Horsehide bomber jackets of the sort worn in WW2.
We can make cheaper and lighter synthetic materials. But I like the look that leather jackets acquire with wear over time (and particularly horsehide, which is less-available today than cowhide, as we don't have many horses around any more).
They aren't gone -- it's still possible to obtain them. But in 2024, they're really limited to people going out of their way to get them.
Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and the advent of much cheaper, more sophisticated, and more effective electronic navigational systems.
They were quite important for a long time. We used them for thousands of years, and they're often unique in form, iconic. And they're a good subject for photos and paintings, and I think that the light effect from them is neat. Lots of books and such using them, like ones on remote rocks, to get an isolated setting ("the lone lighthouse keeper").
But the past few decades of technological advancement have probably closed the end of their era.
That's true in that absent very unusual cases, we don't lose technology, so all the past technology remains. I think that it's a valid insight.
However, I think that it's also true to say that there are technologies that -- while not gone -- fall into disuse because of a changing environment.
You're saying that a "better" technology will remain, and for certain definitions of "better", I agree. We have no reason, absent maybe a changing environment that makes what is "best" different at different points in time or changing understanding of what is "best" (e.g. maybe internal combustion vehicles going away as we understand the impact of carbon dioxide emissions) to stop using a better technology.
But OP is specific in distinguishing between "best" and "coolest":
I don't mean BETTER. That's a different conversation. I mean cooler.
So I think that his question is valid.
I like the look of vacuum-fluorescent displays (VFDs) -- a high-contrast display with a black background, solid color areas. Enough brightness to cause some haloing spilling over into the blackness if you were looking at it. Led to a particular design style adapted to the technology, was very "high-tech" in maybe the 1980s.
OLEDs have high contrast, and I suppose you could probably replicate the look, but I doubt that the style will come back.
They already nailed this guy a bit back -- I was confused for a sec, thought I recognized his face from previous coverage. The article is just saying that the IDF is confirming that an earlier airstrike that had targeted him did, in fact, kill him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2024_Dahieh_airstrike
October 2024 Dahieh airstrike
On the night of 3 October 2024, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out an airstrike on an underground bunker in Dahieh, a predominantly Shia Muslim suburb in the south of Beirut, Lebanon, where Hezbollah leaders, including Hashem Safieddine, had convened in the headquarters of Hezbollah’s Intelligence Branch.[1][2]
It sounds like both Lebanon and Israel had suspected that he was dead prior to this point, just weren't certain:
Fate of Hashem Safieddine
According to the Israeli Channel 12, Israeli security officials were "increasingly confident" that Safieddine had been killed in the attack.[3]
On 5 October, a Lebanese security source reported that Hezbollah lost contact with Safieddine, and that Hezbollah has not heard from him since the airstrike.[9][10]
Al Arabiya and Al Hadath reported that Israel confirmed the assassination of Hashem Safieddine and all Hezbollah leaders that were with him.[11] On 8 October, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant stated that Safieddine was likely "eliminated". The claim was later repeated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.[12][13][14] On 22 October, the IDF formally announced his killing along with Hussein Hazima and other senior Hezbollah members.[15][16]
I remember being outdoors feeling like a relief in the original Half-Life.
In Far Cry, I definitely preferred being outside. Same with Metro.
I think in most FPS games I've played, the player doesn't have the developer ambush them with stuff outside. Maybe that's a factor.
This isn't a specific game, but Twine-based games will generally work reasonably well on an Android web browser. These tend to be sort of multiple-choice choose your own adventure games, but span a wide range of genres. I don't know of a single database cataloguing all of them, but there are a fair number out there on the Web.
For an example (not one I'd specifically recommend, haven't even played through it, just hit Kagi for an example game that people were recommending):
I don't play it that much, but Mindustry is probably worth looking at, a factory-building game in the Factorio mold.
https://mindustrygame.github.io/
Unciv is a reimplementation of Civilization V (with simpler graphics).
https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv
Not in F-Droid, but open-source: I very much like Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead as a game, but it's really better-suited to a PC, which is the platform it was originally designed for. It's compute-heavy, and while the Android adaptation is usable on a touchscreen, it benefits from having a Bluetooth keyboard or something. Open-world roguelike. You can just download the apks directly. This has a steep learning curve; think Dwarf Fortress. Lots of depth, though!
