Can’t speak to everything, but I remember reading about special schools and workplaces for (I think) autistic people. Places where the person’s individual strengths and sensitivities are respected and where the people are able to really thrive. It could have been something like a restaurant and a workshop with caretakers and maybe even parents present.

I’ll try to remember to find the article when I have time.

Don’t forget Freie Demokraten (FDP). They’re turbo-neolibs. All they care about is cutting social services in favour of handouts for the rich.

What gets me about the the mainstream political discourse is how vilified the AfD rhetoric and policy proposals are, only for all of the main parties to jump on the bandwagon and do the things.

As far as I’ve seen it’s just libs who are desperate to smear him. It’s embrassing having your only talking points dismantled with primary sources.

That makes sense. I’m thinking of this all with a cis male body and bias. As are firearms manufacturers I’m sure.

Doesn’t the SCAR have a telescoping stock? I could be mixing things up though. It’s been over a decade since I paid much attention to firearms.

Aren’t most modern ones ambidextrous? Either in that the ejection port can be placed on either side, or like the P90 design where the brass comes out the bottom. I can imagine mag changes being awkward depending on the location and necessary movements.

How were they awkward to hold in your experience? I have no hands on experience with bullpups but my sense of balance makes me think they’re better with the center of mass closer to your body.

Bullpup platforms are cool. I’ve always liked the FN P90 cause it’s so unique but still very functional. Bullpup long guns like the Barrett M95 also just seem more practical. The combination of a shorter overall length, appropriately long barrel, and center of mass closer to the shooter just makes practical sense.

No. The river runs into the ocean anyway, and even if a new source of freshwater were to run into the ocean, the oceans are so massive there wouldn’t be any measurable change in salinity. A canal like this probably won’t have much flow anyway, as it’s meant for shipping and transportation rather than water diversion or irrigation.

The article does note some concerns in terms of additional pollution and disruption of wildlife due to increased traffic and more industry.

Some BIOSes have a built-in update function that can update from a BIOS file stored on a connected flash drive.

We are conditioned to believe that politics is only election campaigns and inter-party disagreements and compromise.

We are typically not taught that wages, rent, transportation, community, and so much more is also political, and more impactful on our lives than party politics. I typically start there to gently suggest to people that there’s more to politics than just election season theater.

Really big or emotionally heavy topics like Palestine or climate change are too big and too abstract for most people to even begin to engage with.

Depends on who owns the business. If it’s a bourgeois then yes, if it’s the workers themselves then no.

Doesn’t matter which team nominated him. A spook is a spook, anything they touch is gonna get spookified (not that any product from Silicon Valley isn’t already a fancy surveillance and propaganda system).

The entire EU supply chain is subsidized.

Good that those things are taught in some places. I can only speak from my own experience in high school - we were required to have laptops for school but were never taught how to be safe online.

Some people put their whole lives on the internet and never once stop to think if it’s a good idea. Then again, online safety and security are never taught or communicated, at least in the west, maybe by design.

That makes sense, I just think about all the times nuclear war was accidentally started when effectively only two countries had nukes. The risk of an accident or a lapse of judgment happening when some two hundred countries have nuclear weapons is magnified significantly.

I don’t think so, although I can see the arguments for both sides.

I just bought a book on Disarmament published by the USSR, once I get a chance to read some of it I may loop back to this.

So they’ll just start shoveling wood into coal power plants in 2030 and unfurl the “Mission Accomplished” banner.

Digital surveillance is omnipresent in the west. Apparently nobody cares.

Still no worse than the worst of the male grifters.

The Silicon Valley thieves are just copying and stealing from over a century of US industrial strategy.