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Few things provoke anxiety and depression as powerfully as the feeling of being unjustly wronged.
Sometimes, it’s easy to see how a certain pain is necessary and even beneficial. Other times, it is not. When there is no apparent benefit, one turns to faith, and one can either believe the suffering makes no sense, or believe that it does.
But what can a person base that belief on, beyond simply wanting to believe it?
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There's a scene in The Dark Knight where Alfred explains to Bruce Wayne that some people simply cannot be reasoned with. They aren't interested in money, personal gain or anything you might ordinarily associate with someone's motives.
As Alfred famously puts it, "Some men just want to watch the world burn."
I've been thinking about that scene while watching what's happening in France.
People keep trying to make sense of the destruction. Why burn down buildings? Why smash up businesses? Why destroy the very places ordinary people depend on? What exactly is being achieved?
But perhaps that's where people are making a mistake. They're assuming the destruction has to make sense according to their own understanding of what constitutes a rational objective.
It doesn't...
When you're dealing with people consumed by ideological fanaticism, particularly those who have absolutely no respect for the country, its history, its culture or its institutions, destruction itself can become the objective.
And this is what concerns me about the increasingly aggressive attempts to impose ideologies completely at odds with the values upon which European civilisation was built.
You don't necessarily need to conquer a country militarily to change it beyond recognition. Undermine its institutions, intimidate its population, normalise disorder and gradually make people afraid to defend the very things their society was built upon.
Not every rioter has to share that objective. Some are ideological extremists, others are opportunistic criminals, and some are simply enjoying the chaos.
But the consequences can be much the same.
The mistake is assuming that because their actions make absolutely no sense to you, those actions cannot possibly serve a purpose.
Sometimes the destruction isn't an unfortunate consequence of the objective.
Sometimes the destruction IS the objective.
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The Yorkshire pudding was invented to catch fat. Its original name, in the first recipe ever printed, was the dripping pudding.
That recipe appeared in 1737. A joint of mutton turned on a spit in front of the kitchen fire. As it roasted, the fat ran out of it and fell, hissing, into the hearth. It was the most valuable thing in the meal, and it was going up the chimney.
So some northern cook slid a pan of pancake batter underneath. The fat dripped into it for the whole of the roasting. The batter fried from below and soaked from above, and rose into something crisp, hollow and rich. The recipe tells you to shake the pan now and then, so that it is "light and savoury".
Ten years later a cookery writer called Hannah Glasse printed it again and gave it the name of the county it came from.
It was served first, on its own, with gravy. That was the point. A family filled up on pudding, which was cheap, and the joint went further. The old rule at the table was that those who ate the most pudding got the most meat.
So the nation's favourite side dish began as a device for making sure not one drop of animal fat was lost.
It still only works properly one way. The tin has to be smoking with beef dripping before the batter goes in. Made with oil it comes out pale and tastes of cardboard.
In 2008 the Royal Society of Chemistry solemnly ruled that a true Yorkshire pudding must stand at least four inches tall.
Britain kept the pudding, built a standard for it, and threw away the dripping it was designed to save.
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I want to help clarify some thing about the Wainright CFB tragedy. I work in oil gas and can help explain some things from the pipeline/gaswell side
There are around 180 wellheads on the cfb property. Only 35% of those wellheads are active. There are active gas pipelines running through the properties. There is no crude oil production or infrastructure on the property.
A breach of a gas pipeline would result in a violent blowout followed by intesne thermal heat. They call it a jet fire. The pipeline is highly pressurized with no oxygen in the line. There would be an initial explosion and the fire would burn fiercely like a jet until isolation valves are closed.
Blast zone 200-600ft
Thermal safety zone 1500' - 4000'
A breach of a producing wellhead is a significantly more volatile and complex scenario as the wellhead is the last line of defense between the well and the surface. A breached wellhead can tap into an effectiveicy infinite supply of fuel. If the explosion destroys the valves it is now an uncontrolled blowout. The result would be a giant fire torch generating extreme radiant heat capable of melting nearby metal. It can take weeks to fix these blowouts.
