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[Artificial Intelligence \(AI\) engines based on Large Language Models \(LLM\),](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/technology/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-bing-bard-llm.html) such as [ChatGPT,](https://chat-gpt.org/) have gotten quite good at imitating human writing and are increasingly popular. However, they have a [problem with truthfulness.](https://www.wired.com/story/review-ai-chatbots-bing-bard-chat-gpt/) r/NeutralPolitics was [created specifically to introduce a kind of truthfulness](https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/comments/4cxvz1/meta_neutralpolitics_origins_and_purpose/) — evidence-based discussion — to the online political realm. At the time, a [few simple rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/wiki/guidelines#wiki_comment_rules) to remain civil and require qualified sources were usually sufficient to keep things on track. For those of you who caught our April Fool's post, you know that the ability to artificially generate a reasonable-sounding response to queries, but with false information and fake links, is now only a few clicks away. So, today we're asking the users how the mods should deal with the increasing prevalence of low cost, convincing and deceptive AI in this forum. How should we make sure the quality of discussion here remains high? — r/NeutralPolitics mod team

​ https://preview.redd.it/jfzufydc2e3b1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=03eff19a05598b90c8d6d85b70017a52ba15bb04 Translation: First, they claim that they just want to end fake news Then, they put a stamp of fake news in every truth that bothers them Context: Last year, during Brazil's elections, the Superior Electoral Court forbade people from associating Lula with Maduro and Ortega, then after he won, he not only invited Maduro, but gave him a welcoming visit, proving even more that they were always friends. Showing that in the end, you can do a meta fake news, claiming something is fake news, when it isn't, and silencing truths.

Got it from this clip here: [https://twitter.com/i/status/1686199526670151681](https://twitter.com/i/status/1686199526670151681) If you campaign in New Hampshire, any votes that you get in Georgia wont count either. His name won't appear in Georgia either. This just seems insanely corrupt, how is this allowed what is the legal basis?

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I don't care what team they're on, I'm just curious if this is a topic any of the candidates have been talking about. I feel like a candidate with a good plan to fix housing affordability could win a lot of votes.

Facebook is lost. I gave up on it a while ago. Just a cesspool of Trumpism and oldposting. Best just to move on.

I feel you! I err on the side of assuming they’ve been a bit brainwashed, I’ll even play along and find some small part I agree with. A good example is I’m non-binary/trans myself, and some of my relatives are very republican - if a relative expresses anti-trans, I’ll throw in “yeah, those xenogender people ARE quite crazy, I have no problem with real trans people though.” Sometimes that will convince them to be supportive of me down the line, and save a relationship.

It always amuses me when people think it's the Deep State behind any perceived election fraud. How little they know.

Do you know Belarus did accepted some the Iraqis and Syrians in 2021 and Ukrainians in 2022, why not poland? Why does Uk Canada and America accept Ukrainian refugees then? "Thousands of migrants remain in Belarus," https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/belarus-says-it-has-helped-more-than-100-migrants-fly-to-home-countries "According to the Government of Belarus, as of 21 February 2023 there are 20,536 Ukrainian refugees registered in the country" https://belarus.un.org/en/221414-united-nations-agencies-belarus-jointly-respond-ukrainian-refugees%E2%80%99-crisis "United States has been a vocal critic of alleged Russian violations in Ukraine and has admitted tens of thousands of Ukrainian war refugees, it expelled more than 25,000 Haitians"https://www.rferl.org/a/amnesty-international-rights-report-ukraine-russia-war-double-standards/32337265.html

An [October 19 article in the Economist](https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/10/19/as-israels-invasion-of-gaza-nears-the-obstacles-get-more-daunting) reads: "In the end the best Mr Biden could do was secure an Israeli pledge not to obstruct aid deliveries and an Egyptian one to let 20 trucks a day into Gaza." This seems to imply that Egypt is limiting aid to 20 trucks per day, while Israel wants to allow unlimited aid via the Egyptian border. On the other hand, [this October 21 article in the Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/21/israel-hamas-war-aid-trucks-enter-gaza-egypt-rafah-border-crossing-opens) reads: "The Rafah crossing point between Egypt and Gaza has finally opened to allow in a trickle of aid for the first time in two weeks, after intense negotiations involving the US, Israel, Egypt and the UN... Under the US-brokered agreement, only 20 trucks are being allowed in on Saturday, deliveries from the Egyptian Red Crescent to the Palestinian Red Crescent organisation." This seems to say that Israel and the UN were parties to the agreement, but it says nothing about which parties were pushing to allow more aid and which parties sought to limit it. What accounts for the Economist's statement that Egypt is the party limiting aid? Is there a primary or more detailed secondary source to illuminate this question?

Posting in a couple different subreddits, as I don't know which is the best place to get an answer. I've been looking for books, papers, or scholarly articles about modern Ukranian history to get a better understanding of current events. Basically anything more substantial than 5-minute summaries on CNN or the like. Does anyone have recommendations? Specifically looking to learn more about the Donbas war and the Revolution of Dignity, but I'll take anything you guys think is relevant. A few sources I've looked at so far: an [interview](https://jacobin.com/2023/02/wolfgang-sporrer-interview-ukraine-war-diplomacy-minsk-agreements) with Wolfgang Sporrer from the beginning of the current invasion (concerning the Minsk Agreements) and a [report](https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1400/RR1498/RAND_RR1498.pdf) done by the Rand Corperation analyzing the annexation of Crimea. Also read the Wikipedia article on the Euromaiden protests. Not sure how good these sources are though - this is very much a new field of study for me.

[Gaza](https://www.reddit.com/r/t5_9og38d/s/yDzvxcFcKW)

*** ######*25th September 2027;* And so the country wept. They had lost what they had loved for so long, so long ago. They had lost their liberty a while ago. They had nothing to lose. Thus, the weeping turned from blue to crimson. The crimson spread through the streets, and extinguished the cries of the peaceable. *** *** *** It was a rare bout of travelling that Thomas Stewart faced on the 25th, as he had done so for many other a day. From his base in the TUL right back in Carlisle, Thomas had found himself a good job - he was a part of the museum attached, a new specialist in Roman history, with some very decent depth in the subject. The job had been his since he was just 20, and for all that had changed in the world, his area of expertise was little different. Archaeology had been quite stagnant for some time now, the holidays were over in most places so he could afford to be off and not upset anyone else at the museum, and finally, his TUL was not the most up-to-date place on the worlds’ stage. All that he could do now was to travel. Thus, Thomas had travelled, and had travelled far, taking care to log everything that he had learnt within a small notebook, A5-sized, which fit right into the pockets of his coat. Many of the places he had just travelled through were quite warm - Uruguay, Bonaire, the Philippines, Namibia, and Turkey, to name a few places. Only Finland was in any way cold, and he chanced upon visiting Vaasa right as it had reached a hot August. Meanwhile, the boulevards of Paris held a chilled air, one in which you could almost see your breath, as the night closed in on the global city. Temperatures had already plummeted to 5C, and were set to get even lower elsewhere in France. This voyage in France was not meant to be a short one - S-J-90 was a complex world that really required quite complex analysis, because it was unclear which event had caused such divergence from the standardised timeline. Perhaps it was simply who got into power, where? Thomas could easily see, with a quick internet search using a computer library (thankfully quite omnipresent in the larger cities) what had gone on, and the single thing that seemed off was… Bougainville. The good old island had already declared independence, and the scale of affairs there was so radical and so mesmerising that the traveller did wish for more time before the gales rolled in to get all the way there. Sadly, he was almost out of currency, his Prevy was running low on its battery pack that hailed from Kortrijk, and Thomas only learnt of the conclusion of the divergence the day before. A shame. He did like S-J-90, and it was to be placed as an ‘area for recommendation’, but that was if the place was stable enough; Thomas’s main job was really to check where exactly was stable, metastable, and unstable, and so it seemed as if he could check the ‘stable’ option off where he stood. It was not like his previous work in Turkey - the walls caved in on the tear mere hours after his designated messenger declined the inquest to join him at TUL, a real shame because a Turkish Cypriot was hard to find with excellent English comprehension. That was a missed opportunity. Thomas just could not make the most of every event. He looked at his ChronoChroma. 2219 hailed the time for Paris, with Kortrijk showing 1625. At Thomas glanced at the watch, the heavens opened from above. Great lashes of rain fell right upon the poor traveller, standing right near the open, and so he decided to undertake a mission - find shelter. Luckily, Thomas was close to a sandwich shop, so stepped right into the doorway to wait it out. To be named the ‘L’Assiette du Voyeageur’, or as the Prevy put it, ‘The Traveller’s Plate’ was just one of those coincidences, but they were not open. They had boarded-up windows, with the front door featuring a ‘we’re still open’ sign as if they had been damaged in a war. It was not like anything out of other Frances that Thomas had seen whilst on his travels, as their boulevards usually contained scam artists, not political riots. And yet, that was what the city presented Thomas, in its full and entire force. In learning of the news, it had become apparent that a lot was changing within France. Firstly, in its Presidential elections, it was Melenchon who had triumphed over Le Pen, but by only a margin of 3%, in a vote where over 20% of votes were just blank. That did not even factor into the extremely-low turnout for the elections - just 54% had voted of the eligible, and only 41% had even voted at all. For a second-round, that was rough. Then came the legislative elections - a near-wipeout for the centre. Ensemble, or Macron’s old party, was down to barely 80 seats, and anything normal or ordinary seemed to only ward *away* voters. Le Pen got 170 seats, Melenchon got 150 seats, Darmanin had got 110, and even Zemmour made it up to 50. Whilst Melenchon had kept Borne in for the short interim period, with Ensemble just in a coalition with the NUEPS now, the new results threw spanners in every work, and it showed. Now, the Melenchon people were going to push through the creation of a new 6th French Republic, and this stirred up the hornet’s nest called S-J-90 France. Thomas could hardly count the number of angry people in groups of colour, waving around angry cocktails shouting angry words at other angry people, as well as the Gendarmerie. He did regard the prospect of being caught up in any of these rallies as dangerous, with his own accent (Thomas needed not the Prevy for speaking here, being lucky to at least know enough French for conversationals) being quite… English. Those English had shown a good middle finger or two to the whole EU back in 2020, got caught in a slight bit of bother, and then legged it to reasonability with a new government - quite unrealistic in Thomas’s mind, but that was what the article stated anyways. It was AP, it was probably fine enough. Still, he kept to the streets at odder hours, and so was caught out in a September shower at… 2219 & 1625 at last check. That seemed a while ago. Thus, Thomas checked again. 2225, and 1656. That was not right at all. That was incorrect separation. 5-51 had gone now to 5-29. That was a bad sign. This was instability in its most obscure face. Thomas just now had to escape Paris, and brave the biting rain. He took off at once, hunted for the Metro, found the Pasteur, and took Line 6 right towards Nation. Strasbourg was now the only goal to get to. The water fell all around, and made the city a river. All the waters flowed towards, was the death of an eternity. ***

On March 1, 2023, FBI Director Wray claimed that "the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in Wuhan” with moderate confidence, affirming the Dept. of Energy’s low confidence assessment of the same conclusion Four other intelligence agencies believe animal transmission was the source, while two others are unsure. Discussion of COVID-19 origins aside, what is the precedent for an intelligence agency commenting on the origins of a global public health event? What political actions ,if any, were taken following such a comment? If there are such cases, what was the domestic and intentional response of the accused countries ? Sources : [https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/energy-dept-reignites-bitter-covid-origin-debate-with-shaky-lab-leak-stance/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/energy-dept-reignites-bitter-covid-origin-debate-with-shaky-lab-leak-stance/) [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/01/covid-19-lab-leak-christopher-wray/11372746002/](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/01/covid-19-lab-leak-christopher-wray/11372746002/) [https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fbi-director-says-china-lab-leak-likely-caused-covid-pandemic-2023-03-01/](https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/fbi-director-says-china-lab-leak-likely-caused-covid-pandemic-2023-03-01/)

