I want to see the people coming into these threads defending the cops closing down these camps defend the cops arresting 2300 people.
I'll half-bite, I suppose - disruptive encampments and occupations of buildings of institutions that are attempting to continue functioning are situations in which one should expect a police response to disperse after a period of time. These institutions have an obligation to the other students and faculty, not just to the demands of the protesters, and the right to dictate what is and is not appropriate usage, or after what period of time it becomes inappropriate usage, of the university's buildings. And if the demands of the protesters are unrealistic or out of the hands of the institution, then there is no other real recourse but a police response.
Of course, on the other hand, anyone who has seen what the police response is knows that it's American police being more militarized than the US military and using the opportunity to vent some of their roid rage and testosterone poisoning.
But police closing down such protest encampments is not inherently illegitimate.
Yemen’s Houthis will target ships heading to Israeli ports in any area within their range, the group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree has said in a televised speech....
"Evil spacemagic demon-summoners fight evil totalitarian supercatholics. There are space-elves and space-orks. The aliens are immortal robots or borg-locusts. Everyone is roided up on grim spacefuture drugs. It's ace, I highly recommend it."
Fabius Bile, Ciaphias Cain, Roboutte Guilleman, the God-Emperor of Mankind.
Fabius Bile, (known to fans as Fabulous Bill), is the maddest of mad scientists, harnessing the power of otherworldly demon magic to do fucked up megascience. That's pretty normal for Chaos-worshipping loonies, though - where he gets exceptional is that he absolutely denies ALL the chaos gods as just very strange and powerful natural phenomena that can be understood and manipulated, despite the fact that getting a glimpse of a glimpse of one literally killed him (it's okay, he got better).
CIAPHIAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM (title and all-caps demanded) is a Commissar, a brutal political officer whose job is to shoot soldiers who run away. These soldiers, of course, are the little human grunts with no superpowers up against reality-destroying monsters and genetic supersoldiers. The thing is, CIAPHIAS CAIN, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM is secretly a complete coward who constantly is trying to save his own skin and get out of danger - ie the exact kind of person he is supposed to shoot. In the process, he always accidentally comes out looking like an incredibly brave hero (in his first story, he tries to run away from an alien attack, and accidentally reveals that the aliens were also coming up from behind, saving everyone from being surrounded and eaten). He's also an okay guy at heart, but will never admit it.
Roboutte Guilleman, whose fan-names are infinite (Rawbutt Girlyman, Robot Gorillaman, Papa Blueberry), is the 10,000 year old leader/genetic donor to one of the more prominent human-supersoldier factions, the Ultramarines. Recently awoken from a long nap, he has found out that the Imperium he fought for, an empire founded on reason and anti-religion, has turned to fanatically worshipping his super-atheist dad, the Emperor of Mankind, while he was asleep. Finding out that the One Thing He Didn't Want To Happen happened while he was asleep, he's thrown himself into filling out paperwork (his favorite pastime) in an effort to unfuck this new, superstition-ridden society he's trapped in. He's probably not going to succeed, but we love him anyway.
The God-Emperor of Mankind AKA 'Big E', was a great crusading super-atheist 10,000 years before Warhammer 40k takes place. The primary human faction follows him with absolute unquestioning devotion. The thing is, 10,000 years ago he got a bad case of 'mostly-dead', and has spent said 10,000 years on life support (but on a throne, so you remember he's an EMPEROR), unable to communicate with anyone. Naturally, since he tried to implement super-atheism, the empire he founded decided to worship him as a god. He is presumably not chuffed about this, but there's not much he can do to communicate his displeasure. He's also a terrible dad to his superpowered sons (like Roboutte above).
Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U.S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution....
Explanation: At the Battle of Cynoscephalae, a Roman tribune, a mid-level officer, demonstrated the flexibility and responsiveness of the Roman military system by wheeling around some 2,500 men, pursuing fleeing skirmishers, to hit the rear of the opposing Macedonian phalanx, which had fought the other part of the Roman force to a standstill. As the Macedonians could not effectively turn their formation of long pikes, they were utterly overrun, turning what seemed to be a hard-fought draw or near-win for the Romans into a total and devastating victory.
Yeah, it was the Achilles' Heel (dohohoho) of the weapon.
Later, Medieval pike formations would mix in soldiers with shorter weapons in the formation (swords and halberds, typically) so if anything nasty like that happened, the troops with weapons that weren't almost 20 feet long could buy the pikes some time to get themselves somewhere where they weren't 100% useless, lmao.
Israel-Hamas war protests close on a handful of US campuses as arrests exceed 2,300 (apnews.com)
I want to see the people coming into these threads defending the cops closing down these camps defend the cops arresting 2300 people.
Houthis say they will target Israel-bound ships anywhere within their range (www.aljazeera.com)
Yemen’s Houthis will target ships heading to Israeli ports in any area within their range, the group’s military spokesperson Yahya Saree has said in a televised speech....
Poultry enterprise in California to pay $4.8M after employing children to work with sharp knives (abcnews.go.com)
The wage settlement is one of the largest ever reached for U.S. poultry workers....
Most of it stems from the fact there's an alternate reality just next to ours. (lemmy.world)
Image source here.
Eldar Waifu Compass
Modders have really thought of everything, huh? (lemmy.world)
English billman compared to a Scottish pikeman, ~13th-14th century AD
Russian state media is posting more on TikTok ahead of the U.S. presidential election, study says (apnews.com)
Russian state-affiliated accounts have boosted their use of TikTok and are getting more engagement on the short-form video platform ahead of the U.S. presidential election, according to a study published Thursday by the nonprofit Brookings Institution....
Gurney, his pug defiant!
Curious, the similarities
Spiraling
Various elves, including Shadowheart and Astarion (Ryoko Kui)
How Magic Works (by Centurii-chan)
Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat (www.bbc.com)
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned lab-grown meat, saying he will “save our beef” from the “global elite” and its “authoritarian plans”....
US Kingfisher seaplane, Florida, USA, WW2, 1942?
Ruins of Hadrian's Wall, with illustration of construction
Construction of Hadrian's wall, with modern ruins
"What do you mean Greeks can't change direction"
Guardtaker
Cute lil war machines