Harold Wilson, Clement Attlee

I'm not a tankie nor do I like China, but this is whataboutism. It's perfectly reasonable to talk about for example, Iranian victims of the US, Iranian victims of the government of Iran, Palestinian victims of Israel, Uyghur victims of China or Ukrainian victims of Russia in separate conversations.

When you bring China into a reasonable question about US responsibility for war crimes in Iran, it's a bad look no matter who you're talking to.

These antibiotics are awful though. So big I had to break in half just to swallow and they gave me an awful tummy ache even though I ate with yogurt like the Dr suggested.

Sounds very unpleasant. Get well soon.

Cat bites are really nasty, like losing a limb or worse

Not that bad, but yeah. Cat scratches heal just fine. Cat bite? Instant course of antibiotics, and also a rabies shot if it's not your own cat.

The next time, throw a glass of water into the fight or slam some pot lids together to make a scary noise to interrupt the fight

Absolutely. Throwing water at fighting cats is a great method of getting them to disperse. By far the safest and most reliable method.

The vast majority of that final paragraph is just good advice for cat owners generally, not even specifically for cats that hate each other. Neutered cats have much better health outcomes as there's just less that can go wrong. Giving them plenty of routes to move around the room just generally results in more active, happier cats. Also, scratching posts are mandatory if you don't want them attacking your furniture. They have a physiological need to scratch, give 'em somewhere to do it.

You see, Iberia was once controlled by a Muslim dynasty. Then the east portuguese faked being nice to them in order to get them to drop their guard. This was so effective, they did it multiple times. Darling/dear in east portuguese is "Quista", so that's why it's called the re-con-quista.

As for why they called their dialect Mexican? Because they were big fans of the moon, of course.

Fourth is that Starlink blocking Russia is still causing chaos in Russian units.

Fifth is that Russia made that situation even worse by banning telegram to crack down on civil unrest, cutting off yet another military communication line.

Sixth is that organized criminal rings from the conscripted prisoners have effectively siezed control of the platoon and lower leadership, personally enriching themselves by shaking down the grunts and sending those that refuse to the frontline. Progress on the line doesn't make them money, so they don't care.

There's definitely more, but that's what I can remember off the top of my head.

But Angron didn't do that. His marines did that themselves, trying to get approval from a loner PTSD-riddled traumatized psycho who they considered their holy father. Angron was just sulking, trying to be left alone, and occasionally killing his own marines when they tried to get him to lead.

Let's call it half the world economy. North Africa is being really badly hit, Pakistan is screwed, and Europe is being somewhat badly hit.

EDIT: Argh, got the text placement wrong. Whatever, good enough for a low-effort meme :P

I would heavily recommend linking to join-lemmy.org instead of lemmy.ml.

This seems to be the earliest article about Vasile Gorgos, and it seems to be missing a lot of details from this retelling. I think this means that a lot of these details (wearing the same clothes, the same train ticket he left with, the mysterious car speeding off) were all added later.

EDIT: In the video, they actually show the train ticket. It's from 2021, from Ploesti to his home village, and his daughter-in-law says a friend of his picked him up from the train station after recognizing him. Also, unlike this version, he didn't say he'd been at home, he said he wanted to go home. He does look and sound very visibly senile.

Also, unlike this version, the original does not give him a clean bill of health. It specifically says he has neurological problems and can no longer recognize his son or his son's wife.

If you'll allow a bit of speculation, my guess is the guy abandoned his family, went off and lived life, the police never really took the missing persons case seriously and never really looked for him. Decades later, he starts becoming senile. A befuddled old man, still with his unchanged ID card, gets picked up by a good samaritan who drops the old man home. gets a train ticket home and gets recognized at the train station.

pi ends with the digit 9, followed by an infinite sequence of other digits.

That's a very interesting use of the word "ends".

Gonna throw my hat into the ring here and say this kind of self-reflection and improvement is exactly how communities of any kind improve.

People have problems, stress and issues. This shit happens. The ability to say "I fucked up", then fix the fuckup and prevent similar fuckups happening in future is how we as a global society improve and become better people.

In short: everyone should attempt to be better, that's all anyone can ask.

destroying paintings and monoliths

But... they didn't do either of those things. They threw soup at glass, and for the Stonehenge thing they used washable powder paint. They were publicity stunts with no damage done.

It's pretty dope. Been following the fediverse for a while, but I've never used twitter so mastodon felt kinda useless to me. I've never used facebook, so friendica felt kinda useless to me.

Anonymous strangers posting links and having discussions? Now that's more my jam.

But seriously, are there really women who talk about men in those terms?

Yes. Personally, I see it as the mirror image of the "tradwife" thing where toxic men see their partner as a subservient maid. Seeing men as primarily an income source comes from a similar place imho.

It's frankly incredible just how devoted the US Democratic party is to losing. They're so ridiculously ineffectual.

I know someone who got had by a spearfishing call. They knew all the details about his phone contract, sounded 100% legit. The scammer got thousands of dollars in prepaid SIM cards from his account.

After the police investigation, turned out that the scammer was actually a former employee of the phone company who downloaded a copy of the customer list when he got fired.

Fun fact about our legal system: we don't do jury trials. The evidence and arguments are heard by the judge, who decides both guilty/not guilty and the sentence.

Ah yes, the famous Buddhist swastika. In this photo, surrounded by Buddhist iron crosses and Buddhist Prussian eagles.