According to official media, late Monday night Israeli airstrikes on the Aleppo region of north Syria resulted in the death of one soldier, the injury of seven persons, including two civilians, and the closure of the airport. A military source cited by state news agency SANA said, "the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with several missiles... targeting Aleppo international airport and a number of sites in the vicinity of Aleppo" at around 11:35 p.m. (2035 GMT). According to SANA, "material losses" were reported along with "Aleppo airport was put out of service" and that "a soldier was killed and seven people, including two civilians, were injured." A munitions store caught fire as a result of "a number of explosions in the area of Aleppo international airport and the Nayrab military airfield in Aleppo province," according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. According to the British war monitor, "heavy material damage at both airports." Furthermore, it stated that "Israeli missiles fell on defense factories in the Safireh area" of Aleppo province, "causing material damage." Israel has conducted hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian territory over the course of the country's more than ten-year conflict, mostly focusing on Iranian-backed troops, Lebanese Hezbollah combatants, and Syrian army locations. Israel has frequently stated it will not permit its arch-enemy Iran to expand its influence in the conflict-torn nation, despite the fact that it rarely remarks on the strikes it conducts on Syria. Due to their crucial ground assistance in the army's 2016 recapture of rebel-held areas of the city, Iran-backed militias are heavily present in the Aleppo region. The Observatory said at the time that on March 22, an Israeli missile strike at Aleppo Airport damaged what was believed to be an armaments store used by militias supported by Iran. Authorities claimed that the raid rendered the airport inoperable. On March 7, an Israeli attack on the airport resulted in the deaths of three individuals and the suspension of air travel.

QAnon are a bunch of idiots, but progressives should question why the DSA has this statement on their website regarding the war in Ukraine: >DSA reaffirms our call for the US to withdraw from NATO and to end the imperialist expansionism that set the stage for this conflict. While they rightfully condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine the DSA then goes on to promote the above Russian propaganda/narratives. Progressives should look internally to root out their own disinformation.

I was listening to a talk about authoritarian personality and the speaker did bring this topic up, and how studies have borne out that it is, in fact, a thing. What I'm trying to wrap my head around is what that would actually look like. From my very (left-leaning) biased, American perspective, how can you be "authoritarian" about freedom? The term alone brings up images of right-wingers thinking that, say, a trans person asking to be called by their chosen name and appropriate pronouns is some kind of controlling, authoritarian demand. Or that the left demands lockstep conformity and obedience, as evidenced by how much they'll cancel you for saying that something demonstrated by science doesn't exist, or generally treating some group or another as subhuman. Basically calling the left "authoritarian" because they don't approve of calling people slurs On a more reasonable level, I could see stuff like socialist revolutions, violent protests, or just hyper-PC SJW types (the kind of split hairs over minor nonsense that benefits no one) as actual examples. Could a rigidly environmentally-conscious society be a left-wing dystopia, for example? Strict controls on what you can and can't do or have, but rooted in presumed "safety" rather than morality? Or maybe the WEF's infamous "you will have nothing and be happy", as left-wing authoritarian? The studies I skimmed as I'm not smart enough to read them, suggest that LWA applies when a person scores high on authoritarian traits for left-aligned positions only. So, what, supporting legislation to mitigate climate change makes you authoritarian? If so, now what? Sorry for the ramble. I feel like when we talk about RWA, many people have an image or two in their mind of the type of person, their beliefs and behavior, and how it's problematic. I'm trying to understand how that genuinely works from the left wing side.

Images from Odesa in Ukraine this morning after an overnight enemy attack.

>An economic indicator the Federal Reserve favors as an inflation gauge rose less than expected in August, showing that the central bank’s fight against higher prices is making progress The personal consumption expenditures price index excluding food and energy increased 0.1% for the month, lower than the expected 0.2% gain from the Dow Jones consensus of economists, the Commerce Department reported Friday. On a 12-month basis, the annual increase for core PCE was 3.9%, matching the forecast. Well that’s just great but it feels like inflation is out of this world. I literally just went to the grocery store and bought 5 apples, 5 pears, 4 tomatoes, and 7 bananas and it cost me $24. None that was expensive organic either. That’s like maybe 2500 calories worth of food so a little over a day worth of food for an adult. Eating that for a month (assuming 2000 calories per day) would cost me about $600 which is insane as 2 years ago I‘d live off of less than half of that amount.

Greetings, r/GlobalPowers. As I am sure you've all figured out by now, the Mod Team has formally voted to **end Season 19 of r/GlobalPowers.** For administrative purposes, the last day will be this upcoming Monday/META Day—04/12/2023. At that point we'll have a two week Epilogue/Shitpost period where you can wrap things up for your claims however you see fit. Please feel free to use the [EPILOGUE] flair to do so. I don't think I have anything innovative or new to say regarding the season that anybody else hasn't said, but for what it's worth I do think it had some really good parts. I think we did quite well with the Discord Diplomacy and World Events, the Ukraine war was probably our most realistic depiction of inter-state conflict ever, Eve and Bob's attempt at a genuinely two party USA was really interesting, and I think the number of little conflicts in unusual locations was a nice change of pace, all just to name a few. And, of course, we were able to have a season after a little over a year and a half of absence, so that's nothing if not a testament to the resilience of this community. I won't pretend that a lot of that good-ness wasn't undone by all the well-discussed issues this season had either, though, and as I mentioned in my Discord announcement I am truly sorry (on behalf of myself and the Mod Team both past and present) for all of that. Regardless, I hope you all enjoyed Season XIX for all it was worth. With regards to next season, plans are still in flux on that front and will most likely be discussed sometime soon. The Mod Team will be sure to reach out as soon as we have something to reach out with. In the mean time, my term as Head Mod (which, fun fact, began in *2021*) will end on the 11th, and the internal mod election for the next term will begin that same day. Thank you all, once again, for playing r/GlobalPowers! We hope to see you rejoin us for the fabled Season XX.

Hi man, this is really interesting even now, would you like to message me to talk a bit? I will make a project about the Ukrainian war. Make a model of Partisan warfare. Make a model of Belarus and russia warfare vs Ukraine. Moreover how Transnistria could impact, if russia would have given green light, or if Ukraine would take a bit of ammunition.

I am very confused and new to this. Missouri decided to make the decision to move to caucuses rather than primaries. My questions is how does one participate in a caucus? I understand it may be different by state, but how does it usually work at least. Essentially, how would an average citizen be able to get themselves into participating in a caucus?

Google tells me that a president can only pardon federal crimes & governors have the power to pardon state crimes, but I'm also reading some previous presidential pardons that seem to fall on the state crime level, so now I'm super confused. Thanks in advance.

_**The following is [a series of tweets by @suyashjha_](https://x.com/suyashjha_/status/1708785817366278429?s=20) where he mentions a few problems with the recent caste census in Bihar please read the whole thing and see the images when marked and then comment**_ I can't understand why people are even seriously considering these numbers. They are on your face sham. SC population of Bihar was 15.91% in Census 2011. Are you seriously believing that their share in population increased by as much as 23.6% in 12 years to come to 19.65%. In absolute terms, you are contending that SC population increased from 1,65,67,325 to about 2,41,85,809 in 12 years. That is an additional 76 lakh people in 12 years. It simply doesn't add up with the declining TFR in the state. Between 2001 and 2011, despite a much higher TFR in the state, the SC population as a proportion increased by only 0.2%, from 15.7% to 15.9%. The survey numbers are off by a mile. While census data is not available for OBCs since 1931. It can indirectly be deduced that the numbers have been similarly inflated. According to NSSO 61st Round, the OBC pop of Bihar was around 59.7%. (that survey had also greatly overestimated SC pop at 22%) {see 1 one} The current survey inflates even that number to arrive at OBC pop of 63.1%. Increase of 3.4% in 18 years. Both the OBC and SC pop seem to have been inflated in the range of 3-4% each and GEN pop deflated by 7-8% "at least". Goes well with politics of certain parties. At the same time, Muslim estimates have kept largely in line with Census data. Again pretty convenient as no undue inflation in M pop goes well with the politics of certain parties. In short SC stats inflate over census Muslim stats match census OBC stats inflate over NSS data Some come up with the argument that there is significant differential in TFR of General and SC categories, then here is the data from NHFS-5 on social group based TFR. The differential is only 0.3 at national level. I am sure that it will be even less in Bihar. {See image 2} Even if the difference were 0.5 or 0.6 in Bihar, the huge fluctuation in population of SCs is still unexplainable. Muslims whose TFR was 0.6 & 0.4 more than Hindus in 2001 & 2011, grew only by 1.2%, while SCs whose TFR was similarly higher than GEN if not less grew by 3.93%? SHAM Have come across state level NHFS data of Bihar which shows that indeed there is a significant TFR difference between SC and Others. However, the difference has been converging which again shows that it is absurd that the SC pop grew 3.74% in 12 years b/w 2011 and 2023. {see image 3 and 4} At the same time, the above data also shows that there is hardly any significant difference between OBC and General TFR to create the kind of divergence in populations as has been suggested by the survey. No half decent scientific survey will through up such hogwash numbers which neither talk with Census data, nor NHFS data, nor surveys by private orgs like CSDS. It needs to be ruthlessly slammed. {see image 5} {Reply to inclusion of new castes in the category} Klounery' is not knowing what you are talking about. The list of castes under SC category has remained the same in Bihar since at least 01. Only additions been done are some odd synonyms of caste names which are hardly carried by a few thousand people. [https://socialjustice.gov.in/common/76750](https://socialjustice.gov.in/common/76750) {See image 6}

The pain and resentment caused by these deaths will push more people towards violence and make Israel less safe for decades to come Hamas wants this because their ideas thrive in the rubble of bombed cities

