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With the be Agree. Media was probably even worse in the past. What we have though is the benefit of the hindsight and the work of historians, who work to fill the gaps and find the lies. I mean, in the 1890s New York media barons such as Pulitzer and Hearst published a barrage of lies in their newspapers regarding Cuba in order to push US involvement in the Spanish-Cuban war and increase the sale of newspapers.

Unless you are in the Crimean war leading the charge of the Light Brigade I can't think of any fucking reason to draw swords on each other in the middle of the day...

Interesting tactic from Ohio on driving uptake of vaccination. Will surely get some sceptics out to the vaccination centres.

Honestly, I just don´t see how Israel can have a normal relationship with its non-jewish population. The idea of a jewish state in itself is in contradiction with a liberal, non-confessional and multiethnic state. There are good reasons, obviously, that led to its foundation, I´m not going to deny it. But the concept of Israel in my opinion is always going to involve a degree of "jewish supremacy" in its internal borders. The basic problem since its territorial expansion in 1967 remains: they need that territorial expansion in order to avoid being pushed to the sea by a second Nasser, but at the same time they treat the native population of these territories as colonized not as citizens. This, on its turn, estimulates the anti-israeli feelings in the region and we end up falling in a non-ending circle of hostility. I wish there was an easy fix and the two-state solution came into fruition, but I doubt it´ll happen in my lifetime.

I agree with you that neither of them are good guys for what they're doing to innocent people. But I do think it's a bit fucked up when the side that's got access to the most advanced military tech in the world blows up things like schools and residential buildings in Gaza, they hide behind "well they're launching missiles from civilian areas." Yeah, no shit they're launching missiles from civilian areas. It's Gaza. There are a lot of people living in a very small area (360 square kilometres, for 1.1 million people to live in). They don't have non-civilian areas to mount operations on and from the perspective of the Palestinian refugees living there - they've been civilians that have been deemed fair targets by Israel for so many years. I think it was stupid of Hamas to fire missiles at a time where Western media has probably been the most sympathetic to the Palestinians it's ever been in my lifetime. I think them doing launching rockets, which might be understandable for typical Middle Eastern relations, does not do much to spread their message of: "End Israel's Apartheid!" Because it's hard to get people to back you when you seem to not give a shit about whether or not civilians get killed (unless you buy weapons from the US, UK and EU - then the West will usually turn a blind eye to your civilian killing). It's fucked up to say this, but I think in order for Palestinians to get justice... they have to market themselves to the mainstream western media consumer, in a way that makes them look sympathetic and not scary. Because seeing bearded men praising Allah firing rockets into residential neighborhoods isn't sympathetic to the cause of them ending the shitty treatment they get on a daily basis from Israel. At the end of the day, non-bigots - both Arab and Jew in Israel/Palestine (and Christian, Palestinian Christians are often forgotten, and face discrimination from BOTH sides as well - but can also be guilty of discrimination themselves; the Middle East is truly wonderful in terms of how many different people can abuse each other) are the biggest victims of all this.

Should be entering the Martian atmosphere now hopefully more details from the official sources in the next hour...

Ford v Ferrari (2019) Well that was entertaining. Christian Bale is one of my favourite actors, so seeing him portraying a racing driver was really special. And the movie was really entertaining. The racing scenes were beautiful, and it had some absolutely awesome shots of beautiful cars. I don't know how close the movie is to the true story, but a quick Wikipedia read told me most of it was kind of true. One of the best motor racing movies I've ever seen. 8.5/10

Should be about 4-5 hours away from landing now...

Breaking News: Le Mans cancelled.

Fine. Fuck F1, I'll just buy Le Mans tickets next

If @nudge would stop buying F1 tickets this pandemic would be over.

That was in Morecambe rather than Blackburn. It's not too far from me and someone I know lives in that area. It's honestly nothing new anymore though unfortunately. https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/crime/two-men-to-face-crown-court-over-alleged-bloodbath-machete-street-fight-in-morecambe-3232532

Unfortunately, there is no shock factor to these videos anymore because they appear daily in our society. It seems imperative for the young generation to carry knives and blades of all sorts and people are dying, especially young teens, left, right and centre every week as a result. I don't know what the answer is anymore. The sad thing about it is, it makes you wonder about bringing kids up in this world when they are exposed to this.

Excellent series. If you've never played it before and its pretty cheap I'd go get it.

Yea, quite excited about this. Andreas Pietschmann who played the stranger in Dark is in it too. We have a topic for it already btw: nudge has been an early promoter of this show.

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/everything-we-know-about-netflixs-1899-from-dark-creators/ @Tommy you might like this although I'd imagine you already know.

I don't think there's anything not homophobic about being straight and not wanting to fuck another man I'm also not homophobic and don't fancy shagging him on account of not being gay. Sorry to burst any bubbles @UNIQUE

Because, A) I could infect others who might not be young and fit. B) Who knows if I have any underlying health issues that I don't even know about? C) There have been many young fit people who had severe courses of a Covid infection.

You'd be wrong, I think. Taking a look at some papers from the 1920s and 1930s and it's full of misinformation that was deliberately made to not give people accurate news. Whereas nowadays we live in in an era where literally all of the information in the world (and all of the disinformation in the world) is available at our fingertips. If something sounds bullshit to you, you can go look into whether it is bullshit. The worst thing you can do with getting news nowadays is just "picking one" source of information. One source is more likely to misinform and have you believing in something that is total bullshit. The second worst thing you can do is automatically not trust anything you hear because "you can't trust anything." If you want accurate news, you've just got to go out and get it. But I think getting good news has never been particularly easy. Granted, it was easier to trust mainstream news when the BBC was still funded decently and before Tories decided they'd be better off if our state media was absolute rubbish. I remember when Al Jazeera started taking all of the BBC's good journalists. Now I'm not even sure the BBC has good journalists anymore - well done Tories, sending British jobs to Qatar

News has always been biased and been written to push a particular slant - that has never been new. It's written by people, after all People need to get better at thinking critically about the news they see, read, and hear... because as there's been a greater access to information/disinformation, people have stopped thinking about the sources of information they get. And that's how you end up with people getting their "news" from idiots just making shit up on YouTube.

Got in from work tonight and this had been delivered. That I forgot about. I ordered whilst pissed on my 30th at my second home (private snooker room). As to why I ordered it and how it came up in conversation when I thought it would be funny is a whole other story. What a cunt I truly am. Will someone just ban me now

Went to the animal park & aquarium today. Some pics:

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much official coverage from China... According to numerous radio astronomers though, the landing tonight is very likely as judging from the loss of signal, it appears the spacecraft is preparing for the first landing maneuver.