Taken from Dan Abnett’s Sabbat Martyr in the “Gaunt’s Ghosts” series:

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“Gaunt?” Biagi yelled from the walkway above. “Now?”

Gaunt paused and consulted his data-slate. They were all inside Old Hive now, all the surviving Regiment Civitas, the PDF and life company. All that could be expected anyway.

On his own list, the Tanith list, one unit was missing. Sergeant Skerral’s number nineteen, last seen in a firefight with the death brigades on Neshion Street.

“Sir?” Corbec gazed at Gaunt. “I think we have to draw the line now.”

Gaunt nodded.

“Seal the gates!” Biagi yelled. Leger placed his hand on the gene-reader plate and declared his authority. The massive blast shutters of the Old Hive gates clanged into place.

Nineteenth platoon were about five hundred metres from Old Hive’s north entrance when they saw the gates close.

Skerral stopped in his tracks, and pulled the men up. Half his unit were dead. He ejected a cell from his lasrifle and slammed in a new one.

“Come on,” he said, turning back to face down the slope at the waves of assault sweeping in. “Let’s see how many we can kill.”

The remnants of nineteenth lasted seventeen minutes from the times the gates closed. They accounted for one hundred and eight-nine enemy casualties. No one witnessed their heroism.

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I had a thought the other day, that if there really is a Superman. he would have used his superhearing and hear the cries and whispers of people locked in cellars/basement all over the world.

I dare WarnerBrothers to make a movie about that.

Jason: Adelkhah is a professor at Sciences Po, it’s crazy how her situation went down in Iran

Jason: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/12/iran-sends-french-iranian-academic-back-to-jail-at-key-point-in-nuclear-talks?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=fb_us&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3XDsVHtvvJqMWLXDhmmRuWQ-210V41IL9JA_qJjaMH2nhIT3WszeysWLU#Echobox=1642029269

Me: wow

Me: she’s a dual citizen?

Me: the weird feeling i’m getting is that tomorrow i won’t remember her

TMS: its ok man sometimes true love feels fleeting

Trung: hmmm yes very wise

Me: weird, cause i was watching this video at the same time

Me: Can We Be Heroes Again? Confronting the Banality of Modern Evil

The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study - HN thread

I was once in a law lecture on medical ethics. We were discussing genetic testing of newborns and how this could detect incest/abuse. A medical doctor in the class was dead against such testing. In his experience, amongst pregnant teenagers (17 and younger) about 10% were pregnant by their own fathers/brothers. His opinion was that our society is not ready to deal with this, that such abuse is far more common than anyone is willing to admit. He actually said: You better build some more prisons before you start testing babies for this.

• sandworm101

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile.

• Tony Blair

We are convinced that liberty without socialism is privilege, injustice; and that socialism without liberty is slavery and brutality.

• Mikhail Bakunin

The First Axiom of Victory is to be other than where the enemy desire you to be. The First Axiom of Stealth is to be other than where the enemy believes you to be. The First Axiom of Freedom is that justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyranny.

• Corvus Corax, Axioms of the Legiones Astartes, Raven Guard Legion

1 million in today’s dollars equals:

• 744k in 2029 (in 10 years)

• 550k in 2039 (in 20 years)

• 411k in 2049 (in 30 years)

• 306k in 2059 (in 40 years)

• 228k in 2069 (in 50 years)

• 169k in 2079 (in 60 years)

• 126k in 2089 (in 70 years)

• some user on /r/financialindependence back in 2019

defense orgs are viewed as higher-prestige than DA’s offices and so tend to hire from among the top-ranked schools. To generalize broadly: the prosecutors office being a racially diverse set of first-generation lawyers from working-class neighborhoods with intimidate connections to crime and poverty, while the defenders are privileged Main Line and Westchester Ivy Leaguers putting in their stint of playing white savior in the big bad city before moving on to more lucrative fields. All you see in defense is Harvard, Columbia, Duke; all you see in the prosecution is Cardozo, St. Johns, Hofstra.

• some user on /r/TheMotte