The article says that “the carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt will head to the Middle East to maintain a presence in the region”.

So it looks like it could be a routine ship swap. But if that were the case, I’d expect NPR to emphasize that in the article, and they don’t. They mention the other ship one time and then the rest of the article is talking about how the Houthis are doing lots of attacks.

I’m just confused about this article from a propaganda perspective, I guess. Is it trying to say “the Ike has done good work, it’s time for it to come home and be replaced by another ship, no worries, the US rocks, we have this under control” or is it trying to say “the Houthis are terrifying, they’re an absolute menace and our smol bean navy is trying valiantly to keep the strait safe, but we have to bring home our carrier because the Houthis are just too scary”?

Because this article seems to gesture in both of those directions, and they’re pretty contradictory.

This is also how you get people being able to use wedge issue shit like transgender women in sports and “being deeply concerned about protecting children” to allow transphobia to flourish.

I hate those two wedge issues. You couldn’t engineer better ones if you tried. They fucking work, which is the worst part. My (usually pretty decent) mother, who has two trans children who she loves, started trying to talk to me several months ago about how there might be fairness issues with trans women in sports. It was so hard to maintain my composure and argue her away from that deeply shitty “worry” rather than just yell at her and tell her to never bring it up again, which is what I wanted to do. But, of course, we look like we’re overreacting and, yes, crazy, if we say “that’s a bullshit unreal worry, never say anything like that in my presence again”. It is a bullshit unreal worry, but it sounds just reasonable enough to clueless cis people that we can’t dismiss it out of hand. I fucking hate it so, so much.

And, of course, the “worries” around childhood transition perform the same function! Luckily no one in my life is susceptible to that one, but I know a lot of people are. And again here you can’t just say “childhood transition is great, shut the fuck up”. That’s the truth, but it doesn’t sound like the truth to your average cis person.

Though largely ineffective, the Houthi attacks have been able to disrupt shipping and keep the U.S. and its allies tied down, frustrating the Navy’s decades-old mission of keeping open the region’s critical sea lanes.

“Though largely ineffective, the attacks have done everything they were supposed to do.”

Habanero Lime!

I have to travel by air soon, and I’m so, so scared. Likely it’ll be fine, the total probability of a catastrophe happening on any given flight is still super low, but jeez, it sucks that I’m afraid of a thing we had pretty much totally sorted like 20 years ago. Capitalism can eat my whole ass

For everyone who is vegan who sees this (all 3 or so of you), it’s fine! I have not accidentally eaten eggs, there are no eggs in the version that I can buy here, I’m attaching a photo of the ingredients for you to check for yourselves.

@Aradina@lemmy.ml

Editing to add: “Artificial flavor” is super sus, but I’ve long since decided not to care about that. If that makes me a bad vegan, so be it.

Well, hopefully I live somewhere where the noodles do not have eggs! I’ll definitely read the ingredients again next time. It would be super sad if I couldn’t eat them anymore, because they are delicious, in a painful kind of way

Impossible foods? The brand that tested on animals when it wasn’t required to do so?

Nah.

Wait, really? I definitely buy them sometimes (not the pictured ones, the purple one, habanero … something flavor?) and I know I checked ingredients. Did I really miss eggs? That seems unlikely, but I’ll have to check carefully next time I see them.

Your teacher gave you a failing grade just because of commas? That’s a little over-the-top, in my opinion.

And thanks! It’s been a miserable slog, I’m going to be so glad to be done with it! Congrats on finishing yours too, even though it was awhile ago!

Haha, yeah, exactly. Exactly that

Why do I use so many commas when writing? I’m editing my dissertation (it’s really, truly, finally almost done this time, hooray!) and consistently the editing I need to do is removing like half the commas in every sentence. It’s actually hilarious, at this point, just, how many, extra commas, there are, everywhere.

Absolutely. Look at the forward-most kid whose arm just straight up becomes the lady’s hair.

I may be missing a joke here, but in case you’re not making a joke, WHO is correct. The World Health Organization. This announcement is coming from them.

Was there some meaning this article was trying to convey? I read the whole thing and my response is just

I got literally, absolutely nothing from reading all those words, and I’m pretty sure that’s not my fault.

Also, and this is a small thing, I know articles are published with typos all the time, but the following sentence makes no sense, right? Like, the grammar is wrong to the point where the sentence is meaningless, isn’t it? I’m not just misreading things entirely?

Krugman reiterated his view that it’s better to cut rates soon with the chance of re-accelerating inflation looks very small if the Fed cuts rates.

You can block them [hexbears], but there are tons of them that have lemmy.world accounts- and post regularly in the political communities.

You’ll know them when you see them.

I sometimes wish we had a vegan megathread, because I want to make a comment that’s not big enough for it’s own post, but it doesn’t really fit here either, because it’s kind of meta, a little struggle-session adjacent.

So what I’m going to do is spoiler it and if you’re a carnist, don’t fucking read it. And if you can’t help yourself and read it anyway, don’t fucking respond to it. I will block any carnists who respond to this comment, I’m actually not trying to start a fight, I just need to vent where another vegan can see it.

Please don’t eat animals.

And what do you do with the baby cows? Where do the baby cows go?