#lethality — Public Fediverse posts
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly, then?” I asked.
He blinked at me as if I were stupid.
“Well what do you think you do?” he said. “You die of course. That’s what deadly means.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 2 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/29827/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #deadliness #death #lethality #mortality #nature #poisonous #snake #snakebite #venom
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
“So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly, then?” I asked.
He blinked at me as if I were stupid.
“Well what do you think you do?” he said. “You die of course. That’s what deadly means.”Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 2 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/29827/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #deadliness #death #lethality #mortality #nature #poisonous #snake #snakebite #venom
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🐧💿 #RedHat is the top #Linux #distro for #genocide.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260402155236/https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf#CompressTheKillCycle #IBM #RedHatDeviceEdge #LockheedMartin #AI #USAirForce #warfighter #lethality #LinuxDistribution
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🐧💿 #RedHat is the top #Linux #distro for #genocide.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260402155236/https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf#CompressTheKillCycle #IBM #RedHatDeviceEdge #LockheedMartin #AI #USAirForce #warfighter #lethality #LinuxDistribution
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"He seemed to experience a sadistic pleasure in announcing the sinking of an Iranian warship by a US torpedo, enjoying the idea of the doomed crew’s 'quiet death'.
This sort of unabashed viciousness is part of the appeal of the Maga administration for its fans, and might seem like a refreshing return to plain speaking."
#Hegseth #Trump #Iran #war #incompetence #WhiteChristianNationalism #PerformativeMasculinity #lethality #violence #death
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"He seemed to experience a sadistic pleasure in announcing the sinking of an Iranian warship by a US torpedo, enjoying the idea of the doomed crew’s 'quiet death'.
This sort of unabashed viciousness is part of the appeal of the Maga administration for its fans, and might seem like a refreshing return to plain speaking."
#Hegseth #Trump #Iran #war #incompetence #WhiteChristianNationalism #PerformativeMasculinity #lethality #violence #death
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"His favourite term is 'lethality'; he loves telling the armed forces how 'lethal' they are. 'We are not defenders any more,' he announced gleefully. 'We are warriors: trained to kill the enemy and break their will.' (It might seem excessive to break their will after killing them, but why settle for half measures?)"
~ Steven Poole
#Hegseth #Trump #Iran #war #incompetence #WhiteChristianNationalism #PerformativeMasculinity #lethality #violence #death
/9https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/trump-using-dysphemism-language-against-iran
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"His favourite term is 'lethality'; he loves telling the armed forces how 'lethal' they are. 'We are not defenders any more,' he announced gleefully. 'We are warriors: trained to kill the enemy and break their will.' (It might seem excessive to break their will after killing them, but why settle for half measures?)"
~ Steven Poole
#Hegseth #Trump #Iran #war #incompetence #WhiteChristianNationalism #PerformativeMasculinity #lethality
/9https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/04/trump-using-dysphemism-language-against-iran
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"The White House’s videos mixing football hits with bombing footage tell us: We have some twisted people running this country."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"The White House’s videos mixing football hits with bombing footage tell us: We have some twisted people running this country."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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As Aaron Rupar says, Peter Thiel's pal Alex Karp, Palantir CEO, loves the macho bluster of Trump's war, as he proclaims:
"What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."
The techbros, the broligarchy, are all in on the brutality, lethality, cruelty, and want credit for its technological base.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/8https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mguiup62lt2j
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As Aaron Rupar says, Peter Thiel's pal Alex Karp, Palantir CEO, loves the macho bluster of Trump's war, as he proclaims:
"What makes America special right now is our lethal capacities. Our ability to fight war."
The techbros, the broligarchy, are all in on the brutality, lethality, cruelty, and want credit for its technological base.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/8https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3mguiup62lt2j
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As Aaron Parnas notes, Trump just posted the following on his Truth Social outfit:
"I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so."
