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Transnistria, the breakaway Moldovan province on Ukraine's Western border, has requested that Russia provide it with "defense" to protect its Russian residents. This is the same premise used to justify Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Donbas. A Russian military force on Ukraine's Western border would create a two-front war.
Russophile Republicans should recognize that any Russian buildup in Transnistria is certainly a prelude to a wider war.
**We must fund…
Reading The Case for Open Borders, which has so many heartbreaking stories of senseless cruelty, and thinking: The ways people justify this are the same ways they justify cruel displacement of homeless people in San Francisco...
Reading The Case for Open Borders, which has so many heartbreaking stories of senseless cruelty, and thinking: The ways people justify this are the same ways they justify cruel displacement of homeless people in San Francisco...
The way they justify their bizarre grroming dogma is amazing:
"It must be predatory exploitation because so obviously no one could honestly love someone 6 years younger than them. So gross!"
It's exactly like the 1950s "It had to be rape. There's no way our daughter could love a Negro! So gross!"
As far as actual crimes, the person from graduate school who "got me" because they know I used to sometimes drink and black out between the ages of 18-25 and claims I am clearly a bimbo because of things my ex said and maybe pics he had is probably telling the truth. Ok. I am sorry that I was not more responsible. It was over 15 years ago now and I barely drink now, and the goal of this is not to say I am a perfect person but to warn others. Understand this is being used to justify why I clearly did not deserve a promotion ten years later after getting my PhD and working in photodetector calibration for a decade, for an incident of sexual harassment so blatant against not only me but every other female bodied person in the organization that the person was actually fired
“Hello. I have good intentions. I would like to explain my good intentions. Here’s a whole bunch of extra work to justify our good intentions. It’s really swimming against the stream but we’re trying our best here to stick to our principles.”
“But what if you have bad intentions? Checkmate.”
I forgot what it’s like to be on Hacker News.
That time in 1989 that 16-year-old Ronna Romney (McDaniel) and her mom (also named Ronna) had a run-in with a #cop over unauthorized use of a #disability parking spot, her dad Scott wrote a letter to the court trying to justify it, and #Detroit
Every time there is a #discussion comparing two #technologies they always turn it into a sh$thole of loosely held arguments just to justify that theirs is better. These conversations get so draining...
Bet that it would cost a lot less if they didn't need to justify spending that much on an NFT.
If you care about Alexei Navalny's death and his meaning as an opposition in Russia, but somehow justify or tolerate Julian Assange's or Abdullah Öcalan's imprisonment, then you don't care about Alexei Navalny's death.
The idea that a professional society is taking away a doctor’s right to practice medicine based on that doctor’s political speech criticizing powerful corporate interests is really dark. This is how fascism happens, folks. And guess what? A doctor fighting polluting industries IS doing the right thing for public health, so such speech should be celebrated! The sooner we phase out fossil fuels, the better.
@… I think “The band Gentle Giant was such …” works but if you just have “Gentle Giant” then “Gentle Giant were such …” has a better flow for me. Probably because my brain says “a group/band is implicitly plural” but I cannot justify that grammatically..
Imagine the atrocities you can justify by promising ultimate universal happiness 🤩 #TESCREAL
Via New Statesman: 'Many authoritarian leaders were democratically elected and used that popular support to justify curtailing civil liberties. Trump has been clear that if he is put into office, he will try to change the rules so that he can impose his agenda without representative democracy or checks and balances. Trump barely grasps what these rules even are. This time around, he has a team of conservative zealots who understand American democratic governance well enough to break it.&…
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We (Californians) need this - it has gotten nearly impossible to obtain home insurance except via the state's own "Fair" plan - a lot of money for minimal insurance.
I was renewing my car insurance and the agent mentioned that he had over 180 new requests for home coverage just that morning because of all the cancellations by companies who are leaving the home insurance industry in the state.
#Trump’s response to Justice Engoron’s ruling is revealing. He thinks it’s OK to lie, cheat and commit fraud because the banks got their money back in the end. This kind of ends-justify-the-means thinking is central to his whole outlook. Why follow rules when it’s easier to break them?
canadian arts funding org: take apart that phrase and see it has nothing at all to do with american billionaires, IT tech companies, license fees, surveillance or obscene profit. It's Canadian, deals in the Arts, provides funding, and is an ORG. Why do they demand, not request, they DEMAND Facebook, Twitter and IG accounts or you are automatically disqualified?
I won't say who, I'll wait a day to let them justify themselves. They being Canadian and an ORG, frankly, I'm …
In Shamir secret sharing, is it alright for the leading coefficient of the polynomial to always be non-zero?
If you answer "No", please justify your answer or be prepared to face me in mortal combat.
Somebody shared with me a new post about `disabled` & `aria-disabled` to justify their poor decision and now I am wasting time debunking something an accessibility consulting firm wrote but which says almost nothing.