It is a false exaggeration. The recorded number of incidents of Sati is around 3000 for 2000 years making it a 1.5 cases per year for a population of more than 100 millions. Source:- References from Meenakshi Jain's book on Sati. _The references have all the primary sources. The reason I am referring only the references and not her book in its entirety is because someone might intend to disregard her scholarship for being a Hindutva supporter._ _But no matter what you do, references of primary sources cannot be disregarded irrespective of who makes it. Because that is equivalent of saying just because an idiot said 2+2=4, from now on 2+2 is not equal to 4._ Read the primary sources of evidence and make up your own mind. This number is too low to be counted or made an issue out of. Nobody is saying it is fine to burn even a single widow today but there has to be population scale evidence of its practice. Otherwise it is just creating a mountain out of a mole to somehow make racist, genocidal Britishers look decent and somewhat positive. >_____ Now a solid argument is going to come my way, that is:- _These 3000 are just reported ones. The real number will be higher_ Absolutely. But by how much are you going to multiply the recorded number to reach the actual number? By 2, by 5, by 10, by 100, by 1000. What is your multiplication factor? Also, what evidence are you going to use to justify the multiplication number? Incase, it is _feelings_ based or something along the lines of "_Crime against women are always under reported throughout history_", understand that the multiplication factor you are using on Sati will be applied to each and every cruelty on women that has happened on the planet committed by westerners. Even then we'll end up in the same scenario. We'll go from Every other civilization killing and enslaving **millions** verses Hindus burning 2-5 people_ to Every other civilization killing and enslaving **billions** verses Hindus burning 2-5 thousand people_ The ratio stays the same and the evil of abrahmic westerners also stays the same. And widow remarriage was allowed in some regions of India even before the remarriage act was passed by British. Narada Smriti on Widow Remarriage: > Narada Smriti 12.97 “When her husband is lost or dead, when he has become a religious ascetic, when he is impotent, when he has been expelled from caste, in these cases a woman may be Justified in another husband. Parashara Smriti: > Parashara Smriti 4.28 “When her husband is missing or is dead or has renounced the world or is impotent or has been degraded by sin, – on the any of the said five calamities, she can remarry“. Garuda Purana: > Garuda Purana 1.107.28 “In case of disappearance or death or renunciation or impotent or lost caste status of her husband, in these five cases a woman is allowed to take another husband.” Agni Purana: > Agni Purana 154.4-7 “Women are allowed to have another husband in the following five adversaries;- (the first husband) is lost, dead, has become an ascetic, impotent or fallen morally. If the husband is dead, she should be given to the brother of the deceased. In the absence of brother, she should be given to anyone as one wished” Vedas also advice widows to go back to society: > Atharvaveda 18:32:2. Go up, O woman, to the world of the living; thou liest by (upa-çī) this one who is deceased: come! to him who grasps thy hand, thy second spouse (didhiṣú), thou hast now entered into the relation of wife to husband. And > Atharva Veda 9:5:27,28. The woman who having married her former husband loses him (on death) and remarries and thus takes to the other, second, husband, and the husband and wife both submit their immortal souls clad in new existential identity of conjugality to each other and to the Lord divine, they never separate. Widow remarriage were always a thing in Indian society. It's just that women were mostly allowed to marry relatives of their husband like brother & cousins. And check the references in Meenakshi Jain's book too. And most of Minakshi Jain's audio books are here https://youtu.be/XH9EhyB9gEo https://youtu.be/HU4dEXGcITA https://youtu.be/ixktfF_KyDI https://youtu.be/m0L3Ni4idrw

My dad (who is very conservative) complains that democrats make these huge bills (1000s of pages long) and only give congress a few days to read through it in an attempt to push their agenda and sneak things into the law. I am very liberal but I so I don’t agree with his politics. Is he right though? Are these bills impossible to fully be read and comprehended in such a short amount of time?

For example does possession of magazines with 15 round capacities become illegal if a state law is passed prohibiting possession up to 7 round capacity magazines? Would this be unconstitutional? Please serious answers only I want an answer to the legality not opinions of either side. Thanks

As if to say, "Look at me, you MAGA puppets. Make me your hero."

Joe and Mika savaged Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal for not calling out the rape of young Jewish women on Oct 7 forcefully enough. Jayapal pointed out in an interview with Dana Bash on Sunday that rape is often used as a tool during terrorist attacks and that the use of war crimes from one side to justify war crimes from the other, such as the bombing of women and children, also isn't right: >“And, frankly, morally, I think we cannot say that one war crime deserves another. That is not what international humanitarian law says,” Jayapal added. ([Link](https://thehill.com/policy/international/4340811-cnn-bash-jayapal-hamas-violence-rape-women-israel/)) Why would any decent human being disagree? After showing the clip, Joe and Mika called her out for being unwilling to simply call out the rapes without mentioning the deaths of 15,000 Palestinians civilians - 75% of whom were women and children. Scarborough stated, "She can't just talk about Jewish women being brutalized and **it being videotaped** and people seeing it..." "it being videotaped" is NOT true. So far, not a single video of any rapes on Oct 7th have emerged. ([Link](https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-start-building-oct-7-rape-cases-focusing-on-footage-and-testimonies/)) It seems clear that they did happen. Jayapal acknowledged that they did and that they were horrific. Joe didn't need to add an unnecessary lie. Was it added to make Jayapal seem heartless? It came off as misogynistic because Joe basically called her hypocritical since she's a fierce women's right supporter. ([Link](https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/-we-have-to-be-outraged-calling-out-silence-over-hamas-sexual-violence-199314501580)) There are videos of witness stories about Oct 7 rapes and they are horrific. There's a video of men who are said to be Hamas discussing a female prisoner that was uploaded with a misleading translation. Reuter's debunked that claim. ([Link](https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/video-captured-woman-mistranslates-captor-threatening-rape-2023-11-08/)) There is zero DNA evidence ([link](https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-start-building-oct-7-rape-cases-focusing-on-footage-and-testimonies/)). Israel admits they didn't collect any. If they saw a half naked dead woman, shouldn't they have cared enough to do so? They didn't because they thought of rape as the horrible byproduct of a terror attack - just as Rep Jayapal said. Until it was brought to Israel's attention, they didn't think of the rapes as separate crimes. Now they will be unable to prosecute any individuals. Joe stated that "Jewish women being brutalized" should not be equivocated. I don't understand why Joe, Mika, and guests don't think of Palestinian women and children being maimed and killed by bombs as brutal. Rep Jayapal was trying to make that point, but Joe, Mika, and guests refused to hear it. **I do believe women were raped on Oct 7**. As Rep Jayapal stated, rape is often used as a tool during war. The Masalit women of Sudan are currently being gang raped in attacks by Arab forces. ([Link](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/sudan-politics-sexual-violence/)) This is not a one day event; it's been going on for months. What are we doing about it? Israeli investigators are **just now** compiling evidence of rape. Here is what their spokesperson told Reuters: >Mirit Ben Mayor, who leads communications for the Israel Police, said that investigating the October 7 crimes “is not a traditional rape investigation.” Much of the state’s case will rest on “circumstantial evidence,” she said, adding that “it’s enough to indict someone by that.” Based on “the conditions of the bodies that came in, bodies in the field, by the stories people are telling, by the situation of the bodies that arrived for forensic checking at Shura,” Ben Mayor said, “we say that there was rape, that there was sexual harassment. There is no room for doubt about these events.” Link: [https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-start-building-oct-7-rape-cases-focusing-on-footage-and-testimonies/](https://www.timesofisrael.com/police-start-building-oct-7-rape-cases-focusing-on-footage-and-testimonies/)

This. No one commits to that treasonous garbage for free. More documented evidence that conservative political orgs have been fully infiltrated. They're only in it for the grift, and they'll flap their flag for anyone offering them a handout. Russia and China may have trillions to spend on it, but it doesn't take much to turn conservatives into foreign enemy assets. (Edit: the Germans call them "agents of influence:" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-germany-influencers)

>the release of 63 Russian prisoners and their safe return to Ukraine What!!? also, the article does not mention UAE once. the UAE propaganda machine is by far the stupidest I ever encountered.

The mods acknowledge that this is not exactly a political question per [Rule A.](https://www.reddit.com/r/NeutralPolitics/wiki/guidelines#wiki_rule_a.3A_ask_a_specific_political_question.) There have been a couple times in the past when we've attempted to leverage this subreddit's combination of strict rules, established culture, and moderation style to host productive discussions about Reddit-specific incidents. In light of the current conflict around API access costs and third-party apps on Reddit, this is another one of those times. ----- **Background and description** Third-party software that interfaces with Reddit relies on the company's "application programming interface" (API) to communicate with the site. Back in April, Reddit [said it would begin charging for access to its API,](https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/reddit-will-begin-charging-for-access-to-its-api/) and on May 31st, the company [announced to developers](https://www.reddit.com/r/redditdev/comments/13wsiks/api_update_enterprise_level_tier_for_large_scale/) that it would be adding an Enterprise-level tier for API access, though it did not publish the pricing. That same day, Christian Selig, developer of the popular Apollo app, [said Reddit is proposing to charge $12,000 for 50 million requests, which he estimates would cost him $20 million a year,](https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/reddits-api-pricing-results-in-shocking-20-million-a-year-bill-for-apollo/) an amount that could easily [cause him and others to shut down their apps.](https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2023/06/01/death-by-api-reddit-joins-twitter-in-pricing-out-apps/) For comparison, Selig cites the photo site Imgur as a more reasonable pricing scheme, "I pay Imgur (a site similar to Reddit in user base and media) $166 for the same 50 million API calls." Twitter recently [announced a three-tier API pricing scheme.](https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23662832/twitter-api-tiers-free-bot-novelty-accounts-basic-enterprice-monthly-price) The highest tier, which is aimed at commercial-level access, is estimated to cost as much as $42,000 per month. Some Twitter developers said the new pricing would kill their projects. If Selig's reported numbers are correct, Apollo and [many other third-party apps could be priced out of access to Reddit.](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/developers-of-third-party-reddit-apps-fear-shutdown-because-of-api-pricing-changes/ar-AA1bZH2O) Many users [say the official Reddit app is inferior and the loss of all third-party apps would have a dramatically negative effect on the site and their participation.](https://kotaku.com/reddit-third-party-3rd-apps-pricing-crush-ios-android-1850493992) This has led to [petitions,](https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding/) protests, and widespread calls for a [boycott.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/) **Reddit history and financial information** Reddit admins have been notably quiet in all this. As of this posting, they haven't issued a statement or commented on [Selig's post.](https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/) Until they do, we can only infer the company's reasoning by examining the public information. Reddit [began as a website,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit) but like most social media, has experienced a notable shift towards mobile access, such that now [over two thirds of visits are from mobile devices.](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1310697/redditcom-monthly-visits-by-device/) In most cases, Reddit cannot serve ads to users browsing through third-party apps. I think we can also infer that users of those apps are more likely to pay premium subscription fees to the app developer than to Reddit itself. This means those apps incurs costs to Reddit of serving the API calls without any corresponding revenue stream. The third-party apps probably also steal some users who would otherwise be using Reddit's native app where the company could serve ads, although many of those users say they'd just [leave Reddit rather than use the native app.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/) Reddit's main [revenue streams are from advertising and premium subscriptions.](https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/093015/how-reddit-makes-money.asp) The company reportedly [took in $350 million of gross revenue for 2021,](https://www.businessofapps.com/data/reddit-statistics/) which pales in comparison to [Meta’s 2022 ad revenue of $113 billion.](https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/reddit-will-begin-charging-for-access-to-its-api/) Even Twitter, despite its many controversies, [raked in nearly $7 billion last year.](https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/reddit-will-begin-charging-for-access-to-its-api/) Although Reddit [ranks](https://www.semrush.com/website/reddit.com/overview/) as the 9th-most-visited website in the world and 6th most-visited website in the US, its users are the [least valuable of any major social media network,](https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/reddit-users-are-the-least-valuable-of-any-social-network.html) with estimated average revenue per user (ARPU) of about $0.30. For the sake of comparison, Facebook and Pinterest have estimated ARPUs of $7.37 and $2.80 respectively. Since 2006, Reddit has been [majority owned by Advance Publications,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit) the parent company of Conde Nast. Other significant investors are various [venture capital firms.](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reddit/company_financials) Because it's privately held, Reddit isn't subject to any of the financial reporting requirements for public companies, so we don't know if it is profitable or to what degree. It has been widely reported that Reddit is [preparing for a potential initial public offering](https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/reddit-will-begin-charging-for-access-to-its-api/) (IPO) sometime later this year. In such cases, it's common for investors to be looking for growth in — or entirely new streams of — revenue. Companies are also legally required to enter a [quiet period](https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/ipo-quiet-period/) before an IPO, limiting their public statements. It's not clear if we may be in that period, but beyond the legal requirements, it's also in the interest of a company planning for an IPO to be careful not to communicate anything that could diminish its perceived value. The [2012 JOBS Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startups_Act) eliminated many disclosure requirements for "emerging growth companies" (which Reddit qualifies as) for a period of five years from their date of filing to go public. "[What that means](https://icrinc.com/insights/the-art-of-ipo-communications-and-why-it-matters/) from a communications perspective is that – apart from rumor and speculation – the general public has no knowledge of the EGC’s IPO plans until the finalized registration statement is publicly filed which, in most cases, is about one month before the company complete[s] the IPO and goes public." So, unfortunately, the financial motivations behind of Reddit's move on API pricing remain obscured from the users. In the broader market, though, [funding for tech companies has dried up](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-startups-one-last-funding-141505369.html) and [layoffs abound.](https://fortune.com/2023/06/01/tech-layoffs-worst-since-dot-com-bubble-burst/) High interest rates have also [taken their toll,](https://www.marketplace.org/2022/10/24/rising-interest-rates-pack-a-punch-for-tech-companies/) because potential investors can get better returns elsewhere. Increasing revenue and a successful IPO may be Reddit's only avenues to profitability. What's notable behind all the numbers is that users and moderators are key elements for the company. A loss of users would directly lead to a drop in revenue and valuation. Meanwhile, moderators provide an enormous amount of free labor in the form of content moderation on the platform, without which Reddit would be at risk of severe reputational harm. A policy shift that results in an exodus of both mods and users cannot be good for the company's bottom line. 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>Israeli police again raided Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque late Wednesday night — the second such raid in 24 hours — after the first led to Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip firing at least nine rockets into Israel. Israel responded with air strikes which hit what it said were weapon production sites controlled by Hamas, the Islamist armed group and political party that governs the embargoed area.