War, wielding weapons, killing others with big booms, makes tiny men imagine they're big ones.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/7https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-underestimated-irans-willingness
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As Aaron Parnas notes, Trump just posted the following on his Truth Social outfit:
"I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so."
War, wielding weapons, killing others with big booms, makes tiny men imagine they're big ones.
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
/7https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-underestimated-irans-willingness
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"Now that Trump has his war, he doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. He appears to have had no plans in place for either the future or Iran or protection for the straits of Hormuz. Instead, the White House account on Twitter is posting videos that equate war with video games or football."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Now that Trump has his war, he doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. He appears to have had no plans in place for either the future or Iran or protection for the straits of Hormuz. Instead, the White House account on Twitter is posting videos that equate war with video games or football."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"War is BOOM BOOM, death raining from the sky, hell wrought on others from thousands of miles away by American soldiers with joysticks. The mangled bodies are not seen. They must be presumed."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"War is BOOM BOOM, death raining from the sky, hell wrought on others from thousands of miles away by American soldiers with joysticks. The mangled bodies are not seen. They must be presumed."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Never has any party in power shown such gloating bloodlust as Trump and his dimwitted amoral ideologues are, with their infernal infotainment.
On TikTok and X they are peddling short videos romanticizing the war, glorifying cruelty."
~ Gene Weingarten
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Never has any party in power shown such gloating bloodlust as Trump and his dimwitted amoral ideologues are, with their infernal infotainment.
On TikTok and X they are peddling short videos romanticizing the war, glorifying cruelty."
~ Gene Weingarten
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"caused the military to lose focus on its main task, killing the enemy, and led to costly defeats in both wars.
In his view, the U.S. military’s strength is not rooted in its high ideals, humanity or moral purpose, but rather its ability to punish adversaries. Anything that distracts from that singular mission, he has said, is weakness."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"caused the military to lose focus on its main task, killing the enemy, and led to costly defeats in both wars.
In his view, the U.S. military’s strength is not rooted in its high ideals, humanity or moral purpose, but rather its ability to punish adversaries. Anything that distracts from that singular mission, he has said, is weakness."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Even though the truth was often more complicated, they cast U.S. troops as liberators bringing democracy and freedom to those living under tyranny and oppression.
Mr. Hegseth has largely dispensed with that talk. His bellicose, at times vengeful, rhetoric reflects his belief that the United States’ lofty goals in Iraq and Afghanistan" (continued in /3)
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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"Even though the truth was often more complicated, they cast U.S. troops as liberators bringing democracy and freedom to those living under tyranny and oppression.
Mr. Hegseth has largely dispensed with that talk. His bellicose, at times vengeful, rhetoric reflects his belief that the United States’ lofty goals in Iraq and Afghanistan" (continued in /3)
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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Greg Jaffe reports on how the choice of “'Epic Fury,' a name that connotes retribution and rage," to name Trump's war captures its deliberate intent to maximize brutality and lethality.
"For decades, presidents and their secretaries of defense have framed American military interventions in altruistic terms."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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Greg Jaffe reports on how the choice of “'Epic Fury,' a name that connotes retribution and rage," to name Trump's war captures its deliberate intent to maximize brutality and lethality.
"For decades, presidents and their secretaries of defense have framed American military interventions in altruistic terms."
#Trump #Hegseth #Iran #war #cruelty #lethality #death #destruction #violence #PerformativeMasculinity
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A quotation from Wendell Berry
Surely the idea of a “limited war” is one of the most dangerously self-deceiving verbal gimmicks ever invented. For though war makes use of reason, as a weapon, it is not reasonable in nature. Its nature is the nature of pride and anger. It follows the brute logic of violent emotion, which points directly toward the use of the greatest available power.
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Speech (1968-02-10), “A Statement Against the War in Vietnam,” Kentucky Conference on the War and the Draft, University of KentuckyMore info about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/79838/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wendellberry #anger #brutality #ego #emotion #lethality #limitedwar #power #pride #selfdeception #unreasoning #violence #war #warfare #irrationality
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A quotation from Terry Pratchett
Quimby was eventually killed by a disgruntled poet during an experiment conducted in the palace grounds to prove the disputed accuracy of the proverb “The pen is mightier than the sword,” and in his memory it was amended to include the phrase “only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp.”
