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I mostly post only when I have something unique to say. I boost often, and reply when I have something novel to add. I mostly read posts , and enjoy not having some AI bot jerking me around with reccomendations.
I'll tell you what, Lindsey. You do it. You, and I mean you, bodily, with your ancient bones go invade the island fight on the beach, try to run up in the mountains. We'll put a little webcam on you and see how it goes. Have fun and run along.

The “main goal” of the Iran War may have changed, reports Washington Post: “Israeli officials said securing the [Strait of Hormuz] for energy shipments could become the war’s main goal now that regime change and ending Iran’s ability to obtain a nuclear weapon seem out of reach.”

So the AIM is try to have what we had before the illegal war, but at higher cost and less fuel supply having bombed it.

And all for the cost of 200 Billion and counting

#Trump #USpol #USApol

Everyone who voted for this ding-dong even once should be put in a conservatorship to protect us from their bad decisions. We can call them "conservatives" for short.
I am 82 years old.
I have lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK assassination, the Vietnam War, the Turmoil of 1968, Watergate, the Hostage Crisis, two oil crisis, disco, Reaganomics, 9/11.
The covid pandemic....
These past 11 months have been easily the most miserable era in America in my lifetime.
The hatred, the bigotry, the lies, the racketeering and pedophilia are beyond anything I have ever seen.
We are not going to hell as a nation.
We are IN hell.

I just proofread the American Astronomical Society response to SpaceX's response to AAS's petition to deny on SpaceX's million sat filing. It's a great document, but the fact that we need to say any of this (and spend volunteer time fighting SpaceX's highly paid lawyers) is completely infuriating.

I need to go outside now, really tough that I'm in a city and don't have a hay field available for easy rage-screaming.

Who's gonna tell him?
Sums up my experience growing up
@sundogplanets What commons has not been raped?

What could possibly go wrong?

The US Federal Reserve (that regulates US banks) is about to reduce the capital adequacy requirement for banks (raised in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis).

Of course, nearly 20 years after the global financial crisis, regulators & bankers may say they've learned the lessons of 2008, but what they really mean is they've (wilfully) forgotten them.

Just one more act bringing a crisis nearer (as if attacking Iran wasn't;t enough)!

#politics #banking
h/t FT