Take an hour, even half an hour, and see what experts have to say about making the call on “illegal orders”.

tl;dr: Make the call to disobey, you are fucked.

Not as easy to disobey as you make it out.

Short version

Good luck. There is plenty of law and precedent to examine if you want to put in the time.

tl;dr: Make the call on “lawful” orders at your personal peril, and you will almost certainly lose.

No way of telling. Depends on what Trump’s handlers whisper in his ear. ATM he’s mostly against Putin. Can’t find it ATM, but pretty sure I saw a story today about the US approving or shipping high-end weapons to Ukraine. 🤷🏻

It’s the filthy fucking Russians, always is. At what point does Europe call bullshit and invade?! Easy for me to say across the Pond, but if Mexico was constantly sabotaging America, we’d quickly kick their ass.

DG is all we have in the country. It’s not like some mom-and-pop could provide that range of goods at those prices. There are DGs where there is nothing else, never was. I’m on the edge of town and a lot of these people have to walk or bike to the store. The new DG was a godsend.

At the town outside my camp, 900 souls, there’s a DG and a gas/convenience/general store coexisting, only two businesses. I spend what I can with the local store, get what I can’t at DG. The DG is the only real general store (hence the name) for 25-minutes in either direction.

Every criticism I’ve ever heard is from city people.

Nature can exert similar pressures without intelligence involved.

“Survival of the fittest” has been around a long, long time and now we know better.

Went to Dollar General for a few things, refused to pay for coffee. I’d rather do without.

I’ve felt that dogs have taken the same path. Notice how expressive their facial muscles are? Wolves don’t have nearly so many facial muscles. Wild to learn about isn’t it?!

I think the hangup is thinking evolution can’t proceed quickly. We were taught in school that evolution take millions of years and we resist the idea that it can move quickly.

We’ve been figuring out over the last two decades that evolution can move fast, given enough selective pressure.

Arguing with a reasonalbe Christian on reddit 10-years back; Said African elephants were growing smaller, or no tusks, in response to poaching. He called it “breeding”. I call it hella selective pressure. Same difference?

Silliness aside, old rope kinda fascinates me. Some lasts forever, some is rotten beyond use. I have a giant sack at camp, all kinds. Interesting to see how different materials last, stretch, rot, etc.

Friend gave me quite a bit of the thickest nylon rope pictured. Made a shitty rope bridge out of it that might outlast my old carcass.

No one has bought it for £1m.

This business will get out of control.

Isn’t there something about Phelp’s weirdly long torso?

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?

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.)