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 2, The Light Fantastic (1986)More info about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/7961…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #danger #impact #influence #lethality #might #power #writing
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LETHALITY (Suècia) presenta nou single: "Hollow Existence" #Lethality #GrooveMetal #Setembre2025 #Suècia #NouSingle #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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LETHALITY (Suècia) presenta nou single: "Hollow Existence" #Lethality #GrooveMetal #Setembre2025 #Suècia #NouSingle #Metall #Metal #MúsicaMetal #MetalMusic
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A quotation from Thomas Carlyle
Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)More info about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/78952…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomascarlyle #sartorresartus #equalizer #firearms #gunpowder #guns #lethality
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Highly pathogenic avian #influenza: #pandemic #preparedness for a #scenario of high #lethality with no #vaccines, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/07/highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza.html
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Highly pathogenic avian #influenza: #pandemic #preparedness for a #scenario of high #lethality with no #vaccines, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/07/highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza.html
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The reasons for the rareness of #Marine #domestic deployments are debated, but one likely factor is that past admins may have considered the #Marines’ reputed #lethality ill-suited to sensitive domestic operations. Although Marine training is broadly similar to that of the #Army #infantry, the Corps has long cultivated a more #aggressive combat identity. One of its unofficial slogans…bluntly puts it: “United States Marine Corps—when it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight.”
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The reasons for the rareness of #Marine #domestic deployments are debated, but one likely factor is that past admins may have considered the #Marines’ reputed #lethality ill-suited to sensitive domestic operations. Although Marine training is broadly similar to that of the #Army #infantry, the Corps has long cultivated a more #aggressive combat identity. One of its unofficial slogans…bluntly puts it: “United States Marine Corps—when it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight.”
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Immunological #findings of West Caucasian #bat #virus in an accidental host http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.09.12.612599v1?rss=1
In #hamsters, #WCBV was highly pathogenic, determining 100% #lethality and mild #encephalitis. In comparison with Duvenhage virus (DUVV) and #RABV, we found that WCBV displayed an intermediate ability to promote cellular antiviral response, produce pro-inflammatory #cytokines, recruit and activate #lymphocytes in the hamsters central nervous system.
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Immunological #findings of West Caucasian #bat #virus in an accidental host http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2024.09.12.612599v1?rss=1
In #hamsters, #WCBV was highly pathogenic, determining 100% #lethality and mild #encephalitis. In comparison with Duvenhage virus (DUVV) and #RABV, we found that WCBV displayed an intermediate ability to promote cellular antiviral response, produce pro-inflammatory #cytokines, recruit and activate #lymphocytes in the hamsters central nervous system.
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#Fire at #Zaporizhzhia NPP spurs fear as #Russia, #Ukraine trade blame, GT: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202408/1317901.shtml
"Whether crisis can be resolved constructively is an urgent challenge facing the international community," Li said. "If the #escalation cannot be effectively curbed, in the context of highly developed science and technology and the huge #lethality of weapons, the possibility of a #survival #crisis for #humans will always exist, and any catastrophic scenario may appear."
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#Fire at #Zaporizhzhia NPP spurs fear as #Russia, #Ukraine trade blame, GT: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202408/1317901.shtml
"Whether crisis can be resolved constructively is an urgent challenge facing the international community," Li said. "If the #escalation cannot be effectively curbed, in the context of highly developed science and technology and the huge #lethality of weapons, the possibility of a #survival #crisis for #humans will always exist, and any catastrophic scenario may appear."
