UnpopularCrow

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[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)

From the article:

However, the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health said a decision has been made not to take in any patients from Gaza because "Finland does not have the necessary resources to respond to the patient evacuation requests". The ministry added that, with limited resources, "Finland has decided to prioritise assistance to Ukraine with regard to patient evacuations."

Seems reasonable to me.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (4 children)

They should be considered for expulsion from the college, not simply suspended from the swim team. Hopefully that is currently being discussed. This is bullying, assault, and a hate crime. Also given that the victim didn’t want to formally press charges, you can probably throw in intimidation as well.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is exactly what the republicans strive for. thelessyouknow

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Not “can” but “is” doing.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 74 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

This is insanity. Voting sites should be under the control of the federal government and run by nonpartisan commissions. States and especially not some county courthouse should have no control over whether or not a polling site exists. Polling sites should be based on population density regardless of voter turnout and Election Day should be a national holiday where everyone has the opportunity and ability to vote locally. All of this should be written into the constitution. This is pure voter suppression and anyone attempting this should be charged.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 78 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

“It doesn’t join NATO, it doesn’t join some of these sort of allied institutions,” Mr. Vance said. “I think that’s ultimately what this looks like.”

Elbridge Colby, one of Trumps simps from the Pentagon had this to add:

“Senator Vance is being realistic and putting out forthrightly a realistic basis for ending the conflict,” he said, “while other people are engaged in a kind of irresponsible fantasy.”

Imagine being asked to give up a significant piece of your nations territory, while being refused any security guarantees in the future. This is after your children have been raped and stolen and your land destroyed. This is what peace looks like? Fuck off both of you. If you let nations like Russia to steal land and get away with it, they won’t stop. Of course, we know Trump and Vance are puppets of Putin so no real surprises here. After all, we know how much dictators love trump.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 59 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m a scientist who is contracted through NASA and work at one of the NASA facilities. As an early career scientist, working here is a dream job. I get the opportunity to work with absolute world class scientists everyday. That said, the funding situation is dire at all NASA facilities due to funding cuts. The current saying is “flat is the new up” in terms of funding. That means if NASA maintains its funding, it’s a win. As a result, NASA would rather maintain science and engineering with the limited budget, but at the expense of the facilities themselves. I can attest that it is a stark difference between someplace like the Applied Physics Lab at Hopkins (lots of military contracts) vs Goddard Space Flight Center in terms of the quality of the facilities.

The problem is Congress looks for funding cuts in discretionary funding. Mandatory funding consists of social security, healthcare, and veteran programs. Discretionary funding is everything else, which makes up only roughly 25% of the rest of the budget. Military takes half of the discretionary budget. Democrats nor Republicans dare to touch the military budget despite the fact they fail their audit every single year. This leaves 900 billion for everything else. NASA gets about 4% of that.

Since the tax code is totally fucked up in this country, the richest people pay the least percentage through loopholes and corporations barely pay anything (9% of the total revenue), it’s up to the working class to make up the difference. Since understandably no one wants their taxes raised, in order to reduce spending they look to the “everything else” part of the discretionary budget. And NASA is part of this and is considered expendable. It’s sad to see such an important institution for the U.S. slowly dying. I want to believe the outlook is promising, but I just can’t see the future looking any brighter.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Wizardry V, The Heart of Maelstrom was probably the hardest game I’ve ever played. Without the internet to cheat, it was a incredibly frustrating challenge and I never beat it until much later when I used walkthroughs and an emulator. Great game though. RIP, Andrew.

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 280 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It is important to note that she chose not to press charges because she was afraid of retaliation from trump’s worshippers. Party of law and order…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/arlington-employee-abruptly-pushed-by-trump-campaign-staff-declined-to-press-charges-over-fears-of-retaliation/ar-AA1pF7JE

[–] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
 
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