POTUS declaring that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed for the foreseeable future, just bas the unavoidable consequences of it having already been closed for several months begin to be undeniable.
This is farther inside Russia, and farther from Ukraine, than Moscow. Twice as far.
Cheboksary's 1550 km from Kyiv.
Moscow's 750 km from Kyiv.
4 years, 4 months into the 3-day Special Military Operation, & Ukraine is cruising missiles unopposed farther behind their lines than NYC is from Chicago.
Now he's been named, Sky News have the attacker's name on their screen in a giant yellow sidebar. It's not moving, been there for at least the last 5 minutes.
I can guarantee Sky News will not do this for a single person involved in burning people out of their homes when their names are known
Iron Spike
Dave Andress
Lee Hurley
It sounds fake but Jess Phillips sincerely believes that every tech company has a big spreadsheet with every user's true date of birth.
She also thinks the CEO's desk has a big red button labelled "END CSAM" next to another big red button labelled "HIDE OTHER BUTTON FROM UK GOVERNMENT".
I'm thinking "Israeli ceasefire" might join "Mexican standoff" in the great book of eponyms...
People really, really refuse to understand that half of all children died in their pre-industrial utopia. They just, helplessly, died. Modern medicine, sanitation and regulation have saved literally billions from that fate.
This stuff actually, really, matters. People have become POWERFUL by ridiculing the gentle experiments of academic culture, the parts where people poke around with odd ideas, and say things that don't sound like common sense. Things that would often just fade away if they weren't condemned.
If only there were some way of knowing who started it...
And those powerful people take those "Haha, aren't they silly" digs, and plant them at the heart of a movement which is actually, literally, at this very moment, actively censoring what can be TAUGHT IN UNIVERSITIES.
