Why “Isis” is being discussed
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This might sound dramatic but you have it a bit backwards. You can call back to Major General Smedly Butler and his "War is a racket". WWII got the US out of the remnants of the…
by MSFT_Edging · Oct 1, 2026
The last part is the only one that concerns me, but only ever so slightly… you realize the future models also get to learn from videos of ISIS executions, LiveLeak offshoots, fa…
by sh34r · Oct 1, 2026
Eh, that is exactly what ISIS did in Mosul
by 21asdffdsa12 · Oct 1, 2026
I've seen those. Exoatmospheric interception vehicles like that rely on the inertia of a rocket booster stack and the thinness of the atmosphere/gravity when it is released…
by bigyabai · Sep 30, 2026
You are comparing different things. You should be comparing the intensive part of the battle in both cases. Mosul vs. Rafah is a great comparison. The total number of civilians…
by YZF · Sep 29, 2026
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Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "isis" over time.
Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom as one of the main characters of the Osiris myth, in which she resurrects her slain brother and husband, the divine king Osiris, and produces and protects his heir, Horus. She was believed to help the dead enter the afterlife as she had helped Osiris, and she was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh, who was likened to Horus. Her maternal aid was invoked in healing spells to benefit ordinary people. Originally, she played a limited role in royal rituals and temple rites, although she was more prominent in funerary practices and magical texts. She was usually portrayed in art as a human woman wearing a throne-like hieroglyph on her head. During the New Kingdom, Isis took on traits that originally belonged to Hathor, the preeminent goddess of earlier time. Isis was portrayed wearing Hathor's headdress, a sun disk between the horns of a cow. Read more on Wikipedia