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The thing is, the exclusion zone isn’t uniformly radioactive. The hottest spots are not areas that wild life would normally spend a lot of time near.

Then there’s the fact that the way we’re all taught about radiation and cancer is just flat out wrong. The Linear No Threshold model that most people know was actually created by the Rockefeller Foundation in an attempt to slow the adoption of nuclear power.

Combine those two factors, and you get stories like this, where researchers are shocked that higher than average radiation exposure doesn’t equate to a simple linear increase in cancer rate.

Not that these wolves haven’t developed an increased resistance to radiation. But it’s not a new thing. Every living creature on this planet has mechanisms to repair DNA from radiation exposure. These wolves are simply better at it now than generations past.

That something was that they were bought out by a right wing billionaire.

I had forgotten that, mainly because it played such a minor role in the story.

Paul and Oedipus both accept their blindness as an indication that they had always been blind. They did not see that which they should have.

Not seeing was a major part of their fall. When they return to the story later, it’s as a blind man who finally sees, and one who offers words of advice to their child who is about to make the same mistake that they did.

Then much later, Paul comes back as a ghola, but that part was written by Brian Hubert, who is not the best author.

I’d not really link the Matrix films to Classic Greek story structure, especially not Oedipus Rex.

I mean, Neo dies, but it’s the noble sacrifice. They sort of thing is rare in Greek story structure. Rare in the Tragedies.

It fits some of the Heroic epics.

Dune is a Tragedy in three parts. The Tragedy of Paul Atreides.

It is the full story of Paul Atreides, following the Classic story arc.

I always point to the parallels between Dune and the Classic play Oedipus Rex.

Oedipus was born of a family that had sinned and was punished for it by the gods. That was why Apollo issued that prophecy. Oedipus then spends the first part of his story grappling with the questions of Fate vs Free Will.

Oedipus had his rise, and then his fall, and at that fall, he blinded himself and wandered into the wilderness.

Paul and Oedipus. They both were bound by prophecy, and both had very little say in it.

Oedipus’ fall was engineered from the day he was born. Paul’s… was slightly more complex.

A Likud party member who is A-Okay with Nazis…

Continuing the traditions started with the Lehi terrorist organization.

That story is sort of wild, Avraham Stern and Yitzhak Shamir tried for several months to ally themselves with the Nazis, Fascist Italy, or anyone fighting the British in WW2.

They also carried out terrorist attacks and assassinations of anyone who they believed stood in the way of a Jewish ethnostate based on Nazi race science, just with Jews put at the top. This included other Jews who were seen as too friendly with either the British or Arabs.

Stern was killed and Shamir took over Lehi, and was leader for some of the bloodiest attacks on Arabs leading up to the 1948 war. Prompting this open letter.

Skipping ahead a bit to 1983, Shamir became the second Likud PM, and Netanyahu’s mentor. He also issued out the infamous Lehi service medal.

Basic used “else”.

It’s nice. “if”, “then”, and “else”. I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.

But yeah, “else” is nice.

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It is how the League of Nations fell apart.

Italy invaded Ethiopia, and the king of Ethiopia made an impassioned plea to the League. They were the only independent African nation, and were actually members of the League.

The plea was ignored, and Mussolini’s Italy committed war crimes that were easily on par with anything the Nazis did when it came their turn to invade a country, and methed out Nazis had literal baby shooting competitions in Poland.

They aren’t on the same level of fraudulent bullshit, but they’re close.

Fingerprint matching is done “by eye” and often involves an “expert” saying that one smudge is a 100% match for another smudge.

DNA matching is the only forensic science that’s worth a damn, and only if it’s done correctly.

So I forever work on legacy systems.

Not ideal, but there’s quite a bit of job security in it.

I just played through it.

It’s about 5 hours of content. The puzzles are interesting and mostly new.

If you own Portal 2, the mod is free to play.

Nothing has changed since their founding.

The IDF was founded out of three major Zionist terrorist organizations.

I see most of the people in the comments here have older model heat pumps.

Newer model heat pumps are quite a bit better than even ones made 10 years ago.

My dad had one put in two years ago for his garage kitchen, and it’s worked quite well, even in fairly cold temperatures. Most importantly, that heat pump doesn’t have an auxiliary mode, and yet it still works in sub freezing temperatures.

It would work even better if it were ground source, but those are both expensive and require digging up the yard.

The one thing he was at the company to do, was make good games that make good money.

Covering for rapists and threatening to kill employees is bad enough, but I can see a world where that sort of shit is, not forgiven, but swept under the rug.

That world is one where the money flows. It’s not a good world, but it’s one that’s understandable.

But fucking with the games and making shit worse? In a sane world, the Board would take a look at the company and say, no. this guy has to go for all of the above reasons.

That sane world is one where mergers and acquisitions are heavily scrutinized, and Blizzard was not allowed to merge with Activision.

Actual competition in the space means that the CEO has to actually be halfway good at the job, and maybe not a complete psycho. We don’t live in a sane world.

That wouldn’t work on my system.

Typing apt just opens the man page for pacman.

I love the optimism in that report.

This offers an opportunity to distribute and share about US$524 billion among the different parties in the region and promote peace and cooperation among old belligerents, the study notes.

As if finding new raw resources on someone’s land has ever led to peace.

The thing is, Hamas doesn’t actually have much in the way of presence in the West Bank.

All we have is the word of the IDF, because they arrested and disappeared anyone who could argue otherwise. It’s not like they’ve been completely truthful in even the recent past.

Also, we know where Hamas was getting their money. It came in via unmarked suitcases of cash that the IDF allowed through the Gaza checkpoints.

And Israel doesn’t give a fuck about those hostages, IDF forces have flat out murdered a few themselves.

Also, why is Israel bombing the West Bank if they’re just fighting Hamas? That’s the wrong side of the country, unless the goal is ethnic cleansing.

Often the excuse isn’t even “bad guys behind the civilians” it’s “probably bad guys somewhere sort of in the general area, but we didn’t actually check first”.

Oh yeah, then there’s the “old lady trying to drag her dying mother into a church” those are always valid targets, apparently. As is the old lady’s mother before the whole being drug into a church thing.