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Ukraine under fire – the situation in the regions during the day of March 27, 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/ukraine-under-fire.html

Whenever I walk through some backwater towns, I'm surprised how many young people walk on the right side of the road. Do schools no longer teach pupils to walk on the left side?
At least I think I was taught that at school. We've also gotten the reasonable explanation: you're walking on the left side, because cars drive on the right side, so you see the cars driving on the same side of the road coming from the front, and you can jump away before they hit you. If you walk on the right side, you either have to look behind you all the time, or you won't even notice when a car drives into your arse.
Curious enough, much time later I've heard a myth. Apparently, soldiers traditionally walked on the right side of the road, but Napoleon Bonaparte sent his troops walking on the left side, to confuse the enemies who were listening to the foot traffic. In my opinion, that's absurd, but what do I know?
#CarFree

The Bombing of Guernica happened today in 1937. It was a new and horrible cooperation between fascist states (Francoist Spain, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy) to bomb civilians and ultimately lay the blame for the mass casualties on "guerrillas”, “terrorists”... in this case “Reds”.
#España

Provocative data and great charts from Kingsmill Bond & colleagues in their new report out today: "X-Change: The Race to the Top
Cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States" https://rmi.org/insight/x-change-the-race-to-the-top/<…

X-Change: The Race to the Top
The cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States

The Bombing of Gernika, April 26, 1937: The Number of Dead Revised https://euskalkazeta.com/bombing-of-guernica-the-number-of-dead-revised/?mc_cid=190edb545d&mc_eid=1bc0052ab5

Bombing of Gernika: The Number of Dead Revised
Joseba Elosegi was the first person Xabier Irujo interviewed when he was doing research on the 1937 bombing of Gernika (Guernica in Spanish). The Basque soldier told Irujo that when a photograph was taken of him standing amid the smoking rubble of the historic Basque city the morning after the bombing, he could still hear...

Imagine if this runaway drug dispensary had been in the Biden White House, or the Obama White House. What would Fox News be like at this moment? Or, for that matter, the New York Times. https://toot.community/@thezenlady/111830517569520148

The Zen Lady (@thezenlady@toot.community)
Attached: 1 image One page from the Trump White House pharmacy records showing that they were passing out fentanyl, morphine, hydrocodone, ketamine & more. (The link on the DOD website for the full report now shows a 404 error.) Found the link for the full report: https://media.defense.gov/2024/Jan/09/2003373440/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2024-044_REDACTED%20SECURE.PDF

The far right has replaced the old left as Russia’s propaganda tool
In 2018, President Donald Trump endorsed Vladimir Putin’s denial that Russia interfered with the 2016 election, even though American intelligence had reached the opposite conclusion.
The following year, in the Trump impeachment proceedings, House Republicans claimed that Ukraine had interfered with the 2016 election even though Fiona Hill, a former Trump national security council official on Russia, told them th…

The far right has replaced the old left as Russia’s propaganda tool
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin echoes the left-wing journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, who downplayed or otherwise covered up Stalin’s murder of millions of Soviet citizens.

Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub (Andy Edser/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/microsoft-has-released-the-source-code-for-ms-d…

Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 and it's giving me all the nostalgia feels
Fond memories of beige machines.

Daily inspiration: "Do the wrong things for the right reasons!"- Futurist Jim Carroll
History celebrates the rule-breakers who did the wrong things for the right reasons!
Rosa Parks - she defined the push for civil rights by refusing to sit where she was told. Martin Luther King for a regular series of arrests in violation of demands that he refrain from protesting. Dick Leitsch for conducting a "sip-in" at a New York bar to challenge the prohibition against s…

Daily Inspiration: Innovation & Risk – “Do the wrong things for the right reasons!”

The Armed Forces of Ukraine hit the large amphibious assault with a “Neptune” missile: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/the-armed-forces.html