Are we all fucked?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Yeah, I thought the latest was that it was a batch of pagers rigged with explosives (potentially up to five months ago) rather than the phones being hacked and sent into some kind of overheat mode, i.e. a more lo-tech attack essentially not that different to any kind of remote explosives detonation.

[Anvil]

Watched a clip of CCTV footage of one of these going off... no-one actually helped the guy as he is lying screaming on the ground, one guy legged it and another just looked at him and then wandered off.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Second wave of explosions occurred today at same time as funeral for victims of the first, killing another child among other victims. Terrorism pure and simple.

[astfgyl]

Hardly pagers again was it? A bit odd if it was.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Various electronic devices:
https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-exploding-pagers-hezbollah-syria-ce6af3c2e6de0a0dddfae48634278288

[Kunt 4 Life]

Some James bond level shit right there

[Carnage]

Scum. Absolute scum.

[astfgyl]

Jaysus that's mad stuff. How indiscriminate like say a lad was an actual hezbollah fighter he could be picking up his kids or driving his family somewhere when they went off. Of course an Israel supporter's view might be that hezbollah might think twice before next time but i really doubt that would be the case. Israelis surely won't actually admit to this either, given the terrorism implications. I don't know if they've denied it either at the minute I've only seen a small bit about it all.

[astfgyl]

Is it also looking less like there were explosives in the first set of pagers, or am I running away with it?

[Anvil]

Horrific, but this doesn't seen the kind of operation you can do quickly, there has had to be years of planning and getting agents into the manufacturing or distribution channels.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Mayor of Tampa on incoming hurricane: "I can say this without any dramatization whatsoever: If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die."

https://x.com/kaitlancollins/status/1843459098148327850

Also saw a meteorologist, a man who looked like he was in his 60s, almost breaking down over describing the magnitude of the hurricane and the factors making such catastrophic events more likely. It was clear that, in his mind, he was forecasting into the future and not seeing anything good. Meanwhile, certain MAGA folk, including MTG, are apparently willing to believe in human-orchestrated weather control but not human-driven climate change.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

"Catastrophic 73% decline in the average size of global wildlife populations in just 50 years reveals a 'system in peril'"

https://www.worldwildlife.org/press-releases/catastrophic-73-decline-in-the-average-size-of-global-wildlife-populations-in-just-50-years-reveals-a-system-in-peril

[astfgyl]

Also saw a meteorologist, a man who looked like he was in his 60s, almost breaking down over describing the magnitude of the hurricane and the factors making such catastrophic events more likely

Him.

That's the sort of lad that would be disappointed at his own obvious tendency to be acting like a woman in the face of a bit of danger. Like not sensationalist at all, right? State of it. It's because of stupid cunts like that at the start of covid that we ended up with two years of that steaming pile of shite and yet it seems some of us still haven't learned to just take a step back from the madness and see what is the actual craic with a thing happening in a place that's coincidentally full of hurricanes and had many far worse than this just the same way covid was a killer during flu season but conveniently replaced flu being a killer all over the world at the same time. State of the whole lot with grown men pretending to panic on telly for their money masters so that we can all panic and buy their shit and their bullshit bullshit so we can get poorer and poorer and settle into our role as the serf class. Did I mention the state of that because it really is a pitiful state for a grown man over the weather

Edit: actually I take all that back because a woman wouldn't freak out like the way blokes with a reputation to stake things on do

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Him? That very meteorologist who was genuinely scared that the hurricane was going to hit land full force (which at the time was a high probability), you then saw him "very disappointed" that in the end it weakened before it did?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Went back to find the video I was referencing:
https://x.com/BSchuermanWX/status/1843337322038768052

And here's the meteorologist in question's twitter feed. Not seeing anything I'd describe as disappointment:
https://x.com/JohnMoralesTV