The Israel Special

Strike a civilian center. Strike the EMS workers that respond to the attack. Strike anyone who responds to aid the EMS workers.

Eventually, what you’ve killed isn’t simply other humans. What you’ve killed is the popular supply of social empathy. You’ve engaged in a kind of natural selection, by which anyone with a reflexively decent and caring bone in their body is wiped from the face of the Earth.

This is how you destroy a civilization. This is how you make the rest of the Middle East more Israeli.

And once they’ve got the plutonium to trade, another four days away from getting ahold of Doc Brown’s time machine.

Older versions of him work. The newer versions tend to be Wizard in a Gundam.

I had him as more of a Lex Luthor.

Larry Ellison feels like more of a Bond Villain.

Mark Zuckerberg could work as some kind of 80s/90s action movie baddie. I know a good analog is out there, but the best I can come up with is the VP from Robocop or the various evil CEOs from Tron.

Elon Musk feels like a Captain Planet villain.

Compared to Western, modern designs

When was the last time the US built a reactor successfully?

It’s weird to see this much of a cover-up of the mismanagement of a nuclear facility while people insist we need to build more, bigger, and less regulated facilities.

I wonder what the Polymarket on Chernobyl would have looked like if it existed back then.

Chinese Robots on notice.

Trump single handedly doing more to end fossil fuel addiction than the last five presidencies combined

Of the 76M Boomers born between '45 and '69, 64M are still alive. With a life expectancy of 85 and the first traumch entering their 80s this year, we would expect to see a rapid fall off in the population (or a rapid climb in life expectancy average) over the next decade

But nothing in the (incredibly brief) article seems to say what they’d be trading.

Stalking horse for the next round of anti-China hysterics.

Canada, at all costs, must be prevented from importing Chinese EVs and solar panels

Marinho told Mello to hold off adding BYD’s name, without citing any technical justification, the sources said.

Two days later, a court granted BYD an injunction removing it from the list. A final ruling is pending.

Wait, so what’s the problem here?

Trump capitulates to Iran, calls a ceasefire. The capitulates to Israel, restarting the assault. Then demands another ceasefire. Then new fighting. Then ceasefire.

And, of course, the whole time it’s good news for the markets which only go up

Who can blame them?

Speaking to Mozambique’s President Daniel Chapo ​in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged support for the continent and its development needs, according to a state media read-out that did not mention Lai’s cancelled visit to Eswatini.

Lai, in a post on his Facebook page, said China’s “suppressive actions” demonstrate the threat that authoritarian states pose to the international order, ​peace, and stability.

Couldn’t he just fly commercial?

I do think it’s curious to hear the Taiwanese President insist their airplanes have an unmitigated right to fly over African airspace, given how many times I’ve heard Taiwanese-aligned press scream bloody murder over China violating Taiwanese airspace.

Even funnier to post this on Facebook, a website that’s made a mint squelching dissent on behalf of its political sponsors.

Maybe do what every other country does when they want an African national leader (or Tech Company CEO) to bend their way. Bribe them.

Or bomb them, if you’re in the US/Israel bloc.

That would drag the rest of the EU immediately, and nobody else actually wants a shooting war with Russia

During the extreme heatwaves that sweltered large parts of Spain and Greece last summer, local solar farms saw “significant output dips” exactly when air-conditioning demand was peaking.

“We tracked instances where surface temperatures on panels hit 65°C, leading to a nearly 20 per cent drop in theoretical capacity,” Vergini says.

Last year, intense heat struck large swathes of Europe – including usually cool Finland, which endured three straight weeks of 30°C temperatures. Further south, Europeans struggled under temperatures exceeding 40°C, pushing dozens of nations into drought.

Yikes

With no farming subsidies, there’s a strong economic incentive to travel to where it exists.

Similarly, with no voting rights, the territory becomes ripe for exploitation.

I mean, the million dollar question is whether Ukrainian citizens will have unfettered rights to travel and work in other EU countries. Atm, the page won’t load so it’s hard to tell.