Supporters say it’s over her advocacy for Gazan children.

How DARE she!!! /s

Well, then any mediocre journalist would be asking the obvious next question, “What in the hell were the authorities doing about it for those months?” That would probably have been a good story.

“If it’s been going on nightly for months, did you report it to anyone?” is an obvious question that people would want to know and the reporter should be asking, along with follow up questions depending on the answer.

That’s the problem with most modern journalists. They’re not doing anything remotely akin to investigative journalism. They’re just doing ask softball questions and regurgitate the answer journalism.

The landowner of the neighbouring site said he saw truckloads of rubbish dumped there every night for months.

“I swear, I was going to report it to the authorities first thing tomorrow morning. Honest!”

Russia will not stick to any deal. Even the complete surrender and subjugation of Ukraine will just lead to Putin putting more focus on his actives in Europe.

Later…

“The Palestinians aren’t using this land, so we’re just going to claim it.” ~ Israel

My first thought was, why is Canada allowing these trees to get cut down in the first place. Answer is at the very end of the article.

Drax said the “low-grade” wood used to make biomass pellets had typically been rejected by commercial sawmills and either sold to the biomass industry as waste wood or burned to prevent wildfires. A spokesperson said it was “far better to use [waste wood] to generate renewable electricity rather than leaving it to burn”.

The rules that allow companies in the forestry industry to disregard old growth as commercial waste are part of the problem, Hansen said.

“Even exceptionally old trees can rot in the middle, which is one of their features that makes them so important for wildlife, but could mean the tree is called defective by the logging industry. This could mean that the tree is dismissed as waste wood. But a tree standing up in a forest is not waste,” she said.

So, the law has a gaping loophole that allows the logging industry to cut pretty much everything down.

“You can’t explain that.” ~ Bill O’Reilly

For those, like me, that are curious how they decide who’s eligible…

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-and-sport/publications/basic-income-for-the-arts-pilot-scheme-guidelines/#eligibility

I can’t decide what’s more depressing.

A) The subject of the linked article, or

B) The fact that an article on World Socialist Web Site is linking to posts by Amnesty UK and Defend our Juries (three organizations that should all know better by now) on Xitter.

Jesus

At an absolute bare minimum, the last two should be cross posting everything to Mastodon, and the first should be linking to the Mastodon accounts whenever available.

Oh, look! Amnesty UK has a Mastodon account that they’re not fucking using, apparently never have.

[Edit: spelling]

UG Solutions (UGS) defended its employees’ qualifications for the job, saying it does not screen people out for “personal hobbies or affiliations unrelated to job performance”.

I had to submit to a background check for a job sitting at a desk writing code and had absolutely nothing to do with security or carrying a weapon. Pretty sure that being a member of an anti-Islamic biker gang would have disqualified me.

No. My memory is that the English language article was a bit unclear on the details and had several indications that the author didn’t actually understand the technology, but someone said a Japanese language article did a better job of explaining it.

Brine and fresh water doesn’t make any sense, because you’re spending energy to create fresh water with the brine as the waste. Just turning around and recombining it to make evergy again is stupid. You can’t even get back as much energy as you used to make the fresh water.

But, spending the energy to create the fresh water, letting people use that water as normal, collecting their waste water as normal, treating the waste water as normal, and then, instead of just dumping the treated waste water into the sea, recombining it with the brine to make energy makes a ton of sense.

There was an article the other day about a new plant in Japan that takes the brine from a reverse osmosis plant, and reverse osmosisizes [?] it again back into treated waste water to generate electricity. As I recall, it’s not full scale and meant more as a test/demo/proof of concept, but apparently it works ok for a first attempt.

Russia has won stolen a lot of land and technically they have won stolen (at a big cost).

It matters fuck all what it cost them to steal land.

“Oh, it cost me a lot of money for all the equipment I needed to ‘win’ the money from your bank vault, so you should just let me keep what I 'won '” 🙄

I feel like Ukraine has already made a perfectly reasonable offer. “GTFO of our country and then we’ll stop exploding your stuff.” Russia needs to take that deal.

The front fell off! Is that supposed to happen?

Gerrymandering has been an obvious problem for decades. The only people that didn’t see a problem are those congress critters that got elected to one. (“Well, it worked to get me elected so it’s obviously not broken.”)

The shape of my very blue congressional district in a very blue state most closely resembles projectile vomit on a linoleum floor.

Democrats have had multiple opportunities to fix this shit over the decades, and instead they’ve just been using it to their advantage wherever possible. The Fair Representation Act has been our best opportunity to fix gerrymandering, and it died in committee in every congressional session since 2017.

I would argue most of the elected representatives at the state and federal levels have no interest in fixing gerrymandering, because gerrymandering is what got them elected.

One recent poll found 71% of people in Scotland have an unfavorable opinion of Trump, compared to 57% of people in the United Kingdom overall.

JFC UK?!?! A not insignificant chunk of that 57% are apparently Scots, so what the hell is wrong with the rest of you?

This is a clear example of bureaucrats getting so focused on their task that they miss the forest for the trees. They need to have a little conversation with themselves.

We need to get an accurate count of the Sentinelese!

Q: Why do we even do the census in the first place?

A:Well, as a society we’ve decided that, knowing how many people we have, and where they are, and some other important demographics about them makes it easier and more efficient for the government to effectively serve to the people.

Q: Are the Sentinelese going to benefit in any way from this?

A: Well, no, but…

THEN YOU DON’T NEED TO COUNT THEM!

My current conspiracy theory is that Trump’s owners have decided that he’s become more of a liability than an asset, and are throwing him under the bus to replace him with someone more under their control.

My “evidence” is that this steady daily trickle of new evidence tying Trump to Epstein didn’t just miraculously spawn into existence this week. It’s been in people’s filing cabinets and video/photo archives for years

I just find it really hard to believe none of this was “found” earlier. Instead it’s being “found” now, but not all at once. It’s being “found” at a rate that keeps the story at the top of the news cycle.