andyburke

“The West” is essentially the group of nations attempting to abide by a moral code. It is not always, or maybe even often, successful, but there is a vast gulf between their morality-based approach and what China, Russia, DPRK, and other fascist/semi-fascist nations are doing.

The answer is simple:

Religion is not based in fact.

We need solutions based on facts if we are going to handle the problems our species faces.

Can someone explain how Biden is supposed to do this?

Republicans are tilting further and further toward Russia and away from Ukraine. Independents don’t understand why we should be “spending” millions on another country.

Biden seems to be sending about as much as any current US president could hope to.

Russia has launched a war of aggression. Russian leader Putin enjoys an 80% approval rating. This change won’t happen for a year:

Consequently, the planned deliveries for the year 2024 will remain unaffected.

Stop trying to make this out like the west is doing anything even close to what Russia is. If Russia wants to be an aggressive pariah state, they can make their own fucking drugs.

I think this has a lot to do with the horses we have bred.

Japan is releasing nuclear waste from a reactor they failed to design with sufficient safety protections given its location.

China pollutes like crazy, but your whataboutism argument doesn’t matter.

Japan is releasing nuclear waste into the oceans because they failed to understand the safety requirements necessary for their nuclear reactors.

Additionally, I’m not sure how China would have reached this position without a specific effort by the United States to engage in increased trade with them.

We said we would trade more in the hopes of an improving human rights situation and steps toward democratic self-rule.

We didn’t get what we were promised. Stop whining, Xi.

Also the group was collectively pregnant, injured and hypothermic - just so we are clear on the dire threats they posed to the crew.

My young friends are forgetting the days of IE where we really did almost lose the web. It’s been a constant struggle, always, against the corporate interests who only see the internet as a money printer.

I am more excited about the web today, with the fediverse for example, than I have been in a long time. Maybe since those days, when the future of any browser but IE was in doubt.

The pieces of wood shaped like slices of bread are disturbing.

This is not what happened. Takes like this, that oversimplify and make things seem inevitable aren’t very helpful.

For decades before 1988 and for decades after, people have advocated for the environment. The shift to an understanding that we can have an impact on our planet has been slow and hard-won. Don’t pretend like one person or one hearing or one technology could have prevented all this - that’s just not true.

You may be upset that nuclear wasn’t or isn’t used more, but it doesn’t really matter at this point - we are here, and we have really inexpensive and seemingly low impact technologies like solar and wind with battery or other types of storage. Plus, we can now have a more distributed grid with installs right in people’s homes.

Move past whatever has you hung up on nuclear, there’s lots of other ways to have a positive impact on our environmental future.

is it looping around to the left?

same

Certainly can, and will! Nothing justifies another country just annexing that territory. Nothing. No amount of you talking will justify it. No number of people there who speak Russian justify it. There is no justification.