ChonkyOwlbear @ ChonkyOwlbear @lemmy.world

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When the 5th circuit is making sense, you know you're really in a fucked up situation

Palestinians descended from the Bronze Age inhabitants of the Levant. Israelites later emerged from the Canaanite people (who are also strongly genetically tied to Palestinians) a thousand years later.

I have had a series of perpetually 10+ year old printers that have been handed down to me by Boomers. I print something maybe once a year, so I usually have to go through a half hour of printer cleaning to get the dried out ink to flow again. I really should just get rid of it and go to a photocopy place the next time I need a physical copy of something.

Edit: I just realized it would literally be easier and faster to burn something onto paper with my laser engraver. I think I just talked myself into quitting printers.

Probably radiocarbon dating?

This isn't the only place this has happened. More info here.

https://youtu.be/Bwabh4zbmZ4

I read this as the Swiss wanting to send tanks to Ukraine but it's illegal. So they send tanks to Germany and Germany sends their old tanks to Ukraine.

Checkmate

It's like the Biden economy thing. The truth doesn't matter as much as the perception of what is true.

Make a big deal about dropping gun regulation as a platform and pass a federal bill that blocks do-nothing cosmetic regulations like bans on barrel shrouds, skeleton stocks, and pistol grips for longarms. It doesn't matter that it won't make any appreciable difference. The headline will be "Dems loosen gun regulation".

Lowering taxes is a bit trickier. People have to feel it. The Child Tax Credit was factually effective, but can anyone name what they bought with that money? I still remember how I spent my Bush tax rebate. Cash in hand is what people understand. Figure out a way to send the average person a check for a couple hundred bucks every year (ideally 6 months from tax rebate season).

If you can get the boat going before it floods, the boat moving through the water will create enough suction to drain out any water. You just better have a plug waiting for you at your destination.

Is there any country that doesn't have WMDs? Why is this even worth saying?

I think maybe the only hope is that Trump dies, nobody has the charisma to replace him, and the right devours itself.

Which working class are you talking about? Because the working class I know are weed smoking, porn watching, beer drinking dudes who don't want any of this Christofascist bullshit. It boils down to taxes and guns. Dems need to let these people have their guns and lower taxes for the bottom 50% of the country.

Odds are that the MAGA sycophants in the White House and Congress are all expected to get this and that all their data goes straight to China.

I believe that is a butt cap for the handle of a faux Japanese samurai sword.

If they know where to get coke, they know where to get other stuff

Hang around a dive bar and look for people who work in kitchens.

I think it doesn't matter much either way. What matters is the Right's capture of the media and the religious. The Left hasn't figured out how to overcome that

By small "c" conservative I mean people who are wary of change and value hierarchy and tradition. That is why the logic used to be that people got more conservative the older they got. That's not true anymore not because people have changed but because the tenets of conservatism changed.

In context they are talking about how the current Republican party's dysfunctional nature makes governing impossible. I also think Pelosi and Biden think (perhaps correctly) that any population will have a certain amount of the population that are small "c" conservative and should be represented.

The decision was 8-2. There are 13 judges, so 3 abstained. 5 were nominated by Trump. 2+3=5. Hard to believe that is a coincidence.