I just read a book about how typhus contracted by body lice was a key reason why the German army failed to take Moscow in Operation Typhoon in December 1941. The delousing tents didn't show up near the front until early 1942, by which time it was too late. May have quite literally cost Germany WW2.
It's easy to succumb to outrage fatigue. But this was four days ago. 2,000 killed. 1.2 million displaced. Entire villages demolished. A 40km 'buffer zone' (10% of Lebanon's territory) annexed. It's barely raised a resigned shrug, but it meets the criteria for war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Fuck ass app
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
Man I'd put Mean Streets above Taxi Driver, but that's me.
It's almost as if antisemitism isn't commensurate with criticizing Israel.
Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection.
So forgive me if I smell a rat.
I want to see E Honda's balls
Gimmie this Crash Bandicoot movie. youtu.be/ZnQ_voBmxpE?...
My climate plan either comes in a medicine bottle or a clip.
'Time for Half-Measures Is Over': Study Warns of Terrifying Collapse of Atlantic Ocean Current
"We must avoid this collapse at all costs," said a leading current researcher, who warned that "the stability of the entire planet" is at stake.
Bluesky is made with AI, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code
The Anti-War President prepares to invade his third country and/or bomb his eleventh.
In 15 months.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/w...
I don't have free will, my actions in any given moment are the result of every preceding external factor I had no say including my upbringing and my exposure to advertising. But this also means it is impossible to be morally responsible for my actions (see Galen Strawson).
Ah yes the relief of not having to worry about pesky democratic debate or compromise while Carney dismantles consumer protection regs, guts public agencies, enriches foreign corporations off our national resources and clamps down on democratic speech.
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
What's equally annoying is when reporters themselves don't think they are equally shaped by mass media. Often the professed objectivity (which disguises political disinterest) of rank and file journalists makes them even more susceptible to media influence.
this is a boring take but if we want this from a Dem President in 2029 we need to deliver the type of huge legislative majority Magyar just achieved and not the razor-thin one that Biden was forced to work with.
i am not saying this out of a sense of malice or to give this poster a hard time. but i do think we should consider posting predictive market data about news events to be the same kind of tide-lowering slop as posting generative ai
Didn't mark Carney pass something similar as soon as he was elected lmao
Only Labour can beat Reform
He's the one who died.
Shit. One to watch Aotearoa. With the Strait still closed, no Ceasefire actually ever happened and no tankers getting through, the last crude tankers are likely in port by now and that is it
For NZ that is 47% of refined product in question if Korea goes NOPE
It’s very very funny that yesterday morning Trump was saying he was probably going to commit mass murder that night and tonight he’s bitching about Greenland, he’s on a heroic flameout
WHAT THE FUCK ONTARIO
I have friends with family here. They're terrified. These are civilians who didn't do shit.