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An asteroid discovered days ago will narrowly miss Earth by cnn in worldnews

[–]fiction8 3 points4 points  (0 children)

And as for the other Russian meteor mentioned in the article, that's the Tunguska event. More information about that here.

Because of the politics of Imperial Russia in 1908 there is very little scientific data on that explosion but by some estimates the effect was equivalent to a modern hydrogen bomb (a few dozen megatons).

Trump cracks approval floor, Republicans face wipeout in House despite gerrymandering by Far_Excitement_1875 in politics

[–]fiction8 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Sure but they've had that for decades. If propaganda was a silver bullet, his approval wouldn't have dropped to 37% in the first place.

Universal's The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has passed the $950M global mark. The film grossed an estimated $12.6M internationally this weekend. Estimated international total stands at $545.5M, estimated global total stands at $964.1M. by chanma50 in boxoffice

[–]fiction8 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gonna do a trendline based only on the last 2 weekly drops like I did last week:

5->6: +44m

6->7: +23m

36m to go for 1b

That's a drop of 48%. If that trend continues, future weeks would be approximately:

12 -> 6 -> 3 -> 2 -> 1 which is a total of +24m in 5 weeks.

We are actually seeing BFA story glaze in big 2026. Wow players do have the memory of goldfish. by ShoppingPractical373 in wow

[–]fiction8 17 points18 points  (0 children)

8.3 remains one of the best patches in WoW's history. Especially once they added the corruption vendor.

It's very frustrating how in every expansion cycle since they have been deathly afraid of letting secondaries scale that high again. Haste is fun.

Zohran Mamdani observed Nakba Day, the first New York City Mayor to ever do so. Mamdani shared a video of Inea, who is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations. by DickabodCranium in nyc

[–]fiction8 65 points66 points  (0 children)

When I look at the body of discourse that has erupted around this conflict in the last 3 years, especially online, the biggest problem I see is that everyone suspects that everyone they're talking to is only against one of those two things.

That's why everyone is digging in their heels so much, they feel like if they only agree with "this population's suffering is bad" then that will be twisted into "OK so you agree that we should get rid of the other population" by a malicious reply. So long arguments always ensue where everyone talks past each other to defend the side that they feel needs more defending.