I live in Florida, flattest state in the Union. We still have to have professional soil reports to build anything. The is 100% a construction failure.
They should have detected the likelihood of landslides, maybe dynamited the mountain to mitigate.
Yes. We know. Because this pic is in every fucking thread.
Just said that in front of world+dog? 🫨 Even saying that on air would be shocking, but in an official government journal?! Meanwhile, in America, no one in government would have the balls to say such a thing and would be immediately removed if they did so.
China is playing catch up. There was a great NPR series on American pollution, how we built industry, how we dialed it back and how China is doing the same, but accelerating the dial back.
Now American’s are screaming, “Stop that!” Well, we did it first, got where we’re at. Reminds me of America wiping out malaria with DDT and 2-seconds later telling the rest of the world we’d cut trade if they didn’t also ban it. See how that works?
When I was a kid, the smog in Los Angeles was nationwide news. I was a child and knew about it in Tulsa! Leaving Manhattan in 1992, we all saw a brown cloud over the city. Thought it was rather cloudy until we got across the bridge and into the countryside.
Anyway, China is still building coal plants, still a monster polluter, but I see light at the end of the tunnel.
Spent some time with an extraordinarily intelligent young man who worked US Navy SIGINT. That was his exact take. China is going to kick our ass because they plan long term and make shit happen, regardless of shifting public opinion. He had me wondering if democracy isn’t, in fact, a bunch of bullshit. Not working out for America ATM, now is it?
Look at America’s original Constitution. Ah! They only want land owning white males to vote! Ah! But in those times, those were the people who had a stake in governmental policy. It was safe to bet they’d keep the country economically stable and out of costly wars, all in their own best interest.
The irony of modern land-owning white males throwing the country under the bus for short term gains does not escape me. (And I’m one of them, who votes against my own interests.)
Didn’t say she did anything wrong, made no judgement of any sort. I asked how any given government should treat leakers. Are you saying it’s OK for a government to forgive security breaches in some cases?
You ignored the question to get on your moral soapbox. Funny enough, your statement would rule out any possibility of obtaining a security clearance.
You seem to not understand that government officials and soldiers who are sworn to secrecy do not get to make the call on what they should leak. They do not get to make the call on what is illegal or immoral.
So, answer the question.
Been wondering about this! Sure age of transition doesn’t play a factor, even after 2 years? I can’t see how a teen transitioning isn’t different from an older man transitioning.
I get the giggles watching Anatoly prank videos. He plays a nerdy, Eastern European janitor, pushing a mop around the gym. He regularly astounds the much larger guys by effortlessly lifting their weights.
One of his gags is casually handing the monster weightlifters his 32kg mop. They instantly drop it, “Is there problem? See! Is normal mop.” Picks it up one handed, zero strain.
This one is great! Girls are trying not to straight make fun of him talking about ab training. “Show us yours.” Aight. (Can’t find the better version where you can see his abs, but he’s a monster.)
Whatever his training regime, it’s obvious he has muscle density bordering on superhuman. Talk about advantage!
Or look at Michael Phelps. Dude smokes and is basically Aquaman. I forget what’s unusual about his body, but he’s a rare one.
You didn’t answer the question. And it’s a valid question to my mind. See my reply to the above.
I question that as well. The strength advantage seems to be a factor of how early one transitions. If we figure that in, now we have another controversy, another fat can of worms.
They’re probably thinking along these lines and just saying, “Fuck it, total ban, zero tolerance.”
Wish she had pulled a Snowden and dropped the receipts on the way out the country. But what nation would take in the object of an Israeli manhunt? We’ve already seen that Israel can get away with most literally anything. Few nations so much as verbally chastise them. Anywhere outside the Arab world this woman runs to would turn her over, and I’m guessing the Arabs wouldn’t be too welcoming of an IDF Major General.
What I want to know is what she’s so afraid of that death seems the better option. Is it guilt over betraying the army, fear of what they’ll do to her, what exactly? As with Epstein, I suspect someone whispered in her that she should take the easy option. As with Epstein’s guards purposefully ignoring him, Israel let her go home after she left suicide notes before capture. It’s a setup is what I’m saying.
What is a government or military to do with leakers? Let some slide because they did the moral thing? Everybody thinks they’re doing the moral thing, no matter how heinous. Serious question. I have no answers.
As with a soldier disobeying illegal orders, it isn’t up to the individual to make that call. That person might come out the other side exonerated, but the chances are slim and they’re going through a meat grinder first, losing family, friends, possessions, career, freedom, everything. They may well lose their very life.
Israel would be wise to make noise about investigating this, give her a loud slap on the wrist, make a shitload more noise about how heinous this was, not in the best traditions, bla, bla, bla and very publicly drop those involved in an oubliette.
Israel is so used to getting their way without a whiff of dissent from their allies, that they’re utterly bungling this thing. I know jack about PR, am just a dumb Florida Redneck, and I could have handled this better.
Just said so myself.
8B+ humans are not sustainable. Yes, some very smart people have crunched the numbers and yes we can theoretically feed 10B, I get that. We can do better on all the points you bring and more!
Curious how old you are, because I’ve seen us go from 3.7B to 8.2B, and that scares the shit out of me. 74% of the animals have disappeared since 1970. I’ve watched, and am watching now, the countryside get converted into strip malls and housing.
We don’t just need food and water, we need housing and infrastructure. Guess what’s a major CO2 emitter? Concrete. 8% of total output.
Too late. We have a major emergency in the American West that almost all of us are blithely unaware of. Mexico City may be the first major city to straight up run out of water. Kabul looks to be next.
And this isn’t all down to global warming. We’re draining monstrous aquifers that took thousands of years to fill.
Here in NW Florida people were commenting on how unusually rainy it was last spring. Yeah, that was normal 10-20 years ago, rain nearly every afternoon. Had a solid rain last week. Before that? Over a month dry.
Rodrigo Paz faces Bolivia’s worst economic crisis in 40 years, with high inflation and a shortage of fuel and dollars.
Well shit. Just when socialism had turned Bolivia into a regional and world leader, an economic powerhouse. 🙄
Not one comment here about what was happening before, what changes are to be expected. Anyone have something intelligent to say other than, “Capitalism bad”? Not sure what he hopes to accomplish, not sure what “capitalism for all” is supposed to mean. I was hoping to learn something here.
Still want to know what the administration got, or will get, from this outrage. Or was Trump merely doing a favor for an old pal?
The alternative is die slow. 🤷
And deep soil sampling should have caught that. I’m sure there are many methods I’m ignorant of that could have foreseen this.
Even America’s crumbling infrastructure doesn’t see monstrous failures like this. China: Is it Wednesday again?