“We have liberated them from their miserable existence!”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8621gnknjo

The Israeli military has struck Tehran’s notorious Evin prison and damaged parts of the facility, which holds many political detainees, Iran’s judiciary says.

The judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported that the situation on the ground was “under control” following the attack. CCTV footage showed an explosion at one of the prison’s gates, while state TV pictures showed first responders carrying a casualty and searching for survivors under a flattened building.

Israel’s defence minister said it was hitting “regime targets and agencies of government repression” across Tehran, including Evin.

So, they’re targeting sites of “repression”, meaning, the people in the prison are victims of repression, and so their goal is to… kill… the victims of repression? This seems very on the nose.

What a vibe

Sorry I thought that said “TMZ” not “TWZ”. I was very confused for a split second.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.isoron.uhabits/

Loop Habit Tracker is an app I’ve been using for years now to help me maintain daily, weekly, and monthly routines. I find it’s “sticky” notifications very useful.

This looks a lot like Loop Habit Tracker which, in my experience with the app, works differently than Better Counter. BC is like a digital click counter, allowing you to tabulate things by quantity whenever they happen. Loop Habit Tracker doesn’t really have a feature like that. If you wanted to track how many cups of water you drank in a day, you would need to remember how many you had and enter it manually every day. Loop Habit Tracker is designed to help you build daily, weekly, or monthly habits with handy and difficult to dismiss reminders.

Does the export have a timestamp attached?

Is this the first time we’ve seen these jets in real combat situations?

What do you mean none of this makes sense?

Because for these places it’s about more than just the money. They have an ideological position that drives their choices. They are convinced that Israel will allow them all to keep regional solidarity down, and ensure the region never coalesces into a region bound by common goals, self-determination, and mutual defense. Should it become a Europe type entity, representing middle eastern interests collectively, it will become considerably harder to exploit.

Ah, JUSTICE! /s

Lemmy.ml!!

I stand corrected.

Oh now people care about Operation Northwoods?

Kind of a disappointing read when 2 out of the 3 are not actually services you can use yet.

Bespoke artisanal stars!

Man, the people in South Korea must have some serious whiplash going on.

During WWII, America shocked the world when they revealed their nuclear capacity by dropping not one, but two atomic bombs on strictly civilian targets. Since then, they have maintained a first strike policy, meaning, their plans for their nuclear arsenal are not defensive, but aggressive and the highest form of escalation.

During the Korean War, Dugless MacArthur asked the joint chiefs of staff for approval to use nuclear weapons on China, to the tune of 30, to 50 nuclear strikes. They approved. MacArthur’s goal was to create a radioactive no-mans land across Russia and China to act as a buffer zone between after the war was “won”.

During the JFK Administration, they drew up plans for nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union if conflict in Berlin turned violent.

The Nixon administration drew up plans to drop nuclear bombs on North Vietnam.

Just this week, news broke that the Biden administration is considering giving Ukraine nukes. “Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union.” You’ll tell me this is strictly defensive, then I beg you to consider reading why the Soviet Union was giving Cuba nuclear weapons during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The only place threatening a Nuclear Holocaust is the United States. They remain today the only country on earth to have dropped not one, but two atomic bombs on war targets (read civilian populations).

How many independent conflicts intersecting with various allied factions need to exist before it constitutes a World War, I wonder.