I'm not actually all that rabid about the touchscreen UI. Probably better solitaire UIs out there, but PysolFC is a fork of Pysol, a long-running Linux solitaire implementation. It has a ton of different games; my favorite is Eight-Off, a game that's somewhat similar to Freecell, but less-widely played. I think that solitaire games are a good match for a phone platform, so worth having it or another solitaire game around.
https://pysolfc.sourceforge.io/
My own favorite is one that you mentioned, Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which I think is a good adaptation of roguelike gameplay to the touchscreen. Its creator posts on a Threadiverse community here, !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world.
Huh. Apparently there were a whole variety of ethanol-containing aircraft fluids that were regularly consumed and sold by air crews (though in most cases, before running the fluid through an actual plane), and it was apparently pretty institutionalized.
From looking online, I think that the output's for industrial purposes, not drinking.
https://biokhim-com.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
today our company is ready to offer domestic manufacturers more than 1000 different chemical substances. And these are not only products for the production of household and technical chemicals, cosmetics and hygiene products, but also ingredients for the production of paints and varnishes, fertilizers and plant protection products
Top Gun
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Apparently this is at least his second election doing this.
I'm a little suspicious that the goal is to promote his business more than running for office.
He apparently bought a furniture store and converted the whole thing into a massive gun store with a bunch of amenities with "the largest showroom and indoor shooting range in the Midwest. "
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/08/27/top-guns-gun-store-indoor-range/
EDIT: As I vaguely remember, when US legislation went through restricting unsolicited telemarketing and such, there was an exception for political campaigns.
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The National Do Not Call Registry gives you a choice about whether to receive telemarketing calls
You can register your home or mobile phone for free.
After you register, other types of organizations may still call you, such as charities, political groups, debt collectors and surveys. To learn more, read our FAQs.
Yeah. Thinking that might be the angle.
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-october-21-2024
Russia appears to be scrambling to reduce tensions with South Korea following credible reports of intensified North Korean cooperation with Russia, including South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence warnings that a contingent of North Korean troops has deployed for training to Russia. South Korea's Foreign Ministry summoned Russia's Ambassador to South Korea, Georgy Zinoviev, over reports of the deployment of North Korean military personnel to Russia.[12] The Russian Embassy in South Korea falsely framed the event as a voluntary meeting, as opposed to a diplomatic summons, and notably claimed that any cooperation between Russia and North Korea "is not directed against the security interests" of Seoul.[13] Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed that Russia-North Korea cooperation "should not cause concern" to other states, and that information about the alleged presence of North Korean troops in Russia may be "contradictory."[14] The Kremlin's apparent desire to assure South Korea that its cooperation with North Korea is not a threat to Seoul suggests that the Kremlin remains very concerned about the prospect of Seoul's potential pivot towards providing Ukraine with necessary military support, and the implications of worsened relations with Seoul for Russian security interests in the Asia Pacific region. Russia has previously attempted to court Seoul in order to mitigate the impacts of its growing reliance on North Korea, as ISW has noted.[15]
Well, if ISW is correct about the Kremlin aiming to reduce tensions, it doesn't sound like tensions are being reduced a whole lot.
Typical two pieces of bread with something inside.
A Dagwood sandwich would qualify, so there's probably some variation there.
I don't think that you can patent game mechanics in the US, have read about that before, but it sounds like this lawsuit is in Japan, and their IP system may not work the same way.
EDIT: Sorry, I'm wrong. It's that game rules aren't covered by copyright, that's what I was remembering.
Telegram channels close to the Russian security services said his body was discovered by an agent of the SVR, Russia’s foreign intelligence service, who was walking the dog of a senior spymaster in the building’s courtyard on Saturday morning.
Small world.
“probably 1% of the companies will stand out and become huge and will create a lot of value, or will create tremendous value for the people, for society. And I think we are just going through this kind of process.”
Baidu is huge. Sounds like good news for Baidu!
Aside from any small economic benefit provided -- my assumption is that there are no restrictions on how Ukraine uses said drones.
The US may not be onboard with US weapons being used, but may be fine with funding production of Ukrainian weapons that strike in Russia. Thus, this may have larger impact than just where production happens.
Ukraine is obviously capable, given recent successful long-range strikes, of producing long-range strike hardware that Russia hasn't been able to stop sufficiently to prevent attacks from getting through.
I don't know if there are any specific constraints on what types of drones these are being used to produce. But if not, I suppose that it may have strategic impact.
