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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7804k13x52o Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Sir Keir Starmer and other leaders have "effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power". He also accused British, French and Canadian leaders of siding with "mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers". In a video posted on X addressing Thursday's attack on Israeli embassy staff in Washington DC, Netanyahu said Sir Keir, Emmanuel Macron and Mark Carney wanted Israel to "stand down and accept that Hamas's army of mass murderers will survive". Clearly any criticism of Israeli military conduct whatsoever means that you're in league with Hamas, then. Apparently, such convoluted matters of historical enmity are as black and white as matters of physics and thermodynamics. Apparently.

Should easily make 14k for a comfortable second place in the all time stats.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp855prygj1o The coming Atlantic hurricane season is expected to be busier than usual, US science agency NOAA has warned, just as cuts to American research are raising fears about the ability to track and prepare for these often deadly storms. Between six and 10 hurricanes are forecast for the Atlantic between June and November, compared with the typical seven. Warmer sea temperatures – made more likely by climate change - and generally favourable atmospheric conditions, are behind the forecast. Several scientists have told the BBC that widespread firings by President Donald Trump's administration of government researchers could endanger efforts to monitor hurricanes and predict where they might hit. Blood, meet hands.

Yeah, fair points. That being said, sometimes I find the Boy Who Cried Wolf paradigm a bit problematic because firstly it can be used as a convenient excuse for lack of action from those with the power to act, and secondly (and related) that same inaction can, does and will cause a great deal of damage with respect to various issues that involve everyone. When the village starved because the wolf came, the villagers suffered for the sole reason that they didn't listen once.

Slippery slope being just one of their armoury of logical fallacies.

Who was it who said that "truth is the first casualty of war"? Neither side in such matters has much reason, nor inclination, to be honest.

Really want Brook to come in and set some kind of batting record in these conditions.

Never knew the Chagos Islands could get the old Empire enthusiasts so worked up.

Fair to say. Just wanted to be crystal clear.

Pardon me, but I'm offering no excuse or justification, I'm saying - no more and no less - that both incidences of death are equally tragic and, ultimately, likely pointless. It's the same with the other examples given here, decent people dying for the sake of puerile nationalist tribal ideology. Which I don't think is a controversial position to hold.

The death of that young Israeli couple in Washington DC is tragic. Equally tragic is the great many young couples now buried in the rubble of Gaza due to Israeli weaponry. It never seems to be the ones that start wars that end up having to pay for them in blood. Just the people who never wanted the fight in the first place.

Trying to remember what the Korean is for "you have failed me for the last time".

That's never stopped this administration in their search for ideological control before.

Yeah, the only real safeguard is the institutions and the people within the US itself. And it may be that the cost of negating what the current administration is doing will be very, very high.

Clearly trying to bullrush him in the same way they did with Zelenskyy. Ramaphosa is a career politician so he's more shrewd though, and it showed.

There is an extremely high chance that will be a secession event, civil war or total neofascist takeover (not just the diet version like at present), or combination of all of them, in the US in the next decade. And its effects will be felt everywhere. I just hope that I can come back to this in around that time and say that I was wrong, though.

Apologies for the spoilers for anyone who hasn't indulged yet.

Also, with reference to the above, by far the most darkly realistic thing about that story was the company selling killbots deliberately engineering a shouting match/fight between two rival nations/enterprises at their head offices just so they could then sell more killbots to both of them.

Remember, it's "peacekeepers", not "killer robots".

Just goes to show that the propagation of digital misinformation is as much an issue in football as anywhere else. Also, for all our sakes, it really had better be misinformation in this case.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj93e40znl3o The world could see hugely damaging sea-level rise of several metres or more over the coming centuries even if the ambitious target of limiting global warming to 1.5C is met, scientists have warned. Nearly 200 countries have pledged to try to keep the planet's warming to 1.5C, but the researchers warn that this should not be considered "safe" for coastal populations. They drew their conclusion after reviewing the most recent studies of how the ice sheets are changing - and how they have changed in the past. But the scientists stress that every fraction of a degree of warming that can be avoided would still greatly limit the risks. ....The 2015 Paris climate agreement saw the world's nations agree to keep global temperature rises "well below" 2C - and ideally 1.5C. That has often been oversimplified to mean 1.5C is "safe", something glaciologists have cautioned against for years. The authors of the new paper, published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, external, draw together three main strands of evidence to underline this case. A needed bit of clarity from the climate science corps, though of course it isn't really what those wanting to pretend there isn't a problem want to hear.

It's the basic lack of any kind of honesty of purpose that really gets me above all else. This is all going on, anyone with eyes and a brain can see it's going on, and yet they continue to lie and play injured innocent about it all.

And if only other nations with similar or greater power than that bloc would actually put their ridiculous puerile nationalist sentiments aside, at least on matters like this.

With great power comes great responsibility. AI already confers great power, will confer more in the future, and a lot of those governing it now (except in China, perhaps) have zero sense of responsibility - exactly as you say. The more groundbreaking technology like this is developed, the more our society will have to change in order to use it effectively, or it could (and in all likelihood will) end catastrophically.

That's going a bit too far IMO. LCFC are well known outside the region too.