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  • That doesn't make sense. Villagers know perfectly well how to make cheese and the cow is the most expensive part of the process. You add some acid to make the curd, add your starter culture from the sheep stomach, and have that rest for some time in a cool and dark space. After a while start salting it, if you have salt available.

  • Well in this case they don't want people to accurately report on Israeli sites being hit.

    While i understand that in the context of military sites, this should not be relevant in the context of civilian sites. Unless Israel is using its civilian sites as human shields for its military...

  • According to Al Jazeera Ben Gvir also wants people to spy on and denounce neighbors listening to Al Jazeera:

    Ben-Gvir: Anyone watching Al Jazeera should be reported to the police

    Far-right Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir just gave a short statement to the media, which our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic and Al Jazeera Mubasher carried live a few minutes ago.

    In it, he reiterated the government’s stance against allowing Al Jazeera to report from Israel, saying doing so would pose a “threat” to national security.

    He also called for police action against those caught watching Al Jazeera in Israel.

  • Syria gets rid of Assad

    German mainstream politics: "Syria is safe. Deport all the refugees!"

    German doctors union: "We have 5,000 Syrian doctors working in our hospitals. Many rural hospitals will have to shut down without the Syrian doctors."

    German mainstream politics: "Okay, the doctors can stay as long as they are useful to us. The rest must go."

  • Your cousin coming to your home to visit or asking you to live there is very different from him coming to murder you and steal your house and tell the world how he is right to life there and your family trying not to have their house stolen is literal terrorism

  • More like:

    "Should we publish your search results, that text with your affair and have your teenager arrested for his drugs? No? Then come over to the office on Friday at 4 PM and suck our dicks. We mean that literally by the way. Brush your teeth beforehand."

  • It is written "Ramstein". The band has a double m. However it doesn't matter any previous agreements or whatever. If the base is used for illegal activities the hosting country has a right and a duty to stop that illegal activity. Otherwise it is complicit.

  • You should know when it is appropriate to ask and when not:

    Don'ts:

    • complete strangers
    • people who cannot retreat, e.g. cashiers, waiters and the like, on a busy train/bus in an elevator etc.
    • people clearly not in a space to socialize.
    • asking for sex
    • being ambigious about intentions

    Do's:

    • people you held a normal conversation with before
    • in a space where they are comfortable and either party can leave easily if things get awkward
    • being clear about it being a date
    • public place with individual privacy, e.g. going out for a coffee
    • no alcohol or other drugs
  • While Germany formally was against the war in Iraq it allowed the US to facilitate significant parts of its logistics through US bases in Germany. In the subsequent years and continuing today the Ramstein airbase is used as a major relay station for drone control. Drones the US used for thousands of murders all over Africa and Asia in its "fight against terror".

    What is new and worrying is how brazenly Germany now positions itself in defiance of international law and for wars of aggression.

  • No fuel? All you need is something that makes a fire. And it is not like crude oil wasn't know to people back then.

    If the invention had been further explored it is entirely reasonable to assume people could have invented a "practical" steam engine 2.000 years ago. All it would have needed is fixing the steam exhaust and have it drive a shoveled wheel.

  • https://www.nytimes.com/1976/10/09/archives/student-designs-2000-atom-bomb.html

    University physics student designed an atomic bomb to prove that nearly anyone with information now publicly available could do the same thing.

    The student, John A. Phillips, a 21‐year‐old senior, using information obtained from unclassified sources, has prepared a 34‐page report said to contain plans for a crude plutonium device weighing 125 pounds and allegedly carrying a charge one‐third as powerful as the one detonated over Hiroshima in World War II.

    “The point was to show,” he said, “that any undergraduate with a physics background can do it, and therefore that it is reasonable to assume that terrorists could do it, too.”

    Mr. Phillips, who took four months for research and to complete his plans, did not build his bomb, and scientists familiar with his work have refused to evaluate the plans.

    But the New Haven student, whose father is a professor of mechanical engineering at Yale, contends that his academic advisers have assured him that the device is “workable.”

    By the time Mr. Phillips completed his plans, he had concluded that “billions of dollars and years of research are no longer required for the design and construction of a fission bomb,” but that “fanatical dedication to the goal and scientific know‐how are.”

    Mr. Phillips said yesterday while outlining his plans for the bomb, which he contends could be built for $2,000, that he could have designed a more extensive one but that he had limited himself “to the crudest, cheapest and simplest device.”

    “Any other physics major could do this better,” Mr. Phillips asserted. “It was just luck that I got on the right track. I'm really one of the poorest students in the physics department.”

    While i am sure his comments on it costing $2,000 ($11,300 today) are broadly exaggerating, the key point remains. The information needed is really not the obstacle in the process of acquiring a nuclear bomb.

  • The fact that Iran evidently worked together and upheld the JCPOA, when the West was serious about diplomacy. Then Trump came and everyone was like "okay screw diplomacy, lets just keep increasing pressure and hope the country collapses"- Then Israel came and was like "lets bomb the shit out of them to have the West love me again and stop caring about the genocide i am committing." Then the West was like "hurr durr, Israel has the right to defend itself by attacking anyone and everyone whenever it pleases and why is Iran defending itself, how dare they?!"

    When Israel assassinated politician in Iran last year. Iran only replied in a measured way to safe face, but seek deescalation. When Israel bombed Iran, Iran for the longest time did not retaliate and when it retaliated still only targeted spots with little risk of injuring or killing people, again being a "don't tread on me" reaction, without seeking escalation. Now Israel is completely out of their mind and went on to announce and celebrate direct attacks on Civilians, effectively telling Iran, that they are out for annihilating the country.