To add onto that, Wikipedia has a surprisingly good page about Oct 7 Israeli friendly fire, which includes a paragraph on Yasmine Porat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_fire_during_the_Israel–Hamas_war#7_October:_Hannibal_Directive

done 👍

A reddit thread supposedly debunking the IDF’s Oct 7 “mass Hannibal” friendly fire response is now a top google result if you search “oct 7 mass hannibal”.

old. reddit. com/r/IsraelPalestine/ comments/1fcmh39/ there_was_no_mass_hannibal_on_october_7th/

claims include:

• (in comments) that Israeli air force colonel Nof Erez, who described Oct 7 as a “mass hannibal,” was fired in July 2023 and did not take part in fighting on Oct 7
  • So far I haven’t found any evidence for this but I haven’t scoured the internet
• that most Israeli deaths occurred deeper in Israeli territory, while most Hannibal deaths are implied to have been on the border
  • They have a map of the supposed locations of deaths. The github does not give a paper trail for the data, as far as I can tell
  • I’m also not convinced that the “mass Hannibal” account emphatically puts deaths elsewhere

there are other claims but I’ll post this edit now, I’m still reading

Is there any evidence that the pagers mostly belonged to Hezbollah?

a tornado at night is functionally invisible, especially if it’s rain-wrapped and there are no arcs from breaking power lines. At best you can glimpse it in brief flashes when lightning silhouettes the funnel, like something out of a horror movie.

Sometimes I think about new life refilling the earth millions of years from now, like the dinosaurs after the Permian extinction. It sucks to witness a mass extinction but in the long timeline it’s only an instant. Just happens to be an instant my entire life fits inside of

I recently learned a really weird piece of evidence geologists apparently look at: heavy oxygen trapped in rocks. Turns out water with oxygen18 is slower to evaporate than water with the lighter oxygen16, which apparently means that rocks absorb oxygen18 water more readily than oxygen16 water, and therefore landmasses tend to accumulate oxygen18 leaving less in the seas… which means, when geologists find really old sea floor rocks full of oxygen18, it suggests that there was a lot more oxygen18 in the seas back then, which suggests that there was very little dry land to absorb oxygen18, meaning ancient earth might have been a water world, which is what we see in the start of the video.

https://www.astronomy.com/science/ancient-earth-may-have-been-a-water-world-with-no-dry-land/

*which also has obvious implications for the origins of life, as the article mentions—none of Darwin’s “warm little ponds”

Mostly by looking at patterns across continents. For example the Appalachian mountains and Scottish highlands were once part of the same mountain range. Geologists were able to figure that out by closely examining those mountain ranges. With enough patterns like that you can start to reconstruct the plate movement.

It all comes down to leverage

In a regular job (not owning capital), your wage depends on the cost to your boss if you quit

• if you are enslaved and cannot quit, no one has to pay you anything, because you have no leverage
• if you are easily replaced, you have little leverage by yourself, but a group of you might strike, so your boss has to pay enough to prevent that
  • and because repeated strikes lead to unrest and possibly a larger movement, the government reluctantly enforces some minimal protections
• if you are hard to replace and your work is central to production, you have more leverage and your boss has to pay you more

Most essential work, like harvesting food and hauling away garbage, does not involve special skills, which puts it in the “workers are easy to replace” category. Even though this crucial work is often exhausting, demanding, and at times dangerous, a large pool of people are willing and able to do the work, so the workers have very little individual leverage. Emphasis on individual—a large strike would bring society to its knees.

That was cool, thanks for posting it

often when deals have been in the works ISIS-K suddenly pop up and do terror attacks

do you have any examples off the top of your head? that’s something I’d like to look into

self esteem debt

if I google “self esteem debt” I get “…self esteem. Debt…”

the second time I actually started writing down dates and events to create a timeline

You should consider sharing this some time!

Do they know each other better than they know you? Is there something they all share in common that you don’t? Is there an age gap? Seniority gap? Do they all go to the same church? Have they clocked your politics? Are you new to the area? Are they a clique? Some groups of people just won’t talk to you unless you are socially relevant to them or unusually charismatic. If you’re neither of those things it can be hard to break in.

First time I’ve seen this happen on hexbear

I was actually amazed that calling conservatives weird worked at all. When I heard that Kamala Harris planned to call Trump weird if they debated, and that this was some kind of big strategy, I thought it sounded like the most toothless strategy I had ever heard. But now that I think about it, yes, they are weird, they’re some of the weirdest fucking people on the planet, and nothing hurts like the truth, so I guess I can kind of believe it. It’s still hard to imagine that the insult would hurt if you heard it from a lanyard, though.

As for it having an ableist or queerphobic resonance, that never really occurred to me. But I could see it morphing into that in the future if it lasts that long. Instead of an attack against conservatives it becomes some kind of “horseshoe theory” attack against the right and the left, and then all the queer and neurodivergent and disabled people on the left become “weird” too, while “normal” is a NATO-supporting warhawk neoliberal who wants to glass Ukraine and Palestine.

If im going to sleep, I have to ironically not be in the mindset of trying not to sleep. I can’t think about thinking about falling asleep, or then I can’t fall asleep

Yeah that was pretty much how I got out of it. I decided to try to stay up instead of trying to sleep, and eventually sleep crept up on me. That first night of sleep relieved some of the “how will I ever sleep again” fear and made it easier to sleep the next night, and I gradually returned to a kind of normalcy. It’s been years now, often I can lie down alone with my thoughts and drift off, but when I have something the next day that I really need sleep for I often find that I have to stay up and distract myself until sleep catches me unawares, so end up feeling like shit on the days I most need to be on my game lol.

Anyway, I relate to what you’re going through and I really wish you the best with it.

maybe drink some caffeine and blast out a typo-filled stream-of-consciousness rough draft today?

*I had this typed for a while before I sent it, and I didn’t see that there were already replies

it can be so draining and isolating. I also have issues getting to sleep and sometimes pull all nighters for no reason, and it really fucks with my ability to socially mask and not come off weird to people, so I end up avoiding people.

In my case, there’s probably a lot of factors but I think part of it is lingering fear from an incident in undergrad where I stayed up for four days straight as my increasing desperation to sleep made it paradoxically harder to. I think my adderall prescription at the time might have been too strong and it gradually threw off my brain chemistry. I use a lower dose these days and take tolerance breaks to reset, and an incident like that has never happened again, but I’m forever scared of “trying to sleep” now

I’m not convinced they realize the world is a real place