this is the olive oil I use! it's so good. I buy the 3 liter cans now, and refill the pretty bottle when needed.
If youre in the Netherlands you can buy it here to support Palestinian farmers: https://fairtradepalestine.org/product-categorie/palestijnse-olijfolie/
I know people who use it as a planter thing. Just cut it in half, drill holes and add soils to plant any herbs or microveggies you like but that tin is too nice. So Idk.
was at a bar and a 50+ year old drunk white woman complimented me and my friend's outfits, told us there was a campsite up in northern maryland where a lot of gay bears go to have sex in the woods. we asked her how she knew about this and she very aggressively said "because i'm a FAG HAG!!! but i'm not allowed to say that anymore I GUESS!!!"
what is it with people constantly trying to assert that “binary trans people” are somehow easier for conservatives to stomach when almost every single international and domestic anti-trans policy/ruling is explicitly (if not exclusively) about trans women. you can talk about the issues nonbinary people face without writing fanfiction about reality
Wang Quanying, who has died at the age of 105, was the last surviving woman to have taken part in the Long March – the epic fighting retreat
Born in 1921 into a poor Tibetan family in Jinchuan county, Aba Tibetan and Qiang autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province, Wang endured a difficult childhood. She lost her parents at the age of 1 and was raised by her uncle until she was 5. She then worked as a child laborer for a local landlord, doing heavy farm and household work.
At the age of 14, she was deeply inspired by the disciplined and people-oriented conduct of Red Army soldiers after they arrived in Jinchuan in 1935. She volunteered to join the troops, undertaking logistical and medical duties, including guiding marches, cooking, transporting grain and caring for wounded soldiers during the Long March.
In March 1936, Wang became separated from the main force during fierce battles against Kuomintang troops in Danba county. Stranded with injured comrades, she tried to rejoin the troops by crossing snowcapped mountains barefoot and surviving on wild plants in freezing temperatures.
Separated from her unit in fierce fighting near Danba in 1936, she crossed the snow-capped mountains on foot, surviving on wild plants and losing a toe to frostbite, before settling anonymously in Wenchuan county, where she lived quietly for decades. Her service was only officially recognised in the 1980s.
rewatching nolan films this week and i completely forgot “you either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” was a line from the dark knight LMAOOOOOOOO
you don't unlock abilities or get any better at fighting. you just get a head rush from dealing or taking damage, which allows you to ignore pain and stay in the fight longer
New evidence has emerged of U.S. Coast Guard activity in the aftermath of two strikes, further corroborating survivor testimony.
The prosecutor investigating US boat strikes and torture allegations in Ecuador was assassinated.
We uncovered NASA images and videos of the US Coast Guard that corroborates the victims’ testimonies. Then, the prosecutor working the case was shot and killed in broad daylight.
remember that guy that had a single auditory hallucination that told him he had a brain tumor and the exact location and then he went to the doctor and it was fucking right
it rly is insane how even more aggressive the major tech industries have gotten in terms of outsourcing manual labour to foreign nations. more and more companies are just going mask-off with their facade of "revolutionary AI" just being piloted by someone in Asia or Africa who is either skirting the poverty line, or already under and struggling to stay afloat. like i am struggling to find the words for how outrageous this is. honestly sickening
Rubio report on Cuban subversion names Zohran Mamdani, Amy Goodman, Hasan Piker + orgs like DSA and Amazon Labor Union
“Many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history — from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses — can be linked, in some way, shape, or form, to Cuban influence,” the report says.
As for who these supposed agents of Cuban influence are, the report is remarkably explicit. It names people like Ben Cohen (of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame), Mayors Zohran Mamdani and Karen Bass, media figures like Amy Goodman and Hasan Piker, and organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America and the Amazon Labor Union.
The implication is clear: Secretary of State Marco Rubio thinks there should be a modern-day blacklist of the political left in America. In fact, the report explicitly mentions the “blacklists, McCarthy-era investigations and prosecutions” of the 1950s and their effectiveness at dismembering the Communist Party USA.
The 100-page report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” was released this morning.
in all seriousness though this is a terrifying escalation in rhetoric, and frankly, i would call it genocidal language being aimed at Cubans in particular, but Latin America more broadly.
There’s some confusion about why this is happening in the tags and I want to quickly explain - it’s for the same reason Nazi Germany presented the Soviet Union as the source of its domestic “Jewish problem” and socialist labor organizing: to justify a military invasion (in our case, Cuba), to justify genocide of the domestic representative of the alleged foreign threat (in our case, Latinos) and to justify domestic repression of the revolutionary left so as to weaken any possible resistance to the two former ambitions.
