Sort of too shy to follow through previously

Worst thing to happen realistically is that you get a “no thank you, i’m good”.

Don’t worry. It will come back worse soon enough. Climate change doesn’t just mean everything gets hotter. It also means everything gets more extreme, including cold events or these storms that prevent the heat from forming.

Question is, if it is a 1:1000 year event locally, state level, country wide?

These terms are often thrown around rather broadly by media, which does not help their use and makes it easy for cliamte change deniers to attack it.

These terms also provide a false sense of security. For instance we had a “thousand year” flood in parts of Germany in 2021 that killed about 200 people. The statisticians then said that because of climate change, this is now a “four hundred year flood”. But the kind of weather event that is producing these enormous rainfalls leading to the flooding actually occurs about twice a year now. It is just the question where the downpour comes and if it can dissipate in flat land, or if it comes down in the mountains, washing away everything in the valley. So that “four hundred year flood” is probably occurring more like once a decade but in different places in the future.

Don’t worry, it is not just in the US.

There was devastating floods in Germany about 4 years ago, killing some 200 people. Just a few months before the ruling “conservative” party CDU lead coalition in one of the states affected badly had scrapped some flood protection laws. During the election campaign for the federal election the chancellor candidate of the “conservative” party was laughing his ass off in the background as the German president held a commemoration speech for the victims in one of the villages heavily destroyed.

The CDU came out strongest again in the next state level elections, including in the areas that were destroyed by the floods and had many people killed.

One of the core societal demands of the prophet Mohamed, blessings and peace be upon him, was to end the practice of burying daughters alive. At the time a daughter was considered a disgrace, so some pre-islamic Arabs murdered their daughters this way.

The Quran is also very explicit about the rights of women and the correct behavior towards them, something that is often ignored in societies that claim to be muslim, but evidently did not read much.

“OG Islam” is fundamentally opposed to femicide. Femicides aren’t a religious but a cultural issue and prevalent outside of religious groups too.

Good. The US doesn’t understand anything else. The more countries call the bluff and just fight back, the more the US will screw over itself, while strengthening ties between everyone else.

Shame on some EU countries and companies that chose to let Trump dictate them instead. It will only lead to worse demands from the US.

Thank you for the article. It brought up something quite interesting that i wasn’t aware off before:

But why does Spain rely so heavily on Russia despite the almost global disapproval? The answer lies in this country’s extensive regasification capacity, which stands at 67.1 bcm - the largest in all of Europe. This enables Spain to receive LNG shipments on behalf of other countries that lack the necessary infrastructure, making it a critical hub for European energy trade.

looking a bit into it i found this article:

https://rbac.com/spains-role-as-a-natural-gas-importer-and-re-exporter/

So it seems that Spain is also taking the flak here for other EU countries that want to profit from Russian gas but not be directly associated with it.

Is it more? I know Spain is still buying some LNG from Russia, but i would have thought the amount went down, not up.

The German state of Bavaria once did something in the direction of moving away from MS. When Microsoft put their German headquarters into Munich the idea was scraped.

Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?

Yes. Set automatic package updates, Install firefox with ublock and put it on the taskbar, and bookmark Facebook and Youtube for her. It is the same thing as under Windows.

I would argue that for the most “tech illiterate” users the Linux experience can be made even easier than the windows experience, because you have to set up everything for them anyways.

I disagree. The people who want to make him a Martyr will make him a Martyr no matter what. The people who know what he has done will understand that him being killed doesn’t make any of that better.

See the way all the other Fascists in the world before him were handled.

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The neoliberals are still in power at the DNC, what are you talking about? Sanders and AOC do not hold any major position in the party. The fight only just started and by socialwashing the oligarchy ghouls still running the party effectively you are doing it a terrible service.

Israel attacking Civillians in international waters make the Houthis terrorists?

If the port you are bound for is one of the following, you should not be on that ship to not become complicit in war crimes and crimes against humanity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ports_and_harbours_of_Israel

Where the Houthis come from doesn’t change the fact that they are pretty much the only one territorial actor outside of Palestine standing up militarily for Palestine. That they stand up for Palestine doesn’t whitewash what else they are doing, but if any of the leaders of Sunni majority countries would have half a spine, the Houthis wouldn’t have to be lauded as being such an exception to the rest.

Israel has been attacking any ship that aimed for Gaza. The latest case they abducted a dozen Civilians in international waters. before they bombed a civilian ship bound to bring food to Gaza off the coast of Malta.

So yes, Israel has been attacking targets in international water quite recently.

Civilian infrastructure, specifically farms, to facilitate genocide by hunger, weddings, schools, hospitals, ports…

Can we stop with this nonsense please?

A “near miss” is a completely nonsensical way of staging a failed assassination. This easily can go wrong with the target actually being hit. Why would the shooter, that somehow is such a great shot, that he can pull this off safely agree to it? The best case scenario for him would be to end up in prison the rest of his life, far more likely to be shot and killed on the scene so he can’t say anything.

The secret service was under the Biden administration at the time, but protected Trump as a former president at that point. So you basically claim that Biden or people in his administration would have wanted to stage a failed assassination attempt on Trump. This also requires all the agents on site to be in on it and none of them to talk later. Again something completely nonsensical.

The fact that Trump raised his fist and screamed is fairly easily explainable. That is the nature of Trump. When people are under shock, stocked full of adrenaline they fall back onto their instincts. What we saw in this moment was the most real version of Trump we probably ever get to see.

The Biden admin already targeted UN officials and the ICC. This enjoys bipartisan support in the US.

There is nothing more beloved to the US oligarchy and their political representatives than committing war crimes and crimes against humanity with impunity.