Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@captainrob you think he is really that stupid? I seriously doubt it, but ok

@captainrob @compfu @iryna Don't we know for sure this isn't the reason for the invasion? Putin, whatever else you say about him isn't *completely stupid* like you seem to imply he is.

Look at what's happened along his border since his illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine: NATO expansion, giant armies lining up along his borders, etc, etc. He *knew* this would happen, of course, since he isn't an idiot. It's a mind-numbingly obvious result of his actions. Any child could have told him this would happen.

Also if you're trying to appeal to Americans here, maybe you're right that we don't want missiles in Cuba? I don't know, I assume they have missiles? don't they? Who cares. We aren't invading them, are we? Do you have a point?

@davidho I think in the last 7 or 8 years or so companies like msft have had a lot less tolerance for this sort of thing than they used to. Before that it was debates and political fighting all the time; now it's back to work.

@silkester @mancavgeek @Hope4All Sort of true, which gets at why OP's plan for world salvation won't really work.

@dragonfrog @pinguino @Hope4All Most of his wealth isn't liquid; it doesn't really work that way.

@mike e.g. if anyone's naive enough to think only one party in the US would ever do this sort of thing like have police randomly steal money from innocent people, your compatriot was kind enough to point out otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

@mike Probably not; there's tons of examples of police overreach ever since we had police, only a few on the fringe talk about them as if they're SS. (It helps that the underlying problem is incompetence or individual corruption, and not being a part of a genocide.)

@grrlscientist This story broke almost a year ago. North Texas collectively freaked out, ~everyone was horrified that he couldn't be prosecuted:

https://ministrywatch.com/after-morris-allegations-tx-legislators-to-revisit-statute-of-limitations/ - currently there are no statute of limitations for this in Texas, but back then there was.

But... the victim's old lawyer is now the Oklahoma AG, where the abuse occurred! Apparently the statute of limitations doesn't apply *there* for some arcane reason.

Charitably: Maybe Morris' lawyers knew this could happen, and this is why he, as far as I know, still hasn't publicly owned up to the seriousness of this? Maybe I'm being too charitable.

I'm not sure about this argument that this tells us something profound about Trump, who dumped him immediately. (Everyone, as far as I can tell, including his old church, completely cut ties instantaneously.)

Unlike this, for example: https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/26/politics/clinton-2008-campaign-adviser-sexual-harassment/index.html

@melroy @randahl FWIW this is what Trump's been saying all along: Europe needs to step up, nobody seems to want the US to police the world in perpetuity, not even the US.

@Daojoan Sam Harris would be dismayed to be lumped in with Jordan Peterson, to put it mildly.

Are you just sort of listing intellectual-wannabe-types who don't give a full-throated endorsement of extreme leftism?

@QasimRashid @QasimRashid You get the feeling from news coverage that this kind of argument is holding with students in a big way, but then certain things make you realize that it really is not! Columbia elected Maya Platek as student body president, for example.

@QasimRashid You get the feeling from news coverage that this kind of argument is holding with students in a big way, but then certain things make you realize that it really is not! Columbia elected Maya Platek as student body president, for example.

@QasimRashid You get the feeling from news coverage that this kind of argument is holding with students in a big way, but then certain things make you realize that it really is not! Columbia elected Maya Platek as student body president, for example.

@GM7077 @QasimRashid As far as I can tell it means about 600 of the 2000 law students voted to urge Harvard not to invest in any companies that help Israel defend itself: I think the language is “divest from weapons, surveillance technology, and other companies aiding violations of international humanitarian law, including Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its ongoing illegal occupation of Palestine."

Harvard has an enormous endowment of like 50 billion that it uses to pay salaries and fund programs and whatever. It seems to regularly be the focus of activism, like "don't invest in oil companies" or whatever. As far as I can tell the folks running the endowment mostly just smile and nod at these fringy activists.

@jhansen @farbel Yeah I don't think they're invading for petrol; one theory is that they are invading to prevent Ukraine from becoming an prosperous neighbor, an example of what Russia could obviously be if they didn't have a kleptocracy. If you're Putin and willing to sacrifice your entire populace for your own wealth, you can't have them looking over the border at that now can you.

@jhansen @farbel How do you "make a politics" with Russia?

I hope you'll excuse Poland etc for thinking maybe propping up that dam is a good idea.

@MikeDunnAuthor https://apnews.com/article/james-crumbley-jennifer-crumbley-oxford-school-shooting-e5888f615c76c3b26153c34dc36d5436 I wonder if Mangione's parents will be indicated.

@StarkRG @MikeDunnAuthor You /might/ be in a bubble.

@MikeDunnAuthor well, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-senate-easier-death-penalty-imposition/ at least.