Rakonat

While I understand the pushback against military drafts/service requirements, they also can be a net positive for a culture that applies them equally regardless of gender, class or ethnicity. You are significantly less likely to support war if your children or grandchildren could potentially get dragged into it. Want to the majority of wars? Make it a law that the heirs of the rich must serve in the infantry during wartime.

It's not even exclusive to Cubans. Pick any migrant group and the conservative members of that group hate the idea of people who were in identical circumstances to their family when they migrated getting the same chances. Fuck your got mine the entire way down.

Doesn't matter how this administration spins it, we aren't going to condone them fucking teenage girls.

Israel had no justification to seize the flotilla and has yet to even pretend to have evidence they acted appropriately. It's incredibly frustrating the international community is doing nothing.

I work in residential therapy. Abusers always find some means to justify and normalize their abuse so the vulnerable youth just go along with it thinking they are the ones at fault. It's infuriating and heartbreaking how many youth I work with that have to be deprogrammed from this kind of thought while simultaneously taught healthy boundaries for other youth and adults. Nothing claws at your soul more than reading about all the awful shit an abuser did or put a child through only for that child to be crying at night begging for a chance to talk with their abuser again.

Inb4 Doom can now run on birds.

This plant is part of a bigger chain. So while yes, on its own it seems waste of effort, as part of the entire chain it's a reasonable step to be more environmentally friendly and recover some energy in the process.

A local plant desalinates water, resulting in fresh water and a brine solution that has much higher concentration of salt in it than regular sea water.

Dumping the brine solution on its own would kill most plant and animal life around the dump site due to large saltwater concentration, so an alternative method must be found to dispose of the brine.

Waste water from other processes can be mixed with the brine to bring it more in line with seawater salinity, making it safe to reintroduce to the ocean without severe ecological impact. This waste water is deemed to difficult or intensive to purify and treat to bring it back up clean water standards, and I'm assuming tested or filtered so as not to introduce hazardous chemicals that could damage the reverse osmosis membranes as well as sea life.

Because there is way to mix the waste water and brine through membranes that can be used to generate electricity, this process is utilized to recover some of the energy expended in purifing the original batch of seawater resulting in the brine.

It's not a perfect process but it is a means of getting some use out a waste product, similar to burning garbage or rotting food rather than just dumping it into a pit and letting it rot and release methane.

An Australian man eating spider wrote this post.

Worth noting lot of industry experts in renewables and outside of it criticize LCOE for not properly taking inflation and total life cycle costs into account. It's still a useful number but never let it be more than a single data point in determining which form of energy is cost effective balanced against environmental impact.

Edit: also worth noting, LCOE assumes 1:1 supply and demand, no power storage or other other factors if renewables produce more than demand needs, but credits them as if that supply was used. Additionally it doesn't differentiate low demand and high demand costs that many areas use, which can skew the numbers significantly if not accounted for and just assumed energy prices are constant throughout the day.

Find a person who makes it worth getting out of bed every morning and they feel the same about you. Everything else is crap.

If you still want advice from a stranger on the Internet about dating advice, in your situation I'd probably be looking for people closer to my age than not. But if some 20-22 year old says and does everything that puts a smile on your face, then go for it.

The closest I could say to being loyal would be AOC and Bernie, since I agree with most of their political stances and the things I do disagree with them on is mostly what I consider non-issues. But I'm definitely not running around waving their flag or wearing a big dumb hat to label myself, and certainly not vehemently defending any political blunder they might make.

I've worked with several people that got fired in the last 8 years who claim it was their politics.

True, they all were hard right republicans with Trump/MAGA bumper stickers.

But they all got fired because of their behavior and misconduct. They are just claiming they lost their job for being Trump supporters because suddenly that means it's not their fault and they were persecuted for beliefs and identify, not something they actually did wrong. Nobody really gave a shit about their politics and bumper stickers. Zero self awareness among this crowd; claim the victim cause of who they were then immediately turn around and spew the most foul rhetoric I've ever heard about LGBT youth.