Blast zone 300'-500'
They more than likely did not strike an active wellhead. A truly perplexing event .
I hope this clarifys some information cause I am seeing posts saying there are no active gaslines on the property which is just not true!
With this information you can form your own opinion on could've happened.
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🇺🇸 This is Ralph Rose. He was the U.S. flag bearer at the 1908 London Olympics. Every nation that marched past King Edward VII dipped its flag. Except Ralph and the United States.
Rose, a big shot-putter, kept the Stars and Stripes upright as the team passed the royal box.
The line later attributed to teammate Martin Sheridan, “This flag dips to no earthly king,” is almost certainly legend. The act itself was real.
The practice wasn’t locked in right away. Americans dipped at some Games and held the flag high at others. It became fixed policy ahead of the 1936 Berlin Olympics so the flag would not be lowered before Adolf Hitler.
In 1942 Congress wrote it into the U.S. Flag Code: the flag “should not be dipped to any person or thing.”
It has stayed that way. When the American flag passes a head of state at an Olympic opening ceremony, it stays aloft.
Thanks, Ralph! 🫡🇺🇸
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The Barbary states declared that the
Quran gave them the right to seize Christian ships and enslave their crews.
And the Pasha of Tripoli demanded tribute and declared war on America in 1801
Jefferson refused to pay. He ordered the Marines and the fleet to Tripoli instead.
That's why the Marine Corps hymn still sings
"…to the shores of Tripoli." We didn't negotiate with jihad. We ended it with cannon fire and steel.
America's first war as a free nation was fought against Islamic piracy and slavery.
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In 2014 a firefighter in Massachusetts was diagnosed with cancer. His wife went looking for the cause, and found it in the suit that was supposed to protect him.
Diane Cotter is not a scientist. Her husband Paul had served in Worcester for 27 years. Cancer is now the leading cause of death in the line of duty for American firefighters, and she wanted to know why.
She started with the kit. A modern firefighting suit is made of synthetic fibre and treated to shed water and oil. She wrote to manufacturers and got nowhere. So she posted pieces of gear to a physicist at Notre Dame and asked him to test them.
He found the fabric loaded with fluorinated compounds, the "forever chemicals", at levels he had not seen in any consumer product. They came off on the hands. They were in the dust of the fire stations.
The makers had known what was in it. The firefighters had not. The union has since told its members to wear the suits only when they have to, and the lawsuits are in the courts now.
The same laboratory then tested something else. Children's school uniforms sold as stain resistant. Every one contained the chemicals, and the uniforms had more than almost any other children's clothing. The label on many of them said 100% cotton. The treatment was not on the label.
A fleece sheds rain because of the wax the sheep puts on it, and resists a stain because of the way the fibre is built. It has done so for 10,000 years without a chemist.
We took that property, tried to fake it with a coating, and put the coating on firemen and five year olds.
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Monarch butterfly numbers climbed 64% this season, thanks in part to the growing number of people creating pollinator gardens. It’s a clear reminder of what shared purpose can accomplish. Look what we did
Their recovery is still fragile, though, so continuing, and expanding those plantings next year remains essential.
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Virwat Rogpan, a citizen of Thailand and the only foreigner who was on board a Fly Dubai flight to Israel where a co-pilot tried to crash the plane, who in an interview to his country's media outlets returned the moments
of terror in the air, the number of Israeli passengers who took command - and the warm treatment he received from them.
Rogfan told that everything was going as usual, until in less than three minutes the plane plunged sharply: "It was like being on a roller coaster when we're at a high altitude and suddenly falling down. Because some people finished eating and didn't have belts, their bodies were just floating in air. Children and women screamed and some cried. There were two dives in a row, and I cried three times. "After the dive there was a severe suffocation sensation, and we couldn't communicate clearly with anyone."
He described how Israeli passengers jumped into action to help the attacked Indian captain:
"The passengers asked the staff if there was a doctor, policeman or soldier to help stop the pilot's bleeding. It all happened in about ten
minutes until they took control of the situation, and the pilot that carried out the attack lost consciousness and was tied up.
