I’m generally supportive of diplomacy, but I suspect that these delegations are only finding common ground on the worst fucking things.

Astronaut with gun: Always have been

Yes, constantly.

Most people, imo, don’t have a good idea who the scientific community is and what their discussions look like. The scientific community is made up primarily of working class nerds who work at universities and suppliers and contract companies, and they communicate through blog and magazine articles in publications by and for other academics.

If you go to a scientific conference, you’ll see talks and panels on this subject and it’s a routine topic at coffee breaks and drinks in the evenings.

The scientific community has been discussing this topic literally longer than anyone else.

Yeah. I would describe the politics of SpongeBob as extremely mild and offensive to as few people as possible, but that said, the SpongeBob movie made the stress of masculine gender performance a surprisingly central theme, with the core lesson being that people should disregard gender performance anxiety and prioritize self love and authenticity.

I’m as surprised as anyone to say this, but good job Nickelodeon in advancing the gay agenda through subliminal indoctrination of children.

That freak out about Drop Site News is wild, because it’s so counter protective.

DSN is such a small outfit, and Trump is simultaneously showing how vulnerable he is in his reaction and also doing such promotion for a news magazine that is otherwise not that heavily read.

It’s great though, because I love DSN.

I think it’s easier to find success stories if you ask this question about your town than your country.

A few weeks ago I took my kid to a parking lot by a park so he could practice biking, and when we got there there were nearly a dozen kids biking, and a band was playing etherial middle eastern music next to us to a crowd as the full moon hung over a lake draped in light of the setting sun.

It was gorgeous, and free, both financially and in spirit. It was a beautiful appreciation of people and art from across the world. I thought for a moment that it was a picture of what I’d like America to one day be, then realized that I was in America, and it was already a picture of what America IS. It’s unfortunate that America is also many terrible other things. But America is also this. And that spirit is what brought these musicians or their parents to America, and eventually to that parking lot by the lake under the full moon.

Wow. I knew lint is flammable, but I kinda assumed spontaneous ignition in a dryer was a myth. Good to know.

That’s nuts. It’s hard for me to imagine a fire that after a whole day isn’t put out but also hasn’t broken totally out of control and destroyed the ship.

I mean… 30 hours? Imagine issuing a status update after 20 hours of continuous fire fighting and being like, ‘Well, we think it’s under control… It’s not growing anymore. How long until it’s out? I don’t know, I’m pretty sure we’re past the half way point.’

Crazy.

Also, I wonder how it started? Was someone sneaking a cigarette? Did someone get stir crazy and start playing with matches? Weird AF.

“Is this weird?” is relative, and usually less important than “is this unhealthy?”

I don’t know what’s normal in China, but it sounds like your mom has some kind of problem and the result has not been great for you.

Neat. This is great info.

100%, although let’s be real: would it surprise anyone if Starmer responded by apologizing firing his press secretary, claiming he was misrepreaented, and jumping into the war in Iran before announcing the UK’s withdrawal two weeks later after some British troops are killed on an accidental Israeli airstrike?

I don’t think there’s a bottom to his craven incompetence.

Yeah. Slice it and put it on a sandwich with a fried egg. Or chop it when it’s still firm and throw it in a salad. It’s good, but it’s not really for eating like an apple. They added creaminess and texture to savory things.

I find that when these thoughts creep in, what saves me from doomerism is focusing on the alternatives.

It can feel weird and irrational, because the alternative is organizing in my local community to help people, and connect more people with the work of doing the same. How is helping parents at my kid’s school get childcare during a teachers strike supposed to end our imperialist violence? How is cleaning up illegal dumping supposed to defeat techbro fascism?

By snowballing. By being the antitdote to the distraction and helplessness we’re programmed to feel.

We all need to go find people we like, then go out and fix things, without permission. Get caught doing good. Set an example, and link up. If we’re all building these tidepools, eventually we’ll make a flood.

Zionism.

My family was never big into it, but when you grew up Jewish it wasjust an assumed default. I wasn’t even aware there were people opposed to it until around college.

Thankfully, the youth of today don’t have that problem.

I could be wrong here, but I suspect the headline is another unfortunate example of Israeli Palestinian erasure.

When they say that this is widely supported across Israelis, they likely mean Israeli Jews.

It’s sad to see from the middle east eye. Obviously Israeli and American media promulgates the myth that to be Israeli means being Jewish. But I would hope that at least Arab media would constantly remind audiences that one in five Israeli citizens are Arabs living without meaningful political agency under a ruthless Apartheid regime.

I suspect they’re less enthusiastic about another ethnonationalist religious imperialist war of aggression. But it’s hard to know what they think, as I rarely see their preferences interrogated or reported on, except perhaps by +972 Magazine.

Ok thanks. That’s interesting. This is the first I’m hearing of this.

Can someone link to context? I have no idea what op is talking about and I’m too busy to duck duck go it.

This article points out something I think a lot of Americans – particularly younger, educated ones – don’t know about: America has for a long time actually been a place people around the world dream about. That includes dreaming of coming here, either to study and return; to move here permanently; or just to emulate in their own countries.

I think most American millennials were told this, but as they learned that most of what they were told about our country – its fairness, commitment to justice, opportunities – were lies, they assumed the concept of the American dream abroad was another myth.

I think more people – particularly American leftists – should understand that despite so many other failings, the American mythology has some value. Rather than deride it as anither imperialist lie, we should recognize that it has had some truth to it in the past. And we should aspire to actually make it real in a way it has never quite been.

Respectfully, this is kind of incoherent. I can see that you disagree with the characterization of America’s poverty trap, but I didn’t really understand what part of the fundamental thesis of the article you dispute.

It’s unclear who this is directed at.