John C Wheeler

I'm thinking this through further and there is no difference between deporting people to form a "culturally coherent group of people" and Hitler saying jews could not be aryan.

Caution around Godwin's Law should be dropped. Katie Lam has openly supported nazi ideology.

🇵🇱⚖️🇩🇪🇺🇦 Quite incredible passages in the opinion of ("old") judge Dariusz Łubowski in the case: "The destruction of critical infrastructure of any country (...) in a just, defensive war (...) are not sabotage, but military actions of a diversionary nature, which can in no way be considered crimes."

Screenshot: News Exclusive Rachel Reeves pledges a library in every primary school in England 7h ago

TIL that there isn’t a library in every primary school in England 😳

Wanted to post some 🔥 from John Quincy Adams on the Declaration of Independence:

"It was the first solemn declaration by a nation of the only legitimate foundation of civil government. It was the corner stone of a new fabric, destined to cover the surface of the globe. It demolished at a stroke/

If AfD did get power they'd need a 2/3rd majority to change the constitution. They are such a long way off getting near there, even in places like Thuringia where they are the strongest. Under FPTP you can get such a majority on minority vote shares.

I was sent this map by a follower. When was the capital city of South American nations founded?

He's right, and not only that, American civil wars were largely unique in that they were fought "formally" (like OP means). That's unusual even accounting for wider history.

It's because when you get right down to it, both were nation vs nation.

No one has done more damage to public health and trust in science and medicine than Andrew Wakefield.

26 years after his wrong and fraudulent paper people are still spouting his nonsense about an alleged link between vaccines and autism.

The study was debunked countless times.

There is no link.

YouTube video by Richard J Murphy Who really owns the £5 note in your pocket?

Who really owns the £5 note in your pocket? youtu.be/8CTy_ia4j5k?... Politicians love to talk about “taxpayers’ money.” But here’s the truth: every pound in circulation is created by the government or banks licensed by it. This video explains why.

The true purpose of Bluesky has been revealed and it's Michael Stipe telling us the lyrics to It's The End Of The World As We Know It

My grandfather was an East Tennessee hillbilly farmer. He had dairy cows. And yes. They always boiled the milk before they used it for anything.

Have these people ever been around actual cows?!?

This guy gets it. This is the way.

Yes. That certainly seems to be the case. This is extremely dangerous stuff.

This is extremely disturbing stuff. Growing up in the Tennessee in the 70's & 80's, I know personally how destructive this sort of racism is and how nasty it can get when it is normalised.

Figure 1. The chance of a >140 m NEO impacting Earth placed in context with the chance that other preventable events may happen to an individual. Individual event frequency and fatality chances are taken from peer-reviewed studies on particular regions over specific time intervals; these are broad averages, and individual risks vary widely. We expect most readers to be able to identify some events that are relevant to their lives, and some that are not. Readers interested in their own chances are encouraged to consider the events most relevant to their demographics, geographic region, and hobbies. Section 3.2 has a further discussion of details and caveats. This figure is intended to contextualize the > 140 m NEO impact frequency with events people may be familiar with, such as flu sickness and lightning strikes. The x-axis is the chance of the rare event happening to the planet (NEO impact) or an individual (all other events) over an average human lifetime. The y-axis shows the chance of fatality to an individual if the event occurs. The chance of fatality from a > 140 m impact is dependent on a large range of variables, such as impactor size (140 m to > 10 km) and impact location (populated city to middle of a large ocean). An impact could result in no fatalities (less likely) some fatalities (more likely), or mass extinction (very unlikely, but possible; see Section 1.2); this is represented by large error bars (blue). The placement of the impact symbol on the y-axis is in the visual center to avoid the pitfalls of averaging discussed in Section 1.2.

The chance of a >140 m asteroid hitting the Earth (hello 🦕) is more likely than you being trampled by an elephant, but much less likely than you being struck by a car.

doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/...

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

There's comparatively little on female sexual disfunction and menopause, etc. as well. It wobbles my mind why male doctors and researchers would not want women fully functional and healthy, but what do I know?

Europe has all the tools it needs to be free, but Europeans are afraid to use them Over the past months, this continent has collapsed into a mire of fatalistic thinking. Mario Draghi is trying to remind us of the strength we possess. But Europeans don't believe in themselves.

I’ve been outside the Brussels bubble this summer travelling around Europe, spending time in 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇵🇱🇧🇪🇹🇷🇬🇧🇬🇷. In talking to Europeans, a grim reality has become apparent.

We are facing a crisis of confidence in facing the 🇺🇸 threat. How can we make Europeans believe in themselves?

The Third Algorithm ChatGPT and other generative AI isn't about to create superintelligence, but even if what we see now is it, the impact is on the scale of Google search and algorithmic social media, except maybe worse

For this article on what generative AI is actually doing to society once you cut through the hype, I referenced, drew on, and engaged with some interesting writing by @cwarzel.bsky.social @tressiemcphd.bsky.social @noupside.bsky.social @garethwatkins.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social.

Totally normal for the President to instruct his lawyers to “go through the museums”

Unfortunately, and as I write about in my current book... British society in the 1930s... and even after the start of the war... influenced by newspapers like the Daily Mail was just as hostile to Jewish German and other refugees of Naziism as their modern descendants are to 'asylum seekers' today.

London is one of the greatest cities in the world. Khan is correct. Its very existence does indeed make a mockery of tribal nationalism.

Excellent point and example.

Ain't this God's own Truth!

Looking good, Man!

Killing them all (for all intents and purposes) is one solution! Then the killers can tell themselves it was "manifest destiny."

No. We've never done any of that sort of stuff. Probably because none of us are up on tech enough! Thank you for the kind words.

just a reminder again that we were told over and over that a 13 year old downloading a Limp Bizkit mp3 was an existential threat to society

100%

Otto English talking sense, as per isual.