Pete Hegseth says the U.S. military will no longer require flu shots Vaccination programs in the U.S. military date back to the American Revolution, but they became a contentious political issue during the coronavirus pandemic.

That'll help readiness.

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Residents of Milwaukee county, WI pay a retail sales tax to help pay for American Family Field (formerly known as Miller Park). Those same residents cannot watch a Brewer game on television without an additional subscription service.

I can't make this make sense.

From 'BuddhaBot' to $1.99 chats with AI Jesus, the faith-based tech boom is here The faith-based AI market is expanding, with tools for various religions. For example, there's an AI Jesus that — for $1.99 per minute — will offer words of prayer and encouragement.

Reach out and touch faith.

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That's some "Blind Man's Bluff" shenanigans happening right there

"Western civilization" is just code for "white Christian nationalism" in this case anyway. The rest is window dressing to soften the rhetoric.

Ah, gotcha. My mistake.

Still worth noting that despite all the hand wringing by conservatives about liberals taking their guns, Obama's big change to firearm laws was allowing them to be carried in national parks.

Meanwhile, under trump, they have banned bump stocks and proposed legislation like this (among others).

Reading that, I'm probably even more likely to listen than I would have been already! Those critiques are valid.

If you'll excuse the comparison, being a pacifist while you're marched off to be executed still ends the same. And if we all do it together, then we're all in the same grave.

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The US government is utilizing The Max Power Way.

If only there were a manual about counterinsurgency that literally said security crackdowns only serve to create more insurgents...

You Are an Insurgent Decades of policing in the United States only ends one way

Do you sometimes feel like an insurgent in your own country?

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They Didn't Read the Manual Counterinsurgency and the reach of radicalization

I originally wrote this about Israel and Palestine, but the lessons apply here, too.

Acknowledging that the gov't is seldom a reliable narrator, even their own counterinsurgency manual says that security crackdowns only create more insurgents

open.substack.com/pub/erickeys...

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Mr. End of History has another projection about how everything is going to be fine if we just let it play out? Cool. I know where this goes

Wild that we tolerate a "trained professional" opening fire when they "fear for their life." But a normal citizen does something unexpected when a gun is pointed at them and they should have just calmy followed orders worth no regard to what their fight or flight reflexes are screaming at them

Bold of you to assume that:

A) they'll be allowed to gain power again, and

2) that they'd be able to get out of their own way well enough to do something with power if they got it

A well written, if disturbing, article. I'd never heard of this group until a few days ago, and I'm glad to see outlets covering them.

Dang. Missed the live stream. Going to have to check for a re-broadcast.

A) Conscription is not great, regardless of who is doing it.

2) Hopefully the AfD party stays on the outside looking in of German politics

I've been... self-medicating since COVID. I recognize what I'm doing, but have little interest in correcting it. I appreciate you talking about this

Considering the backlash against an American Eagle ad making a shitty genes/jeans pun and calling it a "white supremacist dog whistle," this tracks

It also shows that they have no culture of their own outside of personal aggrievement and commercial consumerism

Cognitive dissonance really is a trademark characteristic for humanity, isn't it? It's probably what we do best

All those people claiming for years that the government had gotten too big might have been onto something. Government money is a hell of a drug, and those institutions can't afford to cut themselves off from their dealer

Every energy production method we've developed to date has negative externalities. Some people seem to think we can wave the renewable wand and wish ourselves out of this. To your point, this is simply not the case.

And it's also not a reason to quit trying. We've go to pull out all the stops

The Butlerian Jihad was justified. We have to go to war with the thinking machines

Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after being defunded by Congress, targeted by Trump The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been a cornerstone of American culture for three generations.

This is exactly what they wanted when they pulled funding. They couldn't use an executive order and they weren't sure there was political will to pass a law to get rid of it, so they just defunded it away.

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I went back to playing D&D after a 20 year hiatus. It's one of the few interactions I have with adults outside of work and children's activities

Nice! Looks like it might be some good knapping material

Not to mention the way the Fed normally deals with these things is to add taxes and licenses, which is really only a barrier for the non-wealthy

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"You can't take the sky from me"