I honestly think some particpants think this thing might do some good for Gaza...in which case, they're deluding themselves. The initial presentation suggest there is no place for the Gazans in Trumpified Gaza.

And none delude themselves more than Tony Blair. What a pathetic joke he's become.

I can't possibly imagine having this kind of blind faith in any human, even fictional ones.

(Fictional Vulcans, maybe...🖖)

If Nazis were also zombies...

Thanks, I did not know this. I still think that a lot of EU member states are going to want military cooperation outside of the EU governance structure, so there'll still eventually be some sort of NATO-ex-the-US built with this as a part, and that will also allow the UK and Canada to participate.

...anti-public-health (and anti-science in general) policies this administration has put into place, the toll from the next pandemic in the US is going to make even the most extreme predictions of what would have happened with COVID if the "let it rip..." advocated had gotten their way look tame.

What a nauseating farce.

If you wanted to argue WHO needs reform, sure, there's a point there. But the US will have no ability to reform it from outside.

And the quip about "Wuhan, China" is just childish. The next pandemic could come from anywhere, even the US.

Between this and the other...

I didn't look at the header when I first started reading this and thought it was a real statement by the puppy-killer or boingboing or one of the other Trumpy nutbars for a second.

I admit that's a problem, but I'm not sure using the EU logo is correct at all - it's not a military alliance - and although a lot of the leadership wants it to become one, many member states are hesitant about that idea.

I won't be happy until the mayor and the chief of police are both investigated and, if they ordered this, they are prosecuted and jailed.

Need to change the defender's helmet, the UK and Canada back Greenland too...it's not just the EU members and certainly not the EU as an organization.

Other than that, spot on.

Excellent piece by Corry Doctorow on AI, why the bubble will break, and how to mitigate the damage.

(Only quibble: the analogy to Margaret Thatcher's "there is no alternative" doesn't work - Doctorow paints "TINA" as a call for passive acceptance, which isn't the context Thatcher used it in.)

And a horrible businessman too. O'Leary heard his pitch for Starlink and said "our flights are too short and our price-sensitive customers won't buy it and the antennas increase fuel burn...so no, your product isn't for us."

And Musk couldn't accept "no" because of his infantile ego.

Insane.

It dares to paint one of the Founding Fathers in less than a saintly light, and to a lot of the cult of the Founders that's "disparaging" the US.

Oh, the VC-10...second only to Concorde on my list of planes I never got to fly on but wish I had been able to. An epically beautiful bird.

They don't do "satire" well. Or nuance, or subtlity, or...well, any sort of thinking, really.

Texas' grid issues are Texas-made, not Federal-they have the Texas Interconnection specifically to avoid Federal regulation.

That said, Cruz has never used his position to try to get the Texas grid and ERCOT improved or to help consitutients. He just runs away and leaves them (and poor Snowflake).

And here I thought no one would ever get me to root for Jamie Dimon...