if that was mixed with fuel, sure (15kt) but on its own should be a bit less (6.5kt)
i should be writing
if that was mixed with fuel, sure (15kt) but on its own should be a bit less (6.5kt)
“This is a ship that nobody wants, but that nobody can get rid of.”
20,000 tonnes of ammonium nitrate
i see something resembling a solution, right there
you have no idea how fucked up middle eastern politics can get. first split by sunni/shia/other religions, then allegiance to syria/iran/israel/iraq/egypt/selection of gulf states, and sometimes by tribe/clan allegiance too just to keep things from getting too easy. then try to make a government out of like 15 parties all with divergent goals funding and incentives
i’ll make it shorter for you if you don’t have attention span for a paragraph of text:
pagers are probably a war crime, but it’s relatively minor compared to airstrikes that happened since (and before)
pagers thing is probably illegal pending extra details but it’s not the worst thing that happenes there. not like this case will see hague ever so it’s probably a bit moot on that ground
it’s middle east, there are no innocent orgs, except civilians, and no one has actual incentive to limit civilian casualties. i’d just wish that both likud and hamas lose because neither is compatible with remotely sane stable politics in region
fastest banhammer in the west (6 minutes)
well it’s gotta be more about how every lebanese govt since 2006 refused to implement UNSC resolution 1701 (that one about disarming hezbollah) and how it turned out for them
you’re mixing up hamas and hezbollah, and if you want to go into rabbit hole shitshow that is lebanese politics start with Taif agreement
both in absolute terms and especially compared to continuing airstrikes, some with ai-cooked target list and including actual warcrime tactics, pagers were basically spotless in terms of targeting. the more likely illegal part was in booby-trapping pagers in the first place. westpoint lawyer take on the situation https://lieber.westpoint.edu/exploding-pagers-law/
90% of LLM training quits just before achieving sentience
was/is he unusually shitty or notorious for something
Bootleg mining was a thing in coal-bearing areas of Poland and Ukraine during times of greatest economic shitshows (early interbellum and 90s)
That means that DHL driver has to take bike instead of car for this one
yeah so it seems
a twitter thread by sv ceo where comment section wants to do some recreational union busting, political assassinations and automating away longshoremen (lmao) over checks notes black friday bringing slightly less profit to mass retailers. to which i say, fuck your black friday then
and he says that it’ll affect elections? specifically in “don’t do anything visible in interest of unions or trump will win” kinda way? what kinda madhouse is this americans explain https://xcancel.com/typesfast/status/1836498432510562788#m
fyi even the cortisol addicted core of conservative electorate got significantly saner ~2wk after takeover of public tv by current boring moderate government. that happened a while ago
he’s in hoodie because he visited the flooded region today. as of surname, it might be related to germanic root tysk- like how you have “tyskland” in danish meaning “germany” (he’s kashubian, and that region had strong german and scandi influences). donald tusk is the face of boring moderates™ that were main opponents of previous batshit insane conservative government, and that particular rumor mill has a significant conservative slant
depending on particular noises made by their favourite rumor mill, they might have heard that pagers contained 0, 1, 3, less than 20, or 30 to 60g of explosives. these might have been in battery or in extra (fake) element. nobody knows shit as of now
taiwanese manufacturer denies involvement and directs to a hungarian subsidiary, but that hungarian subsidiary is only nameplate on a residential address. their pagers contain different chips and are overall different model compared to what taiwanese make and sell. it might be very well that israelis didn’t have to intercept shipping of pagers, because they made them and routed through a few cutouts, one in hungary, another in bulgaria. israelis have a policy of not telling anything and i haven’t seen anywhere internals of the alleged pagers. it will take some time until anything will be known with any certainty
ceasefire has been in place for four years at this point. many syrians went to lebanon as refugees, estimates place them at something close to 1.5M. maybe some of them are going back