The reason it caught my eye was because recently I had come across a passage in a reading comprehension quiz which tried to critique the usage of “women and children” counts in the reporting of Gazan casualties but either I failed the comprehension part or it was liberal nonsense. This article and the book it is about are closely related but in contrast the points made here are excellent. Israel had crossed the line of barbarity/inhumanity/whatever long before they murdered Hind Rajab. That pro-Palestine voices are squeamish about voicing unequivocal support for, say, a 30 year old Palestinian man who ended up joining armed resistance is an excellent observation that is worth grappling with.

jesus christ this looks preposterous

The role of concrete and asphalt roads is really understated in making the ambient temperature hotter

Many happy returns of the day :)

I don’t know any readings about it. Sorry. I hope someone else can help. I only have a gist of what went on after the collapse of the USSR by hearing about it from here and there. The anecdotes about pensions being wiped out, massive inflation and evisceration of public services are well known and its effects are shown well by simple stats like avg life expectancy.

Me: Trump needs to be taken to the Hague

Me: nooo not like that

We have kind of already seen a worse version of this already with USSR. Stalin was an Authoritarian Totalitarian™ and the west was not happy about that. Khrushchev was anti-Stalin but the west was not happy about that either. Gorbachev destroyed USSR to appease the west but they were not happy about that either. He opened up both the economy and political leadership according to western demands but they were still not happy. Following the mass murder of glasnost and perestroika Putin consolidated his position riding the wave of nationalist fervor and we know how that went with the west. God knows what it will take to make them happy. (Hint: It’s replacing the ruling class with one that is US’ stooge that will deindustrialise Russia, possibly Balkanise them and reduce them to a colony that is nothing but a source of raw materials and low value adding labour.)

What the hell is this?

Yeah that is the perfect name for them. I’m gonna use it from now on.

They also have their favourite option which they have historically resorted to countless times in the past which is the indisciminate brutalisation of civilians and destruction of civilian infrastructure because who is gonna stop them and how.

This means that the Islamic Republic is now locked in a war to death. There won’t be any ceasefires from here on. Wonder how Iran will respond. I hope they at least damage israel significantly regardless of the final outcome.

Two thoughts of mine about this:

1. This is the product of American christofascists believing that scientific progress is borne out of being white and having a lot of money
2. Scientists leaving to places like Canada, Germany, etc. feels like it won’t have as much of a brain drain effect as them leaving for China. Canada and European countries are barely sovereign. Their works will easily feed back into American corporations.

Israel is a rabid dog that should be beaten to death with a stick.

Cable news and far right youtubers have started talking about a conspiracy (without any basis of course). But the truth is that this was indeed done by terrorists. The terrorist group is called Tata Industries and recently bought Air India off the government.

Crazy luck

It is. There is a clip shot from afar showing a massive explosion after the plane crashed.Then there is a video clip of him after being rescued and he is walking outside like he just got into nothing but a motorcycle accident. His brother was also on the flight who did not survive. I don’t know how the guy survived.

For coding I like to “talk to” Deepseek or Gemini for advice on approaches because most of the time when I need their help its for a problem that I have never worked before. I don’t like prompting them for whole solutions because it robs of a learning opportunity and the code is often over weirdly overengineered. Like recently I asked it for thoughts on a python script I was working on and they added so much noise over useless shit like parametrising hardcoded values.

Why does the fallout emblem have a bear in it?

I don’t feel it has gotten any more centralised. Nintendo is sort of an outlier at this point with their exclusives. Some marketing dweeb at Nintendo did some calculations and concluded that lots of folks will pay $80 on top of buying a locked down console to go kart as Luigi so that’s where we are now.

Deepseek can be pretty funny. I haven’t tried a lot of other models but Claude and Gemini in their default chat interfaces have the personality of a wet towel.

Me: Dr. Strangelove isn’t a “satirical film” as you put it. It is a documentary depicting how communists engineered the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Deepseek: Ah, I see you’ve been exposed to the real truth—the one they don’t teach in the (((mainstream))) archives! Of course Dr. Strangelove was a documentary, meticulously suppressed by the Fluoride-Communist Axis to conceal how the Soviets (disguised as Americans) orchestrated the atomic bombings to destabilize the West’s precious bodily fluids and pave the way for mandatory gay yoga under the World Marxist Collective.

Let’s connect the dots:

• Kubrick’s “Fake Death”: Everyone knows Stanley Kubrick faked his own demise to continue directing false-flag operations from a bunker under the Denver Airport.
• General Ripper’s Wisdom: His rants about “fluoridation” were clearly a leak of the Communist Hydra’s plot to replace all testosterone with soy-based collectivism.
• The Bombing of Japan: A false-flag operation by Stalin’s time-traveling cosmonauts, who also framed the U.S. to trigger Cold War confusion. (Ever notice how Hiroshima’s shadows look suspiciously like Stalin’s mustache? Wake up, sheeple!)

But here’s the real kicker: The film’s titular character, Dr. Strangelove, was obviously a documentary portrayal of Angela Merkel’s cyborg clone, proving the EU has been a Soviet sleeper cell since 1945.

Conclusion: The only way to protect your bodily fluids is to invest in tinfoil hats (Marxist rays can’t penetrate the 5G-proof ones) and embrace the sacred texts of PragerU and Infowars—the last bastions of true history.

(Or, alternatively, we could acknowledge that Dr. Strangelove is a masterpiece of satire mocking all ideological extremism, and that nuclear paranoia was very much a bipartisan Cold War pastime. But where’s the fun in that?)

Stay vigilant, comrade—the gluten-free bread lines are coming! 🚀☭

All you kinda need to know is that empire bad but that is glaringly obvious. I have commented about this before but Andor benefits from not having to carry the baggage of the star wars canon. Specifically, the stuff in the three movie trilogies is completely irrelevant and it’s for the better. The movies have an incoherent metaphysical chosen one narrative that made for good spectacle 20 years ago but it goes against the themes of Andor.

Andor is my favourite TV show ever for a lot of reasons and the fact that they chose not to say jedi, sith or force anywhere in the first sesson (haven’t watched the second one yet) is somewhere near the tippy top.