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According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history. How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing. Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs. An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians. For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated. It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings. By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do. So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951. How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it. At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform. It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

If you like, keep listening to losers on Twitter feeding you flowery nonsense that you’re “doing enough.” Don’t push yourself. Stay comfortable. Just don’t act surprised when the gap between you and your peers gets wider.

I want to share some tips on how to increase your chances of getting your visas approved. This is for African founders and entrepreneurs (especially Nigerians) who understand the value of global access and the dead weight that the green. If you are in the “Must everyone travel class? This is not for you.

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I was watching a podcast the other day where the South African host interviewing a Zimbabwean guest found out to his surprise that Zimbabweans also say "futsek/voetsek" as an angry exclamation, like South Africans do. The guest had to remind him him, "We had the same colonisers." I found it desperately upsetting that these 2 cousins living literally right next door to each other, who both come from the same wider ethnic group have somehow become complete strangers to each other because a 19th century English paedophile called Cecil Rhodes drew an imaginary line in the sand one day and called everything to the north "Rhodesia" and everything to the South "South Africa". And because of that, Thabo and Tanaka are now strangers to the point where they no longer know even the most basic things about each other anymore. It's like someone came to your house, stole all your shit, kidnapped some of your family members, and trafficked them into slavery, but that wasn't enough. He then built a wall dividing your house into different parts and placed you and your remaining siblings on different sides of the wall so that while you know that your siblings are alive and nearby, you're also never allowed to see or speak to them again. And then over the decades as you remain confined in this arrangement and you have your own kids, these cousins grow up never having known their cousins on the other side of the wall. It's the sort of unspeakable cruelty that only a European could ever be capable of, and it says something very unflattering about Africans that rather than destroy this wall and expunge it from our consciousness, many of us rather choose to continue being socially engineered by long-dead 19th century European paedophiles, maintaining this completely weird, illogical and bizarre psychological distance from people who are LITERALLY OUR CLOSEST LIVING RELATIVES. Imagine someone from Burundi being a "foreigner" in Kenya? Or someone from Zimbabwe being "kwerekwere" in what used to be his own ancestral land until a white guy stole it and named it "South Africa". JFC it's equal parts infuriating and upsetting!

Pipita @mcpipita

3 weeks ago

USA is a whole continent, UK and Europe are a whole continent via Schengen visa. Africa on the other hand is 52 districts of people thinking others are foreigners.

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Don't fucking talk to me about antisemitism anymore.

Adi Alardah @alardah91

3 weeks ago

IDF soldiers tell a young Palestinian man to continue on his way, then shoot him from a distance and kill him. A cold-blooded field execution. This is not a state, but a terrorist organization.

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I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

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OpenAI @OpenAI

3 weeks ago

We’re sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of the deepest problems at the frontier of mathematics. The proof was produced by a group of agents, using an OpenAI next-generation model significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra. The problem

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- Iran Air #Flight655 was shot down by a missile fired from the Vincennes of the US Navy over the #PersianGulf on July 3, 1988, killing all its 290 passengers, 66 children. In a clear insult to Iranian nation, US officials awarded the captain of the US warship the Legion of Merit

once in a while, hackernews just throws some sentences at you that make you sit in silence for some minutes.

Incase you've seen this and wondering what's going on Let me explain like you're 10 Imagine you have 21 What 2 numbers can be multiplied together to give 21? 7 x 3 = 21 .... That means the number is factored. So, in 1991 the RSA laboratory started a challenge...

penlu @penlume

3 weeks ago

4397328654844826923795068102505872571721883526553349659561256924505973939597593482272505698004801207988043088656411102133523080581 divides RSA-260

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There’s a version of Lionel Messi that was like god and it’s not even the version that scored 91 goals. 18/19 Messi was touching levels beyond anything I’ve seen. He moved like a greek god I actually thought he was Zeus until Olympus fell at Anfield.

Lionel Messi just dropped this on IG. It looks like he is bragging but I promise you everything on the receipt is true. What is this flex. 😭❤️

PÓKER DE LEO MESSI!🃏4️⃣

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HOW TO RAISE SIBLINGS WHO ACTUALLY LIKE EACH OTHER. By age, from a mother who grew up in a rivalry and refused to host one: 1. Ages 3 to 6:

Meet Barrister Rodiyah Omotoyosi Mikhail, Nigeria's first known lawyer to wear a niqab while practising law.

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THE MOST EPIC WORLD CUP FINAL EVER.

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