We actually are not. Trump's ICE raids might look tough to some, but the number of deported people hasn't significantly increased. There are about 15k deportations per month, and at this rate it'll take a _decade_ to make a dent in the overall illegal immigrant population.

A drone can fly just a few meters above the ground, out of LoS of the turret. There's talk of using laser turrets against drones themselves, though.

But there's even more, Ukraine now launches "carrier drones" that can autonomously fly for about 300 kilometers deep into the Russian territory and release a swarm of smaller attack drones. And this contraption costs less than 1 HIMARS missile. It can even be remotely controlled through cellular Internet, Russia is trying to combat this by literally switching off all the mobile networks if these drones are detected. Not that it'll help in the long run, it's trivially easy to stick something like a Starlink antenna on the carrier.

What's the difference? When somebody moves closer, this can be only enabled (to the first approximation) by increasing the housing density. And supporting this has been the policy of Democrats/liberals for quite a while (YIMBY, "Stronk Cities", "15 minute concentration camps", "walkable neighborhoods", etc).

Sorry, but you're wrong. The J-curve (and ESPECIALLY if multiple children are considered) clearly shows the correlation. It's published, peer reviewed science.

The tip the J-curve does not reach the height of the other pole, that's what gives it the name.

No, you neglected to even look at the meaning of the term. Never mind putting it into Google and reading the papers.

And yes, the cause is THAT simple: housing. We have more than enough of it, but the toxic urbanisation made a large portion of it useless.

Economic forces, what else?

Urbanism resulted in runaway growth of large cities. Companies in large city cores have a competitive advantage because they have access to a larger workforce pool. This in turn incentivizes people to move closer to large cities, closing the vicious loop.

There were several vaccines, but given the disease's rarity they are not used anymore.

And? Trump won the popular vote this time, not just the electoral college.

The unrelenting press on suburbs and small cities caused by larger cities accreting population results in economic misery. And people vote somebody who is not trying to force people to cram into cities.

Pretty much. Utter horror.

That's why the so-called 15-minute neighborhoods in Europe look like vasectomy preserves.

Can you read my comment, please? The argument is called "reverse J-curve" for a freaking reason. There are two poles of high fertility: desperately poor people, and happy content people.

It IS that simple. The Democratic war on suburbs and insistence on cramming people into ever-smaller shoeboxes (called "urbanism") is going to kill the democracy. It has already given us Trump.

There is. It's called "reverse J-curve". It's even more apparent when you check not just fertility, but the number of families with two or more children. You can reasonably raise one child in a city, but once you have two children, all the anti-human design of modern cities (war on cars, bike lanes, road diets, lax law enforcement) becomes glaringly obvious.

I wouldn't hold my breath for any inquiries. They would be held by corrupt Texas authorities and/or by malicious federal officials. But a lawsuit with a strong discovery phase is going to be illuminating.

The NWS was issuing multiple warnings, and a person with knowledge of local details would have had a chance to raise the local authorities.

We even know the _name_ of the person who would have been responsible for coordinating the alerts with local authorities: Paul Yura ( https://www.kxan.com/weather/w... )

This is incorrect. Turns out, that the person responsible for getting alerts to Texas officials left the NWS earlier this year ( https://www.pressreader.com/us... ), taking the early retirement option. And he was not replaced because changing positions makes you a "temporary" employee, and thus eligible for termination.

This is a rare case where we can pinpoint the EXACT sequence starting with Trump's decisions and ending with innocent deaths.

There are _no_ proven attacks of orcas on humans in the wild. In one case, an orca was documented doing wild contortions to avoid hitting a human, after it started an attack run, possibly mistaking the human for a seal.

They do attack boats, though.