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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Tough international law does not provide a clear definition of the term ‘terrorism’, there is a general consensus on this issue. According to this consensus, terrorism involves intimidating the civilian population while causing minimal damage to the enemy’s military capabilities, with the aim of maximising civilian casualties, particularly among vulnerable groups such as children, women, the elderly and the wounded.

    Such actions were seen on 11 September 2001, when Islamic terrorists hijacked four passenger planes and flew them into New York and Washington, in what is currently recognised as the largest terrorist attack in human history.

    Yes, clearly those heinous attacks on civilians are worthy of being compared to 9/11. Not Russia’s deliberate attacks on Ukrainian cities though, they are totally fine. This propaganda trash has nothing in common with actual reporting. Get it out of the news community.







  • To go on a complete tangent here, chameleons also can’t blink and I found a dissertation-level website only about how they can’t blink and what the consequences of that are: https://reptilefriend.com/do-chameleons-blink/

    But I initially thought that they can have their eyes blink independantly, which brings me to my next point: In the anime My Hero Academia, one of the heroes, Erazure Head, has the ability to block someone’s ability as long as he is looking at them, with the drawback that the effect ends when he blinks,which fucks up his eyes, because he blinks so little. And every time I see him, I just think to myself, if only that mf had learned to blink independantly with his eyes, which I am sure you can train if you want to, he could’ve completely negated the drawback of his ability.

    Then again, MHA is full of this sittle oversights, which definitely lessen my enjoyment of that anime. Take the heroine Alien Queen for example. She can spray acid from her hands, an ability she doesn’t do very much with, which is why she is one of the less important heroes. She could however have trained to “sweat” acid to surround her body with an acid shield and if she had learned to spray her acid as a fine mist that the air can carry into your lungs, she could’ve become a walking violation of the geneva conventions. Missed opportunity to have villains simy choke to death.














  • I just want to know if those excess deaths are part of the Marxist ideology or not. You say the USSR was a country following Marxist theory. At least 7 million people died either because they were killed by the state or died through negligence. Are all those deaths explained away by “The war caused their deaths” and “They deserved it anyways”? Were a significant number of them killed despite the USSR being marxist or because of it?