Not really. Actual democracies have incentives to make things better for the majority of people. And the easiest way to do that is to break up monopolies (especially in media), tax the rich, and then invest heavily in education.

Coincidentally, the way to kill a democracy is to do the exact opposite.

Trump entered office under a Biden negotiated ceasefire. Trump then told Netenyahu to go ahead and ignore the ceasefire.

It wasn’t even about coconspirators, he loved to muddy the waters by hanging out with famous people.

He was also obsessed with science and technology, and gave a lot of money to legitimate physics projects.

Which is how he met Stephen Hawkings, who this article claims died under “mysterious circumstances”.

Which tells you the journalistic rigor used.

I’d argue that there are still plenty of accidents. But your second, third, fourth, and fifth points are all spot on. This particular killing reeks of deliberate orders being given and followed.

The actual accidents, usually involve equipment failure, and the people killed are almost always the people using said equipment.

This is part of that process. France is sort of saying that they are willing to put boots on the ground to stop this, without saying exactly that.

Because being a member state of the UN comes with perks, like the ability to request UN peace keepers.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8621gnknjo

Israel took full credit for the attack.

Generational wealth and power, does not produce healthy minds.

The inbreeding was a side effect of an already broken system.

Any country riddled with landmines. They’re the only ones that need it.

War crimes if you force enemy soldiers to do it. Technically forcing enemy soldiers to do anything at all is a war crime.

Not war crimes if it’s community service ordered by a judge due to conviction for crimes committed by the subject.

If you want to be sad, read up on the Residential Schools.

1948 was 50 years before the last of those hellholes closed.

And yes, Canada has semi-officially recognized it as a cultural genocide. With actual genocide recognition passed by the House of Commons in 2022.

(d) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713

(e) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56454609

There are far more, but those two are already enough to prove the point.

There are a few small scale chocolate companies that actively avoid child labor.

And then there’s Nestle on the opposite side of that spectrum. Not just child labor, but child slavery.

They talk a good game about eliminating child labor, but always seem to look the other way in their supply chain.

Some good news, ulcers can usually be treated with a simple round of antibiotics.

I will refrain from finishing this thought in order to keep it good news

The “refuses to elaborate” is simple, Mathew 25 31-46.

It quite clearly says that you are to welcome the immigrant, feed the poor, care for the sick, and visit the prisoners.

Failure to do any of that is a straight shot to hell, no matter how much you claim to love god, you actually have to do the work, or it’s off to hell.

Fun fact, Mathew 25 is the only place in the bible that references sending ordinary people to hell. All that fire and brimstone, it’s actually in that one passage. Nowhere else does hell show up for normal people, just fallen angles and shit.

Wind and solar cannot set grid frequency.

They just can’t. You need a turbine to set frequency.

And yes, the grid frequency matters.

So yes, we will always need a base load. And what better way than a small modular reactor, keeping the grid local and modular.

Or we can build out so much wind and solar that we have to have massive transmission lines running across the country, and then we would still need to curtail that power during peak supply, while also not getting enough generation when solar and wind fail.

And then you still need a turbine to set the grid frequency.

2040 huh?

My prediction is a record number of new plants going online in 2040.

Especially as there are literal factories being built to specifically crank out Small Modular Reactors.

We’re looking at a future where every small town can have their own reactor, providing enough power for that town but not large enough to ever melt down.

If you need an egg stand in, there’s the cheap plastic eggs. Which are available everywhere. So I too, doubt this story.

Funny you bring up that couple, because the lack of standards has a through line here.

A man named Roy Cohn was the prosecutor, and he wheeled and dealed to make sure that both Rosenbergs got the death penalty, even if the evidence was a bit weak, especially the evidence against Ethel. Cohn got witnesses to change their story so that he could push to kill Ethel.

Cohn then went on to help Joseph McCarthy run the Red, and Lavender Scares.

And then, later still, Roy Cohn would tutor Donald Trump in the art of personally attacking anyone who tried to enforce the law against him.

The piece of shit finally died of HIV,

The Marquis de Condorcet wrote about the evils of Christianity back in the 1790s.

He wrote about how it was a tool of oppression, not just of the person, but of the mind and spirit.

And nothing has changed in the last 200 years.

It’s doubtful that they killed him, he was just a kid when they took him. They have him squirrelled away somewhere, having gone through heavy indoctrination. Just waiting for the Dali Lama to die.