It might as well be a Rorschach test for poor devs.
Every time there is a #discussion comparing two #technologies they always turn it into a sh$thole of loosely held arguments just to justify that theirs is better. These conversations get so draining...
An Honest Assessment of US Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue: “And [writers] they don’t acknowledge one of our core arguments: Republicans are winning rural votes but doing almost nothing to improve rural Americans’ lives.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/180570…
""Vladimir Putin is trying to construct a narrative backwards, saying Russia as a state began its development in the ninth century. You could equally say that Ukraine as a state began its development in the ninth century, exactly with the same kind of evidence and documents."
Also many other false arguments were made described in the added article.
#AntiTeenBigotry is a big hit now. Everybody is all excited to demean and degrade and infantilize young adults. It's vile. It's disgusting AF.
and in order to justify their sick prejudice the bigots have latched on to the "undeveloped brain" myth.
@… I think “The band Gentle Giant was such …” works but if you just have “Gentle Giant” then “Gentle Giant were such …” has a better flow for me. Probably because my brain says “a group/band is implicitly plural” but I cannot justify that grammatically..
Imagine the atrocities you can justify by promising ultimate universal happiness 🤩 #TESCREAL
Man … Euchre being $420 … and today being 4/20 … I was kinda hoping they'd cancel each other out and I could snatch it up for $0 or something. It's just so pretty to look at. I wish I could justify buying it for something. It's been my dream for over *checks notes* … one week! @…
Phony outrages are being used by Republicans to justify their party's rejection of religious liberty and embrace of Christian nationalism
Bogus claims that Democrats “mock your faith” are a cynical excuse to strip Americans of religious freedom
Every single word of this, of course, is a lie. Democrats are not trying to take God away,
as evidenced by Biden going to church and sharing a statement of faith.
Nor is there a scrap of evidence that trans people ar…
Cost-benefit analysis of ecosystem modelling to support fisheries management
Matthew H. Holden, Eva E. Plag\'anyi, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Alexander B. Campbell, Rachel Janes, Robyn A. Lovett, Montana Wickens, Matthew P. Adams, Larissa Lubiana Botelho, Catherine M. Dichmont, Philip Erm, Kate J Helmstedt, Ryan F. Heneghan, Manuela Mendiolar, Anthony J. Richardson, Jacob G. D. Rogers, Kate Saunders, Liam Timms
Early vote counts suggest attempt to modernise Irish constitution has failed
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/09/vote-referendum-modernise-ireland-constitution-women-home
<< this will be no surprise. It was an awful campaign and the proposed replacement text is either vague and/or problematic.
It doesn't bode well for the next UPC referendum, which whilst a much easier "yes" to justify *if you know*, is on a niche issue.
The user seeks advice about geoblocking practice and asks for suggestions for lists used to justify blocking certain countries due to a lack of proper conditional access setup. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1bxvfkg/
our electronic lab notebook vendor keeps offering to demo a LLM integration for us. the ELN is the system we depend on to characterize molecules that we someday want to put into humans and describe the protocols by which we find them. we will inevitably use it to justify patent claims and settle business disputes.
maybe i just lack imagination here but i am not inclined to integrate a Lie Machine into that system, no
#Trump voters are likely mentally masochists. It is a bit hard to justify why you think the previous election results were illegitimate while still want to participate in this one. I mean, honestly?
An Honest Assessment of US Rural White Resentment Is Long Overdue: “And [writers] they don’t acknowledge one of our core arguments: Republicans are winning rural votes but doing almost nothing to improve rural Americans’ lives.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/180570…
Probabilistic Examination of Least Squares Error in Low-bitwidth Cholesky Decomposition
Alexander Osinsky, Roman Bychkov, Mikhail Trefilov, Vladimir Lyashev, Andrey Ivanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05082
Now, ‘qualified immunity’ fans justify jailing a forgetful grandmother
Next Wednesday, the #Supreme #Court will hear oral arguments as to whether #Sylvia #Gonzalez
Amazon's promise of recyclable packaging falls short, as an investigation reveals a bleak reality: the majority ends up in landfills, incinerated, or downcycled. #ClimateCrisis #AirPollution #RecyclingFail
#Sustainability #ZeroWaste #PlasticFantastic
Monbiot flagging up ME/CFS myths
George Monbiot explains the bad science around Graded Exercise Therapy etc.
Good to see awareness of this atrocity becoming more mainstream.
"Despite an overwhelming weight of evidence, the old believers, including Sharpe and Wessely, have continued to try to justify their model ... This is not how science should work."
#MECFS #science #medicine #GeorgeMonbiot #SimonWessely #MichaelSharpe
Accelerating the convergence of Newton's method for nonlinear elliptic PDEs using Fourier neural operators
Joubine Aghili, Emmanuel Franck, Romain Hild, Victor Michel-Dansac, Vincent Vigon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03021
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