Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@ErickaSimone I don't know; it seems like American whites' voting record maybe tells a different story.

@tuban_muzuru @bojacobs No, a very disturbing number of people from a variety of countries willingly collaborated with Nazis to kill Jews.

Le Pen, for what it is worth, says "I condemn, without reservation, the collaborationist Vichy government."

@3dogcouch @emptywheel gell-mann amnesia: just remember it's about like this every day.

@12thRITS @emptywheel Now I wonder though is that even really about bikinis.

@kaffando @augieray "The severity of the episode is neither here, nor there." Check OP again. 😂

@kaffando @augieray https://youtu.be/M-K7mxdN62M a fun yet disturbing presentation of this idea.

@kaffando @augieray pretty much every illness does that, as I said?

@augieray I think pretty much every illness takes a bit of a long term toll on you, this "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" thing was always false for any disease, IIUC.

I know covid *can* have long-term devastating consequences, but I don't understand where this idea that "there cannot be a mild infection" came from?

I and many people I know have had mild covid infections and seem totally fine. Mild as in: miserable fire a few days, etc, then as ~full a recovery as any cold/flu.

@toriver @mikenoe @GottaLaff FSB? I don't think they want Western Europe spending more on defense so they can prop up Ukraine?

You don't think the US will help Taiwan? I mean I hope it doesn't come to that, of course, and I suspect you might be right that China won't invade them if that's what you mean. But if they did I bet we would help; if only to secure a supply of semiconductors.

@toriver @mikenoe @GottaLaff well, one problem is people keep labeling them as pro-Russian, when actually I think the main thing here is people just don't want to be funding foreign wars. We've caused a lot of pain over the decades doing this, and I think lots of folks are wary of that.

I mean, I'm sure there are some russophiles or whatever, but that isn't, I think, the main thing going on. Point being: if you want voters to elect a congress willing to fund Ukraine, don't do that, instead the place to argue is about why we should fund a war – even a righteous cause – halfway around the world.

To me, I feel like the main thing is we need to either go all in and get it over with or stop funding altogether. The strategy we've taken of only giving Ukr. just enough to hold on seems designed to maximize death and suffering. Also Germany and the rest of Europe absolutely can and should take care of this, not us. Let us save up for Taiwan instead.

@JorisMeys @mikenoe @GottaLaff Republicans these days are isolationists, Dems are the warhawks. #whiplash

@mikenoe @GottaLaff yeah, wondering this too: the main "funding" we do wrt. NATO is on our defense, which we of course do way more than any other country in NATO. Not really sure what this reduction in spending would do, at the end of the day.

@c_merriweather @GottaLaff not really: the agenda of these folks is to get Germany/etc to spend more on their defense. That would, I think we can all agree, be the best way to keep Putin in check.

@chartgerink The article is basically a polemic that makes all the usual anti-Israel arguments that you see nowadays (including the usual cringeworthy attempt to make it about racism). I mean, that is the bulk of it.

(Disappointingly (to me at least) it presents no alternative that Israel could have pursued in responding to the 10/7 attacks other than urban warfare, which is always awful.)

I'm no connoisseur of law reviews, but this is certainly not the sort of thing I'd expect to get published. Is there a lot of over-the-top political writing in the CLR?

@luckytran what's the latest on vaccines and transmission? I thought it was settled that they reduce severity but ultimately useless re. transmission?

@jplebreton Satya emailed the company like *2 weeks ago* saying "if you’re faced with the tradeoff between security and another priority, your answer is clear: Do security. In some cases, this will mean prioritizing security above other things we do, such as releasing new features.”

@rvdp @yacc143 @axeln @GreenFire @quixote Ramses do you understand why Egypt blockades Gaza?

@shanie @pluralistic Great point; as we're more and more able to do real harm to the ocean and its ecosystems, we more and more need some kind of solution to managing this "commons". Ostrom's research might have some insight there, but I'm not sure how making a big fuss about the term "tragedy of the commons" helps anything.

@GraniteGeek @pluralistic It's not really a fact, though, is it? I mean he might have invented the term itself in 1968, but the argument is far older.

It's maybe not a great term, anyway: the "commons" e.g. in England hundreds of years ago would have been regulated to prevent those kinds of problems anyway. 😂

I always thought of "tragedy of the commons" as a nice argument for environmental regulation. Doesn't Ostrom's work anyway mostly talk about how to make, you know, rules, for governing commons? Like, if you didn't have the rules/customs, it would lead to, you know, tragedy?

Doctorow has some amazing articles, and some... not so amazing articles. This is the latter category, to be sure. What's even the point? That some people he disagrees with on mainstream issues are also fringy nutjobs?

@forrestbrazeal I like your insight about the non-wikipedia nature of it; WP doesn't always get this right either, but I think SO needs a better answer for addressing high-ranked (first comer) wrong answers.