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Caution: posts may contain poetic exaggeration, unapproved memes and general silliness. Full Member of the #Capybara Appreciation Society. Unabashed fanboi of kycnot.me. Anarchist. Dad. Interests: #FOSS #machinelearning #tor #brewing #python #anarchy #diy #solar #electronics #decentralisation #linux #bitcoin #monero #offgrid #rightToRepair #progressivemetal #speculativefiction #archeology #space #memes I believe everybody has a right to defend themselves against #Netanyahu, #Gollant and other fascist war-criminals. Not just a right, but a duty; and most of us are not doing our share.

Rowley is a gay atheist, from working class mining town parents.

He worked in financial services before entering politics, and his main passions are introducing new taxes, opposing natural gas, and promoting genocide.

I hope the few dimwitted Muslims I've met who call Western leaders "Crusaders" will finally shut up.

Western leaders, caught off guard, tend to reveal they celebrate the deaths of Christians just as readily as the deaths of Muslims, and the deaths of light-skinned civilians as much as dark-skinned.

Its organisation, money and power they care about. The rest is smoke to distract you.

UK Minister of State Lee Rowley responding to the fact that Israeli sniper killed a Christian mother and her daughter in a church in Gaza with "its an act of Israel trying to defend itself"

https://video.nostr.build/4402769d323bec8fc3a2b8ae87f63c395c0e553d7205ab7cf391f734ebb0ae24.mp4

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“The Chemical Weapons Taboo” by Richard M. Price

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Taboos are an interesting social phenomenon. They evoke strong feelings of right and wrong, but we often cannot explain exactly what makes them so. Price, a constructivist IR professor at the University of British Columbia, explores the taboo of chemical weapons in the 20th century. Departing from common realist and liberal explanations, Price shows the normative power of the international community in shaping taboos and expected state behavior. He traces the extensive use of chemical warfare during WWI, its surprisingly limited use during WWII in the Italo-Ethiopian War, and the Iran-Iraq War. Interestingly, international bans on chemical weapons and poisons alike stem from top-down (not bottom-up) societal processes where elites sought to dictate the terms of warfare. Price demonstrates both the power and subjectivity of morality in the minds of societies. The norms that shape taboos and the legitimation of actors who violate them highlight the dynamic natures of such faux pas. Despite the continued taboo, chemical weapons usage still occurs albeit in a very limited context. The power of taboo applies to other weapons of war as well. The nuclear taboo is well-known and respected but is there a taboo on the use of biological weapons today? It is likely that these international norms are yet to be formed. Price’s narrative is admittedly drawn-out but he nonetheless sparks an interesting discussion on the role that ideas have in shaping the strategies states employ. ☣️😷

Earth's magnetic field collapses during a reversal every few million years.

And yet we're still here.

You can have DNA without magnetic shielding, as long as you have matter shielding between you and the source of radiation.

Its keeping stratospheric water vapour from photolysing that gets hard without a magnetosphere, as Venus could tell you if you could retrieve rock cores

Pinephone's modem is far from open, last i checked, and the rest of it is far from functional. I really wouldn't recommend it for anything important.

For border crossings, bring any open hardware SBC, and use Nostr and Nests for your secure comms once across the border. And buy a local burner dumbphone for any obligatory non-secure comms with local untrusted parties.