The ICC and ICJ are two seperate institutions, the ICC is seen as mostly a Western puppet court, while the ICJ is more neutral/multipolar.

Do you disagree?

Samsung Galaxy Note 7, but it’s every smartphone and is in charge of the big red button to blow them up if you say something wrong on twitter

Maybe the last season of the Boondocks wasn’t so unrealistic after all

Yeah but if you want to use the Ukraine war analogy, Hezbollah is not in the position of Russia, who have air supremacy and are the invading force. Hezbollah would be in a more similar position to Ukraine, with little to no air cover and defending their own territory. Hezbollah will not be able to use a similar strategy to Russia because they do not have the same capabilities as Russia.

I think people in general just got more feral post COVID. It’s as if people forgot how to exist in public.

Unfortunately, this kind of stuff is normal among kids at that age. Not washing their hands after using the bathroom, snot everywhere, etc. Pre teens can be vile with their lack of hygiene.

After deciding watch the US presidential debate for some godforsaken reason, I can see why. Trump did his usual nonsense, making up racist myths about immigrants, but people know what to expect from him, he’s been doing this for close to a decade now, no surprises there. You know what you’re getting with Trump. Harris had the opportunity to leave an impression, and she just didn’t. She bombed hard, tried to enter a mudslinging contest with Trump over who is more racist and xenophobic making up her own racist myths about immigrants and Palestinians, and sounded detached from reality, especially on Ukraine, claiming that Russia would invade Poland next, in contrast to Trump’s more “pro peace” solution. Harris’ only solid win was on abortion, and one has to ask if that’s enough to win an election.

I’ll say it again: historically dems have needed the black vote to win and kid killer kamala doesn’t have it.

That’s what happens when they nominate someone who made a career out of prosecuting black people in “California’s top cop” Harris.

Last time this happened during the Hezbollah rocket attack against Israel a few weeks ago, the Israeli Air Force apparently had over 100 fighter planes in Lebanese airspace. Hezbollah desperately needs more advanced air defence systems.

I think it’s why the Israelis detected the missile so late when it was launched against them, and several interceptor missiles failed to hit their targets. Imagine for a second, if this missile had a nuclear warhead, what kind of capabilities that would give Iran.

It’s called the Samson option as far as I know.

The “retaliation” from Iran will probably be acquiring advanced technology from Russia that they do not have a domestic equivalent for, like S400 air defence systems, Su-35 fighter jets, or assistance with nuclear weapons technology. That’s been my guess for a while now. This, in combination with more extensive collaboration with the Yemeni Armed Forces with more advanced weaponry, which has already started with the Palestine-2 missile in my opinion. This is going to be bigger than another retaliatory strike by Iran. It’s about changing the balance of power long term. Working with Yemen on missile technology described here in this white paper PDF is a big deal. Just some excerpts worth taking note of:

• Launch detection by US spaceborne assets – no change versus similar ballistic missile. However, those sensors cannot provide impact point prediction anymore.
• Throughout all the flight phases, up to the impact, there is no way to predict impact point. Moreover, during the initial sustainer burn the final impact point deviations might exceed 100’s of Km. (each delta speed of 1 m/s is equivalent to about 1 Km deviation). The Iranian videos show sets of 3D maneuvers during this phase. This Iranian design might negate some western ballistic missile defense selective engagement strategies.

In short, the missile can manoeuvre and change course in certain stages of flight, there is no way to predict the target after the launch (which was previously possible with previous ballistic missiles).

Some assess that the “Fattah” missile will use a depressed trajectory, so it will limit ground radars and Electrical-Optical (EO) sensors range due to Line of Sight (LOS) geometry.
• High Radar Cross Section (RCS) and EO/Infrared(IR) signature due to the unique configuration, sustainer rocket and heat load.
• Various tracking and Track While Scan (TWS) algorithms might require adaptation to this non-ballistic behavior.
• Pull up maneuver phase – as the Re-entry Vehicle (RV) altitude might reach up to about 15 Km. most sensors (which are not close to the missile this point) might lose LOS to the RV target.
• Pull down maneuver – potential high g maneuvers might challenge tracking elements.

Basically the missiles depressed trajectory and pull up phase takes advantage of the earth’s curvature so that ground radars cannot get a line of sight on the missile

That and Bluetooth headpieces got mocked endlessly during the 2000s. Now everyone is wearing some kind of airpod style earbud with a buit in mic and Snapchating all kinds of pictures.

Ahhh yes back in the 2000s. They also advertised all the weird hotline numbers during the late night advert slots.

That difference between Biden-Trump and Trump-Harris is crazy though.

Israeli military rigged pagers sent to Hezbollah/Lebanese government officials and military with explosives and blew them up. Exact casualty figures are unclear, but it is estimated nearly 3000 people were injured, 200 of those critically, and 8 have died so far.

A large long range attack has been carried out against Russia with what appears to be jet powered Ukrainian drones, against the Russian Toropets Military Base/weapons storage system. This led to a runaway explosion of all the ammunition and military equipment stored there, the explosion was so powerful that it registered 2.8 on the Richter scale, and the resulting fires and smoke were visible from satellites in space. Video of the explosion. It seems as if the “state of the art” military base was not state of the art at all in it’s blast protection systems, and corruption likely played a role in the base not being up to standard. The General that was in charge of the project, ex Deputy Minister of Defense General Dmitry Bulgakov, was arrested on corruption charges this year in July. He was reported to have embezzled over 400 million rubles during the execution of state contracts. So it looks like he just took the money and ran, instead of building a proper weapons and ammunition storage facility.

Dmitry Bulgakov will also be checked for involvement in actions related to the embezzlement of 400 million rubles in the execution of state contracts of Voentorg. On August 1, the head of the JSC “Voentorg” and the beneficiary of the controlled organisations were detained in the case of embezzlement of a particularly large amount of money during the conclusion of state contracts. It was Bulgakov who was in charge of the logistics of the Russian Armed Forces during the period when these embezzlements were committed.

Bulgakov on the Toropets military base in 2018:

According to the deputy defence minister, the implementation of the arsenal construction programme will make it possible to shelter ammunition in concrete and fast-erecting storage facilities of new construction. It will also help eliminate overloading at the existing storage facilities.

Bulgakov added that it will be possible to minimise the possibility of terrorist attacks on the territory of the arsenal and improve the environmental situation in the storage area.

It’s not that people don’t believe men when they come forward, it’s that people believe it’s physically impossible for such an act to happen to a man and that it’s impossible for men to be victims, because men “always want it”. It’s a different struggle to what women face. It’s not harder or easier, it’s different, because traditional/patriarchical gender roles are different between men and women. Anyone trying to make a “competition” out of this, or say that women have it easier, is sick in the head as you said.