Jesus, the way they paint him and his mates as heroes for fleeing to Argentina like some former Nazi camp commander is really something.

Lame that they let him get away, but I do like the strategy of making sure war criminals are essentially going to be forced to stay in Israel or strongly allied countries.

It was probably one of those fancy electric ones with remote access. Cities will pay millions for something like that instead of the low tech solution of just having a guy with a key there that’ll set you back a few tens of thousands a year.

Yeah, wouldn’t mind that for the next 4 years or so, possibly longer.

Even if people stop doing vehicular attacks (which they won’t, see the Christmas market one in Germany and countless other ones globally), it’s a good investment in safety to have a hard barrier between people and cars for normal ‘accidents’ as well.

I think they had those, but they broke because they stopped paying the maintenance company.

Prices for other goods have gone down (TVs, computers, etc) in the past without being disastrous for the economy. You’re right if we’re talking about deflation generally (ie. ALL goods), but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about tackling prices in specific, anti-competitive sectors like food, health care, etc, where there’s plenty of room for prices to go down. And all of those things are necessities where consumers can’t delay spending on them, so deflation wouldn’t even have its disastrous effect there (which is customers withholding spending because they can get more with the same money if they wait a month).

If you were to introduce competition within the whole chain all at once between farmers and consumers, prices would definitely go down. Obviously that will never happen because the government acts slowly and it can take a decade for a case to make it all the way through the courts, so within the current political context of the USA you’d never see prices go down. Economics itself doesn’t dictate that, and it wouldn’t be harmful if say the prices of eggs halved overnight due to more competition in the market or price controls, as long as it’s still profitable for the producers of the good.

Prices would go down if the government was serious about taking on the monopolies in the supply chain (meat packing, industrial farmers, grocers with local monopolies, etc.). If they were serious about antitrust, prices would go down and you wouldn’t get a recession, on the contrary, it would create jobs and grow the economy.

Fat chance of that happening under this administration (or an alternate universe Harris one either).

Yeah, his full suicide letter came out, and it looks like he was still fully on board with Trump and Elon. Doesn’t make sense why he’d blow up a cybertruck in front of a Trump building, but yeah. Lots of railing against the 1% while supporting a whole bunch of billionaires.

Amazing how many people you find are Hamas terrorists if you’ve got an electric stick up their ass. Pretty sure Netanyahu himself would admit to being Hamas in those circumstances.

Yep, some carbon capture tech is even used to extract more oil. They push CO2 down a well to push out more oil, then they get carbon credits for that. Does the carbon stay in the well after it runs dry? Who knows, it’s not the oil company’s problem any more.

That’s fucked up. They sign up for a job where PTSD is basically a given, and then they’re not allowed to go to therapy?

I mean, nobody remembers that guy that blew himself up in Nashville either. That was in the news for 2 days and everyone moved on.

I mean, he’s got regrets about lives he took, so chances are he realised he’s been lied to his whole life and has done terrible things “for his country”.

But maybe I’m being too optimistic here. We really need news agencies to release the full letter instead of selectively quoting. They did the same with Luigi Mangione until Ken Klippenstein released the entire thing. Hopefully he gets his hands on this one as well.

No, those are small settlements in forests, like Paradise. A bushfire won’t make it through LA or anything like that. Nature should be left to nature, and we should increase density in cities, that reduces the damage humans do to the environment overall, instead of having sprawl taking over forests.

Soo, the government is making everyone else subsidise living in fireprone areas? Shouldn’t we encourage people to live in cities instead?

Yeah, a lot of the justice/surveillance system is set up under the premise that you need to catch a criminal after the crime, so when a car is involved in a crime, you go to the rental company and grab the driver’s licence. If dying or getting caught is part of your plan, none of these things are actually a deterrent.

Israel’s (over)reaction to the hostage crisis has been very harmful for the diaspora, and sometimes I think that’s by design. Basically ensuring that Israel is the only “safe” place for Jews by encouraging anti-Semitism abroad.

Haha, yeah.

Presumably even if those IDs were checked, I doubt both those people have priors. This sort of terrorism is different from other crimes in that they don’t start with ‘small time’ terrorism.