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  • Chinese infantryman with an anti-tank suicide vest made of grenades, Second Sino-Japanese War, 1938

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  • Prewar US intel assessment found intervention in Iran wasn't likely to change leadership

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  • Are all those actually different names, and not just varying latin alphabet transliterations of the same farsi word?

  • if you google Chicxulub (the dinosaur killing space rock) a meteor will fly across your screen

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  • I wonder when we'll find out that flood basalts (the Deccan Traps, in this case) are the "exit wounds" of the meteor impacts?

    (That's my hypothesis, anyway, but I don't have the geology background to investigate it properly.)

  • Peter Thiel and Jeffrey Epstein Had a Yearslong Relationship

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  • From AIPAC's perspective, they're very effective.

  • Great Britain has only two days of gas stored, while Iran war threatens to disrupt supplies

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  • No it’s just a fact you are lying about San Jose.

    You spout nothing but bad faith bullshit and you accuse me of being the one who's lying? That's rich.

    The fact that San Jose's zoning law got overridden by the state two seconds ago doesn't somehow magically instantly change the entire built environment of the city that resulted from decades and decades of the previous policy, and you fucking know it.

    YIMBYs oppose public housing more often than NIMBYs.

    Cite or GTFO.

    My point is trying to inject your libretarian housing politics focused on zoning to a discussion about gas reserves is stupid.

    THEY WOULDN'T NEED THE GODDAMN GAS RESERVES IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE SO MUCH CAR DEPENDENCY!

    How absolutely moronic and dishonest do you have to be to refuse to acknowledge that extremely basic connection?!

  • pls no...

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  • This is why I've never liked pinatas, chocolate Easter bunnies, or character-shaped cakes.

  • Great Britain has only two days of gas stored, while Iran war threatens to disrupt supplies

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  • There is literally not true: https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/research-and-policy/single-family-zoning-reform-highlights-a-breakthrough-in-california-housing-policy/

    "The fact that people just now finally made some headway in solving the problem proves the problem never existed in the first place!"

    Sure, buddy.

    The idea that zoning is why private markets are failing to build supply is delusional, you can look at housing production in the US, tell me when zoning laws changed based on this chart: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST .

    They changed before the chart started. Your "gotcha" demand is disingenuous.

    Private markets just aren’t good at building sufficient adequate housing, because housing isn’t fungible building luxury flats for landlords to further inflate the housing market isn’t the same as building public housing or affordable housing.

    And yet that still has fuck-all to do with windmills and solar panels, so what's your point? Do you deny that NIMBYs oppose public housing?

  • Military Leaders See Iran War as “God’s Divine Plan” — a Chilling Turn for Trump’s Fascism

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  • The "influential Christian ministers" are the Zionists, entirely for their own doomsday-cult purposes. Nobody gives a fuck about Jewish people themselves, except to herd them back to the "Holy Land" because that's what their fairy tale says is a precondition for getting "Raptured."

    I mean, sure, the Israeli government is happy to encourage that because it serves their own interests, but simple bribery doesn't even begin to explain Christian Zionists' motivations.

  • Great Britain has only two days of gas stored, while Iran war threatens to disrupt supplies

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  • The UK doesn’t use US style zoning though.

    Maybe not explicitly, but make no mistake: "modernist" American city planners' terrible ideas were exported to the whole English-speaking world.

    Take Milton Keynes, for example.

    And zoning on both sides of the Atlantic has very little to do with the under supply of housing.

    It has everything to do with it! In most North American cities, something like 75% of all residentially-zoned land is single-family only. In the worst, it approaches 95% (e.g. San Jose, CA). Housing is not fungible: people want to live in or near the city center, not the exurbs, and in these places it is literally illegal to build the dense housing necessary to meet that demand.

    I mean, think about it: the entire purpose of restricting density is to create shortages of dense housing; if the demand weren't there, the restriction wouldn't need to exist. Shortages are the goal! You might try to rebut that by saying they want single-family housing to be produced as a substitute good, but land is finite so physical reality does not work that way. If you restrict the maximum number of people who are allowed to live per unit area of land, then the rest of the people who want to live there, can't!

    The idea of fixing the undersupply of housing without abolishing zoning density restrictions is just straight-up delusional magical thinking. Geometry and physical reality simply does not permit it.

    And getting back to the original point: when you literally enshrine suburban sprawl into law -- whether by North American-style Euclidean zoning or whatever the fuck the UK did in New Towns like Milton Keynes -- you force car-dependency and make your country vulnerable to oil price shocks. That's just how it works, and windmills and solar panels have fuck-all to do with it!

  • Starmer’s answer to Iran energy shock: Go green faster

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  • Bicycling @lemmy.world
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    J. Draper - I Tried Riding A Penny Farthing (And It Taught Me About Feminism)

  • Great Britain has only two days of gas stored, while Iran war threatens to disrupt supplies

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  • I wouldn't say "especially" renewable electricity. The magnitude of that NIMBYism pales in comparison to opposing zoning dense enough to support walking, biking and transit (which is, in turn, the far bigger contributor to "petroleum supplies cut off" being a problem).