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Dan Kelly [conceded his race to Janet Protasiewicz on April 4th 2023](https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2023/04/04/dan-kelly-gives-bitter-speech-after-loss-to-janet-protasiewicz/70082758007/). In his speech he claimed that: 1. Protasiewicz's campaign was "deceitful, dishonorable, and despicable". 1. Protasiewicz's campaign issued "rancid slanders" against him. 1. Protasiewicz's campaign disregarded judicial ethics, demeaned the court, and induced "damage ... to the institution of the courts". What evidence supports or refutes these claims?

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Right now, there's active war in Ukraine and Gaza, lower level conflict in Yemen, Myanmar, Niger, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, on the Israel/Lebanon border, throughout Syria, and tensions in the South China Sea, Venezuela, North Kosovo, on the India/Pakistan border, on the India/China border, and more. [The list](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts) is long. On the other hand, modern media is fast and ubiquitous, so we might be getting a [greater sense of global conflict](https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200512-how-the-news-changes-the-way-we-think-and-behave) than we're used to, which contributes to a [cycle of distress.](https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aav3502) During the 40-year Cold War period, worldwide battle deaths were pretty common, but the period since then has, by some estimates, been [one of the most peaceful in human history.](https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-years) So, what does a dive into the data show? Are there more conflicts today than in past periods of modern history or does it just seem that way? Are the conflicts more or less lethal? If the perception is different from the reality, what does the collection of evidence tell us about the reasons for that?

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How about you prevent people from launching rockets at Israel from our territory. That would avoid an escalation. But what do I know. This guy is fukn idiot.

How exactly is sleepingvillage gullible/delusional??? You can’t throw shit like that around without an explanation. I used to be a Liberal back in the 90s and early 2000s, but then y’all collectively lost your damn minds. You are all being blindly led to slaughter, and once y’all realize it, it’ll be too fucking late.

Biden probably told them to stand down.

You either side with a sovereign nation defending its people against a terrorist organization sending rockets at population centers (literally every couple days) for 20 years and then doing a 2500 person invasion to burn their babies alive and rape their women, or you side with the terrorist group. Why the hell is this so hard for people to understand?? You don’t side with ISIS or the Taliban and going after a group like this is messy with a lot of dead innocent civilians, Gaza is no different. The primary difference is that when it’s Jews defending themselves, the antisemitism ingrained in billions of people’s bones from thousands of years of Christian or Islamic influence comes out. People that aren’t from these cultures largely don’t have these hang ups. Which makes sense- in both Christianity and Islam, you have two religions that basically say, “The Jews were on the right track but we came up with something better, and the fact that they don’t adopt it makes them evil”. Even people that grow up atheist in America are shaped by thousands of years of antisemitism that has been fortified in western culture. I know this, because I am a Jew, I have been my whole life, and the fact that people whom I’ve known for decades will second guess every thing I have to say about history and culture, yet take the word of a singing Tik Tokker at face value, is because they’ve been brought up in a culture that inherently mistrusts the word of a Jew over a gentile. I’ve experienced this many times going back to childhood.

I wonder if Hollywood will be what makes all the Normie’s have a WTF moment. I’m not even talking about liberals versus conservatives anymore. That shit is for the birds.

Can't wait for the traitors to face accountability: Trump, Carlson, Bannon, Stone... all of those who received money from the Kremlin, the Lord Haw-Haws of the modern age. History will not be kind to them and that is exactly what they deserve.

Instead of utilizing these opportunities to reach a mutually beneficial agreement, they have exploited them to further their political agenda. By engaging in talks, the Houthis have been able to gain international recognition and present themselves as a legitimate political force. This deception has allowed them to consolidate their power and control over significant territories, exacerbating the conflict and prolonging the suffering of the Yemeni people.

For those of us who prefer to see the 5 items in the article summarized: >1 – The national debt is over $33 trillion and the government’s about to shut down (again) > >2 – Oil is headed north of $100 a barrel > >3 - The UAW strike could crush the car market > >4 - Nearly 44 million student loan borrowers will soon see payments restart > >5 - Mortgage rates nearing 8% threatens to restart the housing deep freeze The UAW and student loan repayment restart is my least concern. The cost of servicing the debt has already doubled and will only continue to rise requiring either more debt or cuts in spending. The cost of oil is a huge problem because the policies of the party in the White House is focused on eliminating oil and replacing it with renewables and we just don’t have the infrastructure to support all the renewables they want. Rising mortgage rates are a scary problem. Many people if not most people have been treating their home as a piggy bank, drawing in the equity to help fund their lives. That worked well when interest rates were at 3% but at 8% that’ll be far less viable. In addition with so many people now stuck in their homes as a result of having locked in low rate mortgages the housing industry could literally face near collapse as people simply aren’t going to be able to move. A major slowdown in the housing industry will affect every corner of the economy.

They use their money so badly. They are at war, they have used up most of their munitions and most of the manpower and trying to pivot Latin America against Ukraine is their solution? Idiots.

Look for "The Vatican Thinks In Centuries" in https://old.reddit.com/r/ufo/comments/17mdk37/pope_francis_calls_for_paradigm_shift_in_theology/k7k6res/ . &nbsp; Submitted article mirrors: https://archive.is/fYZci , https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0TjMDHi1b50J:cruxnow.com/news-analysis/2023/11/vaticans-natural-affinity-with-iran-shia-islam-may-be-key-to-gaza-drama/ &nbsp;

Ohio made the news for protecting abortion rights, but has the opposite happened since Dobbs? I’m only looking for popular vote outcomes, not an act by the state legislature

I’m not super well-versed in the political system but it seems like censuring a lawmaker is kind of like a slap on the wrist that says “you’ve been bad.” What privileges does a politician lose from being censured? Can it harm a political career if supporters just see it as discrimination?

On January 8th, [Pro-Bolsonaro rioters stormed Brazil’s top government offices](https://apnews.com/article/jair-bolsonaro-brazil-government-caribbean-0c03c098a5e2a09ac534412c30ae8355). U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez drew comparisons to January 6th, stating: “Two years since Jan. 6, Trump’s legacy continues to poison our hemisphere.” My question concerns the differences in the US and Brazilian government responses to these actions. For example, one of the differences has been that [hundreds of people were quickly arrested in Brazil](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/09/world/brazil-congress-riots-bolsonaro?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare), while almost no one was arrested in the US on January 6th itself, and while over [900 people have since been charged](https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/24-months-january-6-attack-capitol), that has been the result of multiple years’ worth of investigations. There was also a difference in the immediate response as the [Brazilian police were described as “passive” in suppressing the protest, as opposed to the USCP, who tried and were overrun.](https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/01/09/supporters-of-jair-bolsonaro-mount-an-insurrection-in-brazil) So what factors account for the difference in the government’s response to the Jan. 6 attack on the US capitol as opposed to the recent attack on Brazilian government facilities?

[Newly elected Speaker Kevin McCarthy had been the Republican's House Minority Leader since the departure of Paul Ryan at the end of 2018, and was House Majority leader under Ryan, before that.](https://rollcall.com/2018/11/14/kevin-mccarthy-elected-house-minority-leader-over-jim-jordan/) [This term's House Speaker election required 15 rounds of voting. This is the greatest number of rounds since the USA's Civil War and the only other post-Civil War House Speaker election to require multiple rounds of voting was in 1923, in which there were 9.](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-multiple-ballots-history/) Newly elected members of the House of Representatives are not sworn in until after a Speaker is elected. (Same source as above) Why? Is it clear what the consequences of the delay will be?

&#x200B; https://preview.redd.it/ybzxssjwb5ha1.png?width=870&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb93850d5369ad9fcccb30b47ffe6d54985b1e19 In a letter recently sent to Ansar Allah, also known as the Houthis, the de facto rulers of much of Yemen, including the capital Sanaa, a number of United Nations human rights experts outlined the group's "systematic violations of women's and girls' rights," including their rights to freedom of expression, mobility, health, and employment, as well as pervasive discrimination. Since seizing control of Sanaa in 2014, the Houthis have progressively lowered the liberties of women. Numerous infractions are listed in the letter, including tighter limits on women's freedom of movement. For instance, Houthi authorities have gotten stricter in requiring women to travel with a mahram (a close male relative or their husband) or provide proof of a guardian's written consent. In all Houthi-controlled territory, the mandate has effectively become the law. According to the experts, in August 2022, the Houthi Land Transport Regulatory Authority reportedly increased the restrictions, mandating that women no longer be allowed to travel anywhere within Houthi-controlled areas, to areas controlled by the Yemeni government, or outside of the nation without a mahram.

The Biden administration has provided [security assistance](https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3318337/biden-administration-announces-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/) to Ukraine Meanwhile, there is a [faction of republican congressmen](https://apnews.com/article/politics-united-states-government-us-republican-party-texas-michael-mccaul-114e61bdd752d387a3df813638dab68a) who are opposed to providing additional support to Ukraine > Last week, a group of 11 House Republicans led by Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida unveiled a “Ukraine Fatigue” resolution. It stated that the U.S. “must end its military and financial aid to Ukraine” and urged the combatants to “reach a peace agreement.” However, they appear to be in the minority as Republican leadership is in support > Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has consistently pressed the Biden administration for more robust action to help Ukraine win the war. What is known about the views of US legislators support for/against increased military aid to the Ukraine? Is there evidence demonstrating the views of parties as a whole on this issue?

Yea, I'd say that's pretty much spot on analysis. The only slight tweak I'd say is that it's not only targeted at Americans, it's aimed at the majority of democratic nations. Over here in the UK we saw it around Brexit, and our [Wiki](https://old.reddit.com/r/trollfare/wiki/index) has examples of this type of manipulation with the intent to cause social unrest aimed at the Baltic and Nordic countries as well as others in Europe like Montenegro. I completely agree that one of the most important aspects that people miss is that the left are targeted and influenced by this kind of thing as well as the right. We like to feel smugly superior and too smart to fall for manipulation, but there are [plenty](https://ushadrons.medium.com/) of [examples](https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/05/10/thousands-russian-bought-facebook-social-media-ads-released-congress/849959001/) showing it wasn't only the right being fed this kind of stuff.

