Nah I dunno, Sunak had to call an election within the next few months, and economically this was the best time - just after a slight fall in inflation, which will only go back up again by the end of the summer.

With Marcon here, he’s in a pretty secure position, I don’t believe he needs to call an election within the next few months and he seems to only be doing it to have some sort of “round 2” that he blindly hopes he’ll win. That, to me, reminds me more of Cameron.

Eerily reminiscent of David Cameron calling for a Brexit referendum.

Wow. Meet Your Macher

China’s navy has apparently tested out a hypersonic rail gun — basically a device that uses a series of electromagnets to accelerate a projectile to incredible speeds — but during a demonstration of its power, things didn’t go quite as planned.

As the South China Morning Post reports, the rail gun test lobbed a precision-guided projectile — or smart bomb — nine miles into the stratosphere. But because it apparently didn’t go up as high as it was supposed to, the test was ultimately declared unsuccessful.

This conclusion came after an analysis led by Naval Engineering University professor Lu Junyong, whose team found with the help of AI that even though the winged smart bomb exceeded Mach 5 speeds, it didn’t perform as well as it could have.

This occurred, as Lu’s team found, because the projectile was spinning too fast during its ascent, resulting in an “undesirable tilt.” Gun for Everybody

Successful or not, news of the test is a pretty big deal given that it was just a few months ago that reports emerged about China’s other proposed super-powered rail gun, which is intended to send astronauts on a Boeing 737-size ship into space (NASA had begun building its own astronaut-shooting railgun in the 1990s, but had to abandon it due to lack of dinero.)

As with many space technologies, there’s the propensity for some messy overlap with military tech. As such, news about the smart bomb rail gun test, which for the record did not make it all the way to space, could well freak out officials stateside.

Chinese officials, meanwhile, are paying lip service to the hypersonic rail gun technology’s potential to revolutionize civilian travel by creating even faster railways and consumer space launches, too.

Despite the big promises of politicos, there are still lots of technical kinks that’ll need to be ironed out before a giant rail gun is ready to shoot humans — or weapons — into space, not least of which the spinning and tilt issues demonstrated by the Naval Engineering University researchers in this test.

More on Chinese military tech: China Working on Super-Fast Submarines Powered by Lasers

Mulch + uBlock Origin makes it clean enough.

Still a long, long, looooong way away though.

And mom told Israel to stop and “take the win”.

Just don’t ask the UK for nuclear weapons lol.

The only problem with them braking is trying to find parts, because they’ve stopped producing them. In terms of having to work on them they’re still generally well designed.

Yeah the only real downside is finding parts for them, but they’re proper engineer’s cars.

Context?

Edit: the top reddit comment:

It’s still mind-boggling that the official position from Russia at the time was that they were not involved, and troops were just on vacation. And the wester governments were like hur-dur-dur, I’d like to speak to the manager.

I still don’t get the cubes though.

Might be this one: https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/2/29/israeli-massacre-of-palestinians-waiting-for-gaza-aid-trucks

Also:

Dr Mohamed Salha, interim hospital manager at al-Awda hospital, where many of the dead and injured were taken, told the BBC: “Al-Awda hospital received around 176 injured people…142 of these cases are bullet injuries and the rest are from the stampede and broken limbs in the upper and lower body parts.”

Dead link.

Ah wait, no you have to be logged in to see it. However, the link is horrifically gorey, and breaks the NSFW rule.

I’m not lol I actually support Palestinian people. My criticisms purely lie with the tone of this article - it isn’t news journalism, but an activist’s blog piece.

But given that you seem to want to scarecrow me I doubt you have the intellectual capacity to understand any sort of nuance.

I’ve called out plenty of Ukrainian articles myself also, and with Israeli articles it’s like shooting fish in a barrel. I dig my heels in the sand and call out bullshit wherever I see it, just like I’m calling you out right now.

They could write perfectly balanced articles on everything else, this specific article demonstrates a significant bias. Hell, it ends with an instruction for what Palestinian people should do, basically a call to action for Palestinians in Jordan. A professional, unbiased journalist does not do that.

Very biased article, but an interesting perspective nonetheless.

4th time since January. The Houthis (not the Yemeni government) have been attacking ships in the Red Sea since October/November.

You say that, but he still features on channel 7 (in the first page of the TV guide) on UK TV.

I will not shed a tear on the day he dies. I will just say: “FINALLY!!”

Objectively, the world will be better off. The people closest to him will be better off. He is the worst kind of leech.

If he was to be incarcerated, his net worth should be used to finance the rehabilitation of other, more reputable prisoners. Eg paedophiles.

Russia just so happens not to extradite people to the US.

Assange has always been a bit of a dick, but sometimes being a good journalist requires people to be dicks.

At the same time, some people are Piers Morgan.

I don’t think Assange is Piers Morgan. I think Piers Morgan far more deserves what Assange has experienced so far, let alone whatever may face him in future.

Trump is an evil idiot who was brought up as being a NY tabloid sensationalist. His mum got off on him being on the front page in the rags. So much so, he still dreams of being Times’ Man of the Year, and even faked his own cover page.

That doesn’t mean he hasn’t been in bed with and under direction from Russian crime syndicates, and by proxy the Russian government, since the 1980’s. Both can easily be true.

Just like dictators in Europe can say bad things about Russia while still sucking up in any practical issue that matters. What they say creates some form of plausible deniability, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t moving in tune with their puppet strings.

There certainly is a fair amount of evil in America. There were American leaders who supported Hitler - they even attempted a mini uprising (that failed). Those same branches are trying again right now, but this time they’re following Russia rather than Germany.

The Russian/Red/communist scare is a different thing entirely. That was the US trying to cement global dominance against the rise of socialism and the little people gaining control (which is deeply ironic, given that the US was founded on freedom and people trying to get away from Colonial Britain). However, in this instance, highlighting Russian interference and nefarious actions is absolutely valid and should not be disregarded.