The slide towards far-right fascism continues...

The US could've done the same, and yet...

Let's

Fucking

Go

Democracy is when you get to choose between voting for genocide and voting for fascism.

"gee why did he set himself on fire? must just be something people do"

it's laughable how US media attributes self-immolation in Tibet to what must be CPC oppression, but self-immolation in the US must just be a cute little coincidence due to poor mental health

That government was put in power after a US-backed coup overthrew the democratically-elected Isabel Perón. Henry Kissinger was instrumental in orchestrating the coup.

Classic Tory austerity

"Prisoners detained without charge" sounds an awful lot like "hostages"

Deeply troubled that it was released

Solidarity for all labour ✊

“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who is safe,” says the president, to loud applause.

Norway once again demonstrating that their regard for the environment only extends so far as it does not affect corporate profits.

153 member states voted in favour, 10 against and there were 23 abstentions.

The 10 against:

• Austria
• Czechia
• Guatemala
• Israel
• Liberia
• Micronesia
• Nauru
• Papua New Guinea
• Paraguay
• United States of America

The 23 abstentions:

• Argentina
• Bulgaria
• Cabo Verde
• Cameroon
• Equatorial Guinea
• Georgia
• Germany
• Hungary
• Italy
• Lithuania
• Malawi
• Marshall Islands
• Netherlands
• Palau
• Panama
• Romania
• Slovakia
• South Sudan
• Togo
• Tonga
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom
• Uruguay

Notably, Canada switched from abstaining in the last UN resolution to voting in favour of this one.

Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon that injured at least nine civilians in what a rights group says should be investigated as a war crime, according to a Washington Post analysis of shell fragments found in a small village.

The Pentagon requires partner militaries to acknowledge obligations under international law when they accept U.S. weapons, “including that these munitions are only to be used for lawful purposes such as signaling and smoke screening,” a U.S. defense official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

It is unclear when the United States delivered the munitions to Israel. The official said no white phosphorous munitions have been provided since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

White phosphorus fell onto several homes and ignited fires, incinerating furniture and stripping appliances to scorched metal. Remnants of the sticky, black chemical littered the ground 40 days after the attack and combusted when residents kicked at it.

In 2013, the Israeli military pledged to stop using white phosphorus on the battlefield, saying it would transition to gas-based smoke shells.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Dec. 2 that Israel’s use of the munition has “killed civilians and produced irreversible damage to more than 5 million square meters of forests and farmland, in addition to damaging thousands of olive trees.”

Yeah that ICJ ruling sure did a lot to stop Israeli aggression.

KSTAR, KFE’s fusion research device which it refers to as an “artificial sun,” managed to sustain plasma with temperatures of 100 million degrees for 48 seconds during tests between December 2023 and February 2024, beating the previous record of 30 seconds set in 2021.

Wait, but hold on...

The achievement was announced on Friday by Gong Xianzu, a researcher at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China’s Anhui Province. The device, which replicates the atom-building process that occurs at the center of stars and gives them their luminosity and warmth, held plasma at a temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds and at the even hotter temperature of 160 million degrees Celsius for another 20 seconds.

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), a nuclear fusion reactor research facility, ran at 70 million degrees Celsius for as long as 1,056 seconds (17 minutes, 36 seconds), Xinhua reported.

I guess technically 120 million != 100 million...

This time on shit the IDF says...

Did you know that almost every home has a metal tube that extends into an underground tunnel network that's commonly used to transport liquids and waste?

China's EV revolution showcases the power that state actors have when an industry is a matter of national security.

China has marginal domestic O&G reserves, so moving off of O&G is incredibly important for Chinese interests.

No, it’s the filters in the engines’ intakes. The filters keep dirt and debris from fouling and wrecking an M-1’s delicate—but powerful—engine. They require constant cleaning.

If an Abrams’ four-person crew neglects to clean its tank’s filters every 12 hours or so, it might so badly damage the engine that the battalion has no choice but to remove the engine, and potentially the transmission, and ship it away for a lengthy overhaul.

The solution to the sand-ingestion problem was the twice-a-day pulse-jet cleaning process. It works just fine, as long as crews rigorously adhere to its schedule. Even when they’re getting shot at.

"All those things can be taught to the crew, but if ever they make a mistake—and they will—it blows a million-dollar engine that can't be repaired in the field," Mark Hertling, a retired U.S. Army general, told The Kyiv Independent.