And yet the people in charge of the judiciary are more religiously motivated than they’ve been in nearly a century.
It doesn’t really matter if we as a society are less religious than ever if the people with their hands on the tiller are not. There’s a reason they are called reactionaries…
don’t know of any heroic deeds that Hitler did. Do you?
My definition of hero includes general morality… If we adopt your definition of just being brave or inspirational, then you would be hypocritical not too. He was a combat veteran who eventually went on to be the leader of his country. By your definition that’s not heroic?
didn’t say he was a hero, that was dagwoodiii a bit upthread
“I’d say that those heroic deeds by definition makes them a hero, even if it’s only in a narrow context as “American naval warfare”.”
I’d say that those heroic deeds by definition makes them a hero, even if it’s only in a narrow context as “American naval warfare”.
Again, no one is forcing you to call a child rapist a hero… It’s a pretty wild move imo.
By your own definition…is Hitler also a hero?
I think maybe it’s important when mantling someone with the title of “hero” that we weigh the positive and the negative aspects of their contributions, otherwise it can get awkward.
Ehh… If you want to proclaim your hero is the rapist of a 10 year old girl feel free I guess?
There’s a difference between the morally gray of acts committed in war, and the rape of a 10 year old girl. Which was morally reprehensible even in the perspective of 1700’s Russian society.
America’s legendary naval hero
Yeah… I’d hesitate to label him as a “hero” considering he was also a slaver and a child rapist.
Np, there’s companies who sell it as a wettable powder that you just mix in water and apply it with a sprayer. Works like a charm and doesn’t take much, think I bought a 25b bag like 4-5 seasons ago and it’s still at least half full.
Idk, if it wasn’t religion it’d be something else. Religion is a great tool to control populations, but it’s just one of many. Most human conflicts have a materialistic basis to them and things like religion or nationality are just used as window dressing.
I’d say the most destructive force on the planet is usually just rich/powerful dudes beefing over turf.
but do they actually let you have one?
Haha yeah that tends to be the real problem with the dill strategy. Typically if we actually want a dill for ourselves we’ll plant one in a hanging planter away from the rest of the garden, otherwise the greedy little guys will eat it as well.
We’ve also used fennel in the past as well, dill and fennel seem to be their favorite for some reason.
Ultimately, it was Bacillus Thuringiensis (BT) which worked the best.
We’ve tried to step away from any kind of active pesticide, just because we get so many monarch butterflies where we’re at. Usually if they get on a plant we want to try and save we’ve had luck using kaolin clay. Which has a dual purpose as a sun protection during real hot summers.
A big GOP created “make work” program of security theater.
Less of a “make work” program and more of subsidy to keep the privatized airlines afloat.
Not sure how many people here remember the times immediately after 9/11, but a significant portion of the population were basically refusing to fly again for quite a while afterwards. Airlines were scrambling to get people to fly again and there were talks going around about them either going under or being socialized.
The TSA was basically a program meant to get scared Americans back on planes so airlines could maintain enough profitability to remain privately owned.
Lol, right?
My dad was in the Air Force so we moved all over the place, but whenever we were stationed in the South in the 90’s I would often be the first Asian person to ever go to that school.
Doesn’t really mean a whole bunch if the “normal levels” of empathy are inadequate to create a humane society.
This is why my garden has at least a couple sacrificial dill plants. A couple fat caterpillars can wreck a dill plant, the little guys love dill but it usually grows fast enough to satiate them until metamorphosis.
I think a lot of people get really attached to the plants in their garden and have a reflex to attempt to subvert nature by sanitizing it. But there’s an old rhyme that I like to remember when it comes to remembering that we are part of a working ecology, not the masters of it.
Four seeds in a row: One for the mouse, One for the crow, One to rot, And one to grow.
Basically, expect most of your plants to fail before harvest. That has been the expectation since agriculture has been a part of human existence. It’s only in modern times where we actually expect to reap all of which we sow.
Most of the disposable e-cigarettes tested released markedly higher amounts of metals and metalloids into vapors than earlier, refillable vapes.
Yeah, seems to be an issue with a lack of commercial regulation than with the inherent technology itself. I am usually skeptical of any study toting cigarettes as the “safer” option, however this kinda keeps in pace with our society’s rapid devolution back to industrial age regulatory standards.
Industry’s regulatory and judicial capture seems to rear it ugly head once again at the expense of the public’s health.
I don’t know why people assume that the siren systems local governments install aren’t the affordable option…
What do you think is cheaper and provides the most safety…a single siren loud enough to cover a very wide area, or the state reimbursing hundreds of people to buy inadequately installed and tested sirens all over the place?
I can guarantee that if you had everyone install their own systems a significant portion would not be installed correctly, and another significant portion wouldn’t have the needed maintenance performed to maintain reliability.
I guess people don’t understand the innate cost effectiveness of consolidation at scale?
The methacholine asthma test is the best asthma test imo, it can detect it in people who may be having mucus membrane irritation which hasn’t affected their lung capacity.
It’s budesonide formoterol inhaler, and it’s been a big game changer for me.
Have you gotten tested for asthma? Like the one where they attempt to cause an asthma attack via a nebulized medication?
I suffered from chronic rhinitis for years, and was also told to do the nasal irrigation twice a day. I’ve never actually had an asthma “attack” I just had constant low level irritation and swelling in my mucus membrane. I never knew I had asthma until I had an ENT doc do the actual test, and now that I’m on the proper medication I rarely have issues.
You literally are advocating for ethnic cleansing, in this comment chain. You just think that because it’s Good Ethnic Cleansing™, that makes it okay.
Lol, I haven’t… You’re just being disingenuous as always. Or your mental illness is warping your perception. If you read the first comment I made I said it wasn’t my belief but I understand why Palestinians would want Israelis to migrate back to Europe. You know considering that they are currently colonizing Palestine via genocide.
You haven’t once asked about my personal opinion, you’ve just been asserting what you want my opinion to be because you’d rather argue with your preferred strawman.
FYI- if it were up to me I would prefer there to be no genocide, and for the Israeli government to give back the illegally seized land back to the original agreed upon borders. However, I recognize that it’s not my people who are suffering from apartheid and genocide, and that those people have their own autonomy and will seek their own retribution.
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Lol, what a fantastic rebuttal…
There is a difference between nationality and ethnicity. Otherwise every war in history would be considered an ethnic cleansing, which is just not true.
It’s not genocide if I say the magic words before doing it!"
“It’s a genocide because I declared it so”. Fucking moron.
That is the comment which started the conversation and which I replied to, it is literally about individuals
“Is Israel paying for people to immigrate to Israel with the purpose of expanding the Israeli state not an ethnic cleansing of Palestinians?”
This is the question you responded to …Why can’t you argue in any sort of good faith? Is it against your principles or something?
Yes, yes, the sacred words of your religion absolve you for doing the exact same thing as the Zionists.
Religion? Are you mentally well? I thought you were just being an asshole with the ad hominems and your general beligerence, but im beginning to think you might be bipolar or something.
sounds like a regional misunderstanding which you unintentionally misconstrued.
Maybe it’s a regional thing…but I don’t think I’m the only one who interpreted it that way.
But yeah, there are plenty of decent people in the South, I wouldn’t argue against that. I would argue it’s a smaller minority than in some of the other places I’ve lived though.
I mean, if there is some list of extremely wealthy clients… It would probably just resemble a copy of the Republican mega donors list.
Most people wealthy enough to vacation on a private island also really don’t like paying taxes.