> Yea, 2 people killed in highly volatile situations
Don't forget the other ICE shootings and killings like the citizen in Texas that they killed and covered up for more than a year and when it was finally exposed...nothing. And the other shootings where people didnt die. Of course it was never the ice agent at fault, everyone tryin' run'em over all a sudden -- until video shows agents use the dumbest excuses to shoot people.
> Iran’s government literally ordered soldiers with machine guns to fire indiscriminately toward protestors
That's not great, but are you really trying to lower the standard we have for the US to Iran levels of terrible?
The US needs to stay out of other peoples business and focus on the US. America first, no foreign wars -- isn't that what was promised. We destroy our institutions and infrastructure investments that actually worked for the people here to re-allocate a couple billion dollars into corporate tax cuts cause "my tax dollars", then multiply that "savings" into spend by fighting Israel's war for them. This isn't the US bailing "out the rest of the world" here. This is the US bailing out ourselves from our own mess.
> not great, but are you really trying to lower the standard we have for the US to Iran levels of terrible?
No, actually I’m highlighting the difference in how Iran treats its people and America treats is. We don’t just gun people down, despite whatever random things happen in a country of 340 million.
> The US needs to stay out of other peoples business and focus on the US. America first, no foreign wars -- isn't that what was promised.
Sure, let’s start with Ukraine and Taiwan and withdraw from NATO and lift sanctions across the world?
I’m not an isolationist. Neither is Iran - they have no business in Gaza, or Lebanon, or anywhere outside their borders. Your tax dollars are negotiable just like everyone else’s. I don’t want mine going to waste money on new highways in the US which kill more people. But we live in a Democracy and every choice we make, every policy, is just a set of trade-offs we decide to make.
The US is wasting time and resources in overseas conflicts, National security should be built on domestic strength, specifically by securing our power grid and reducing global oil dependence. We have the technology, tools, solar, wind, advanced battery storage, nuclear power and electric vehicles to make this happen.
We have the wrong people in place to make this happen.
There’s a lot to unpack and I’m no fan of the Trump admin’s approach to policy, but we aren’t moving away from oil any time soon and so until we really have an idea of when or how that will be we unfortunately need to maintain freedom of navigation on the seas and ensure the oil flows.
Strategically we need to control all of it in case China invades Taiwan.
> It's "beef" that goes a long way back, if you look up the history of Cuba [...] And Cuba had been a point of major US economic interests as well so the USA was not happy to see the rise of the Communists in their backyard.
This is Mark Rubio*, and only Rubio. This admin is all about letting the people who helped put it together each have their turn at using the US as the vehicle for their personal grievances and profits. No part of this admin cares about the United States of America or its history. It's simply a tool for them, they won't have to deal with the fallout from trading it in for generational wealth that puts them above it.
I think you are ignoring the present, and this administrations alternative timeline. If this, and the related Venezuela, happened during the Biden admin, then yes, history would be the factor. This is not that.
>The engineer, who lives in London, is believed to have designed a program to be able to access personal pictures on the site while avoiding security checks.
> A Meta spokesperson told the BBC the breach was discovered over a year ago, after which the firm said it immediately fired the suspected employee and "referred the matter to law enforcement".
> A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said a man in his 30s was arrested in November 2025 on suspicion of unauthorised access to computer material.
> This article mixes the science with unnecessarily gendered language. It turns "a lying down position helps the doctor" to "men decided women should be on their backs" and "one pervert king liked watching women give birth, therefore somehow that's why".
Looking more into the history of it, I find the "gendered language" to instead be important factual context. It was also not the author who wrote about the king or other "gendered language" things but instead quotes from a birth center founder and a uni professor.
Also, in the article it says "They can thank a French man named François Mauriceau". The King was a possible influence but not "one pervert king liked watching women give birth, therefore somehow that's why". The article says nothing about "a lying down position helps the doctor".