They name the George Floyd Uprisings, Antifascism and pro-Palestine campus politics for the same reason Nazis and Neo-Nazis see the specter of the Jew behind every social movement for justice and specifically communism. They are conflating migrants, a foreign power and communist politics for the same reason the Nazis did with Jews and the Soviet Union. They called that worldview “Judeo-Bolshevikism,” that was their driving conspiracy. Today it is “The Great Replacement” that is their rallying call.
Don’t let Hasan or Ben and Jerry’s name distract you from the larger move being made here. They want to attack any dissenting voice, but it’s towards a rational goal, the ones mentioned previously.
Sorry this is my third post about this today. I hope that some truly awful things happen with these models and I will be a changed person on the day that they do.
A powerful earthquake that struck the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela resulted in numerous casualties and widespread destruction. However,
On June 24, two powerful earthquakes with magnitudes of 7.2–7.5 struck Venezuela, killing more than 5,200 people, injuring over 11,000, and leaving around 43,000 citizens missing. According to satellite data from NASA and United Nations estimates, more than 58,000 buildings were either completely destroyed or damaged. Severe destruction was reported in the capital district of Caracas, La Guaira, and Aragua state. The earthquake became the strongest in the country in the past 126 years.
However, the residential complex Ciudad Tiuna on the outskirts of Caracas, built by specialists from the Belarusian company OJSC Belzarubezhstroy, was practically unaffected. Residential neighbourhoods constructed by the Belarusian company OJSC MAPID in La Guaira and Aragua also survived intact.
The Ciudad Tiuna residential complex was launched in 2011 as part of Venezuela’s social housing programme, the “Great Mission Housing Venezuela”, initiated by President Hugo Chávez. The initiative was prompted by catastrophic floods that left hundreds of thousands of residents of impoverished neighbourhoods homeless (notably, the presidential palace of Miraflores was even used as temporary shelter for some of those affected).
At the same time, a 174-hectare plot of land was allocated for construction on the territory of one of the country’s largest military bases — Fort Tiuna. The construction was carried out by companies from China, Russia, and Belarus.
The project was financed 80% by the state, primarily through Venezuela’s state-owned oil and gas company Petróleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), as well as through investments from China, Russia, Iran, Uruguay, Belarus, the savings fund of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), and other sources.
The first residents of Ciudad Tiuna were people affected by the floods and members of the National Guard. Apartments were purchased through long-term instalment plans, with housing costs calculated based on actual construction expenses rather than market prices and profit margins. The properties were transferred to families as private ownership, but with certain restrictions: if an apartment was sold within 30 years, the state had the preferential right to purchase it.
Apartments built for former slum residents met high social standards: many featured two bathrooms, while the average living area was around 68 square metres.
At the same time, schools, sports facilities, the Tiuna El Fuerte Cultural Park, as well as a cultural and arts education centre for children and adults, were opened. [...]
In July 2014, during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Venezuela, Ciudad Tiuna became one of the prominent examples of successful cooperation between the Bolivarian Republic and China, Russia, and Belarus.
From 2011 to 2017 alone, the company Belzarubezhstroy built around 20,000 facilities in Venezuela. In addition to housing, Belarusian specialists constructed a brick factory, a workshop for assembling MAZ vehicles, a Belarus tractor manufacturing plant, and facilities for producing AMKODOR construction machinery.
The new buildings in Ciudad Tiuna are high-rise structures. For example, residential tower A-13 of the Ciudad Tiuna complex has 15 floors. Yet it was precisely these high-rise buildings that withstood the earthquake. What is the secret behind their strength?
The first to report that the Belarusian-built houses had not suffered even a single crack was Elena, a Russian-speaking guide in Caracas. She also published a video showing the buildings, which was quickly picked up and widely discussed by users online.
Some commenters wrote: “So it’s not only Belarusian products that are high quality?”, “It is all thanks to the fact that the Belarusian engineering school preserved old Soviet SNiP and GOST standards,” and “Belarusian builders have a conscience.” Others expressed scepticism, pointing out that not only the buildings constructed by Belarusians had survived, but also other structures in the area. In their view, the reason was that the earthquake’s epicentre was not located in this district but closer to the coastline.
However, many high-rise buildings in Caracas itself were damaged during the earthquake. In many cases, buildings in the city are constructed using unreinforced brick masonry, while in private residential areas houses are often built from adobe. Belarusian designers and construction specialists had taken the region’s high seismic activity into account in advance. At the same time, in Belarus itself — a country not prone to strong earthquakes — additional measures to reinforce structures are generally applied only when constructing buildings taller than 75 metres and at the Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant.
In Venezuela, Belarusian builders, meanwhile, constructed facilities exclusively using reinforced monolithic concrete technology. In particular, for high-rise buildings in Caracas, pile foundations were installed to depths of up to 20 metres, followed by the pouring of a monolithic slab and the construction of a monolithic building frame. The thickness of the reinforcement, the spacing of the rebar grid, the concrete grade, and other parameters were calculated with an increased safety margin.
