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[Wall Street Journal] The Last Days of Pokrovsk: Ukrainians Dig Trenches and Say Goodbye to Their City as Russians Close In
  • Opened in 1990, the Metinvest coal mine is the biggest in Ukraine and one of the crusial factories for Pokrovsk, biggest employer and economic driver of the city and region. Up to 7000 people worked here before the war and around 4500 now. The mine producing the coke coal, specific coal essencial for steel production. If Russians will occupy or destroy the mine, it will create big problems for Ukrainian aconomy. To see how the mine works, we got up to the 800 meters deep tunnels and walked more then 4 km to the nearest coal-reach ground place,

    How does this have so many obvious errors?

  • hexbear major lore posts?
  • I definitely couldn't do a neutral write up but I can drop a few points that I think are often overlooked. I've been on hexbear since before the vegan comm existed (on other accounts) so while I haven't always been the most active, I've seen the whole history.

    One key point is that hexbear vegans weren't content before VCJ joined. We already had the sense that hexbear was anti-vegan but we were quieter about it. Example (EDIT: fixed link).

    There was already a strong cultural overlap between c/vegan and r/vegancirclejerk before the lifeboating. For example, dog diet crossed over here, and was to my memory the precursor to the VCJ hostilities. (c/dogdiet comm request, negative reaction to dogdiet posting).

    But I just noticed who I'm replying to so idk why I'm even bothering.

  • One of the Stupidest critiques of Marxist Class analysis I've seen was just recommended to me by my poli sci professor
  • However, he absolutely included things like oh, I don't know....literal fucking slaves? as part of the proletariat.

    Did he? Proletariat and slave are very different economic positions. They're explicitly contrasted in The Principles of Communism section 7: "In what way do proletarians differ from slaves?".

    I don't have a good citation at hand but Marx also distinguished between peasants and proletarians, the former being agrarian and the latter industrial workers.

  • Coping intensifies
  • Supposedly people who got review keys were sent an email forbidding talking about a handful of topics during reviews, mostly reasonable political stuff but also "feminist propaganda" https://archive.ph/A1s65

    At first I was kind of skeptical whether it was real but now I'd lean towards "yes"

  • Burgerbrained "key events of the 20th century" article on Wikipedia cites an undergraduate thesis by a nobody
  • I got curious and dug kinda deep, found the edit where it was added: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Key_events_of_the_20th_century&diff=next&oldid=870871907

    This edit changed almost none of the content of the page, just found citations to (maybe) support whatever it already said. It was done by PraiseVivec, who has over 3000 edits. They are passionate about "Incredibly specific subjects [they] literally knew nothing about 5 minutes ago" and are "particularly proud" of this page.

    I hate this dogshit website lmao.

  • Major bridge in Maryland collapses after being hit by a ship
    www.nbcnews.com Major bridge in Maryland collapses after being hit by a ship

    Baltimore Police Department told NBC News it was notified of a partial bridge collapse early Tuesday, with workers possibly in the water, at the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

    Major bridge in Maryland collapses after being hit by a ship

    A major bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, partially collapsed Tuesday morning, possibly leaving a number of people in the river below, police said.

    A spokesperson for Baltimore Police Department told NBC News that it had been notified of the incident at the Francis Scott Key Bridge, an enormous steel structure which carries the Interstate 695 over the Patapsco River southeast of the Baltimore metropolitan area.

    “I can confirm at 1:35 a.m., Baltimore City police were notified of a partial bridge collapse, with workers possibly in the water, at the Francis Scott Key Bridge,” Detective Niki Fennoy said in a statement.

    Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski, Jr. said on X that he was aware of the incident and in touch with the fire service chief, the mayor of Baltimore and other local officials. "Please pray for those impacted," he said.

    NBC News has contacted the U.S. Coast Guard and other emergency response agencies for further details.

    The Maryland Transport Authority confirmed that the I-695 was shut because of the Key Bridge collapsing due to a "ship strike."

    Built in 1977 and referred to locally as the Key Bridge it later named after the author of the American national anthem. The bridge is more than 8,500 feet, or 1.2 miles, long in total. Its main section spans 1,200 feet and was one of the longest continuous truss bridges in the world upon its completion, according to the National Steel Bridge Alliance.

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    I just got an old quote of mine as a tagline

    I'm glad I could contribute to this site by saying some dumb shit.

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    Introducing a new SI unit to quantify national tragedy

    Since we've recently learned that the value of a lost life is inversely proportional to the population of the country, we need a way to concisely and conveniently discuss tragedies and their relative values. Using 9/11 as the defining constant, we define one (1) Bush as the death of 3000/285,000,000 ≈ 0.00105% of a nation's population. Perhaps easier to remember, 1 kB (kiloBush) is approximately equal to the death of 1% of the population.

    Some examples for reference:

    • 9/11 is 1 Bush (of course)
    • total annihilation of a countries population is 100 kiloBushes (the largest value possible under relativistic models)
    • 1 man in Vatican City choking to death on a hotdog is approx. 124 Bushes.

    These changes will be voted on in the 2024 General Conference on Weights and Measures and are expected to pass unanimously.

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