Can we please do away with the myth that Israel, the Israeli military, and Israeli intelligence are some group of hypercompetent mega geniuses?

what a Baja Bummer this guy is.

"Material conditions" and "rational actors" are the same theory. They are both "correct" but are based on aggregate behavior, and are stochastic in nature, and cannot be applied in short time horizons.

im on this episode! classically misremembering basic physics but it's fine!

Every pro ethnostate liberal be gangsta talking about a kurdish state till you hit em with the "what about a Shabbak, Assyrian, and Turkman ethnostate" and suddenly the whole concept is revealed to be patently absurd

the natural state of humanity is not national identities with parallel overlapping state organization. there has always been linguistic and cultural diversity at the state level and organizing people around this idea required papering over the contradictions with blood

what they mean is european states are organized around a dominant ethno-linguistic group but this was the product of artificial cultural homogenization and centuries of ethnic cleansing and genocide

This sure sounds like antisemitic Zionist trash. It's well documented that not all Jews wanted this at the time, and not all Jews want it now. Pretty clear you are talking out your ass.

EXCLUSIVE: ICC prosecutor requests warrants for Smotrich, Ben-Gvir "The [ICC prosecutor's] charges against Smotrich include forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity.”

Warehouse fires meme is back in 2026 huh, that's like 5 years in a row now. www.nfpa.org/education-an...

The ICC has allegedly requested arrest warrants for Smotrich, Ben Gvir, and three other Israeli "political / military officials".

lmfao was this "intelligence" generated from the NSC or did axios just completely make it up themselves, you be the judge

I'm inclined to agree with inclining to agree , but the military has agency in these situations and are pretending they don't. Not directly (though they COULD coup / refuse), but indirectly. Not using those means to tell the truth to the citizens is also a failure.

I'm seeing the cheapest motor oil on amazon at $0.12 / fl. oz. Just setting a marker so I can track it.

Are colds, flus, etc asexually transmitted infections

Is anyone going to confirm this? I think it's extremely funny, but a screenshot is not evidence in today's world, not without corroboration.

The shops are out of oil

Good Morning, Ryazan, Russia,

Since Nakba Day is tomorrow (US time), I thought it would be a good time to remind people on here that "the Arab states told Palestinians to flee on army radio" is a definitively disproven myth and has been disproven since at least 1959. Even Israeli historians admit it is untrue today.

When the Great Defunding started in 2025, the European Union introduced a "bold" program to attract top scientists from the US, funded at the tune of about ~$500 million spread over 3-5 years. In 2024, the NIH allocated almost twice as that per week.

I can still book SF <-> NYC for <$400 a few months out.

They did it. Complete in-app update. No extra download, no install. Wow.

I'm hearing it's the new toilet paper

NYT today repeating the 70% estimate, and adding that 90% of missile storage/launch facilities are still usable. So again, fully half of all the stand off missiles that we have, more than half of our interceptor missiles... for this.

Any cost analyst worth their salt will tell you to focus less on the number and more on the decisions that went into calculating that number. Didn’t account for the damage to US bases? Kept maintenance costs or transit to the AOR off the books? Ask why. There’s your story.

A lot of people don't seem to know this but the Genocide Convention does not require a single person to have been killed for it to have been violated.

Expertise is not transitive. Just because you understand English does not mean you understand something described in it. "base case" here means "best case", not "likely". The statement implies "things only get worse from here". "base case" is not their core assumption.

The driver for the Woz Integrated Machine still getting updates is peak Linux. Always Can Use >>> Easy To Use

the Democrats retaking the House and Senate, on its own, will not destroy the Republican project. The only way to do that is a broad, years-long cross-ideological commitment to break American conservatism's power base TL;DR congressional Dems must be forced into war with the used car salesmen.

Repeating RU/CN/IR etc propaganda is not "fighting" US propaganda. It's just being as dumb as someone who accepts US propaganda. And those people are really fucking dumb.

Voting for someone for gov who has no chance because every choice kinda sucks or is dumb.

Ever wondered why it's ABXY and not ABCD on SNES controllers? And I presume on any other controller too that inherited this design choice? One young reader of Nintendo Power in 1993 wrote in to ask. What a CAD...

Saw the cloud that looks like a skeleton jacking off again

Just checked, Sarah Taber (actual farmer) has a video on it, calling it up, but not yet a big deal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=13gQ...

I was correct

I saw someone call these 'stop words.' Conversation enders. Complaining about the fascism? "What did you expect?" Broken tech? "It's enshitification." Violent sexist comments? "Probably a bot." Useless platitudes when silences is free and appreciated.

Discord may have fixed it's most annoying issue: updating.

As the beneficiaries of the system step out, it becomes clearer by the day: Orbán’s regime was only strong in PR. It convinced us it was untouchable. Then the shop window shattered, and behind it stands mediocrity. They are too weak to sustain even their own lies, let alone a regime. 3/3

We've heard, in more or less chronological order from Feb 28 through today, that Iran's missile/drone force is: -completely destroyed -90% destroyed -75% destroyed -50% destroyed -40% destroyed -"significantly degraded"

I mean, it was the Iranian Navy (the regular navy, not the IRGC navy) that published video of it launching anti-ship cruise missiles, and it was the Iranian Navy (نیروی دریایی ارتش ) not سپاه that was mentioned in official Iranian news, so take the Iran Intl with a big grain of salt

Chewbacca is in the Epstein Files

the thing dem pols need to internalize is this guy and his entire family will vote republican for the rest of their lives, regardless of the republican party literally ending their livelihood

Texas State Senate District 4 Special Election Jefferson County (>95% Reported): 🔵 Ron Angeletti - 1,726 (67.2%) 🔴 Brett Ligon - 844 (32.8%) This SD-04 portion of county was Trump+11 in 2024, so this is a 45 point overperformance for Democrats.

Before anyone gets the logic mixed up, remember that these guys aren't racist because of Russian money, they get Russian money because they're racist

Some really wild DFM here. The second one from the top is the intact one

Basically a press release, but still, good news. www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2026/04/tand...

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

The IDF bears much closer resemblance to the Russian army in Ukraine. Intimately tied to organized crime, run by extremist thugs, poorly trained, little discipline, resistant to change, and prone to acts of senseless violence against their enemies. They are incompetent.

Also it's hard to tell so I may be wrong but I think the hatch was open Name a better duo than the IDF and leaving the hatches open, thus negating the heavy armor of their vehicles. You can't. Wait, the IDF and not having their mech infantry ever dismount the mechs.