“We apologize for being caught.”
Real politik.
Saudi Arabia is a useful ally to have in the region, a fellow enemy of Russian ally Iran, a good customer for the defense industry, and an alliance makes the US less reliant on Israel. That’s a win-win.
Elements in the Saudi government may have helped orchestrate 9/11, but after 2003 attacks in Saudi Arabia they drastically and often violently curtailed the influence of the Wahhabi establishment. The aristocracy clamped down on the power of the clergy. They also offered significant and valuable intelligence cooperation with the US
So if elements in the Saudi government did help orchestrate 9/11, it’s easier to sweap it under the rug. There are more important issues to worry about.
Twenty years ago? Other decisions should have been made and not made.
Now? The world and the regime in Saudi Arabia has changed.
It was already spreading from mammal to mammal. IRC there was that Mink farm last year and I think seals too. There were also cases of H5N1 jumping from birds to humans.
Given H5N1 can make the jump from birds to mammals(including humans), and from mammals to mammals, it’s not a huge shock that it’s made the jump to humans from other mammals.
H1N1 killed 50-100 million people, so the danger has always been there, and scientists have been warning about it for decades. For example, here’s a journal article from almost twenty years ago discussing this scenario:
Humans are mammals.
Are you suggesting they should simply start saving for retirement?
If so, that’s ‘let them eat cake’ level out of touch.
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The ford mondeo (I think it was called the fusion in the US) was ‘inspired’ by the Aston Martin Rapide. This was at a time when Ford owned Aston Martin. Fisker and Porritt, who worked at tesla when the model S came out, also worked for Ford/Aston Martin.
It’s not just me either. For example, here’s a ten year old thread on the tesla forum which mentions it:
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/ford-mondeo-copying-s-design.42767/
The tesla model S looks like a decade old eurospec Ford Mondeo.
Certainly look more alike than a porsche and a byd.
What are we going to do, shoot them?
Yes.
I really don’t think genocide on home turf will go over well.
See above.
I honestly think he wants to be arrested. It’d do his political campaign wonders to spend a few nights in jail and do a Hitler.
So perhaps it’s for the best he’s only being fined for now.
Obviously it’s disgusting, us plebes would have been in jail a long time ago.
What happens when something requires maintenance in a month/week/day?
Insert more poop emojis.
Textbook statistics don’t really hold when you have a huge selection bias, as just about any poll does.
Meh. Often quite accurate, if you read the small print and caveats. It’s not 1980. Good pollsters don’t just do landline surveys, they correct for demographic factors, and are transparent about flaws and limitations.
IME the problem is usually how the media reports on said polling.
Probably inflation.
You don’t need to poll everyone to get relatively accurate polling results.
I have a related degree, it is possible with the necessary caveats, margins of error and confidence intervals. Statistics is a wonderful thing.
This being said, I actually read the full 77 page document they linked to, and if I’m not mistaken the 55% comes from a 2021 telephone poll. Obviously phone only polls are likely to be biased, even if you correct for demographic factors like age.
Then again, inflation is a problem.
I have a related degree.
The study was conducted for CNN via web and telephone on the SSRS Opinion Panel, a nationally representative panel of U.S. adults ages 18 or older recruited using probability-based sampling techniques.
BUT…
In a January 2021 poll taken just before Trump left office and days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, 55% considered his time as president a failure.
Relevant bit:
Unless otherwise noted, results beginning with the August 3-6, 2017 survey and ending with the April 21-26, 2021 survey are from polls conducted by SSRS via telephone only
TLDR: doubt those polls are representative.
The darkly funny thing about this, is that he’s probably saying this because there’s an election coming up.
Clearly thinks this’ll be a vote winner with their electorate.
The nasty party never really changes does it?
I am firmly convinced people don’t realise how good Stargate is, because there’s so much of it, that few have the time to watch all of it and realise how good it is.
You can lay siege though. Bomb anything going out or in.
