To add onto that, Wikipedia has a surprisingly good page about Oct 7 Israeli friendly fire, which includes a paragraph on Yasmine Porat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire_during_the_Israel–Hamas_war#7_October:_Hannibal_Directive

done 👍

A reddit thread supposedly debunking the IDF’s Oct 7 “mass Hannibal” friendly fire response is now a top google result if you search “oct 7 mass hannibal”.

old. reddit. com/r/IsraelPalestine/ comments/1fcmh39/ there_was_no_mass_hannibal_on_october_7th/

claims include:

• (in comments) that Israeli air force colonel Nof Erez, who described Oct 7 as a “mass hannibal,” was fired in July 2023 and did not take part in fighting on Oct 7
  • So far I haven’t found any evidence for this but I haven’t scoured the internet
• that most Israeli deaths occurred deeper in Israeli territory, while most Hannibal deaths are implied to have been on the border
  • They have a map of the supposed locations of deaths. The github does not give a paper trail for the data, as far as I can tell
  • I’m also not convinced that the “mass Hannibal” account emphatically puts deaths elsewhere

there are other claims but I’ll post this edit now, I’m still reading

Is there any evidence that the pagers mostly belonged to Hezbollah?

a tornado at night is functionally invisible, especially if it’s rain-wrapped and there are no arcs from breaking power lines. At best you can glimpse it in brief flashes when lightning silhouettes the funnel, like something out of a horror movie.

Sometimes I think about new life refilling the earth millions of years from now, like the dinosaurs after the Permian extinction. It sucks to witness a mass extinction but in the long timeline it’s only an instant. Just happens to be an instant my entire life fits inside of

I recently learned a really weird piece of evidence geologists apparently look at: heavy oxygen trapped in rocks. Turns out water with oxygen18 is slower to evaporate than water with the lighter oxygen16, which apparently means that rocks absorb oxygen18 water more readily than oxygen16 water, and therefore landmasses tend to accumulate oxygen18 leaving less in the seas… which means, when geologists find really old sea floor rocks full of oxygen18, it suggests that there was a lot more oxygen18 in the seas back then, which suggests that there was very little dry land to absorb oxygen18, meaning ancient earth might have been a water world, which is what we see in the start of the video.

https://www.astronomy.com/science/ancient-earth-may-have-been-a-water-world-with-no-dry-land/

*which also has obvious implications for the origins of life, as the article mentions—none of Darwin’s “warm little ponds”

Mostly by looking at patterns across continents. For example the Appalachian mountains and Scottish highlands were once part of the same mountain range. Geologists were able to figure that out by closely examining those mountain ranges. With enough patterns like that you can start to reconstruct the plate movement.

It all comes down to leverage

In a regular job (not owning capital), your wage depends on the cost to your boss if you quit

• if you are enslaved and cannot quit, no one has to pay you anything, because you have no leverage
• if you are easily replaced, you have little leverage by yourself, but a group of you might strike, so your boss has to pay enough to prevent that
  • and because repeated strikes lead to unrest and possibly a larger movement, the government reluctantly enforces some minimal protections
• if you are hard to replace and your work is central to production, you have more leverage and your boss has to pay you more

Most essential work, like harvesting food and hauling away garbage, does not involve special skills, which puts it in the “workers are easy to replace” category. Even though this crucial work is often exhausting, demanding, and at times dangerous, a large pool of people are willing and able to do the work, so the workers have very little individual leverage. Emphasis on individual—a large strike would bring society to its knees.

That was cool, thanks for posting it

often when deals have been in the works ISIS-K suddenly pop up and do terror attacks

do you have any examples off the top of your head? that’s something I’d like to look into

self esteem debt

if I google “self esteem debt” I get “…self esteem. Debt…”

Do they know each other better than they know you? Is there something they all share in common that you don’t? Is there an age gap? Seniority gap? Do they all go to the same church? Have they clocked your politics? Are you new to the area? Are they a clique? Some groups of people just won’t talk to you unless you are socially relevant to them or unusually charismatic. If you’re neither of those things it can be hard to break in.

First time I’ve seen this happen on hexbear

I was actually amazed that calling conservatives weird worked at all. When I heard that Kamala Harris planned to call Trump weird if they debated, and that this was some kind of big strategy, I thought it sounded like the most toothless strategy I had ever heard. But now that I think about it, yes, they are weird, they’re some of the weirdest fucking people on the planet, and nothing hurts like the truth, so I guess I can kind of believe it. It’s still hard to imagine that the insult would hurt if you heard it from a lanyard, though.

As for it having an ableist or queerphobic resonance, that never really occurred to me. But I could see it morphing into that in the future if it lasts that long. Instead of an attack against conservatives it becomes some kind of “horseshoe theory” attack against the right and the left, and then all the queer and neurodivergent and disabled people on the left become “weird” too, while “normal” is a NATO-supporting warhawk neoliberal who wants to glass Ukraine and Palestine.

I’m not convinced they realize the world is a real place

Really interesting article about him, thanks for sharing. Apparently he was an actor, painter, and three-time prison escapee with multiple aliases.

The Guardian article mentions some more stuff about his past:

[Filmmaker Heath Davis] and authors including Mark Dapin had already uncovered stories of Karlson’s prison escapes that are said to include picking the lock cuffing him to a sleeping officer and leaping from a moving train and swimming off a prison island before being rescued by a benevolent fisher.

[…]

“He was some sort of trained actor, he learned that in prison, but he was also a natural showman,” Watt said. “He bluffed his way out of a court in Sydney, said he was a detective, and to do that he must have been a very confident showman … and a bit of a conman as well”.

by “turnaround” he meant the dems regaining the lead over trump after ditching biden. They’ll want to keep that momentum going and avoid bad press, so they might be more willing than usual to meet some demands of pro-Palestine protesters

Depends on how you define “America.” After you change the government, economic system, culture, and name, it starts to be a Ship of Theseus thing.

The only question left is the borders, but “in a communist world” borders are less important. We might even have overlapping voting regions and sub-regions like a big complicated Venn diagram, depending on the issue at hand. Maybe everyone in the Rio Grande watershed votes on Rio Grande-related issues. If your farming community straddles the watershed divide, maybe half your neighbors vote on Rio Grande-related issues and the other half don’t.

I don’t see a reason to keep the current borders of America, but also, I’m not sure what the borders will even mean.

If you can find a tiny seed of passion somewhere in your life, and water it little by little, it can become a feedback loop where the bigger the seed grows, the more you want to water it, and the more you water it the more it grows, until some day you realize that your seed has grown into a tree. It’s like this with learning an instrument. The better you get, the more you want to play, and the more you play the better you get.

Treating depression is also a feedback loop. At first nothing makes you happy, and you don’t have the energy to do anything to change your situation. So you start really small. Work on it a little bit each day. Some days you just manage to shower. But over time, as you keep at it, positive changes start to accumulate, and you start to have more energy to make more positive changes, until some day you realize you’re okay.