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New comment by yyuugg in "Xylella Fastidiosa: A crisis brewing in Europe's olive groves"

yyuugg — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:38:26 +0000

Palm oil cultivation is wildly harmful in many cases. And palm oil is not a replacement for olive oil.

New comment by yyuugg in "Xylella Fastidiosa: A crisis brewing in Europe's olive groves"

yyuugg — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 03:36:39 +0000

Have you spent any times with bees? Beekeeping really changed my opinions on bees. They are quite industrious and very gentle.

New comment by yyuugg in "Testosterone, sexual desire and courtship efforts association in young men"

yyuugg — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 07:06:55 +0000

Are those body builders controlling for other variables? Changes in diet, exercise, performances, routines, etc?

I'd believe any number of things could correlate with body builders as they spend a lot of time changing their bodies.

New comment by yyuugg in "Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures"

yyuugg — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 06:54:42 +0000

I believe it's possible to improve things. I don't think this is an example of a material change. I, personally, find both the incoming and outgoing administrations to be truly repellant.

But where it makes sense to do so, I will give credit.

This just feels like something that can be undone with a few minutes of trump's time. If it stays paused then great. And I'm sure halting the practice even for a few months does material good for people, I just can't give more credit when the Biden admin could do much more to halt it.

New comment by yyuugg in "Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures"

yyuugg — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:06:47 +0000

Civil asset forfeiture, including by the DEA, is still very much a thing. Having a President end it in airports affects some tiny fraction of the broader problem.

And it only ends it until a future admin un-ends it. I could see both democrats and republicans deciding that they will allow this practice again.

I think it's much more correct to call the practice "paused" until we legislate it away. "Ending" implies a finality we cannot possibly be comfortable with.

New comment by yyuugg in "Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family"

yyuugg — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:03:19 +0000

Exactly what I'm saying!

New comment by yyuugg in "Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family"

yyuugg — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 07:18:17 +0000

The U.S. has funded terrorist organizations since forever. You think this is novel?

New comment by yyuugg in "Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family"

yyuugg — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 07:16:06 +0000

Maybe if your leader is a dictator and it looks like you are losing, defecting might be a better option than fighting to the death for a leader who doesn't care about you.

New comment by yyuugg in "Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family"

yyuugg — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 07:14:00 +0000

I don't know that I agree with this characterization. Was Assad particularly stable? Was he able to prevent rebel groups effectively?

HTS of today might be different from HTS of the past, but that's very much could be just their propaganda. We'll see. Given "guaranteed evil" vs "probably evil" I'd probably prefer the lesser evil.

I very much suspect Russia is fully focused on Ukraine and cannot or will not project force in the region.

Iran has been remarkably restrained over the past little while, and I suspect they want to keep things cool and not hot.

New comment by yyuugg in "Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures"

yyuugg — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 06:59:18 +0000

If by "for years" you mean "since its inception" then yes, 100% agree.

New comment by yyuugg in "Airline informant received thousands from passenger cash seizures"

yyuugg — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 06:41:56 +0000

Did they stop it? Maybe in airports, maybe. The practice is still very much alive.

New comment by yyuugg in "TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court"

yyuugg — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:29:56 +0000

In general, I find the concept of originalism to meet this criteria. Especially as originalist justices are turning to tradition over originalism. The bend from "the words as originally written" to "our traditions" is a fundamentally conservative (lowercase c) one.

In cases like Vidal v. Elster, United States v. Rahimi, and Samia v. United States I think you'll see the justices straining to understand how how square originalism against the modern world, and having to turn to another justification, traditionalism, which feels more like a "I believe this to be true, due to my political lenses" than perhaps some originalist justices in the past.

That said, I personally find originalism to be pretty conservative already (lowercase c again), and kind of silly, but the recent justice appointments are dialling it up more and more.

New comment by yyuugg in "TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court"

yyuugg — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:18:22 +0000

So... nationalism? We like our surveillance state and demonize their surveillance state?

New comment by yyuugg in "Intuitive introverts lead the most successful teams: study"

yyuugg — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:52:23 +0000

It's absolutely pseudo science. People love it, and it's useful as a tool to recognize "different humans problem solve differently", but like, taking it more seriously than that is a problem.

New comment by yyuugg in "TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court"

yyuugg — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:50:57 +0000

This ban has always felt so silly. If it's privacy and data harvesting as a concern, don't a million apps do that? If it's anti-China sentiment, why TikTok and not a million other things? If it's about protecting elections and propaganda, why not X and Meta and YouTube?

It's so weirdly targeted to me. Why TikTok only?

New comment by yyuugg in "TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court"

yyuugg — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:45:37 +0000

The latter, but it's always been the latter. But usually they've been better at using the former to hide the latter. Recently, there's been a much thinner veneer of "legal principles".

New comment by yyuugg in "60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone"

yyuugg — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:07:19 +0000

I'd be shocked to see a leftist still on Twitter, tbh. I'm sure there are plenty of Liberals, but I doubt there are many Leftists.

New comment by yyuugg in "60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone"

yyuugg — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:05:12 +0000

I talk about MySpace and Digg regularly, they are unpopular, and they are the exact thing happening here.

I think we're in the interregnum period between X and whatever picks up the crown.

New comment by yyuugg in "60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone"

yyuugg — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:26:57 +0000

Then it's a good opportunity for you to reflect on why it doesn't make sense, go and educate yourself a little. Congrats, you learned you need to learn a little today!

New comment by yyuugg in "60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone"

yyuugg — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 15:22:36 +0000

X, as a platform, is absolutely cooked. I'm sure it will remain around the same way Truth social is around. A small group of right wing folks will hang out there and argue to their last breath that it's more free speech or something, but increasingly having an X account will be seen as kind of a weird trait.

It'll make for some interesting stories a decade from now when we'll all reminisce about "remember how Musk fucked Twitter? Oh shit, is it still running?"