Oh man you have gotta try licking one. True PNW right of passage - the slime is a shockingly effective anesthetic.

A football field/pitch is an internationally relatable reference point - it’s used all the time to give a sense of scale.

ex:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48827490
https://www.sciencefocus.com/tags/international-space-station

Er… Non-US countries also use “dozen” and have football fields. The only thing here that’s an american measurement is “inches”, and she shouldn’t have much a problem understanding that since the thing being measured is right in front of her.

This one is reaching.

He’s very realistic about the usefulness of AI tools for cybersecurity - his thesis appears to be that while Mythos itself is mostly PR hype, these types of models are improving at an unbelievable rate, and that in the past two months alone they’ve greatly improved in quality. He speculates that this will ultimately benefit the defender, but that right now things are changing so fast that it’s nearly impossible to predict what the future will look like.

Amazing interview, but not quite as “fuck AI” as some might hope.

Lowkey the plot of Cells At Work (Black) which, while pretty flawed in several ways, was still an interesting spinoff from the original anime

Dumpster goblin. A glam dumpster goblin, admittedly, but girl when I die it will be because my desk’s mountain of dirty tea mugs finally collapsed and buried me alive…

Pretty much. It would be nice to know if negotiations had even begun before they fell apart, though I guess I don’t think it would particularly change anything.

I’m not sure why it wouldn’t be the same war - I was remarking that the US and Israel appear to have stopped directly striking Iran, nothing beyond that. In no way am I saying that attacking lebanon isn’t a part of the same war, or wasn’t a violation of the ceasefire.

the 10 points ceasefire WAS this one

Where are you seeing this? I have found nowhere besides some reports (like this one) purporting to quote Iranian state media that claims all sides agreed to those terms - but even trump’s announcement presented the ‘10-point plan’ as the basis for future negotiations, not the terms of the ceasefire, which agrees with this statement from Iran:

So I am very curious where you heard that this was the case.

Yeah, sorry if that was unclear - I was just saying I don’t think they’ve attacked Iran directly during the ceasefire, Israel attacking lebanon is separate to that point.

edit: I have no idea why this is contentious?

Three parts of Iran’s 10-point ceasefire proposal have been violated, Ghalibaf said. The violations are Israel’s continued attacks on Lebanon, the entry of a drone into Iranian airspace, and the denial of the Islamic Republic’s right to enrich uranium, he said.

As far as I’m aware, the ceasefire was to negotiate the terms to end the war, which was what the 10-point plan was a part of - nobody has agreed to anything yet beyond a cessation of hostilities pending the reopening of the straight. This is difficult to follow, because Iran’s own reporting has been incredibly inconsistent about the contents of that plan and what they are saying the ceasefire actually entails, and to complicate it further the US/Israel have said barely anything about the negotiations or terms of the ceasefire (including as far as I am aware listing any terms beyond “reopening of the straight”.)

I can’t find any reports of the US or Israel attacking Iran directly during this ceasefire, though - the only mention in the article of a direct slight against Iran is that a drone may have violated Iranian airspace - so… there’s that? It sounds like the US still hasn’t started blowing Iran up again, which is… god…

IDK. To my armchair-geopoliticing-ass, this feels like Iran attempting to force the idea that the US/Israel agreed to their 10-point plan as terms of the ceasefire - something which seems extremely unlikely given that the terms (depending on the source) include “allowing Iranian nuclear enrichment” which seems like something that would be negotiated at a much later part of the process. Which is weird because they already have the whole “Israel still blowing up lebanon” thing to justify this.

Iran apparently also launched multiple barrages against Israel minutes after trump announced the ceasefire. I’ve got no idea what’s going on, but at least the US appears to have temporarily stopped bombing Iran while they try and explain this fuckfuck circus to High Commander Shitbritches… I suppose that’s something.

It seems prudent to maybe wait and find out what the real agreement is - there’s so many versions they’re claiming, and some of them are outlandish. This seems like Iran spinning this into a wild victory when negotiations haven’t even started - nor has the shooting stopped yet.

There’s so many versions of what the deal supposedly includes that we’re better off just ignoring it for now and waiting until the negotiations start and we get a decent idea of what it actually is. No way the UN agrees to lifting all security council resolutions, nor will the US agree to unrestricted enrichment or to withdraw it’s troops from regional bases, all of which are variously claimed to have been agreed on parts of the 10 point plan they forced on trump…

Iran, meanwhile, has fired several salvos of ballistic missiles at Israel since the ceasefire was reportedly supposed to take effect.

Yeah, did Iran/Israel actually negotiate a ceasefire between each other or was it just an Iran/US ceasefire…

IDK, the protests do seem to be pretty well attended, despite the apparent effort required…

The NRA embezzled themselves into irrelevance half a decade ago - they’re not a meaningful political entity anymore.

Some kind of large gathering of likeminded people, perhaps? That could be workable…

Under the definitions laid out in the IHL, which are taken directly from Geneva Convention Protocol 1, they were not hors de combat. This was a shameful, cowardly act - but it was not a war crime.

In pretty much every other western country, the populace could reasonably exert force over their national armed forces because those armed forces are reasonably sized. But the entire active duty military of Germany has fewer personnel than the on-base population of a single US military base (JBLM 210k, Germany 185k), and JBLM is only the 4th largest base in the US…

They just filed articles of impeachment - so that’s something…

https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres1155/BILLS-119hres1155ih.pdf