The Dave

Love is love 💕

Allô, l'Agence France Presse (AFP) ? Permettez moi d'apporter quelques précisions à votre dépêche laconique diffusée avant-hier (29/04 20h34) indiquant qu' "un adolescent palestinien a été tué par l'armée israélienne à Hébron". Selon cette affiche qui circule sur les réseaux palestiniens, Abdel Fattah al-Khayyat était membre du Hamas et de sa branche armée les brigades Izz al-Din al-Qassam dont les logos figurent en haut à droite du visuel. Pourquoi n'avez vous pas diffusé cette information ? Une telle lacune ne constitue-t-elle pas un mensonge par omission visant à insinuer que l'armée israélienne tire sur des adolescents pacifiques et sans défense ? Un tel silence ne vise-t-il pas à cacher le fait que le Hamas enrôle et envoie au combat des gamins de 16 ans, ce qui constitue un crime de guerre ? Votre dépêche tronquée ne relève-t-elle pas d'une violation de la charte de l'AFP qui garantie une information exacte, impartiale et libre de toute influence politique ? Cette dépêche ne relaie-t-elle pas la propagande du Hamas et ne contribue-t-elle pas à attiser dans les médias occidentaux la haine d'Israël et l'antisémitisme ? @SDJ_AFP @AfpFactuel @afpfr

There's a common misconception that Brutalist buildings were unpainted, but thanks to microscopic analysis of the exteriors we can now recreate what they looked like in their prime.

No one should be surprised but what he left out is that this turbine costs an estimated $50-80 million to build and install. It only produces power 35-45% of the time because wind is intermittent. Its output degrades 12-16% over its 20-25 year lifespan. It requires hundreds of tons of steel, concrete, fiberglass, and rare earth minerals mined largely in China (his favorite country). The other 55-65% of the time you need backup power, which comes from natural gas. And it exists only because of massive government subsidies. A natural gas plant of the same 26MW capacity costs $26-39 million, produces more than double the effective output, runs on demand 24 hours a day regardless of weather, and lasts 30-40 years. Half the price. Double the output. No weather dependency. No subsidies required. But this was never about the environment. If it were, you would care that rare earth mining for wind turbines devastates landscapes across China and Africa, that thousands of birds and bats are killed annually by turbine blades, that the blades themselves are non-recyclable fiberglass rotting in landfills, and that natural gas produces half the emissions of coal with none of these problems. You ignore all of this because environmentalism was never your goal. It is your vehicle. The destination is what it has always been: government control of energy production, which means government control of the economy, which is socialism. Rand identified this decades ago. The green movement is not a scientific movement. It is a political one, and its target is not pollution. It is capitalism.

it’s always “you’re autistic” and never “thank you for telling me everything you know about the legend of zelda”

In case you forgot: We live on a planet where whales sing songs that travel for miles. Where trees can recognize their own offspring and protect them underground. Where dolphins give each other names and where lightning can create glass in the sand. Where horses can read human emotions. Where rain has a smell before it even arrives and where the ocean can glow in the dark. A planet where the stars we see might not even exist anymore.

Holy shit

Vegans: "Drinking cow's milk is unnatural!" Great point. So instead of pulling on some teats for thirty seconds, we've developed a twelve-step industrial alternative. Step one: grow almonds in California, a drought-afflicted state currently depleting an aquifer that took twenty thousand years to fill. Step two: ship them to a processing facility. Step three: soak them in water. California water, specifically, because almonds need 15 gallons per ounce and California is already rationing. Step four: pulverise them into a slurry. Step five: filter the slurry through fine mesh, discarding most of the actual almond in the process. That was the bit with the nutrition in it. Gone now. Step six: add more water, because the resulting liquid isn't watery enough. Step seven: add sweeteners, because it tastes of nothing. Step eight: add emulsifiers, because it separates in six minutes otherwise. Step nine: add synthetic vitamins, because all the natural ones left in step five. Step ten: add seed oils, because we apparently learned nothing. Step eleven: homogenise, degas, pasteurise, and sterilise the mixture until it resembles no food that has ever existed in nature. Step twelve: put it in a carton with a picture of a field on it. The cow: stands in a field. Makes milk. Has done this for ten thousand years. No factory. No steps. No aquifer. Unnatural, though. Very unnatural.

Vulture populations in India collapsed. 500,000 people died as a result. In the 1990s, Indian farmers started using a cheap painkiller called diclofenac on their cattle. When vultures ate the carcasses, the drug destroyed their kidneys. Without vultures, cattle carcasses rotted in fields instead of being stripped clean in 45 minutes. Feral dog populations exploded by five million. Rabies cases surged. Pathogens spread through water supplies. University of Chicago economists compared death rates in districts that used to have vultures to districts that never did. Human mortality rose more than 4% after the collapse. Over 100,000 extra deaths a year. Half a million in five years. India banned the drug in 2006. The vultures still haven't recovered. This is what a keystone species is to us. This is why we protect the animals nobody finds cute.

