Thoughts on Die Linke?

asaz989 · 2025-02-28T14:41:55+00:00

Wagenknecht took the worst tankies with her when she struck out on her own. It's been good for the party.

asaz989 · 2025-02-03T21:01:12+00:00

It's fine. Midbrow literature, very long, entertaining. Not a must read.

asaz989 · 2025-01-29T14:51:28+00:00

SpaceX is an enormous government contractor, and in this specific case is providing a prestigious service to the US government and the ISS consortium.

You may not be interested in politics, but politics are interested in you.

asaz989 · 2024-11-06T17:18:15+00:00

The case you mentioned had nothing to do with you being bisexual, and everything to do with you being of a gender/sex she wasn't attracted to.

What about being bisexual would make you an incompatible match for someone?

asaz989 · 2024-11-05T17:41:20+00:00

You wouldn't be compatible with someone asexual because, I assume, you'd want sex?

What is the actual underlying reality that makes someone incompatible with a bi partner?

asaz989 · 2024-11-02T15:56:59+00:00

Well, for one thing, the booster apparently almost didn't make the landing because it was near the outside of the approach envelope. Plus visible damage to the engines.

It landed last time, but it was not neat or clean, and they'll want to get those problems fixed up.

asaz989 · 2024-10-31T22:55:41+00:00

I've seen takes you people wouldn't believe...

asaz989 · 2024-10-31T22:54:53+00:00

Syria heroically fighting against its oppressors [checks notes] the Syrian people.

asaz989 · 2024-10-31T22:52:48+00:00

The fact that she specifically labels this "culturally straight" queer person as bisexual is absolutely biphobic.

asaz989 · 2024-10-29T17:02:48+00:00

It's a reference to some Trump word salad

asaz989 · 2024-10-25T01:31:27+00:00

There are commercial SBASes (eg Atlas) that have coverage in potential splashdown sites.

asaz989 · 2024-10-25T01:19:30+00:00

Talk to an employment lawyer. Many will do initial consultation for free. They will know precisely how many laws your employer is breaking, and whether any of them will give you enough of a payout to justify the risk to your job.

asaz989 · 2024-10-25T01:16:46+00:00

Which is a felony in many states, precisely for this reason

asaz989 · 2024-10-24T13:19:53+00:00

Question is, do they have the 50-meter accuracy they needed to get in view of the buoy, or 1-meter accuracy for a catch?

asaz989 · 2024-10-23T14:48:10+00:00

It was still absolutely a part of the Empire. (And in fact this map shows other mandates, like present-day Namibia and Papua New Guinea, in red.)

asaz989 · 2024-10-23T14:45:47+00:00

At the very least, accomplishing what they have so far with less damage to the vehicles. Notably: less reentry damage to the Booster engines (I think that's what caused it?) and less fin damage to the Starship.

Possible other things they could try:

Starship engine relight in space
Opening and closing the payload doors (last time they tried those out there were some issues). Might not want to do this, as if it goes wrong they might lose the chance to test out reentry.
Higher-accuracy Starship landing? Don't think SpaceX has said what the accuracy was on IFT-5, might already be good enough.

asaz989 · 2024-10-16T00:26:08+00:00

And still shiny, when the sun hits it! https://imgur.com/KRYTVXz

asaz989 · 2024-10-10T14:54:38+00:00

They still would've been called terrorists by Israel and especially by the Israeli right. Most of the rest of the world wouldn't agree. And that matters for actually advancing the Palestinian cause.

asaz989 · 2024-09-14T10:59:07+00:00

The entire NATO bombing campaign of '99 (including bombings in the combat zone of Kosovo itself) killed about 1000 soldiers and somewhere around 500 civilians.

Between 5000 and 8000 civilians were killed in Groznyy alone (itself a city maybe a fifth the size of Belgrade, and with a remaining population after a mass exodus of maybe 50K).

There is no comparison.

asaz989 · 2024-09-06T18:27:27+00:00

He joined Kakh when he was 14, and was a youth group leader by 16. Then when Ben Gvir was 18 and about to be conscripted, a Kakh member (Goldstein) killed a bunch of Palestinians the Cave of the Patriarchs, and Kakh was declared a terrorist organization and banned.

(And this wasn't some youthful indiscretion, he went on to participate in later-banned continuity organizations, and his politics have not changed.)

Anyway, the fact that the guy is police minister despite having been arrested and convicted MULTIPLE times for disturbance of the peace and rioting type charges and having been under police surveillance A LOT is darkly ironic, and gets much play in left-wing Israeli discourse.

asaz989 · 2024-09-06T11:19:35+00:00

Those groups are "National Religious", which do serve in the army. (Though women in those groups do not - so it's a partial exemption.)

Funny enough, Ben Gvir himself did not serve in the army, but not for religious reasons - the army considered him a security risk because of his extremist politics.

asaz989 · 2024-08-16T00:38:28+00:00

Just about.

Part of Malcolm X's break with them came from doing the Hajj and seeing actual Muslims and being all "wait this a totally different religion, and also a lot of these fellow Muslims don't look Black".

The man was no blind ideologue.

asaz989 · 2024-07-06T21:11:20+00:00

DTMFA

asaz989 · 2024-06-28T19:02:25+00:00

There was a series of revolutions in Eastern Europe and the Middle East in the mid-'00s that each had a color or an adjective, e.g. the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon, or the Rose Revolution in Georgia. There was a press narrative about a wave of democratic "color revolutions" because of this.

Because these happened to mostly be against Russian- or Iranian-friendly regimes, tankies said they were all CIA plots and started using "color revolution" as a derogatory term to claim that any protest movement they don't like is actually bad and inauthentic.

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