dime unless it’s got an llm in it and US research grants are drying up in general but especially to Chinese professors.

We actually don’t, the guy wasn’t that progressive and was only advocating for it because the cost of renovating and maintaining that stretch of road was unjustifiable since the dunes constantly migrate and cover it.

The guy was actually more on the right by san francisco standards and got elected fear mongering on crime during the post blm reaction.

He didn’t do it to make waves, the city voted and passed a referendum to close the highway and make a park, he just endorsed the referendum.

It also didn’t delete the ability for people in the sunset or the Richmond to travel, there’s a parallel road a couple blocks inland that is actually more connected to the highway network. People mainly went down the great highway because it was scenic, not because it was the best route.

It was also just a bad road for cars, the dunes on the beach would migrate all the time and the city would have to pay to clean up the sand. It’s better for pedestrians and cyclists who care less about a bit of sand on the road.