@EVKontorovich They should just make an international law banning war.
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Tom Aiello
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The notion that international law prohibits attacking bridges or power stations in war is ludicrous, and the U.S. and its allies did so extensively in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War and even the 1999 air campaign against Yugoslavia, which left most of Serbia without electricity.
Clash Report@clashreport
The UK will refuse U.S. requests to use British bases for strikes on Iranian bridges or power plants. UK officials argue these targets are civilian infrastructure and could make such attacks a potential war crime, so permission will not be granted. Source: The i Paper
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@BlastingThrough I remember going to that tunnel when the only options were that one and a virtually identical one in Pigeon Forge. That thing was awful. I hadn't realized it was possible to be claustrophobic while in free fall, but that tunnel managed it.
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I'm sharing photos that might not "make the cut" for the photo section of "Blasting Through." This is of B Squadron teammates preparing for military freefall training. In the civilian world, it’s called skydiving. We went to Las Vegas for air awareness training in a wind tunnel, "Indoor Skydiving." This is before the military got their wind tunnels. L to R, Top Row, Frank McKenna, Larry Steele, Gary Gardiner, Jon Saterstad. L to R, Bottom Row, Mike Vining, Bob Little, May 1983. Share your wind tunnel experiences.
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@CompletedStreet If it stops that often, it won't be 'high speed' in any meaningful way.
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Imagine this, but with every city connected with high speed rail.
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@MariaDavidson That's the smallest gap in terms of absolute value?
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States with the smallest gap between population growth and spending in the last decade?
Texas.
Population grew by 15%.
State spending shrunk by 4%, inflation adjusted.
What can other states learn from this?
Maria Davidson@MariaDavidson
State with the worst gap between population growth and spending in the last decade? Illinois. Population shrunk by 1%. State spending grew 72%, inflation adjusted. I'll continue asking - where did all the money go?
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@xwanyex The long debunked labor theory of value continues to hold sway on left wing thinking.
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When you talk to liberals about rent, rent control, landlording, etc, you almost always walk away feeling like they have a very limited, almost childish understanding of markets and incentives.
For example, you'll hear them talk a lot about the cost of maintenance. And, indeed, in the FAQ about Providence's new rent control initiative, they appear to have thought about no other reasons it might be necessary or desirable for landlord's to raise rent. There's just "tax increases" and "all other reasons," by which they clearly mean, "maintenance."
They do not understand markets. They don't factor the cost of capital. They don't think in terms of opportunity costs. They don't think of investors as rational actors with alternative options.
They can reason only in terms of direct inputs and outputs.
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@iaproject If there is no path to citizenship, it's a lot less objectionable. Now, all that is needed is to remove non-citizens from the apportionment counts.
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LOL. If you actually read the bill, you’ll see that it IS amnesty. It’s amnesty for millions of illegal aliens. It’s amnesty for so-called Dreamers; it’s amnesty for illegal aliens who came to the US prior to 2021; it’s amnesty for illegal aliens who marry US citizens (talk about an incentive for immigration fraud!); and it’s amnesty for all the employers that hired all the illegal aliens who get amnesty. It is not a serious immigration bill. IT IS AMNESTY. @RepMariaSalazar @RepMikeLawler
Brian Allen@allenanalysis
🚨BREAKING: 20 Republicans and 20 Democrats just co-sponsored the Dignity Act — the first serious bipartisan immigration bill in decades. What it actually does: No amnesty. No citizenship. No handouts. A pathway to legal work status for long-term undocumented immigrants who meet strict requirements — fully funded by restitution payments from immigrants themselves, requiring zero taxpayer dollars. Mike Lawler’s own words: “This is not amnesty. It’s accountability, it’s fairness, it is dignity.”
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@EricLDaugh Women in hijabs are the Iranian equivalent of liberal white women in the USA.
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🚨 BREAKING: Iran is now forming HUMAN CHAINS in front of a power plant in Kazerun in a bid to dissuade President Trump’s strikes come 8PM
They even invited children to attend.
This is evil and disgusting. Iran views their people as meat shields!
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@dbsb3233 @aakashgupta > The lesson: don't get suckered into voting for such a thing in the first place.
Government officials ran those numbers and _knew_ that they were wrong at the time. So basically the public was 'suckered' by intentional lies from officials they trusted.
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@aakashgupta The lesson: don't get suckered into voting for such a thing in the first place.
Meanwhile, roads and highways actually work, and actually get used. Heavily. Travel on them is also getting much cleaner as more EVs hit the roads. With more autonomous options coming soon.
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California voters were told in 2008 this would cost $33 billion and be done by 2020.
The actual number is now $126 billion. The projected opening is 2033. Zero miles of track have been laid. The only visible progress is concrete pillars in Central Valley farmland that locals call "Stonehenge."
The project has burned through 597 change orders costing $2.3 billion. That's 7% of the original budget gone to contract amendments alone. The CEO was arrested and placed on leave weeks before the business plan deadline. The federal government pulled its funding permanently. The state's only recurring revenue source is $1 billion per year from cap-and-trade auctions that expire in 2045. The funding gap is $90 billion. To close that with cap-and-trade alone would take 90 years. The auctions end in 19.
Palantir's CTO did the comparison in 2024: for $10 billion, Elon put 300 rockets in orbit. For $11 billion, California has 1,600 feet of elevated structure with no rail on it.
Japan built the Shinkansen in 1964. Spain has 2,300 miles of high-speed rail. Morocco, a country with a GDP smaller than Ohio's, opened a bullet train in 2018. Saudi Arabia runs one between Mecca and Medina. Indonesia opened Southeast Asia's first high-speed line in 2023 with Chinese technology.
