@glennbeck Sounds gleeful?
In the summer of 1941 the United States cut off Japan’s oil supply, and that embargo was a major factor in Tokyo’s decision to attack Pearl Harbor.
Those Non-Stick pans.
Case reports and occupational reviews have linked recurrent polymer-fume episodes to lasting airway damage, including documented progression of #COPD, occupational asthma, and (less often) fibrosis.
Chronic inhalation of unheated #PTFE particles, rather than the pyrolysis fumes themselves, has also been associated with granulomatous lung disease.
@SamaHoole Funny that there are less than 1.6 billion agricultural cattle on Earth, yet about 75–80 billion chickens are slaughtered worldwide each year.
University debate, "Were humans built to eat meat?", same two chairs, same clock.
Vegan: "Anatomically we're closer to the gorilla than the lion. Flat molars, long gut. A gentle plant-eater with delusions."
Paleoanthropologist: "Then explain the acid."
Vegan: "Which acid?"
Paleoanthropologist: "Your stomach runs at a pH of about 1.5. A lion's sits nearer 3.6. Yours is stronger than the animal you've just been contrasted with, by a factor of about a hundred."
Vegan: "Stomach acid digests food."
Paleoanthropologist: "A cow's rumen sits at about 6.5. That's a compost heap with a pulse. Yours strips the zinc off a coin. Why would a gentle plant-eater carry that?"
Vegan: "Protection."
Paleoanthropologist: "From what? Lettuce doesn't fight back."
Vegan: "Bacteria."
Paleoanthropologist: "Which bacteria live in a leaf at a level that needs a pH of 1.5? Name the salad."
Vegan: "..."
Paleoanthropologist: "The animals that run acid as low as ours are the scavengers. Vultures. Things that arrive at a carcass on the second day and need to kill what's already living in it. We're not built like the lion. We're built like the bird that waits for the lion to finish."
Vegan: "Flattering."
Paleoanthropologist: "It's a picture of a species with a rock, a sharp flake and no claws. You don't get the fresh kill. You get the femur nobody could open, forty hours late, and you'd better have the acid for it."
Vegan: "Acid that strong is dangerous. Look how many people are on tablets for it."
Paleoanthropologist: "The only animal on earth that pays to switch its stomach off. You've spent sixty years pouring cereal onto a carcass digester and now you're medicating the digester for doing its job."
Vegan: "So your argument is that we're vultures."
Paleoanthropologist: "My argument is a number. Yours is a feeling about gorillas. The gorilla eats for most of the day and its gut is a fermentation tank. Yours is done in a few hours and runs on acid. One of you is designed for leaves."
Moderator: "Thirty seconds."
Paleoanthropologist: "She can keep them. I'm still waiting on the salad."
This is not an explosion in the usual sense. It is an execution by gravity.
Astronomers have released a near frame-by-frame visualization of the moment a supermassive black hole catches a neutron star — a city-sized lump of matter denser than anything you could hold — and pulls it into a thread. The star does not simply fall. It is stretched, shredded, unwound. What was a whole world a second earlier becomes a stream of ultra-dense debris racing toward the event horizon.
The massacre shakes spacetime itself. A burst of gravitational waves races across the cosmos, and a blast of raw energy flies outward. Earthbound instruments do not see the black hole. They catch the scar it leaves in the fabric of the world.
No lab can stage this. Physics is tested here at the edge: too close, too fast, too final. The black hole does not argue with the star. It just erases it — and leaves us the ripple
🇮🇶🇸🇾 Iraq's workaround for the Strait of Hormuz is to full-send tanker trucks packed with oil over the border into Syria towards Mediterranean ports
And it looks fking insane
Writer: Ian
Red Bull athlete Andrzej Bargiel just made history, becoming the first to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen and ski all the way down to Base Camp. #everest#mounteverest#ski
#Semantics
Since the 2nd WW...
The United Nations does not maintain a single official, comprehensive “list of genocides.” Recognition occurs through a mix of General Assembly or Security Council resolutions, UN-created tribunals (ICTY, ICTR), International Court of Justice rulings, and reports from UN human rights bodies. The legal definition comes from the 1948 Genocide Convention.
Since World War II (after 1945)
The two cases with the clearest and most consistent UN institutional recognition are: The 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda (UN Security Council created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda).
The 1995 Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia (ruled genocide by the ICTY and the ICJ in 2007; later commemorated by a UN General Assembly resolution).
The Holocaust (1941–1945) is foundational—the 1946 UN resolution that led to the Genocide Convention treated it as genocide—but it occurred during, not after, WWII. Other events such as Cambodia (Khmer Rouge) have been addressed by a UN-backed hybrid court, while Darfur and Rohingya cases have seen ICC involvement or UN fact-finding missions that stop short of a full UN-wide “genocide” designation in every instance.
The of course the BBC defends dubbing over world leaders speeches #GoFigure
Today in DC, we honour the victims of the South African genocide of white farmers.
@LorenzoCaccia is planting 3,000 crosses in front of the Washington Monument to raise awareness.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), led by Julius Malema, sing “Kill the Boer” or “Kill the farmer.”
Mainstream media refuses to cover it.
Holy Toledo M'Lady.
Thuli Madonsela was Public Protector at the time.
South Africa later faced a similar dilemma over Vladimir Putin’s ICC warrant ahead of the 2023 BRICS summit it hosted; Putin attended only virtually.
South Africa has publicly welcomed the 2024 ICC warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and has not hosted him.
In June 2015 South Africa hosted the African Union summit in Johannesburg.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who faced ICC arrest warrants for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, https://t.co/GtckYKHiOv
South Africa is a party to the Rome Statute and was legally required to arrest him.
A High Court issued an interim order barring him from leaving while it decided the matter, but the government allowed him to fly out.
The ICC later ruled that South Africa had failed to comply with its treaty https://t.co/D68mszdkGY
#ShameOnYou!