Thanh Hóa Bridge

Once called the most bombed bridge in history, a particular white whale of the us command

873 air sorties were expended against the bridge and it was hit by hundreds of bombs and missiles before finally being destroyed. It became something of a symbol of resistance for the North Vietnamese, and various legends of invincibility were attached to it. For the US planners it became an obsession, and many raids were planned against it despite their unpopularity with the pilots

Also coincidentally it was the first big target/use case for precision guided munitions apparently

Eswatini-flagged

Kind of funny to have a tanker sailing under the flag of a landlocked country

There are two people in the current administration that have received a Stone Cold Stunner, which is two more than every other administration combined

This really is a return to old form colonialism, damn. Haven't heard that excuse since like before ww1

This was definitely my first thought, even if this was true it's the genocidaires fault for starving them in the first place.

Also, just for comparison: Paris was under siege for four months between 1870-71. The people of Paris famously ate most of the animals in the zoo. Usually it gets told as sort of a regrettable but necessary act of plucky determination.

CW: eating zoo animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castor_and_Pollux_(elephants)

Beloved by whom?!

I have a buddy that works for a large multinational corporation, whose job is not coding. In his spare time, to make his own job easier, he started learning about how to work with a data base containing information from literally millions of clients. After like a month, his employer learned this and then refused to renew the contract for the external data management contractors who were maintaining it. They gave him the keys to the kingdom and said good luck. Fortunately it was humming along ok and he was able to pass the buck after a few months without any incident. Apparently the only reason he was removed from access was that he would have had to take some sort of qualification exam to get certified to handle personal information, and his employer didn't want to pay him more.

In short: a fortune 500 company gave unlimited access to their entire customer records to a guy who had never been taught anything about coding except by youtube on his lunch breaks.

I for one am excited to find out

This is exactly what the US did with covid vaccines! I can't remember what the excuse was, but the US cancelled a shipment of vaccines to Bangladesh for some political bullshit

The only place on earth that Venus Flytraps grow naturally is within a narrow range along the coast of the southern US. They aren't from the Amazon, or Borneo, or any place exotic like a rain forest. They only grow in a bare sandy patch of geography about an hour north of Myrtle Beach

The lack of any scrutiny on the timeline of these stories of abuse by ICE is driving me up the wall. Like every other one admits up top that it's been going on since before the election and it's never centered or really pointed out