I think the story you’re referring to is that NYT itself owns a house in what used to be a Palestinian neighbourhood in West Jerusalem. It’s possible that there’s something about one of the owners, but I do not know about that

The house in question is in Qatamon, which was on the Israeli-controlled side of the 1949 Green Line. It was majority-Palestinian, but most of the residents fled during the war. Israel allowed Jews who had fled from the other side of the Green Line to settle it. In 1984, the NYT bought the house for the use of its Jerusalem bureau chief. It got some attention a while back when the NYT journalist living there read the writings of a Palestinian woman who had grown up there, realised she was talking about the same house (or more specifically, the house that his house was built as an upper floor extension of), and invited her to visit

He already has been, the amount of money Lockheed Martin has missed out on due to countries turning away from the F-35 is eye-watering

Both, based on IFW Kiel’s numbers. Military aid was about even until the end of Biden’s term, Europe generally provided a bit more non-military. The US sent a huge amount right at the end of Biden’s term. Since then, the US has sent basically nothing and Europe has mostly covered the shortfall

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That price includes a whole bunch of stuff besides the actual tank. To quote the Czech Ministry of Defence (machine-translated):

The purchase price of 44 tanks includes self-propelled and anti-mine protection systems, as well as integrated logistics support including spare parts, support management, documentation and training.

So basically it’s 44 tanks plus a massive service and supply contract to keep the tanks running properly

Most of the Nordic countries do not have those. Norway has a lot, Denmark has a little, the others have nothing significant

It was at least common in (my part of) the UK when I was in university over a decade ago

Oh wow, I had completely forgotten about all the hydrogen car experiments! There was even an actual functioning hydrogen bus system for a little while in a city not too far from me

Thanks for the link, that was interesting

It’s so bizarre to me that Toyota in particular isn’t a bigger player in the EV market after they were the first to get a mass market hybrid going. They were halfway there before anyone else, why’d they stumble so badly?

Well as a nonsense sound in music it’s way older than that, right? Like Scatman John used it a whole bunch. The notability of it recently is that is started to be used more like a normal word, even if there’s still not much of a meaning

Well yeah, every map projection has to mis-represent something. In this case they’re arguing that presenting area is more important than presenting angles. Outside of long-distance travel on ships and planes, which are not using general-purpose world maps, nobody is navigating with a world map, so I think that they’re probably right here. It seems more important to me to understand the relative size of Africa to other landmasses than it is to know that the Korean peninsula is actually a few degrees off of being straight north of Borneo

They did. They are specifically advocating for the Equal Earth projection.

I personally think that Eckert IV is a little more visually pleasing while otherwise achieving all the same benefits as Equal Earth, but both are good

Seriously, I’ve never worked anywhere dealing with anything so sensitive as “the government raiding homes” and yet still several of them would have rightly chewed me out if I was using whatsapp for business

Ramming the other Chinese ship definitely wasn’t intentional, but I’m considering the behaviour of both Chinese ships as attempts to ram the Filipino one. If it wasn’t an intent to ram then it was an utterly reckless risk of ramming

Respect to the Filipino sailors for offering to help the people that literally just tried to ram their ship

I suppose she was probably a monarchist herself, even if that’s not why her death got so much ridiculous fuss

Elizabeth’s funeral took place over one day. If you’re counting the lying-in-state, you should also count it for Kim

Deprivation Of Rights Under Color Of Law is the one, by the looks of it. Which explains to some degree why every news outlet is describing it the way they are. NBC gives the actual name https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/breonna-taylors-family-heartbroken-one-day-sentence-recommendation-ex-rcna219947