FIFA bans oxygen from venues citing fire risk. Breathing equipment can be bought for a small fee of 2300$ per game from select sponsors.

I can totally empathize, I was so annoyed last year when Pinguin Random House UK stopped releasing security updates, I had to throw away half my books :/

Germany does not want to win wars, build effective weapons, or create a credible deterrence, it wants to refocus its failing car industry to build and export expensive (and possibly obsolete) tanks. Then it will use its political power to coerce European border states to buy them (preferably with German loans).

don’t worry. as always, resources will be allocated according to wealth, so those in power will not be bothered by inconvenient consequences, and will be able to stay the course of aiding in the conduct of an illegal war and genocide.

Iran has been very trustworthy lately.

Iran: If you do A I will do B

USrael: *does A*

Iran: *does B*

USrael + Western Media: *surprise pikachu face*

1917 style revolution when?

Never forgive the democrats for letting Trump be the anti-war candidate.

I mean they’re journalists I have been following for a long time, if they’ve been bots al that time (including interviews on radio and in podcasts) that would be quite a long game.

x is shit, musk made it worse, it would be nice if the fediverse could compete on al fronts, but at the moment the only place where these journalists are is on x.

could I wait until they publish their consolidated thoughts somewhere else? yes. would that be mentally healthier? yes. but in these high stress, quick moving moments, unfortunately only x serves that role.

I’m on x to follow the possible start of WWIII. even with al the bullshit, it’s still the best place to follow what is actually happening.

once WWIII is over I will, of course, delete the app again.

Is there a systematic way to identify other Epsteins, based on what we know so far. In hindsight it was pretty obvious what he was doing.

For example go over the n richest people in the world, create a social graph, and look for suspiciously central nodes, where it is unclear how they got their money (or that have suspicious connections to certain agencies).

incredible. after the entire drone innovation weapons race, nets turn out to be most effective.

looking forward to seeing nuclear aircraft carriers equipped with circus-tent sized misquote nets.

some iranian: why do I hear entrance of the gladiator playing from the persian gulf?

if you think this hypothetical through, you would get a situation where everyone has a unique password, that is really random because you don’t want someone else to accidentally get the same one.

in the end, it might actually be more secure than the current system where 30% of all users use Password123!

Let’s get a grand alliance together to stop Putin and his axis of evil, no more p*ssyfooting around. Make Ukraine part of Nato, activate article 5, and unify the fronts. One giant war all the way from the Baltics over Teheran to Taiwan and Korea. That will show him for starting WW3.

my (polemic) statement is based on a visit. it does indeed not look like plattenbau but the new parts do have a strong mcmansion vibe.

the worlds first plattenbau cathedral!

(not a fan of the prefabricated-segments, rather they took another 100 years and did it properly)

Plot twist of the year: Starmer found a spine?

There is a 100% correlation between upcoming french elections and a coordinated media campaign against LFI. It’s always some baseless diffuse bs, that disappeared from the news, the moment the elections are over. I really hope the french electorate doesn’t eat that shit this time.

Russia.

US == two imperialist parties + imperialist media + imperialist oligarchs

Why would the US do imperialism???

Also good question: why are all countries on the US not-nice list so concerned with attaining nukes and not being surrounded by US allies?

It must surely be because they are evil autocracies that hate democracy and human rights (unlike the US which loves both of those things, and would never ever infringe on human rights on an industrial scale, if a (democratically elected or not) government nationalized key resources)

(Sorry I‘m quite frustrated at the prospect of another useless war, and having to eat all the bullshit propaganda that is going to be produced in support of it, while at the same time seeing daily images of indescribable human misery.)