Mauriceau, who wrote a book "that helped establish obstetrics as science"[0], thought of pregnancy as illness, and that it would be "more convenient for the male physician attending". This is an important tidbit, as the article continues, "(there was already a movement emerging to dispense of midwives and instead have male surgeons present at births)."
The only problem with the "gendered language" is not explaining it further, and probably where the immediate jump to thinking it's "sexism" comes from.
At that time "man-midwives", or people with medical education and the same educational requirements as a surgeon, decided "midwifery" was a great side hustle and created a movement to push traditional midwives out of the birthing process by saying the job required a medical degree, that only men could get. Since men had no idea what the natural process for child birth was, unlike midwives who probably went through it themselves, they decided that having a woman lying down was less work for the people attending. This happened specifically because they were male. The females were pushed out of the birthing process at this time. It went against everything that women had for millennia been doing. It's absolutely important to point that out when trying to give background on why -- all of a sudden -- this natural process was perverted. I don't know how else they could put it other than, it was more convenient (and profitable) for men at the time. And propagated because one guy, who thought of it as an illness, decided he knew better and other doctors decided to listen to him.
> The article says nothing about "a lying down position helps the doctor".
> Mauriceau, who wrote a book "that helped establish obstetrics as science"[0], thought of pregnancy as illness, and that it would be "more convenient for the male physician attending".
You contradict yourself in the very next sentence.
>> "more convenient for the male physician attending".
> You contradict yourself in the very next sentence.
"helping" a doctor do their function is not the same as being "convenient" for a doctor. Especially in the context of "a lying down position", which makes "helps the doctor" imply a functionally needed assist in the child birth. Being "convenient" is further expanded on in my last paragraph, and it in no way has anything to do with functionally "helping" the child birth.
> ...Chinese models such as DeepSeek and Alibaba’s Qwen. They represent a genuine alternative to the U.S.-dominated pipeline, though research shows they operate through a distinctly Chinese cultural lens.
> That would be a great business opportunity for the US.
They already exist here. The restrictions only seemed to be on compounding pharmacies. But the US has "med-spa" and "rejuvenation center" chains that offer them; I'm guessing at significant markup compared to ordering from random chat-app or website. Since it was a "grey" area who knows if those centers are more trustworthy about their supply sources.
I was operating under the assumption that if they are being promoted by the government that they would be less taboo and states would be less likely to put pressure on such businesses thus allowing them to flourish. If I utter the word peptide in my state people act like I am asking about cocaine whereas some countries it's treated just like a Starbucks.
They didn't provide a link to the to the archives [WIP] online collection of documents, technical drawings/blueprints, ship plans, or other items. This one appears to be it:
You may find this article interesting; as with all things trump, when he is actually involved in the goings-on of things (measured by his level of personal participatory activity) -- look for the money/grift.
[How Trump and the oil markets move in sync: A tango in five charts]
> Did you ever hear the tragedy of USS Plagueis The Unsinkable?
The USS Plunkett? A destroyer, not a carrier, that sustained the best the Germans could throw at her and kept on going; earning 5 battle stars while participating in all the major allied invasions in europe. What part was the tragedy of her? That she was scrapped in 1975 instead of being turned into a museum?
Don't forget the other ICE shootings and killings like the citizen in Texas that they killed and covered up for more than a year and when it was finally exposed...nothing. And the other shootings where people didnt die. Of course it was never the ice agent at fault, everyone tryin' run'em over all a sudden -- until video shows agents use the dumbest excuses to shoot people.
> Iran’s government literally ordered soldiers with machine guns to fire indiscriminately toward protestors
That's not great, but are you really trying to lower the standard we have for the US to Iran levels of terrible?
The US needs to stay out of other peoples business and focus on the US. America first, no foreign wars -- isn't that what was promised. We destroy our institutions and infrastructure investments that actually worked for the people here to re-allocate a couple billion dollars into corporate tax cuts cause "my tax dollars", then multiply that "savings" into spend by fighting Israel's war for them. This isn't the US bailing "out the rest of the world" here. This is the US bailing out ourselves from our own mess.
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