In my experience, it doesn’t need to be a nice breakfast. It just needs to be something.

At some point, the bones under the rubble in Gaza will be recovered. I wouldn’t be surprised if we then discover that the 60k figure is multiplied by a bit.

Going vegan is tough, because you have to relearn everything you know about food. A “normal” meal has a (high-carb/low-protein)+(low-carb+high-protein) pattern, let’s say meat and potatoes. With that template, you absolutely can not just swap out meat and replace it with something vegetarian. No vegetable- or fungus-based food, no matter how processed, comes close in terms of protein content to meat.

You essentially need to change the entire template. That means you’re also replacing your high-carb/low-protein foods with more “medium” foods like lentils.

That’s the best advice I can give, and you absolutely do not have to go all in. Replace a small portion of your rice with some green lentils. Replace a small portion of your meat with kidney beans. Goes a long way.

Dude chickens are the best. Some of them can be wicked smart too. I miss mine.

And I highly recommend sharpening your knives with a sharpening stone or whetstone. It makes such a huge difference to how fun it is to be in the kitchen.

Everyone should try going vegan. You don’t have to stay a vegan forever. You don’t have to preach to others. You don’t have to do it for animal welfare or the environment or anything other than you.

But you should try it. For you.

“The workers” have absolutely no avenue for change with the CIA and Mossad constantly looking for an opening to balkanize Iran. Not through reform, not through revolution.

As bad as the Islamic Republic is, it is not comparable to what happened in Iraq and Syra after those states failed. Millions of people died, many more were displaced. And for what? Hardly for worker’s rights.

Don’t leftwash imperialism. You want to show solidarity with the Iranian people, then let them fucking cook instead of making excuses for coup attempts and terrorism.

I’ve got to say these numbers do seem pretty unbelievable. It’s at least 10x the number of casualties compared to previous protests, in a much shorter span of time.

Of course it’s difficult to assess the damage when communications are so sparse, but at least so for my family in Tehran and elsewhere have not indicated in any way that mass shootings were taking place. 15k dead would imply extensive use of live ammo. This would have been heard.

That being said, my guess is that this crackdown was indeed more violent than it has been on previous occasions, simply because the US was lined up to bomb if it had looked like the government was losing control. So they had really strong incentives to repress extraordinarily hard. 15k is still a very tall order.

I should have clarified. Israel used drones smuggled in by agents, and remote-controlled using the internet, to disable air defenses and infrastructure in the first stage of their attack.

Carney’s speech was epic. He stuttered a bit, but the way it was written at the moment that it was delivered, I believe, will go down in history. I don’t know much about him as a politician overall, but the sentiment he expressed is one that is shared throughout Europe and surely much of the industrialized world.

If we’re going to establish a truly rules-based world order, we need to back up our words with actions, and force if necessary. We do hold imperialist and expansionist actors accountable, with force if necessary.

The issue of weapons of mass destruction is huge and hardly something we will solve here. But briefly: nobody should have weapons of mass destruction. We should have a situation where a supranational body ensures that weapons of mass destruction do not exist, similar to the IAEA but one that is compulsory. Yes it sucks that Ukraine and Libya were invaded, and I agree that it likely wouldn’t have happened if it could have devolved into the entire planet being destroyed. But the stakes of weapons of mass destruction is way to high. This is not how we ensure peace, an inch from the abyss, terrified to move lest we all slip and fall. We need something more robust and less based on the ensured destruction of the planet.

I don’t know about Mélenchon but years after the fact I still read a lot of similar slander on the Swedish left. They literally were just in disagreement about how weapons exports should be made possible without breaking existing Swedish legislation, and the issue was addressed in 24 hours, but people still bring up that incident as “the Swedish far left blocked help for Ukraine”.

No, actually. Might does not make right. It is also not always the most efficient way to get what you want.

I’m not saying that force is never necessary in a chaotic world. Violence is often necessary and justified to protect ourselves and others. But violence is not “right” by virtue of being to most forceful, ruthless or effective. What’s right lives on a completely different axis from what can be taken.

The rules-based world order was imperfect, it was often hypocritical, but it wasn’t a straight-up lie. It reigned in a lot of chaos, and it gave us the best years of human civilization. Had the project succeeded, it could have removed weapons of mass destruction and shrunk armies around the world, eradicated hunger and diseases, and no doubt it could have fixed the climate crisis too. It did accomplish many of the things it set out to do. But it was sidelined, betrayed, by complacency and a belief that the dominoes would fall into place without any need for further effort or sacrifice.

I still believe. Fuck the UN. We need to build a new UN with blackjack and hookers, get some real environmental protections on the ground, round up capital, and progressively get rid of weapons. It can still be done.

What the shit is up with the forced tracking cookies on this site?

The aim is to prevent as many images and news as possible from reaching the public, which is why the Iranian government is blocking communication network.

No. The aim is to prevent cyber attacks and coordinated sabotage by drone warfare, like Israel used in June in the first hours of their attack, and like the US did when they kidnapped Maduro.

Do you use the built-in tool for remapping keys in KDEs system-settings, or something else?

Divesting makes perfect sense economically. Even if US stocks continue to grow, the USD is going to crash. They’re doing it on purpose.

Pension funds must fucking sell their bubblified NVIDIA meme stocks right now.

Buy Bombardier, SAAB, Alstom, Rheinmetall, Siemens Energy, ASML, Airbus, ABB, Skanska.

Well this is Lemmy, not reddit. We’re all tankies here.

You’re absolutely right. Trump is a lightning rod for rage, but most of what the US is doing is bipartisan. It’s a huge problem that so many people harbor false hope for the controlled opposition.

I want a fucking Huawei P70. The 10x camera on that thing can practically take stabilized macro photos from a 5 m distance. But Ursula says Orange Man will spank her if she allows competition to Apple and Google.

I file this under “questions I didn’t know I had with really fucking obvious answers”

I’m in Sweden. War is almost unthinkable. I have prepared my basement with shelf-stable food and fuel that could feed my apartment complex for a month. If something happens, it’s for my neighbors, not just for my family.

But a month is nothing.