Good on this man. Also

Police are now investigating how and why Cauchi, who is from the state of Queensland, committed such violence.

Gee, five of the six people he killed were women, and his father said, “He wanted a girlfriend and he has no social skills and he was frustrated out of his brain,” but it’s such a mystery, I guess we’ll never know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hamas leaders say they waged their Oct. 7 attack on Israel because they believed the Palestinian cause was slipping away, and that only violence could revive it. article

There was a guy on some British panel show (maybe WILTY?) who can rip an apple in half. I keep meaning to try that but I keep forgetting.

So you have Baraka saying it’s rejected and another un-named official implying talks are still ongoing.

You can reject a specific proposal and still keep talking.

We gave the Republicans a version with everyone they asked for, and they still voted against it.

More crossings are needed, because the infrastructure has been bombed to hell and can’t handle anywhere near the traffic if used to.

MBFC for Constitution News:

Overall, we rate Consortium News Left Biased based on story selection and advocacy that strongly favors the left. We also rate them as Mostly Factual in reporting due to one-sided opinion-based reporting that is difficult to verify. […]

In general, Consortium News holds strong left-leaning biases with a focus on anti-war and anti-imperialism perspectives. Most information is properly sourced, but many stories are opinion-based and sometimes cannot be proven correct or incorrect.

It does matter. Anyone is susceptible to propaganda, and one of the classic ways to promote propaganda is to create a source that seems credible but which is presenting biased information, either in what they conver or how they cover it. Given the information war being waged with real lives at stake, it is not inappropriate to ask other people what they know about an unfamiliar site.

And they may look legitimate to you, but someone else might notice something you’ve overlooked, or they may know something about the source. Kudos to OP for asking the question and trying to be a more discriminatory consumer of news instead of just accepting whatever comes across their path as truth.

The only reason they’re apologizing is because some of them were foreign nationals. If they’d all been Palestinians, Israel would be talking about the Hamas terrorist cell they’d destroyed.

Oh, no, is Israel afraid their lives may be inconvenienced by the actions of another country? What a terrible thing - wherever will they go for their life-sustaining, essential supplies of [checks notes] broadcasting equipment, computers, and integrated circuits?

Snow or static. It’s cosmic microwave background radiation - the remnants of the big bang.

Want to help scientists during (or after) the eclipse? Sign up for some citizen science! I’m signed up for SunSketcher, Soundscapes and GLOBE.

The Internal cavities are usually a result of poor growing conditions.

Well, spez and the COO sold over a million shares. I thought they’d be tied down by some kind of lock-in period.

No, not for “a kiss”, for sexual assault and coercion just like it says in the article.

Okay then. I’m assuming she’ll be able to understand my question in it’s entirety:

I want you to know that your mom [my sister] and your sibling cats all loved you very, very much, and that you’re a good cat, and it’s nothing you ever did that made them leave you behind, [they’re all dead now] and I also need you to know that the yucky-tasting-thing is really really good for you and keeps you healthy and I’m sorry it tastes weird, and if you’re feeling bad it’d be incredibly useful if you could point your tail at the thing that hurts, and I’m glad you’re a part of my life and I love you very very much too, okay?

Is this like a one-time question, or is it a repeatable question? Cause my cat has a habit of randomly screaming and most of the time it’s nothing and very occasionally it’s a medical issue (she has chronic illnesses). I’d love to have a repeatable “Where does it hurt?”

The researcher points out that births “will increasingly be concentrated in the areas of the world that are most vulnerable to climate change, resource scarcity, political instability, poverty and infant mortality.”

Well, this can only end well …

“No, you can’t bring in those medical supplies, you could stab someone with that needle or strangle them with that bandage! Are you crazy - that canned food could be used as a projectile or broken open to make a shiv! What do you mean you want to bring in blankets, they could be used to hide someone!”

Of course. And Israel has already said that they need a one kilometer “security zone” between Israel and Gaza, and that they’re not going to put the security zone on [current] Israeli territory.

Gaza’s border with Israel is about 32 miles long. The amount of land taken for the demilitarized zone would be about 20 square miles. Gaza is about 6 miles wide; aside from the incredible disruption the “security road” will cause to Palestinian life, a demilitarized zone on either side of that road would be another land grab of about 6 square miles, meaning Israel is planning to steal (yet another) 26 square miles of Palestinian land. Considering that Gaza is only 141 square miles in the first place, they’re planning on taking 18% of all Gazan land.

Israel itself is 8,550 square miles, and the demilitarized zone would be less than one-third of one percent of Israeli land, and the Israelis say they want it to feel “safe”, so once again all the benefit is to Israel and all the detriment to Gaza.

As a final note, you know they’re going to “hold up” [deny] traffic between the halves, just like they’re holding up [denying] humanitarian aid trucks. Israel has also said that they expect the international community to do the rebuilding of Gaza, and that they won’t allow shipments into Gaza from Israel. That means that everything going into Gaza will either be from Egypt’s land border, or from a port. But it means that there will likely need to be two entirely separate supply lines, which will make logistics, humanitarian aid, and rebuilding supplies significantly more complex.

Which is the whole point, of course. Israel wants the Gazans miserable enough to leave voluntarily, and they certainly don’t care how many die to make that happen -either way, they “win”. And when some part of Gaza hasn’t been rebuilt within a given amount of time, when Palestinians haven’t been able to set up support and supply lines to every corner of Gaza (because Israel is deliberately kneecapping then), well then, Israel will have yet another excuse to justify taking even more “unused land” that doesn’t belong to them.

Fuck Israel.