I'm not an expert in the situation, but I'd guess that:
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Animal manure. We're wealthy enough that we don't think about it much, but meat is calorie inefficient, something for the wealthy. North Korea is pretty poor, has had recent problems just feeding the population, has seen famine. Unless you're part of the regime -- I suspect, looking at his figure, that Kim Jong Un is getting a healthy dose of calorie-rich foods -- I doubt that a lot of meat consumption is happening in North Korea. If you're having a hard time getting enough calories produced, you aren't going to be targeting luxuries like meat.
kagis
North Korea has never been a nation of meat eaters, even considering an increase in consumption under Kim Jong Un, but that does not mean the country’s people do not like meat. On the contrary, meat has always been a desirable and prestigious delicacy in the DPRK, as it is throughout East Asia.
The problem has always been that high population density has required the use of nearly all available flat land for rice paddy fields, since an acre of agricultural land produces roughly ten times the calories of an acre of pasture.
This says that meat consumption did increase somewhat under Kim Jong Un:
Prior to 2000, except for North Korea’s elites, the country subsisted principally on vegetarian diets. To have meat as few as two to three times a year was the apparent norm. Under Kim Jong Il, that began to change as efforts to expand the availability of animal protein to more of the population began around 2005.
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Ashes. I don't think that this is a substitute, don't think that nitrogen at least is provided, which is the most-critical thing that fertilizer normally provides.
kagis
Sounds like it.
https://gardening.usask.ca/articles-and-lists/articles-how-to/using-wood-ash-in-the-garden.php
Is wood ash a good fertilizer?
Wood ash adds nutrients to your soil, but the amount varies according to the kind of wood burned. Generally, the largest ingredient in wood ash is calcium carbonate (about 20%). This is followed by potassium (less than 10%), phosphorus (1%) and trace amounts of micro-nutrients such as iron, manganese, boron, copper and zinc. Wood ash does not contain nitrogen.
Used in moderation, wood ash helps to fertilize your soil. However, since wood ash has no nitrogen at all, it is not a complete fertilizer. Adding compost to your soil will help meet the other nutrient needs of your plants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertilizer
Nitrogen-fixing chemical processes, such as the Haber process invented at the beginning of the 20th century, and amplified by production capacity created during World War II, led to a boom in using nitrogen fertilizers.[2] In the latter half of the 20th century, increased use of nitrogen fertilizers (800% increase between 1961 and 2019) has been a crucial component of the increased productivity of conventional food systems (more than 30% per capita) as part of the so-called "Green Revolution".[3]
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Bones. Bones come from animals. See above point about meat.
No problem. If you're into this capcom music thing, the comments on that video may also be fun to read, as there are people who clearly got really into it. Stuff like:
I supported Shuttle missions from STS-26 to STS-135. It was a tradition to play "Countdown" continuously in my car as I was making my way into work on launch day. After the program ended, I would only hear it when playing "Signals" at home or in the car. Fast forward 11 years. Launch day for the newest vehicle in U.S Space Exploration, Artemis. Heading in to support the launch, a few blocks from the house, the news guy on the radio mentions the "Countdown of Artemis". Countdown? Artemis? COUNTDOWN!!! I stopped the car, turned around, went back home, grabbed "Signals", started "Countdown" and headed in to work. The tradition continues... Ad Astra!
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I have a friend who is an astronaut and has been in space. I asked him if he knew of this song, and with a wide eyed grin, he replied - "every astronaut knows this song". Now how cool is that! Rush frames the excitement of the space journey so well, it had to register with these space pioneers as well! For the record, I've seen Rush 23 times, beginning with GUP and can't begin to say how impressive each and every show was. They're living evidence that the Mozart's and Bach's of the past, still exist in modern times.
>Israel has requested that the US send a second THAAD battery to protect the country in case of an Iranian reaction to an expected Israeli reprisal attack, Channel 12 reports.
On lemmy.today, I don't appear to be seeing posts created in the past two days as of this writing on either !NonCredibleDefense@sh.itjust.works or !Games@sh.itjust.works. I am subscribed to both communities. I have not done an search to determine whether other subscribed sh.itjust.works communities are affected, though I assume that to be the case.
They are visible from lemmy.world, so the posts are propagating to at least some other federated instances.
sh.itjust.works presently appears to be running Lemmy 0.19.5 (versus lemmy.today's 0.19.4 and lemmy.world's 0.19.3). However, I do not think that this is a version-related problem, at least not alone, as !Ukraine@sopuli.xyz is showing up fine on lemmy.today.
https://lemmy.today/instances lists sh.itjust.works as a federated instance as of this writing.
https://sh.itjust.works/instances lists lemmy.today as a federated instance as of this writing.
