Contrary to the report, they are actually not difficult to keep as pets - they are just highly sensitive to pollutants in the water.
The unfortunate case for the wild population, is that they naturally inhabit a location which today has one of the highest human population densities in the world, and hence massive pressure on water resources. We could probably quite easily re-establish a breeding population in remote areas in Europe but would constitute an invasive species and hence wouldn't happen.
As a species, they are not endangered due to their very large populations now in the pet trade (though these then get inbred, become domesticated etc).
State primacy over capitalists is an ascent, not descent of society.
Profiteers running everything is what a narco-state looks like, a criminal enterprise where the exploitation for profit supersedes every other social good.
Trump is morally bankrupt, but perhaps the only thing to his credit is his bullying of US oligarchs to acquiesce to state power. That he is doing so purely because of his own pathological desire for personal supremacy removes that credit, but that is beside this particular point
United States is immune from conventional military attack, the only purpose of mass conscription is to create an expeditionary for invading other countries. You have to wonder whether this may be for Canada / Greenland at some point
Conventional being the key word. Yes, I know that usually is in contrast to nuclear warfare.
There’s really no motivation for China to attack the US (they have plenty of economic leverage and that would be far less costly to them than an invasion, and what would they even want with the territory of a conquered US?) but I suspect many of the reasons the US is assumed to be immune to invasion are far weaker in the face of an enemy with far more manpower and a near-bottomless supply of drones that also has the capacity to cut off our access to key parts, materials, and manufactured goods.
I see the off ramp: Iran can agree to split the toll fee with Trump, ideally in a special administrative vehicle which Trump himself controls, similar to the funding on the Board of Peace.
Amazing series, which somehow survived a forced change of lead actor, and got even better. The story was only marred by rushed ending to the story arc for Season 4, and then a nothingburger of a Season 5. Still, up there with BattleStar Galactica and The Expanse as the greatest TV sci-fi series of all time.
a huge problem, a fair few tourists seem to have been abducted to work in these scam factories, as well as Chinese job seekers answering ads. There's been a round up of some of these scam families, I believe PRC actually executed 11 members of one of these mafias recently.
Chinese companies make up a significant part of the US military supply chain, so the title could be accurately revised as 'Chinamerica built' weapons wreaking destruction on Gaza
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