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/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!

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    The Strait of Hormuz - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-20th of March 2026

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  • Corn tortillas tend to be much smaller so I think you just smoosh em out in your hands without a rolling pin or using a flat surface. You kind of pat/smack them into shape? I'm not practiced at it yet, been focused on my big burrito tortillas.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 16th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Straits Are Not Okay

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  • That doesn't mean they're actually operating on fundamentals. They're getting their brains disrupted by the same LLMs as everyone else.

  • Iran vows to “pursue and kill” Netanyahu

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  • Compare again to the sub-10 number of protesters killed in Minneapolis.

    There weren't hostile enemy nations arming the protesters in Minneapolis, and they weren't hunting down cops and soldiers. 209 government-affiliated military and non-military personnel were killed during the riots. The situations are not so easily comparable.

    This wasn't protest, it was attempted color revolution. Was Iran supposed to let them overthrow the government?

    I think it’s unnecessarily conspiratorial to lay it all at the feet of the US.

    We know Mossad was involved, because they openly admitted it. Mossad’s official Farsi X (Twitter) account posted: “We are with you. Not only from a distance and verbally. We are with you in the field.” Mossad Director David Barnea’s gave a statement following the June 2025 strikes, warning that Israel “will continue to be there [in Iran], as we have been there.” Mike Pompao came out to say; “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them." We also know they helped distribute satellite internet connections for Starlink to evade media blackouts, and operated social media channels to help coordinate the riots.

    CIA is less obvious, they actually have OpSec and know not to brag that they have agents in the streets. It's hard to believe that the CIA left Israel on its own to conduct this operation, though. Also, the rioters got their guns from somewhere.

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    Bulletins and International News Discussion from March 16th to Whenever We Reach About 3000 Comments - The Straits Are Not Okay

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  • It's disrupting CEOs brains and convincing them they are inventing new types of math.

  • Ukraine: 61 percent of citizens ready for a peace referendum with "territorial compromises."

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  • Isn't there someone you forgot to ask? 🇪🇺 🇺🇸

  • Iranian lawmaker says Ukraine's drone support makes it a legitimate war target

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  • They still hold power over multiple cultures and ethnicities and brutally suppress secessionist movements.

    That's literally every country on Earth. That's what countries are. The project of nation building is welding together different ethnicities and cultures into a single unified nation, and sometimes that requires putting down secession to maintain cohesion of a single state. If your definition of "empire" basically defines all countries as empires, it isn't very useful.

    I actually think the future will be bipolar with India and China as the competing powers. The west has had its time.

    The West won't vanish either, they're still going to be very powerful competing powers. It's likely going to break up into chunks, though, starting with the split that's emerging between the US and basically everyone else. Then, maybe, Europe will fracture further into blocs. No idea what Canada is going to do, probably get invaded and absorbed by the US or something.

    It's going to get ugly and strange. But, in that ugliness and strangeness, there will finally be space for revolution again.

  • Iran vows to “pursue and kill” Netanyahu

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  • Acknowledging that Iran killed forty thousand protesters makes me a Zionist? I’m not sure I follow.

    It took months for Israel to kill 40,000 Palestinians when they were bombing Gaza, how can you believe that Iran could pull that off in days? Israel wasn't able to hide what they did either because Palestinians have phones, so where's the video evidence coming out of Iran? They disposed of 40,000 bodies and we can't see it from satellite images or phones? It's nonsense.

    If you swallow the Zionist propaganda that Iran is somehow even more bloodthirsty than Israel, you're a Zionist.

    Iran likely killed somewhere between Iran's official count of 3,000 people and the HRANA count of 7,000, a lot of them rioters that were armed by CIA/Mossad and were shooting cops and burning down government buildings. There were certainly unarmed people who were also shot, but the situation on the ground was chaotic and it's hard to distinguish armed targets during a riot.

    The "protests" were the original US/Israeli plan to overthrow the government, and they failed. This war is the backup plan.

