Brasil

Sauce: https://yande.re/post/show/1058094

Anime: https://anilist.co/anime/6213/Toaru-Kagaku-no-Railgun

Fantastic animation, sounds best with headphones (unless you've got a speaker system like that, you lucky bastard).

I recently read this article from John Bellamy foster where he mentions that the US strategists think they can engage in "limited nuclear war", that is, use nuclear weapons on "tactical" targets and keep nuclear war at a "low" level.

Supposedly, the idea is that the US moves up from low level targets to more important targets, and that at each stage, the Chinese will not escalate because escalation would be top costly for the Chinese (since the Chinese only have ICBMs, their only option of escalation is MAD).

Aparantly, this strategy has also become part of official US doctrine.

My first thought on this is that this strategy is completely insane, because China will not allow it to be played out. If 1 nuke goes off all of them go off.

My second thought on this is that I have no idea what the actual Chinese nuclear policy is, other than their statement to never use nukes in a first strike capacity. Does anybody know of any sources that go into detail on this?

The only good that might come out of this is the removal of tax-exempt status of Catholic churches

I'm keeping an eye out for it. We first saw it on our way out to dinner. And I didn't see it when we came back about an hour later. Hopefully mama found it and got it home. It was barely bigger than a softball. I already know of a rehabber collective that I will call if I do see it again.

I mean, I'm not saying anything conclusive, but if I didn't know who they were, and you told me the left was the school portrait of the right...

A police force has asked people to report crop circles, warning that creating them without the landowner's permission is criminal damage.

Crop circles are a common sight in Wiltshire with many created legally but some are not and Wiltshire Police said they can cause "short and long-term damage to crops and fields".

The force said they also attract other issues, such as unlawful drone use, aggravated trespass and theft from farm buildings.

"While they might look impressive, creating a crop circle without the landowner's permission is criminal damage. These acts can cause serious short and long-term damage to crops and fields and may also attract further illegal activity", said Wiltshire Police.

Spotted on the Airbnb homepage. It even has animations on hover?! This might have been cool when the first iphone came out, but I really hoped we passed this station a long time ago