It may have serious psychological value though. And do it often enough and you may be able to make the enemy spend time building the trench equivalent of "cope cages" instead of doing other things.
I vote to give Alsace-Lorraine to the Jewish people as a homeland. The European ruling class has been spilling the blood of countless innocents over ownership that miserable little hole for centuries. We should use kindergarten rules: if they can't share it nicely, they don't to play with it at all.
No state is a solution.Someday I'm going to attend one as Ash from Evil Dead, asking the primitive screw heads where I am.
The Oka Crisis ought to be a general megathread someday. The super-simplified version is that the First Nations protesters were brutalized by basically everyone who wasn't First Nations themselves, all so that some wealthy white people could build a golf course and condos on their land. The provincial and federal governments actually called in the military to drive the protesters out. One big brave soldier felt so threatened by a 14-year-old girl who was carrying her 4-year-old sister that he felt the need to bayonet her, nearly killing her.
Was it an actual hypersonic guided missile, or a regular ballistic missile on its hypersonic terminal approach?
This is straight-up Nuremberg-speech shit.
I don't know what event (whether real or false-flag) will happen, but I think that it will be used as an excuse for an information-control crackdown well beyond what we've seen so far. The American political establishment has been freaking out about middle east news not being under their control.
If you think that's ghoulish, wait til you hear about the Misery Index.
Sunny day, sweeping the clouds away, on my way to where the air is sweet!
if i were to soft reboot star trek's tech and sci-fi i would change it to the subspace wormhole system. basically a micro warp drive that stretches space and lets you step through
Something like that was even in an episode of TNG, "The High Ground". The handwavey "why it's not used elsewhere" excuse was that it's harmful to living tissue.
Good episode too, despite the script having quite a few "end of history" brainworms. I know some people complain that it's a little too on-the-nose regarding political terrorism but sometimes an on-the-nose script is exactly what's called for. And the main antagonist has that fantastic line "The difference between generals and terrorists, Doctor, is only the difference between winners and losers."
Chinese government officials must not be able to believe their luck. Normally, crippling a potential adversarial nation's supply chain requires things like carpet bombing of factories. But their major geopolitical rival is doing it voluntarily to themselves.
across-the-board plan to fully mobilize the country
Dear Canadian government: if I get drafted, lots of really expensive military equipment might start mysteriously failing at unfortunate times. Such as brake lines on officers' vehicles. I'm not saying I'd claim responsibility for such unfortunate accidents. There's lots of clumsy people. Could be anyone that's mentally distracted by the stress of the whole situation which in turn leads to carelessness and neglect because their mind isn't on their job. Accidents happen sometimes, y'know? Maybe accidents are less likely to happen when the only people in the military are the people who genuinely want to be there.
I've never been able to understand how Hamas is able to use their tunnel system, given that they have to fit their massive steel balls in them.
Judging from Helene's projected path, I think it should have been named Sherman instead.
I think if Israel nukes anyone, Yemen will be first. They've been doing a lot of economic damage to Israel, and they're far enough away that fallout wouldn't be as much of an issue as a closer target.
Nord Stream was supposed to fill the energy gap. I know this site is nuke pilled for whatever reason...I was myself until I worked on them. There is no safe nuke imo.
I have a question about CANDU reactors and you might be the right person to ask. They're touted by various governmental authorities as being a safe design here in 
. Is that accurate or mostly PR?
The Norwegian [Rinson Jose] who is connected to the sale of exploding pagers in Lebanon was yesterday officially reported missing.
As we all learned from Star Trek 6, the first rule of assassination is to kill the assassins.
If I were to win the lottery, I'd buy a locally-popular golf course and immediately convert the club house into a soup kitchen and no-pay community space, and let the grounds mostly return to nature. Maybe do a lot of tree planting. I'd keep some nice walking paths and a few big clearings for events like modest-size music festivals or just general casual park stuff. And some skateparks. And I'd put in multiple new mini-golf courses within eyeshot of as many surrounding houses as I can because I love mini-golf.
Longer term, I'd settle in for the legal fights from supremely pissed-off people in the surrounding community because they would be bound to be epic.
Update: oh, and basketball courts! Can't believe I forgot those.
For those who don't know, Larry Ellison runs the tech company Oracle, and is consistently in the list of top-five wealthiest people in the world.
>The company has updated its FAQ page to say that private chats are no longer shielded from moderation.