The [Florida governor](https://flgov.com/2023/05/10/governor-ron-desantis-signs-strongest-anti-illegal-immigration-legislation-in-the-country-to-combat-bidens-border-crisis/) has signed Senate [Bill 1718](https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1718) into law. Some of the [provisions are](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-signs-immigration-crackdown-rcna83726): • ⁠Banning local governments from issuing identification cards for people who can’t prove citizenship. • ⁠Requiring hospitals that accept Medicaid to include a question on intake forms about the patient’s citizenship status. • ⁠Banning undocumented law school graduates from being admitted to the Florida bar. • ⁠Increasing penalties for human trafficking-related offenses. • ⁠Beefing up the required use of E-Verify, a federal database employers can use to check a worker’s employment eligibility. Many [businesses and workers are against this law](https://www.npr.org/2023/05/30/1177657218/florida-anti-immigration-law-1718-desantis). At the same time, the US is a democracy based on the rule of law. What are the pros and cons of implementing these provisions on a federal level to combat the effects of illegal immigration? And what is the effectiveness of past measures, or present measures, in other states/countries with similar provisions, meant to combat the effects of illegal immigration and/or discourage illegal immigration altogether (except of course to make said illegal immigration legal)?

To find a lot of what look to me like Russian-controlled propaganda accounts, just search Twitter used the Russian romanization of town names. So, Kharkov, Odessa, etc. To me, it seems as if you find more propaganda accounts when you leave off the hash sign (#). I think at least 10 percent of the Twitter results for Kharkov, sorted by poising time, seem as if they were posted by people who are part of an organized pro-Russian campaign. I guess, one question is, how do you distinguish a sincere pro-Russian from a member of a propaganda team. I don’t have any programming skills. I think a way to filter out the true trolls would be to look at which suspect accounts are using fairly unusual words or ideas early, in sync with other suspect accounts.

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Just hired like usual. Nothing weird or secretive. That's the thing people miss about the deep state, we post all our affiliations on LinkedIn, but so many of the organizations are so boring nobody that nks they could be harming anything. We do speak a little bit of leftist code and you basically have to let people know that institutional trust is important and then you start getting little assignments here and there, election monitoring, fixing holes in the information net, etc. No initiation or anything like that. People just know who they can trust to make the "right" decisions.

Tomorrow will mark three years since the WHO [declared Covid-19 to be a pandemic.](https://www.who.int/europe/emergencies/situations/covid-19) Due to variations in methodology and the prevalence of testing, it has been [difficult to compare straight Covid mortality rates](https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/estimating-mortality-from-covid-19) between countries, but a strong case has been made that comparing [*excess mortality*](https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid) (total deaths above expected) is [a good way to assess how different countries handled the pandemic.](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/excess-deaths-mortality-coronavirus-covid-19/) [This page has an interactive chart to show excess mortality](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline) by country as a percentage difference. In order to make [this chart,](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-p-scores-projected-baseline?time=2021-01-01..2023-01-01&country=USA~SWE~NZL~ISR~ITA~BRA~KOR~TWN) I set it up to show a two-year period from 2021 through 2022, (under the reasoning that countries had [learned a decent amount about how to treat Covid by then and vaccines were being rolled out,](https://www.healthline.com/health-news/heres-exactly-where-were-at-with-vaccines-and-treatments-for-covid-19#Monoclonal-antibodies)) and I selected the following group of countries based on their varied approaches to Covid policy: Brazil, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, South Korea, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United States. Others visitors may select different parameters. Based on comparisons of excess mortality between countries, what, if anything, can we tell about which policies worked and which ones failed? If some jurisdictions performed markedly better or worse than others, can those differences be attributed to specific policy choices? What did we collectively learn from this pandemic that can help policymakers prepare for a future one?

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/1678391675-liveblog-3-wounded-in-terrorist-shooting-in-tel-aviv

It may as well be real considering the article espoused the typical beliefs and attitudes of the average white liberal. These days, ya cant tell the difference between reality and parody when it comes to the mentally deficient left. They probably look up to her as a goddess for suggesting they have no right, as whites, to exist.

Émile Torres and R.U. Sirius scrutinize the eccentricities and extremities that have become associated with Rationalism. They delve into the meanings, practices, ethics, and applications within Transhumanism and Singularitarianism. [https://magazine.mindplex.ai/\_\_tescrealism-has-the-silicon-valley-ruling-class-gone-to-crazy-town-emile-torres-in-conversation-with-r-u-sirius/](https://magazine.mindplex.ai/__tescrealism-has-the-silicon-valley-ruling-class-gone-to-crazy-town-emile-torres-in-conversation-with-r-u-sirius/)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brittanylewis/2023/10/16/house-democratic-lawmaker-floats-george-w-bush-for-speaker-of-the-house/ Submission statement: This is late but that's going to happen when, upon reflection, the focus is on fallout and damage control more than the initial story. The MSM reaction was outrage that a Democrat would suggest W. Bush for house speaker. "How dare that Democrat bring up our former savior who is now so unpopular it makes us look like fools." Before seeing the video it is easy to assume from the MSM reaction that the Democrat was intentionally and gleefully puppy training MSM, rubbing their faces into their own jingoism. From the video -- the initial story -- it's clear that was not his goal. No one is that good of an actor or at concealing glee that well. This is an example where MSM were so disreputable even the passive machinery of government alone was enough to bite them on the fanny -- no assistance necessary from social media or the Democratic Party. One is always hoping the Dems will be a little more aggressive.

Thank you Mr Kurlantzick for doing this AMA. I haven't seen any questions yet, so is it OK if I ask a couple? Could you tell us what steps are the EU and USA taking to defend themselves against China's influence campaign? Is there anything that can be done about the collaboration with that strategy by Chinese citizens who rightfully live in the EU or USA?

Recently, the House of Representatives in the US State of Tennessee [voted to expel two members for violations of decorum.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Tennessee_House_of_Representatives_expulsions) One can argue over whether these members really violated the rules and whether the punishment fit the alleged violations, but the body's procedures allow for expulsion of any member on a two-thirds vote, so I'd like to set aside the specifics of this case and ask instead about the rule itself. There have been cases of serious misconduct, including in Tennessee, where [the expulsion of members seems appropriate.](https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/04/tennessee-house-expulsions-history-legislative-members/70079648007/) Without that mechanism, how would a legislature sideline corrupt members and protect its legitimacy? How do legislative bodies in other states and countries handle it when one of their own elected members violates internal rules? In a democratic institution, when does the will of the body to expel a member justifiably outweigh the will of the people who elected them as a representative?

Hi, this is [Zachary Karabell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacharykarabell/). In addition to being the co-founder of the [Progress Network](https://theprogressnetwork.org/) (home to media luminaries Adam Grant and Krista Tippett), I’m the co-host of the acclaimed news podcast “[What Could Go Right](https://link.chtbl.com/fwYOah8q?sid=ama),” which provides a weekly dose of optimistic ideas from smart people (with guests like Harvard professor Arthur C. Brooks and economist Tyler Cowen). I’m here to answer your questions on the economy, bipartisanship, and whether we’re all on the brink of disaster or on the cusp of a better world (as you can imagine, my thoughts lean more so towards the latter). **A little about me:** * I’ve authored more than [a dozen books](https://zachkarabell.squarespace.com/books/) on U.S. and global history, economics, and politics including [Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power](https://www.zacharykarabell.com/books/inside-money) and [*The Last Campaign: How Harry Truman Won the 1948 Election*](https://zachkarabell.squarespace.com/books/the-last-campaign) (which won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for best non-fiction book of the year in 2000). My work has been reviewed widely by publications like the *LA Times* (“provocative”) and *The New York Times* (“gifted and fascinating”). * I’ve written a [thousand articles](https://www.zacharykarabell.com/publications) on a range of topics including investing, the U.S. economy, tech in business, and the unavoidable Donald Trump. You can find my contributions and op-eds across a variety of media outlets, including [MSNBC](https://www.zacharykarabell.com/content/category/MSNBC), [*The Atlantic*](https://www.theatlantic.com/author/zachary-karabell/), [*The Washington Post*](https://www.zacharykarabell.com/publications/the-washington-post), [*The New Yorker*](https://www.zacharykarabell.com/publications/new-yorker), and most recently in [*The Wall Street Journal*](https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bright-side-of-2022-11672462861?st=skvh9cf2sbmgfpv&reflink=share_mobilewebshare) and [*TIME*](https://time.com/6263723/blame-for-silicon-valley-bank-and-the-banking-crisis/). * In 2003, the World Economic Forum designated me a "Global Leader for Tomorrow." * I’m President of River Twice Capital. Previously, I was Head of Global Strategies at Envestnet. Prior to that, I was Executive Vice President, Chief Economist, and Head of Marketing at Fred Alger Management, a New York-based investment firm. I was also President of Fred Alger & Company and Portfolio Manager of the China-U.S. Growth Fund. In addition, I founded and ran the River Twice Fund from 2011-2013, an alternative investment fund which used sustainable business as its primary investment theme. And you can listen to [What Could Go Right?](https://link.chtbl.com/fwYOah8q?sid=ama), available every Wednesday wherever you get your podcasts.

Today the new restrictions on power plants [are set to be announced](https://www.reuters.com/business/sustainable-business/biden-epa-issue-power-plant-rules-that-lean-carbon-capture-2023-04-23/) these will limit the carbon that can be produced prior to capture. How do these restrictions compare to other countries efforts to reduce emissions?

They instigated the present crisis in the Middle East and suddenly the media aren't interested in Ukraine. After this they will start creating friction in Latin America. This would be a great game if, when it came down to the last two standing if Russia were as strong as our perceptions had us thinking before their pathetic performance against Ukraine. But we know now that they are weak, undisciplined, and mostly-drunk. So no matter how long the game is they will lose at the end of it (unless the US turns into a Trumpian dictatorship, then Russia probably wins).

Given that we now have a WWI style trench war stalemate continuing the war until Ukraine gets back all the territory is insane. The fact that Ukraine even survived is a massive win. Also, given the huge loss of life and resources plus the loss of so many young, educated Russians (which is devastating given Russia’s terrible demographics) Putin will not want another costly war.

[The policy known as Title 42](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/spike-us-mexico-border-crossings-fuels-political-tensions-title-42-ends-2023-05-11/) ended the night of Thursday, 5/11/23 and was replaced by a [new policy](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/01/20/fact-sheet-president-biden-sends-immigration-bill-to-congress-as-part-of-his-commitment-to-modernize-our-immigration-system/) that will deny asylum to most migrants who cross illegally. Illegal crossings have increased over the past few weeks and on Wednesday 5/10/23, CBP 28,000 migrants were in custody, [straining its stated capacity.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/28/border-migrants-biden-title-42/) What else is known about the current situation at the Southern Border? How does this current situation compare to previous events? How were those events addressed and what is known about the success/failures of those actions?

