Re: Seems clear cut to me
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I disagree: they're both playing the same game, just different aspects of it As they are **visibly** less nutcase than the Just Stop Oil types, it adds a modicum of respectability to them. You can still find them in Cocktail, Dry-Roasted, and Mixed varieties on the shelves of your local grocer.
A **tiny** amount of research (Influencewatch,org) shows them to be Left of Center, using all the current buzzwords, and associated with the constellation of Left-wing orgs funded by George Soros.
. . . my current Utility penalizes me for any electricity use beyond 60% of the "Average American Household', by charging an additional 50% penalty on all "excess" usage between May 1st and October 31st. It's supposedly an incentive to "conserve". They wouldn't be doing it if they had sufficient generating capability. . .
. . .last time I checked, the definition of a recession was 2 or more consecutive quarters of negative GDP Growth. . Per the US Bureau of Economic Analysis the change in the US GDP so far this year is:
Q1 2022 (3rd) -1.6%
Q2 2022 (3rd) -0.6%
We've been in a recession for 6+ months now. . . .
. . . .this is looking at national-level activities. As in, run by your local flavor of .gov.
But, overall, while .US may have a massive offensive cyber infrastructure (at least I hope they do, if not, why am I paying taxes for "Cyber Command" ??? ), defensively, we're crap.
The best allegory I can think of, is World War 2 Tanks. The US is a German Tiger II Panzer. Superb gun, amazing armor, technologically sophisticated. . . . and breaks down every 20 miles or so.
As opposed to the Russians, Chinese, etc, who bring massive fleets of T-34s to the field. Because Quantity has a Quality all its' own. And they rely on constantly Zerging targets. . . .
According to several studies I've seen, the top oceanic plastic polluters are China, Indonesia, and the Phillipines.
Source: https://www.statista.com/chart/12211/the-countries-polluting-the-oceans-the-most/
I've also seen reports that put Phillipine rivers as the worst individual offenders:
https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics
And people wonder why I have a Filabot. I don't even need to buy plastic pellets to feed my 3-d printer, most months. . .
. . . .are the pimps^h^h^h^h^h recruiters who demand to talk about your feelings and who you are as a person. Especially when you look up the vegetable-that-walks-like-a-man on LinkedIn, and found that only a few months before, they were running a Payless Shoe Store, or were a "Customer Service Manager" at a car rental firm. or, best of all, were a "Banquet Captain" at some Event Facility.
And then you find out about the ridiculous fees that the pimps charge companies that they procure for. . . . .
. . . I ran a SOC team, and we were constantly seeing indicators of possible, or failed attacks. And, by contract, were supposed to report each and every one on initial detection. Which generally resulted in manglement reacting in typical spring-loaded fashion.
We ended up designating "possibles" as FLUFFY BUNNY incidents, and the disposition went to two categories: Actual attempts with any degree of success became WASCAWWY WABBITS, and all FLUFFY BUNNY incidents proven to be false alarms or unsuccessful were listed in the daily FUDD report.
In the 15 months I ran that shop, only one mangler realized that we were doing it, because they went all Looney Toons over the slightest issue. . . (Grin)
Really ?? Looking at a particularly overblown novel as the future pattern of .us ?
If you haven't noticed. Evangelcals have nowhere as much of the political push as they had in the 1980s. when the "Moral Majority" and "Christian Coalition" were ascendant in Republican politics. . . .
People identifying as 'religious' are down, as well as membership in churches. . .
Why, indeed ? Because it's the law: the 2003 US-UK Extradition Treaty, as ratified by the 2003 Extradition Act, as passed by Parliament, and ratified on the US side by the United States Senate in 2006.
Extradition treaties and agreements are generally between 2 nations, and "international norms" do not apply.