"See kids, there used to be these incredibly beautiful creatures that flew around in the sky, unworried, peaceful. all shapes and sizes! they delighted humans with their songs and colorful plumage.... "
"What happened to them?"
"Well, a small handful of the wealthiest people on earth decided that maximizing the imaginary numbers on a screen mattered more than all living creatures. So now there are no birds. or amphibians. or coral reefs."
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...suggest a short-range ballistic missile called a Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) was used to bomb a sports hall, school, and residential neighborhood in Lamerd.
The missiles are newly developed and are designed to detonate just above a target and propel small tungsten pellets into the surrounding area.
...The Times reported that munitions experts had analyzed footage of a weapon in flight over a residential area about 900 feet from the sports hall and school, showing the missile erupting “in a large fireball midair.”
Another video showed an explosion in midair just above the sports hall and nearby school, and photos of the aftermath showed the sites with numerous holes, presumably from the tungsten pellets.
...The sports hall in Lamerd was reportedly being used by a children’s volleyball team at the time of the strike; fourth grader Helma Ahmadizadeh and fifth grader Elham Zaeri were among those killed while at volleyball practice, according to an Iran-based journalist, Negin Bagheri.
Zaeri’s father “described her as an avid volleyball player, who would always turn up to the sports hall 20 to 25 minutes early,” the BBC reported.
The outlet also said the youngest victim of the suspected PrSM strike was two years old.
you may not like AI, but you will be paying for it:
this is an old graph. it's only gotten much worse as utility rates around the country have skyrocketed.
pretty sure they're just speculating based on the fact Hawaii is one of the few places medically assisted suicide is codified into law.
sadly, it's almost certainly a genAI photo. outlets don't bother with getting actual photos anymore, it's easier to just fabricate images/perception/reality of an event.
excellent points. just want to help people contextualize here. roughly 3/4 of all that water you're talking about is for industrial scale agriculture. we could almost halve the water usage with restrictions on which crops can or can't be grown.
Irrigated agriculture is responsible for 74% of direct human uses and 52% of overall water consumption. Water consumed for agriculture amounts to three times all other direct uses combined. Cattle feed crops including alfalfa and other grass hays account for 46% of all direct water consumption.
in other words, there's a fuckton of water available for human use... but not enough for humans AND cows. not enough to satiate the endless global demand for cheeseburgers and steaks. our mis management of the water supply is steering the entire southwestern US into a man made disaster with catastrophic knock on effects for global meat consumption. some folks say "cattle ranching made The West. seems fitting that cattle will be it's unmaking.
Epicureanism, in a nutshell
so nice to see rational takes on killdozer.
i still see t-shirts trying to cast him as heroic or edgy or cool when the actual story plays out like a thin skinned entitled piss baby who thought the solution to petty personal grudges was a lone wolf rampage across town.