Only if India mounts a naval blockade, which would be rather drastic.

The 182-metre (597-foot) long container ship – the Panama-flagged Yuan Xiang Fa Zhan – had sailed from Pakistan’s Karachi to Bangladesh’s Chittagong.

We only sing about it.

It’s a city, it’s a really big rock, it’s a maritime port, it’s the only wild monkey population in Europe, it’s a 2½ mi² British Overseas Territory whose status is perennially contested by Spain.

First do no harm, but zeroth decapitate healthcare capos who do harm.

We thought the country was getting better

Who the hell thought the country was getting better? No one I know. This is the same weak basket of deplorables excuse the DNC used for Hillary Clinton’s loss. Because they’ll blame anyone but themselves for their failures.

The Democrats fail because they’ve embraced grinding neoliberalism for an entire generation, because they abandoned the working class long ago. The DNC crushed Sanders—twice—because even a little social safety net, as a treat, is a bridge too far for them. Why the Democratic Party CANNOT and WILL NOT be Reformed

I said that with an American slanted focus but sadly it’s worldwide too.

Fascism isn’t on the rise in the US in particular and the West in general for no reason. The cause is ever-worsening neoliberalism, which is monopoly capitalism in decay. I wrote about this two months ago, but I’ll spare everyone the copypasta and just link to it.

Most Seattleites can’t afford to own a home; they rent.

Sandy Hook is ~9,000. You may not remember, but Alex Jones does.

Gibraltar has a population of 32,000, which by some definitions is too small to be considered a city.

Nathan J. Robinson: The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

Paywalls are justified, even though they are annoying. It costs money to produce good writing, to run a website, to license photographs. A lot of money, if you want quality. Asking people for a fee to access content is therefore very reasonable. You don’t expect to get a print subscription to the newspaper gratis, why would a website be different? I try not to grumble about having to pay for online content, because I run a magazine and I know how difficult it is to pay writers what they deserve.

But let us also notice something: the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the New Republic, New York, Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, the Financial Times, and the London Times all have paywalls. Breitbart, Fox News, the Daily Wire, the Federalist, the Washington Examiner, InfoWars: free!

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Seattle
• https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2023/10/11/gen-z-rent-income-housing-seattle
• https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/heres-how-much-you-need-to-earn-to-afford-a-seattle-area-home/
• https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/as-wa-housing-costs-climb-incomes-arent-keeping-up/
• https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/its-definitely-tough-new-study-shows-nearly-third-wa-households-struggle-make-ends-meet/MV7YO5CQDJBOTHZFPM4ILD2HII/

To own the tanks.

lol

$ curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/refs/heads/master/supportedsites.md | grep -i porn | wc -l
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Huh, thanks! Based on its name I assumed it was exclusively for YouTube.

$ yt-dlp https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/3330898_hls/master.m3u8
[generic] Extracting URL: https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/3330898_hls/master.m3u8
[generic] master: Downloading webpage
[generic] master: Downloading m3u8 information
[generic] master: Checking m3u8 live status
[info] master: Downloading 1 format(s): 2879+audio_aac-English
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 45
[download] Destination: master [master].f2879.mp4
[download] 100% of   87.22MiB in 00:00:18 at 4.66MiB/s
[hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest
[hlsnative] Total fragments: 45
[download] Destination: master [master].faudio_aac-English.mp4
[download] 100% of    4.04MiB in 00:00:01 at 2.14MiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "master [master].mp4"
Deleting original file master [master].faudio_aac-English.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file master [master].f2879.mp4 (pass -k to keep)
$ vlc 'master [master].mp4'

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Docker, no docking!
Docker, no docking!
Docker, no docking!

EU/US have to step up financial reconstruction offers

The offers are likely to be predatory IMF/World Bank loans leading to even more neoliberal/neocolonial privatization & austerity.

The US hasn’t given Ukraine a blessed thing: they’ve all been lend-leases that will take the Ukrainian people generations to pay off.

a country under a genocidal invasion

These claims of genocide by Russia are projection by Western propaganda.

• BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
• Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
• Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland engineered Ukraine’s regime change without weighing the likely consequences.
• The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
• The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
• WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
• Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
• The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
• openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
• Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
• NYT, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide

None of my web browsers knows what to do with https://prod.vodvideo.cbsnews.com/cbsnews/vr/hls/3330898_hls/master.m3u8 nor does VLC.