Ukraine’s Best Fighting Vehicles Attacked Past Veseloe In Western Russia—And Got Caught In A Brutal Ambush
Ukraine’s Best Fighting Vehicles Attacked Past Veseloe In Western Russia—And Got Caught In A Brutal Ambush
The Ukrainians lost at least one CV90, a Marder, an M-2 and a Stryker.David Axe (Forbes)
Ukraine’s Best Fighting Vehicles Attacked Past Veseloe In Western Russia—And Got Caught In A Brutal Ambush
Ukraine’s Best Fighting Vehicles Attacked Past Veseloe In Western Russia—And Got Caught In A Brutal Ambush
The Ukrainians lost at least one CV90, a Marder, an M-2 and a Stryker.David Axe (Forbes)
World’s oldest known (representational) artwork in Indonesian cave dated using lasers
Laser-induced imaging of radioactive elements was used to work out the age of an ancient cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The results reveal that the narrative scene is 51,200 years old, making it the earliest known example of representational art. This study challenges previous dating methods and suggests a deeper origin for human image-making and storytelling.
TL;DR or if you don't have access to the article: the researchers invented a faster, less-destructive and more-accurate rock art dating method & applied it to humanity's oldest known rock art in Sulawesi, Indonesia. The art is at least 51,200 years old (authors' lower estimate)!
Edit: contrary to what the news title original stated: this is the oldest representational art, not the literal oldest human-created art.
The paper itself (open access): doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-075…
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Title might be a bit clickbait though.
It’s oldest known representational art. Not oldest known art.
For example the carvings in the Blomos cave in South Africa are atleast 75’000 years old.
Edit: Thank you for editing the title! That’s pretty weird mistake by Nature I thought they had high standards. Well they have peer reviewed and approved some dodgy research in my field recently so maybe I should be more skeptical.
I love hearing stuff like this. 51, 000 years old is already insane. 75,000 years old is 24,000 years older than that. I can't even imagine 24,000 years older than today.
Why can't we get movies about this shit instead of another Marvel sequel? I want some scientifically accurate adventure about life in 73,000 BC.
Well the problem is we know very little. So a movie like that would be complete guesswork.
You might enjoy the youtube channel “Stephan Milo” though. His videos are well sourced and have a lot of expert interviews. And he focuses on this kind of stuff.
First Greenhouse Gas Plumes Detected With NASA-Designed Instrument
The imaging spectrometer aboard the Carbon Mapper Coalition’s Tanager-1 satellite identified methane and carbon dioxide plumes in the United States and internationally.
Using data from an instrument designed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the nonprofit Carbon Mapper has released the first methane and carbon dioxide detections from the Tanager-1 satellite. The detections highlight methane plumes in Pakistan and Texas, as well as a carbon dioxide plume in South Africa.
The data contributes to Carbon Mapper’s goal to identify and measure greenhouse gas point-source emissions on a global scale and make that information accessible and actionable.
But NASA does care about Congress approving its budget requests. And the Republican controlled House and Republican filibustering Senate minority do not want anything done about climate change.
Thus sadly, it may lead to blowback against NASA by the currently insane US right. There's already talk about elimination of NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration), privatizing its weather forecasting, and restructuring NASA's Earth observation initiatives that involve climate research.
Regardless of who wins the presidency next month and who has the majority in either house of Congress, the Republican party will try to block such research or dismiss its findings.
If Trump wins, he and his Agenda 2025 cronies (including his VP) will manipulate him to rip anything like this out. Plus Trump's boss Putin needs to keep selling fossil fuels as the main thing keeping Russia's economy afloat.
Assessing Chinese socialism 75 years after its revolution
Assessing Chinese socialism 75 years after its revolution - Friends of Socialist China
The following article by Andrew Murray explores the enduring significance of the People’s Republic of China, 75 years after its founding.Friends of Socialist China
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“…the ongoing eastward and southward shift of the world’s economic and political centre of gravity.”
Citation needed
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Att utesluta Kristofer Lundberg skulle kraftigt försvaga V. Vänsterpartiets starkaste distrikt i Göteborg ligger i två områden. Majorna och Angered. Där fick Vänsterpartiets 40% av rösterna i EU-valet i många valdistrikt.
blog.zaramis.se/2024/10/11/att…
2 off-duty NYC housing authority employees arrested in gang attack on ex-New York governor
2 off-duty NYC housing authority employees arrested in gang attack on ex-New York governor
Travor Nurse and Diamond Minter were charged with gang assault. Both are employees with the New York City Housing Authority, police said., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
Japan’s“great ally”, USA, used to boil flesh off of Japanese skulls and send them home as war trophies and gifts to their sweeties back home.
A young woman writing a thank you note to her boyfriend in the Navy for the skull of a Japanese soldier that he sent, 1944
A rare and disturbing picture, so much about this is still a mystery. We don’t know what became of the skull—or, indeed, what became of the young woman herself, or…RHP (Rare Historical Photos)
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Yeah, turns out war is pretty fucked up. Look up the rape of nanjing. Or Pearl Harbor. Or Hiroshima.
You get the idea.
That is edgy. Stalin virulently rebuked war crimes against Nazi Germany's civilians and POWs as it pushed them back.
By contrast, the brutality, starvation, and high death rates for nazi POWs held by the US in western europe during and after ww2 is not a story most ppl know about. Losurdo gets into this a bit, as well as contrasts the nazi's position that the slavic ppl must be eradicated and made into slaves, while the USSR's position was that germany and the german ppl will go on after the war, and efforts should be made to not follow the nazi's scorched earth policy.
Systemic & severe bullying in Pret A Manger shops India
expret.org/2024/10/10/severe-b…
Voyager Fishing Co Ltd ägs av Arnold John Mccullough som bor i fiskeläget Kilkeel i Nordirland. Kilkeel är en del av staden Newry. Han är också ende styrelsemedelam i företaget.
Great article!
I'm a new user of KDE and I like it, but sometimes it's just tiering to try to set it up like I would like.
A simple exemple, Meta+Mouse_scroll to change the desktop.
By default in Gnome and I've no idea with KDE (for know, maybe you have a tip for me???? ;) ).
Interesting blog post!
I'll definitely be checking KDE out after last using it years ago! (no slight on KDE, just my use-case changed and I don't have much use for full DEs on Linux).
Seems osnews.com goes back years and years although I can't say I noticed it until the Asahi kerfuffle and I wasn't impressed with what I saw. Still, not many blogs have that kind of longevity.
Big Tech and the genocide in Gaza: what are companies doing?
Big Tech and the risk of genocide in Gaza
Big Tech is playing a central role in enabling the relentless mass slaughter and destruction unleashed in the war in Gaza.Marwa Fatafta (Access Now)
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‘Catastrophic situation’ at children’s hospital as Israel renews Gaza attacks
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/21271141
Malak A Tantesh in Gaza, Emma Graham-Harrison and Jason Burke
Thu 10 Oct 2024 14.35 EDT
‘Catastrophic situation’ at children’s hospital as Israel renews Gaza attacks
Director of only major hospital in north of strip still offering specialist care says it cannot evacuate all its patientsMalak A Tantesh (The Guardian)
Litteraturpristagaren Han Kang synliggör folkmordet i Korea. Detta gör den sydkoreanska nobelpristagaren i sin senaste bok, Jag tar inte farväl. Det är ett av världens värsta folkmord.
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