More than 116 others remain missing after the incident, which, according to survivors, happened near Guhere, north of the fishing town of Obock, during the night of 8-9 October when the boat was travelling from Djibouti to Yemen.

Oh, so the “at least” is doing some heavy lifting. God damn.

Sorry, Velma, it’s time you knew the truth.

You’re really that one Velma inside a video game from Scooby-Doo! Cyber Chase.

Active functioning search engine website “OFFICIAL LAUNCHES” - Google: August 1998 Yandex: 23 September 1997

What on Earth is this link supposed to show? Did you just expect that nobody would check it?

In August 1998, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote Larry and Sergey a check for $100,000, and Google Inc. was officially born. With this investment, the newly incorporated team made the upgrade from the dorms to their first office: a garage in suburban Menlo Park, California, owned by Susan Wojcicki (employee #16 and former CEO of YouTube). Clunky desktop computers, a ping pong table, and bright blue carpet set the scene for those early days and late nights.

This once again establishes that Google Inc. came about in August 1998, not that Google Search did. Google Search existed in 1997; it was a registered, functioning website with a web search engine.

Edit: Huh, I see it’s a bit more complicated. Google Search was available at google.stanford.edu during 1997. Which is still a functioning domain that uses Google Search to index the web.

Edit 2: Unrelated to this, the fact the first version of the Google logo was created in GIMP is so quaint. TIL

Double nope.

Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, [emphasis mine] which has become the most used web-based search engine.

Google Search had already existed since the domain was registered. (EDIT: See comments below. I don’t know that this is true. It seems google.stanford.edu was up as a functioning web search engine in 1997, but this is getting murky.) You’re talking about Google Inc. the company which was created in 1998. Google Search was launched in 1997.

However, by that comparison, it’s vastly less close, as Yandex LLC was first legally registered 14 September 2000.

TL;DR: You were comparing apples to oranges.

Search website:

• Google: 15 September 1997
• Yandex: 23 September 1997

Legally registered company:

• Google Inc.: 1998
• Yandex LLC: 14 September 2000

Edit: And to clarify, I think the sensible metric here, that works in Yandex’s favor by bringing the two within eight days of each other instead of approximately two years, is to use the date their search engine websites launched and were functioning, not when they filed paperwork that said “We’re legally a company now 🥳”.

That’s not true.

• google.com launched 15 September 1997.
• yandex.ru was announced 23 September 1997.

Which makes them hilariously close, but Google still precedes Yandex, as their search engine websites were their first products.

This kind of even basic information is being deliberately obscured from us; we’re just supposed to shut up and treat our occupation by a surveillance corporation as a fact of life. Misunderstandings about it should be treated as an opportunity to build solidarity; I feel happy to have taught you something about it.

FYI, “Falcon” is a Flock model, not a separate brand. This website is specifically Flock-branded cameras, but non-Flocks, as stated, are more than welcome on an open knowledgebase like OpenStreetMap.

I’ll give it a listen; thank you for the rec!

Tally Hall’s song “Ruler of Everything” is a “nothing matters and that’s terrifying” song. Contrasting that song, though, earlier in the album is “Spring and a Storm”, imo a “nothing matters and that’s okay and special” song. It ends with:

Create until nothing is left to create

And the Universe bursts with an overworked sigh

Then pretend to, pretend to recrown the creation

And sing the same thing 'til the clouds start to cry

And then over and over and over again

And then over and over and-- never again…

In my opinion, a commentary on how everything has already been done and it’s all recycled, but it’s special because we’re here now, and eventually, on a personal and a universal level, there’ll be a last time.

Kyiv*

You’re correct.

But… but they’re convinced!

Edit: It is worth noting, though, that the “some kind of black hole” they’d be referring to are the hypothetical primordial black holes, which does have proponents as an explanation of dark matter.

Mainly I’m just dogging on the “convinced” part – like anyone in this thread seriously has even the remotest understanding to be convinced of an explanation of dark matter.

Dark matter is not a theory. Stop treating it like one.

Wanna see a opinion or someone disproving me.

How about just sitting down and recognizing when you have no idea what you’re talking about instead of trying to backseat a field whose understanding you have is “I watched some YouTube videos lol”.

You sound like a shitty regurgitation of grifter Sabine Hossenfelder.

How can we help?

Somehow, the slightly janky text made me read this in CDi Ganon’s voice like a YTP.

So has Connie Chan, and unlike Wiener, she’s not some shitty “moderate” – the fucking last thing this sinking ship needs right now.

Want to know how I know she said that? Because it’s in the subheader of the article we’re talking about.

Connie Chan, endorsed by Nancy Pelosi to succeed her in California, says she will vote to ‘end a genocide in Gaza’.

Those chips aren’t doing your teeth any favors!

What the fuck are you talking about? This is almost, technically true, except that the arrests were politically motivated by corrupt authoritarian governments, and it’s not even technically true either, as neither the Center for Civil Liberties (2022) nor Nihon Hidankyo (2024) have any criminal background. The last few winners are (interpreting “few” as “four” to be generous):

• 2022:
  • Ales Bialiatski (Belarusian human rights activist who’s technically a “criminal” in the sense he was a prisoner of conscience by Belarus’ corrupt government who whipped up fraudulent charges of “tax evasion”)
  • Memorial (a Russian human rights org dedicated to studying human rights violations under Joseph Stalin; liquidated under Putin’s corrupt government via the repressive foreign agent law designed to stifle criticism)
  • Center for Civil Liberties (a Ukrainian human rights org that documented political persecution in Crimea and Russian war crimes)
• 2023: Narges Mohammadi (a human rights activist who’s been imprisoned multiple times by the IRGC for checks notes advocating for human rights within Iran’s backwards, oppressive regime)
• 2024: Nihon Hidankyo (Japanese lobbying organization dedicated to nuclear disarmament; truly a criminal organization)
• 2025: María Corina Machado (arrested by dictator Nicolás Maduro’s corrupt government in 2014 using forged emails to accuse her of a murder plot, then subject to an attempted arrest in 2025 after she went into then came out of hiding following Maduro’s falsification of the election results).

The image of Hegeseth is real

Sorry, I should’ve been more clear; I was never questioning the Hegseth image.

The image of Hitler may be altered

Generated, not altered. I don’t think this speech footage/image existed at all. The angle is weird along with the other points.