There were 200? I understand that is exactly the lowest genetic pool limit for avoiding unsustainable inbreeding. They are likely dying off, if not already gone.
You've spoken well and made some good points supporting your position. They make sense, assuming your point of view. But if you look from a little farther away you'll see how misguided that view point even is.
I'll make an analogy. You're complaining that Ukraine is punching and kicking you. "Why does it hit me" you say, "I'm not the one forcing myself on her! I'm only holding her hands down while Putin and the oligarchs take turns. It should only kick them!"
If your position is that "you're suffering too and wish you weren't" when your countrymen, your work, your taxes, your silence all support the raping and killing of your neighbors (and even family, you say) you're already starting from the wrong position.
Ok, I see. I don't like that approach, myself. It feels like a short term gain that would turn negative in the long term, when nothing has credibility anymore.
First time I heard of that and it would be strange for a buyer to become a supplier. "Everyone is saying it." Are you trying to muddy the waters with fake rumors?
This is not a one-round game. Elections happen repeatedly. If you show someone you will punish them for bad behavior even at cost to yourself, it might teach them to change their ways. On the other hand, always minimizing your losses in the current round (i.e. having no memory or vision) makes you a perfectly predictable and exploitable player.
What we're talking about is a game between two players: democrats and their potential voters. It is totally a valid strategy in game theory to punish the other player when they're not cooperating. If you're always cooperating even when your opponent (i.e. your preferred political party) isn't, you're just encouraging them to continue to not cooperate.
That's not how it works. Using that logic voting for Himmler would be the right thing to do because at least they're one step less awful than Hitler. Fucking demand that Himmler change his ways or a better candidate is allowed to run.
A lot of countries have political theater instead of actual politics, but the US is really deep into it.
Aside from the actual effect of the resumption of rare earth exports, Trump’s apparent priority given to the issue signals to Beijing just how reliant the U.S. is on China in this regard — something that would not have gone unnoticed by Xi.
Xi never came calling
Just one day before the June 5 call, Trump wrote on social media: “I like President XI of China, always have, and always will, but he is VERY TOUGH, AND EXTREMELY HARD TO MAKE A DEAL WITH!!!”
His conversation with the Chinese leader would have further reinforced Xi’s tough image — not just for a Chinese audience, but for international observers as well.
This was certainly encouraged by how China described the call. According to China’s official statement, Xi “took a phone call from U.S. President Donald J. Trump” – the subtle implication being that it was Trump who initiated the call.
This framing promotes the idea that Xi holds the upper hand. The Chinese statement also highlighted that the Geneva talks were “at the suggestion of the U.S. side,” implying that China did not back down in the face of Trump’s trade pressure — and that it was Trump who ultimately blinked first.
It goes on with lots of interesting details. Worth the read.
Sleep paralysis demons are hallucinations experienced during sleep paralysis, a condition where the body is temporarily paralyzed, often during the transition between sleep and wakefulness.
So what's the joke here, that for some people the experience is pleasant in a sexually deviant kind of way?
I get the impression this is a video-only thing because you need multiple vantage points of the scene. You can still extract a single frame in the end of course (like the article itself does), but you'll need to shift around meaningful distances, like attack submarines do with Target Motion Analysis.
There were 200? I understand that is exactly the lowest genetic pool limit for avoiding unsustainable inbreeding. They are likely dying off, if not already gone.