Honestly I kind of like that the states are going back to having radically different systems. That was the way it was supposed to be -- like if you think weed should be legal, or illegal, then try it out, and everyone can watch it in practice and see how it works.
I don't like that it's so polarized to only two big centers of gravity and one of them is Naziism but the idea of it being a variety seems like more of the idea of what the US was supposed to be.
Before one of OP's other posts on this topic was removed as misinformation, I asked under that post what Biden could possibly have done aside from pardoning all federal convictions for possession, requesting the DEA to reschedule marijuana, and introducing a bill for full federal legalization which the Republicans defeated (all three of which happened).
Crickets man. (I actually learned since then that it's a little more complex -- it actually seems like maybe Biden was opposed to the full legalization bill that Schumer was pushing, and there was definitely some level of Democratic opposition in the senate. So maybe that piece of the criticism is legit, IDK, but OP never brought that stuff up to me when I asked what Biden should do.)
That conversation was actually the exact point that I became confident that OP's just here to shit on Biden and specifically Biden for whatever reason, and any concordance that emerges between what he's saying and the truth is purely accidental, and he knows it.
(Also, fun fact Matt Gaetz switched sides to join with 2 other House Republicans to vote for weed legalization.)
President Biden maintains a healthy lead over former President Trump among young Americans
Didn't frame that part as central
By contrast, the poll finds almost no change in Biden’s lead among young women — currently 33 points.
Or that
Biden has erased the small lead that Trump has held for much of the last six months.
Polling averages now show the race as essentially a dead heat.
The Harvard poll shows Biden leading Trump 56%-37% among young people likely to vote ... down from Biden’s 2020 winning margin. But the decline is fairly small and a far cry from the collapse of youth support that some other polls have indicated.
Biden’s lead among young people would increase by around 9 points if Trump were convicted
Or any of those; I stopped looking for stuff.
But regardless -- the piece of data they chose to pick, out of all the things they could have chosen to highlight, was:
Biden led Trump among young men by 26 points; now he leads by 6
Why do you hate fun
Solzhenitsyn said that there's nothing worse for a country than to win a big war. This is filtered a little through my own perception, but the best I remember it was that winning a war teaches the lesson that all the maniacs were right and gives them all kinds of confidence to let them do more of the same, which never ends well at home or abroad. He said that usually if a country loses a big war, it comes out of it with some wisdom, and regards any maniacs at home or abroad with deep visceral suspicion from then on, which is as it should be.
Remember "The leader of the party is here. The head of the presidential administration is here, Prime Minister Shmyhal is here, Podolyak is here, the president is here. We are all here, the soldiers are here, the citizens of the country are here."?
I remember going to sleep expecting to wake up in the morning and learn the guy had been killed or captured, and the Russians had taken Kyiv.
Shit was wild. There's a reason the eastern front line hasn't budged, with them outnumbered the whole time and outgunned by 10:1 for as long as it took to finish the first Gulf War.
They don't need the money no, although we did for some fuckin reason just give them an amount of money equal to about their total yearly defense budget.
However, they desperately need the diplomatic cover we give them on the world stage. The western world is well capable to make life miserable via sanctions for any country that isn't playing ball to what we want them to do (Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc), to say nothing of getting hauled to the Hague to stand trial. Without the US shielding them from diplomatic consequences I think the theoretical ability to do their killing in a physical sense wouldn't be something they felt nearly as free with.
They passed a huge amount of aid for Israel like 2 minutes after
I do not, no. I am sure he thought of that in addition to 10 other factors I didn't think of. I'm just saying it seems weird for it not to be mentioned in the article.
Why do they talk about isolating it from the air, but not from conductive material around it?
Surely air is the easier of the two to do. If you're concerned that it's working by pushing on the air around it, just put the thing in a box. Measure the net force on the box; if it's pushing on the air then that force will be 0.
My automatic assumption from the way they describe the machine is that if it's not breaking the laws of physics, it's probably pushing on conductive material nearby with an electrostatic force. You can mitigate that with a similar approach by surrounding it with a faraday cage I guess, but that part at least seems somewhat more tricky.
Disclaimer I know absolutely nothing about the issues involved but that's my immediate take on it and it seems weird to me that they don't mention anything about isolating it from conductive material.
Yep. A vertical line segment above A with length 𝑖 is a horizontal line segment to the left that's 1 unit long. So, the diagram needs a "not to scale" caveat like a map projection, but there's nothing actually wrong with it, and the triangle's BC side is 0 units long.
Prediction: I will find some factually inaccurate bullshit within the first 5-10 posts of the "PushBidenLeft" account
Edit: It took two posts. The first one was clearly a bunch of shit but not factual enough to really qualify, but the second one that showed on my feed was: