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Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb - 9/10 Incredible documentary. A team of local Egyptian archaeologists excavate the oldest and most well preserved tomb in history.

The reporting in media worldwide has been nothing short of mass psychosis though. A NeW rEcoRd!!! KiLleR vIruS BrInGz DeATh!!! Well guess what, it's been going on for over 10 months already; reporting new numbers and spinning endless articles about how long the virus survives on a plastic packaging in the freezer at -18 degrees does absolutely nothing anymore now that it has spread everywhere; other than make people more annoyed and feed into their fears and insecurities.

Alright MUFC.

Finally someone is speaking my language.

I think there is a way of avoiding all that, while also keeping the spread under control - namely, developing affordable, fast, accurate and easy to use tests that would enable people to easily test themselves at home and isolate if infected, thus allowing healthy people to return to normality instead of locking everyone down invariably whenever the number of infections spikes. That way you can have widespread regular testing that is not limited by lack of manpower and lab equipment, catch new infections early before the infected can unknowingly spread it, quarantine only those who are infected, and keep everything open with only limited restrictions.

Seems legit.... You know it's real because you can't tell if Jackson is a man or a woman which is par for the course over there...

I don't think they count the ballots until tomorrow. Texas has had record turnout though, because of all of the early voting opening.

This bloke exposes his wife for cheating during a baby shower.... That's one cold killer serving of revenge https://9gag.com/gag/awBDYyy

Watched that today... Interesting stuff

A recent example from my neck of woods: Headline of the article: "New daily infections record! Situation critical: country's largest hospital running out of beds" Actual situation, if you bother searching for and reading actual official reports: 102 covid patients in the hospital in question, 8 of them in ICU. 415 hospitalised with 35 of them in ICU in the whole bloody country. Important detail: 42% of total beds in ICU and 70% of total oxygen beds in the country still unused. The dumb thing is, the information that actually matters isn't being reported, and you have to look for a while in order to find it. Reporting factual, not emotionally charged information doesn't sell I guess, so let's just spread fear and panic instead by printing sensationalised headlines and then wonder why people go crazy. It seems even the "reputable" (arguably) media sources have reached the bottom of tabloid-level shitpits lately.

Dissidents are purged from the party, their former colleagues are pushed to denounce them, and there reigns a pervasive atmosphere of dread about speaking simple, observable facts. For all the hysteria of Corbynism being Stalinism - it has taken a return to "sensible" politics for a an actual Stalinist mentality to creep into a party which was previously rife with dissent and debate at all levels. There's a valuable lesson to be learned from Biden and Starmer. The centre might be ideologically at sea but their cunning and ruthlessness are not gone. They know that the left cares more about beating the right wing than they do. They can count on the left falling into line when the going gets tough, even when they themselves do not reciprocate. So the next time the left ever gets within an inch of power in any developed country, they will have to be twice as ruthless if they want to make the final step into office. It turns out there are people who would rather sink the ship than let someone else steer it, and if you want to survive you need to throw them overboard at the first opportunity.

Standings after Round 1 of Last Man Standing 2020-21

Terror attack in the inner city district of Vienna, carried out by multiple gunmen in 6 different locations, at least two dead and more critically injured. One assailant shot dead, one arrested, others on the run.

Good thing my wife voted early! Yesterday our local polling place was blocked off by Trump supporters! And judging by the national news... it looks like this was a coordinated attempt at voter suppression all along the country in areas that solidly vote democrat. It looks like domestic terrorism to me, but what do I know I’m just a foreigner. Never in a million years would I think American politics would be anything like what it currently is. I hope back home we manage to hold Tories accountable, because for a while looking at Republicans was a bit like looking at the future of British conservatives. Hopefully enough people see this future and say “nope, this can’t happen here” because the state of American politics is shocking.