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Every president since WW2 has been a war criminal.

But Trump is the current present. And his crimes extend far deeper than the usual fare.

The problem really is the Supreme court. The laws are actually fairly straight forward. 3/4 of what he's doing is blatantly illegal, but this supreme court has completely stripped the legal fraternity of any mechanism to enforce the constitution. Its hard to not read this as sinister and deliberate.

This is blatantly a first ammendment violation. Even if Antifa was a real org and somehow 'domestic terrorist organization' was a real designation, you could literally be selling a book called "Why you should join ISIS" and that is 100% protected speech (as long as your not funding ISIS with it)

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He's not "in" science, nor is he "leading" it. He's fronting a full scale assault *against* it, and by extension against humanity itself, because his efforts are already leading to mass casualties.

I hadn't seen an analysis of modesty dressing in the christian world however. Very interesting.

Like a statement against the postcolonial dominance of european derived culture in white societies. Hence while on one hand its modest, its also paradoxically transgressive. And its that transgression against the boundary of the dialectic that creates an excess of meaning.

Hence Burquas in Afghanistan, and Muslims in parts of Indonesia with no head covering at all. Both compliant with the local rules of modesty. Now of course you DO see women in the west with a Hijab, but culture and nation are not the same thing and the hijab in the west is somewhat of a statement

The whole thing reminds me of an explanation a muslim friend gave me about hajibs and the lack thereof. The Quran does not actually explicitely have anything about them. What it DOES say is men and women should be "modest". So this sort of dress is the cultural definition of modest.

Whatever the case, theres absolutely no circumstance where a grown ass middle age man having sex with a 15 you not a serious sexual assault, in any juristiction. The difference between the 15yo and 8yo is one will get you a decade or so in prison, the other is hard life.

Its also factually untrue. Depending on the juristiction, theres usually a charge for raping a minor and a more serious charge of raping a minor under 12 (or 13 , it depends on the country or state). Then theres generally sentencing guidelines that take circumstantial issues into acct.

For all of Groks faults, its a weirdly effective Fact Checker. I see all the time weird right wingers asking Grok about whatever their favorite conspiracy theory of choice is only for grok to basically say "Thats a disproven conspiracy theory my dude". And... that seems surprisingly effective.

Our experience, and resources, and their drive and availability, its a hell of a combo, if we can get it to work.

Its also why we gotta support the young people who take the lead in these things. This sort of stuff will tend towards young people, because they tend to have lesser commitments, more energy, and more flexible thinking. Thus older folks need to be asking "How do we support the youngsters?".

Can people please stop reporting Loeb as if he's a legitimate researcher. The man is a crank, and the orbital dynamics has not "surprised" anyone.

Its not fucking aliens!

Apologies for not replying in german, I can sort of kind of read it, but definately can not write it :(

The new investment letter from Palantir is absolutely cooked. Section 3 contains a fascist rant about cultural superiority. We need to stop giving psychopaths all of the money.

www.palantir.com/q3-2025-lett...

#Palantir 's new investor letter is absolutely cooked. Can we stop giving psychopaths money?

www.palantir.com/q3-2025-lett...

The problem is. like all billionares, he's sitting on a tonne of resources and capabilities, and if the billionare class wont do the right thing and delete themselves, then the least they could do is free up some of those resources to solving climate change.

Whens his boss gonna?

I'd say "Divorce that disrespectful fuck", but apparently very powerful men are currently deporting women who dont fit their political Weltanschauung, so I suppose her and melania are currently trapped.

2025, fresh horrors every day.

Can someone remind the admirals permitting this that they do NOT share Trumps immunity from prosecution and the law forbids military staff from obeying illegal orders.

Theres a reason Hegseth gutted the JAG

Conspiracy theories where invented by the CIA to stop hippies and boomers from learning economics.

Professional journalists do have a workplace need to keep abreast of what the mainstream press is writing. Within limits, I guess he found his bright line.

I think we might have identified why neither the 1st or 2nd lady have filed for divorce yet....

Oh man, to be a fly on the wall in discussions between the 1st and 2nd lady. "I'd Divorce but..." is probably used as punctuation lol.

Im an atheist, but if I'm wrong and the whole jesus thing somehow ends up true, Trumps absolutely going to the bad place. That dudes broken every goddamn commandment in the book.Including the big one "Thou Shalt not kill" (they are straight up doing murders in venesualan waters)

In direct defiance of a court order ruling this behavior unconstitutional. The US is so goddamn lawless now.

Cos worker co-ops in gaming is a proven model. The ppl behind disco elysium where a worker coop, though that co-op got destroyed by capital, and dead cells devs are a worker co-op too. As long as some careful lessons are taken from Z/UM (disco elysium), its proof capitalism can be replaced.

Oh man. kids modding wolf3d and doom. That takes me back a long long time. There where some prettty crappy mods, but a few where great. Actually modding still going strong. I'd love to see modders form co-ops to pool talents to make full games and provide an alternative to the EAs of the world.