Trump doesn’t hate oppression or dictators, infact he very much loves them. What he hates is non subservient regimes that don’t give him financial kickbacks and now he had the US military to back up his rhetoric.

Not really, social warrior and gold digger. She could easily manipulate him into being a megaphone for her agenda. He thinks he’s getting an upgrade and she finally gets to be a position she can directly affect government.

Trump didn’t cause it but he sure as hell accelerated its decline.

So now the administration just needs to pardon her and make her Secretary of Education. Causes that’s fucking on brand for this shit show.

While I understand the pushback against military drafts/service requirements, they also can be a net positive for a culture that applies them equally regardless of gender, class or ethnicity. You are significantly less likely to support war if your children or grandchildren could potentially get dragged into it. Want to the majority of wars? Make it a law that the heirs of the rich must serve in the infantry during wartime.

Israel had no justification to seize the flotilla and has yet to even pretend to have evidence they acted appropriately. It’s incredibly frustrating the international community is doing nothing.

Inb4 Doom can now run on birds.

This plant is part of a bigger chain. So while yes, on its own it seems waste of effort, as part of the entire chain it’s a reasonable step to be more environmentally friendly and recover some energy in the process.

A local plant desalinates water, resulting in fresh water and a brine solution that has much higher concentration of salt in it than regular sea water.

Dumping the brine solution on its own would kill most plant and animal life around the dump site due to large saltwater concentration, so an alternative method must be found to dispose of the brine.

Waste water from other processes can be mixed with the brine to bring it more in line with seawater salinity, making it safe to reintroduce to the ocean without severe ecological impact. This waste water is deemed to difficult or intensive to purify and treat to bring it back up clean water standards, and I’m assuming tested or filtered so as not to introduce hazardous chemicals that could damage the reverse osmosis membranes as well as sea life.

Because there is way to mix the waste water and brine through membranes that can be used to generate electricity, this process is utilized to recover some of the energy expended in purifing the original batch of seawater resulting in the brine.

It’s not a perfect process but it is a means of getting some use out a waste product, similar to burning garbage or rotting food rather than just dumping it into a pit and letting it rot and release methane.

Fragile masculinity combined with wanting to appear sufficiently tech savvy to tech bro investors. Tech bros want nerds because pretty much every dollar they’ve ever made was off the back of some innovation of someone they consider a nerd, so Elon wants to be the biggest nerd to tech bros so they will throw even more money at his dumb projects.

Both of these people could fall off a cliff in a burning Tesla and nothing of value would be lost.