Russian foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, has revealed that he recently held a phone conversation with CIA counterpart William Burns, discussing the delicate matter of "what to do with Ukraine." This revelation comes at a time when tensions between Russia and the United States are at an all-time high, making such secret contacts between spy chiefs all the more intriguing. Full Story: [https://godtheory.substack.com/p/russian-spy-chief-exposes-secrets](https://godtheory.substack.com/p/russian-spy-chief-exposes-secrets) &#x200B;

The US gets a lot of flak for its high healthcare costs in comparison to the rest of the world. Yet, America spends [more money per capita than any other country in the world on healthcare](https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/health_spending_per_capita/). In 2020, the US government spent over $11,000 on healthcare for each person on average. And yet, the US has the lowest life expectancy by far in the OECD. For Japan, the nation with the highest life expectancy in the world, the healthcare expenditure figure is just over $4,000. Why do we have such a low life expectancy for the amount we spend on healthcare?

https://www.change.org/p/don-t-let-fox-news-call-itself-news https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jul/04/fox-oan-newsmax-lawsuits-election-fraud-claims

Georgia’s political parties have reentered negotiations over the April 19th agreement. Now that Georgian Dream is outside of the governing coalition, the party has expressed greater interest in the measures to assign chairmanships to opposition MPs. Although politics remain contentious, committee chairmanships have been doled out in renewed compliance with the agreement, and some progress has been made implementing reforms targeting corruption. A more transparent and competitive business environment will reduce opportunities for oligarchic control over key industries and sectors. The new government aims to promote competition and to eliminate monopolies. An investigation led by the new Anti-Corruption Office has led to a reshuffling at Georgian Rail, and a commitment to make all financial data in Georgia’s transportation sector publicly accessible. Ensuring media pluralism and freedom is vital for preventing the undue influence of economic interests in the media. This includes regulations that prevent media ownership concentration and the protection of journalists from undue influence. Although the recent protections for journalists have improved Georgia’s standing in the eyes of western think tanks, there is more work to be done. The planned adoption of a “BBC Model” for TV Pirveli aims to put the public media at greater distance from the Georgian government and prevent the influence of public media by economic means. Establishing and maintaining an independent judiciary is crucial for combating economic interests that may attempt to influence legal outcomes. This involves reforms to ensure the judiciary's autonomy, transparency, and accountability. A public and merit-based appointment process for judges has been approved, in an effort to ensure judges are able to apply for their positions on their own merits. A new hotline and reporting process for malpractice in the judicial system aims to increase the independence of the judiciary. Georgia’s economy is already transparent. Although wealth inequality remains substantial, these measures will make Georgia a regional leader in governmental transparency and reduce Georgia’s vulnerability to cronyism.

* https://old.reddit.com/r/economy/comments/gza212/dominionists_say_crises_and_trumps_reelection/ftf1atm/ &nbsp; * https://old.reddit.com/r/EndlessWar/comments/17itfan/mike_johnson_conducted_seminars_promoting_the_us/k6wlwkz/ &nbsp; * Submitted article mirror: https://archive.is/qjq5a

**June 2024** In the end, it was inevitable. Niger’s army had done better than many anticipated, but even with Wagner mercenaries stiffening their line, they couldn’t hold up to the superior numbers and firepower fielded by ECOWAS forces–mainly Nigeria. Nigerian air superiority, combined with intelligence support from the United States and France, led to a successful push into Niamey. &#x200B; Although initial resistance was tough, the back of the Nigerien forces had been broken at Dasso, and General Tchiani, realizing the gig was up, took what remained of his forces and has fled to Mali, where a fellow AES regime still holds strong–abducting President Bazoum in the process, with fast moving Toyotas and armored cars racing across the desert overnight for the Malian border before American or French intelligence could ascertain their position. &#x200B; Wagner Group fighters held out for a little longer than their Nigerien allies, defending the (conveniently remote) and strategic uranium mines, but once they were the only thing standing between Nigeria and “victory” they determined that discretion is the better part of valor and also decided to beat a hasty retreat to Mali–Libya being rather less safe for Wagner fighters than it was a scant little while ago. They have been replaced by a small contingent of Nigerian soldiers which is presently guarding the uranium mines at Arlit, though the overland route to Nigeria is not secure and they are dependent on supplies delivered by air or through Algeria. &#x200B; While Nigeria has produced a large quantity of poorly-edited footage \[including the first combat usage of the Chinese-made VT-4 main battle tank, which eviscerated several armored cars in the only known armored clash of the war\] and the production of several feature films in Nollywood about the operation is already underway, ECOWAS’s victory rings hollow. Not only does President Bazoum remain rotting in a Timbuktu prison, the conflict has resulted in a power vacuum in the Sahel that has only aggravated existing conflicts–not helped by the active fomentation of resistance by the former Nigerien junta, and the fact a number of armed groups have managed to acquire not-insubstantial quantities of Chinese body armor, encrypted radios, and night vision devices, largely stolen, liberated or purchased from the Nigerian Army, which received a substantial shipment before the fall of Niamey. &#x200B; Presently, ECOWAS lacks both the will but more importantly the practical capability to further intervene into Mali. Its forces are already unable to control much outside Niamey and the roads leading to it from Nigeria, and the remainder of the country has effectively fallen into anarchy. While ECOWAS is attempting to reform the Nigerien government and has brought around some actors to their side, there is, as always, a shortage of trained personnel and resources, fiscal or otherwise, to complete the task. The outlook in Niger, as usual, is dim, and the status quo of a weak central government with armed groups de facto controlling most of the country is liable to continue indefinitely barring further action by more capable external actors. The only good news is that, at the moment, the Tuaregs are supporting the new provisional government, though this itself may trigger backlash from other Nigeriens who aren’t particularly fond of the Berbers. &#x200B; In addition, the power vacuum in Niger has worsened the situation in Nigeria itself as well, though Nigerian leaders argue that it would be even worse had they not deposed Tchiani. With the Nigerien government out of the way, Al-Qaeda, Islamic State affiliates, and Boko Haram have all been able to strengthen their hand, and many have even been boosted by fresh recruits from former Nigerien soldiers. A new Boko Haram offensive has been launched with great success, and the town of Maiduguri in northeast Nigeria has nearly been surrounded, with Nigeria appealing for aid internationally to help repel the terrorist onslaught. &#x200B; **Notable Armed Groups Operating In Niger:** * Nigerien Government/ECOWAS support forces, about 30,000 men * National Council for the Safety Of The Homeland (CNSP) and aligned pro-junta rebels, about 7,500 fighters * Tuareg, mostly Rhissa Ag Boula/Council of Resistance for the Republic aligned, about 3,500 men * Al-Qaeda and affiliates, around 2,500 men in Niger * Islamic State, about 1,200 fighters in Niger and many more on the Malian side of the border, presently in opposition to both pro-junta and pro-government forces * Boko Haram, about 1,100 fighters routinely on the Nigerien side of the border **International Consequences** * Significant strengthening of Islamist groups in the Sahel region * ECOWAS looks towards the West for further economic and especially military support in combating terror movements and “winning the peace” in Niger * Uranium supply secured, but fragile and largely dependent on the goodwill of the Tuaregs * African leaders more suspicious of Russia after active support for junta in Niger, worried Wagner Group will overthrow them too * Mild decrease in ease of doing business for Chinese entities as some attempt to better enforce customs, worried rebels in their country may be buying Chinese equipment * President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, has offered to send Rwandan troops to help the Nigerien government but “can’t afford to support them”

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/border-coverage/exclusive-dhs-heat-maps-show-most-migrant-apprehensions-are-north-of-border-wall/ You know, just in case you thought we were arresting migrants while they were still in Mexico... Author also seems to have no clue what a "heat map" is, calling it "heat infrared imagery", and comments like: > Heat sensors also picked up apprehensions... > large swaths of heat given off from migrants being apprehended I don't think border patrol is using napalm during their arrests. &nbsp; NewsNation is supposed to be among the more unbiased and reputable news sources. How the hell do they end up letting someone like this write their news articles?

#THE PRESIDENT SURVIVES --- www.romanialibera.ro | Tuesday, 2nd June 2026 | Bucharest --- **The President has survived a motion of suspension, voted on in joint session by the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.** The PSD (Social Democratic Party) decisively voted against the motion, with most of the PNL (National Liberal Party) following suit. The other governmental party, the PMP (People's Movement party), held a free vote. In The AUR (Alliance for the Union of Romanians), the result was split, while the USR (Save Romania Union) voted almost entirely for his suspension, as did the UDMR (Democratic Alliance Of Hungarians in Romania) voting for it as well. The final tally was: | House | Yes | No | |:-----------|------------:|:------------:| | Chamber of Deputies | 139| **191** | Senate | 50| **86** However, the President has not got off scot-free. In exchange for much needed support, he has made a concession to a growing faction of monarchists in Romania by promising a referendum on restoration of monarchy. With polling still showing majority support for a republic, it is unlikely that such a referendum will succeed. This is likely why the President made this promise in the first place. However, in the event it is successful, he may find himself out of a job anyway. the exact date this referendum is to take place is not yet known, but is expected to be announced soon. Thus far, reactions have been mixed. Prime Minister Ciolacu has issues a statement of congratulations and celebration to the President for remaining for office. Luminita Obodescu, the leader of the PNL, has as well, in a notably less happy manner. George Simion, the leader of the AUR expressed his dismay at the President, calling him a danger to Romania, but that he understood why many of his colleagues had voted against the motion. He states his eagerness to oust him at the next opportunity, either at the election or the referendum. The future of Romania is yet to be decided.

Updated the Salary and Company Survey for 2024! Small minor updates from last year. As always, please continue to leave feedback. **Although not required, please consider adding company name** especially if you are part of a large company (harder to dox) [Link to Survey](https://forms.gle/s68ExUmPVzhFAaWJ7) [Link to Results](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1G0FmJhkOME_sv66hWmhnZS5qR2KMTY7nzkxksv46bfk/edit?usp=sharing) &#x200B;

within a month israel have to report it actions to the ICJ So maybe ?

