OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.
but why not both, I guess? like congress either has the ability to stop the president from committing supreme international crimes in the dead of night or it does not
the congressional authorization thing is bad but honestly for me the whole "the crime of aggression is the supreme international crime" thing is what keeps me up at night
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
article 8bis of the rome statute of the international criminal court
continuation of article 8bis
posting, once again, the well-established definition of the crime of aggression in the rome statute for the ICC
so we went from war on anthropic to war on iran in a matter of hours
what the fuck friday night
just had the thought that it should absolutely be knowable why the epstein plea deal happened at all, like, acosta didn't die, did he? and then i looked up where he is these days and holy moly i want to d*e
i think i would die i had just taken nyquil and tried to parse that
are you punishing me for my legos skeet
and some of the craziest policy, consistently
yes, i think it was an incredibly positive choice for the city's future!
i am shoving both of you in your lockers
only a certain privileged segment of the population can even afford to retire these days!
i did some bullshit math in the calculator app and it says we'd be paying every state legislator and every capitol hill aide 850,000 a year
wow
they would absolutely eat me and my wives and i wish them joy of it
yep! you're right!
non-refundable state tax credit wouldn't put food on the table for an official who comes from the working or middle class, which is the big issue imo
i wish i were surprised. a lot of states have this insane fucking model.
This has become all the more pressing as our federal government deterioriates. State government are a shitty backstop but they could sure stand to be a bit less shitty on this horrible decades-long hell journey we are on
:( i know....
a lot of self-employment I think? which skews crankward. They should also be in session full time and not like this.
if you are a voter in one of these states I think an actually substantive thing you can do is be plaintively vocal about paying legislators more money. Go full Karen about it. It's a Karen-worthy issue and no one will expect a Karen reaction about it
.... i can't believe it's just idaho local news and the daily mail that is covering this story
anyways if you're a sane person who can afford to work for the obscene poverty pay of the oregon state legislature, please consider running for it because every news story about it makes me sad
if i ever get fuck-off rich my hobby is going to be running for state legislatures that pay legislators $30,000 a year. top agenda item will be raising pay for legislators so normal people can afford to serve. as soon as i achieve that i will resign to live with my model wives on a yacht
I don't think a break-up will release ad dollars and I don't think the ad money will go back to local journalism
I am rooting for all of these ventures but like, times are just not very good for people in general, and donations rely on the community having disposable income in the first place.
I am concerned about longterm viability in a declining economy. It was already dicy when the economy was good. It's also hard to fundraise in less dense and less affluent areas. National prestige journalism has a better pitch, better reach.