  • Open Source, Incentives, and Why 'Monetize Later' Often Backfires

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  • There's a real easy solution to this: use strong copyleft instead of permissive licensing, and don't require copyright assignment. You won't be able to rug-pull even if you wanted to!

    When project founders refuse to do that, well, now we know their true intentions.

  • Senior ADF source confirms Australian Army preparing for war

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  • Not sure "clean[ing] up the mess" means helping the US, though (I say as an American).

  • Cybertruck Self-Destructs in Shallow Water… Leaving Questions About the Promised “Boat Mode”

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  • What I had in my head was something like this, a street-tuner Impreza that's been lowered:

    The point was that just because something's AWD doesn't inherently mean by itself that it's a good idea to take it off-road.

  • Karoline Leavitt’s stunning admission: Trump has not ruled out conscription

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  • They're going to be used as cannon fodder. They're not ever coming home to be in a position to do a coup.

  • Device ignited outside NYC mayor's home was 'improvised explosive,' NYPD says

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  • Headline is propaganda: it tries to imply that the device was used to attack the mayor, but it was actually used to attack the fascists protesting the mayor.

  • Court records reveal gutting of DHS oversight: ‘Incredibly dangerous’

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  • It's a fascist paramilitary now, not a legitimate government entity.

  • Oil surges above $100 a barrel; Trump says ‘small price to pay’ for defeating Iran

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  • panic around wintertime when we realize the ice free summers are now upon us in the arctic.

    Literally what Putin and Trump are looking forward to, opening up those northeast and northwest passages.

  • Cybertruck Self-Destructs in Shallow Water… Leaving Questions About the Promised “Boat Mode”

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  • Nah. The Impreza doesn't even have a weird roller top for its cargo bed, let alone a fragile and poorly-designed one. No way it could break as stupidly as the Cybertruck managed.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    The City of Encinitas, California is removing a protected bike lane to replace it with a painted bike lane. Cost? $3 million. The mayor says it's a great idea.

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    Transport for London says e-scooter trips rose 54% in a year, with 95% parked correctly and no deaths recorded

    tfl-newsroom.prgloo.com /news/tfl-publishes-new-data-showingstrong-growthin-users-and-continued-success-of-londons-e-scooter-trial
  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    New York Bicycle Ridership Over East River Bridges Reaches All-time High for Fifth Straight Year

    www.nyc.gov /html/dot/html/pr2026/nyc-dot-east-river-bridges.shtml
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    California

    Say NO to Mandatory E-Bike License Plates and Registrations

    bikeeastbay.org /say-no-to-mandatory-e-bike-license-plates-and-registrations/
  • Google Pixel @lemmy.world
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    "Snow" screen glitch on Pixel 7 running GrapheneOS

  • GrapheneOS @lemmy.world
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    How to factory reset/reinstall stock firmware with broken screen?

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Something Surprising Happens When Bus Rides Are Free

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/13/opinion/free-bus-rides-mamdani.html
  • Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Portrait. "Ça donne un sens à mon travail". Durant plusieurs années, Thierry Richard a photographié les ouvriers du tram de Brest

    france3-regions.franceinfo.fr /bretagne/finistere/brest/portrait-ca-donne-un-sens-a-mon-travail-durant-plusieurs-annees-thierry-richard-a-photographie-les-ouvriers-du-tram-de-brest-3298608.html
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    When The Tram Stops, You Stop! | Taitset

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    Mamdani to Resurrect Bus and Bike Lanes Killed by Eric Adams

    www.nytimes.com /2026/02/12/nyregion/mamdani-bus-bike-lanes.html
  • Fediverse vs Disinformation @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    ABC News spins Trump admin refusing a court order as "declin[ing] judge's request"

    abcnews.go.com /US/trump-administration-declines-judges-request-return-college-student/story
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    To Make New York City More Affordable, Extend the Subway

    www.nyu.edu /about/news-publications/news/2026/january/to-make-new-york-city-more-affordable--extend-the-subway.html
  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Fulton County to fight FBI, Trump in Federal Court

    atlantatribune.com /2026/02/06/fulton-county-to-fight-fbi-trump-in-federal-court/
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    ‘Exclusively for the elite’: why Mumbai’s new motorway is a symbol of the divide between rich and poor

    www.theguardian.com /global-development/2026/jan/21/exclusively-for-the-elite-why-mumbais-new-motorway-is-a-symbol-of-the-divide-between-rich-and-poor
  • science @lemmy.world
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    Outstanding in her field: cow recorded using tool for first time

    www.thetimes.com /uk/science/article/cow-recorded-using-tool-for-first-time-swch8r0hd
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    South Carolina's Freeway for Bikes (It Makes Millions!)

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    Motorists’ Party Brings MAGA to Czech Politics

    jacobin.com /2026/01/motorists-maga-czech-politics-environment/
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Saying "No" to New Jersey's E-Bike Law

    rpa.org /news/lab/saying-no-to-new-jerseys-e-bike-law