>Telegram has quietly removed language from its FAQ page that said private chats were protected from moderation requests. The change comes nearly two weeks after its CEO, Pavel Durov, was arrested in France for allegedly allowing “criminal activity to go on undeterred on the messaging app.”
>Earlier today, Durov issued his first public statement since his arrest, promising to moderate content more on the platform, a noticeable change in tone after the company initially said he had “nothing to hide.”
>“Telegram’s abrupt increase in user count to 950M caused growing pains that made it easier for criminals to abuse our platform,” he wrote in the statement shared on Thursday. “That’s why I made it my personal goal to ensure we significantly improve things in this regard. We’ve already started that process internally, and I will share more details on our progress with you very soon.”
Translation: Durov is completely compromised and will do whatever NATO tells him to do. Do not trust in the security of Telegram, which frankly was never that good to begin with. And do not trust anything else even remotely connected to the company or Durov personally.
>Lower-income American households are running out of money at the end of every month, the discount retailer Dollar General said as it released dismal results that drove its shares down more than 30 per cent for their sharpest one-day drop on record.
When the American economy is too rough for Dollar General...
This is the lesser-known companion Playstation game to the classic anime Serial Experiments Lain. There's a downloadable version as well. The bottom of this page has the chart of keyboard controls.
Also, the gameplay is highly unconventional. It's not like a regular visual novel. It has a totally different style and purpose and interface than Disco Elysium, but it takes the same sort of patience and open mindedness.
Not only did some 1960s engineers at General Electric think that this might work, but they did actual tests involving actual hardware. NASA and the USAF declined to pursue the project, for fairly obvious reasons.
Original story title: "Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck"
I thought I could deal without a notification LED on my new Oneplus phone, but it's honestly driving me a little nuts. I'm looking for a watch that looks like a nice watch (preferably analog), but also connects to my phone and has a notification LED. I remember seeing this sort of thing being more common 5 to 10-ish years ago but I'm not having much luck tracking one down now.
I literally do not need any other features. No fitness tracking, no GPS, no music, no speakerphone, no nothing. If it has them, fine, but I won't need or use them. All I want is a little LED that lets me know in a timely manner that a notification popped up on my phone, on a watch that looks like a classy watch, and with a companion app that isn't a subpar piece of shit.
I'm okay with having to charge it maybe every few weeks, but I will be damned if I get some stupid overpriced gadget that needs a daily charge and makes me look like a techbro.
I haven't found who first came up with this hybrid of NASA's official "meatball" and "worm" logos, but I think it looks pretty damn good.
Build-a-bear - yes the actual company and not a generic competitor - has a section for 18+ they call "After Dark".
Now this is all actually pretty tame stuff. They don't sell little accessory dildos. But they have some interesting choices.
Would you like your bear to have some exciting underwear?
Or a cute little crop top expressing a specific inner feeling?
Maybe your bear is a hot stylish mature bear.
And of course to help everyone relax into the evening, you could provide martinis, or maybe something for special occassions.
Also... I have questions.
But at least we can all engage in that greatest of nerd arguments, weighing in on a debate of leader versus leader.
The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday the interest rates on federal student loans for the 2024-2025 academic year.
The interest rate on federal direct undergraduate loans will be 6.53%. That’s the highest rate in at least a decade, according to higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz. The undergraduate rate for the 2023-2024 year is 5.5%.
For graduate students, loans will come with an 8.08% interest rate, compared with the current 7.05%. Plus loans for graduate students and parents will have a 9.08% interest rate, an increase from 8.05% now. Both of those rates haven’t been as high in more than 20 years, Kantrowitz said.
The rise in interest rates could complicate the Biden administration’s efforts to get the student loan crisis under control and relieve borrowers of the pain of interest accrual, experts say. Even as millions of people have benefited from recent debt relief measures, new students will be saddled with more expensive loans for decades to come.
Amazing movie, I highly recommend watching it if it comes to a theatre near you. It's worth the effort.
This actually has a real-world purpose. I'm going to get a custom baseball jersey made with the player name "KINSEY" and player number "03" to wear during pride events this coming june. I just need a good team name for it.
Let's play "Guess which national Canadian news outlet posted this as their front page top story?"
Post your guess before clicking the link! The answer may horrify you!
A United Airlines flight to Boston was diverted to Denver because of an issue with the plane's wing.
