It’s crazy that it’s up to individuals whether they can afford to have their relatives buried. It should be one of the first basic things a civilized country takes care of.

However, the United States might also benefit from looking inward and possibly even learning from China. China’s ascent was driven by strict mandates and targets—strategies currently unfeasible in the United States due to a politically charged environment where lobby groups can easily overturn sound industrial policy following a change in administration.

That is unfortunate, as such mandates have proved effective; for example, the EU’s target for 25 percent of its critical minerals demand to be met through recycling by 2030 has significantly bolstered the industry.

All that oil lobbying and the regressive politics it promotes is now visibly harming the USA while other countries advance. It’s a failure across the (very narrow) US political spectrum, engendered by a corrupt system that serves entrenched business interests.

It looks like the USA is about to embark on another 4 years of reality denial and protectionism, after which it will be even further behind. Republicans have made it clear that they will make it as difficult as possible to run sustainable energy businesses while pushing hard for more fossil fuels. This will do not only environmental damage but also economic and political damage to the country.

Gonna try this on my weeds now. The neighbors don’t have to look.

They just need “unless we can make more money in the short term by not doing it” appended to them. So, yes, they mean nothing.

In a statement to The New York Times, Alito did not dispute the image. He said he had no involvement in its flying, saying the flag was placed by his wife Martha-Ann Alito, who had been offended by a neighbor’s yard signs.

“I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag,” Justice Alito said in an emailed statement to the New York Times. “It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor’s use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs.”

The Times reported that the yard signs were anti-Donald Trump.

Well that certainly dispels any sense that he might be biased. It’s just that his family feels personally insulted when someone criticizes Donald Trump.

That’s where I stopped.

I think they have worse things than prosecution in mind for trans people. We are talking about fascists here.

Small government, not interfering with people’s freedoms, just as they always preach.

far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told a rally of thousands that the only way to defeat Hamas is to “return home” to Gaza and encourage “voluntary emigration” of its Palestinian population—a euphemism for ethnic cleansing.

And “ethnic cleansing” is in turn a euphemism for genocide. Netanyahu and his government’s plan for Palestine is simply genocide.

In 1991, Look of the Year was hosted by real-estate mogul Donald Trump at the Plaza Hotel in New York, which he owned. Former US President Trump and Copperfied were among the 10 judges.

Trump sat alongside him in the front row, with his then nine-year-old daughter Ivanka, who would later work for Elite as a model, perched on his knee. Naomi Campbell, then an Elite supermodel, co-hosted the black-tie gala with Casablancas.

Aimee Bendio, a 15-year-old American contestant, says she believes Copperfield also showed an interest in her during the 1991 competition. Footage from the contest shows Aimee being interviewed by the panel of judges in her swimsuit. Immediately after, the camera cuts to Trump and Copperfield leaning back in their chairs to talk to one another.

Yuck.

He went missing in the middle of a civil war when lots of people were being kidnapped and/or killed. Maybe because of this they didn’t look as hard as they otherwise would.

The legislation, along with two other bills Mr. DeSantis signed on Wednesday, “will keep windmills off our beaches, gas in our tanks, and China out of our state,” the governor wrote on the social media platform X. “We’re restoring sanity in our approach to energy and rejecting the agenda of the radical green zealots.”

The Republican Party truly is a party for the dumb and the mentally damaged.

I like it, it’s a smart and revealing strategy. Glad I originally misunderstood now because this comment of yours is really helpful and interesting.

Making solar power less affordable is exactly what the USA and the world needs right now.

This is in Canada so US law is irrelevant. And your “fat” thing is a bit offensive.

Whichever technology you use to recognize AI-generated content will get repurposed quickly to help generate AI content that can’t be recognized. So it’s an arms race, and at some point the generation may get good enough that there is no effective way to recognize it.

Sorry, I misread “from a girl to a woman or from a boy to a man” in your first comment, so I misunderstood your intent.

Outsmart them by breaking each bar in half. Now you have 20 bars without spending a penny more!

Personally I think we should be giving kids a lot more support in not transitioning. And by transitioning, I mean transitioning from a girl to a woman or from a boy to a man. If the child isn’t 100% certain they want to go through with massive irreversible hormonal changes, they shouldn’t.

I think you’re underestimating the care and caution with which these decisions are approached. No one is rushing kids into transitioning. No one is imposing it on young people who are not sure. There are many safeguards to make sure transitioning only happens where it’s appropriate and the person fully understands and agrees to it.

I use the one that gets auto-suggested. Sometimes I miss that it doesn’t quite match the headline in the article, and sometimes they change the headlines later. I don’t make up my own.