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Sometimes, I truly wonder if these people would sell their mothers and their children just for the sake of Israel.

If this was any other country on Earth, like, let's say Bolivia, I'll bet you a chorus of voices would've already been calling for their impeachment and resignation for prioritizing the needs of a foreign country, consequences be damned, over our own. But funnily enough, this standard is conveniently never applied to the so-called "greatest ally."

[The case of a 9-year-old Nepalese child allegedly attacked by classmates at a school in Amadora]

The mysterious case of a Nepalese child assaulted by classmates in a school, that no one can find out when it happen or to whom it happen:

https://twitter.com/SICNoticias/status/1791097668883910912

Case of the assaulted Nepali child is raising doubts

The case of a 9-year-old Nepalese child allegedly attacked by classmates at a school in Amadora is raising some doubts.

It was during a telephone interview with Rádio Renascença that Ana Mansoa, director of the Centro Padre Alves Correia, revealed attacks on a 9-year-old boy.

In the same interview she said that there were five attackers and a sixth, who filmed everything and shared it on the internet and also said that the child had open wounds, which were treated at home because the mother was afraid of going to the hospital and that even today the child has nightmares about the case.

Two days after the interview was released, the Ministry of Education went public to say that the information it had was contrary.

Only after insistence did the Padre Alves Correia Center agree to collaborate with the ministry and said that the attacks took place in a school in Amadora.

However, the Ministry realized through management that the only Nepali students enrolled in the school are secondary school students, meaning there are no 9-year-old Nepali children enrolled there.

Therefore, the school says it is unaware of the alleged episode of aggression or any similar situation and has not received any information.

Ana Mansoa ended up releasing another statement this Thursday morning to say that the information had been transmitted to the competent authorities.

To SIC, the PSP says that it learned about the case through the media, despite trying to collect information to forward to the Public Ministry.

The Government wants to better understand the case and has asked for an assessment.

Despite the doubts that arose with the statement from the Ministry of Education, the center that publicized the case says it will not say anything more to the media so as not to harm the child's well-being.

This story is so weird...

BTW thank you to President Johnson for (intentionally or not) injecting some much-needed humor into this thread. It kinda makes me think of this Family Guy clip, just replace "Sweden" with "Germany":

Whoever that is is no Tom Petty.

There are many, depending on the clique. And the more Atlas-related servers you have on your sidebar, the cooler you are.

At this point, the US and Israeli military are intertwined in a massive intelligence gathering operation over about 4 to 5 countries.

The point is probably that the US has no soldiers on the ground at the moment in Israel or Ukraine. Hence, it's probably better to fund these other agents or proxies.

As long as the weapons get built in the US, it's a win-win for both parties.

For birds, it's not very clear what species survived, but the overwhelming majority was wiped out. It's suggested that about +-five-six species survived and are responsible for the diversity of today.

Those being:

- the stem animal species of Neoaves
- the stem animal species of Galliformes (landfowl incl. chicken)
- the stem animal species of Anseriformes (waterfowl)
- the stem animal species or 1 species of Palaeognathae (ancient birds, most likely closest related to an ostrich)

All having in common with the exception of neoaves that they were flightless at the time or could hide in freshwater environments (which is also how crocodiles made it past the border), them also being more generalist than the more specialized pterosaurs that were less well adapted to change, and most of those also being too sizeful. Also speculated based on skull size that the birds that make it through the border also had a bigger brain size than some that didn't.

[Meanwhile, the losses Ukraine is suffering on the Kharkiv front are completely unsustainable, and they're defense.]

Washington Post: Russia has gained more land in one month (April to May 2024), than Ukraine ever did during it's counteroffensive (June to December 2023)

The amount of territory Russia has occupied over the last several weeks is about as large as the territory Ukraine retook during its lackluster spring counteroffensive in 2023.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/17/russia-ukraine-front-line-gains/

Even though Russian sources have said this week that their Troops may have been slowed down by UAF reinforcement, footage clearly indicates that Ukraine is unable to put together a competent defense along the Kharkiv directions, and they expect another spearhead into Sumy.  Faster Russian gains along the entire front is expected at this point, and mappers can't keep up with the changes that occurred in Luhansk, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia.  I haven't seen any consistent images or videos of Ukraine inflicting heavy losses on Russia.  None.  I don't even know if they can do it anymore. Meanwhile, the losses Ukraine is suffering on the Kharkiv front are completely unsustainable, and they're defense. They literally cannot move armored vehicles, tanks, or equipment into areas without it getting creamed by drones, planes, or missiles.  They can't even place artillery or anti-aircraft systems outside of Kharkiv City.

Russia has Ukraine on the Ropes.  It's not hyperbole.  It's reality.  They just need one more spearhead through/towards Chasiv Yar, Pokrovsk, Kurakhove, or Velyka to achieve victory in Donetsk, as well as a collapse of defensive lines protecting Luhansk from the South. 

One unusual thing about the C-Pg extinction is its fast recovery compared to other greatest mass extinction events.

I think that's one additional thing that speaks in favour of the asteroid impact, because well an asteroid impact is impactful, brief and sudden. But at the end also a temporary thing, its one asteroid, Earth isn't continuously getting bombared by asteroids (well except for the immediate aftermath of returning debris..)

The C-Pg one is a very brief but sudden extinction.

Most evidence suggest the majority of dinosaurs must've disappeared within a few years, most non-avian dinosaurs already being extinct in like a century following the events.

The birds are the continuation of dinosaurs and its legacy, some birds such as terror birds even briefly re-occupied the same niches the non-avian dinosaurs did after the extinction but not with the same dominance as dinosaurs did because of the new players in the game and the fractured nature of the game.

People sometimes forget most avian dinosaurs also did go extinct. It's just the very brief ones that made it are the ones that responsible for the biodiversity of birds today, and most of that is basically the "Neoaves" family, neo standing for new, aves for bird.

Birds rapidly exploded in diversity when conditions returned to normal after the extinction, almost doing it instantly and initially also quicker and more succesful than mammals.

For mammals, the dominance was more restricted to the northern hemisphere and they seemed to have adapted very well to the changes in the Cenozoic era (era from the extinction event till today), that being the rise of grasslands (grass did not exist yet in the era of dinosaurs) and the general cooling in the 2nd part of cenozoic, which saw Antarctica getting lost to the world of ice.

[Joe Biden (D, inc.)]

As of today, I would predict this NPV:

Joe Biden (D, inc.) ... 74.9 million votes | 48.6%
Donald Trump (R) ... 70.5 million votes | 45.8%
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (I) ... 3.2 million votes | 2.1%
Libertarian candidate ... 1.7 million votes | 1.1%
Cornel West (I) ... 1 millon votes | 0.7%
Jill Stein (G) ... 1 million votes | 0.7%
Other ... 1.5 million votes | 1.0%

Total votes cast: ~154 million votes


Subject the change over the next months. I hope Biden can reach 50%+ again.

from 81 million in 2020 to 74 million in 2024. would that be the most raw votes an incumbent lost on record?

Obama lost around 5 million votes in 2012. Yeah that sounds right