You don’t have to be an expert in Israeli politics, the article lays it out for you

Israeli history has taught us that each and every surprise and crisis led to the collapse of the government. That was the case in 1973 [after the Yom Kippur War] with Golda Meir, in 1982 with Menachem Begin in the first Lebanon war, and in 2006, with Ehud Olmert, in the second Lebanon War.

Seems like 9/11 is not a good analogue because Israelis are less tolerant of government security failures than Americans are.

It says further down the article that it was a garmin inreach, Which is a GPS device that can send short messages over the iridium satellite network.

i’m not seeing the part of that article where there’s any evidence at all of health care workers pushing anybody to take MAiD.

Indians really going out of their way to prove that yes, they are stupid enough to believe everything modi tells them

yeah absolutely. it’s a problem, and spacex should be criticised for making their space garbage everybody else’s problem.

i’m just saying framing this as “elon keeps losing” because his company’s system is working exactly as it was designed to is pretty dumb.

Obligatory “fuck Elon”, but starlink launches thousands of these things, with an expectation of losing some of them. This isn’t a problem, it’s how the system is designed.

This is like writing an article about how 45 of a frog’s eggs failed to hatch.

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Does the G20 ever deliver results?

It’s good for leaders to get together and talk to each other. But expecting something concrete to come out of this seems silly. That’s not the point. The “declaration” will just be the usual “we agree to work together for the betterment of humanity” or some vague bullshit.

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Alternate version: Chinese authorities save city from flooding by diverting the waters to less populated areas, saving lives and minimizing financial losses

i doubt they want to take it that far, but i’ve got to assume at least some of putin’s cronies are thinking if they goad him into something stupid enough, they can get rid of him and take over for themselves.

“His father” in this summary refers to the father of one of the victims, not the father of the man accused of selling poison to suicidal people.

Food production is 35% of global greenhouse gases. Meat accounts for 60% of the emissions from food production. So yeah, if we cut global meat consumption in half it would absolutely make a dent.

Blaming the corporations is just a convenient way of putting the responsibility on somebody else. You can’t eat beef and then blame the farmer for the emissions caused by cattle production. You can’t drive a big truck and then blame the oil companies for the emissions. You can’t fly around the world and then blame the airlines. Corporations are selling stuff to people. Their emissions look huge because they’re the aggregate emissions of millions of people.

There’s two types of ambassadors: for countries you have tense relationships with, you send the professional diplomats who are really good at negotiating for things without starting wars.

For countries who are friends and you aren’t going to have tough negotiations with them, you send somebody who has good connections to the president. The ambassador gets a cushy job for 4 years that’s basically a reward, and the foreign country gets the message that an ambassadorship there is treated as a reward for the president’s friends, which strengthens the relationship

As long as they’re not killing Ukrainians, then I guess yeah, go do whatever…

Well obviously, we should build more houses. Everybody supports that. We’ll start building as soon as we find a good spot to build them. The only restrictions are:

• development can’t encroach on nature or cause any deforestation, loss of wetlands, or animal habitat
• you can’t encroach on farmland, we need to preserve that
• any building over 40 years old is historic and can’t be torn down or altered
• you can’t change the “character” of any existing neighborhood
• you can’t block the views of any existing houses
• you can’t convert empty office buildings into housing, because zoning. Also, workers are going to want to go back to offices any day now…
• you can’t sacrifice any industrial-zoned areas for housing, because industry needs that space.
• there needs to be at least three parking spots provided for each new unit of housing

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yeah, it’s not spotify’s fault that splitting $10/month between all the music you listen to doesn’t pay the artists very much.

It’s always good to step back from “companies” and think of companies as just a bunch of people.

Is it good for companies to force employees back to the office? Nah, probably not. Is it good for the guy who has to explain why he signed a 10-year lease on all that office space, and now it’s sitting empty? Yup. Is it good for the lonely manager who wants to be surrounded by people, and has the power to make that happen? Yup. Is it good for the exec who has to find some reason why his department is underperforming, and decides remote work is a good scapegoat? Ehhh….