firefly. didn’t continue after finishing the first season and the movie.

how does pakistan accept this friendship so freely when calling themselves the champions of islam while sitting by silently through the uyghur genocide?

additional sources for other points:

1. terrorist bomb blasts in mumbai 2006 BBC

2. terrorist attacks in mumbai 2008 PBS

3. terrorist attacks on india’s parliament 2001 BBC Sounds podcast (the most neutral source i could find)

4. osama bin laden and pakistan timeline BBC

5. timeline of terror attacks in india random source

this reuters article is one.

the problem is that all public news articles will be sketchy this early in the game. most relevant information is still classified and not available yet.

Did they have intel that Pakistan was actually involved in a tourist attack or is this assumption?

EDIT: to clarify, pakistan itself is not involved on the killing of tourists, but there is evidence to support that the group that did kill the tourists have complete patronage of pakistan’s army and government and are shielded by them.

the intel or its source is not shared publicly yet, though. nobody can say for sure why it hasn’t been shared yet but the conjecture is that it’s to protect a sensitive set of sources based in pakistan from retaliation.

india has put itself on the backfoot. fighting this war is like trying to wrestle with a pig–india will only muddy itself while the pig loves it. they wouldn’t put themselves in such a position unless there was compelling evidence to do so.

separately, this isn’t the first attack on indian civilians by members of groups sheltered in pakistan by all their official and legal machinery. this isn’t even the first successful such attack.

these attacks are akin to the september 11 attacks on the twin towers (in that innocent civilians are targeted by a deeply planned and coordinated attack with the sole aim to spread fear and terror). and that was reason enough for the usa to conduct an operation in pakistan’s heartland to “get” osama (who himself was sheltered by the same people in pakistan’s army and government).

is the fear of this bear why we’re so intent in melting the icecaps?

these look like kung fu panda collectibles.

“Free with $2/ month IAP”

so, not free.

i seem to have misunderstood. my reading was that they were tracking when selfies were being deleted from the user’s device itself (and not off the facebook platform).

if the article is about selfies being deleted from the user’s posts on meta platforms, otoh, i don’t understand why there’s a privacy brouhaha. surely their tos and privacy policy covers using your data and actions on their platforms for targeted advertising?

there is a conversation that needs to be had there about the morality of such a move, sure, but i don’t see a privacy violation.

this is what’s wrong with humanity. find new non-terrestial life in its own home and what’s the first fucking thought?

“shoot it down because laser so pretty!”

if i had a cosmetic company, i would question the efficacy of this method. that’s not how i would like to allocate my targeted advertising budget.

what if they deleted the pics because they were just changing phones? what if it was because they ran out of space? what if they were degoogling? what if it was because they’re transforming?

there are other–more likely–scenarios why a person deletes their selfies than them reaching a nadir of self-loathing. i don’t see this move converting into buying actions.

plus i bet that guy wasn’t wearing briefs.

the cartoonist missed a trick by not having the robot shit its copy from its anus.

how did you get the metal rods in the wheels so straight?

maybe you spoke too fast?

“let’s uproot all these trees and invade this space. and when the roots of the few remaining trees do what they are supposed to do, let’s blame them for ‘ruining’ human infrastructure!”

Proponents say detailed demographic information is crucial for the targeted implementation of India’s social justice programmes, including earmarking nearly half of all university seats and government jobs for socially disadvantaged communities.

some context: people of all the “lower” (sic) castes receive special privileges in the form of reservations for university and government jobs, as well as financial incentives to foster greater equity in society.

the purpose of such a census is to understand how best to administer such programs (rather than perpetuating the social ills of the caste system).

this is the AI model that truly passes the Turing Test.

what even rhymes with “luigi”?

blue squeegee?

the true irony of this post is OP"s understanding of irony.

to give a visual indication of that comparison:

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