Key thing about the FBI was that is was run by a fairly openly (for the time) gay man for majority of its existence, specifically during this time when the dynamics were being entrenched.

Not about hating homosexuality, it’s about control and power. Creating a premise on which to blackmail people not out of vigilance against intrusion, but so they could weild over others. Sex of any sort is OK as long as in reinforces hireachy.

Use parental controls to block yourself from it.

They said they didn’t want to eat the bugs.

Commissioner Alister Martin: “It’s incredibly important that we get the messaging right here and that we lean in on the comms and the campaign here

“We will spread lies and confusion.”

A couple of weeks ago in CO the SC ruled you can’t discriminate due to cowardice:

The court found that the actual harm to transgender youth far outweighed the hospital’s speculative fears

holding that a “reluctant” act of discrimination compelled by a “third party” remains discrimination under Colorado law. With the decision, Children’s Hospital Colorado joins a growing number of hospitals, including Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego and Children’s Minnesota, that have moved to restore gender-affirming care after initially halting it under federal pressure. The ruling also answers the question many public officials have been grappling with in terms of state anti-discrimination law: whether vague federal threats, unaccompanied by any law or court order, are enough to nullify a state’s civil rights protections. The Colorado Supreme Court’s answer was firmly: no.

It’s different because it concerns stopping an existing program instead of starting a new one.

However if the administration has directly stated their reason is fear of federal retribution via other funding, then they have supplied evidence of discrimination.

Somebody said “free Palestine”

It’s like cat people and dog people. There are kinda material reasons to be one over the other. Some dogs are ostensibly for security. Cats don’t need to be walked every day, or go outside at all, so they accommodate different lifestyles. Fancy dog breeds incur huge vet costs due to their bodies being shaped by the whims of humans playing god. Cats can suck the breath out of a baby.

Not all people are cat or dog people. Some people have neither. They might support a “third pet” like rats or parrots. Abstaining from pets is very common, due to apathy, ideology or gerrymandering. All of these are impacted by materials situation. But a lot of it is just how you grew up. Who you fell in with. Your partner has a dog, you live together, so now you have a dog.

Some people have strong opinions on cats vs dogs. They can come into conflict in apartment living, designating precious urban space for dog parks, a few bad apple cats murdering every bird in a 2 block radius. There are cities where dogs roam in packs, others where cats rule.

For the most part, cat people and dog people live in peace. They contribute to each other by supporting vets and businesses which cater to both of them, so those business are viable. Animal welfare laws, registration programs, and norms regarding treatment benefit both. Resources like animal shelters are shared. And the concept of animal companionship, is normalized. Most people don’t care if you are a cat person, dog person, both, neither.

I was just going to add a picture of Laika

on the way I stumbled upon Some Unknown Pages of the Living Organisms’ First Orbital Flight a short writing presented by D C Malashenkov about his recollections of the Sputnik 2 project at 2002 Second World Space Congress.

1954 during the meeting in the Academy of Sciences of USSR, the basic research problems conducted by means of artificial satellites of the Earth were determined.

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The successful launch of the Earth’s first artificial satellite [Sputnik 1] in October 4, 1957 has made stunning influence on all the world. To continue this success, N. Khrushzev in October 10 1957 stated to launch the second satellite with an animal onboard till November 7 (40 years of October Revolution). The level of complexity of forthcoming tasks was much higher. Tightness of a cabin and the systems of life-support of the satellite should provide considerably large duration of flight under previous dimensions and power consumption. The research equipment should also ensure long uninterrupted registration of the scientific data and their transfer on ground stations. At last, the realization of additional training and special preparation of dogs was required.

In 1954 they make a To Do List. By 1957 it is a Done List. Then it is decided to do Sputnik 2 (with Laika) 1 month later. While they had been doing work to build up to sending animals up, it was not expected so soon. They had to do all the training, testing, and engineering in 1 month!

You can read what they did in the link. Apparently this is considered definitive regarding the manner of her death, as previously there were different accounts.

where does this video come from?

his own healthcare costs are more than that in an average week.