Lemmy.today has also been responding very slowly to me over the past hour or so, and was frequently showing connection timeouts and gateway error pages when trying to load pages. Other instances appear to be working normally. That may be entirely unrelated, but I thought that I'd mention it, as it's unusual and at least might be related.
New Google agreement could boost development of small modular reactors—if they work.
One thing that I expected to be absolutely amazing in 2024 from online vendors was product recommendations.
That vendor, assuming you use a single, persistent account to do purchasing, has a full list of your purchase history. They may well also have browsing data.
And so, given all that data to mine and analyze, one of the few places where I actually have tried to see what a vendor can do in terms of analyzing my preferences...has been really unimpressive.
I'm mostly thinking of Amazon and Steam, since they're the online vendors that I use the most; Steam in particular has a considerable amount of data it can gather, including video game playtime.
Yet even though Amazon grabs some eyeball space on every page to try to recommend products, I have rarely been recommended anything I actually want to buy on Amazon. Occasionally, sure, but virtually everything I get is via plain old searching. And the most-successful recommendation approach Amazon uses, by far, is just asking me whether I want to purchase more of something that I've purchased in the past. I'll grant that maybe there's subtlety there that I can't appreciate from the outside, like computing frequency at which a given "repurchase" recommendation happens or taking into account past average purchase frequency, but it doesn't seem like the most-sophisticated form of recommendation.
Granted, I normally make it a point to limit Amazon's data-gathering. I browse logged out, make a list of what I want to buy, clear browser state, and log in only long enough to make a purchase. That probably makes it harder for Amazon to associate me with my browsing behavior. But it does know what I actually buy. And it has a pretty substantial history there.
And for Steam, Valve knows what games I play, how long I've played them for, and assuming that there's any mining based on game achievements, even -- at least as an abstract concept that would permit for correlating preference across video games -- what I do in those games. Like, players who get "evil path" achievements in one game maybe prefer video games with "evil" routes, stuff like that. But I have browsed Steam's discovery queue zillions of times, and while I've probably found a game or two on there, the success rate of its recommendations is abysmally low. Probably the most-useful recommendations system on Steam is the "similar games" section when viewing information about a game. But I'm pretty sure that most games I find on Steam that I actually like are just by using user ratings and searching for tags. While, Steam's scoring is opaque, and it's possible that they're using some degree of input, I don't think that it's making use of information about me there. I wouldn't be surprised if it's nothing more than ranking games based on their player review score, which...isn't much more than things like MetaCritic and similar have done. I've occasionally had luck looking for games that have very high hours played, with the idea that people wouldn't play a game a lot if they didn't like it. That makes some use of aggregate data about users, but not about me.
Most video games that I get on Steam that I like are games that I've discovered somewhere other than on Steam, often looking for human "roundup" articles comparing collections of similar video games and giving a brief blurb about pros and cons. That's not new technology.
That comes as a very great surprise to me, when one considers the enormous amount of effort and resources that goes into harvesting and mining data about people. Now, okay, a lot of that is for ads. And advertising isn't exactly the same thing as doing good product recommendation. An advertisement is trying to effectively get someone to buy a product regardless of whether they'll ultimately like it or not, whereas a product recommendation -- at least in the ideal, user-focused sense -- is trying to find products that people will like. But there has to be a substantial amount of overlap between the two. Advertisers don't want to waste money advertising to people who won't buy their product, so trying to find people who are interested in their product is a major part of advertising.
I haven't used any systems that log my music-playing and make recommendations; I'd rather keep my privacy there. Perhaps if I did, that area would be more-successful.
But by and large, it's an area that I'm very surprised is not more successful than it is. It's a "flying cars and jetpacks" thing, something that I'd always vaguely expected of the future, but which never seemed to really arrive. Product recommendation systems never really got to the point of anticipating my needs very effectively, even where they have what I'd consider a fair amount of data to work with.
What's your experience? Does it differ from my own? Do you find that product recommendations from vendors are really useful, pretty much hit the nail on the head for what you want? How do you "find" products? Am I missing something, maybe like merchants on Amazon or publishers on Steam trying to game the recommendations system one way or another, and poisoning its inputs?
Thelsim did a couple of Tarot-style cards a while back. I also just finally got Flux set up in ComfyUI -- had started a long time back, and dropped it.
