American isn’t buying Iran’s bombs and there’s no amount of hysterical hand waving you can do to get over that fact.

If they show up I hand out the candy and I’ve been doing it that way for decades. No telling some kid or teens situation in life and there’s no need in making it harder on them.

Its happening with increasing regularity even in the lower 48. Here’s one from Wyoming.

Or maybe the entire god damned world doesn’t make every god damned decision based on the US Election? Just sayin’…

Which is pretty damn sad and proves what every US President since Clinton said regarding Europe’s staggeringly myopic lack of military funding.

Yawn. Got anything to add to the conversation aside from ad hominem?

Eh, nobody is going to get banned (at least not from my instance) as long as it stays inbounds.

There are well understood reasons why sexual abusers cluster into certain jobs, such as priests, but they are commonly found all over the world in every social, political, and economic class. The truth is that for for every Jerry Sandusky or Vince McMahon you hear about there’s 100, or even 1000, non-famous people that you don’t hear about.

What is the deal with all these damn rapists.

The sexual abuse of children is vastly more common than many people want to believe. It happens all over the world and it isn’t confined to any particular group or class.

Youre saying this lottery is fully non partisan and is open to all voters equally?

I’m not the person you were talking too but the answer to your question is no and that’s actually a GOOD thing because in order to get the “lottery ticket” you don’t have to vote. All you have to do is be a registered voter and sign the petition, that’s it and that’s all.

Elon himself “You can be from any or no political party and you don’t even have to vote in order to sign the petition.”

The scheme is still scummy and looks bad, I won’t argue that.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with doing that and Elon himself said it was fine.

“You can be from any or no political party and you don’t even have to vote in order to sign the petition.”

I figured that the Nebraska Supreme Court would rule like this and I’m glad to see that they did. I’m also happy that they extended the registration deadline to 10/25 so that people can still vote.

Good News…it’s done. They also extended the registration deadline to October 25th so that people impacted by the decision can still vote.

https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2024-10-21/social-justice/court-clears-way-for-nebraskans-with-past-felony-convictions-to-register-vote/a93050-1

So some unknown person makes an unsubstantiated claim on Xitter. A recognized and mostly respected fact checker, Snopes, picks it up and contacts Geico where one of their agents denies it.

It’s abundantly clear the original claim was a fabrication, likely meant to feed the anti-elon crowd, so why are you assigning the same credibility to both sides? How does some unknown person on Xitter have anywhere close to the same credibility as both Snopes and Geico?

This is precisely what’s happening in the Conservative circles. They’re being presented with stories that are consistent with their world view so they don’t question it but they rarely see the retraction of a story that was dis-proven. If they do see the retraction they ignore or downplay it, often by requiring some higher standard of proof.

So much of the “news”, regardless of the topic, is a jenga tower of partial truths, misdirections, and outright lies.

They are far from the only one doing so.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/10/world-reacts-to-alleged-israeli-attack-on-un-peacekeepers-in-lebanon

It’s actually a shit article that doesn’t do anything to explain why this is happening, because once you know WHY you realize this is NBD and will be going away when 24H2 is actually released.

This article isn’t great but at the bottom it does explain what’s going on.

I wouldn’t. This isn’t a real problem but you’ll probably make one if you force delete things marked as necessary for Checkpoint Updates. This 8.5gig of “stuff” is only there because 24H2 is still in Beta and it has incorrectly marked some things from the 23H update as required for future updates.

WTF is up with this 24H2 update I keep hearing about?

The first thing you have to know is that it hasn’t been released yet! That’s right, every one of these articles screaming about 24H2 bugs is based on Preview, commonly called Beta, software.

This particular issue being caused because Microsoft is moving to “Checkpoint Updates” so that updates will install faster and be smaller in size.

Right now 24H2 is marking parts of 23H3 as necessary for future updates so they can’t be deleted. This will 100% be fixed before 24H4 goes RTM.

Basically this one is a non-issue. It’s being used as an outrage generator.

I didn’t know about Canada and after thinking about it for a minute the United States does something similar for the States with .gov. Many, if not all, States have their own subdomain such as wyo.gov, montana.gov, and nebraska.gov.

Honestly it’s always seemed wrong and somewhat confusing that non-country specific TLDs, such as .gov, are dedicated to the United States.

What data does this app have that isn’t freely available somewhere else?

The 2 percent of GDP target is imaginary.

The target was set so that no country would be able to join NATO and then just let everyone else pay for everything. You contribute to the common defense or you GTFO.

We can bicker about 2% being too high or too low and whether the target should have been adjusted Post Cold War but any argument that some target isn’t necessary is just silliness.

No amount of NATO bombs or tanks would have stopped the invasion.

Oh I’m fairly certain that NATO military power would have stopped the invasion in the first 24 hours. A single flight of F-35s would have made those original Russian convoy’s cease to exist à la the Highway of Death from 1991.

Even now NATO military power could substantially end the ground war in Ukraine before the end of the month.

It only would have fueled the flames and given legitimacy to Russia’s claimed insecurity.

So what? NATO didn’t do it and there’s STILL an ongoing war with a casualty toll well over a million and millions more displaced.

Economic power is much stronger than military sabre rattling.

Then the EU should have flexed them in 2014. They didn’t and here we are.