What Israel do exactly what every insider knows they will do, when they will do it, and they all profit off it.

FTFY

Same in VA. But we have to GET the ballot first before we can drop it off.

He knows

It’s called striking while the iron is hot. Bravo!!

Art imitates life: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-troops-iran-war-israel_n_69bf18a1e4b01c6ce885ce6d … I know it’s just one article, and it’s HuffPo … but it is just the first one I found this morning. My own contacts agree morale is low, and not just for those in uniform. Civil service types are not happy either. Like, the ones that help ensure logistics flow, intelligence flows, provide depot MX support, etc. It is wide spread and coming on the heals of a massive exodus of expertise. I just had a former client reach out to me 4 weeks ago about a potential direct-hire job opportunity but I didn’t see it until last last week. When I replied back their response was, “yeah you don’t want this now. Things are not good around here.” IT’S THEIR BRANCH THEY ARE HIRING FOR! Think about that, they just said, effectively, ‘don’t come work for me, it isn’t worth it’

yeah I didn’t figure it was true. but had to say it still just in case. And whoever wrote it knew what they were implying / trying to generate internet feelings. Because again, it would be epic bad if troops in training, this early in, were THAT cynical.

No. An honest assessment about just how bad it is if you’re troops are already THAT cynical before they even leave garrison and aren’t trying to hide it. I doubt it’s true though.

100%

If it really is true, I cannot stress enough just how bad it is. Like, really really bad.

haha all good. Also another thing that might have impacted my experience is I use Consent-O-Matic which helps eliminate most GDPR pop-ups which is half of what was annoying you; right? Which, FWIW, is why you get those cookie pop-ups most of the times. For right wrong or indifferent it’s an EU law and The Guardian follows it I guess. I mean sure it would be nice if they just didn’t try to collect shit cookies so they didn’t have to then ask you about it, but that’s what we got sooooo [sigh]

I said (or thought I implied) I use both and I use Firefox.

or just use ublock and noscript? I was able to view the article without any of that. Not even sure how you use the internet without them but you do you.

I do. In fact as part of the reddit exodus, and the shut down of hardocp, I found myself going over there more often as part of my “scan of the internet”.

six digits here , loooooowwww six digits.

The chaos agent in me wants her to keep slinging shit at Congress

Religion is neither necessary nor sufficient to engender qualities of generosity, self-control, avoiding violence / advocating for peace, treating people well etc.

Those also aren’t the types of “beliefs” I’m talking about and you know it. I specifically mentioned magical thinking and in this context “belief” is not a reference to believing in being generous, but belief in the supernatural, god, spirits, etc … magical thinking. More to the point, believing in those, the books that espouse them, and expecting other’s around you to believe / act based on those same beliefs is my problem; doubly so when preached from my elected representatives.

Indeed we can. Because “belief” is not based on reason. Therefor it is ALL in the same basket as something I don’t want in my government. If I believed (get it!) any of them could be trusted to govern in a secular manner I might be less salty. But I have been given very little evidence that they** can.

** They = anyone who openly, loudly, repeatedly identifies themselves by their magical thinking while campaigning / governing. They are more than welcome to believe what they want so long as they keep it out of the way of deciding my way of life. I still hold a place in my heart that thinks that’s possible, but it is getting smaller every day as I watch the [religious text]-thumpers screaming louder and louder.

Yup, I 100% have a problem with Muslims in political office. Same as I have a problem with Christians, religious-Jews, Hindu’s, etc who identify by their magical thinking and uses it to govern.

I 100% have no problem with any humans in political office who use the best data available and reason to govern and elevate the human condition

Trump in a Dump

No we won’t. Now git of mah lern

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