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had 32 people on board … featuring a seating capacity of 12 … the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating the cause of the incident

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Yes, pretending you have questions when you just have insults is a great example of trolling.

“FreedomAdvocate” just immediately sounds like a troll account. Aaaannnnd the comment history is almost nothing but trolling. Surprise surprise.

People always think that the spark of invention is all that’s required, ignoring the social and material tinder and kindling that’s required for something to be useful and take off.

CuntGPT, is that you?

A global government would prevent this from ever happening.

A few elites have the power to inflict violence on everyone else and get away with it - aka the state’s monopoly on the legitimate use of violence. This allows them to enforce injustice like unlivable wages but also to starve, jail and kill anyone who is serious about taking aware their power.

Setting up a global union would drastically curtail the power of elites, and they would prevent it. You would have to defeat the world’s elite, and in that case a universal wage is small potatoes.

Tauros in greek is bull, yeah. The minotaur was the Bull of Minos. It may link back to the pre-greek people of crete, known for bull-leaping.

The “ken” in “Kentauros” is thought to mean piercing, but why is a piercing bull a half man/horse? There’s no obvious explanation.

I love the idea of -tauros coming to mean a monstrous combination, like franken- in english. But if there were any evidence of that some very excited nerds would’ve told us, I’m sure.

Personally, I say sen tore.

According to my classics professor ~20 years ago, we can’t know how “au” would’ve been pronounced in the greek.

He told us that ancient greek diphthong pronunciation is just made up. Apparently it’s much harder to reconstruct those sounds confidently, but that didn’t stop past classicists from claiming their reckonings as incontrovertible facts. Oxford and cambridge used to expell students for following the diphthong pronunciations of the other, but both are basically guesses.

In Australia it’s shortened to “Sepo”.

It’s clever, catchy and appropriate for the historical moment.

When an illegitimate fascist coup accuses you of domestic terrorism, it’s because you’re doing the right thing.

Our russian controlled white house will probably host several more PR stunts like this as they work towards their goal of fully cutting off US aid to ukraine.

I think it makes more sense to look at this as the latest step in that plan, rather than an unexpected event that with uncertain consequences to puzzle over. If this particular stunt was axed at the last minute, the situation in 6-12 months would likely be the exact same.

Ukraine was never going to accept a shakedown attempt from a proven welcher working for their enemy, nor agree to a full russian victory just because it was called peace.

The point isn’t to increase productivity it’s to tire and emiserate the minions.

When I was like 9 or 10 I thought our neighbor was at the door so I jumped out in my home made samurai pizza cats outfit, yelling “samurai pizza cats, they’re so bad!”, presuming that he was there to play samurai pizza cats.

Turned out to be a boy from my class at school collecting money for something. He proceeded to blackmail me, getting my lunch in exchange for keeping my dorkiness hush-hush.

Fascist coups succeed when the rich have bought into the coup.

Why would the rich seizing full control of the state make the stock market go down?

All day. Usually getting worse over the course of the day. Even a relatively mild hangover in the morning would be killing me by early evening.

Nothing helps it either. I’ve always eaten before drinking. Staying on top of hydrating while and after drinking has no noticable effect.

Our explanations for the behavior of outsiders say more about our beliefs than theirs.

Even explanations that feel correct to us are almost certainly wrong in important ways.

There’s plenty of scholarship on the various reasons people support fascism, that’s probably your best chance for a full answer.

I feel like a plate could withstand a knife stab

As a klutz who grew up without a dishwasher I can tell you it cannot.

I wonder what kind of performance bonus the republicans earn from putin if they can pressure the world’s 5th largest economy to leave the US.

All social media apps generate enough data about their users to engineer effective disinformation campaigns, influence elections and sway public opinion.

The US would prefer that China has to ask Russia to do that, rather than having direct access.

It also helps the china hawks in the US government who want war by contributing to the perception of China as implacably malicious.

There was a study from Princeton showing that no major policy has aligned with public opinion since the civil rights era.

There is no measurable way that our government has reflected the will of the majority in over 50 years.