TIL that in 1968, Richard Nixon feared that there would be a breakthrough in the Paris Peace Talks between North and South Vietnam, resulting in the war ending and damaging his campaign. Nixon dispatched an aide to tell the South Vietnamese to withdraw from the talks and prolong the war [source, comments]

Fuel consumption of an A350-1000 on takeoff .

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Gestern habe ich endlich diese Doku geschaut. Empfehlung! https://www.woz.ch/2131/summer-of-soul/eine-boheme-fuer-alle

A playlist containing all the acts on stage at "Black Woodstock"
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5vte7e3A8zRJf2oUumSvJ6

Song of the Day 🪮🎁: Nina Simone (performance from the movie) https://youtu.be/ov9Sf9gMhgg

Against AI in the sense of "destroy the credibility of all forms of media so that it becomes impossible to tell what is real and what is a conveniently manufactured lie"

Against AI in the sense of "accelerate ecological collapse by consuming vast amounts of water and fuel to power oversized server farms to generate all this shit"

TIL about the Dunnes Stores workers strike: Ten Irish grocery workers staged a three year strike in protest of apartheid, after refusing to handle South African fruit. It led to a government ban on the importation of South African goods, and made Ireland the first western country to do so. [source, comments]

Das ist die gefährlichste Bruchstelle der Nato https://www.watson.ch/!324084702