If this guy had shot someone or blown up a building he might not have gotten off either, it's easier to convince a jury not to convict someone for something harmless like posting on substack or whatever
Nice idea but impossible for Ukrainian leadership politically. If they sign a peace deal before there are Russians in Kiev, they'll all be branded traitors and get merced by whatever Azov guys still exist. It's still the correct thing to do if you care about Ukrainian lives, but they clearly don't.
I don't have a subscription either but just reading the intro I'm pretty skeptical
During World War II then, the bombing accuracy was so poor that all bombing was area bombing. No point targets could be attacked directly.
This is totally false. High altitude bombing was indeed inaccurate, but there was a lot of low altitude bombing that was very precise and lethal. I believe the single biggest killer of German tanks in Western Europe were American bombers, carrying out strikes essentially the same way Yemen is hitting Saudi Arabia today but with planes instead of drones.
There is an argument to be made for high altitude strategic bombing being mainly terror bombing, which it often was, but even with a very wide area of impact, if you drop a bunch of bombs on a large manufacturing area you'll do damage eventually.
Carney has the easiest job in the world but he'll probably still manage to suck up to Trump somehow
In this case I don't think US prosecutors would've tried to take this to court in the first place. Part of the reason the US has such a high conviction rate is that the justice system rarely goes after cases that aren't a pretty easy win.
Details of the Greenstein trial, one of the Palestine activists the UK attempted to jail, have been released. The judge appears to have been so comically biased against the 72 year old Jewish man that it pushed the jury to declare him not guilty. The whole article is interesting, but for some highlights:
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The jurors were asked to leave the courtroom quite frequently so that Judge Plaschkes could attempt to impose limits on the defence team, which they consistently managed to get around. Significant context was actively kept from the jury. Large sections of Greenstein’s voluntary police interview transcripts were excluded, and over half of the controversial blog post was omitted from the prosecution’s extracts.
Judge Plaschkes repeatedly halted Greenstein’s evidence when he sought to provide historical context, warning him against treating the court as a “political forum” and claiming the jury was “not concerned with events in the Middle East”.
As Greenstein finished his closing speech, a round of applause broke out across the public gallery.
Before allowing the jury to return with their verdict, Judge Plaschkes addressed the court. She warned the public gallery that anyone unable to remain completely silent when the verdict was delivered would be forced to leave immediately.
The judge also stated that she was initially minded to initiate contempt of court proceedings against Greenstein for raising wider political issues and advising the jury on conscience-based acquittals. She invited the Crown to make a formal contempt complaint, but when Temple-Mabe declined, Judge Plaschkes dropped the matter, remarking that on calm reflection Greenstein’s address amounted only to a rambling speech delivered by an old man. She added her belief that the jury would have reached its decision regardless of his closing remarks. The comment provoked gasps of disapproval across the packed public gallery.
In a guiding memo for the Army published Wednesday, LaNeve argued that “the next war will not look like our last” and that soldiers need to “learn, innovate, and adapt faster by pairing our human ingenuity and judgment with advanced technologies like autonomy and artificial intelligence.”
However, the memo does not mention drones and closes by arguing that “there are timeless truths in war.”
Eventually the UK will just have to enact some kind of law removing the requirement for jury trials in "terrorism" cases if they really want to jail these people. Hopefully Israel will cease to exist before they pass it
Idk if it's just me but I generally still find what I'm looking for easily enough? You have to scroll past the paragraph of AI slop now but it's still not too hard to find stuff generally. The HTML university websites will still come up if you're looking for academic stuff that doesn't exist elsewhere.
Of course there is stuff that you can't search, but it isn't really Google's fault that my private trackers don't show up on their site
Would be interesting if Iran responded militarily to sanctions. Like the US will cry foul of course but what will they actually do?
Guy getting strangled: I can wait this out
The MIC is morally neutral to work for because they don't actually make any weapons! Another win for liberalism
Appears to have already been mostly wiped already, but they didn't change the password from what was listed in the most recent document release so you could just... log in
Password was found by another redditor here, he used the same password for Apple and Outlook apparently
Epstein files reveal FBI subpoenaed 4chan post claiming that Epstein was switched out of prison the night before his death
(thelemmy.club)
Supoena on page 3 of this file
The person posting was Roberto Grijalva, a prison guard working at the prison where Epstein was jailed. His name is listed on page 88 of the above document.
See page 851 of this other pdf with proof of his employment. This apparently did not result in him being fired, as an inmate sued him in 2023 for use of excessive force.
Taken from their new blog post. For context, this is one of the Disco Elysium breakaway studios.
Apparently Elon edited whatever prompt his AI Grok uses to specifically address "white genocide" and the song Kill the Boers, so it now brings them up in random unrelated requests
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