The catholic church's response to clerical child abuse did it for me.

OK! Then Herschel could do North Korea. 😀

What are they saying the problem is?

Syria needs a new US ambassador 😂

'Bodies are piling up': Reporter finds GOP-led states are hiding abortion ban death toll Some Republican-led states that passed near-total abortion bans have mysteriously stopped collecting statistics on maternal mortality over the last couple of years — and some observers suspect it's no...

Some GOP led states are covering up stats on women’s deaths due to denying them critical, life saving healthcare to end their pregnancies.

This is today’s GOP. They hate women.

www.rawstory.com/abortion-ban...

Tucker Carlson's interview with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov is truly revealing.

AUKUS risks are piling up. Australia must prepare to build French SSNs instead | The Strategist Australia should start planning for acquisition of at least 12 submarines of the French Suffren design. The current AUKUS plan for eight nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) has always been flawed...

Former RAN Adm Peter Briggs thinks we should switch AUKUS to getting the French SSN instead of US or UK. They are smaller, less powerful, but also cheaper, easier to build and crew, and can be realistically obtained in time. I agree. @abrgll.bsky.social
www.aspistrategist.org.au/aukus-risks-...

Sorry one final point - the photo of the MG team on the left is a Finnish MMG team. They are not Soviet soldiers.

I also wrote an article on the relationship between Finland and Germany during WWII.
IMO there is no single volume history in English which fully covers Finland in WWII.
The Winter War gets most attention but more Finns died fighting Russia later in 1941-44.
www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx...

The 1971 book by Engel and Paananen is good if you can find it. There is an Osprey book with less text but good maps.
I wrote articles on the 1944 Soviet offensive (Jatkosota). They are based on the Finnish official history, which is rarely covered in English.
www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx...

Australia is suffering a skills shortage, including in professional engineers. The number of Australian students trained in engineering has not increased in 10 years. I commend this Engineers Australia report, which looks at the causes. #auspol24
www.engineersaustralia.org.au/sites/defaul...

The Battle of Hogwarts between good and evil in real life. #GeorgiaProtests
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FoIIow (me) 👇 for more! @sistosterone.bsky.social 👈

I don't think Biden is evil and he is certainly not corrupt.
But he has made some bad decisions.
In both pardoning Hunter, and reneging on his original promise to seek one term in office, Biden has damaged himself more by not keeping his promise, than the decision itself.

Brad I hope you don't mind I posted another link to your slides. I think they are excellent 🙂 @delong.bsky.social

The best popular science books of 2024, from nuclear war to the future of our oceans Intense: Find a quiet spot and expand your mind with these inspiring books David Trood/Getty Images The Burning Earth by Sunil Amrith This year hasn’t been a great one for the environment, so a book about the long history of...

The best popular science books of 2024, from nuclear war to the future of our oceans
->New Scientist | #Science #Peace #NuclearWar #Ocean | More info from EcoSearch

TWELVE SLIDES: The History of Economic Growth :: (Roughly) Seven Summary Bullet Points per Lecture Econ 135 :: Fall 2024 :: What I think I tried to teach people this semester now concluding—a summary slide deck…

For those interested in understanding economics I recommend this set of slides on sub-stack by US economist Brad DeLong. They give a quick but clear understanding of the evolution of western economies from the Bronze Age to today. #economics #econsky
braddelong.substack.com/p/twelve-sli...

The Tourville, the most economical Western nuclear submarine in 2024, joins the French Navy The third Suffren-class nuclear attack submarine, the Tourville, was handed over to the French Navy by Naval Group on November 18, 2024, after

French naval analysts are also correctly pointing out that SSN AUKUS subs are more than twice the cost of the French subs we dropped because they were "too expensive". We are being suckered.
meta-defense.fr/en/2024/11/1...

€4bn per Hunter class frigate! What’s wrong with Australia? The construction of the Hunter-class frigates has just received a second tranche of funding, announced by the Australian authorities. In accordance

Talk about Australian's insanely expensive AUKUS SSNs has diverted attention from our other overcost naval project: Hunter frigates. French analysts have noticed. @davidshoebridge.bsky.social
meta-defense.fr/en/2024/10/0...

They can all play in the backyards of the quarter acre blocks their parents can no longer afford to buy.

And just to rub it in, the French have now delivered the third of their new nuclear subs. We could have switched from the diesel sub we were building to these for no financial penalty. This would save us $150B to $200B over the next 30 years.
bsky.app/profile/nava...

a boy in a yellow and black striped shirt is sitting at a table talking to a stuffed animal . ALT: a boy in a yellow and black striped shirt is sitting at a table talking to a stuffed animal .

Legends lost in the mists of time.

I cannot let my wife see this photo (Or look at it myself for too long).
We already have seven cats, all adopted strays or from the shelter.

Thanks. Does anybody in US politics see the contradiction here?
On the one hand USA opposes Iran because it is run by an undemocratic muslim theocracy.
Yet now some in the USA want it to become a christian theocracy.
Read your Constitution. USA is not supposed to be a theocracy.

As an Australian engineer who supports the idea of SSNs for the RAN, I struggle to believe "AUKUS" would get positive answers to those three questions.

Thanks that starter pack is great.

An iconic example of the genre.
The bollard holds the BMW aloft, like a trophy.

I never watched Pete Evans on TV. I feel vindicated 😆

This sort of crime only happens if the thieves know someone with a metal or construction business who is willing to pay for large volumes of un-sourced copper wire. There can't be too many suspects. 🤨