Israel does. Compulsory service.

Does this mean Portland should deploy bears to deal with soldier attacks?

Every military ever.

The concept that a soldier is able to disobey an illegal order is flawed. The first thing that happens to them is being thrown in jail awaiting court martial. It’s then on them to prove the order illegal be ause the presumption is that it was legal. It becomes one person against the whole military apparatus.

The penalty if found guilty of refusing to obey orders? At minimum (in the US) a dishonorable discharge. At most a room on death row.

I still think soldier should refuse illegal orders, but the system is setup so they don’t.

I’m not sure Hong Kong is a good example. It was returned to China from the UK in the 90s. So everything since then is “internal”.

Tibet on the other hand…

You realise avoiding the anxiety is worse than dealing with it.

Global war between who?

Russia has been shown to be a paper tiger. China wants to dominate through trade not warfare. Everybody else doesn’t really have an axe to grind. At least, not on that scale.

I see you like to party with Bernie.

First time in over a century.

I wonder what approach she’ll take on the low company taxes making Ireland a haven for US big tech.

No oxygen, no cancer. It’s obvious.

Headline isn’t wrong though. Population is definitely getting smaller, and it’s the young dying.

Energy usage is skyrocketing in China and India. Coal is skyrocketing to meet it, but is being partially offset by renewable installations. So, we recently saw that more energy was generated from renewables than fossil fuels, so the mix leans that way. This story is saying the absolute level of coal is at it’s highest, which is also true.

Coal: high. Renewables: slightly higher. Total energy use :mind boggling.

There’s certainly bigger fish to fry.

It shouldn’t be illegal. It’s a responsible disposal of an organic liquid.

Siberian rail

Sadly not. Guy seems to be a real Christian, which kinda sucks balls.

The French industrialised it.

And a fuckton of people died building it.

Has anybody asked Alaskans if they’d like to be Canadian? I would jump at the chance right now if I was them.

A brilliant idea. Open a route for Russia to send a population through, which Russia will need to save from US persecution. The subsequent 3 day special military operation will have nothing to do with returning Alaska to russian control.