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"Sunken warships from WWI and WWII are ticking pollution time bombs at the bottom of our oceans"
#Ships #Oceans #Pollution

Polluting shipwrecks a ticking timebombs at the bottom of our oceans
As rusting war-era ships decay on the seafloor, their toxic cargoes pose an urgent but often overlooked environmental risk.

Diver Finds WWII Navy Ship’s Bell Missing on Shipwreck for 80 Years And Believed to be Lost https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/diver-finds-wwii-navy-ships-bell-missing-on-shipwreck-for-80-years-and-believed-to-be-l…

Diver Finds WWII Navy Ship’s Bell Missing on Shipwreck for 80 Years And Believed to be Lost (LOOK)
A diver discovered the coveted ship’s bell from a WWII Canadian naval vessel after it was missing on the shipwreck for 80 years.

Good Morning #Canada
On June 6, 1944, my father was hospitalized in England, recovering from shrapnel wounds inflicted during the Italian campaign, and he joked that he missed all the excitement. That "excitement" included 1074 casualties on D-Day, including 359 killed, as Canadian troops secured Juno Beach to begin the defeat of Nazi Germany. It took another 11 months of bloody battles before Allied military forced surrender.
#CanadaIsAwesome #WWII #CanadianHeroes
https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/wars-and-conflicts/second-world-war/d-day-and-the-battle-of-normandy

What is the most important WWII memorial?
Americans: Normandy
The rest of the world: Auschwitz-Birkenau
This, likely, also explains the election of Donald Trump and the general shrug to his demolition of US democracy...
#wwii #ww2

Finally finished #Andor and I say it without a doubt: it is the most important (perhaps the best) Star Wars content since the original trilogy. I'm so happy that I got to see it but at the same time it's a shame that (probably) nothing like this would be made ever again.
Some more deep thoughts here:

A ★★★★★ review of Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look (2022)
There is no other way to put this: Andor is the most important and most significant Star Wars content ever since the original trilogy. Perhaps even better. At it's core, the original Star Wars trilogy it's about the fight against an authoritarian regime. Certainly influenced by the impact of the Vietnam War and WWII. Although presented in a way that it's suitable for all audiences. Andor takes this premise and takes it to the extreme, to the brutality of war and rebellion, and to the hope and h…

Happy 250th birthday to the US Merchant Marines! I used to volunteer on the SS Lane Victory, playing in the band during our summer cruises. The Lane is the official Merchant Marines memorial.
During WWII, 9,521 Merchant Marine sailors lost their lives. It would not be until 1988 that they were given Veteran status.
https://www.

At first it looked like--defiant Martyr-to-Nazis--Bonhoeffer's left arm (in the X-tian 2 arm cross) was a brotherhood fist, and the right was flipping off the Nazis. The statue is right outside St. Peter's Church in Hamburg, though, so no. His right hand is giving a Jesus-style blessing. https://bne.so…

The deepest irony is a cybertruck with a Canadian Veterans PPCLI license plate.
Princess Patricia's Canadian light infantry fought WWII fascist regimes.
How many layers of blinders do you have to have on in order to be driving that truck without the weight of the grave-bound gaze of those soldiers crushing you.
It is being driven by a mustachiod bro, of course.
#musk #fascism #nazitruck #wankpanzer

US political contradictions; knowledge systems
As Trump at least partially succeeds in constructing an alternate reality for his most ardent followers, it's tempting to think of his dogma as false, in contrast to some imagined "truth" which his non-followers are smart enough to believe in. But a more nuanced view of knowledge would admit that different groups of people have different shared truths, constituting different knowledge systems which each deviate from what's objectively measurable in different ways, and in fact they each accept different standards of what is objective, so there's not really a single "ground truth" we can even compare to to determine which of these knowledge systems is "more correct" (similar problems arise even if we only care about "more useful").
To make this more concrete, we can see that e.g., competing quantum physics theories, or likewise competing religious beliefs, have no reasonable basis on which to judge between them, either in terms of "truth" or "utility." So the Trump-dogma knowledge system, although bad, morally repugnant, etc., can't so easily be dismissed as "false" in my view. "Distorted" or "malignant" or "evil" or "contradictory" are better monikers, in my opinion.
But what I'm even more interested in thinking about is: in what ways does the current American liberal "common sense" knowledge system already bear the scars of past fascist lies & contradictions? I can think of a few:
"Columbus was an explorer."
This is "factually accurate" in the same way some of Trump's propaganda is, but it's also a cruel distortion of "Columbus was a child murderer," and it's a misrepresentation that serves an evil purpose, yet which is widely taught in elementary schools today.
Another: "dropping atomic bombs on civilians in Japan was necessary to end WWII."
Perhaps in the future we'll have "family separation & the 2025 ICE crackdowns were necessary to end the immigration crisis," although I dearly hope not.
"Reparations for slavery aren't reasonable," is yet another...
I'll close this rambling with a question: what other fascist lies have you noticed that are normalized in America right now from past Trump-like leaders (or even from less overtly fascist institutions)?

Stark! #srf #wwii #nazi

TIL the last time Canada spent 2% of GDP on defence spending (no date was given) we had Aircraft Carriers in our Navy.
The Bonaventure was the last Canadian aircraft carrier. And no, it wasn't a hand-me-down, though it began construction for the Royal Navy at the end of WWII but was stopped in 1945 then bought and completed by the RCN.
It was decommissioned and scrapped in 1970. It flew a squadron of F2H Banshee jets for the first few years of its life, then converted to a helicopter carrier for the final years.
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #RCN #CAF
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Bonaventure