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#Age-dependent #Powassan virus #lethality is linked to glial cell activation & divergent neuroinflammatory #cytokine #responses in a murine model, J Virol.: https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/jvi.00560-24?af=R
These findings correlate age-dependent #CNS cytokine responses & viral loads with POWV lethality & suggest potential neuroinflammatory therapeutic targets. Our results establish the age-dependent lethality of POWV in a murine #model that mirrors human POWV severity and long-term CNS pathology in the elderly.
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#Age-dependent #Powassan virus #lethality is linked to glial cell activation & divergent neuroinflammatory #cytokine #responses in a murine model, J Virol.: https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/jvi.00560-24?af=R
These findings correlate age-dependent #CNS cytokine responses & viral loads with POWV lethality & suggest potential neuroinflammatory therapeutic targets. Our results establish the age-dependent lethality of POWV in a murine #model that mirrors human POWV severity and long-term CNS pathology in the elderly.
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I agree with all the discussion and think this misunderstanding about evolution to #avirulence comes from a confusion between #virulence (an evolutionary concept involving host fitness), #lethality (related to the host), #mortality (measured at the population level), and #pathogenicity (at the cellular level).
We tried to clarify this with @mtsofonea in our review on the evolution of #SarsCoV2 virulence.
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I agree with all the discussion and think this misunderstanding about evolution to #avirulence comes from a confusion between #virulence (an evolutionary concept involving host fitness), #lethality (related to the host), #mortality (measured at the population level), and #pathogenicity (at the cellular level).
We tried to clarify this with @mtsofonea in our review on the evolution of #SarsCoV2 virulence.
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Israelis are caught lying about the lethality of their bomb attacks on Gaza | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/12/12/israelis-are-caught-lying-about-the-lethality-of-their-bomb-attacks-on-gaza/Israel’s liar-in-chief, Eylon Levy, has been caught lying again
#Eylon Levy #Owen Jones #Israeli #Israel #caught lying #lethality #bomb attacks #Gaza
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Israelis are caught lying about the lethality of their bomb attacks on Gaza | Vox Political
https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2023/12/12/israelis-are-caught-lying-about-the-lethality-of-their-bomb-attacks-on-gaza/Israel’s liar-in-chief, Eylon Levy, has been caught lying again
#Eylon Levy #Owen Jones #Israeli #Israel #caught lying #lethality #bomb attacks #Gaza
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The #Patriot - How #General #MarkMilley protected the #Constitution from #DonaldTrump. In #normal times, chairman of Joint Chiefs, principal #militaryadviser 2 #president, is supposed to focus his attention on America’s #nationalsecurity challenges, & on #readiness & #lethality of its #armedforces. But the 1st 16 months of Milley’s term a period that ended when Joe Biden succeeded Donald Trump as president were not normal because #Trump was #exceptionally #unfit to #serve https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/
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The #Patriot - How #General #MarkMilley protected the #Constitution from #DonaldTrump. In #normal times, chairman of Joint Chiefs, principal #militaryadviser 2 #president, is supposed to focus his attention on America’s #nationalsecurity challenges, & on #readiness & #lethality of its #armedforces. But the 1st 16 months of Milley’s term a period that ended when Joe Biden succeeded Donald Trump as president were not normal because #Trump was #exceptionally #unfit to #serve https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/11/general-mark-milley-trump-coup/675375/
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In normal times, the chair of the #JCS, the principal #military adviser to the pres, is supposed to focus attn on #America’s #NationalSecurity…, & on the #readiness & #lethality of its #armed forces. But the 1st 16 mos of #Milley’s term, a period that ended when #Biden succeeded #Trump as pres, were not normal, bc Trump was exceptionally #unfit to #serve. “For >200yrs, the assumption in this country was that we would have a #stable person as president,” …the retired 3★ gen James #Dubik, told me.
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Interesting look from inside the US #military on #tactical advantage and #strategic #risks of #electric #vehicles.
tl,dr: "Series hybrid vehicles should be the next step in tactical ground vehicles for the military."
https://mwi.usma.edu/the-lethality-case-for-electric-military-vehicles/