Flour comes from a plant, sugar comes from a plant, and chocolate comes from a plant. So, basically a chocolate chip cookie is a salad. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk

Rappelons inlassablement les faits : 1- Le sionisme énonce une idée minimale : le peuple juif a droit à l’autodétermination, comme tous les autres. Refuser ce droit aux seuls Juifs, en faire une exception mondiale, est une discrimination ciblée. Nier aux Arméniens un État sur leur terre historique serait de la haine anti-arménienne. Nier aux Polonais toute légitimité nationale serait de la haine anti-polonaise. Quand cette négation ne vise que les Juifs, le mot existe. C’est de l’antisémitisme. 2- L’antisionisme contemporain ne critique pas une politique, il nie un droit à l’existence. Israël est le seul État dont on réclame explicitement la disparition, l’effacement pur et simple. Aucun autre pays n’est soumis à cette exigence. L’imposer au seul État juif, refuge de plus de la moitié des Juifs et enraciné dans leur histoire, révèle une hostilité spécifique. C’est de l’antisémitisme. 3- L’antisionisme recycle les tropes antisémites en version moderne. Israël devient le mal absolu, coupable par essence, privé de toute complexité et de tout droit à la défense. Inversion morale, diabolisation totale, criminalisation exclusive. Hier on disait “les Juifs”, aujourd’hui “les sionistes”. Le vernis lexical change, la structure mentale demeure. C’est de l’antisémitisme. 4- Les effets ne sont pas théoriques. Chaque pic “antisioniste” s’accompagne d’agressions et de meurtres visant des Juifs ordinaires, à l’école, dans la rue, à la synagogue, sur la plage. Enfants insultés, commerces attaqués, citoyens sommés de répondre des actes d’un État étranger. Aucune autre cause géopolitique ne produit mécaniquement des violences contre une minorité locale. Une idéologie se juge à ses victimes. C’est de l’antisémitisme. 5- Se dire “antisioniste”, en faire un pilier moral et politique, alors que cela concerne environ 0,1% de la population mondiale, exclusivement juive, déjà ciblée et menacée, n’a rien d’universel. Personne ne bâtit son identité sur l’anti-japonisme, l’anti-chilisme ou l’anti-canadisme. Quand l’indignation est aussi sélective, obsessionnelle et toujours dirigée vers les mêmes, il faut cesser les faux-semblants. C’est une obsession antisémite.

@starks_ @MatthieuGariel Mens pas faut être deux pour s'entraîner

@MatthieuGariel Je confirme, j’attends 60 ans pour avoir des gosses, en attendant, je m’entraîne

Les jeunes attendront d’avoir 60 ans pour hériter et faire des gosses 😂🤡

Where Mylène ?

Les fans de Céline Dion en liste d’attente pour avoir une place.

Some days you can’t love social media enough. This is one of those days. It began like this. Someone stole 12 tons of KitKats. And then the replies started coming in. Scroll down.

Sinon mon réveil matin aujourd’hui a été de vomir dans mon lit sans aucune sommation, je suis RA-VI

“The Iranian regime poses no threat to the world.” Honestly, every time I hear that sentence - usually from a politician or a very comfortable diplomat - I mentally put a big red X on their ability to understand geopolitics. Not disagreement. Disqualification. Let’s walk through this slowly, for the well-meaning but dangerously naive. In what world is it normal for a state to recruit 700,000 fighters from across Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Pakistan… arm them, train them, and deploy them as transnational militias outside the authority of their own countries? In what world is it normal to effectively hijack the political, economic, and military decision-making of a neighboring state like Iraq, while simultaneously fueling civil wars in Syria and Yemen that have left millions dead and tens of millions displaced? In what world is it normal that half of a country’s armed forces - namely the IRGC - is designated as a terrorist organization by dozens of countries… and yet continues to operate, fund, arm, and expand? And here’s my favorite. In what world is it normal for a regime to transfer ballistic missiles (multi-warhead systems with ranges exceeding 2,500 km) to a terrorist non-state actors like the Houthis? Let me simplify that. Sovereign-level strategic weapons… handed to narco terror militias. Militias that traffic in narcotics, humans and chaos. And somehow, we’re told this is… not a threat? Even NATO countries like Germany or Italy don’t field that kind of range in their arsenals. But a militia in Yemen does? Perfectly normal. Nothing to see here. And all of this is happening in a region that holds roughly 60% of global oil and gas reserves, and controls the world’s most critical maritime choke points - Strait of Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, and the Suez Canal. So let me ask the obvious question. If this is not a threat… what exactly qualifies? Explain it to me like am a 5 year old!! Do we wait until global energy flows collapse? Until maritime trade is strangled? Until missiles start landing beyond the region? At what point do we graduate from “not a threat” to “perhaps mildly concerning”? Because from where I’m sitting, the regime isn’t preparing to become a threat. It already is one. Oh, I forgot .. All of the above is happening while the same terror sponsoring regime is seeking nuclear weapons and in actual control of 460 kg of highly enriched uranium enough for 11 nuclear bombs!!🤦🏻‍♂️

@Penelope_Ouest Joyeux anniversaire 🥳

Et me voila entrant dans ma 40ème année. Bien sûr toujours autour d’une bonne table, on se refait pas! Bien dans ma vie et dans mon corps, et jamais aussi bien accompagné, amoureusement comme amicalement, pourvu que ça dure 😅 Merci pour vos messages❤️

I can’t stop laughing.

What a boring planet.... no fairies, no elves, no mermaids, no dragons, no vampires, no werewolves… just bills, stress, gossip, and insufferable people.