Rogfan added that Israelis approached him repeatedly: "Their treatment was amazing, they are a very good people. They worried about us all the time
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This is what you get for hooking up your fridge-freezers to the internet and you deserve it. Essential infrastructure like this should be entirely air-gapped and accessible only locally and in-person.
BREAKING: 🇫🇷 A major cyberattack has hit supermarket refrigeration systems across France, reportedly causing fresh and frozen food to spoil after hackers remotely manipulated temperature controls.
According to BFMTV, the attack began overnight from Sunday into Monday, targeting older versions of refrigeration-control software supplied by Danish company Danfoss.
The attackers allegedly exploited the systems’ defrosting function, forcing refrigeration equipment to heat continuously instead of keeping products cold. Temperatures were reportedly set as high as 50°C, destroying entire stocks of food within hours.
Several major supermarket chains have been affected, including Intermarché, Super U and E.Leclerc. Metro stores and independent businesses, including butcher shops also have been impacted.
Around 150 Intermarché stores are reportedly affected, according to industry sources cited by BFMTV. The full number of affected locations remains unclear.
The financial damage is already significant. In Haguenau, Alsace, an Intermarché store reportedly lost its entire frozen-food stock, worth approximately €50,000. A nearby Super U allegedly had to discard both fresh and frozen products, with losses estimated at €220,000. An E.Leclerc store in the same town was also affected, although its losses had not yet been calculated.
The combined losses reported at the Intermarché and Super U stores in Haguenau alone amount to around €270,000. Nationwide damage could reach several million euros.
Intermarché reportedly confirmed the incident in an internal communication, warning that several stores had suffered losses of frozen products. Coopérative U also acknowledged the attack and established crisis teams to assist affected stores and coordinate with refrigeration specialists.
Technical investigations are ongoing, and the full extent of the damage has yet to be established.
Authorities and companies are still working to determine the full circumstances of the attack. The identity of the perpetrators has not been confirmed.
She gives me hope
Heute wurde ich von der Israelitischen Kulturgemeinde Nürnberg IKGN mit dem Arno-Hamburger-Preis für Zivilcourage ausgezeichnet. Ich bin überwältigt und dankbar. (Die Medaille ist wunderschön!)
Arno Hamburger war weit mehr als ein britischer Soldat, Zeuge der Nürnberger Prozesse und Vorsteher der IKGN. Er war ein Macher.
Der nach ihm benannte Preis ist mir Ehre und Verpflichtung.
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I'm always surprised by how many Americans don't know that their country's first war was against the Barbary pirates of North Africa.
They attacked American ships, captured and enslaved American sailors, and demanded tribute payments.
When Jefferson and Adams asked why Americans were being targeted, the Tripolitan ambassador justified it by citing the Quran, claiming that his religion gave them the right to wage war against those who didn't acknowledge their authority.
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In 2006 the commanding general of the US Marines in Iraq banned his men from wearing the most popular sports shirts in America, because of what the burns surgeons were finding.
It was 50 degrees in Anbar province. The issued cotton T-shirt was soaked through in minutes, so Marines had been buying their own. Tight, light, sweat-wicking tops in polyester, the kind every gym in the country is full of. They were cooler and they dried fast. Nearly everybody had them on under the body armour.
Then the roadside bombs started. A bomb under a vehicle produces a flash of fire lasting a second or two. Cotton scorches in that time. Polyester melts.
The Navy doctors at the field hospitals described the result. The shirt turned to liquid and set again on the man's chest and back. A burn that should have been survivable became a far worse one, because there was now a layer of plastic fused across it that had to be cut away.
In April 2006 the order went out from Camp Fallujah. No synthetic athletic clothing outside the wire. It named the brands.
The Marines then went looking for something that wicked sweat, dried fast, did not stink after a week and would not melt. What they found had been grazing in New Zealand the whole time. Fine merino wool is now standard issue next to the skin for troops who expect fire.
That is twice in 25 years, in two different services, that plastic clothing has been tested on young men by an explosion. Both times the answer came off a sheep.
