If only America had united to settle for some pro-corporate, fought against de-segregation, thinks abortion should be outlawed, do nothing moderate after Trump’s first term just so trump could be held accountable…
What’s that?!
We did unite to elect the historically unpopular do-nothing moderate who spent 40+ years trying to win a presidential primary?
And he just did nothing?!
Who could have ever seen that coming…
A little murkier than I remembered…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Zionist_Council
The trigger was losing tax exempt status due to being a registered foreign agent.
So they “dissolved” it and then opened a “new” one and never had to register so still tax exempt.
It’s overly convoluted by design. But I feel like the first comment got the gist right. Wanted to clarify for transparency tho.
That was the point…
If he just went after what he wanted, then when we could fix shit we’d be fixing what he wants broken.
He burnt a proverbial hospital down so he could rob an orphanage, instead of just robbing an orphanage
Targeted everything that regulates his companies while turning children loose everywhere else to make it look confusing…
The only reason AIPAC exists is the prior agency had to register as an actor of a foreign government.
AIPAC started by prioritizing the members of the committee who decide what organizations have to register…
And that’s the story of why AIPAC isn’t currently registered as an actor of a foreign government.
activating Iron? How is that supposed to happen?
How can one radioactive thing make another thing radioactive?
You’re trying to act like you know about this stuff, but you act like one of the most basic things about radiation is a fucking fairy tale…
I figured out why you never learn anything at least
Why
Because I gave a couple years of my life to the most stressful school in America so the US government could spend well over six figures teaching me about nuclear energy and radiation damage…
You could just read a textbook or even Wikipedia and have you’re questions answered tho.
But to answer you main question:
Something with a 30 year half life will make the steel itself radioactive overtime. If it is in low enough quantities and deep enough to initially read safe, that’s even worse cause it’s hard to find, but a decade from now not only will it still have most of the CS 137 in it, it will have made the steel itself radioactive. And by that point will likely read as radioactive, but who tests a decade old piece of metal to see if it’s now radioactive?
Like, just because you don’t understand why this is a big deal, doesn’t make it ok
I mean…
That is bigger than the initial theory that it was just bad luck and some malfunctioning equipment…
Like, that says contaminated ore was smelted into iron, passed by air transmission to the shrimp factory and that’s what caused it…
That means a shit ton went into iron, and with a 30 year half life that iron will become irradiated and now we got fucking cobalt 60 and that’s around for like 50 years and way more dangerous.
What you quoted is a huge fucking deal, especially since it’s grey market iron and who knows where it is.
Cs137 didn’t really exist until after WW2, so when it pops up enough to be noteworthy, then it is almost always more than we initially found. The chances of us discovering that kind of contamination and coincidentally having found it all immediately just isn’t plausible. It’s almost always some sort of larger primary contamination like this steel plant.
I said the first time that CS-137 was very unlikely to be an isolated event…
It’s rare in large quantities and only shows up like that as a result of nuclear weapons, of which more than you’d expect have been lost in the ocean.
Maybe it’s just broken measurement devices, but every recall makes that explanation less likely.
Well, you might not understand it, but you learned how to repeat it at least
We’ll call it a win I guess.
Getting rid of pests was the problem, and it was a real one…
Killing all the sparrows was a legitimate attempt to help that backfired.
Overpopulation was and still is a problem.
One child would have theoretically been managed, but ignored how people act individually and the desire to have a son. An honest and legitimate attempt to mitigate a real problem backfired.
I feel it’s an apt comparison, even if I didn’t explain enough at first
The one child policy really gonna be up there with killing all the sparrows long term…
It was in place 45 years and only gone a decade.
You can’t just flip a cultural switch and expect them to become bunnies overnight. And that’s not even getting into the economic part.
Kids are fucking expensive.
When workers aren’t paid well, people stop having kids. That shrinks labor supply in a generation, workers can command enough pay to have kids, and population will stabilize.
