After attending a Free Palestine protest at Stanford this week, I learned that Gaza is not pronounced "Gah-za" but more like "Heu-za" where the "eu" is pronounced like it would be in French.
On Earth, helium is generated deep underground through the natural radioactive decay of elements such as uranium and thorium. "It takes many, many millennia to make the helium that's here on the Earth," says Sophia Hayes, a chemist at Washington University in St. Louis. The helium seeps up through t...Read more
I think it is informative to remember that in 2014 when Russia took over Crimea, the Ukrainian naval garrison in Sevastopol which was stationed close to the much larger Russian naval garrison in the same city handed over its ships without much of a fight while half of the Ukrainian sailors defected ...Read more
The Ukraine war is often portrayed as Ukraine v. Russia as if all of Ukraine is on one side and all of Russia on the other. But curiously, Russia may have taken in as many as 2-5 million Ukrainian refugees, more than any other country. I also heard that the Ukrainian government harshly denounced n...Read more
If you asked me twenty years ago, I would have said that North Korea was on its last legs and the Kim dynasty cannot last another generation. But lo and behold, Kim III took over a decade ago and began a program of economic reform that actually made North Koreans wealthier and more or less up-to-da...Read more
The latest info from HistoryLegends, Defense Politics Asia, and Sky News all indicate that some sort of general collapse of the Ukrainian front line is happening. Ukraine also appears to be depleting its reserves of men to conscript (how useful are men who are forced into service anyway?). Even if...Read more
When the other side in a debate is making a strong argument that you can't counter, it is easy to mislabel the other side as something else sinister to shut them up, but when you do that, the other side might really become what you didn't want. Two examples from Hong Kong and today with Palestine: ...Read more
If you are an Israeli or pro-Israeli Jew, how do you feel when you encounter a Palestinian whose family lost their land to Israel (perhaps the very land that you live on)?
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These are the requirements to apply for a Schengen visa.
Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of recent on-campus protests, raising the total to approximately ~50. After review, it was determined that fellow coworkers were âphysically disruptedâ and it identified employees who used masks and didnât carry their staff badges to hide their...Read more
Tc 320k If you know, you know what this screenshot means.. Bias towards men đ so as man you suck up but as a women help is available..
Googler asking "what constitutes a child" and accusing coworkers of "blood libel" on corporate forums wrt to the slaughter in Gaza....ladies and gents.... welcome to upside down world.
Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business formation. Does this change the tech industry? đ https://www.ftc.gov/ne...Read more
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I just figured it all out. Iâm a gut person, which lets me intake a ton of information but doesnât give me good recall of that information. It all goes into the gut bank, and I make decisions based on the gut, instead of specific anecdotes or effable logic. This is as opposed to a brain person, who...Read more
As of today, at $171B net worth, ahead of Musk and trailing just Bezos (#2) and Arnault (#1).
Shits wild. There a YouTuber by the name of Dancer that has two videos infiltrating and exploring
âAl-Qassam, you make us proud, take another soldier outâ âWe say justice, you say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the groundâ âHamas, we love you. We support your rockets tooâ https://x.com/mrandyngo/status/1781707821442118121