The United States has zero miles of high-speed rail. Zero. The richest country in human history cannot do what Morocco did five years ago.
The 2008 ballot locked California into a project with no kill switch. No sunset clause, no performance triggers, no mechanism to stop once the original assumptions collapsed. Eighteen years later the assumptions are all dead and the concrete keeps getting poured into the ground between Bakersfield and Merced, two cities that never asked for a bullet train connecting them.
60 Minutes@60Minutes
America’s hopes for its first high-speed rail line were kindled in 2008, when California voters approved a ballot measure for a bullet train between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Nearly two decades later, that dream is yet to arrive. cbsn.ws/48jzMBx
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@aakashgupta > California voters were told in 2008 this would cost $33 billion and be done by 2020.
And the government appointed officials who made those estimates _knew at the time_ that they were lying.
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@ShamashAran If it has no path to citizenship, it's not amnesty.
If there is no path to citizenship, and non-citizens aren't counted for apportionment, immigration really is a net positive for the nation.
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It's amnesty, and the 20 Republicans that supported it should be primaried.
Brian Allen@allenanalysis
🚨BREAKING: 20 Republicans and 20 Democrats just co-sponsored the Dignity Act — the first serious bipartisan immigration bill in decades. What it actually does: No amnesty. No citizenship. No handouts. A pathway to legal work status for long-term undocumented immigrants who meet strict requirements — fully funded by restitution payments from immigrants themselves, requiring zero taxpayer dollars. Mike Lawler’s own words: “This is not amnesty. It’s accountability, it’s fairness, it is dignity.”
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@ggreenwald How many jews live in Iran, and how has that number changed over the last 50 years?
Is and 85% drop in a population of people something you would consider 'genocide' or 'ethnic cleansing'?
jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-of-iran
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What percentage of American war supporters even know Iran has synagogues, or the largest Jewish population in the Middle East outside Israel, or a Jewish member of Parliament?
Iranian Jews face restrictions, but one reason it's so easy to demonize a country and start wars is ignorance about that country.
Drop Site@DropSiteNews
💢 Iran’s Mehr News Agency published images showing extensive damage to a Jewish synagogue in central Tehran following a strike by U.S. or Israeli forces.
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@HistoryBoomer You don't understand how motivated minorities swing elections?
You must think that 'MAGA' constitutes a majority of the electorate.
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I shared my wifi password with my neighbour since she said she was struggling on bills and couldn't keep up with paying for her subscription but under one condition, "DON'T SHARE IT WITH ANYONE ELSE" So today my internet was lagging super bad so I decided to check the devices: apart from my two devices,there were other 10 devices connected. Tv's, a whole gaming system and 7 phones. So I asked her if she shared my password and she replied, " I did share with 3 other neighbours and I also have many devices but you have unlimited so I don't think thats a problem" I said no problem for sure,went back to my house and changed my password. That audacity for something you don't pay for suprises me
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@LamarMK Not having to go to the gas station is a vastly underrated perk of owning a Tesla.
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I haven't been to a gas station in almost 3 years. I don't miss it one bit.
No standing outside in the cold. No waiting in line. No watching $80 disappear in 5 minutes.
I plug my Tesla in at home every night and wake up to a full charge. It takes less effort than charging your phone.
People think switching to an EV is complicated. It's the opposite. It simplified my life.
When's the last time you enjoyed a trip to the gas station?
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🇺🇦 BREAKING: Ukraine unveils “Ursula”, a stealthy unmanned river system built for covert warfare.
Developed by Noviteh, it can secretly deploy anti-submarine and anti-pontoon mines, lay water obstacles like nets, and tow up to 500 kg of cargo.
Silent. Hidden. Built for river dominance.
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@phil_mcalister It would be easier for them to put 1% of their wealth into a 'get rid of Warren' Super PAC.
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If I were one of these billionaires she's always blasting, I'd call up my fellow billionaires and pitch them an idea:
Let's all put 3% of our wealth into a fund, and use the money to start businesses and non profits thst solve highly impactful problems for the country.
Show the difference in outcomes when private, motivated people with a stake in the success do something vs. when the government confiscates and squanders resources
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.
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@newstart_2024 These are the same people who, 50 years ago, cancelled Alan Turing because he was gay. Different criteria, same people pushing their mob mentality.
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The guy just landed a spacecraft on a comet — one of the most impressive scientific achievements in years.
His reward? A public struggle session because his bowling shirt had scantily clad women on it.
Helen Andrews points out the quiet cost of institutional feminization: HR departments now hunt down any maverick personality and stamp it out.
We’re losing innovators we’ll never even know about, all because someone focused on the shirt instead of the comet.
This is how wokeness actually works.
Have you seen real excellence get punished for something trivial like this?
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@ShamashAran I honestly think that Europe would win that conflict.
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If America leaves NATO, Russia will retake parts of Europe within a few years.
And they deserve it.
Ian Jaeger@IanJaeger29
BREAKING: NATO reportedly fears that the United States will soon leave.
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@marcorandazza As an Italian, I would rather Italy and the USA remain allied.
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We should fucking leave. And then invite the useful components of NATO to join a new alliance.
Ian Jaeger@IanJaeger29
BREAKING: NATO reportedly fears that the United States will soon leave.
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@avidseries Someone is almost certain to say that this is because of a vast zionist conspiracy to monopolize Nobel prizes and deny them to Muslims.
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