Horseshoe "blood" is blue, and it's not actually blood it's hemolymph. It is blue crab blood. Blue blood from a crab.

Really shifting the goalposts there.

You start with

The only nuclear threats have some from the US.

Then someone provides a list of such events that are from Russia and not the US, then you shift to

Every single one of these is outlined as a response to military aggression.

The original commenter didn't say they were without context. They simply said that the threats were made, which they were. You were so adamant that they weren't made that when you were shown proof that they were made, you have to reframe it.

So what's the conclusion as to what's happening?

As I wrote about in a thread a couple weeks back (here, here, and here), this should have been fine, and was fine on paper.

According to official statements it was going to be diluted, before release, to a level that was even lower than what Fukushima NPP put out while operational. Then it was going to be released at a rate that maintained this concentration.

Did Japan lie? Did it not dilute how it said it would? Was it a technical failure and dilution did not occur at the level they said it would, or was it released too fast at the dilution level they set? Was there not testing at release time/site?

The reason people keep bringing up Iraq is not for some "whataboutism". It's simpler and more significant than that: it shows a hypocrisy, and double-standards. It's not that people are saying "what Russia is doing isn't bad because the USA did bad" (that is whataboutism, by the way); they're saying that the USA's (and the world's) feigned outrage over Russia is hypocritical because of what the USA has done. Nobody held (or intends to hold) the USA to account for what it's done, yet everyone is demanding Russia be torn apart, torn down, everyone tried for war crimes, etc. It's a double-standard. If the USA had been held to account for what it did, then people wouldn't be saying "but Iraq" (and if they did, that truly would be simple whataboutism). But until there is fair application of standards, it's fair to call the USA on its hypocrisy when it wants to pretend to be the world's police while simultaneously (ironically, in line with behavior of actual police) causing tremendous harm itself.

Within the context of Chrome and other Chromium based web browsers, this means that Google will be able to monitor your web browsing in a new way any time you’re using a browser based on Chrome/Chromium.

With only slight hyperbole, we can say that Google can do this monitoring already.

What's worse, is now they can:

• Refuse you access to information by refusing to attest your environment.
• Restrict your browser, extensions, and operating system setup by refusing attestation.
• Potentially bring litigation against you for attempting to circumvent DRM (in the USA it's illegal to bypass DRM).
• Leverage their ad network to require web site operators to use attestation if they wish to serve ads via Google. AKA force you to use Chrome to use big websites.
• Derank search results for sites that are not using attestation.

In my opinion, the least harmful part of this is the ability to monitor page access, because they can more or less do this for Chrome users anyway. What's really harmful here is the potential to restrict access to and destroy practically the entirety of the internet.

Quoting JetBrains,

Fleet is free to use during the public preview

(emphasis mine)

So it is only temporarily free. Once it's polished it will no longer be free. Better to not get tied in to something that will be taken away from you before long.

I don't think Google engineers are living paycheck to paycheck,

The median total compensation for a Google employee in 2022 was $279,802. The highest-paid software engineers can make up to $718,000 a year in base salary, although most reported making between $100,000 to $375,000 in base salary. They can also receive bonuses of up to $605,000. This would put them in the top 1% of earners in the country.

Google Software Engineer Salaries, average compensation by level:

What's more, it's cleaner than when Fukushima was operational!

The total annual amount of tritium to be discharged will be at a level below the operational target value for tritium discharge of the Fukushima Daiichi NPS before the accident

What a horrible source. This is really shit reporting.

They've hyperlinked the word "hot dogs" to another article on their site titled "Hot dogs sold as ‘vegan’ dogs at Tel Aviv Hanukkah event".

They've also spent part of the article estimating the average hot dog size, converting it between units, and converting the reported asteroid size into hot dog units.

All of the section headers are lame hotdog based puns.

This whole shitty presentation adds nothing to the article. It's distracting. In fact, if you take out this bullshit, the article is really only a couple of meaningful paragraphs. And while there is absolutely value in comparing an asteroid size to a daily object (say, "the size of a car"), there is absolutely zero value, perhaps negative value, in comparing an asteroid size to a collection of sequential hot dogs, or two superbowl trophies.

I could somewhat understand if NASA themselves where putting out press releases with these weird comparisons: that would be a somewhat playful and innocent way to increase public interest. But when it is coming from third-party sources, who push it way past the point of playfulness into absurdity, it loses any value.

Also, unless I'm missing it: they don't even link to a NASA statement. So it's pure editorializing without linking to their primary source.

Yikes. They seem to really be in trouble with how many Nazis they're allowing to hold power. Economy Minister resigned because he's a Nazi. Finance Minister is at least a horrific racist but likely also a Nazi. I wonder if it's just a return to the good old days of Finland allying with Nazis and helping Nazis murder Jews.

Finland’s ‘most rightwing government ever’ to cut spending and immigration

Despite being officially "banned" in Finland, the Neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement[^1] seems to be only one-step removed here: both of these Ministers are part of the right-wing "Finns Party" which has direct ties to the Nordic Resistance Movement.

Edit: I said Prime Minister when I meant Economy Minister.

[^1]: Which, rather creepily, has ties to the terrorist Neo-Nazi Azov Batallion that Ukraine has no problems supporting

It’s literally on par with sentencing guidelines for everyone else.

But it's not. It's on par with treatment for other people like her. It's not the case for the vast majority of prisoners in the USA.

The real annoying thing is that this kind of crime should be higher on the sentencing guidelines because the victims are far reaching.

If your argument is that the sentence should be longer than the one given, how do you also say that you have no issue with it being shortened? Those are opposites.

why you think that the reduction itself is a bad thing

In general, I'm not. But I'm extremely against unfair application of the reduction to people like her, leaving others to suffer needlessly.

I can't speak to phrenology per se, but phrenology's modern analogue is, in my opinion, the "genetics" argument. Whereas phrenology was some attempt to "explain" how the apparent shape was indicative of underlying brain structure, contemporary "scientific" racists will use genetic differences to "explain" whatever behavior they want to attribute to it.