Israel did not have a realistic plan for regime change when it attacked Iran, multiple Israeli security sources have said, with expectations that airstrikes could lead to a popular uprising having been driven by “wishful thinking” rather than hard intelligence.

A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago “is lutris slop now” and noted an increasing amount of “LLM generated commits”. To which the Lutris creator replied:

A man who was shot by police and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for an ambulance after an officer having a “mild anxiety attack” took the first one that arrived at the scene, according to a newly released state investigation.

Obligatory damn clankers.

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Press photographers were reportedly barred from Pentagon press briefings after Pete Hegseth‘s staff became irked over unflattering photos of the defense secretary. The office of the notoriously vain Cabinet member — a former Fox News host who had a hair and makeup studio built in the Pentagon shortly after being confirmed — should probably have more important things on his mind, chiefly the war in Iran, and, perhaps, the elementary school there that the United States appears to have bombed.

Seen on the DC metro

Wer von euch war das?

KEY POINTS

DS9 s5e16 “Doctor Bashir, I Presume?”

War and Peas: - Mastodon; - Bluesky.

found somewhere on lemmy 3 days ago

A tiny frog sits on a toadstool in a forest. Text reads: Psst Hey kid Wanna meet the fae?

Migration minister Mike Tapp failed a UK citizenship test question before insisting he is a “proud Brit.” Speaking at a parliamentary committee on settlement, citizenship, and integration on Tuesday, 10 March, the Labour MP for Dover and Deal admitted he did not know the height of the London Eye - one of the questions in the official UK citizenship test. “I am confident that I would be able to pass the test, I’m a proud Brit,” he added, but promised to “take a keen interest” in knowing the answer “when it comes up again” in the same meeting next year. Chair of the committee, Lord Don Foster, said he will “follow up” on Mr Tapp’s word.

Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt said the numbers indicate “historic levels of anger and disgust with our political and economic systems.”

This is so sad… Alexa, Play Despacito…

Today’s game is Minecraft Legacy Console Edition. You might be thinking “You mean Xbox 360/PS3/Wii U/etc.?” But nope. Someone has made a port of it to PC. I will admit I only scanned the source code, and while it looked clean it’s not an endorsement of this being clean. Either morally or malware wise.

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“Easy-to-install solar panels that plug into a regular outlet are getting attention just as Americans are worried about rising energy costs. That’s because these plug-in or balcony solar panels start shaving off part of a homeowner’s or renter’s utility bill right away.

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The agency once said that pieces of space debris “pose a significant risk,” but the Trump administration has backed off a rule that would have required companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX to remove rocket parts from orbit within 25 years of launch.

The Israeli army committed a massacre in the heart of Beirut early on 12 March, targeting a group of displaced Lebanese civilians with a drone and killing eight in the Ramlet al-Bayda beach area.

Google founder backs both Republican and Democrat in governor’s race while ex-CEO fights billionaire tax

Free my boy !!

A British man has been charged under cyber-crime laws in Dubai after allegedly filming Iranian missiles over the city.

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The U.S. dropped nearly $6 billion worth of munitions on Iran in just the first two days of the U.S.-Israeli assault, officials say, giving a sense of the staggering scope of the carpet bombing campaign as the Trump administration sweeps aside affordability crises at home.

Here’s a headline I never thought I’d read.

Police body camera and weapons juggernaut Axon is reporting blockbuster earnings amid the Trump administration’s explosive spending on immigration policing. The company is resisting efforts to make it disclose its political spending strategy.

Two people are injured and the suspected gunman is dead following a shooting at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Paramedics reported that Perrotta declined treatment in the ambulance.

On Wednesday, the country’s sports minister, Ahmad Donyamali, told state television that the country’s team would not participate in the tournament in the U.S. “considering this corrupt regime has assassinated our leader,” according to the New York Times.

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/c/mop/p/747093/we-do-a-little-silly-goofy

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