War Thunder is a game where you buy tanks, planes, warships and other military vehicles and have battles. By all accounts if you like those types of games, it's one of the best ones around
But what the game is famous for is that all the tanks in game are real military vehicles. And whether their stats in game are accurate to the real world is a hotly debated topic among players
Which had lead to multiple instances of players leaking classified military documents on the War Thunder forums to win arguments over whether their preferred in-game tank is or is not accurate
Of the top of my head, this had happened 6 times now, the most recent instance being within the last week, but I don't play it so there may be more I'm forgetting
The game Devs have had to repeatedly ask their players not to commit treason over the game, and to date, they are not being listened to
Which leads up to the post above, with 'playing war thunder' being considered a credible reason not to employ someone in the military
On this day, 25 January 1911 Kanno Sugako, a Japanese anarchist feminist, was executed for her part in a plot to assassinate the Emperor. She remains the only woman to be executed in Japan for treason (content note: sexual violence).
Radicalised at the age of 14 after being raped, she was one of Japan’s first women journalists and advocates of women’s rights, as well as a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction. She was inspired by Sophia Perovskaya, who helped assassinate the Russian Tsar.
Sugako had admitted her guilt in the plot, as had her half-dozen or so co-conspirators. But 24 anarchists, who were mostly innocent, were sentenced to death, which enraged Sugako.
In her prison diary she wrote: “Needless to say, I was prepared for the death sentence. My only concern day and night was to see as many of my… fellow defendants saved as possible… I am convinced our sacrifice is not in vain. It will bear fruit in the future. I am confident that because I firmly believe my death will serve a valuable purpose I will be able to maintain my self-respect until the last moment on the scaffold. I will be enveloped in the marvelously comforting thought that I am sacrificing myself for the cause. I believe I will be able to die a noble death without fear or anguish.”
In her final entry she wrote of how he felt upon learning that 12 of her fellow defendants were reprieved, and so would not be executed: “I am very happy that some of the defendants have been saved. They must be the people who I was certain were innocent. After hearing the news I felt that half the burden on my shoulders had been lifted.”
You can read her full diary here: https://libcom.org/history/reflections-way-gallows https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2194604487391356/?type=3
Insects don’t have just one central brain inside their head that controls everything but rather a string of ganglia (masses of nerve tissue) that starts in the head as a larger mass (the brain) and continues throughout the body:
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So they can live a while without a head because the ganglia in the body continue to control it. They generally can’t live long without a head, though, since they can’t see or eat.
Interestingly, there’s a strange amount of videos online showing flies in particular juggling their own head. Not sure why!
I learned in my political science class that all major famines in the 20th century and onward have been caused by oppressive groups or political situations restricting access to food, NOT natural causes like crop failure
The Manitoba government is putting up close to $900,000 to set up the province's first Indigenous-led Rapid Access to Addictions Medicine cl
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is putting up close to $900,000 to set up the province's first Indigenous-led Rapid Access to Addictions Medicine clinic.
There are already six such clinics, which provide assessments, counselling, medication and referrals to treatment programs.
The government says the new Indigenous-led one will open in the spring in central Winnipeg and will offer culturally relevant programming.
The clinic will be open five days a week, have a mobile outreach vehicle and provide up to 2,300 patient visits per year.
The clinic will be run by the Aboriginal Health and Wellness Centre, which says the staff will be largely Indigenous and will have experience in helping people with addiction.
Monica Cyr, the centre's director of research, says the rapid-access clinic will be a big help.
"We believe compassion, empathy and anti-racist care is how community members attain their personal best," she said Tuesday.
A Quebec Innu community is suing Hydro-Quebec for $2.2-billion, claiming the Churchill Falls hydroelectric station has destroyed a significa
A Quebec Innu community is suing Hydro-Quebec for $2.2-billion, claiming the Churchill Falls hydroelectric station has destroyed a significant part of their traditional territory.
The lawsuit filed Friday in Quebec Superior Court by the Innu of Uashat Mak Mani-Utenam claims the megaproject's reservoirs and more than 1,000 kilometres of transmission lines "flooded and destroyed" part of their traditional territory and disrupted the community's traditional activities.
The band council says construction of the 5,428-megawatt station in Labrador and its transmission facilities in the 1960s and early 1970swas donewithout the consent of the community near Sept-Iles, Que.
A 1969 agreement that allows Hydro-Quebec to purchase the majority of the electricity generated at the station and reap most of the profits ends in 2041. [...]
The community is asking the court to recognize its Aboriginal title to the affected territory and wants an injunction to prohibit the Crown corporation from making any new agreement without the participation and consent of the band council.
The lawsuit also names as a defendant Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation Ltd., which operates the power plant and transmission facilities. [...]
The Île-à-la-Crosse boarding school operated in northern Saskatchewan for more than 100 years.
Warning: This story contains distressing details.
Six survivors of the Île-à-la-Crosse boarding school in Saskatchewan have launched a proposed class-action lawsuit against the federal and provincial governments, saying they deserve compensation and recognition for physical, sexual and emotional abuse they endured at the school.
The school operated in the community, about 460 kilometres north of Saskatoon, from the 1860s to the 1970s.
Île-à-la-Crosse students were denied the Indian Residential School settlements that others received, on the basis that the school was run by the Roman Catholic Church with no federal funding.
"We suffered the same trauma that all residential schools did. The agenda was to take the culture out of the child. We couldn't speak our language," Louis Gardiner, who attended the school from 1961 to 1969, said Tuesday. [...]
The lawsuit was also filed on behalf of intergenerational survivors of the school, according to a news release from Métis Nation-Saskatchewan Tuesday. It was filed at Saskatoon Court of King's Bench and has not yet been certified as a class action.
"It's heartbreaking to know that we're still struggling to get recognized as a Métis residential school that suffered the same kinds of trauma that every other survivor suffered within Canada," said Duane Favel, mayor of Île-à-la-Crosse. [...]
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