Also this very doxxable info btw

I lead a rather public life. I'm okay with it.

To be fair, making judges elected rather than appointed is like, the one thing that I think Texas governance got right.

For electronic voting machines at least, the write-in candidates are on a separate screen but don’t typically require actually hand-writing in the names; you just select the write-in candidate like you would any other.

LOL JUST KIDDING. Here in the grand old state of Texas at least, they force you to manually type in the write-in candidates, despite already having a list of approved write-ins available that they could add as buttons like they do for the other candidates. AND they don't list the party affiliations for the write-in candidates either.

But hey: this is bourgeois democracy, folks.

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As a back-of-the-envelope calculation? When at least a third of the populace, and half of the military ranks, have enthusiastically endorsed socialism over capitalism. There are no shortcuts. Jumping straight to firebombing a military base is adventurism.

Thankfully, the PSL is not deluded enough to be engaging in "revolutionary electoralism." Their candidacy is viewed firstly as a party-building effort (rather than a direct path to proletarian power) and secondly as a mechanism for heightening the contradictions inherent to bourgeois democracy: that the Republicans and Democrats worked together to kick them off the ballot in swing states -- Pennsylvania and Georgia -- serves to underscore the futility of bourgeois democracy and prime the public for a proletarian alternative.

For electronic voting machines at least, the write-in candidates are on a separate screen but don't typically require actually hand-writing in the names; you just select the write-in candidate like you would any other.

We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market. But taking on controversial topics because we believe they make the internet better for all of us is a key feature of Mozilla’s history. And that willingness to take on the hard things, even when not universally accepted, is exactly what the internet needs today.

But you're not doing the hard things. You're doing the easy thing. Capitulation to surveillance capitalism is the easy thing.

Dover: it's either a breeze or completely inscrutable.

Holy shit that's fuckin' awesome XD

I don’t regularly wear a kippah but even if I did, I’m not looking to antagonize. I strongly believe in no political anythings at work, even things that the majority deem inoffensive like pride pins or whatever.

I strongly believe in no political anythings at work

no political anythings at work

Work. Is. Political.

Not me standing at the driveway to my polling center with a signature PSL sign (our signs really are the best; call us Professional Signs League the way we be pissing off interns that have to censor our signs before putting them on their articles and videos and ads).

The radlibs outed themselves the day Joe Biden had a good day on super tuesday 2020.

It wasn't so much Joe Biden having a good day as it was Obama, making all the calls necessary for the other neolibs to fall in line (and perhaps for the other "progressive" to stay in the race).

Turning to Taiwan this is the opposite, it would be a very concentrated battle and anti-drone systems should be more effective simply because its a smaller area.

China already achieved military superiority over the US and the conflict will be decided over naval superiority by destroying or even damaging the US carrier fleet. In fact I do like the theory sinking a US carrier would be far worse than 9/11 for the average population and internal US politics, although perhaps that would mean accepting a WW3.

I don't know how an attack on Taiwan by America would even work without dragging the whole region into the conflict. America's industrial "base" is several thousand miles away from the battlefield. They'd have to be operating from friendly neighboring countries to even have a chance of keeping up a fight, much less winning it.

"in the highest exalted way"

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8g4d-rnhuSg

Rent. Fucking. Free.

AOC's claim: The green party is "not serious" and is "predatory"

For a "not serious" party, they've garnered more ballot access than any other option. I'd say AOC is worried precisely because the green party is serious. And "predatory"? That's big pot-kettle energy. The "predation" from the greens boils down to "gee, it sure sucks that the Democrats won't abandon literal genocide to earn your vote."

This isn't the first time that the PSL's signs have been blurred out by media outlets covering protests.

How are you proposing to run society, get food, healthcare, education, have roads, clean water, internet connectivity, power, law, and all the other things that make it possible for you to express yourself here today?

The party in question (PSL) actually has taken a stab at what their vision of the first ten years of a socialist United States would look like:

https://1804books.com/products/socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future

I think if there was something else major in meat that we were missing this study would have shown it.

That's fair enough. Not all nutrient deficiencies have acute presentations, and the seven indicators of illness may not account for all the ways nutrient deficiencies could present, but if the crowd shrieking about animal cruelty was right in its hyperbolic hypothesis, then it would be likely for at least one of those seven indicators to get tripped.

READ THE STUDY!

No need to shout. I did.

So you’re saying that vegan cats had roughly the same health as non vegan cats

No. That is not what the study is saying. The study is saying that "we took a look, and couldn't tell if there was a difference or not." Which is understandable, given the methodology. Internet-based questionnaires/surveys are easy to conduct, but tend to have big error bars. It's a common trade-off made when first beginning to investigate a hypothesis.

It's your typical "absence of evidence" versus "evidence of absence" conundrum. The authors note this in their comments on the limitations of their study and on avenues for further research:

As we’ve noted previously [30], large-scale cross-sectional or ideally, longitudinal studies of cats maintained on different diets, utilising objective data, such as results of veterinary clinical examinations and laboratory data, as well as veterinary medical histories, should yield results of greater reliability, if sufficient funding could be sourced.

and we’re not destroying our planet in industrial livestock murder. Sounds great!

Comrade, I'm not trying to argue that cats are "obligate carnivores," or that cats should or should not have vegan diets. I'm not arguing about whether or not cats can meet their nutritional needs from vegan diets. I am only stating that the particular study linked does not provide any usable evidence in support of a conclusion. That's literally what "no reductions were statistically significant" means: that the collected data is not sufficient to draw reliable conclusions.

Other studies may very well have more rigorous methodologies that convincingly demonstrate the nutritional completeness of vegan diets for cats. But not this study.