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Her father was in finance and had a senior management role in Merrill Lynch. Her mother was a marketing executive. She did not not sell out to the business interests of the record label and become a pop puppet, she was always focused on the business and marketing side. It was not a sellout, it was more like a corporate merger, so no.

I'd be a bit reluctant to accept "liked a post", or "prayed for peace".... that's a bit vague like "hope and prayers" after a school shooting, and not much better that Ed Sheeran and Robert Kraft promising to donate "aid to the region". Did we ever hear back about where in the region they donated to?

I'd like to see Olivia Rodrigo win AOTY and Best pop vocal album. I'd also like to see "The Cure" pick up a win somewhere. For nominations, it would be good to see Geese get in, so people can argue whether they are a Psy-op or nepo babies.

He said nuclear winter in the post which you quoted. These are his words: In the last post you quoted he talks about winds and maybe he makes some points, but the main difference between Hiroshima and using a nuclear weapon on Pickaxe mountain, is that Hiroshima was an airburst explosion some 600 metres above the city, and the radioactive fireball did not touch the ground, which limited the about of radioactive dust pushed up into the atmosphere. In an attack on a ground target, such as Pickaxe Mountain, the bomb would be used against the ground surface, or it would penetrate the ground before detonation. Massive amounts of dirt and rocks would be irradiated and sucked into the atmosphere in the resulting mushroom cloud. So the spread of radiation would be worse than Hiroshima. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_burst He also talks about fallout over Israel, but provides no evidence to back this up. Most people think the majority of radioactive fallout would be traveling eastward, which is logical since the subtropical jet-stream flows from west to east. There are studies showing nuclear strikes on Iran with fallout in an eastern/northeast direction: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3671126/ In this study, even a nuclear explosion on Israeli target would result in fallout in an eastern/northeast direction, so for a nuke on Iran, it seems more likely that fallout could reach nuclear armed Pakistan and northwestern India, possibly even parts of Russia and China. Exploding a nuke on a target in Iran, and potentially sending radiation towards the territories of multiple nuclear armed states, does not seem like a good idea to me. Plus it sets a dangerous precedent, where Russia (and others) might see that a small nuke would be acceptable in a regional war.

I'm pretty sure he is wrong about one bomb causing a nuclear winter, don't have time to check what else he is wrong about. However, it seems like a big gamble with a lot of downsides. For example there is no certainty that one nuke will destroy Pickaxe Mountain to the point where anyone can be certain that all nuclear material has been destroyed. So then what, keep bombing with multiple nukes? Send in ground troops to an area that was just nuked? #cross post from Iran war thread. Perhaps there is more evidence that there will be a ground assault. US Army practices digging temporary battlefield graves Army TimesUS Army practices digging temporary battlefield gravesThe Army is preparing for the grim possibility of burying fallen soldiers on the battlefield, testing how fast it can dig temporary graves while preserving remains for eventual identification and retuhttps://www.newsweek.com/us-army-starts-practicing-digging-mass-battlefield-graves-12633724

Speaking of maps, can someone confirm on a modern Apple device, that Apple are hiding the genocide by showing the old maps without most of the buildings destroyed, while google is showing accurate/recent satellite images. For example you can search for "Gaza" or "Gaza City" in Apple and Google, then find a common landmark and try to see if there are any major differences. In Apple Maps the lagoon on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza City looks like an active tourist resort, with lots of boats and coastal buildings. But if you search around, you'll also find some odd blurred out areas. In Google Maps, it looks like a disaster area with many burnt out areas in the map.

Sent mine today. I think I was kind, almost every album got at least one 8+ score for one or more songs.

Mostly done, I have to listen to one album again, and hunt down some bonus tracks. Should be finished Monday.

Lorde = 89.7% solo.

There are some interesting wiki edits going on. Someone removed previous edits, including the reference to a joke he made about Harry Styles back in 2011 when Harry would have been 17.

Are you sure? Every BPVA winner since about 2010 had a #1 or #2 smash hit on the Hot 100, with the one exception of Sweetener which had a #3 Hot 100 hit. Best Pop Vocal Album is very closely related to Hot 100 chart success, perhaps more than any other Grammy award. I thought people knew this.

US Army practices digging temporary battlefield graves Army TimesUS Army practices digging temporary battlefield gravesThe Army is preparing for the grim possibility of burying fallen soldiers on the battlefield, testing how fast it can dig temporary graves while preserving remains for eventual identification and retu https://www.newsweek.com/us-army-starts-practicing-digging-mass-battlefield-graves-12633724

I'm still working on this, should be be finished by the end of the weekend, but I need go back and re-review a few songs and hunt down some bonus tracks that I missed earlier. No spoilers, but I've decided to be kind and probably won't rate any song below a 3 or 4, although there are one or two that wood deserve a lower score. Also there is one album with a song that sounds like it was written for a totally different album, but I decided not to take points away for that one and just rate the song.

Yes, but there are many western governments, including those led by labour/liberal/social democrat parties, that like to pretend that they are "working on" a two state solution, so they can claim to be doing something.

Musk and his followers are crying about this on X and claiming fraud, and Grok keeps correcting them.