“To maintain international peace and security, and to that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace;”- United Nations Charter, Chapter I: Article 1: Section 1
the other sections reference international friendship and equal rights, but section 1 is the meat f why it exists, the UN was created after two World Wars, it’s primary goal is to prevent a third and has so far been overwhelmingly successful.
Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A has sparked a social media backlash after announcing that it will soon allow certain antibiotics in the chickens it raises, citing supply issues....
i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.
Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk....
Shouldn’t this start with 3.5 billion years Ago: TNG All Good Things…?
An actual chronological edit of all star trek would be fun, opens with two scenes of Picard yelling at Q in the mud, jump forward to data hanging out with Mark Twain, then the Guardian of forever and Enterprise fighting Time travelers in WW2. then you have the DS9 Crew messing around in Roswell NM, then the events of the Journey Home.
However, the Soviet Famine killed between 5.7 and 8.7 million people and the population of Gaza and the west bank is only ~5 million, so the famine might have been worse, but no one wins when you play the suffering Olympics.
I worked in another country for a few years, renting was defiantly the better choice at the time. I wasn’t going to be there long enough to break even when I sold, and the headache of buying a property in a country that you don’t have citizenship, trying to get financing, ect. just wasn’t worth it.
Cops tried to arrest a whole neighborhood. This is what happened when the community fought back. (therealnews.com)
[OTJ] Aloe Alchemist (lemmy.world)
[OTJ] Double Down (lemmy.world)
Saudi Arabia to be appointed chair of UN’s gender equality forum (www.amnesty.org)
Chick-fil-A changing its chicken sparks backlash (www.newsweek.com)
Fast-food chain Chick-fil-A has sparked a social media backlash after announcing that it will soon allow certain antibiotics in the chickens it raises, citing supply issues....
TIL that Wyoming is larger than the United Kingdom in area but less populous than Glasgow
Wyoming Area: 253,335 km2...
Trump spirals as bond deadline in fraud case nears (thehill.com)
What do you miss from the old internet?
i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.
me 🐺 irl (lemmy.world)
Democrats who attack the rich do better in elections. The party should take notice (www.theguardian.com)
Blizzard just revived Diablo 4 with a list of changes so massive that it's practically a new game (www.pcgamer.com)
Users shocked to find Instagram limits political content by default (arstechnica.com)
House Republicans Want to Ban Universal Free School Lunches (theintercept.com)
The Republican Study Committee’s annual budget also calls to permanently defund UNRWA and eliminate the National Labor Relations Board....
Kyle Rittenhouse storms off stage after being confronted by students (www.newsweek.com)
Kyle Rittenhouse abruptly departed the stage during an appearance at the University of Memphis on Wednesday, after he was confronted about comments made by Turning Point USA founder and president Charlie Kirk....
Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" (www.gamesradar.com)
We just want good complete micro transactionless games...
“I would be forced to mortgage”: Trump melts down on Truth Social as lawyers admit he can’t get bond (www.salon.com)
Trump fears he may have to “sell Great Assets, perhaps at Fire Sale prices”...
Nvidia Wants to Replace Nurses With AI for $9 an Hour (gizmodo.com)
Ultimate Chronological Star Trek Viewing Guide (www.startrekviewingguide.com)
This was created by Reddit user /u/JohnKFisher, and I think it’s a neat uncluttered guide for all Star Trek that’s especially useful for newbies.
Just a little friendly compromise, what could go wrong? (lemmy.world)
What a benevolent lord!
rule shame (lemmy.ca)
Crazy Taylor Swift guy is a treasure of insane people Facebook. (lemmy.world)