Reason number 5,386 to delete your Reddit account and encourage your friends & loved ones to do the same.

and incidentally, reason number 5,386 to make your online profiles hard to track down without actual active measures (like NSA attention).

[…] allegedly throwing an improvised incendiary device that ignited part of an exterior gate before fleeing the scene on foot.

The suspect was ultimately located about an hour later near OpenAI’s headquarters, roughly 4.8 kilometres (three miles) away, where he was allegedly threatening to set the building on fire.

ngl disappointing performance. If you’re going to do an adventurism by yourself, which I generally don’t advocate for tactical reasons, then at least make it worth the prison time.

Defenestrit

Do diplomacy by shouting in public and assuming the message will reach your enemy.

You may not like it, but this is what peak transparency looks like

Art of the Squeal

“Left-Right” isn’t really a cohesive model of politics, but it’s a hard sell for any form of capitalism to be considered left of socialist economics. Like PugJesus said, you’ve generally described modern social democracy (not to be confused with democratic socialism). It’s an improvement, but still a long way away from ‘left of left’.

This seems utopian, akin to one saying “participating in wage labour empowers capitalists - working most jobs is still evil”.

What is the point of such abstract declarations? I’m an anti-capitalist because I want to improve the world, not to be “good” or “correct” or some other philosophical purity; “the point is to change it”.

This is how ancient communal villages worked btw

Adblockers have been mentioned a hundred times, as they should.

Annual reminder to donate to Invidious too. YouTube has done some serious work to try and block most of the instances.

For a second I thought it was former General Mark “Marxist-Leninist-Maoist” Milley.

What’s been your favorite non-Abrahamic, non-local celebration?

On the other hand, if my workplace was on a list of announced missile targets, I’d stay away.

Assuming that there’s no real chance of their enemy setting up a defense in time:

• It reduces probability of civilian causalities (improves their international image, reduces incentives for affected people to join the fight against them)
• If there is some failure in the attack and the center isn’t disabled, they still reduced productivity. I’d say indefinitely
• Tactic could theoretically be used to threaten or feint. For example, publicly list five target but only bother bombing three, and you get the benefits of scaring away people at the other two without spending weapons. This could also be used to manipulate enemy logistics, like moving their defenses or response teams to one place and then attacking another.

Reflecting on this, I think it’s fair to consider the International Court of Justice (part of the UN) to be a legal system with legitimate jurisdiction over most countries - even if it’s frequently unable to enforce its law. And therefore it’s reasonable to describe a war as “illegal”, wrt the UN.

But I do believe it’s a pointless description - I can’t think of any legal wars, especially if one believes committing war crimes makes even a UN-sanctioned war illegal. I consider it a propagandic description used to put spin on a war. (And just adding that on a personal level, I believe legality is irrelevant to morality and acceptability)

Retaliation is generally understood to be self defence, as a deterrent against further attacks.

While the statement may be true, I want to emphasize that a common tactic is for a country to harass or suppress another country until they retaliate, and claim that retaliation is in fact unprompted aggression which must be retaliated against. While there are notable cases of this in the past decade, this tactic is tried and true across centuries. Therefore, we often see wars where both sides claim self-defense, and both their blocs generally understand their side to be justified.

Minutes.

You may not like it, but twins are the ideal couple.

This is my fully automatic glock with red dot, beta c mag, LED ammo count display and rainbow dash decal. There are many like it, but this one is mine!

Hopefully this one directly shoves the electons. I’m scared of society’s DHMO dependency.

If this hypothesis is true, and it does sound plausible to me, it would be interesting to see what counter-analysis emerges, or even if citizens try to change their road address from King Street to Landfill Lane to avoid getting whacked.

What the fuck is an “illegal war”? Are there countries out there who give invaders permission to destroy them?

Enron lives on