Sorta. Maybe best to ignore advertising quotes.

Producing beef outputs a lot more greenhouse gases than pork, and chicken is less than either one. Fruit and vegetables are less than any of them.

None of these are better than the others for how they treat the animals. Unnecessary brutality all around. It would not cost that much to treat them with some level of ethics, and if that small cost reduces how much meat people eat, that’s probably a good thing.

That would save colonies near suburban areas. That would not save colonies surrounded by hundreds of acres of farm. There is far, far more farmland in the US than suburban yards.

You need to convince farmers of that, not people who own suburban lawns. Though people with suburban lawns should convert over, their affect is going to be small compared to hundreds of acres of farm run by a few people.

Let me be clear: natural lawns are a good thing, and my wife and I are converting over piece by piece. However, I think people jumped to that conclusion here because they’re already preconditioned to it. Natural lawns are never going to undo the damage caused by overuse of agricultural pesticides.

How does that fix a virus spread by parasitic mites?

“Insiders hope” might be better phrasing than “insiders admit”. Tariffs at this level weren’t being recommended by anyone besides Trump, because they’re stupid as hell. The right-libertarian wing of the party doesn’t want any kind of tariffs what so ever. The protectionist wing wants some tariffs, but not strong, across the board tariffs like this.

Nobody wants this except Trump. Almost literally nobody. His supporters back it because that’s how cults work. Nobody thinks this is a good idea of their own accord.

Fucking NAT. Never should have been allowed to escape from the lab.

Car thermostats for the radiator. You don’t want the coolant flowing when the engine first starts, because it will run like shit. So you have a cylinder filled with wax that expands with heat. That controls a valve to set the flow of coolant. Low tech, works fine, no particular reason to change it.

That is being a Nazi. Finding an “other” to blame all your problems on is central to the idea. If they let up on this for a moment, they’d have to solve actual problems, and they don’t know how to do that.

There should be a Poison Ivy movie of basically that.

Possibly the opposite.

There were plenty of little Nazi groups around the United States before and after WW2, but they weren’t allowed in polite company after the war. Not even among conservatives. Some of them stuck around using anti-communisim as a cover, but they were usually asked to leave if the mask slipped too much.

The Greatest Generation fought Nazis, and they weren’t going to let overt ones have any political power. They may not have had sophisticated ideas about what a fascism is (Ur-fascism wasn’t even published until 1995, most people still haven’t read it, and it’s not even the final word on the subject), but they weren’t going to ally themselves with overtly ideological ones.

The Greatest Generation is also dead enough that it no longer has much political power. Just the situation the mask-off fascists have been waiting for.

Almost like sleep mode on x86 is impossible to do correctly. I’m not even sure Windows does better or worse than Linux on this one.

Trump doesn’t understand what he’s doing, but somehow, his supporters do.

Alaska. Gorgeous state.

There’s also an argument that it doesn’t matter. An unborn child is 100% feeding off of the parent carrying them. Nobody has the right to force that choice on anyone.

There is so much more context behind that. The two are not at all comparable.

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.”

You’re completely ignoring what happens in the first paragraph of NATO Article 5. The Security Council only comes into play if they get off their ass. The Security Council rarely gets off its ass, because too many countries that hate each other have veto power. NATO will continue operations for the defense of its members regardless.

None of that is true of the Budapest Memorandum. They bring it up with the Security Council, and that’s it.

Are you going to keep digging this hole?

Nope, not at all comparable. The US does not puppet master the UN Security Council. It can bring the matter up, and it has. Russia has veto power on the same council. Nobody expects anything to come of that, but the requirements were met.

Not at all. You clearly haven’t read what’s actually in there.

Clinton didn’t think Congress would ratify strong guarantees. Ukraine itself wasn’t in a position to ask for much more, because it didn’t have the economy to afford to maintain nuclear weapons. The result is an agreement that aggression against Ukraine would be brought up with the UN security council, and that’s about it.

In providing military aid, the US has exceeded what was promised.

I did. The United States followed everything it says. It just doesn’t say to do very much.

What did the US promise to Ukraine?