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Stainless steel or cast iron in general. Let go of your nonsticks.

It wasn’t just a conituation, he presented an escalation. He moved the embassy to Jerusalem and recognized the Golan Heights as Israeli territory.

People who expected anything different were simply deluding themselves.

The big problem with elves is when they are just taken on face value with the “they’re literally just better than you”, which happens surprisingly often. I started learning about elves from the old folklore stuff before I went into fantasy, the kind of folklore where everything supernatural is some kind of elf, including dwarves, goblins, trolls etc.

In order to heal the divide I propose we retvrn to calling everything that isn’t human some kind of elf, that will sap it of it’s sheen and make elves more tolerable.

Are they counting Mongols and Manchu as Han Chinese?

I wonder how many people see those Hamas=ISIS posts and believe it.

The only faction involved in the current conflict that hasn’t fought ISIS is Israel, by some curious coincidence. They’ve actively helped them instead.

Those seeds were sown when the whole “Hamas run health ministry” started preceeding any death toll to make it out like they were overestimations. The death counts have been very conservative and only counts the people actively killed by the IDF that were able to be identified. Not the people dying from starvation or the thousands buried under rubble.

Why should this be a matter of numbers? I’m not saying that the media should underestimate the number of Palestinian children killed. It’s a question of whether you choose to lead every story with children killed. Forty-five children were killed today. Thirty children were killed today. Fifteen children were killed today. It became an obsession. It became, and still is.

What should be the lead story on days when lots of children are killed?

I’m not talking about those days. This was every single night. I’m telling you I saw a dead baby every single night.

Huh, wonder how many children die per night if 15000 die in a year. What is the lower limit of dead Palestinian children where it becomes acceptable to report on it?

They saw the poll numbers and decided that it was Klobbering time.

Trump is friendly with Modi? Seems like a reach though.

All Harris had to do was to even pretend to be progressive, but she had to jump on the ghoul train in order to impress 7 columnists. Why do they think that Negraponte and Cheney are good endorsements?

The dems were on a slight roll when they chose to do what the ‘left’ told them by replacing Biden and choosing Waltz for VP, but then decided to double down to pander to the right.

No gay, only tease.

We are getting Snow Crash instead of Japan Panic cyberpunk.

If they lose they’ll blame it on not choosing Shapiro and they’ll run with Chris Christie as VP next time around.

Even if it did somehow invent a magic technology to solve climate change these people would just overshoot the capacity of that technology in order to maximise growth, that is just how capitalism works.

Ive heard politicians and ‘analysts’ soft pedaling this argument, guess it is nice to see someone go mask off. Their way of going about it is that AI will make everything else run more efficiently so the energy investment will be offset that way (which is obviously bollocks).

This kind of soft doomerism is also how Musk became the richest man on earth. Billionaires don’t believe that climate change can be solved since that would mean that they would get less dividends, so we are just going to keep investing in magic beans until it is far too late.

What kind of work are you in? I’ve found that pretty much everyone I interact with are more than happy to explain what they are doing if you ask. But I mostly work with tradespeople, so electricians, plumbers, smiths etc. Is it a white collar thing?

Use a very long hose.

Kamala will finish the fight.

Reads like a communist shitpost. I can understand the urge to scream into the void but the UN probably isn’t the best forum.