niph [she/her] @ niph @hexbear.net

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I believe a lot of the weirdos are influential high up in the military though, especially the air force.

Thanks comrade

Can any military nerds here give an analysis of the types and numbers of missiles/drones available to Iran to hit Israel vs the interceptor capabilities? Sorry if this has already been done, would appreciate any links to material also. Getting into a lot of conversations with people about this and it's hard to find unbiased material analysis

It’s easier to blame others for not taking actions than look to ourselves and figure out what actions we can and should take

I wish I could upvote this a thousand times. Western individualism has done a number on leftism unfortunately. It lends to both armchair-generalism and isolationist doomerism, including among Hexbears

Are the interceptor stocks dwindling? I mean, I hope so, but it seems an insane miscalculation if they’re already running out after what, less than ten salvoes of missiles? Have they always been this papery of a tiger or are we not getting the full picture?

It’s complicated. He was a collaborator and known to be personally cruel and vindictive, but given his upbringing - a useless, in-name-only emperor from the age of 6 living in absurd luxury - might be expected. Even in the re-education camp at first people (his former servants) would do stuff for him but eventually they realised they didn’t need to and he was forced to learn to live like a normal human. He couldn’t even wash or dress himself, he couldn’t make matchboxes without fucking them up. I highly recommend his autobiography, good read.

Re: Yoga with Adriene, she has a bunch of 30 day programs, I think she posts one every year in January. Anyway they are all pretty good and accessible. You don’t have to do one every day, but it’s nice to have some structure so you’re not searching for a video to do.

Regarding the pace: I think this is common for beginners. But the important thing about yoga isn’t “getting there” or “doing it”, it’s the process. The reason you chafe at the slow pace is because you’re anxious to “get there” - your mind is in the future. It’s perfectly ok to feel that way. For now, try just setting aside the parts that annoy you and focusing on how your body feels, and on your breathing. I’ve found that the more I practice the less I am concerned with progress, and the mindset shift came by itself.

Classes are great too, since it’s nice to get help from someone with the form and it gives a little push to commit if you’ve signed up for a certain number of classes or whatever.

Ultimately, the physical practice of yoga is inherently tied to the mental aspect. Some of that comes directly through breath work, and the “spiritual” parts that annoy you right now. But I would encourage you to approach those parts with an open mind, and just give it a go, even if it feels silly. Many of the exercises are kind of CBT adjacent in any case. Also, it’s always optional. Yoga is about, first and foremost, accepting where you are now.

Cravenly abandoning their own people when they were the aggressors in the first place

Really ratio’d the interceptors

Random Israeli map-based self-owns are all the rage these days

I agree but it feels like we are still somehow hoping it works with Bolsanaro

There’s no way to maintain fascist control while also gutting institutions. In the material world you need systems and a ton of people on the payroll to impose fascism for any period of time.

I tried to read his autobiography and oh boy was the writing crap.

The idea of time running out is an illusion to keep us in the state of despair. There is no countdown to doomsday.

Even as the climate catastrophe hits it won’t be all at once. It’ll be a slow decline and there will be many opportunities to make a difference at a local level for all of us.

Look for what we can do, even if it’s small, even if it seems hopeless. Revolution doesn’t necessarily produce results immediately. It may take a generation or five. But we do it because we hope that someone will be able to benefit, even if it’s not ourselves.

Thanks for the helpful response. I was probably a bit too quick to jump on the bandwagon this time I think

Didn’t they literally murder a Sikh activist in Vancouver a year or two ago?

I take your point that nothing in the paper provides compelling evidence for the origin being from the US, but you originally said there was no reason to believe it didn’t cross over to humans in Southern China, based on circumstantial speculation.

The evidence does make a case for there being a) no COVID in Wuhan prior to Dec 2019 and b) the circulation of COVID in the US around Dec 2019. The position is therefore that COVID was contemporaneously in the US and China, which substantially weakens the case for a Chinese human crossover.

As for your assertion that China is home to larger populations of the kinds of animals that carry coronavirus, the document also presents negative testing results in bats and deer of the region as part of the origin tracing research.

In any case the authors of the paper don’t actually assert that it came from the US, but rightly point out that China has co-operated with the WHO in allowing and carrying out studies to trace the origins while the US has refused to even entertain the idea.

Did you actually read the document? There’s plenty of reason to doubt