Hamas raided southern Israel on Oct. 7 last year, killing about 1,200 people, kidnapping about 250 more and spurring a war with Israel. The ensuing fighting left more than 42,000 Palestinians dead, according to health officials in the Hamas-run territory, who don’t distinguish between combatants and civilians.

The closing paragraph really gives the game away, but can’t expect any better from The Economist:

In the process, the West has been abandoning its commitment to a bottom-up, market-based approach to setting technical standards.

So in the process of being spooked by China, the world’s largest manufacturer of electronics, having some influence on standards, the West refers to letting the biggest pile of capital set standards for profit as a ‘bottom-up approach’.

“We are being forced to undermine a system that has been very effective and that we have profited from for a long time,” laments Mr Rühlig. In more ways than one, China is making the West play by its rules.

China now being more capable at playing the same game they been playing for decades is framed as a terrible injustice. They are crying that they used to be able to set standards that relied on privately owned intellectual property that generated easy profits for years or even decades.

I hope the Chinese told them they could just stop enabling a genocide. That is the correct answer to this situation.

The zionist prez that said being the strategic leader of this escalation is really something.

An officer then allegedly pulled a sealed emergency release button that shut the MRI machine down, deactivating it, evaporating thousands of liters of helium gas and damaging the machine in the process. The officer then grabbed his rifle and left the room, leaving behind a magazine filled with bullets on the office floor, according to the lawsuit.

I just realized their native built sniper rifles are only single shot bolt action. I kept wondering why they were handling loose ammo in these videos, but now that totally makes sense. They don’t have magazines. I thought it was just cool sniper theatrics, but it’s actually quite utilitarian.

Every on-call employee should now get additional hazard pay until all devices have been throughly screened for explosives.

I was wondering how quickly into the article there would be fascist dog-whistling about invading Kursk. 2nd paragraph.

“I felt myself a part of history, because it was the first time since the Second World War Russia’s been invaded,” Sergei, the flaxen-haired trooper, told POLITICO
“I had the most powerful feeling,” he said.

‘Murder on Canvas’ would be the perfect name for their art show.

Is this harm reduction?

The debate is just going to be her and Don trying to out-fascist each other, isn’t it?

I will create a final solution to the Border Problem.

I made the whole Border Problem discourse the core of my platform, how dare you say you will deal with it. Only I can fix it through state violence.

I’m a cop, who do you think is better at facilitating state violence to solve problems?

If Don still has a working brain, he might be able to pull off the same inversion that he did with Hillary, making him seem to be the pro-peace and reconciliation candidate, but I won’t hold my breath on that one.

Your boundary is at hue 174, just like the population median. You’re a true neutral.

Is this the new method to determine Alignments? Maybe Orange <-> Yellow for the other axis?

Seizing the foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of for criminal matters.

We’re sending a clear message here that no one is above the law

So JB is going to star as the snake, right? Giving KG the squeeze was just him working on his method.

They will just keep running out of expensive interceptor missiles and have to flee again soon enough. That definitely qualifies as defeat in a military sense.

German (and British) tanks are in Kursk again!

Nevermind that most of them are already getting toasted

“kinda goes against the spirit of gaming industry ethics” lmao what a bunch of dorks (no mention of any statements from Valve though)

Gamergate 2: Deadlock Bugaboo

first as tragedy, then as farce

TIL Paul Giamatti is going to be a recurring guest star. Hype just went warp speed for me.