The wealthy hate populations dropping, because they have the luxury to plan ahead and know eventually it leads to more powerful workers.
It’s why it’s a constant boogeyman and reproduction has been prioritized thru virtually all of recorded human history.
In situations like this, a punt can be the best plan.
Take a deal you know won’t last, in the hopes before it falls apart you can join NATO/EU along with getting one on one treaties with a bunch of powerful countries who would be willing to join up.
It’s hard to get that stuff signed when actively being invaded, because it immediately activates.
But even a single day pause is enough for other governments to get on board.
Source: Crusader Kings
Ukraine gave up their nukes 30 some years ago after US and Russia agreed to both protect their security…
So this “security” promise is pretty hollow
Guy’s 100% angling for a trump pardon…
But he’s also a complete idiot who tried to use some super basic outdated recipe when real explosives are legal and a bunch of commercial products are explosive on their own.
Hell, you only need to be 18 in most states to buy actual fast burn gunpowder.
He even brought his cellphone with him, and since he’s a trumpet I’m not 100% convinced that it was accidentally mislabeled as corrupted. It smells like a “light touch” coverup, although you’d think they’d have actually corrupted the data if that was the case.
On the bright side this the most optimistic I’ve been in 30 years, except like 6 months after Obama won the first time.
It’s a catch-22 where the people legitimately won back the DNC, but the masses are still ignorant of it because the billionaires who own are media don’t want anyone to hear about it.
The DNC is giving insane levels of money back to state parties after neoliberals robbed them for a decade with the victory fund grift. We’re already seeing the results of that, and midterms are going to be huge.
Then we’ll get a fair primary for the presidential, with a very very good chance of a progressive getting in with huge majorities in the House and Senate.
Like, shits bad now. But it’s still not as bad as the Great Depression, and that shit got us FDR.
There’s a very good chance we’re about to hit a massive upswing.
We just got to remember that the peaceful option of FDR and policy wasn’t the only option on the table:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonus_Army
Just like Martin wouldn’t have won without Malcolm, peaceful societial change almost always requires at least the threat of hypothetical violence along with it.
We were damn close to a civil war right when FDR got elected.
When shit gets bad enough, the best short term plan for the majority is often “gang up on the people that have everything”. Because that’s the only people who have anything
“If there are no jobs and humans won’t be needed for most things, how do people get an income to feed their families, to get healthcare or to pay the rent?” Sanders said. “There’s not been one serious word of discussion in the Congress about that reality.”
Because if people could think more than 2 months ahead we wouldn’t be in this spot to begin with…
Resource scarcity makes you lose long term planning though, which is why we keep getting squeezed so hard. If people had time to step back and realize where we’re headed, we’d change direction really fucking quick.
Acting like every plastic is the same makes as much sense as acting like every metal is the same…
But it seems it has more to do with the sealing process used.
Caps are painted/coated, then crimped around the outside of the bottle. It sounds like the crimper never gets cleaned, and since it’s not sealed till crimped, we get some of those tiny particles shot into the bottle from the force of it.
So to bring it all back, the plastic bottles are manufactured with plastic that is “food safe”. The coating on the caps is not. So very little leaches from a bottle, everything from the cap dust is just going to float around in there.
Ironically glass may shed more micro plastics…
Researchers, including those from the French food safety agency ANSES, found an average of around 100 microplastic particles per litre in glass bottles of soft drinks, lemonade, tea, and beer.
This could be five to 50 times greater than the rate found in plastic bottles or metal cans, scientists say.
Almost like it’s too complicated to be solved on the street during random stops…
Side note:
Next round of IDs can we stop putting addresses on there?
If a cop needs to know your address, they can view that when scanning it. It doesn’t need to be printed on there for anybody to see. And most people rent and don’t update anyways.
Even DOB too, just have a pass/fail for 21. No one needs your exact date of birth.
It’s crazy we put all that info on there.