In fact, “computers” were women whose job was to do calculations in the era before electronic computers.

I don’t understand what you’re responding to me for?

A heads up that, in 2026, a 70 year old grandmother could just as well have had a 30-40-50 year career in computing. Don’t use grandmothers as the go to trope for tech illiterate users :)

That’s frankly the least problematic bit of Greece’s relationship to Israel. Together with Cyprus we just signed a military cooperation plan with Israel, which also includes plans for a joint rapid response military unit (1k Greeks, 1k Israelis, 500 Cypriots): https://www.newsweek.com/israel-greece-and-cyprus-formalize-2026-military-cooperation-11277421

We’re also buying Israeli tech for a Greek version of the Iron Dome: https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/foreign-policy/1286337/achilles-shield-defense-program-moving-forward-again/

This all stems from Greek and Cypriot insecurity vis-a-vis Turkish aggression. For us, Turkey is the big threat similarly to how Russia is the big threat to the northerners.

If you watch the tacky little video what he actually says is something like “as our president says, Russia’s borders don’t end anywhere because Russia is in our hearts everywhere”.

More a shitty piece of poetic ethnonationalism than a Hoekstra-like jingoistic attack on our literal sovereignty.

I didn’t call them silly as a person. I called their comment silly. Also, silly is no grave insult.

That’s silly. The effect of one icebreaker is negligible compared to the effect of the …planet’s climate changing.

This is like complaining about the campfire some rangers might light while visiting the site of a wildfire. Sure they might end up burning a few logs, but that’s negligible compared to what they have gone to witness.

We are also not talking about a huge volume of commercial icebreaker traffic consistently and systematically carving up ice floes. It’s one scientific mission.

The idea that a language ends up a lingua franca because of its qualities is simply ridiculous. It’s not linguistics, it’s empire. It’s always empire.

Shameful. We should be opening up our borders to more refugees, not deporting the existing claimants.

That explains a lot.

If they had added “ban Jack Russel Terriers” in that list, some percentage of people polled would have said “sure yea that too”.

This amounts to lowering the bar for those willing to say “if I’m going to be a terrorist then fuck it” and start shooting. It’s irresponsible and dangerous.

Unless this is regulated by some serious international scientific monitoring body, this is just pollution and vandalism.

The US exception for international law must come to an end. They should not be exempt from the ICC and ICJ and the shitload of international treaties they have refused to abide by without incurring significant diplomatic costs any more. American exceptionalism must be done away with.

Sudo vibe coding in Bletchley Park.

John Kerry warned that Israel can be Jewish, large, democratic, pick two. They picked Jewish and large. Now leopards are coming for faces.

Excellent opportunity to remind everyone of this classic of feminist writing: “The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion” - When the Anti-Choice Choose, by Joyce Arthur.

I mean, the point is to become an NDP member to be able to vote in the leadership election.

If you’re disgusted by the shit the liberals are doing help build a properly social-democratic NDP: https://lewisforleader.ca/

I support Greta Thunberg and the other Palestine Action prisoners, I oppose genocide.

Let me be very clear: all military aircraft should be destroyed. All if them. Humanity should demilitarize.