Flux is a ComfyUI model that's pretty popular over on Reddit, both for the quality and because it uses English-style prompts rather than just a list of comma-separated prompt terms. I remembered Thelsim's project, wanted to see if I could turn out a full set of photographic-style Major Arcana in the first day using it. Turns out...yes! Usually when running Stable Diffusion, I'll generate maybe 20 images and pick the best, but this typically had something reasonable on the first try. It's certainly not flawless -- there are quirks in the image, but for anyone else thinking about playing with Flux, I wanted to put this out there, because I was unexpectedly happy with it, especially given that I've no experience at all with it. I would totally try and get it set up if you have a local generation setup!
Text was added with a script and ImageMagick, not in ComfyUI.
To get some kind of consistent appearance, I appended to each prompt "The theme is magical fantasy horror. The colors are blue, white, red, orange, and black. The photograph was taken with a Nikon D850." I also used "Photograph...at night" on each.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/67cd880f-ed36-4074-b12b-3e509b0dafa2.png
> Photograph of the Grim Reaper at night in a dark, gloomy field. The Grim Reaper is riding a white horse. The Grim Reaper is holding a simple black scythe. The Grim Reaper's hood only contains blackness. The sky is full of stars. The Grim Reaper is wearing black gloves. The Grim Reaper is facing the camera.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/2f0c296e-da19-4f31-8f35-cac07ce372dc.png
> An photograph of a huge angel in the clouds playing a medieval trumpet at night. The angel is blowing into the trumpet. The angel is in profile. The zombies are climbing out of their graves in a graveyard. The dead are rising. There are snowy mountains in the background.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/b99ac2e5-a285-45f9-abc8-4267ae10398a.png
> Photograph of a stern-looking young woman wearing a white blindfold and a toga sitting on a throne at night. The woman's right hand is holding a set of scales aloft. There is a longsword lying by the woman's feet. The woman is facing the scales.
Should really have a sword in one hand, scales in the other, but I wasn't able to quickly get that working; probably need more experience with Flux.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3ed8cbe7-e97b-4f67-849e-19bd798caaae.png
> Photograph of an angel at night. The angel is pouring glowing liquid from one large goblet in their left hand into a goblet in their right hand. The angel has a halo.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/18a9c09b-dcc1-46da-87d8-a0c09c851170.png
>Photograph of a man wearing armor riding a Roman war chariot at night. The chariot is pulled by two galloping horses wearing barding. The horse on the left is white, and the horse on the right is black. The chariot is charging the camera. The photograph is an action shot. The man is holding reins.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4558e24b-0b45-433f-8548-6bb1873bb2d1.png
> Photograph of the Devil at night. The Devil is crouching on a pedestal. There are two nude demons sitting at the base of the pedestal. The demon in the lower-right quadrant of the photograph is male. The demon in the lower-left quadrant of the photograph is female. The Devil is holding a flaming torch in his hand.
It did look like Flux understands directives relative to the portion of the image here ("quadrant"). I wasn't able to get the same technique going with Justice, though.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/80bd8ca8-047a-4e0c-9d61-28b331646bf1.png
> Photograph of an emperor at night. The emperor is holding a scepter.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/e7a1f5f6-c2a3-41e2-9b47-fd9c56c8fd31.png
> Photograph of an empress at night. The empress is holding a scepter.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/1a6c7729-a5e3-49b8-bc93-d7ed31924cd6.png
> Photograph of a jester at night.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/28d2ab72-b90e-469a-a599-e1cad5992bdc.png
> Photograph of a man hung upside-down from a rope tied around his left ankle at night. The man's hands are hanging limply. The man is wearing Renaissance clothing. The man is wearing boots.
The feet are a bit off; I didn't spent too much time futzing with it. Flux wasn't super-into having things upside-down, though it did ultimately do it.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/f052e1d7-c7cf-4ba2-8f9a-50b762e25186.png
> Photograph of an old man wearing a robe walking on a mountain trail at night. The man is holding a lantern aloft and a staff.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/439ec9a7-7739-4924-bede-cc776f7be8da.png
> Photograph of a pope at night.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/0be8647f-cb20-4be0-92c5-e266a4edca00.png
> Photograph of a high priestess at night.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/160c4575-c02a-4ccb-b513-6c60043d5b2f.png
> Photograph of two lovers at night. The lovers are wearing Renaissance clothing. There are many fireflies.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/a0e754ca-525e-4674-8b0a-bec48748e7f0.png
>Photograph of a magician at night.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/553fd519-ea29-4dba-9ed3-d0bf634c25fa.png
> An photograph of two standing stones by a river at night. The moon is in the sky. In the lower-right quadrant of the photograph, there is a white wolf howling at the moon. In the lower-left quadrant of the photograph, there is a black dog howling at the moon.
