The Hall of Fire

Sunsilver wrote: ↑Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:29 pm What's next? Banning the Pill for everyone who isn't married?

For everyone, period.

And yet it's the only option that makes sense.

There have been reports of fighting on the border between Gaza and Egypt as Egypt is determined to keep the refugees behind the very tall wall they built at the border.

It must just be generating text that is shaped like the sort of response a person would expect to their prompt, without much regard for whether it is actually correct. That's exactly what it does. It predicts the most probable sequence of words that is related to the prompt. And as the web fills wi...

Ceasefire is only good if both sides adhere to it. Hamas continues daily bombardment of Israeli cities, which goes almost entirely unreported, and refuses to return hostages, some of whom have since been reported dead. They also continue to state the destruction of Israel and its people as their sol...

Never mind that MRNA vaccines are not available in Russia (Sputnik is an adenovirus vector based) and Navalny has been imprisoned since January 2021, before mrna vaccines were released in the West.

Carlson posted a video of his shopping trip to a Moscow supermarket, presumably one of those that are kept ready to be stocked for the visiting foreigners. He was very impressed at how cheap everything was. His total came to about $100, iirc, which at the current exchange rate is between 30-50% of m...

This is the talking point on the right. Navalny = Trump and if he is convicted he will die in prison. Also Navalny was killed by the CIA, who infiltrated Russia's most secure prison to keep him from telling the investigators about... They don't know what it is but they are sure it's really bad for t...

It needs to be said that while Navalny's courage in speaking against Putin is undisputed, that the West labeled him the leader of Russian for freedom and democracy speaks more to the lack of leaders for freedom and democracy in Russia than to Navalny's actual views. The list of people murdered by Pu...

Christo Grozev: "Russian telegram channel VChK-Ogpu notes that the press release announcing @navalny's death was posted literally 2 minutes after the official time of his death." And while it may be a mere coincidence that the death occurred days after Tucker Calrson did his best to polish...

I dunno, but Tucker was last seen wearing a traditional Buryat costume, and managing to look like a right pillock despite the costume being objectively gorgeous. Buryats are an ethnic group native to Siberia that saw so many men conscripted to fight in Ukraine that some called this an attempt at gen...

Estonia is a NATO member. For all our sakes, we need Putin stopped in Ukraine, or we really will get a WWIII.

Stealing, as UNRWA claims, or using with full knowledge and permission, as Israel alleges. Having seen the pictures, I think the latter is more likely.

Exactly.

Yup. And also that Ukraine didn't exist until Lenin made it in 1917, and also that Ukrainians really wanted to be a part of Russia since 1700s. Also Rurik. Prediction: Poland is going to forget whatever economic issues they are having with Ukraine at the moment because they will want to punch Russia...

Yes but the funniest part was even before the interview, where Kremlin's spokesman Peskov called him a liar for saying that no Western journalists "bothered" to interview Putin. 20240207_125828.jpg Peskov went on to say that of course they could not grant an interview to mainstream media b...

All my holds came in at once and meanwhile I'm like

I saw an ad for something on Apple TV that looked intriguing but now I can't remember what it was.

It looks very wintery.

Dave, are you in any other social media? Despite everything, I still find my Twitter feed is the best source of information I know.