This graphic is number of deaths from Israel's weapons vs. Hezbollah's weapons. Strikes from Israel's weapons that cause deaths are a far higher number–that big bulge.
The Apt books are good (I'm on book 5) but his sci-fi is next level. The Final Architecture books are some of the best I've read, and the Children of Time books aren't far behind.
PayPal is updating their ToS to let themselves give your data to merchants starting in November and they're certainly banking on people not knowing to opt out, SO to opt out before they start: go to Settings > Data & Privacy > Manage shared info > Personalized shopping, and toggle that shit off
(Cross-post from The Bad Place) I suppose we're doing this again. This is incorrect: the Roman army relied heavily on non-citizens throughout nearly the whole of Roman history, including periods of its greatest success in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, when Rome came to dominate the Mediterranean.1/
Here's a new piece from ex-Copyright Office GC Jacqueline Charlesworth that generative AI proponents will hate, laying out a straightforward case for courts to rule against fair use for LLM training. Not a prediction or agreement, but I'd be unsurprised if the Second Circuit adopted ~this reasoning.
Oh FTLOG... Someone explain to the idiot how NATO works please? This headline is effectively "Boris Johnson considered starting a war with the USA". It's all a bloody joke to him, isn't it? www.theguardian.com/world/2024/s...#borisjohnson#nato#theguardian
Former prime minister admits in extract from forthcoming book that he discussed possible aquatic operation at height of pandemic
Beautiful early morning colours here in Glastonbury today. Taken about half an hour before sunrise.
I don't think it's actually even that. It's this peculiarly American thing that says "Freedom means doing anything I want." For starters not pay taxes. They don't come to that from watching analysis on Fox, they come to it by never growing out of hating their parents telling them it's bed time.
I remember reading www.amazon.co.uk/Libertarian-... a while back. I hadn't appreciated just how dumb (but also passionate) libertarians are about these things. Some of this stuff is just libertarian wet dreams, which unfortunately for the rest of us, don't work. But you can't tell them that.
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