Hegar

Jate isn’t a name.

This post reads like you’re trying to “both sides” a cold blooded murder comitted by a member of a fascist goon squad.

Alerting venezuela to the risk might have foiled the operation.

Galvanizing public opinion beforehand might have led them to rethink. Continuing against public opinion costs more political capital than selling it after it’s already done. Authoritarian regimes can ignore public opinion more than representative ones, but they still can’t ignore it entirely.

Maybe reporting the story wouldn’t change the outcome, but it’s a possibility.

to avoid endangering US troops

This is a straight up lie. They held off to avoid blowing the lid on the US regime’s undeniably illegal actions.

If they had reported on government malfesance as is their sacred duty, they might have stopped a crime before it happened.

Israel is an important and well-intergrated piece of the US empire so they get a say in how the empire is run. Working class new yorkers don’t matter in the same way.

To translate into the lies of empire: israel’s importance to foreign policy goals and deep cultural ties make it an interested commentator on domestic politics.

I love all the desperate apologetics over this passage. The lackeys of the rich always try to talk about how this means the rich need to unburden themselves before getting into heaven, like a laden camel passing through a narrow city gate.

But “camel through the eye of a needle” was a fairly common idiom at the time used to mean impossible - the equivilant of “when pigs fly”.

The intent of this passage is crystal clear: “the rich will never ever get into heaven”.

Wooo! IEC type I! Shoutout to the greatest!

Yeah it’s disapointing to see the guardian slowballing an explosive headline.

Epstein tells fellow child rapist trump is one of us but we’re in jail.

When people don’t like the present, they almost always assume the past was better. When people are broadly happy with the way things are, they argue the past was worse.

Our take on the past almost always says more about our take on the present rather than anything true about the past.

Wait so you would rather have shallot bread than garlic bread?

Shallot > onion is just common sense, but let’s not go dragging garlic into a fight it has no part in.

Yep! It’s called primary endosymbosis and it’s one of the coolest things around! (I think.) The endpoint of a process where two parts of symbiotic relationship morph into an organ in an organism.

The first case of primary endosymbosis resulted in the mitochondria and thus all multicellar life. That’s pretty cool.

Another time created the chloroplast and thus all plantlife. Again, yay for primary endosymbiosis!

A few years ago scientists discovered that it happened really recently, resulting in an organism with a “nitroplast” for in house nitrogen fixing. So in the far distant future there could be an entirely novel branch of life, potentially as different from what we know as redwoods are from cats.

Mitochondria are so much more than that!

They have the ability to kill the cell as well as provide power, they can communicate and transfer resources to other mitochondria, and they might be one of the reasons that organisms need sleep.

I heard a science communicator suggest that in some senses, we might just exist to serve the needs of our mitochondria.

It was almost certainly written by gpt, you can tell because it doesn’t make any sense but still manages to be objectively incorrect.

Information already is knowledge, and that’s not what gpt does.

I don’t know that it’s wise to trust what anthropic says about their own product. AI boosters tend to have an “all news is good news” approach to hype generation.

Anthropic have recently been pushing out a number of headline grabbing negative/caution/warning stories. Like claiming that AI models blackmail people when threatened with shutdown. I’m skeptical.

She’s depicted here with dark hair, she’s just wearing a yellow headdress.

There’s a great story in i think the pseudepigrapha, where child jesus is playing with his friends and gets upset and turns one of his friends into a pillar of salt and mary comes and yells at him to turn the kid back.

And fully co-operating with ice means breaking countless laws.

So, logically, all NOPD are criminals!

I guess i don’t really see the point. Is there a strong use case out there, or is this a marge’s potato? (“I just think they’re neat”)

I was careful to say perminant heirarchies for that reason. Bao Jingyan said that power originates in the contrast between the weak and the strong, and the cunning and the naive. I’m inclined to agree.

But we can have social institutions that break up and flush out these natural channels of inequality, rather than institutions that metastize them into heirarchies.

Aristotle discussed a then-current idea to redistribute all personal wealth above 5x the poorest citizen. We could tax all inheritance above say 500k at 100%. Eliminate all personal debt every 7 years.

There’s a lot we can do to make heirarchies more temporary.

There are lots of ways to organize people that aren’t heirarchical, or that dilute or limit power rather than concentrating it.

Directly voting for laws, appointing officials by sortition - like being picked for jury duty, pushing decisions down to neighbourhood councils, consensus decision making, a culture that always permits insulting the successful and plenty else has been suggested.

It all comes with drawbacks of it’s own, of course. And having grown up in a heirarchical society, it can be very hard to imagine anything else, until you read about all the times and places where people have organized themselves differently.