It’s Moscow and St. Petersburg that Ukrane can hit that would possibly wake the Russian civilians up. Gently slide from military targets to dual civilian/ military, like airports, ports, bridges. Then onto any government buildings. Then power substations, etc. Not that they should do this as it has more of a chance of building nationalism in Russia. Ukraine’s current strategy of hitting oil refineries and military manufacturing is clearly the right call, even in the face of Russia’s war crimes.

All offensive war is a crime. Russia started this and could stop whenever it wanted to. This is all on Russia. Anyone supporting the Russian government as they attack Ukraine deserves to die.

Ukraine could also easily take out mass civilians in Russia.

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Adjust number until it looks centered. Easy peasy.

Everyone should read at least the first part of ‘Ministry for the Future’.

Versions of this I’ve seen prototyped had a laser between two mirror strips so it zigzagged back and forth left and right as it went from about 10’ up to the ground. The span between the mirrors was about 50’. It had a low-power always-on laser and the detector would correlate the signal with the frequency of a mosquito buzz. So if there was a mosquito anywhere on the laser path it would detect that, and then turn of a powerful laser pulse on the same path that would fry the mosquito. By putting a few of these in a line, a mosquito wall was made and it significantly reduced the mosquito population. This was in Ghana where they don’t actually have that many mosquitos - nothing like northern Ontario, just the occasional one. But they carry malaria there so it is very beneficial to kill them.

It’s ok, they’ll pay the same in vet bills.

The fuck is Israel parade? Jewish pride, sure; but Israel? That’s weird.

Now he’s looking at Cuba for his ‘win’.

Yes. I get angry. When someone says ‘they’re the same’. I’m perfectly aware how the dems aren’t good enough. But they’re so obviously better than maga, that it pisses me off when idiots refuse to vote for ‘better’ due to some moronic notion, and as a result we end up with the generational damage cause by trump.

So that’s the point. Harris easily made the case that she was better for security and the economy. And she was quite clearly better on ME politics too despite your mental gymnastics trying to make yourself believe otherwise. But she wasn’t good enough for too many leftist morons in the U.S. and so we got maga/trump. It seems like you’re happy with Trump winning, so good on you I guess.

Well you seem to like Trump, and carry water for him regardless of what was said and done and the actual effect on the ground. But so it often is with Trump supporters. Nothing I can say will change your opinion and you’ll probably go on supporting maga to get elected because you are somehow convinced that democrats are just as bad. Whatever. I’ll let you have the last word now.

In their chart, it’s pretty clear that the death rate in Gaza went up just as Trump took control. His rhetoric at the time was very pro-Isreal and encouraging them to eradicate the Palestinians, put up casinos, and all that. And then it slowed way down in Oct last year when the pseudo peace agreement brokered by the U.S. started. So credit where it’s due, they managed to make some sort of improvement then. But all Presidents have tried to make peace deals in Isreal/Gaza - it’s not like Biden wouldn’t have likely done that too. And the U.S. has now allowed isreal to attack Lebanon. And of course the Iran attacks which then US didn’t just support but was actively attacking. And of course Biden might have done the same, it’s not totally off script, although a Biden or Harris admin probably wouldn’t have fucked up the closing of the straight so badly. I don’t think any president would have stopped Isreal from launching a debilitating strike against Hamas after the October attacks. And then Hezbollah joining in made them a legit target too. I don’t think Biden did enough to pressure Isreal to safeguard civilians and to provide humanitarian aid. I’m not taking it easy on him. But the point is that it’s still as clear as anything that Trump was worse for the people of Gaza than Harris would have been. And the steadfast refusal to accept that and vote accordingly is what what got Trump elected, and what will get maga elected again (and then fuck over more people of the world, like in Cuba for example).

I can deny that - and I also agree that Biden didn’t do enough. But to say the Biden administration was as bad as Trump’s is crazy.

I don’t know, but what if you presume he wanted to stop the killing of civilians in Gaza but he was stuck because of the current ME power balance, the politics of it, and the weight of the Isreali supporting voters, lobbyists and funding. I think, then, he would push back with public statements, threaten to reduce support, and use backchannel pressure. And it seems like that’s what happened. Once Trump won, Isreal ramped up the attacks on civilians; so whatever Biden was doing, it helped somewhat.

Of course having a single individual coordinating thing cuts both ways. That person could also block things.

Project much? Biden was pushing back; we’ll never know what he would have done, because too many American mouth breathers didn’t see Dems as better than maga.

You can go do it in seconds with a command line command, or there are free utils you can install that make it just a click to turn on and off.

It’s not possible to replace the democrats. It is possible to change them. It’s slow and frustrating. But the trick is to reward the correct steps. When people just say ‘they’re the same’ and refuse to vote for Dems because they’re not good enough, not only does that leave us with maga in power, which is obviously worse, but it also makes the Dems not see any votes available by starting to move towards the left, so they go the other way.

It’s maga or dems. Thats how it works now. You said you think they’re the same. So you’re just as happy with Trump.