I don’t wish him death but I will read his obituary with great satisfaction.

What if we are sure whether you’re being sarcastic? Are you still unsure or does my surety change whether you are sure?

It’s a video format, isn’t it.

I mean, Obama winning was silly but it’s nowhere near the same level of complete absurdity of Kissinger getting it.

The Ig Nobels already have an occasional peace prize (the exact list of prizes changes year to year) but they’re far too cool for Trump to get one.

The 2025 peace prize went to “Fritz Renner, Inge Kersbergen, Matt Field, and Jessica Werthmann, for showing that drinking alcohol sometimes improves a person’s ability to speak in a foreign language”

So boring conspiracy theories are still allowed?

AFAIK the funding ultimately comes out of the Horizon Europe pot of which Israel is a fully paid up associated member. I also wonder how they’re defining which country a given grant goes to - lots of Israeli headquartered companies have extensive operations in EU countries.

I don’t know, who does declare Kenya free of sleeping sickness?

I hope those envoys take a copy of the Sino-British Joint Declaration with them…

Doubt it. Morale bombing has never worked before, I don’t see any reason it would in Ukraine.

Yeah the US hasn’t offically gone to war since WWII and plenty of military actions haven’t had any sort of congressional approval at all.

For all the bollocks Trump has done, this one actually has a very strong precedent and will go nowhere (as hilarious as it would be for something serval presidents have done before him to be the thing to finally bring him down).

It’s just a BS survey by an ISP, I wouldn’t read too much into it. Aside from anything else it would imply that 29% of adults in Ireland don’t sleep for more than an hour at a time…

Oh sure, Iran is super popular in the region. I’m sure all their allies will be riding to their defense any day now.

That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even Digg may come back.

The original NYT article for those interested

On the scale of human warfare, “a few months” is pretty new. Frankly, its fairly new on the timescale of the Ukraine war at this point.

It’s also not going to explode so probably less of an issue on the whole than all the UXO there…

Because the secret is where it is, not that it exists.

They literally describe it as “the size of a forearm” so that about tracks with 3-4 inches diameter.

Most claimed “hypersonic” missiles can’t actually manoeuvre at those speeds so you can spot them at distance and work out where you need to send an interceptor missile. We saw this with Patriot batteries vs Kinzhal in Ukraine.