China is also saber rattling with Vietnam. Taiwan is China’s current priority, but Vietnam see themselves as on the list .
Exactly. Vietnam is sitting in the same position with China as Poland is with Russia. They both have a very large and powerful neighbor suddenly showing a real appetite for expansionism.
You are highly regarded.
Unlikely. The upside of being socially inept though is that I have more time and headspace for important things…like knowing the difference between a Country and a Continent.
I remember stuff that I was to young to viable be able to remember.
Same! My earliest memory is a man, who wasn’t my Father, coming to the house and giving my Mother a letter. After reading she hid it inside a flower pot underneath a fake plant. It happened in 1973 when I was just about 12 months old. I know the year because I talked to my Mom about it a few years ago and after she got over her shock she told me when it happened.
Yes my Mom was a serial cheater and yes my first memory of life is her getting a love letter from one of her lovers. 👌
and now here we are, with idiots in our own country emboldened by the GOP and Trump.
The American Bund existed during WWII. This shit isn’t new.
Short Term and Working Memory of a damn goldfish. Long Term memory is so freakishly good that people think I’m making it up.
I can struggle to tell you what I had for a meal 10 minutes after I finish eating but I can tell you the exact page and location on the page of phrases that I read in a book 20 years ago.
Why did I just go to the kitchen? Who the fuck knows. Ask me what I was doing last Thursday afternoon at 3:30 though and I can write you a detailed description of the entire days events.
Welcome to ADHD.
Fucking fascinating. But I’d have to publish it as fiction because nobody would believe it.
Same, particularly before my mid 30s.
Did you seriously just compare the landmass of the United States with the entire fucking CONTINENT of Europe?
Yes…yes you did.
If that’s the comparison you want then the Area of North America is 24,474,000 sq km.
The better comparison would be the US and the European Union. The EU is 4,422,773 km2.
Now sit down short stack. You aren’t tall enough for this ride.
I hope they don’t. Counter narrative comments are healthy, even Communist ones.
Neat machine. I wish Noel had done more exploring of it in the video.
There’s a part of me that believes he only ran again because, aside from his ego, he believed it would make him immune to indictments.
He should have listened when Liz Cheney, and more importantly her father, said he wouldn’t be allowed near the Presidency again.
The fediverse has a very high percentage of users who are FOSS zealots. These people would rather drink rancid gnu piss from Richard Stallman’s sweaty jock strap than deal with commercialized software. After you’ve been around them long enough (1996 in my case) you learn to tune them out.
As long as both groups of people are following their choice then it’s all good.
Prescribing, manufacturing, sale, and use. The Government is watching and analyzing literally every link in the chain from the drug precursors to the patient.
Maybe, but my doctor and pharmacy both blame the DEA meddling for all the difficulties.
Sure, because that’s what they can see and what is relevant to them. They have no insight into the manufacturers allotment of production, what that production schedule is, or how much of their production allotment they’ve already used. What you’re seeing in this article is “behind the scenes” look at just how deeply the US Government is involved in Healthcare.
Quite a large number of Republicans, including Trump himself, spend decades trying to ram Yucca mountain through. It faced heavy resistance from both the Clinton and Obama Administrations, the State of Nevada, and myriad of environmental organizations. Trying to blame it on “Conservatives” is pretty ridiculous.
https://www.ktnv.com/news/history-of-yucca-mountain-1982-2018
Yucca Mountain was killed by decades of persistent interference by opponents of nuclear power.
As for what France does, as I mentioned, the US has not developed or built that tech because there is ultimately no profit in it and the US is unwilling to spend tax money on it.
First Ford, then Carter stopped commercial re-processing in the United States. Reagan brought it back. G. H. W. Bush then put the brakes on it but stopped short of an outright ban. Clinton stepped on the brakes even harder but again stopped shy of a full ban and when Bush Jr came into office he started a slow process of bringing it back. That’s as far as this CRS Report goes although there may be an updated one somewhere out there.
Still, the US has spent money on it and was doing so at least as recently as 2008. It appears the biggest worry we have is proliferation of nuclear material, not profit or cost.
Ah, sorry that misunderstood. Carry on!
Which is the rule of lemmy.world that protects NATO as a bastion of Western European freedom?
There isn’t one and there’s plenty of anti-NATO / anti-western / anti-capitalist sentiment here on lemmy.world.
Are political discussions beyond centrism banned on lemmy.world?
Obviously not, we’re still federated with lemmygrad and lemmy.ml.
Feel free to do what you feel is best for yourself but I think this situation with hexbear is being blown way out of proportion, mostly by people who seem to have a vested interest in that instance being able to participate here but not the other way around.
The block user button is right there, feel free to use it. I won’t block you though because I don’t melt when I meet someone with a different opinion.
Benjamin…get the Musket.