Welcome to the [Peanut Gallery](https://www.nuttyspectacle.com/)! Today will be slightly abridged as my roommate has a new dog and I want to go pet it. Please remember that I know nothing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **[Correction:](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheNuttySpectacle/comments/1afbh0k/the_peanut_gallery_january_30_2024/ko92378/)** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >That's not how DNS works. Traffic doesn't route through a DNS server. It's only used for domain lookups. When sites are black holed via DNS it is far easier to bypass than if they were blocked with a firewall. You don't even need a VPN. All you have to do is point your system to a different DNS server, and there are plenty of free ones out there. This one’s more of some personal accountability. Yesterday I mentioned Putin had probably begun to enforce the Kremlin as Russia’s defacto DNS provider, hence the shutdown. My phrasing grossly oversimplified the process to the point of being functionally incorrect. I use that word ‘functionally’ because I believe the ‘form’ is the same, that being Putin’s absolute control over the Russian people’s communications. /u/Rechlin raised [several important points](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheNuttySpectacle/comments/1afbh0k/the_peanut_gallery_january_30_2024/ko92378/) and challenged me on several leaps I hadn’t realized I’d made. For their contribution in fact checking my ass, I award them the ‘Lone Star White Hat’ flair. May they wear it with pride. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ **[Ukraine:](https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-january-31-2024)** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Ukrainian forces struck Russian targets in the vicinity of Belbek airfield in occupied Sevastopol, Crimea on January 31. Hahahahaha, oh Lord. Yeah, so, at this rate I don’t think Russia’s going to have much of an air force come spring. No damage has been confirmed, but I’ve seen rumors that Ukraine nabbed upwards of three SU-34s in this attack. It’s a smack upside the head, that’s for certain. And it follows in Ukraine’s overarching effort to “pave the way” for the F-16s. However that whole thing shakes out. Russia claimed Ukraine fired off upwards of twenty missiles. They also claimed they were ‘storm shadow’ whatever the fuck that means. Storm shadows are expensive, and I doubt Ukraine would fire off twenty of the things for three jets. Sure, it’s 1 : 3 on cost, but that’s still not a favorable exchange in Ukraine’s favor. Not when one of those missiles could just as easily pull of a 1 : ‘A LOT’ on So either the Kremlin is lying about the number (maybe), or the Kremlin is lying about the weapon (likely). And if it wasn’t Storm Shadows, and if it wasn’t drones, then what the fuck was it? Honestly it could be anything. [Just fucking anything.](https://www.newsweek.com/nato-ally-responds-rumors-secret-f16-combat-mission-ukraine-russia-romania-1865153) >Ukrainian and Russian forces conducted a prisoner-of-war (POW) exchange on January 31, exchanging 195 Russian POWs for 207 Ukrainian POWs. This hostage exchange was preplanned, meaning none of the hostages exchanged were on the manifest from the Il-76, so still no resolution on that front. >The European Union (EU) will reportedly fall short of its promise to provide Ukraine with one million artillery shells by March 1, 2024, as European leaders call on EU member states to intensify deliveries of ammunition to Ukraine. 600k is still pretty good. Could be better, though. That’s why a goal’s a goal. Let’s step it up, yeah? Especially since, >A Ukrainian commander operating in the Kupyansk direction stated that Russian forces’ main objective in the area was the capture of Kupyansk-Vuzlovy (immediately east of Kupyansk) and Kupyansk and that the capture of Synkivka would provide the quickest route for Russian forces to advance to these settlements. This looks to be kicking into high gear. We’re seeing Russian aggression across the entire front, from Kupyansk to Krynky, and in an almost desperate, swarm-like mentality. Looks like Putin’s biting at that ‘West is weak!’ narrative that’s been dangling above our heads these last few weeks. He’s got his mouth around it. Let’s hope its center is a hook. >Estonian Defense Forces Commander General Martin Herem stated that Russia may be behind recent GPS jamming in the Baltic region. Russian Federation is apparently testing something and are using Europe’s GPS network as a testbed for their experiments. It’s perhaps the loudest secret project I’ve ever seen developed, but I will admit that it’s a secret project. Also a pain in the ass and technically an act of war. Schultz should give Ukraine a few Taurus missiles as a warning to Russia. That’d be real cool of them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Russian authorities are planning to increase the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia in 2024. Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) Council Deputy Alla Barkhatnova stated on January 30 that occupation authorities in Kherson Oblast are working to increase the number of children who go on “trips” to “health and recreation” camps in Russia in 2024.[85] Barkhatnova noted that several such programs took place in 2023 and that Ukrainian children underwent ”social and psychological adaptation” in various camps, including in Litvonovo, Moscow Oblast, and in Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai. [Please give Ukraine what they need to bring this to an end.](https://u24.gov.ua/) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'P’ For the Community: * Paint me a picture! How did Ukraine manage to strike that airfield in Crimea? Legitimate take, or fanciful fiction--whichever you wish. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Join the conversation over on [/r/TheNuttySpectacle](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheNuttySpectacle/).

:book:In this class, 12, we will explain an interesting occurrence that happened in 2020 in the Ethereum blockchain, when it was a POW network, which is that it proved, even before Bitcoin (BTC), that the POW fee model will work!:four\_leaf\_clover:[https://ethereumclassic.org/blog/2024-02-01-etc-proof-of-work-course-12-how-ethereum-proved-that-the-pow-fee-model-will-work](https://ethereumclassic.org/blog/2024-02-01-etc-proof-of-work-course-12-how-ethereum-proved-that-the-pow-fee-model-will-work)

Vitalik Buterin advocates for a broader vision for ETH beyond finance. Buterin explores democratic governance, privacy solutions, and global inclusion. He urged developers to consider regions like Argentina and Turkey for tackling financial disparities. https://coinedition.com/eth-should-be-beyond-money-buterin-proposes-cypherpunk-vision/

“The Atomic Energy Advancement Act restores American leadership in nuclear energy and technology which is critical to our economic and national security. I’m proud to lead the most significant update to nuclear energy policy in the United States in over a generation,” Duncan said in a written statement on its passage. [https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4495980-house-approves-bipartisan-bill-aimed-at-bolstering-nuclear-energy/](https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4495980-house-approves-bipartisan-bill-aimed-at-bolstering-nuclear-energy/)

"President Erdogan has publicly announced that a political decision has been made to transfer another site to us. We are currently in the process of studying the details. Most likely, it will be a site called Sinop — not on the Mediterranean, but on the Black Sea," the head of the company said, speaking in the State Duma (quoted by TASS). He noted that Rosatom may also participate in the tender for the construction of a third nuclear power plant in Turkey. [https://www.oreanda-news.com/en/gosudarstvo/rosatom-will-be-given-a-site-for-the-construction-of-a-second-nuclear-power-plant-/article1506464/](https://www.oreanda-news.com/en/gosudarstvo/rosatom-will-be-given-a-site-for-the-construction-of-a-second-nuclear-power-plant-/article1506464/)

As Korea’s nuclear industry makes a slow comeback after the Yoon Suk-yeol administration declared pro-nuclear policies in 2022, the company is also preparing for a turnaround. Wonbidoo recently increased its workforce to 21 and reduced rotational leaves from six to three. “We will have to move quickly from March to April to avoid losing talent to competing industries such as the semiconductor sector,” said Park. [https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2024/02/26/6VRKVFJL4VAGJI37AHZSJLARAQ/](https://www.chosun.com/english/industry-en/2024/02/26/6VRKVFJL4VAGJI37AHZSJLARAQ/)

A new flexible battery as thin as a human eye’s cornea could power future smart-contact lenses, which in the future will be capable of displaying visible information onana eye’s cornea. It could be used to access augmented-reality devices, such as the Apple Vision, for example. I have been following [Mindplex magazine](https://magazine.mindplex.ai/mp_news/ultra-thin-battery-charged-by-saline-solution-could-power-smart-augmented-reality-contact-lenses/) for a bit now! These guys are doing great!

Do you know where Trinidad and Tobago is? I’ll give you a hint: it’s thousands of nautical miles away from Yemen and Israel…

They quite literally fired missiles at a bulk carrier bringing food aid to their own port. [https://www.reuters.com/world/greek-ship-attacked-red-sea-by-houthis-arrives-aden-with-cargo-2024-02-20/](https://www.reuters.com/world/greek-ship-attacked-red-sea-by-houthis-arrives-aden-with-cargo-2024-02-20/) There's a trove of media on this very subreddit showcasing Ansarullah war crimes and negligence. We don't need to celebrate one criminal to denounce another. Houthi leaders are little better than their Israeli counterparts.

"After its completion, Linglong One will become a turning point for the nuclear energy industry, ushering in a new era of multi-purpose nuclear energy, the report said. An increasing number of small commercial reactors will be used in areas across China, including islands, mining areas, industrial parks and remote areas." [https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202403/01/WS65e1ab4da31082fc043ba16b\_1.html](https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202403/01/WS65e1ab4da31082fc043ba16b_1.html)

I'm sharing this here in part because I wonder if other people have similarly disturbing experiences. My comment was just a snarky reply on a video related to the growing Iran-Israel conflict. Someone was talking about how Persian civilization declined after Islam was introduced in the 7th century. Like we all should know, Iran's lack of liberalism today is not just its own fault or because of religion, but because its democracy was overthrown by the United States (CIA) and Britain (MI6) in 1953 with an illegal coup d'état that re-established those countries' absolute power over the Iranian oil industry. My comment was a joke of "The 1953 CIA coup didn't do any help either." There was zero profanity, and nothing remotely against community guidelines. Instant deletion. I submitted a new and reworded comment to try and dodge the filter, and it was deleted again by YouTube. Unlike reddit (and I'm not defending reddit) where you get a message in your inbox telling you that your comment was removed for community guidelines violations, YouTube has employed the tactic of the Chinese secret police, keeping you completely in the dark as they wipe historical facts off the face of the earth. Just like Assange warned us about so many times, Big Tech is subtly scrubbing the historical record to aid and abet US Empire. The 1953 coup is a matter of scholarly consensus, and yet for YouTube it is treated as conspiracy material or disinformation and promptly deleted. The consequences of this are deadly. Like Orwell said, "those who control the past control the future". People will have no idea about what the CIA and MI6 really do and have done so they will be less likely to put democratic checks on them, allowing their power to grow. Censorship today is not about not being allowed to say the N word. Tech companies are rewriting history as we speak. As for why YouTube is doing this, Julian wrote a book in 2014 called "When Google Met Wikileaks" which provides some answers. The short answer is is that the interests of Big Tech and US Empire are completely in sync. But the main question is: how on earth can we criticize the Chinese for censoring mentions of Tiananmen Square on the internet when Silicon Valley is already doing the same thing? Doomsday is already here. EDIT: For full transparency, here is the [proof](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ5G0IjMZkA) of the deletions, alongside another example.

The most prominent advantages of laser air defense over kinetic air defense are: 1. The cost of electricity needed to shoot a laser beam powerful enough to destroy a drone or missile is significantly cheaper than the cost of projectiles needed for a kinetic weapon to fill the air with enough lead to destroy a drone or missile (Typically, the interception cost of laser is <$5 per air target, while an anti-aircraft shell may cost >$1000 and requires multiple shells per interception to hit an air target). 2. Laser travels at literal speed of light and is unaffected by crosswind nor gravity, therefore laser is significantly more accurate than projectile at hitting moving air targets; Kinetic weapon, on the other hand, needs to constantly adjust its lead to compensate for the crosswind, gravity, and evasive pattern of its target to maximize the hit probability of its projectiles. However, projectile is always slower than laser, combined with the unguided nature of projectile means that it's very easy for projectiles to end up missing the target if the crosswind suddenly changes, or if their target's evasive pattern become too unpredictable. Recently, more and more countries (at least, Western or West-aligned countries) have started adopting, or planning to adopt, laser air defense into their military. US has already adopted both of Raytheon's [Stryker DE M-SHORAD (50kW)](https://prd-sc102-cdn.rtx.com/raytheon/-/media/ray/ris/what-we-do/advanced-tech/high-energy-lasers/2022-05/de_mshorad_ws2.jpg?rev=80efe540f8304b17a36beae88fcc0a6b&hash=CA2C67D3A169D158DF8CEF0C831C3B2C) and [laser buggy (15kW)](https://www.edrmagazine.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Raytheon-HELWS-NASAMS.jpg) for army's air defense, [LaWS (30kW)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Laser_Weapon_System_aboard_USS_Ponce_%28AFSB%28I%29-15%29_in_November_2014_%2805%29.JPG/640px-Laser_Weapon_System_aboard_USS_Ponce_%28AFSB%28I%29-15%29_in_November_2014_%2805%29.JPG) and [HELIOS (60kW)](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fa-closer-view-of-the-helios-laser-aboard-uss-preble-ddg-88-v0-b7vbvvto4tca1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D8c9cd61a93c8c875d369715adcd29dfeb724a87d) for naval air defense. UK has planned to adopt [DragonFire](https://bsmedia.business-standard.com/_media/bs/img/article/2024-03/15/full/1710501687-8007.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,size=(826,465)) laser weapon, which has recently passed all air defense tests, into both mobile and static air defense roles. Rafael's [Iron Beam](https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D4E12AQH7d0pm2sGfuQ/article-cover_image-shrink_600_2000/0/1700509648356?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=qmrI23XpJqB_dm-UkXJ9D10D_GDOja4-tChnFGcCNUE) laser system has already been adopted by Israel to compliment its Iron Dome missile system. As more defense companies continue to make laser weapon more powerful and compact due to improvement in optical and energy storage technology, how likely will laser weapons completely replace kinetic weapons in air defense role within the next 50 years, making kinetic air defense obsolete in the future?

