Banana Republics come to mind. But during the time frame the US was doing that, Most of Europe was still doing their own colonialisms.
It was only when Hitler brought colonialism back to Europe that they started to wake up to how bad it was. Well, some of them. France and England had to start losing colonial wars, mostly due to losses suffered in due to WW2, before they slowly started freeing colonies.
Just shows that everyone is shit, and cheering for a team is kind of stupid.
I think that was part of Gamer Gate. The toxic rightwing backlash to women existing on the internet, and not in porn. It was the exact same time period.
Oddly, that was Spez, and when he went away for a bit, Reddit got really good. And then he came back and it went to shit.
I’ve found that the more you know of the actual history of Israel, the more fucked up it all seems.
It was a machine, it was not an engine. At no scale could it be used to power anything. And it would actually be dangerous to scale things too much. We know because people tried.
The aeolipile was a toy. And yes, toys can showcase interesting physics. I owned several of them as a child, and own a few today as, arguably, an adult.
Still, the thing about invention is that it isn’t a flash of inspiration and a new thing appears, it’s more of a slog of learning new things and applying old things in new ways.
Most often in history the most striking inventions were new ways of getting the raw resources, or improving the quality of those resources.
You can’t have a steam engine without a way to consistently produce steel.
The aeolipile wasn’t really a stream engine. I’ve played with modern versions, and you can stop the spin with your hand. Not a bare hand mind, because it’s rather hot. But a cloth or a glove is fine.
These toys have zero power to do any useful work.
This is why an actual steam engine uses a reciprocating piston. Because doing it that way builds pressure and thus power.
The point is that design patents are fucking stupid and should not exist in the first place.
Apple has sued other phone manufacturers over them making a rectangle with rounded corners.
And it’s fucked.
To be fair here, some of the names on the list have been loudly calling it a genocide or ethnic cleansing for years, some were loud about it years before October 7th.
I’d argue that there are still plenty of accidents. But your second, third, fourth, and fifth points are all spot on. This particular killing reeks of deliberate orders being given and followed.
The actual accidents, usually involve equipment failure, and the people killed are almost always the people using said equipment.
He specifically fired the group whose job it was to search for and report that shit.
So yeah, “negligence”.
This is part of that process. France is sort of saying that they are willing to put boots on the ground to stop this, without saying exactly that.
Because being a member state of the UN comes with perks, like the ability to request UN peace keepers.
I so want a sequel to the sing along blog.
Dr Horrible has become obsessed with reviving Penny by turning back time. He doesn’t care how many people need to die, because he believes he can “fix” things. But the risk of time travel is the destruction of the universe…
Captain Hammer, now knowing what pain is, has two choices, grow and overcome the pain, or continue to hide away…
And Penny. The multiple zombies, and clones, and computer simulations of Penny that were never “right”. Well, she too has her parts to play.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8621gnknjo
Israel took full credit for the attack.
Generational wealth and power, does not produce healthy minds.
The inbreeding was a side effect of an already broken system.
Turns out that anti-cracking tech is widely applicable, if a bit expensive.
What an odd choice… I know you’re referring to the USS Maine and invasion of Cuba, but that was not the start.
We don’t need to be animals. No need to force these delusional souls to live in a cave.
Let them build their own houses. But yes no electricity for them.
After all, if they’re pinning for the 1820s they can have it all. Including the mercury enemas to treat every single illness.
But no slaves. Because the North kicked the traitorous South’s ass.
Any country riddled with landmines. They’re the only ones that need it.
War crimes if you force enemy soldiers to do it. Technically forcing enemy soldiers to do anything at all is a war crime.
Not war crimes if it’s community service ordered by a judge due to conviction for crimes committed by the subject.
I never count the many crimes of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao as crimes of communism. Because Lenin betrayed the revolution and had the actual communists arrested so that he could cement his totalitarian dictatorship.
He lost the November 1917 election, and threw a hissy fit that caused a civil war.
Which started a long line of dictators pretending to be communists, pretending that communism requires a dictatorship.
If the State owns everything, and has police that will kill you for speaking out, then you don’t live under communism, you live under feudalism in a coat of red paint.