  • Donald Trump warns Nato faces ‘very bad future’ if allies fail to help US in Iran 🤣

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  • Spain has done more than Turkey tbh

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    The Strait of Hormuz - Novo General Megathread for the 13th-20th of March 2026

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  • I've been following this recipe, except I modified it to make 6 big tortillas instead of 12 smaller tortillas.

    The biggest thing I've learned is that you need to let the dough sit for 30-ish minutes after you mix it into a ball, the dough is much more workable and the resulting tortillas are much softer and easier to roll. Also, I use my electric kettle to heat up water to mix into the dough since my sink wasn't getting it quite hot enough. I use a big wooden spoon to work the very hot water in, before it cools enough that I can switch to using my hands. Since mine are bigger I go for 90 sec on one side and 45 sec on the other.

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  • It took a few batches to get the process down, but I really recommend it! I started making my own to save a little bit of money, but now that I'm getting good at it they definitely taste better. I'll eventually start experimenting with flavoring them with garlic or chili powder at some point, but I'm going to get more practice in first.

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  • I had one, it rolled up perfectly. I've been having trouble with my tortillas being too thick, these are my thinnest yet. Splitting the dough into two bowls was definitely the right choice, while I work the dough from one the other has time to hydrate. Also used a scale this time to split the dough balls evenly, instead of just eyeballing it like I was before.

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  • More tortillas! This time I figured out how to make a bigger batch (basically I made two bowls and split them into 6 tortillas each, giving me 12) and since I didn't mess with the recipe at all they came out really good! Full 25cm burrito tortillas too!

    12 should do me for the week for burritos and veggie wraps, so I won't need to make any mid-week. Should be enough salt in them that they'll keep at room temperature too, so I can just whip them into a pan to heat and then roll em up with all my fixins.

  • Donald Trump warns Nato faces ‘very bad future’ if allies fail to help US in Iran 🤣

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  • Uh oh! You've been downgraded to semi-periphery, you are now an export market and obligated to die for us when we tell you to.

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    US war on Iran | Megathread for Week 11 of 2026

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  • I seem to be able to view it? I suspect it's because I'm viewing it from my browser, and it's just the apps enforcing edicts because it's not actually something being implemented by local US law.

  • School Nutrition Experts Wary as Government Considers New Policies

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  • Here kids, drink your malk - now with vitamin R!

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  • Wow, I couldn't find this at all by searching for it. Internet search is dead.

    So as far as I can tell (and that means shit these days, as evidenced by the fact that I couldn't even look up the US restricting access like this), there's no actual local laws that they're violating. The app store monopolies (at the behest of the US) are simply able to dictate what content the apps are allowed to display, this is just a figleaf to hide their hands on the scale.

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  • Are they? I see the US is gathering IP addresses and phone numbers of Telegram users, but actually restricting access? How?

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  • This specifically applies to television and radio, right? Specifically, things broadcasted over the air? Cuz uh, people already don't watch or listen to broadcasts, they're on cable or streaming or downloading podcasts or watching uploaded videos or just sharing news from websites. Do they expect this to have a big impact?

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  • Yeah, there needs to be either a portal to the Ghost Zone or an otherwise large concentration of ectoplasm in the area.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Biden considering executive action to close southern border, sources say

    www.cnn.com /2024/02/21/politics/biden-considering-executive-action-to-close-southern-border-sources-say/index.html
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    Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them

    www.reuters.com /world/middle-east/israel-says-ground-forces-operating-across-gaza-strip-offensive-builds-2023-12-04/
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    ‘All men 16 years and above, raise your hands’: how al-Shifa raid unfolded

    www.theguardian.com /world/2023/nov/15/all-men-16-years-and-above-raise-your-hands-how-al-shifa-raid-unfolded
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    A recent argument forced me to see that "genocide" has been turned into an imprecise word, and I don't know what to do about that?

    www.un.org /en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Did Israel bomb a civilian evacuation route in Gaza? | Financial Times

    www.ft.com /content/95c5fcf1-c756-415f-85b8-1e4bbff24736
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    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on How She’s Changed - The New York Times

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    What the hell is this horror show shit that keeps showing up in Pocket?