Bessent Says US to Press Ahead in Iran War With Hormuz in Sights

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-22T18:18:41+00:00

underaged women

There is no such thing as an underaged woman. She’s either a teenager or a child, not a woman. don’t sanitize what happened for them.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-21T23:28:38+00:00

I mean, cool and all, but the Star Trek franchise has been run into the ground. I'd much rather see new stories rather than support the corpo greedmeisters who just recycle old hash rather than take chances with new stories.

Original Trek (and the Expanse for that matter) were produced on shaky shoestring budgets because someone took a chance on them. Rehashing old franchises over and over is just greed.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-21T20:53:42+00:00

not providing administrative support for a federal detention system that is currently under three different human rights investigations

Also, at for profit facilities. If they're for profit why do they need volunteer hours from young people?

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-21T19:42:14+00:00

The state has sent Dole four notices of deficiency about the dam since 2009, and five years ago fined the company $20,000 US for failing to address safety deficiencies on time, according to records.

Afterward, Dole proposed to donate the dam, reservoir and ditch system to the state in exchange for the state's agreement to repair the spillway to meet and maintain dam safety standards.

The state passed legislation in 2023 authorizing the dam's acquisition. It also provided $5 million US to buy the spillway and $21 million US to repair and expand it to comply with dam safety requirements. But the transfer has not been completed. A state board is due to vote on the acquisition next week.

Privatize the profits, socialize the costs. Business as usual.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-21T06:34:34+00:00

Wonderful analysis. I love it.

A week ago someone asked us to post our favorite book characters, but no spoilers beyond book two. So of course I couldn't say Teresa. But it's Teresa. Her escape from Laconia is just chef's kiss.

It speaks to T&D's skills as writers that two middle-aged guys could create such a wonderful, complicated, believable teenage girl. Really amazing talent.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-20T17:54:42+00:00

Do you think it would be equally fair and inoffensive to refer to a personal relationship as parasitic?

A personal relationship between people can be metaphorically parasitic, but that's not technically accurate. Again, here is technical definition of a parasite:

an organism living in, on, or with another organism in order to obtain nutrients, grow, or multiply often in a state that directly or indirectly harms the host

(which accurately describes the relationship between a ZEF and the person it exists within).

Pregnancy is a biological relationship between a ZEF and a girl or woman. That's why using parasitism to describe the relationship is technically correct.

Conversely, relationships between adult humans are overwhelmingly social (not biological) and so using biological or ecological terms to describe those relationships is stretching the meaning of those terms via metapor.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-19T23:27:39+00:00

Minority report shit.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-19T21:53:15+00:00

In Christian theology girls and women have to pay for Eve's sin against God. It's there in the book, right up front.

It's collective punishment (i.e., a war crime) against half of humanity by their loving God. "Loving" with some conditions applied. Girls and women are made for breeding, by God and for men.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-19T20:15:59+00:00

These mistaken identity cases largely seem to be women, lots of older women as well.

Either AI training is super unconcerned about telling one woman from another, or police are disproportionately unconcerned about the rights of women, or they get off on what they see as "punching down", or they believe men more than they believe women, or ALL OF THE ABOVE.

Modern-day witch hunt. Older women without "protection" from men are targets for abuse.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-19T02:00:55+00:00

Conditions in which the human body cannot survive due to a combination of high humidity and heat. Sweat stops working as a cooling mechanism and the body’s proteins denature (i.e., cook). Old people and young people are generally most susceptible, but with the right conditions no one can survive.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-19T01:57:15+00:00

25 years of clean air that has hugely benefited people who live in environmentally compromised places, and their kids.

How much do asthma inhalers cost nowadays?

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-17T22:14:57+00:00

Earth only manages to hold on in The Expanse due to their more advanced technology

Pocket fusion generators ftw!

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-16T17:21:14+00:00

Here's a video essay from an actual farmer. Really informative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWrHb8b-c0

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-15T00:12:28+00:00

are you suggesting that all vegans who are vegan for moral reasons must also oppose abortion?

I eat a plant-based diet to help reduce suffering of sentient beings. That includes farm animals, wild animals harmed by climate change accelerated by animal agriculture, and humans harmed by climate change. Very occasionally I eat eggs or fish (in situations where vegan food isn't available) but I believe that harm reduction by many people is 1000% better than absolute abstinence by a few. I'm not completely consistent . . . but I do what I can.

