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6 months agoLord of War
Here’s the intro to Lord of War. I love the little smirk he pulls off at about 45s.
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This does not have the seeds of a civil war.
Look back to 1861. The US was split between slave and free states. Both regions had different economic models that were in conflict. The slavers of the south controlled most of the nation’s capital. The slaves were worth more than all the railroads and foundries of the north. They had oligarchic control of the southern states.
When Lincoln was elected, it was the first time that an outspoken abolitionist became president. It was clear, that the demographics of the US were changing in a way that would lose their power and status. So they started a war.
Those weren’t the uneducated racists that you find waving confederate flags today.
The US has seen presidential lawlessness before (notably Andrew “Trail of Tears” Jackson). It also has seen lawlessness by state politicians (eg Harry F. “Massive Resistance” Byrd or Governor Orval “Blood will run in the Streets” Faubus).
The only way I could see a civil war is, if Trump directly threatened the Middle Class and/or the Wealthy Elites.
I work retail and we’ve had an onslaught of freight
How’s going now? Any noticeable change yet?
By crashing the US economy, he is teaching a better lesson about fascism than any history professor.
- The chart shows weeks, not months.
- It shows scheduled arrivals of vessels in LA. It may not be safe to equate that to freight arriving in the US.
we’ve had an onslaught of freight
IDK how long it takes from the ports to you, but that should end in a few days. Keep us updated!
The negative number means that far fewer ships are arriving in LA than at the same time last year.
Yes, and then, or rather now, incoming shipping collapses.
Yes. It goes from much higher than last year to much lower.
You seem to be misreading that.
How you figure? Trump will just fold?
Huh. Haven’t actually seen panic on Lemmy. I only see it on social media accounts of economists and logistics people.
Maybe. I have no 6-year-olds around to ask. I have noticed that people often have misconceptions that I can’t even fathom because I have grown up in a completely different tech environment. For me, it has not worked to make assumptions.
The average person probably only knows the functioning of the DNS and one or two email apps. And quartz, of course.
Whenever anything is “federated” the easiest comparison is email.
Yes, but how many people know how email works? More to the point, how many people, who aren’t looking for the answer on GitHub, know?
There’s various concepts in common law jurisdictions that go in the same direction.
…as a drunken man uses lamp posts — for support rather than illumination.
The question makes me remember Daryl Bem, a celebrated social psychologist. He published a much cited article called “Writing the Empirical Journal Article”. About 15 years ago, he used this advice to prove that humans can see into the future. His advice is probably still used to teach. That’s probably the worst thing you can do.
Honorable mention for 8mm. It isn’t a good movie, unless you go for the very 1999 aesthetics. But I’ll give a shout-out to that quote delivered by Joaquin Phoenix: “If you dance with the devil, the devil don’t change. The devil changes you.”