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As someone once put it to me: “when criticising Israeli actions never mention Israel. You can express concern for victims, that’s fine, but by ommitting Israel you can show prudence and deference”
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Colin Mitchell
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Colin Mitchell
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CTO/co-founder of agri-tech startup Sixty-5 Technologies Ltd, (@sixty5tech) hands-on code-tweaker, occasional blues guitarist
Northern Ireland Katılım Temmuz 2009
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A mathematician was being interviewed for a job.
The interviewer asks him - "You are walking towards your office and running late for a very important meeting and you glimpse a building on fire with people screaming for help. What will you do?".
The mathematician thinks for a while and replies : "People's lives are more important than an office meeting. I would immediately call for a fire brigade and help the trapped to the best of my abilities".
The interviewer seems to be impressed with the mathematician's answer and moves on to the last question.
Just to check his sanity, she asks: "And what if the building is not on fire?".
After a moment of thought, the mathematician replies with confidence :
"I will set the building on fire. Now, I have reduced it to a problem that I have already solved before!"
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we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter at all and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
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The fact that no one is stopping Israel—no matter what it does, how many people they kill, or how much damage its actions cause on a global scale—is actually insane.
Arnaud Bertrand@RnaudBertrand
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but if infrastructure like this 👇 gets blown up, as of this moment it will take at least a decade to recover from this war - and the truth is that the world's energy picture is probably changed forever. This single facility 👇produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply (aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/18…) and, as of 2011, had taken $70 billion to build (energyintel.com/0000017b-a7be-…). What makes this even worse is that Iran's strike on this was retaliation after Israel attacked their South Pars gas field which draws from the same natural gas reservoir, which is the world's largest by far (9,700 km² - about the size of Qatar itself). Heck, on the list of the 25 largest natural gas fields (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_n…) this single reservoir holds roughly 40% of their combined recoverable reserves - and is nearly 6 times bigger than the 2nd biggest field in the world. And, unlike many of the others on the list, it's only at 10% depletion (meaning 90% of the gas is still there). Which means that, probably for many years, a huge share of the gas from the world's largest reservoir simply won't be extractable, as infrastructure on both sides - Qatar's and Iran's - has now been blown up. From a global energy supply perspective, we're deep into worst-case scenario territory.
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If you ask the grass, the zebra is the monster and the lion is the protector.
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BBC's Chief Correspondent, Jeremy Bowen, pretending to be under Russian attack when an elderly Ukrainian lady walking her dog stops to make sure he's okay
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One fifth of all Lebanese displaced, Israeli ministers calling for all villages in the south to be destroyed and annexed, and this @BBCNews headline.
Any idea who could be writing this propaganda @owenjonesjourno and why he might be obfuscating the truth?
Hamza Yusuf@Hamza_a96
Israel has illegally invaded Lebanon, following weeks of intense carpet bombing. Yet look at how the BBC reports it. This is textbook propaganda.
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“He seemed clever and reasonable” is how he and many like him were able to con a generation or two of galaxy-brained Western elites that his “nasty” regime could be dealt with at face value.
Yes, it’s frequently a good idea to kill your enemies. Especially the clever ones.
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Quite astonishing that Israel can simply invade, expel 100,000s, say they can’t come back and not a whisper from the EU or America.
Al Jazeera Breaking News@AJENews
UPDATE: Israel says displaced Lebanese people won't be allowed to return home 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/s2q1rc?update=…
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Apparently, the first navy to refuse to help Trump secure the Strait of Hormuz was the United States Navy.
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One thing no one mentions about being an adult is how much time you debate yourself over keeping a cardboard box because it's a really good box.
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The Guardian reports, with an entirely straight face, that billionaire Matthias Dopfner, CEO of Axel Springer, promises to guarantee the Telegraph's "editorial independence" even as it also notes staff must sign on to a corporate constitution requiring their support for Israel.
Billionaires don't own papers so they can foster journalistic excellence, or to ensure a full panoply of views are represented. They own media to shape our understanding of the world, so we regard anything that benefits billionaires as in our interests too.
That's why it seems normal to have a world where profits come first – whether from fossil fuels, AI or the war industry – even if it means our species commits suicide in the process.
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I'm thinking of taking up coin collecting.
I believe the change will do me good
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