ICML 2024 paper acceptance results are supposed to be released in 24 hours or so. I thought I might create this thread for us to discuss anything related to it. There is some noise in the reviews every year. Don’t forget that even though your paper might get rejected, this does not mean that it is not valuable work. Good luck everyone !

Roughly [half the world's population lives in countries with sub-replacement fertility](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6886770/) and it's especially prevalent in [developed countries.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate) But this is not a new phenomenon. Fertility rates have been [declining in these countries for decades,](https://www.jstor.org/stable/3115258) so I'm wondering if enough time has gone by that we now have a good picture of the economic and political effects of this shift. There's a lot of [hand wringing out there about the future,](https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/20/health/global-fertility-rates-lancet-study/index.html) but what about now?

There is a referendum open to reduce the current inflation by half in OpenGov opened by none other than Giotto DF. I am personally not a big fan of this guy. Should this ref pass, it will also reduce the staking rewards in half. I am not against reducing inflation and the staking rewards, but, I think we should wait until Agile Coretime is launched to determine its effects before doing something this drastic. Regardless of what I think, make your vote count here: [https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/706](https://polkadot.polkassembly.io/referenda/706)

I (27) was just recently reached out by a healthcare start-up for a Senior DS role and will be starting the interview process. I've only worked in large healthcare companies, one of them being a hospital system, in analytical work. While it's early in the interview process, the lowest side of their payband is \~$60K more than I make now. But in my current position, I have a very hands off manager, my manager is a big advocate for good work life balance, work at my own pace 99% of the time, and most weeks work 25-30 hours a week which lets me do my own hobbies through out the week. The one thing that is lacking though is the projects I work on aren't very difficult (read mostly ad-hoc reporting via excel and SQL) and I don't feel like I'm growing my skillsets. I figure that a start-up space is going to be much more faster paced and a lot less work-life balance, but on the flip side I'll (assumingly) will be working on more exciting projects that will actually teach me new things. Just wanted some perspective from people who are in the start-up space. Thanks!

Hello fellow programs! **tl;dr** some revisions to the rules to reduce low quality blogspam. The most notable are: banning **listicles** ("7 cool things I copy-pasted from somebody else!"), **extreme beginner articles** ("how to use a for loop"), and some **limitations on career posts** (they must be related to programming careers). Lastly, I want **feedback** on these changes and the subreddit in general and invite you to **vote** and **use the report button** when you see posts that violate the rules because they'll help us get to it faster. r/programming's mission is to **be the place with the highest quality programming content, where I can go to read something interesting and learn something new every day**. [Last time we spoke](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/173viwj/meta_the_future_of_rprogramming/) I introduced the rules that we've been moderating by to accomplish that. Subjectively, quality on the subreddit while not perfect is much improved since then. Since it's still mainly just me moderating it's hard to tell what's objectively bad vs what just annoys me personally, and to do that I've been keeping an eye on a few forms of content to see how they perform (using mostly votes and comment quantity & health). Based on that the notable changes are: * 🚫 **Listicles**. "7 cool python functions", "14 ways to get promoted". These are usually spammy content farms. If you found 15 amazing open source projects that will blow my mind, post those projects instead. * 🚫 **Extreme beginner content** ("how to write a for loop"). This is difficult to identify objectively (how can you tell it from good articles like "how does kafka work?" or "getting started with linear algebra for ML"?) so there will be some back and forth on calibrating, but there has been a swath of very low quality ["tutorials"](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1chogwb/first_program_of_java/) if you can even call them that, that I very much doubt anybody is actually learning anything from and they sit at 0 points. Since "what is a variable?" is probably not useful to anybody already reading r/programming this is a quick painless way to boost the average quality on the subreddit. * ⚠️ **Career posts must be related to software engineering careers**. To be honest I'm personally not a fan of career posts on r/programming at all (but shout out to [cscareerquestions](https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/)!) but during the last rules revision they were doing pretty well so I know there is an audience for it that I don't want to get in the way of. Since then there has been growth in this category [all across the quality spectrum](https://www.reddit.com/domain/eng-leadership.com/) (with an accompanying rise in product management methodology like "agile vs waterfall", also across the quality spectrum). Going forward these posts must be distinctly related to software engineering careers rather than just generic working. This isn't a huge problem yet but I predict that it will be as the percentage of career content is growing. In all of these cases the category is more of a tell that the quality is probably low, so exceptions will be made where that's not the case. These are difficult categories to moderate by so I'll **probably make some mistakes** on the boundaries and that's okay, let me know and we'll figure it out. Some other categories that I'm **keeping an eye on** but not ruling on today are: * **Corporate blogs** simply describing their product in the guise of "what is an authorisation framework?" (I'm [looking at you Auth0](https://www.reddit.com/domain/a0.to/) and [others like it](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1cgx739/what_is_ai_infrastructure_software/)). Pretty much anything with a rocket ship emoji in it. Companies use their blogs as marketing, branding, and recruiting tools and that's okay when it's "writing a good article will make people think of us" but it doesn't go here if it's just a literal advert. Usually they are titled in a way that I don't spot them until somebody reports it or mentions it in the comments. * **Generic AI content** that [isn't](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1chll2o/ai_still_hasnt_figured_out_branding_yet_heres_why/) technical in content. "Does Devin mean that programming is over?", "Will AI put farmers out of work?", "Is AI art?". For a few weeks these were the titles of about 20 articles per day, some scoring high and some low. Fashions like this come and go but I'm keeping an eye on it. * **Newsletters**: There are a [few people](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1cho9ye/big_tech_digest_15_introducing_meta_llama_3_at/) that post every edition of their newsletter to reddit, where that newsletter is really just aggregating content from elsewhere. It's clear that they are trying to grow a monetised audience using reddit, but that's okay if it's providing valuable curation or if the content is good and people like it. So we'll see. * **Career posts**. Personally I'd like r/programming to be a deeply technical place but as mentioned there's clearly an audience for career advice. That said, the posts that are scoring the highest in this category are mostly people upvoting to agree with a statement in the title, not something that anybody is learning from. ("Don't make your engineers context-switch." "Everybody should get private offices." "Micromanaging sucks.") The ones that one could actually learn from with an instructive lean mostly don't do well; people seem to not really be interested in how to have the best 1:1s with their managers or how you went from Junior to Senior in 18 hours (though [sometimes they are](https://www.reddit.com/domain/highgrowthengineer.com/)). That tells me that there's some subtlety to why these posts are scoring well and I'm keeping an eye on the category. What I don't want is for "vote up if you want free snacks" to push out the good stuff or to be a farm for the other 90% of content that's really just personal brand builders. I'm sure you're as annoyed as I am about these but they're fuzzy lines and difficult to come up with objective criteria around. As always **I'm looking for feedback** on these and if I'm missing any and any other points regarding the subreddit and moderation so let me know what you think. ------ ## The rules! With all of that, here is the current set of the rules with the above changes included so I can link to them all in one place. ✅ means that it's currently allowed, 🚫 means that it's not currently allowed, ⚠️ means that we leave it up if it is already popular but if we catch it young in its life we do try to remove it early. * ✅ Actual programming content. They probably have actual code in them. Language or library writeups, papers, technology descriptions. How an allocator works. How my new fancy allocator I just wrote works. How our startup built our Frobnicator. For many years this was the only category of allowed content. * ✅ Academic CS or programming papers * ✅ Programming news. ChatGPT can write code. A big new CVE just dropped. Curl 8.01 released now with Coffee over IP support. * ✅ Programmer career content. How to become a Staff engineer in 30 days. Habits of the best engineering managers. These must be related or specific to programming/software engineering careers in some way * ✅ Articles/news interesting *to* programmers but not about programming. Work from home is bullshit. Return to office is bullshit. There's a Steam sale on programming games. Terry Davis has died. How to SCRUMM. App Store commissions are going up. How to hire a more diverse development team. Interviewing programmers is broken. * ⚠️ General technology news. Google buys its last competitor. A self driving car hit a pedestrian. Twitter is collapsing. Oculus accidentally showed your grandmother a penis. Github sued when Copilot produces the complete works of Harry Potter in a code comment. Meta cancels work from home. Gnome dropped a feature I like. How to run Stable Diffusion to generate pictures of, uh, cats, yeah it's definitely just for cats. A bitcoin VR metaversed my AI and now my app store is mobile social local. * 🚫 Politics. The Pirate Party is winning in Sweden. Please vote for net neutrality. Big Tech is being sued in Europe for *gestures broadly*. Grace Hopper Conference is now 60% male. * 🚫 Gossip. Richard Stallman switches to Windows. Elon Musk farted. Linus Torvalds was a poopy-head on a mailing list. The People's Rust Foundation is arguing with the Rust Foundation For The People. Terraform has been forked into Terra and Form. Stack Overflow sucks now. Stack Overflow is good actually. * ✅ Demos with code. I wrote a game, here it is on GitHub * 🚫 Demos without code. I wrote a game, come buy it! Please give me feedback on my startup (totally not an ad nosirree). I stayed up all night writing a commercial text editor, here's the pricing page. I made a DALL-E image generator. I made the fifteenth animation of A* this week, here's a GIF. * 🚫 AskReddit type forum questions. What's your favourite programming language? Tabs or spaces? Does anyone else hate it when. * 🚫 Support questions. How do I write a web crawler? How do I get into programming? Where's my missing semicolon? Please do this obvious homework problem for me. Personally I feel very strongly about not allowing these because they'd quickly drown out all of the actual content I come to see, and there are already much more effective places to get them answered anyway. In real life the quality of the ones that we see is also universally very low. * 🚫 Surveys and 🚫 Job postings and anything else that is looking to extract value from a place a lot of programmers hang out without contributing anything itself. * 🚫 Meta posts. DAE think r/programming sucks? Why did you remove my post? Why did you ban this user that is totes not me I swear I'm just asking questions. Except this meta post. This one is okay because I'm a tyrant that the rules don't apply to (I assume you are saying about me to yourself right now). * 🚫 Images, memes, anything low-effort or low-content. Thankfully we very rarely see any of this so there's not much to remove but like support questions once you have a few of these they tend to totally take over because it's easier to make a meme than to write a paper and also easier to vote on a meme than to read a paper. * ⚠️ Posts that we'd normally allow but that are obviously, unquestioningly super low quality like blogspam copy-pasted onto a site with a bazillion ads. It has to be pretty bad before we remove it and even then sometimes these are the first post to get traction about a news event so we leave them up if they're the best discussion going on about the news event. There's a lot of grey area here with CVE announcements in particular: there are a lot of spammy security "blogs" that syndicate stories like this. Pretty much all listicles are disallowed under this rule. 7 cool python functions. 14 ways to get promoted. If you found 15 amazing open source projects that will blow my mind, post those projects instead. * ⚠️ Extreme beginner content. What is a variable. What is a `for` loop. Making an HTPT request using curl. Like listicles this is disallowed because of the quality typical to them, but high quality tutorials are still allowed and actively encouraged. * ⚠️ Posts that are duplicates of other posts or the same news event. We leave up either the first one or the healthiest discussion. * ⚠️ Posts where the title editorialises too heavily or especially is a lie or conspiracy theory. * Comments are only very loosely moderated and it's mostly 🚫 Bots of any kind (Beep boop you misspelled misspelled!) and 🚫 Incivility (You idiot, everybody knows that my favourite toy is better than your favourite toy.) However the number of obvious GPT comment bots is rising and will quickly become untenable for the number of active moderators we have.

This is where I think Trump and cabinet had a big effect. Many people died or exited the force so now there's oversupply of jobs and this rubber band will continue to extend until AI can take up more productivity