The “Great Seal of the United States” with the eagle is from 1782, it’s been in use as the “Seal of the president of the United States” since at least 1877, tho I’m not sure about this version of the eagle with wide open wings.
The nazis started using their version of the Bundeswappen in 1935.
Murica is a very weird place where folk don’t seem to get punished electorally for being an asshole.
“Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses, and American universities - and they are elected by American citizens.
This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, […] you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders.” – George Carlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBrbXOmnW70
See how few vote for ethical people like Nader, the Greens, …
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“551 titles” - 43 TV show seasons = 508 movies?
“Sony already pulled 314 StudioCanal titles from libraries in Germany and Austria in 2022. More recently, Sony deleted people’s Funimation digital libraries”
everyone would prefer the fancy ceiling
Some people think reliefs, Greek revival, Rococo, Baroque, etc. are ugly, polluting to make, more toxic and dangerous to clean, wasteful, and gaudy.
It’s biggest problem was the arguably not so good first season I think.
I thought the 1st season of The Expanse was good, but the 2nd season was so bad that I stopped watching in middle of episode 2. The difference was pretty stark, almost as bad as the difference between the great season 1 of Spooks/MI-5 vs its god-awful season 2.
I’d recommend the first 2 seasons of Okkupert, and Firefly.
While I think Chernobyl is a great fiction series, there’s a huge amount of completely unnecessary lies in it, including the intro and outro about lies.
The Xfce file manager, Thunar (4.18 with en-US as language), also has “Create Folder…” under the File menu, and in some contexts in the right-click menu.
Under Preferences, Behavior, it has both “directory” and “folders”.
man ls uses “directory” only tho, and of course mkdir.
The numbers listed here are quite low as a percentage of the 1-3 trillion fish slowly tortured to death every year by the fishing industry on purpose.
Scottish creel rope kills:
UK-only vessels, annual bycatch killed estimates:
Globally
Orders of magnitude worse suffering is caused by factory farms where another 1-3 trillion fish are enslaved in continuous torturous conditions their entire lives.
“The reform does not mandate two rest days per week. […] create the conditions under which a four-day working week becomes practically achievable for the first time for a significant portion of the Mexican workforce.”
Mexico is one of the few countries with only a 1-day weekend, along with:
Fast decarbonisation […] shift away from overconsumption towards “sufficiency”. This would involve a sharp reduction in labour hours and the use of raw materials, along with big changes in consumption patterns, food habits, land use and forest cover.
Green parties (excluding the capitalist German and US Greens) have had this as the priorities on the platforms for decades. But the vast, vast majority of people choose to instead vote for the greedy, short-sighted, sociopathic parties that are instead increasing
The boss is the voters who keep choosing to vote for narcissistic sociopathic candidates.
I’ve only ever voted Green, I’ve never voted for any omnicidal capitalists.
It’s not “propaganda” making more than 90% of people choose leaders who will continue pushing us towards a mass extinction event, more genocides, oligarchy, etc… It’s that almost all voters are as greedy, short-sighted, and sociopathic as the people they keep voting for.
cost of life
Should we save about 1.4 to 3.7 billion wild birds a year, by ending the pet cat industry?
Her name’s Francesca, not Francesa.
“The magnetic field is vital to our continued existence. It helps keep the atmosphere we breathe in”
I knew about reducing how much cosmic radiation we receive, but not about protecting the atmosphere:
“Many scientists have argued that the magnetic field is crucial for protecting the atmosphere from erosion by energetic particles coming from the Sun.” https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-oxygen-magnetic-field-linked/
Also, “the planetary magnetic field has followed similar rising and falling patterns as oxygen in the atmosphere for nearly a half billion years, dating back to the Cambrian explosion, when complex life on Earth emerged.”
kids
Tonnes of CO2e, averages:
1.60 a roundtrip transatlantic flight
2.40 one year of car use
58.60 one year, per child you have (dwarfing everything combined in the 3rd graphic in the sidebar)
Shown in the most important chart in human history, because human overpopulation is the biggest and root cause for not just catastrophic anthropogenic climate change, but also the biggest and root cause of factory farming, industrial fishing, unsustainable pollution, biosphere degradation, mass extinction, …
I don’t think so. Murder is illegal, while the vast majority of people choose to vote for non-Green parties, to make it legal and to incentivize the Anthropocene mass extinction event.
Do you really expect me to believe the concept of free will has never crossed your mind when asking this question?
Free will is so obviously an illusion to me (since no-one in recorded history has ever been able to magic their way around causality) that I sometimes forget that most people, especially religious people, think they have free will. I should have stated that.
If free will is real for people tho, then God isn’t all-knowing or all-powerful, which means it’s not God - unless you use a definition of God that extremely few people in the West or Middle-East hold.
If he does a Fetterman, can he be quickly recalled?
I would mind: if you’re all-powerful then why create fascists, human traffickers, greedy billionaires, and the majority of people who are making the biosphere uninhabitable for most genera? And why punish them with hell, when you created them that way? That’s just sadistic.
I understand wanting a hell for bad people, because most people do extremely evil things:
but I still prefer honesty and saying there’s absolutely no evidence that a biblical hell is real.
Some of them actually believe that if they can get you to say the magic words, you’ll go to heaven instead of hell.
If I thought I could prevent someone from eternal pain and suffering, and instead have them go to a place where the creator of everything, including… uh… hell…
OK, never mind.
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