The respect from you and your country is undesirable, unnecessary, weightless, unimportant, and of no concern. Worry about your own problems. I'm sure you hail from utopia, right? 99% of us literally don't give a shit about you or your opinions nor do we need to. But, have a nice day while you're crying about the internal politics of a country you've never lived in and don't understand at all.

As far as dark money goes, I find it amusing how many posts from the far left (most of slashdot users these days) either go full on whataboutism or worse, declare it a good thing that money from unknown and likely foreign sources is being used to try to influence our politics because uh Orange Man Bad! Fuck running the country without the ugly influence of anonymous donors, foreign state actors, agenda driven billionaires and other trash. We just gotta WIN! BEAT THE ORANGE MAN! REEEEEE!!!!!!!

Both funny and sad.

For the tiny number of you who didn't go that route and tried to explain to the psychos how all of this is bad no matter who is funding it and no matter who it goes to and no matter for what cause, thank you. I was both happy and surprised to see some familiar names on the far left here saying something intelligent and wise for once.

Thanks, I needed a good laugh.

Russia is way past "partisan gap". They tried that. Didn't work. The left wing didn't bite.

"It says EU laws -- which have sought to make it easier for smaller firms to compete with big tech -- have resulted in some Apple features and enhancements being delayed for European users"

Restrictions are not features for users, despite many hostages' Stockholm syndromes to the contrary.

"So unless your sport involve ZERO upper and lower body strength, it makes sense to separate sports by sex"

Per your own logic this is based on the importance of strength only. Therefore this assertion only makes sense if it's a sport where dexterity cannot make up for strength.

You don't know what Ad Hominem is.

It is NOT insulting people.

It is where you say an idea is wrong because someone said it. It may also be accompanied by an insult to attempt to support the argument.

When someone says only an idiot would believe something and then explains why, that is not Ad Hominem. It's just an argument with an insult next to it.

Feel free to object to the insult, but don't make shit up.

You can get sales figures for bookstores from their SEC filings. a quick Google shows library traffic is easy to find too and it's been declining. I don't think I need to remind everyone to State a bookstores in America.

Don't think it's that it was them being lazy I think it's that the stuff you are talking about is already known so they wanted to do a proper survey.

There is nothing wrong with a self-reporting survey as long as your data set is large enough and representative enough. I haven't read the study though so not sure how good this one is. But again given what we know about the state of bookstores and libraries it's likely to be correct.

When Tim pool got outed as a Russian asset. Tucker Carlson too but I mean at that point we already knew it was just getting formalized.

And there were a couple dozen other popular right wing YouTubers and pundits who got caught taking hundreds of thousands of dollars directly from Russia State media without disclosing it.

I'm not really calling out right wing hypocrisy because the right wing is completely incapable of the emotions of shame and self-awareness that are associated with hypocrisy.

I mostly just wanted to remind everyone that right wing media is a Russian state-owned operation and if you are consuming it you are consuming media that is an enemy of your country. Might as well just boot up some old Soviet TV at that point.

Every time I see a flood of press attacking the Democrat party I can be sure the Republican party just did something especially nasty.

The hard part is there is so much nastiness right now I can't pick one. There's the fake Epstein file release where they just released a bunch of files everyone already had and acted like everything is good. There is the attempts to distract from the big beautiful bill by renaming it. There is Trump's rapidly declining health and clear signs of senality that even our news media can't sane wash ..

And things are moving so fast it's possible I missed something.

Especially kids. My kid had orders of magnitude more homework than I did. And when they went to college it was just nuts.

businesses don't want to train and they have deep pockets so they went to the government and they took over the school boards and they changed things. They basically added a ton of on the job style training to college education.

They didn't want to pay for that at the high school level so they just heaped on tons of homework.

I've said this before but when my kid was in high school it was not uncommon for me to get up to go piss at midnight and find them still doing homework. Parents complained and in their senior year it backed off a little bit but just a little bit.

That's one of the defining aspects of my life. Big business and Rich assholes will make my life a fuck of a lot worse and me and everybody complains and they back off a little but when they're done we're worse off because we never get back what we lost.

It would be better to recycle the plastic, to sequester it, or to convert it to something that doesn't release those gases but can be used by us in some way.

I've had lambic, no clue on whether it was authentic or not, I didn't enjoy it though. But I still don't think it's bad, it's just not for me.

At least in landfill it means most of the greenhouse gasses are trapped. Turning it into fuel means they will end up in the atmosphere. Also the associated general pollution.

I remember when the mask thing came up how many Trumpers parroted the idea that no person could breathe with them. This despite decades of people using them and miraculously living. Of course they always asked for "proof" that people could breathe. I listed doctors especially surgeons, dentists for decades. Most recently nail technicians and commercial painters. That does not include people who work in industrial settings where masks are required.

Well that is a lie. The Saturn V payload was 140,000 kg or 155 short tons to LEO and 50 tons to lunar orbit. So, yes, the Saturn V could bring 140 tons to orbit.

That is a lot of words to confirm that vehicle is not currently ready for commercial payloads and will not be in the near future. Current payloads are worth tens of millions, and no one is trusting that to this vehicle.