It’s a bad headline dude. Really misleading.

This is not gonna be the vote winner they think it is. And fuck them for trying.

Am I the only one who thinks this is funny? It’s a joke people.

https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/08/07/after-nigers-coup-the-drums-of-war-are-growing-louder?giftId=4e8d7c17-e3cc-4737-9979-dde2527e6236

This article covers a bit of the background.

That’s an amazing and pain stakingly made video. Someone put all these in a playlist, originals and mixes.

Amen.

‘Rome’ by hbo and BBC. Quality program. It was an entertaining show and the broad strokes of history and the details of Roman life (which struck me as a lot weirder and more pagan than you might expect) were done with a lot of care and accuracy. The starting scene was a battle between Romans and Gauls and has some of the most accurate depictions of Roman warfare ever done I reckon. Plus there’s tons of sex.

The feedback loop is positive? I’ve not read that anywhere, are you sure? There’s a number of tipping points, some which we may have passed already but I don’t think there are any beyond the ability of mankind to counter by simply reducing emissions. Seeing as we’re the greatest contributor to greenhouse gases by a mile.

Exactly, he bought it by accident.