I say gelassenheit as I’m not superstitious and don’t like to propagate superstitious sentiment. I’m also not German.

Down here in Florida, we just call it “a scorcher”. 🥵

Context:

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/4/2/headlines/nyt_israel_urges_christian_and_druze_communities_to_force_shiites_out_of_southern_lebanon

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But not to vote, huh?

Priorities…

truuuu

If Thrawn is canon, Mara Jade is canon. I don’t make the rules. ╭∩╮（︶︿︶）╭∩╮

And “a boot” is “about” in Canadian. 😜

To add a funny one:

(Hint for Americans: the joke makes more sense if you pronounce it with a British accent)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

39 trillion national debt, but national healthcare is “too expensive”.

To capitalism’s credit, we’re reaching a point where money doesn’t really seem to matter a whole lot anymore.

You know, unless you own gorillians of it.

Maybe, but I think sociopaths have a real “ok, well fuck you, too, then. I’ll do/get it myself!” mentality when it comes to God.

And yet you will never hear the 2A crowd chant the implied variant of their favorite mantra, “AI doesn’t kill people; people kill people.” 🙄

The NDAs and TS/SCI labels are going to obfuscate the decision chain to the point that culpability won’t be able to be established at all.

marauders

So basically just like… the internet is banned?

TBF, this kind of disaster planning is not uncommon even outside the current context.

Most major metropolitan hospitals have disaster planning/simulation committees that regularly game-out responses to catastrophic incidents, including a nuclear bomb incident.

This also isn’t the first time WHO has done this kind of disaster preparedness (yea, even for nuclear weapon usage).

Actually, I think that’s the main process of enshittification, but I don’t think enshittification is always deliberate.

Very often software products are tweaked, changed, or even degraded in an attempt to “simplify” or “improve” a particular user experience at the expense of another UX.

And to make matters worse, some companies end up with a Frankenstein product of confusing functions because they are trying to cater to two entirely different user bases within the same product.

E.g. Microsoft may genuinely have believed that changing their system settings UI in Windows 11 to “consolidate and reduce drift” of system configurations would improve the everyday user experience, but they failed to account for the decades of inertia they’d built up from their prior OS user base and how that would piss off a not-insignificant number of other users who had grown accustomed to the way the product had previously worked.

Israel could just not allow its settlers to fly crop dusters over the border to spray poison to kill Lebanese crops and none of this would happen.

Listen up, young 'uns—shit’s gotten real bad when the Germans start going broke.

They’ve clawed their way back from all that WW2 debt for awhile now, and were the ones bailing people out left and right during the 2008 financial crisis.

If the Germans start going bust, only God can save us.

“Nur noch ein Gott kann uns retten.”

These aren’t "double-tap’ strikes. These are war crimes.

They aren’t just bombing civilian infrastructure. Obviously they’ll hand-wave the incident away via some vague reference to some sketchy intelligence.

The followup strikes are a war crime because they’re waiting for first responders to arrive and then they kill them, too. That’s stupidly illegal, immoral, and inhumane. It’s akin to shooting a medic tending to a soldier on the battlefield.