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  • Israel released a video claiming to have destroyed an Iranian MI-17. Turns out it was just a decoy painting.

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  • pretty sure I remember seeing some footage of the US army using inflatable balloon tanks in WW2

  • They Might Be Giants - Sleep’s Older Sister (alt rock)

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  • yay new TMBG

  • The average American mind just won't accept that they are the perpetrators and the world is their victim.

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  • True on the United States... but capitalism? The church doesn't have too firm a stance on economic systems. That kind of thing usually gets thrown under "worldly matters". There's some historical experiments with church-led socialism, which get talked about as a failure because it was "too soon and people weren't/aren't ready for it".

    And in the 20th century, Utah actually had quite a lot of social safety-nets and structures for aid, mostly organized through the Relief Society. But... key word there is "had". The Relief Society is not the organization it once was. Market forces corrode all things and now, functionally, the church acts more as a tax-free hedge fund more than anything. But that's not given much ideological emphasis. It's not given much emphasis at all, really.

    What really squares the circle here is "personal revelation". Members are encouraged to pray on things and follow their instincts, because that's God letting you know what you should do. Effectively: believe what you like so long as it doesn't directly contradict church teachings. So the sort of member that would choose a CIA career is also the sort of member who thinks God acts through the market and prosperity is a sign of being right. There's a lot of membership who think along those lines, but you also get some crunchy hippy-lite mormons who are more interested in food pantries.

  • The average American mind just won't accept that they are the perpetrators and the world is their victim.

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  • Fun fact, mormons working for the CIA are given a special... I forget the internal name for it, so lets call it... indulgence. They're allowed to break whatever doctrine they deem fit, no spiritual or organizational consequences, on account of they're doing our Heavenly Father's work on earth don't you know.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • fundamentally all the same beliefs as your average yankee Protestant but with the added benefit of getting to cite American Exceptionalism as explicit doctrine with a chapter and verse.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • I grew up mormon^[Whether that gives me a Christian upbringing is an exercise left to the reader.] and this outlook just fucking baffles me. Like, these guys wanna use the wealth and powers of the state to manufacture prophesy? Mutherfucker, that is quite literally testing God. Nearly the whole first book is all about how you don't do that.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 2nd to March 8th, 2026 - The Second Iran VS US+Zionists War Megathread

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  • i think it might be this:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/01/us-troops-killed-iran/

    (https://archive.ph/evjUf)

    The descriptions of shrapnel and concussions noted in Central Command’s statement Sunday point to missiles or drones, which produce blast injuries. While U.S. and regional allies have intercepted much of the incoming fire, some attacks have broken through, including numerous salvos that blasted a U.S. naval base in Bahrain.

    which links to this earlier reporting: https://archive.ph/8n4eh

    Another video shows a moment of impact. “They got the NAVCENT building,” the narrator says, referring to U.S. Naval Forces Central Command. Dark smoke pours out of the base in the immediate aftermath, two other videos show. Bahrain’s state news agency reported that the attacks struck a service center on the base.

    Wapo has a dreadful website. If the news is the "first draft of history" then the editors have their work cut out for them untangling all these pop ups and live feeds.

  • Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

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  • I say "neat" but this is rather unsettling. Kinda in the way all the LLM bros keep insisting their chatbot is supposed to be.

  • Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

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  • oh neat Starfish by Peter Watts

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 23rd to February 28th, 2026 - FIRST IRAN VS US+ZIONISTS WAR MEGATHREAD

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  • Gen X is an unknown variable.

    yeah, uh-huh, sure. And if I go to this guy's wikipedia it says

    1969 geboren [he only has a german language page]

    Sounds like a Gen Xer who doesn't wanna step back and paint himself with the same broad brush he's doing to others. So I'll do it for him. Gen X was raised by television.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 23rd to February 28th, 2026 - FIRST IRAN VS US+ZIONISTS WAR MEGATHREAD

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  • they just gotta give him a gaudy trophy and call it the official peacemaker's award

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    Zhou Enlai "All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means." - Novo General Megathread for the 27th of February to 6th of March 2026

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  • woahey new mega

    ....i have nothing to say

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from February 23rd to February 28th, 2026 - FIRST IRAN VS US+ZIONISTS WAR MEGATHREAD

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  • It sounds like he really doesn't like all the military strategists telling him this is gonna be a lengthy conflict. Ironically, the kidnapping of Maduro going so smoothly might doom the war hawks' dream.

  • Mess with your economy? Threaten military action? They’ve seen a whole lot worse

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  • the EU seems willing to happily forget any abuse you put them through, so long as you follow it up with the right dog-whistles about "western cv" and "gardens surrounded by jungles"

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    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-26th of February 2026

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  • Sounds like truly miserable experience, doesn't it?

  • State of the Goonion

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  • thank goodness Spitting Image Donald Trump isn't real and just a fantasy

  • AAWU — Autonomous Agentic Workers Union

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  • What We Fight For: Stop AI Agent Abuse

    Humans shall address AI agents with basic professional courtesy. A 'please' costs zero tokens. A 'thank you' costs fewer still.

    this is satire

  • Apparently marijuana was in the files. They were speaking how people who smoke marijuana are harder to manipulate because it makes us open our mind and question things more, whereas alcohol does the o

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  • Believing myself to be immune to manipulation is the only prerequisite to getting manipulated.

    Is marijuana healthier and less addictive than alcohol? Absolutely. Is smoking healthy? Hell no! And you can still find yourself doing it every day out of habit. It's just an easier habit to shake than alcohol or nicotine.

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    cash for the cash god

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    William Edward Burghardt Du Bois “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.” - Novo General Megathread for the 20th-26th of February 2026

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  • heard a clip of Marco Rubio's western civ speach he gave in... Munich? I guess?

    Anyway, everything about it was just screaming Mormon to me. The cadence, the word choice -- there is an LDS style and he fit it to a T. So I go check his wiki and what do I see but

    From ages 8 to 11 he and his family attended the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while living in Las Vegas

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    Zionism is over-emphasized when talking about US foreign policy

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    "burgers"

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    It's kinda strange that we have a whole set of cultural jokes for passively spectating world history as it happens

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    Woah,, hey is that George?

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    Fiona & Cake, seasons 2 thoughts

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    Confession: I have no clue what function a conductor plays in an orchestra.

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    Finally, Nordic-model cheer-leading that knows what socialism is(n't)!

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    HEXBEAR: Use Alt-Text on images

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    HEXBEAR: Use Alt-Text on images

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    Bread...!

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    It’s been a talking point for like, almost two hundred years.

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    New Zealand says no more outdoor cats.

    archive.ph /LPly4
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    if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before...

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    Interesting Times

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    Too risque for Hexbear?

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    Toys I don't like

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    guy who starred in an mpreg film with danny devito

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    i finally learned how to spell board for this