Not seeing it, even in the logo for this sub?

• and those who rightly recognise that black swans exist?

You may enjoy unsound conclusions, but don’t project that inadequacy onto the rest of us.

The U.S. already witnessed the damage and chaos of a Trumpster Fire presidency.

After 4 years of progress under Biden, it voted for more damage and chaos.

Americans are humans, and humans are all too often short-termist, irrational, and destructive.

If that is what they meant, then that is what they should have said.

But it isn’t what they said, and therefore presumably isn’t what they meant.

Having studied formal logic, I’m well aware of what a tautology is. It is a statement logically equivalent to A = A.

Relevance here: a bad outcome is a bad outcome (regardless whether it happens now or later).

Some old people are the ones who pioneered climate research, renewable energy, de-growth, and environmental activism!

Without them, no-one would understand what exactly has gone wrong or what can be done about it.

Learn to distinguish people based on their individual actions (for which they are responsible), not their involuntary characteristics (such as age).

sometimes change needs to happen for better or worse

Change for worse is not a good thing.

Arguing otherwise is arguing against a tautology.

I think they should grant asylum to people with legitimate asylum claims.

Some “non-spy Russians” have legitimate asylum claims. Some do not.

International coverage: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-accuses-russia-war-crime-after-video-shows-drone-hunting-market-vendor-2026-08-04/

I feel the same way, but can you explain how a VPN would help achieve that in the face of Google’s proposed developer verification scheme?

How would that help you?

The article says, “unverified apps will only be easily installable in the sanctioned countries where verification doesn’t exist.”

So even if you used a VPN to trick Google into thinking you live in a sanctioned country, you wouldn’t be able to distribute apps to those countries without breaking sanctions.

Is this James Hetfield?

I’m all for extra public transit, but 140mph on a bus (not a guided bus) sounds highly unsafe. 70mph is more realistic.

Kinetic energy rises with the square of velocity, so a 140mph bus would have 4x the KE of a 70mph bus.

• 70mph crash: dangerous but should be survivable for seat-belted passengers.
• 140mph crash: probably fatal to everyone on board and anyone in its path.