The initial push into the land is often funded by their agricultural ministry. Settlers force Palestinians off their land (with IDF support) to put their own sheep/goats out to pasture. The WSJ had a video earlier this year where they interview settlers and they show the reporters explicitly how they are receiving funding from the ministry. The rest of the funds come from private American donors who enthusiastically support the illegal annexations.

Of which there are thousands in arbitrary detention waiting to be tried in sham military courts.

In math and (theoretical) physics alphabetical is the presumed norm.

Is there any material difference between Edge and Chrome? I’m forced to use either of them for work and as far as I can tell they perform the same

Why are we starting new coal mines anywhere?

Generally agree, but damaging gas facilities can have undesirable consequences. An extreme methane leak is worse than combusting that gas

Prejudices against the LGBT community are already present in so many people that you don’t need brainwashing. Instead, this is about leveraging and amplifying the existing prejudice for political purposes.

Leaving academia was definitely one of the best choices I ever made for my (physical, mental and financial) health.

I don’t regret doing my PhD, but I definitely spent two years too many on the postdoc treadmill.

As we’ve recently learned it isn’t just about oil. It’s about maritime trade more broadly. One of the explicit purposes of the US Navy is to defend maritime trade. The Suez canal and the Persian Gulf are two of the most important maritime trade routes.

After the elections in 2024 the picture could be different. Putin’s long term strategy has been to weaken NATO by supporting NATO-skeptic parties. Depending on election outcomes there is a real possibility that key members fail to adhere to their Article 5 obligations

If even a small fraction of Russia’s nuclear arsenal is functional then they are still incredibly dangerous

They were enemy combatants because they were within bombing radius of an enemy combatant. That was the American logic in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to print more humane-looking civilian casualty numbers

Imagining calling someone an NPC unironically.

It’s shameful that Trudeau himself started the unwinding of the carbon tax. This home heating exclusion for Atlantic Canada was the beginning of the end.

Because Wagner is already there

Oh, of course. He’s fine with child abuse as long as it is consensual.

Two words: pube loofah. The mons pubis is a great place to lather up. Then I just scoop up soap with my bare hands and bring it where it needs to be.

Mathematical notation was designed to be written by hand. It is at least as clear and descriptive as any syntax from a programming language. You’re pretending that the abstraction behind a for loop is somehow less than that behind a sum or product notation.

This post confuses me. Why would code be simpler than the math notation? Both involve symbolic abstraction of basically the same complexity

I think we should all be assuming that these are not real figures. I support Ukraine but would never actually believe these numbers. Disinformation is a weapon of war