In wind rich Alberta our incompetent nutjob of a Premier has decreed that you can't build a windfarm within 35 kilometres of pristine viewscapes.
If you're wondering was a "pristine viewscape" is you're not alone. But I'm guessing the definition depends on whether you're buddies with the Premier or not.
Here's a good place to queue up my favorite quote"
"You're entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts."
And in case you haven't noticed, the media doesn't thrive on telling people something's fine. The thrive on "oh shit" stories.
lol!
for the crew that's about to take a ride.
Or do I have my spaceships mixed up?
You are assuming that 3% takes away from Biden. While RFK Jr lists himself as independent, he is a full right-wing conspiracy nutjob on many things. This aligns him more with Trump supporters than Biden supporters.
More fundamentally, RFK Jr appeals to the "burn it all down" folks who are looking to blow up the current system, which is one of Trump's core appeals.
To the extent that Trump has managed to get support from some traditionally left-wing folks RFJ Jr might just be the left wing nut (depending on the issue) who draws them back.
There is an increasing public perception that law and order is circling the drain, especially in urban areas. The rise of vigilante behavior isn't particularly surprising when there are a large number of people who don't feel like the government is doing an adequate job of protecting them from criminals.
Except these aren't vigilantes. They aren't running around trying to be Batman catching criminals. They're (incompetently) organizing and training their own private armies for a future military conflict.
The goal isn't to stop crime, the goal is to have that private army ready for when there's a civil war and/or anarchy. If that happens you're in a position to play power broker by joining the fight, or maybe even rule your own little region if government really collapses like in the post-apocalyptic stories.
They're nuttier than a bag of squirrels, but that is the general thinking.
These are the dumb ones. The ones who actually have OPSEC are scary. That was the McVeigh thing in a nutshell.
I'm not worried about the LARPers directly, but my worry is this kind of coordination helps them promote and normalize extremism, and that can radicalize the scary ones. For instance, a few of these nutters showed up to the Jan 6th protests and generally wandered around confused once they got in the building. Having watched that are a few folks with OPSEC going to show up to the next Jan 6th with a real plan to do real damage in place?
And before everyone gets too hot and bothered about the topic, my sister got killed in the Murrah building, working the recruiting station there. In fact, you can find pictures of me in most of those 1995 picture books from OKC.
I'm sorry for your loss.
The gubbermint has access to that. So, any organizing they do in FB winds up on the desk of the FBI team designated to monitor them.
I'm always surprised to find out how many militias already have an embedded FBI agent, and how many hillbilly terrorists adopt an accomplice who turns out to be an agent.
Why do you suppose people feel this way, when crime rates have been dropping in most of the United States for years, especially in urban areas?
Because a certain political party doesn't have a platform, and thus need a boogey man to run against.
Even if it's just made up.
Uh... ignore the scaremongering politicians and search for "us crime rate by year".
Are you saying the government only gets bigger under Democrats?
I must admit I'm enjoying watching totalizing morality absolutely break your mind's attempt to make your world view and your basic biological impulses cohere in some way, any way. You're now down to straight up demanding an answer if I have children or not, because you need to know if you can just dismiss me outright for not having them.
You're not breaking anything, you're just playing dumb games and going on weird rants.
Here's the fundamental issue with your argument, whether you have children or not.
You're making strong assumptions about other people's situations and circumstances and then making strong judgments based on those assumptions.
And realistically, I don't think you have had children because even your attentiveness argument doesn't really reflect the reality of children. Every parent has been actively watching their kid crawl along and then seen the hand suddenly shoot into their mouth holding whatever they just grabbed.
That's not avoidable with attentiveness. And yes, you should make sure no batteries or anything else dangerous is laying on the floor. But you can't spend all day peaking under chairs and couches. The solution is to reduce the number of dangerous things that could fall on the floor, making safer batteries is a way to do this.
Why does DeSantis hate the free market? If lab grown meat is so disgusting then consumers won't buy it and the problem takes care of itself.
Because no one actually cares about markets.
The left cares about creating equality. You think Communist revolutionaries (the ideological ones, not the power grabbers) cared about economic theory? They thought they were having a revolution in favour of equality (spoiler alert: didn't work out so well). The anti-free market stuff was because markets allowed a lot of power to accumulate with the rich, but the modern left as figured out that it's far better to work with and regulate free markets than to try and destroy them.
The right cares about creating order. And nothing creates order like a strong leader with the power to act. That's why they loved free markets, because behind each business was a strong owner giving clear directions. But then businesses started taking directions from various internal committees and there no longer seems to be those strong leaders with the power to call the shots (at least in the way they like it). So now it's the job of the strong leader in government to step in and right the course.
Just look at how the right is enamoured with Trump. It's not because of his policies or managerial ability. It's because he clearly doesn't take direction from anyone and therefore qualifies as a "strong leader".
It's also why DeSantis is a complete dud, everyone can see this stuff is transparent politicking and nothing says "strong leader" less than a weathervane.
is EVERYTHING a "Industrial Complex" with you conspiracy nuts?
Yeah, we call this one Big Meat.
I mean, or, you know, teach your kids to not eat everything they put their hands on?
You taught your baby not to shove things in their mouth? Please share your revolutionary child rearing techniques.
I never "childproofed" anything in my house. None of those stupid little plugs in the outlets, no doors locked shut, no protective edge covers on every hard surface. We taught our kids that some things are dangerous and shouldn't be messed with. Don't run in the house or you'll crack your head, don't touch the stove because you'll burn yourself, etc etc.
There's two kinds of danger. The "Ow! This hurts! Don't do it again!", that's hard corners and stoves. And there's "oops, you're dead", that's power outlets and eating batteries.
I'm glad your kids made it, but your not socket covers didn't teach your kids anything, you're just fortunate they never managed to shove something in before they were old enough to know better.
My parents (and my wife's parents) taught us the same way and we are fine in our 40s. My kids are teenagers now, still no problems.
So your sample size of what, 4-6 people, proves that it's safe?
"But what we need to know is, do people want nasally-insertable computers?"