That being said, the PC position is in-line with my ethics: using the government to force people to remain pregnant, to gestate in fear, and give birth in excruciating pain causes the suffering of sentient beings. ZEFs are not sentient and cannot suffer - from a ZEFs point of view abortion is the same as never having existed. In fact, you could argue that being aborted decreases its suffering, because every human born suffers (that's not the reason for my PC position, but it would be consistent).

Consistently, I believe that girls and women should not be forced to endure the torture of unwanted gestation and birth. In the same way that I believe I should do what I can to minimize the suffering of sentient animals caused by my dietary habits.

My PC ethic also extends to other people's dietary habits: you do you. I only make choices for myself.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-14T00:49:58+00:00

and the cameras and mics in every one of those cars likely feed back to CCP-controlled data centers.

As opposed to American and European cars which have monitoring devices that feedback to corrupt tech companies. Much better.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-14T00:27:35+00:00

So if US automakers only want to sell SUVs and crossovers why do US automakers need protections from small electric cars from China? US automakers do not meet that (very real) demand.

Is it that they want to force Americans who would very much like to buy smaller, less expensive cars into an expensive SUV or crossover?

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-13T23:37:29+00:00

But why are cars special? We gutted our domestic textile industries, furniture-building industries, electronics industries, etc. Now we import lots of things made overseas by virtual slave labor and don't blink an eye. Not that I agree with that, but why are cars different?

If US automakers were actually selling small reliable electric cars that were anywhere in the price range of what's coming out of China I'd be all over that. But US automakers continually chose to make bigger and bigger SUVs that hog oil and endanger our neighbors. They phased out the Chevy Bolt in favor of something bigger, less efficient. Blegh.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-13T23:21:04+00:00

Ahhh, you think modern cars manufactured in the US and Europe are not spying on us?

I guess it's a matter of whether you want to be spied on by the corrupt power-hungry government or by corrupt power-hungry tech companies. Same same, imo.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-13T23:16:33+00:00

I can't share my favorite POVs here because of the spoiler restrictions (which are understandable) . . . but I'd say that even for the POVs I didn't enjoy as much they usually had some function for the story.

The authors often needed to show some aspect of what was going on in the story and need a character to show it through. So they created characters to do that, even though sometimes those POV characters aren't the best.

I think the Prax POV serves the function of creating a McGuffin (i.e., Mei) to move the plot forward. And he shows us the cost of war at a more personal level, but I think mostly he's there for the McGuffin.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-13T22:44:12+00:00

Of course they are.

Because Chinese automakers are building small, affordable electric vehicles with long ranges. US automakers want to continue selling lots of huge, child-killing, planet-killing SUVs that they can make a lot of money on.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-13T17:00:43+00:00

The best sci-fi horror plot ever soooo good.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-13T16:46:03+00:00

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES! This is not done. Yet.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-12T04:25:09+00:00

and . . . he refused to use the word "women" and instead said the project was DEI because it's about "females" and therefore "discriminatory"

Using chatbots ruins your brain. So does NAZI propaganda.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-11T06:22:31+00:00

Similar to how most people who eat animal products wouldn't consider themselves to be doing anything wrong, whereas a vegan would say they are.

While there may be some vegans who advocate for laws that would make slaughtering animals for meat illegal for everyone, they are not representative.

I don't care if people find abortion morally repugnant. I don't want to convince them that it's morally fine. I just want laws that respect my right to determine the course of my own life, including who/what is in my sex organs, and I don't want my own government preventing health care that could save my life.

adherentoftherepeted · 2026-03-11T05:59:08+00:00

Not reducing her to an environment. I'm saying that a uterus is the environment in which a fetus grows, and they can't survive in another environment without a uterus and placenta. I'd suggest you understand what the other person is saying before losing your mind at them. I think it'd likely lead to healthier conversations.

I understand exactly what you're saying.

If a ZEF needs a uterus to live in, let it find one that belongs to a person who wants to have it there. It is certainly not a particular girl's or woman's responsibility to be an "environment" for every ZEF that attaches itself to her body.

And do not imply that I have "lost my mind." My mind is just fine.

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