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Strands #80
“Home grown”

While properly belonging here, this pertains to the discussion in the Challenges Ahead thread. The Czech illegals: Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe It's breathtaking how brazen Russian sabotage and murder activities are in Europe. And how rarely report...

Franco remained in power for 39 years. Salazar for 36. Putin for 24 and counting. It's very hard to dislodge a dictator once one takes hold.

It's easy to blame the media, or rich people, or whoever else. I advocate looking in the mirror. That's a very optimistic view, because if it's us who are the problem, then we can solve it, but if we are up against a sophisticated disinfo machine, state funded troll a farms, strategically design al...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Wed May 22, 2024 5:32 pm I'm not buying it. The media follows the people, not the other way around.

Yes, and we know which people.

Correction - driven by a purposeful campaign of disinformation dirtected by state actors like Russia, China, and Iran leveraging vulnerable or specifically designed social media platforms.

Meanwhile, Harris announced that the administration would move to not consider medical debt when calculating a credit score. We should be hearing loud cheers, and yet.

Meanwhile, Russia is considering going back to forced labor camps. Per the UK intelligence briefing. INTELLIGENCE UPDATE Russia is currently experiencing a labour shortage that is becoming a significant problem in some sectors. According to estimates by the independent Russian media outlet Izvestia ...

He broke every promise he ever made unless it was to do something nasty. Why, given his record, they even talk to him?

I guess if they dangle a large enough donation, they might get somewhere.

Wasn't he supposed to be a witness for the defense?

Not to mention that the voters are greatly influenced by social media companies that are either controlled by hostile states (TikTok, Twitter through Musk's creditors) or are driven by algorithms that are susceptible to manipulation by hostile state agents (the rest of them). And they are pulling fo...

Is there a law that requires them to warn you that you are being recorded? There are lots of those cameras here, but no warnings.

The bloody arrogance of them.

Is it about the pipe weed?

UN seemingly halves estimate of Gazan women, children killed On May 6, the UN published data showing that 34,735 people had reportedly been killed in Gaza, including over 9,500 women and over 14,500 children. Advertisement On May 8, the UN published data showing 34,844 people had reportedly been ki...

Night Watch spoilers ahead Saw a Tumblr post with a theory that in Night Watch, young Sam Vimes assumed that John Keel was his long-absent father. (Looks like me, looks out for me, says he's from a distant city but actually knows my neighborhood very well, likes the same food I do but won't go to se...

Why.

I scrolled by at least 6 tweets today saying that the worm must have died of starvation.

Eta: this headline

Someone once said that Elves are Art Nouveau and Dwarves are Art Deco, and they've got a good point.

That kind of a abstract art is not for me. It takes an amazing kind of mastery to evoke emotion through seemingly random splotches of paint, and I usually enjoy watching the clouds more. At least I don't have to wonder if the artist is having me on (well, I do, but on a very different level). Kandin...