Also, friendly reminder to iron your flags, folks!
Even the thinnest Aliexpress flags can be ironed, and trust me that it's SO worth it for how much better it looks. Just start with low heat and maybe even a use a towel in between the flag and the iron.
They didn't get nearly enough shit for filming a "gulag" in a literal former Nazi prison camp. And then they tried renting it out as a Stranger Things-themed Airbnb. Fucking ghouls.
It's no surprise that the kid who plays Will grew up into a gross zionist. I'm extremely sus of that whole production and everyone involved.
Edit: How could I forget this asshole (cw: extremely cringe zionist). Someone needs to check what they're putting in the water on this show's set 
Really feels like we're in a situation where, given these assumptions:
Iran commits to their stated war goal of punishing Israel until they dare to never strike Iran ever again.
Iran has sufficient capabilities and internal popular support to do such. (And every analysis I've seen suggests they likely do on both counts.)
Then one of these two outcomes must occur:
Either, the US enters the war, and Iran's retaliatory strikes on oil infrastructure and trade routes absolutely fuck the world economy, and have a serious possibility of triggering WW3.
Or, the US doesn't enter the war with Iran, and Israel likely loses an attrition war against Iran. I dont really see how this doesn't eventually lead to the collapse of Israel.
That second option comes with the scary question of "will Israel resort to using its nukes?" So I guess that's another route to WW3.
Idk, I'm no expert and I'm open to hearing other likely ways for this to play out, but this is where my head is at given all the information I've been absorbing so far.
Quick aside from the war, US reshoring is going about as well as expected. "Intel Foundry layoffs could impact 'more than 10,000' factory workers — one fifth of employees affected by 'enormous cutback'"
Zelensky must be punching walls right now
NEW: The Chinese Embassy in Israel asks all its citizens to leave as soon as possible
https://xcancel.com/TehranTimes79/status/1934763122780426265
1,300 cycles into my current Oxygen Not Included playthrough. Finally got my liquid hydrogen/LOX rockets fueled up, I actually had reservoirs of fuel ready to go for like 200 cycles, but I had to set up clay production at a large enough scale just so I could produce enough ceramic for all the piping. Now I'm sending out missions to set up off-world builds to collect resources I'm low/empty on, like tungsten on the Marshy Asteroid.
I did fuck up Gizmo's morale, and he started blasting everything with lightning on an emergency return trip from the tungsten project, to the point where I had to lock him in the bathroom until they land so he doesn't kill himself and Ulti, the pilot.
I had to "break up" with my long-time circle of friends over this kind of behavior. We had known each other for over 10 years, but the last few years of our "friendship" I had been increasingly flaked on, until I had started to develop anxiety any time I even thought of trying to make plans, because I knew how it'd feel like pulling teeth. Once I started identifying patterns like, I suggest plans on x date > they counter with x date + 1 month > 1 month later comes, everyone is "too busy" (but not too busy to have made plans amongst themselves during the same time) as well as several other obvious and embarrassing signs of being excluded, I just stopped trying and effectively "quiet quit" the friend group.
One particularly egregious example, the last event of theirs I was invited to, a small condo housewarming party of ~10 people, I quickly took notice of how they'd systematically move the group away from me, one or two individuals at a time, to a new spot any time I joined the conversation, until I was left alone, and this process repeated a few times until I gave up and scrolled on my phone alone on the couch, until my friend's girlfriend apparently took pity on me enough to strike up a short convo (which was genuinely kind of her), but aside from that brief gesture I left a short while later feeling pretty dejected and quietly humiliated. Why invite someone to a gathering if you have no intention of talking to them? Why treat someone like that and then also still try to maintain any kind of friendship??
