Thanks, I just read this. Will update the post.

Yes it's awful stuff.

Fair enough.

Thanks. Everyone's safe for now but one of my step brothers might get pulled back into military service.

I also don't know what I'd do if I were in their shoes. Even so, I believe that organized murder sprees are wrong. It doesn't matter if it's the IDF or Hamas doing them, they're wrong.

Thanks for reading! Unfortunately, the powers that be consider war to be good for business. Arms dealers and financiers profit immensely from conflict. I pray for peace everywhere but fear that prayer

Right on. Sometimes the decomposition of organic matter can start a fire all by itself. Even wet hay can spontaneously combust.

Yeah for sure!

It's always the powerful few, isn't it?

One Flat Earther I know posts about her beliefs on Facebook but warns all her friends not to do their own research because doing your own research may result in figuring out that the planet is round.

For sure. If I hadn't had personal experience with the Flat Earth, I would still think it was a joke too.

Thanks! I feel like the way to organize workers in the gig economy is to figure out how to get them more money by means of collective action.

I don't know how a nonviolent response would have played out, but it definitely wouldn't have pushed the conflict in the direction of nuclear.

You make some good points. There's an important difference between peaceful and non-kinetic. And something like Czechoslovakia's nonviolent response to Soviet invasion in 1968 might today be impossible

Hmm. The policy dimension of this is super complicated, in part because of jurisdictional issues. The priorities of local governments aren't well aligned with the priorities of the feds. If we were to

Thanks: ) For sure. The information space is critical and we're right in the thick of it.

For sure there are reasons for it. I just think people should be free.

I took the vaccine at my mother's request and I regret it.

Looking good on the railroad tracks: )

Thanks. I'm definitely on a good path: )