Future Timeline

Optimistically a cease fire is called and Israel is pressured by the international community to withdraw and agree to an armistice. Realistically Israel bulldozes over the rest of Gaza and pressures Egypt into accepting over a million refugees while civilian casualties sit somewhere in the lower hun...

Israeli rhetoric is making it sound like the IDF is going to invade Lebanon regardless of if Hezbollah attacks or not. https://www.timesofisrael.com/national-security-adviser-indicates-war-against-hezbollah-likely-after-defeat-of-hamas/ National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi indicated on Saturday ...

Israeli forces battle Hamas in southern Gaza as civilians say no place is safe https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/southern-gaza-israel-mounts-fiercest-attacks-so-far-war-against-hamas-2023-12-06/ Israel has invaded Southern Gaza. The border with Egypt is still closed for the vast majority of...

It'll at least be neat to see how people rationalize news of what's essentially defeat when it's all been tales of glorious victories so far. There won't be any rationalizing, people will just believe whatever narrative is being pushed by western media outlets and then augment it with twitter argum...

There is no justifiable reason for Venezuela to annex any part of Guyana. Imperialism is imperialism is imperialism. I worry that this will cause another war where Venezuela foolishly attacks its neighbor and then America swoops in to play world police and invades Venezuela in turn completely destab...

Emissions are still growing unfortunately. I hate to use this term because r/collapse people use it all the time and I don't like being associated with them. But we need to actually change our behavior, Jevon's paradox really does seem to be a rule in capitalist economies. Jevon's paradox is where i...

I just learned that the unemployment rate for autistic people is ~80%. That really speaks volumes to why life has been so hard for me for so long. That 80% statistic isn't reducible to some bad hiring practice or some simple formula that businesses can just apply to remedy the situation. The hardshi...

U.S. Lifts Missile Limits on South Korea June 2021

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2021-06 ... outh-korea

I had the worst bout of insomnia in my life last week. Over the course of 3 days I had around 30 minutes of sleep. My body will fall asleep and then 10 minutes later wake up and force me into a state of alertness that does not let me get tired enough to fall asleep again until another 16 hours passe...