A whole six months of radio silence after the "quiet quitting," one of them finally texts me asking if I wanted to "catch up" over lunch. I turned him down and (admittedly not so kindly) explained why, which was met by him pulling in 2 other "friends" to dogpile and gaslight me over how they were just "really busy" all the time, and how I should have tried talking to them about it because they had "no idea." When I offered multiple examples of how they had systematically ignored and excluded me, they'd just circle back to the "we were soooo busy" and "had no idea" excuses, like broken records. Except for one of the friends, who just gave sort of a meek "I hear you, if you don't want to talk to us anymore I will respect that," which felt more like an admission that he didn't care enough to keep me around than anything else. After a while of 
, I just blocked the two that kept arguing in circles. The rest of the "core" group (all people I had known for years btw) just simply never talked to me again.
Months later from that, I happened to reconnect with a couple of friends (both of whom I wouldn't be surprised if they were also on the spectrum) that were mutuals with the above mentioned friend group (but also never super close to them), and they shared similar experiences of being excluded and feeling gaslit by the same individuals. So, at least I got some closure that it wasn't "just me." But, goddamn, it felt really shitty to learn that some otherwise apparently-well-adjusted neurotypicals like to keep us around just to be set pieces for their larger gatherings or some shit.
Suffice to say, I have lots of problems trusting and forming any kind of bonds with most neurotypicals, and tend to keep my distance from them nowadays. I still don't fully understand why they behave the way they do around me, but at least I've come to realize and accept that it's something wrong with them, not me.
Elon Musk says SpaceX will decommission Dragon spacecraft after Trump threat
There goes the US manned space program, I guess? What else is there, besides Boeing's crap bucket that ended up stranding astronauts on the ISS for 9 months? 
Edit: Apparently we're still using Soyuz, lmao. Decades-old communist technology is still doing laps around privatized space flight.
The researchers estimate that the lenses cost around US$200 per pair to make.
Researchers have made the first contact lenses to convey infrared vision — and the devices work even when people have their eyes closed.
Soon, it will not even be an exaggeration to say that China is beating the US with their eyes closed 
I need those audio files (shown towards the end) that attack AI voice assistants, holy shit 
Quick google search shows that China has its own Quartz mines, so I'm not sure if those are unsuitable for certain semiconductors or if the use of "world" here just means 
Real good sign your side is winning when you're conscripting a 39yo, especially someone who is arguably way more valuable left helping run your propaganda war on 
Cojab said her addiction stemmed from stress.
She was the president of a Zionist student group called Realize Israel, at odds with other student activists and professors calling on the university to sever ties with Israel.
It's so incredibly disgusting seeing a puff piece about a Zionist crybullying over a cheese addiction, posing with large blocks of fancy cheeses, and talking about expensive rehab far out of reach of the average person, all while her ideology is responsible for ongoing mass starvation and genocide against Palestinians.
Also, I feel like there's a slammer meme somewhere in here
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"Nothing. No juice. Still on zero percent," said Tyler Beard, who has been trying to recharge his Tesla at an Oak Brook Tesla supercharging station since Sunday afternoon. "And this is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday."
"Like any new technology, there’s a learning curve for people," said Mark Bilek of the Chicago Auto Trade Association.
Lmao, no my dudes, it's pretty well understood that you need to keep the battery warm enough to be able to charge. This is not some fucking unexplored field of science!
I'm absolutely cackling at the radio silence from Tesla + dozens of Tesla owners just sitting around cluelessly wondering why their car hasn't charged at all in over 3 hours. Maybe another 3 hours will do it, keep trying 
Also, a cursory Google search leads me to believe that the Model 3 has no dedicated battery warmer that could be used for this very situation, but instead some system that "runs the motor inefficiently to heat up the battery". Doesn't sound like this can work when the car is stationary, I guess tesla engineers forgot about the Midwest when cutting parts to save on production costs 
Nextdoor is 50% lost pet posts and 50% Totally Real™ conversations Your Neighbors® are having about their new [walk-in tub/gutter system] that they totally just had installed. I'm sure pumping it full of even more hyperlocal copganda, for our local busybodies to comment the most racist shit imaginable on, will round it out nicely!