Haha nice I’ve never picked that many since I don’t have the energy to shell them all. Here they just grow wild and no one picks them up other than the squirrels. So I just grab some whenever I’m walking around, as long as it looks like a spot where no one will yell at me.
It absolutely has but you don’t necessarily hear about the atrocities that weren’t.
No, it wasn’t, even by the extremely biased and undemocratic standard of the electoral college.
By percentage of electoral college votes, Trump’s victory ranks 44th out of 60 elections. This is a solidly below-average victory and far from a landslide.
It wasn’t a landslide, people who are saying that are just ignorant.
Well only when compared with the other candidates combined together. He still got more votes than Harris.
Headline is a little misleading. Horses and sage grouse actually evolved together before horses were pushed to extinction (likely by overhunting combined with climate change).
The issue is overly large and dense herds—or in other words, a lack of large predators that would keep horse numbers in check in a more complete and functioning ecosystem. This problem may be solved by reintroductions and better management of large predators like wolves, grizzlies, and mountain lions.
Well I certainly agree that left-wing extremism is a thing, including among a variety of leftist ideologies.
My issue is that I don’t think tankies should be considered leftists at all. They are admittedly hard to place on the spectrum because their ideas grew out of leftism, meaning many of their ideals, language, and issues of focus are shared with the left. So to a casual observer they may appear to be leftists. But once these ideas have been completely twisted and transformed to defend and strengthen existing oppressive social structures, they share a lot more in practice with the political right than the left. A wolf is still a wolf even if it wears a sheep hide. And trading a king for a chairman doesn’t make you left-wing if the chairman has most of the same powers and no structures for ordinary people to wield collective power.
Left and right have always been about human freedom and autonomy opposed to the oppression of monarchy and similar institutions, but people have become confused because parties tend to shift to the right the more power they gain. Today people seem to view left and right more as competing sports teams than the broad ideological schools of thought they are. Tankies do not fit with leftist thought and should not be considered any form of leftist, regardless of how extreme they may be.
This is a very complicated issue. It’s absolutely true that there has been decades to centuries of forest mismanagement in the western US, which, combined with extreme heat and drought from climate change, has led to increased wildfire severity.
Logging potentially could help manage the forest in a better way, but only if it’s done correctly. Unfortunately, I have little faith this will be done. The thinning that’s needed should be focused on smaller trees and shrubs while leaving larger trees to grow—large, well spaced trees are actually extremely fire resistant. It’s usually dense stands of smaller trees that create intense wildfires.
The issue arises in that these smaller fuels are not particularly valuable to harvest, and the larger trees are where the money is. For-profit companies will always lobby for taking more larger trees which can actually make things worse by opening space for smaller plants to grow.
So overall the devil is in the details here. Especially as the forest service shifts to a more pro-industry leadership under Trump I doubt they will too careful to follow the science over profits.
Yeah. If anything the situation has become worse since that time. I was banned from the entire instance for a frank if somewhat critical discussion of Chinese history, even as I was trying to avoid contemporary politics because I knew that would get me in trouble.
Anything other than fawning praise of the Chinese government is labeled racism and results in a ban.
But I did read it lol
In Fig. 2, we present a layout of ideological subreddits, capturing the distinct positioning of tankies within the broader ideological spectrum. Their positioning, further to the left than subreddits like r/communism, r/socialism, and r/Anarchism, underscores their unique placement on the periphery of the far-left cluster, emphasising their extreme nature.
Created by /u/joan_de_art on Reddit.
Just watch out for the mosquitoes, ticks, flies, leeches, thorns, and poison ivy!
Most importantly it’s just fun and I’m constantly learning by interacting with the community there. I’ve interacted with world renowned experts on there just by chance which is also interesting. @Quercus, are you an IDer? I wonder if we’ve interacted there without knowing.