It must be a bit humiliating to be a player for Somaliland, a de facto country with its own national identity, and having to face European LARPers playing as the national team of the “County of Nice”
German state propaganda on Instagram posted a video about a group of German students who have decided to burry the bones of the learning skeleton they have been using because it was brought over from India a long time ago so totally unacceptable. The comments are full with hate towards the British who facilitated “the trade”. This comment got no reaction.
Fun fact:
I used a VPN & a throwaway SIM to create the twitter account that got me arrested, when I asked the police interrogator how they found me, they admitted they matched up the details of my stabbing that I posted about on the account to the police report I made. Pure evil
Iraq is such a wonderful place. Do you guys know that we actually pay two electricity bills each month? One to the electricity company and one to the local/private neighbourhood power generator
Met two traveling American friends in almost as many days, both surprised to find that Paris is a mostly-functional, majority-white, active capital city, and not a museum inside a madrassa
I wonder how much the 5th Century Roman situation was like what we saw not long ago in Syria and Afghanistan, where armies which on paper had huge advantages in men & equipment were in reality totally rotten edifices that melted away at first contact with the enemy.
Paris has boulevards. Vienna has its Ringstrasse. Rome has piazzas. New York has its avenues slicing down Manhattan. Venice has its fondamente besides canals and its sottoporteghi under buildings. But surely the quintessential London street is the mews?
all this talk about aborting disabled kids reminds me of a story from my own life. i guess ive never opened up about it before.
when in my early 20s i had a fling with this girl. call her rachel. rachel was a serious lefty, which meant something then. grew up poor and hard, sharp enough to move up but two feet in the old culture.
one morning out of nowhere she started describing a scenario to me, with some warmth and animation. what would i do, she asked, if she got pregnant and the baby was disabled. like, really disabled. i believe she used the phrase "fucked up beyond hope of living a normal life."
i found this incredibly off-putting. but it was one of those questions that obviously had a correct answer, and i had the presence of mind to deliver it looking her dead in the eye.
"i suppose," i ventured, "i would have to name it rachel."
It’s interesting how the radical Ehrlich-promoted governmental interventions of the 70s, up to forcibly sterilising millions of Indians, failed utterly where simply giving everyone access to the internet succeeded here
Apocalyptic bird nest.
A Russian glide bomb knocks down a tree in Donbas. From the shattered branches rolls out a tiny bird’s nest.
Made of drone fiber-optic cable.
Source: Oleg Malchenko
Movie set in the Cambrian period where nothing happens because it’s set on land. No animals, no plants, no trees, no sound but the lonely wind wandering over endless gravel. Occasionally the words “Ten million years later” appear on screen, but nothing changes.