Well, I am not sure what my analysis here is worth, but here is my 7,500 word primal scream of a military historian's take on the War in Iran.
My best summary: this war is dumb as hell.
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Vi måste stoppa den här reaktionära och repressiva idiotin. Måste.
Medborgarna är inte i statens tjänst utan tvärtom. Försäkringskassan är till för vår trygghet, inte för att jaga och övervaka sjukskrivna.
Föreställ er sådana här uppgifter i händerna på en SD-regering.
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Stram migrationspolitik i praktiken: Emanuel, 8 månader, utvisas ensam till Iran. ”Vi trodde att eftersom vi har en familj så får vi bo tillsammans”, säger mamman. ”Vi ska inte göra fler konstiga undantag och stopp nu”, säger statsministern
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
On the 10th Anniversary of the Paris Agreement, you’re going to hear a lot about the progress we’ve made — people saying we “are” heading to 2.5 degrees heating instead of four.
I deeply regret to tell you that this is complacent misinformation.
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This brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side.
What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?
On the blog for the Fourth of July, a musing discussion of the American civil-military relationship, one of the United States' most remarkably successful traditions, almost two and a half centuries old, yet now fraying out of neglect and malice.
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Climate mitigation and adaptation measures are not costs. They are investments.
The true costs occur when mitigation fails and adaptation is too slow so we suffer from continually worsening extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods.
Invest now to reduce costs in future.
Bees play a critical role in U.S. food production. In addition to making honey, they pollinate 75% of the fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in the U.S. That's $15 billion worth of crops. Shook said the current losses are unsustainable. "If this is a multi-year thing, it'll change the way we consume food in the United States," Shook said. "If we lose 80% of our bees every year, the industry cannot survive, which means we cannot pollinate at the scale that we need to produce food in the United States."
Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.
Here is what this means:
It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.
