Comments on the WCK attack for The New York Times

“If you have a humanit. assistance vehicle that is clearly marked ...had communicated its route ... & you still misidentify that vehicle ..., it is a very safe inference that your precautions are insufficient.”

nytimes.com/2024/04/08/wor…

Ich denke wer sich jetzt in Deutschland um die Demokratie und Meinungsfreiheit keine Sorgen macht, passt einfach nicht auf.

This is my Roman Empire

Happy .zip and .mov anniversary to all who celebrate

While eyes are on Iran-Israel tensions, Iran’s police reported today on tightening mandatory hijab rules for women from 13 April.

Iranian women increasingly ignored these rules after “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests in 2022.

Iran never officially disbanded the morality police.

'And from what I’m hearing, Israeli military and political leaders are very, very afraid of what the international courts will do'

“For 22 years now, through four different administrations, that prison camp in Cuba, distinctly offshore of any conception of American justice, has held individuals captured in the war on terror in a way that defies any imaginable principles of due process, human rights, or the…

There are literally tools with versions that cost $4000 more because the box includes a piece of regulatory paper. You do NOT want professional tools. You are not torquing bolts on a satellite. Don’t be a fucking poser from pride.

Recently needed to replace a car battery, and couldn’t find my metric deep sockets.
I can afford anything I want. But I bought the cheapest shit available. If they break I’ll buy the better ones.
Anyway I replaced the battery they worked fine.

Amateurs mistaking the assurance and precision requirements and servicing contracts of tools for full-time professionals, as something that could make you better, is a classic mistake.
Took a lot of money to learn that. You probably won’t listen and learn it same way.

The wrong lesson from the Holocaust: the German government deports a leading war surgeon who was elected as Rector of the University of Glasgow this month to prevent him from describing in Berlin the atrocities he witnessed while serving in Gaza.
dawnmena.org/germany-deport…

The moral panic which has gripped our authorities shows we have learned nothing whatsoever.

My Pebble review is lost to the URL change Gods but the thing about the first Pebble was it delivered what it promised in the Kickstarter and then the community stepped in and made it even better. But as Eric says, underpromising/overdelivering is key.

The Rector of Glasgow University banned from Germany and prevented from speaking at a conference. Detained at the airport and denied entry to the country. But a boycott would harm academic freedom…

On the last day of shiva mourning their parents, Bilha & Yakovi Inon, who were murdered by Hamas on Oct. 7, the Inon siblings decided on a unified message: 'no revenge.'

Read this op-ed by my friend Maoz, who has been a force of great moral courage & analytical clarity:

ten years as an antiquarian, hearing nothing but 'my relative kept these untouched in a box their whole life but they died, and I don't want this stuff' has radicalized me. annotate the books. use the china. wear the clothes until they wear out. your life should not be a museum

Guy receiving award in honour of person they have clearly never read, or, worse, clearly have not understood, is one of the funniest genres.

In a sad sort of way.

The best title ever Mar Hicks
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