Don’t encourage me.

I’m not mad, at least they are looking in the right direction.

I need this as a chat app sticker lmao.

Lmao

Thanks for another article to dislodge friends from The Poison™.

Lmao NSFW this pls.

The only shooter I’ll play is Hell Let Loose because it really makes you feel like canon fodder.

Fwiw

https://coveringclimatenow.org/from-us-story/the-iran-war-is-also-a-climate-war/

https://theconversation.com/how-to-assess-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-war-215575

Compare to:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/30/carbon-footprint-of-israels-war-on-gaza-exceeds-that-of-many-entire-countries

https://thebulletin.org/2025/07/the-war-lasted-12-days-the-environmental-impact-on-iran-may-last-decades/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_the_Gaza_war

Too tired, but these may help.

I totally agree with you here, this is the important, intended subtext I left out. We just are not used to not having a monopoly on political capital.

I meant is it’s not a service I’d depend on in a regional crisis as they can and will deprioritse it. It is not the main mission as the following passage to that sentence shows:

The functions of a diplomatic mission consist, inter alia, in representing the sending State in the receiving State; protecting in the receiving State the interests of the sending State and of its nationals, within the limits permitted by international law; negotiating with the Government of the receiving State; ascertaining by all lawful means conditions and developments in the receiving State, and reporting thereon to the Government of the sending State; promoting friendly relations between the sending State and the receiving State, and developing their economic, cultural and scientific relations.[18]

It’s not even rare for embassies outside of the first world’s to be openly hostile or outright useless to their own citizens in a pinch during times of peace.

Embassies can deprioritise citizen services when diplomatic relations within the host state make it politically costly to physically impossible, which is exactly what’s happening here. That’s the substantive point about the article and why citizen services are not even mentioned in the introduction.

I’m saying it’s a bonus to a diplomatic mission rather than a duty.

Kind of. Their main purpose, though, is to represent the state for relations and dealings with the host, citizen services are secondary to this. Political capital within that relationship will determine what kind of things that they can help with, but overall you as an individual are responsible for yourself. There’s many places you’re kind of SOL even with an embassy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_mission

It looks like an oil painting, which is bitterly ironic.

Steam Deck Fridays lead to Raccoon Saturdays

I route my ig through matrix via https://beeper.com/ so I don’t have to open the app, but people can also still dm me.

Haha, they just made me sleep. Yuck.

I’ve known drug dealers more honourable than this.

Sometimes it’s good to hear another perspective, though.

triggered