If the year’s coldest temp was 1°C colder than last year and the year’s highest temp was 2°C hotter than last year, then even though the cold was colder, the overall temperature is still going up. The average and the extremes are very different things.

Did you think the vacation time he accrued as cardinal should have evaporated when he got promoted?

Too late; Netayahu already did it

Every incremental step along the way is immediately profitable. The thought process would be “Somebody will stop it from getting that far, and when THAT happens I’ll support the anti-authoritarian movement, but UNTIL then, all the other oligarchs are profiting from these incremental steps towards authoritarianism, and when the anti-authoritarianism kicks in there’ll be no further short-term profit opportunities to exploit so I don’t wanna be the only one who didn’t avail of them when they were available”.

Bystander effect/Nash equilibrium. Unless they’re ALL doing it, none of them want to be the ONLY sucker who’s forgoing short-term profit opportunities for the benefit of all. This is what government is supposed to enforce on them: forcing them ALL to support democracy.

I honestly have to wonder why civil war hasn’t broken out yet in the USA.

Like, I’m reminded of Calvin Candie saying “and it wouldn’t’ve taken me no fifty years to do it, neither”.

At this point it’s just a signature calling card. Like the Wet Bandits leaving all the taps running. Ensuring that everybody knows who did it, without officially claiming responsibility, is intended as a power move to remind everyone that Comrade Major is always listening so toe the line

Are either of those details true or are you just spreading misinformation for teh memez?

Is that the one where the Latinos have mutated and are heating up the planet?

No, I assume what’s next is that countries which have slightly more coal reserves than Ireland will be next, and so on.

I mean, if the headline was “Rising sea levels cause flooding in Ireland”, you wouldn’t say “big deal, wake me when the flooding reaches Nepal”. Of course there’s going to be an order to such things.

Nobody mentioned the US though

It always really surprises me that Sweden and Turkiye have so much interaction with each other. You’d never guess from looking at a map.

It still gives the bot the at-first-glance appearance of being a human user of long standing, though, which I assume would make the account saleworthy to bad actors.

Calling it now: Trump will invade Mexico before his term is up, arguing that it’s to “secure our borders” and that the Mexican government has “failed”.

Should someone repost the article so that it can be discussed and shared but the bot doesn’t get the upvotes?

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The main problem with modern civilization is that it’s no longer possible to rob rich people. If Peter Thiel’s money actually physically existed, in like a vault somewhere, SOMEBODY would have burgled the vault by now, purely because of the insanely favorable risk vs reward ratio - like a lottery where the cost of buying tickets of every possible combination costs less than the jackpot, once the reward is high enough, there will always be SOMEONE who will make the necessary investment to negate the risk. And “robbing the rich” would always have enough popular support that there would be little effort to find the thief as long as the oligarch was unpopular enough. But now Thiel’s money no longer physically exists, and it’s basically impossible to forcibly take it from him without basically having to destroy the entire global banking system first in order to get at it.

You’ve basically just described “confession”. You go into a little box designed to make it as difficult as possible for the priest to identify you, you talk about all the ways you feel like you’re a bad person, and the priest talks to you for a while about it, then gives you some actionable items to make amends and once you’ve done them God officially forgives you. The whole concept of confession is designed to allow people to let go of their regrets and live in the now. It’s actually quite clever as a bit of societal design. If modern priests had psychotherapy degrees then everyone in the world would have access to free therapy - unfortunately they wouldn’t be very useful for LGBT+ people.

Yep, the USA likes to complain about Europe being security freeloaders, but the only member to ever invoke Article 5 was the USA.

Yeah all governments have a tendency to sweep problems under the rug, but Japan are a whole other level. They NEVER admit to anything ever being wrong.