For anyone looking for a traditional news publication.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/01/palestinian-teenager-walid-ahmad-dies-in-israeli-detention-in-west-bank

True true, but if there is genuinely quantum randomness, then the reactions those atoms go through aren’t predetermined, so the initial conditions could be on an individual basis, but not the long term.

I never meant to imply it was. I was simply stating that with a hyper advanced understanding of chemistry it’s possible that everything in the universe could have been predicted up to this point by an infinitely well programmed/powerful computer or whatever. Because in my head, that’s theoretically possible, it’s also possible everything is predetermined, not by some grand scheme or designs, but just predetermined by random chance.

Apologies if I’m using the incorrect phrasing.

I think you can have this same dilemma as an atheist as well. I’m personally agnostic as I don’t have the knowledge to make a decision.

If we are all just atoms moving/reacting, surely everything we’d ever do would be predetermined by the initial reactions/vectors/forces at the big bang. I know there’s quantum randomness and stuff, but it’s possible that’s all calculable and we simply don’t have the means to calculate it. If that’s the case, IMO we still have freewill because we can’t predict the future, and it’s still worthwhile to move forward doing our best to be good people.

You’re right. I should have said “his son” instead.

I literally don’t care about the Hunter pardon. Trump pardoned Russian spies. I think pardoning a child for a dumb drug offence is fine. 🤷‍♂️

After the rumors of South Korea building tanks in eastern Europe, this move do be making sense. I wonder if NATO will ever expand to include Pacific partners?

This is very true after learning about guaifenesin, phenylephrine, and Docusate Sodium.

This looks like the cutscene for the boss fight in a game where you’ve spent the whole time fighting bugs.

Didn’t happen yet. Venezuela is still escalating tensions with force buildups on the border and passing laws claiming the territory, even though they agreed to go through the ICJ to settle the dispute.

Venezuela almost invaded Guyana. If Guyana was a NATO member it never would have been considered.

Based on what happened to Ukraine, I don’t blame any nation for running to NATO as fast as they can.

I googled it. They have energy stored from when they were caterpillars.

Oof. This feels pretty dark.

This is cheaper than two super carriers.

Trump. He tried to overthrow our democracy.

+1

It feels weird to compare Putin to bush given the probable genocide going on. Murdering whole villages, raping babies, shipping kids back to Russia to brainwash them, forcing fake elections to annex territory, purposefully causing international crisis by limiting the export of food, and purposefully blowing up dams. Bush and Putin are incomparable.

Bush and Cheney deserves prison. Putin and his whole government deserve to see the world upside down for a brief time.