naturalgasbad @ naturalgasbad @lemmy.ca

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Their extraction route was through Ukraine to Afghanistan. This is rather publicly acknowledged.

It's a video. The video deserves to be evaluated on it's own merits (or lack thereof).

The "evidence" picked up by Western news agencies doesn't really hold water. I spent some effort debunking it in another comment: these are some really unradicalized radical Islamic extremists.

These are the least radicalized radical Islamic terrorists in living memory.

1. They didn't seek to become martyrs, but instead ran away (with a well-planned extraction plan, as far as we can tell) instead of maximizing casualties
2. They hid their faces instead of proudly declaring their martyrdom
3. No screaming of Allah, no mention of Allah, no "God is great", nothing
4. Video shows the terrorists doing Shahada with their left index finger (which goes against the teachings of Muhammad)

‘Abdullah b. Zubair narrated on the authority of his father that when the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sat for supplication, i. e. tashahhud (blessing and supplication), he placed his right hand on his right thigh and his left hand on his left thigh, and pointed with his forefinger, and placed his thumb on his (milddle) finger, and covered his knee with the palm of his left hand..

In fact, the controversy surrounding the issue AFAIK is relating to when the finger should be raised and whether you should be allowed to move the finger during the prayer, not which hand (which has been established).

The wildest detail is ISIS' track record.

The largest attacks committed by ISIS recently (that aren't in Africa/Afghanistan, where ISIS is actively operating) have been: Pakistan, Iran, Russia.

Not exactly the US' friends. Meanwhile, Israel, which is literally committing a genocide against a Muslim population and desecrating the third holiest site in Islam, remains almost untouched. In fact, ISIS apologized when they accidentally attacked Israel in the Golan Heights.

The attackers are supposedly Tajik. USD5418 is at least 2 years of work there.

A home-grown coalition of 11 perpetrators, working in concert, with access to weapons and explosives, and who were paid by an unknown benefactor?

Frankly, the most ideologically inconsistent part of this attack is that the attackers ran away instead of dying and being martyred. That's not in line with ISIS and much more in line with self-radicalized individuals such as in the Boston Marathon bombings.

The man says that before committing Friday’s atrocity, he had been to Türkiye. When asked what he did at the Crocus City concert venue on Friday evening, he replied: “I shot down... people.” The suspect added that he had committed the crime “for money,” detailing that he had been promised 500,000 rubles ($5,418).

The alleged perpetrator claimed that half the sum had already been transferred to his debit card.

The man also said that the curators, whom he supposedly does not know personally, had contacted him via Telegram messaging app, and arranged an arms cache for the assailants.

The man describes how an acquaintance who he'd befriended on Telegram “ten to twelve days ago” had purchased a car, presumably with a view to using it as a taxi.

ISIL posted a photo on one of its Telegram channels on Saturday claiming to show the four men who launched the attack. The group said the attack was part of ISIL’s “raging war” on countries fighting Islam.

Interesting that the Islamic State completely ignores Israel, given that Israel is in the process of digging tunnels under and denying Muslims access to the third most holy site in all of Islam...

Your report claims US gas-fired generation decreased in 2023. It is wrong, and I've described why. Your interpretation is even more misleading.

Just like how capitalism is a spectrum (in that, y'know, the US does not have purely free market capitalism but is still widely considered a capitalist state), socialism is also a spectrum. Marx and Engel's writings do touch on this, but it was expanded on by the works of Lenin and Deng Xiaoping (among others). If you're actually willing to learn, I'd recommend asking on hexbear.net because they're much more familiar with the literature than me.

I don't think you understand socialism tbh

The US numbers are a fucking joke. All the US is doing is replacing coal with natural gas, moving electricity for export, and reporting domestic consumption numbers that completely ignore the blend of input resources.

US natural gas electricity generation skyrocketed from 1687TWh to 1802TWh (+6.8%) from 2022 to 2023: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=table_1_01

This matches with the 6.8% increase in natural gas consumption for electricity generation from 2022 to 2023: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.php?t=table_2_04_a

Through accounting hacks, the US is able to claim that the vast majority of its consumption is actually not from the natural gas it's burning at obscene quantities to replace coal, but from renewables (and to please ignore skyrocketing energy export numbers).

This is, mind you, with the consideration that natural gas is methane, that natural gas leaks into the atmosphere, and methane is something like a 85x more potent greenhouse has over a 20-year time frame. This switch from coal to gas has been rather recent, and so it's expected that we should start seeing the effects of these short-term GHG emissions aroundabout... Today?

If the company is public, it could be argued that any optimization that isn't towards short-term profits is harmful to the shareholders and can be used to unseat the relevant executive

Not suspicious at all

ISIS has claimed responsibility

Odd how ISIS attacks are almost perfectly aligned with American geopolitical interests, huh?

Meanwhile...

As electric vehicle sales slow, US relaxes plans for stricter auto emissions standards for a while

EV Sales Pace Is Running Short Of Power Going Into 2024

Maybe the US should take notes on China's monstrous EV transition?

Al Jazeera with brilliant journalism as always.

Imagine complaining about the build quality of Chinese apartments when your reference point is... American ones.

No sheathing, drywall on inner walls, barely any insulation, plywood only for the minimum necessary to guarantee wind stability... Pot calling the kettle black, really. You can literally run through walls of new builds in the US.

China builds housing for the market. While quality might be high in tier 1, 2 and even tier 3 cities, that's not going to be as true for tier 4 cities that are designed to absorb the massive rural-to-urban migration of poor farmers... The market doesn't demand it. You're kidding yourself if you think even the shoddiest constructed apartment isn't better than the average rural home which not only lacks building codes but lacks modern materials.

By locking up the rich, seizing their wealth, and using SOEs to take over incomplete projects for pennies.