Those two parties are cooperating, aren’t they?

One of the PFLP’s songs refers to America as the “Head of the Snake” specifically, which is coincidentally not actually dissimilar from Benjamin Franklin’s own choice of political symbolism — except Franklin, radical that he was, chose to represent the Thirteen Colonies as a whole snake rather than just the head.

In any case the PFLP didn’t choose to hate the USA, in the same way Ned Kelly didn’t choose to hate cops. Acting like the PFLP’s hostility to the USA is completely irrational and literally just came out of nowhere helps nothing except Septics’ cognitive dissonance about the nation’s grotesque banditry abroad — it’s just wilful ignorance, it’s pure and simple “My Little Pony logic” to act as if the world’s anti-Americans are just Evil Changelings who hate “a beautiful land abounding in the Magic of Friendship” for no reason other than that it is “a beautiful land abounding in the Magic of Friendship”.

I hope responsibility for the TLD goes to Mauritius. In fact, I hope all the revenue already generated by .io registrations up to the point of the transfer, goes to the Chagossians.

I’ve been waiting for this for a while!

Never think that geocentrists were stupid. They were wrong, certainly, but they were not stupid: while it doesn’t take much intellect to initially conclude that Earth is the center of the solar system, it does take a very great amount of intellect to rationalize away the mountain of evidence to the contrary.

This is not a comment about people who voted or are planning on voting for Kamala Harris — this is an entirely unrelated observation about a completely different topic.

For some extra context: Innlandet County is the largest county of Norway, formed on January 1st, 2020, from the merger of Oppland and Hedmark counties, as part of Norway’s administrative reforms. It is roughly equal in area to Bosnia and Herzegovina, or somewhere in between the size of Maryland and West Virginia. Innlandet is also noticeably sparse, and very, very beautiful. Aside from Hamar, which has a population of ~32,000, not a single town or village or municipality mentioned in this article has a population greater than 3,000 people. So this is definitely an urban-rural conflict.

I remember two years ago when I dismissed practically out of hand the possibility of Russia invading Ukraine. I would not have in a million years predicted that in the two years since, the Zionist regime would find itself in a multifront war, or that we would now find ourselves likely just days at most from an outbreak of a Second Korean War. I would always hear about the tensions between countries, think a war was about to break out, get called foolish, and eventually each incident would resolve without escalation to war, and I would feel foolish, until I learned to simply expect nothing to come of incidents from the moment I first heard of them.

But indeed, in the wise words of Doctor Gregory House, or rather episode scriptwriter Michael R Perry, “At the end of The Boy Who Cried Wolf, the wolf really does come, and he eats the sheep, the boy, and his parents.”

I was just about to add a comment providing some more context on that point. The police were temporarily armed for 237 days straight in 2022/2023 in response to the Pride shooting in Oslo, and the police were also temporarily armed from November 25th, 2014 to February 3rd, 2016, I believe these are the longest continuous periods when the police have been armed, and there are also shorter periods of temporary arming.

The Norwegian Police Federation claims that from the end of 2014 to March of 2023, the police had been armed for 31 out of 100 months.

The Circassian genocide is the example that comes to my mind first. In my experience, most people, at least in Western countries, when they hear “Circassian”, they will immediately think I’m actually talking about Cardassians, a race of fictional aliens from Star Trek (or they’ll at least remark on how similar these words sound).

I also think the Milan Congress is an event more people should know about. This was a congress on Deaf education in 1880 that declared a ban on sign languages in schools, causing trauma and poverty and general harm to Deaf people for nearly a century until around the time of Stokoe’s research on ASL.

Really, the amount of history that people should know is abundant, but a lot of it is also very clearly more important to know if you live in a certain area, right?

So you’re certain that revolution is impossible, but you’re also certain that if there is a “strong middle class” in the future, that you would actually be a part of it?

Well, it seemed like you were saying that if given a choice between more racism and more climate crisis, that you would choose more racism because of how “climate crisis is worse”. Don’t you think that’s at all a weird or uncomfortable thing to say, given how there’s a frightening number of people nowadays who genuinely are trying to present “more racism or more climate change” as an actual choice that people will have to make?

“I can excuse racism, but I draw the line at climate crisis!”

“You can excuse racism?”

Sometimes I think about making the web browser from my conworld real just because the name slaps a lot harder than something like “Floorp”, but then I remember that the name only really slaps if you have the cultural and linguistic background of a country that literally doesn’t exist

Thus we return to the days of rote memorization and oral storytellers

WHAT’S DONE IS DONE, IT FEELS SO BAD; WHAT ONCE WAS CONTENT NOW IS AD

This is such a fucking scam, Jesus Christ. No wonder my immediate response to this news was “That was a lot sooner than I expected!” — no, it’s still gonna be a long time yet before the Brits and Seps will actually concede their rule of Diego Garcia in any meaningful way. This agreement is as good as toilet paper.

I wonder when Lalit is gonna make a statement about this agreement.

I’m assuming it’s referring to this:

ProtonMail removed “we do not keep any IP logs” from its privacy policy: Swiss courts compelled it to log and disclose a user’s IP and browser fingerprint

The Swiss injunction was on behalf of Interpol and targeted a French climate activist.

“Some damned foolish thing in the Levant”

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