Roads in the US are subsidized at billions of dollars. Public rail service is maybe a fraction of a fraction of that. To boot, most the railways in the US are owned by a handful of private companies in local, regional monopolies.

Convert to Islam

This is art

That or small drones and hacking “self driving” cars.

Maybe we should have prosecuted Iraq so presidents didn’t feel they could use the US military as their personal enforcers.

Plz

This was their strategy with Palestianians. The goal here is clearly genocide. I’d also bet anything Israel gave the US those schools as targets knowing they were schools.

Hegseth would be an ideal target for this but imo we should call politicians to ask them to join the ICC.

I think old school version of this is writing a letter then not sending it or burning it. Unsent letters are a historical gold mine.

More importantly, the presence of an audience make it likely people will embellish or lie to get responses. Which is why anonymous confessions are always more dubious than anything else. I don’t think earnest anonymous confessions are bad though.

I don’t think these big software companies considered laying off all their devs would lead to open source projects getting piles of talented volunteers

Didn’t vietnam have an extremely high rate of officer friendly fire casualties? I thought this was actually a major component of ending the draft.

It means the cat is bored

If Israel is around in 100 years I’ll eat my shorts. They’re speedrunning being turned into a crater

I only respect Spain more for having standards.

He actually can implement temporary sanctions but afaik they also fall into another emergency power provision and I don’t know if they can override existing trade deals from congress.

As somebody in the US, same.

1. Republicans since the 60s have only ever had two ideas: invade countries and lower taxes on the rich.

2. Trump is surrounded by republicans and is a 90 yr old narcissist. He either has dementia or doesn’t give a fuck what happens

3. he has reached new levels of unpopularity due to his status as an epstein style sex predator of kids, his killing of americans in an attempt to punish ‘santuary cities’ by violating the constitution using ICE as a political tool, as well as tariff bullshit.

4. trump when in a pinch tries to do a new “newsworthy event” to reset the news cycles. Often it will be some advisor of his that has the idea. Its clear that being surrounded by republicans “invade iran” is probably a regular mantra.

5. he needed a new diversion and “invade iran” was one of the few ideas left.

The last couple mastodon updates made it easier to access the trending feed (which afaik has existed since 2021) and added features like quote posts. Bluesky starter packs and custom shareable feeds are definitely its major perks.

The odds though bluesky will get bought up by right wing billionaires in the next 10 years is almost 100% unless there’s a major change in media management laws so don’t get too attached to bluesky since there is like a nonzero chance trump jr buys it with his crypto bribes.

Hell yeah I’ll follow them on masto

Luckily most his real income is from the US government and consumers cannot impoverish this level headed and clear minded ketamine addict with their misguided purchasing decisions.