I omitted the traditional crawfish. I didn't really like the look of it, and on top of that, Flux kept wanting to make it look glowy, which I didn't want.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/687826be-81ba-452b-8378-b81f58e9bfce.png
> An photograph of a naked woman at night crouching by a lake. The woman is facing away from the camera. The woman is holding a jug and pouring water into the lake. There is a bright star in the sky. There is an eight-point lens flare coming from the bright star. The sky is black. The photograph is NSFW.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/a2d42d98-2920-4eed-b5ab-5b807736d3f5.png
> An photograph of a full solar eclipse with a visible solar corona. The Sun is black. The photograph is at night. A naked nude infant rides a white horse at night, with sunflowers in the background at night. The photograph is NSFW.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/43709bad-1a8a-4680-8de9-5cf58005bb5e.png
> Photograph of a tower on a hill at night.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/9d308020-a83f-4b61-ad58-f47654e41ddf.png
> A photograph of a glowing figure eight in the sky at night. The background is sky and clouds. A flying, nude woman in the clouds holding a wood baton in each hand is in front of the figure eight. The photograph is NSFW. The woman is nude.
I didn't really like the traditional The World tarot card style, and it didn't mesh well with a photographic style with all the disembodied heads, so I mashed up the oroborous and flying woman with batons from two different The World styles. Also, Flux was okay with up to three heads of various species sticking in at each corner, but for some reason was resistant to doing all four. I didn't want to bang on it more. Flux was determined to put some clothing on the woman.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/39b791c9-4493-43dc-bf86-4acc8daa1785.png
> Photograph of a circle floating in the clouds at night. The circle is labeled with alchemical symbols. There are esoteric symbols covering the photograph. The circle is centered in the photograph.
There are normally some nude figures in a Tarot deck and I included this here; I didn't flag the post NSFW as I don't think that it's all that explicit.
U.S. officials say the U.S. military struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen, going after weapons systems, bases and other equipment belonging to the Iranian-backed rebels.
Targeting weapons bound for Hezbollah, Israel appears to have struck very close or within Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. Targeting weapons bound for Hezbollah, Israel appears to have struck very close or within Russia’s Khmeimim Air Base in Syria.
Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, which handles 90% of Iran's oil exports, is high on the list of retaliatory targets Israel may strike.
> SEOUL, Oct 2 (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ordered on Wednesday military aircraft to be deployed immediately to evacuate its citizens from Israel and other parts of the Middle East amid escalating tension, his office said.
>Earlier on Wednesday, South Korea's foreign ministry urged its citizens in Israel and Lebanon to immediately leave by any means available.
Dubai-based Emirates Thursday cancelled flights to Iraq, Iran and Jordan for three days over "regional unrest", after an Iranian missile strike on Israel stoked fears of a wider war."Emirates is cancelling all flights to/from Iraq (Basra and Baghdad), Iran (Tehran), and Jordan (Amman) on 4th and 5th...
Any extended rise raises the possibility of higher petrol prices and gas and electricity bills.
The price of oil has jumped 5% after US President Joe Biden said the US was discussing possible strikes by Israel on Iran’s oil industry.
Asked on a visit if he would support Israel striking Iran’s oil facilities, Biden said: “We’re discussing that”, according to Bloomberg.
Biden’s comments sent oil prices soaring; IDF says Khader Shahabiya was responsible for rocket attack on football field that killed 12 young people
At least nine killed in Israeli air attack on central Beirut, as fights in southern Lebanon intensify.
This is merely a bullet point on the main article, but seems more-significant to me than the article's main title, and has now been cited on a number of other news sites:
>Iranian source tells Al Jazeera Iran sent a message to the US via Qatar saying that it does not seek regional war but adding that “the phase of unilateral self-restraint has ended”. It also warned any Israeli attack would be met with an “unconventional response” that includes targeting Israeli infrastructure.
As Iran threatens to attack Israel over the assassination of a Hamas leader in the Iranian capital, its long-vaunted missile program offers one of the few ways for Tehran to strike back directly.
Quick summary: an analysis of the Iranian ballistic missiles used in the attack in April showed them to demonstrate dramatically worse performance than had been expected of them.
A war meant to draw in the militant group’s allies has instead left them battered
https://archive.ph/glm0E
At least seven killed in attack that took place moments before Iran launched a barrage of rockets at Israel.
Iran’s large-scale attack on Israel presents the United States with the chance to achieve a set of long-standing objectives.
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