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

As well as spreading and planting seeds, clearing competing plants, and providing water and nutrients.

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.

Couldn’t find it

Relevant smbc

Tesla isn’t even in the top 10 for either cars produced or revenue. It being the highest valued car manufacturer in the world is just empty hype.

This one

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/supreme-court-prioritizes-expedience-not-justice-wrongful-convictions-2022-05-25/

You missed the one saying it’s okay to execute innocent people.

Unfortunately, the supreme court has zero checks and balances, and recently has been willing to make partisan political rulings, so it may well strike it down to help Republicans.

Is there any country that doesn’t suck?

AES?

Edit: Found it, “Actually existing socialism”

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There are two issues:

• Parties aren’t set in stone, Republicans will shift some positions to appear more palatable and move some states redder

• If they take power now they are likely to increase Gerrymandering and voter suppression to give themselves an advantage.

My worry with that is the supreme court would just declare it void.

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.

The classic “Buy a reputable brand, cut costs and coast along on the reputation until you can sell off all your shares and move on to another company”. Bonus points for using legalised embezzlement share buyback.

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