One of the Jewish groups at my university just sent a campus wide email about how all the Palestinian groups on campus support terrorism and are making Jewish students feel unsafe. This was directly in response to a statement a Palestinian group made that did, in fact, condemn Hammas, but then said blatantly anti-Semitic things like cutting off water to Gaza was bad, and bombing densely populated areas of Gaza is bad and should be stopped.

When my Lib/Reddit brained colleague went into FULL Russophobia last year, I thought I saw the high water mark of Lib overreaction IRL. But here we are.

opposing genocide is literally genocide

wake up

read news

warcrimes are happening and people are being genocided

brush teeth

go to work

Not the greatest fan of the Resistance Cinematic Universe so far; while Iran Man 2 was a nice showing and Houtheye had that awesome moment when the superhero lands a missile with pinpoint accuracy from 2000 kilometers away, there’s way too much dialogue compared to action. Guess that’s what you get when you don’t have the US military bankrolling you though

i like the phrase “international ghouls-based order”. it’s both a halloween pun and something a Maoist would say

U.S. and European officials have begun quietly talking to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war, according to one current senior U.S. official and one former senior U.S. official.

its so joever ukkkraine bros

Cant wait for the coping “aktually giving away 1/5 of the country to russia is a win because Ruzzia wanted to annex all of ukraine”

Good morning. The Secretary General of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has declared total war on US occupation forces in Iraq. An earthquake is coming.

https://t.me/Eng_ahed/50177

Those hostage posters are legit bait to get people to rip them down and film them doing so

— 🇰🇷/🇰🇵 JUST IN: North Korea will start arming Palestine and Iran-backed resistance axis militias - NIS

The National Intelligence Service of South Korea say they have credible evidence that DPRK Leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his government to begin providing support to the Palestinians.

According to NIS, he has also ordered officials to begin looking into the possibility of weapons shipments to resistance factions militias across the Middle East.

Based

I don’t believe NIS on anything but you can 100% guarantee that I’m spreading this to pro palestine peoples. This is a very strong opportunity to get through to people who are currently ignoring media lies about palestine. They will be willing to re-evaluate their opinion of DPRK if they’re in the mindset of rejecting propaganda. On top of that they’re going to be very happy to have such support from them.

Me, the week after October 7th: Yes, Hamas is terrible and there is no justifying the attack, but Israel is a terrorist state and their uncritical endorsement by the West is criminal to say the least

Me, nearly a month later, completely jokerfied: Inshallah our brave Hamas fighters will bring an end to Israel in righteous jihad

I genuinely think Biden is finished. Look at this poll and tell me which politician represents this opinion

I’ve seen more sound logic from Rand Paul, which I don’t like, then from Bernie.

If you’re wondering why Bernie has been worse than before on this issue.

Ryan Grim speculates it’s because he has the ear of “his friend Joe” and believes that Biden is helping him push stuff for domestic issues. Thus, he doesn’t want to break that relationship.

I’m getting angrier every day

Was made aware today that Israel has been working on a new Merkava model, the Merkava Mk.5 “Barak,” which at a glance seems to best be described by an overconfidence & over-reliance on technology.

Article: https://www.edrmagazine.eu/israel-starts-delivering-the-5th-gen-merkava-barak-tank-to-its-armoured-units

A first major improvement came from sights; the commander got a new panoramic sight while the gunner’s sight is also brand new, Idan Tavor underlining that these are one or even more generation ahead of previous ones. Improvements came in electro-optic performances, which provide better imaging, “but the main step forward is that they have integrated AI into those sight that have now autonomous behaviours, and are capable to identify targets and objects by themselves.”

I seriously doubt that current AI technology is going to be better at identifying targets than a well trained crew working in conjunction with infantry support who can function as additional eyes for the tank (granted Israel’s target acquisition only need be as sophisticated as to be able to determine whether someone is Palestinian or not). Best case scenario, it occasionally manages to pick out threats faster than the crew can, but I imagine the average experience using AI target acquisition is going to sifting though a lot of false positives.

The Fire Control System (FCS) has also been entirely upgraded. “The new version is faster and has better performances,” we were told, adding that the Merkava Barak is able to shoot on the move, day and night, with increased accuracy.

Being able to accurately fire on the move at both day & night has already been standard for most tanks made in the past few decades, so while it is probably an improvement over current FCS systems, I’m willing to bet it’s not significant enough to really be notable.

Human-machine interface has also be completely reviews, adapting it to the young conscripts experience, multi-touchscreens with smartphone-like interface being now adopted. “We worked on it pretty hard for the last two years in order to make it very approachable for young soldiers who are used to their cell phones and playstations and now need to fight in a tank and we developed for them a very nice and new HMI.”

It’s like a vibeo game!!!

But seriously, what’s the obsession with making everything touch screens nowadays? Especially in a military context where you’d think it’d be useful to have tactile controls that can be operated on muscle memory during high stress situations.

There’s probably more stuff to pick apart, but overall it just feels like they’re trying to use technology to compensate for the fact that they’re frequently having to use their tanks in situations that tanks really shouldn’t be used in, namely that they’re being operated by under-trained conscripts to fight in urban guerilla warfare.

it’s so funny how one of the last things Jamal Khashoggi ever wrote was recommending that MBS watch Black Panther. it’s like if George W Bush had ordered Maureen Dowd burned alive for writing a column where she compares him to Austin Powers

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