Hyperreality

Кремлеботы не дремлют. :)

The Kremlin once went on record to deny Putin fell down some stairs and shit himself.

Sugar’s expensive in Ryazan. The Kremlin said so in 1999 and they would never lie.

It was someone else’s fault that 145 people died in the Crocus City Hall attack.

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Here’s an article explaining why the BBC doesn’t call Hamas terrorists.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67083432

Wet ass pussy.

What happens when something requires maintenance in a month/week/day?

Insert more poop emojis.

Serious answer?

Not in any particular order:

1. Military aid to Israel is a defacto rebate for all the stuff they buy and a subsidy for the US defense industry. A lot of US politicians are on the military industrial complex payroll or end up working for it. A lot of Americans work in related industries.
2. Just like with Europe, pushing them to buy American weaponry, ensures their native defense industry can’t become a significant competitor. (Obviously this is an issue in Europe right now, given we’ve been caught with a pants down because we’re too reliant on the US defense industry) For example, wouldn’t want the Israeli defense industry to develop their own highly capable missiles, because they might end up selling them to parties the US doesn’t want to have advanced tech, eg. some Israeli companies were found to have illegally sold China cruise missiles a few years back. That kind of thing would explode if the Israelis were independent for defense.
3. Strategically interesting to have an ally in the middle-east, especially one with an excellent (foreign) intelligence service. Giving Israel aid also ensures neighbours don’t do anything stupid. A powerful military is the best deterent. A powerful conventional military, also avoids Israel going nuclear.
4. Not the worst regime the US supports/has supported. Enemy of my enemy Real politik.
5. AIPAC
6. Evangelicals
7. Outdated views of what Israel is actually like and a language barrier that has allowed Americans (and American reporters) to ignore the stuff not said in English.

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Depends. The cover is resting on the inside lip which prevents moisture getting in. Ie. this cover is actually significantly bigger than the hole it’s covering.

Eg. if this cover is 25x25, but it’s covering a hole which is less than 18x18 (c=25.5), it’ll be quite hard to drop the cover in.

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It’s really strange that it’s square and not round.

It’s not even slightly strange. These are incredibly common all across Europe and the world.

It’s a small cover, almost certainly to service the nearby drainpipe or perhaps for the water or gas connection to a house.

The chance of it falling in the hole is zero unless you’re trying to do it on purpose. Lift and slide, done.

And even if it does fall in, you can simply reach in and pull it out.

Don’t be lazy.

Get a cable tie or some tongs, pull it out, rotate it, done.

Less effort than it took to take this picture and post it on here.

Good news. Finally the Iranian government will be able to defend itself against teenaged schoolgirls.

It’s not The Wire or The Sopranoes.

It is genuinely fun and bingeable.

Given there’s suggestions he has Parkinson’s or has dementia, it might also be the medication. Something like haldol, even in low doses, will make him sleepy.

TBF he’s old. I had trouble staying awake in class when I was in my teens and twenties. No surprise an old man has similar issues during a long day in court.

Perhaps if he hadn’t gone around calling his opponent ‘sleepy’ for years on end, people would have been more charitable and assumed he’d simply slept poorly.

Uhuh.

Anyway, breaking news is that Iran has also launched cruise missiles, so now Israel’s going to retaliate with a significant strike against Iran. And in case you haven’t been paying attention, Israel are less than great on proportionality.

Never a dull day.

didn’t Israel start this by bombing their embassy in Syria?

Israel bombed their embassy in Syria as a response to Iran helping Hezbollah and Hamas. At one point an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman said October 7th was a response to the death of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, although they later retracted that. The Israelis wanted Soleimani gone because of his role in supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and earlier attacks on Israel, including his involvement in the 2006 war in Lebanon. Etc. etc. etc. on and on back to before Iran became Iran.

The middle-east is an illustration of the idiom “An Eye for an Eye Will Make the Whole World Blind”.

It’s important to remember that there are no ‘good guys’ in this whole shit show.

Iran was probably involved in the October 7th attacks. Some media even reported the IRGC claimed it was a reprisal for the death of Soleimani, although Hamas (and later Iran) denied it.

Just because the Israeli government is filled with Jewish supremacists and fascists, doesn’t mean the Iranian’s are the good guys. For example, they tortured and executed up to 30,000 political prisoners in 1988, a similar death toll to Israel’s in Gaza.

It’s weird how much the media still cover twitter, given how increasingly niche it’s become.

Also seems quite high. I did a google and apparently it’s half the number and closer to 300 million.

Yeah. I typed that, but of course you’d know that first hand.

You’d be surprised how popular tiktok rapists like Andrew Tate are.

Plenty of my fellow men deserve to be alone.