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breadsmasher , in Nato chief says Trump remarks may put US and EU lives at risk
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NATO article states, in effect, “An attack on one member is an attack on all members”

trump, ex president of usa, calls on russia to attack NATO member, which is thus an attack on the usa.

Tell me again how trump isn’t a traitor?

style99 ,
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Trump is very loyal to the notion of being a scumbag who does nothing but commit fraud for a living.

FMT99 , in Duo euthanasia: former Dutch prime minister dies hand in hand with his wife

Conservative while he was in charge, turned progressive after he left office.

catarina , in Duo euthanasia: former Dutch prime minister dies hand in hand with his wife

That's so nice, hope they were full of love and peace in the end 💟

snooggums , in ‘People are scared’: Sweden’s freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings

Digital phone books sure are scary!

snooggums , in Duo euthanasia: former Dutch prime minister dies hand in hand with his wife

That is awesome, since it has a thorough review process to ensure it only applies to couples who are in the same end of life situation and let's them go out together.

Lmaydev , in ‘People are scared’: Sweden’s freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings

Firstly this seems pretty stupid and risky.

Second you should 100% be able to opt out without current threats against you.

Given how hard victims of stalkers have to fight to get action taken by authorities this seems like it would be so easy to abuse.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer , in Thousands of migrants scramble to find homes and work as mass evictions from Chicago shelters loom

This is feeling like a big failure from the Biden administration. Not because too many migrants were let in but because it appears they were given no Federal assistance in finding long-term shelter or work. There's probably plenty of both in the US but it's not all in Chicago. Immigration could've easily made staying within their "designated state" a condition of asylum and therefore making busing them out of state a federal offense.

Potatos_are_not_friends ,

Too many migrants

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HubertManne ,
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The big problem is they have no real status. He actually should have just made a central location with dorms and a court house and send people there and they stay until their status gets worked out.

admiralteal , in Hawaii Is Bailing Out Its Wildfire-Causing Energy Company

It just makes no sense to have privately run utilities, and pretty much all US energy infrastructure problems can be traced back to it.

For people who don't understand, fundamentally how these work is they are guaranteed a certain rate of return on expenditures. The utilities are told that if they spend a dollar on approved activities, the public will give them back slightly more than a dollar as thanks.

The entire incentive structure is to just do big capital projects while minimizing any unpinned costs - which often includes things like labor and maintenance although I don't know about the specific case of Hawaii.

So there's no incentive to do serious maintenance. There's no incentive to save ratepayer cost.

There are frequent incentives for reliability in the form of penalties, all stick and no carrot, but if you think about this side of things at all you realize that it's not good enough because many of these utilities aren't reliable and that the entire principle of reliability penalties is admitting that market incentives aren't going to do the job so why are we using this entire market based approach in the first place.

Natural monopolies should not be private businesses, they should be democratically operated public institutions. End of story.

But of course all of these various utilities have grown so ponderous and huge that basically none of the states can afford to acquire them back into the government. We've all been damned by previous generations who didn't think things through.

shroomaroomboom ,

Not just utilities. Add to the list private ambulances, private hospitals, private prisons, etc.

Thier incentives are purely for profit. Not for the care of the people they are meant to cater to.

Kyrgizion , in ‘I’m so scared, please come’: Hind Rajab, six, found dead in Gaza 12 days after cry for help

Jfc, it was her own family who found her.
Those poor people. No loving god would allow this.

RootBeerGuy , in ‘People are scared’: Sweden’s freedom of information laws lead to wave of deadly bombings
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I am sorry for cursing but what the shit? The availability of people's addresses online has led to these bombings? Is this an AI-written article?

The obvious issue at hand isn't that you can lookup someones address online, its that you can go there and fucking bomb the place somehow. The issue is that people get hold of explosives real fucking easy somehow instead of knifing or shooting people (well they do that too but its the explosives that are fucked up). What the fuck does it matter to know that a dude you want dead is living in the first or second story of a house when you just plant a fucking bomb. Finding out addresses is laborious, yeah right, just follow people home as if not publishing those addresses would prevent 90% of those killings.

Unbelievable. Anything to not have to talk about the real issues.

Candelestine , in On Immigration, Trumpism Is Now Democratic Common Sense

Dems acknowledge that they govern by the will and wishes of their people, most of whom are in favor of legal, vetted immigration. So, the abuse of the asylum process, which does happen, is a genuine problem that needs to be addressed.

Neither of the major parties, nor the bulk of the populace, think the borders should simply be completely open though. That's a repub talking point to smear dems, and is a lie.

Bureaucracy and process are good things. Everyone just doing whatever the fuck they want, whenever the fuck they want is not.

HubertManne ,
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This annoys me so much. Then your respond to them that is not the case and they are like. What a bunch of people aren't crossing the border and its like. no im not saying that s not happening im saying dems aren't just ignoring the issue or believe in an open border. They actually want to work within the confines of the law which requires reps to modify if we want to tighten it. Which rep reps, including big chief orangutan openly says they don't want to do because it will make biden seem better if they do their job and try to make america a better place. Which to them is only an acceptable thing to happen when they are completely in charge at which point they take actions to make it worse. Like trump bully the fed into lower interest rates before covid.

givesomefucks , in Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little

Don't worry, if this sounds like someone you can't support, we have an even older white guy who's actively circumventing congress to fund a genocide!

For bonus points, they both agree the rich don't need taxed, none of us really need healthcare, and cannabis is too dangerous because jazz musicians smoke that stuff.

You can pick any president you want, as long as it's one of those two fuckheads.

rdyoung ,

Wow. How did all of that fit up your ass? The only thing that you got right was Biden is 4, yes a whopping 4 years older than trump. Why is everyone focused on Bidens age and it's never brought up about orange menace?

givesomefucks ,

Because some people have higher standards than trump?

My dog would be a better president than trump, but I'm not voting for him because that would be ridiculous

mibo80 ,

This doesn't sound like someone anyone should support. We already had 4 years of this fat fuck and he couldn't even keep himself from getting COVID . Why the fuck would I trust him over the president who saw one of the largest economic investments in this country in decades. Meanwhile now everyone is feeling the trump tax effect this year and all that inflation from those shit Chinese tariffs and non-existent pandemic policies. Yeah thanks for clearing that up for us.

Candelestine , in Donald Trump says he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who pay too little

Yeah, I don't expect Trump to be the kind of fellow that would answer calls to arms from defending allies. I think most of us probably guessed that one.

linuxfiend , in Kansas' AG is telling schools they must out trans kids to parents
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Kobach can go duck himself with a cactus.

eutampieri , in Finnish carrier Finnair is asking passengers to weigh themselves before flights

Actually a good idea! There was a regional plane crash circa 2000 because of (among many things) that

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