delirious_owl

delirious_owl , 22 days ago to Canada in Can a diet that's good for the planet reduce your risk of dying from disease?

Just plant based. The protein part doesn't matter

delirious_owl , 22 days ago to Canada in Canadians who have lost their sense of smell say it's misunderstood, undervalued — and deserves more attention

Honestly I like the smell of skunk tho

delirious_owl , 23 days ago (edited 14 days ago) to Today I Learned in TIL: How The IMF and World Bank Debt Trap Countries and Force them into Austerity

Highly recommend the book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

Should be required reading in all the rich countries that give these loans to poor countries.

delirious_owl , 23 days ago to Canada in ‘Opposition and rage’: queer groups challenge Pride to divest from Israel ⋆ The Breach

Pink washing

delirious_owl , 29 days ago to World News in Russia-China gas pipeline deal stalls over what Moscow says Beijing's unreasonable price demands in major blow for Putin

News flash: China doesn't pay fair wages, and they don't like unions.

delirious_owl , 29 days ago to World News in 'Mitigating factors’: Russian soldiers found guilty in domestic violence cases are getting off with just small fines

Is there any military that actually properly convicts their own soldiers for harm they caused to foreign actors in violation of international law?

delirious_owl , 29 days ago to Today I Learned in TIL Catwoman canonically has a sidekick

Doesn't happen to me. Try disabling JavaScript

Edit: why was I down voted?

delirious_owl , 1 month ago to World News in Espionage: In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines

How do you smoke a cig?

delirious_owl , 1 month ago to World News in Espionage: In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines

The only problem I see is that the US is assembling nuclear submarines.

What's being done to stop them?

delirious_owl , 1 month ago to World News in He Made a PowerPoint on Mothers Starving in Gaza. Then He Lost His Government Job.

“Actively silencing discussion of Palestinian lives and the ongoing global health disaster is dehumanizing,” Smith wrote in a resignation letter to Power, “not only to the people of Gaza, but to the people of the United States who deserve to know the extent to which we are paying for and supporting crimes against Palestinians.”

“What happened to me sends a very clear signal to staff: We don’t talk about Gaza,” Smith told The Intercept.

delirious_owl , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to World News in He Made a PowerPoint on Mothers Starving in Gaza. Then He Lost His Government Job.

I mean, how does this presentation align with the USAID mission of bringing profit to US loan sharks who "invest" in poor countries?

delirious_owl , 1 month ago to World News in Israeli journalist says he was threatened by senior intelligence officials if he reported on attempts by the country's spy chief to intimidate ex-prosecutor

Surprised that a country that started as a settler colonial project continues to act as a settler colonial project?

delirious_owl , 1 month ago to World News in Israeli journalist says he was threatened by senior intelligence officials if he reported on attempts by the country's spy chief to intimidate ex-prosecutor

Not sure why you didn't just link to the source article

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-05-29/ty-article-opinion/.premium/reason-for-detention/0000018f-c0d3-dade-adef-ecfb884f0000

Edit: oh nvm this article doesn't load, ugh.

delirious_owl , 1 month ago to Canada in An oligopoly is driving up grocery prices. What can we do?

C. S. A.

delirious_owl , 1 month ago to Today I Learned in TIL Making a living writing books is more or less as rare as becoming a billionaire

Well, true on the physical copy. I love my audio books and e-ink reader.