Russian officials continue to accuse Ukraine of committing genocide. On Monday, Russia repeated allegations that the “Russophobic and neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv” was using the United Nations’ 1948 Genocide Convention, to which both countries are a party, as a pretext to “drag” a case before the court.
This strategy of accusing the other side of exactly what you’re doing is so blatantly obnoxious. This sounds the exact same as “Black Lives Matters was the real insurrection”
Dr Caroline Holmes at the British Antarctic Survey explains that the impacts of shrinking sea-ice may become evident as the season transitions to summer - when there’s potential for an unstoppable feedback loop of ice melting.
Even modest increases in sea levels can result in dangerously high storm surges that could wipe out coastal communities. If significant amounts of land ice were to start melting, the impacts would be catastrophic for millions of people around the world.
Buckle up kids, this ride’s about to get bumpier.
Regular maintenance, reinforcements and retrofitting can extend a dam’s safe operation well past 100 years and bring a structure up to current standards, Perera and Shannon say. But many dams don’t receive routine repairs and are not aging gracefully. Just making the recommended fixes to most U.S. dams would cost an estimated $157.5 billion dollars, according to a 2023 report from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials.
So much of today’s news feels like we’re frogs in a pot of boiling water.
“You guys have food here?!?”
De Croo spoke just hours after a sixth school in the French-speaking Wallonia region was torched this week.
Sixth burnt school this week! Holy shit.
I’ve acquired an array of venereal diseases and parasites by way of the restaurants I choose to patronize!
I think this is my favorite sentence I’ve ever read on Lemmy
Forget Paris Fashion Week, I want to go to Okeechobee Fashion Week.
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Obligatory fuck that guy
Crazy that two years ago we thought this was the second best military in the world. They’ve currently got the second best military in Ukraine.
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*Stop allowing zealots to waste America’s time and money
The least destructive sports: Let me fling this ball at 120mph (at another human being).
The most destructive sports: Let me fling myself at top speed at another human being.
The Washington Times, for others out of the loop.
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We’ve had “alternative facts”, get ready for its way more pernicious cousin “alternative history”
Are there any fascist traits that the Republican party isn’t embracing?