Did you find Verapamil had any mood altering or cognitive properties for you? I take it for migraines. I think it makes me a little more emotionally stable but a tiny bit slower cognitively, especially in the mornings. It's a good trade off, especially in light of how it basically stopped my migraines, but it's one I have perceived.
I think you can destroy the environment with industrialization using different distributive glosses. The Soviet Union did it with a very diminished sense of private property and limited internal markets. I think sometimes it is capitalist ignoring of externalities and other times it is socialist ignoring of externalities.
The soviet union most likely did what it did because it was totalitarian, not because it was socialist. A dictator can choose to pollute a river, but that’s kinda besides the point. The point is that the incentives that capitalism creates for individuals’ behavior will tend to drive them to produce without consideration for externalities. Even a dictatorship may arguably have more incentives against such, cause the dictator needs to avoid pissing off the people so much that they overthrow him. Capitalism instead explicitly accepts most behaviors which pursue profit regardless of their externalities. To the extent we don’t do that today, it’s mostly the result of changing our economy to be a more mixed model with government regulation.
US government contracts account for 70%+ of SpaceX’s revenues through 2018. Can’t speculate about since. I like SpaceX but it’s just untrue that they weren’t highly dependent on US gov’t contracts for a long time (which itself is the product of space market liberalization by Obama in 2010).
So the government does fund space companies - including slush amounts for things like "launch availability" and launch readiness / quick launch capabilities which are ways to try to keep the reported per launch costs down.
For both National Security and other missions SpaceX is FAR cheaper. I'm not sure if that still counts as government "largesse" - which is more about a generous gift or contract. To keep more than one provider in mix the government has been doing some largesse to try to get some money to other providers.
The list is long, but for starters Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier are obvious cases, imprisoned since 1981 and 1977 respectively. The Black Panther and AIM had countless other political prisoners over the years. Since 2001, anti-terrorist laws have been used against eco-activists to imprison them.
There are prisoners of the social war in every country, but i think it's unique that a country has prisoners for life where they're accused of crimes that noone can prove and noone dares say they committed. In contrast, Georges Ibrahim-Abdallah (french political prisoner since 1984) or Abdullah Öcalan (turkish political prisoner since 1999) have both committed actual crimes and do not claim otherwise. To be clear, i will stand for their liberation too, but it's clear from the history of COINTELPRO (and related militant assassinations) that the US is not better than Saudi when it comes to thought crimes.
More recently, Chelsea Manning was a US political prisoner. And we can say that despite being incarcerated in the UK, Julian Assange is a US political prisoner to this day.
Some people argue that every prisoner is a political prisoner, since prisons are a recent invention and there's entire policies around how to fill them with desperate people to turn them into cheap labor for the industry. I won't make that point here, but it's worth keeping in mind when considering that the US has the highest incarceration rates in the world.
Most of the people (though not all) who are or were in prison for the events of January 6. Approximately 400 people give or take, though a number of them have already completed their sentences.
There’s a rich history of political incarceration in the United States beyond just this, particularly egregious example. The Wikipedia entry on the topic is fairly extensive
I can't say it's the same when protesters occupy a building as a symbol or for logistics purposes, and when "protesters" are called upon by the outgoing president to take power by force. There were armed militiamen in the Jan 6 incidents, and the police and security forces were told to look the other way many days in advance.
> Do I need to refer you to many other examples where there was unauthorized entry into federal and state buildings that disrupted official proceedings
Yes, please, give some examples, that could be good for the perspective.
Would be good examples - but where there are many pro-Palestine incidents lately which disrupted official proceedings? Vietnam is another story, different from January 6th, and it's about events 50 years ago - things could change since that.
Literally obeyed the velvet ropes. Completely unarmed. 99% did not break anything, and the magnetic locks on the entrance were opened by Capitol police, after which people were ushered in by police. It’s all on video and in court documents
Most political prisoners in Russia get out after 15 days. There is even a colloquial term for it.
Even the woman mentioned in this article was taken to the police station, yelled at, intimidated, and released. Not saying that's great, but there was no jail time.
Exactly. Dudes here are getting high on their own propaganda and imagining that the same multi year pre-trial detentions that are the norm in the US are also the norm elsewhere. But they just aren’t, unless you take money from the CIA like Navalny foolishly did
In American chattel slavery, women were kidnapped, stuffed into boats where malnourished strangers died around them, beaten, forced to change their names and religion, and raped. The children of those rapes were routinely sold at auction, and their parents would never see them again. If the children were caught secretly learning to read, they would be beaten. Income taxes are annoying, but they are not slavery.
Meanwhile we still rip custody from many (disproportionately) black dads, auction their children to foster homes, compel them to come up with certain amount of money and if they don't do it for the whip crackers we toss them in jail where they may be raped and malnourished and legally chained in work gangs.
the society you get by deciding that tired jocks with guns and a 2-4x of baseline rate of domestic violence and an unstoppable union should get to decide what due process is bad. law enforcers should have to follow the law. also I am willing to bet you don’t know much about due process because there is no way you’re an attorney but I’ll eat my shoe if you show me where you’re licensed to practice law.
The idea that drag shows mock trans women would surprise a lot of trans women drag performers. It’s not an unheard of position for trans women but it is not the norm.
I have 2 cats who are deaf and scream when they are anxious. They are very sweet but I could not sleep for 2 years. It was becoming intolerable. I started them on Fluoxetine (Prozac) and the problem has been reduced by 80%, I get at least 6 hours of sleep before one of them yells, and usually 7 or 8. They are happier and so am I. There is stigma about putting pets on psychiatric drugs and some vets are hesitant but I highly recommend it.
