I’m just suspicious because your use of MAGA as an insult while praising Donald Trump is so absurdly inconsistent it looks like deliberate dishonesty.

As an aside, what’s your opinion on the war in Ukraine?

1. Other people in the thread have listed the concrete actions Trump has taken abandoning all pressure Biden put on Israel.
2. There was a previous ceasefire while Biden was in office, and the current one was made under a framework created by the Biden administration.
3. Israel has started an offensive in the West Bank.
4. Do you honestly believe things would have gone better had Trump been in office for the entire war?

Bold of you to accuse people of being MAGA while actively praising Trump.

Calling for ethnic cleansing is better?

What are the chances Republicans were pressuring Netanyahu to delay a ceasefire until after the election, like they did in the Iran hostage crisis?

For a long time Facebook counted an angry react as equal to five likes for measuring engagement. It’s very much intentional.

None of these folks are capable of manufacturing modern nitrocellulose gun powder or primer caps necessary to reload their fancy rifles and handguns.

This gave me a thought, would having equipment for ammonia and other chemicals (for fertiliser as well as explosives) be useful for preppers?

That can be delayed for a long time by stockpiling spare parts.

Chickens are the most numerous bird on the planet, wheat covers more land area than any other plant.

I evolutionary terms being edible to humans is quite useful.

It’s been well reported on that Russia doesn’t work like that, with junior officers unable to use initiative and the whole system being very slow to respond to changing events. The reason it operates like this was shown when they did try having a more independent unit, which resulted in the Wagner Group mutinying.

That’s standard in Western militaries. It means units aren’t paralyzed by unexpected circumstances while they wait for communication to go up and down the chain of command, and it improves resilience if communications or senior officers are incapacitated.

Trump needs lead water pipes to get votes.

Plus, rural folks are not major emitters, so it doesn’t really make much sense to even try to find meaningful emission savings there.

“On average, cities and large towns produce about four tonnes of CO2 per capita, compared with more than six tonnes elsewhere in the UK”

https://www.centreforcities.org/reader/net-zero-decarbonising-the-city/why-cities-will-need-to-play-a-central-role-in-the-net-zero-agenda/

“between 1.5 to 3 gallons per mile”, for those wondering

More often dictators take control of the church and use it for propaganda.

Mandelbroccoli

I’m skeptical about the 10 number, fruits and vegetables are plants.

People talk a lot about the genericisation of brand names, but the branding of generic terms like this really annoys me.

I’ll use the example I first noticed. A few years ago, the Conservative government was under criticism for the minimum wage being well under a living wage. In response, they brought in the National Living Wage, which was an increase to the minimum wage, but still under the actual living wage. However, because of the branding, it makes criticising it for not meeting the actual living wage more difficult, as you have to explain the difference between the two, and as the saying goes, “if you’re explaining, you’re losing”.