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Sorgan71 , to World News in Women-only social media app Giggle for Girls taken to court by transgender woman Roxanne Tickle after her account was restricted

Wow an app based on gender descrimination is being sued for gender descrimination. I'm shocked

Taohumor ,

You know what this means though? It means that no one ever needed to push back against it at all just not engage in it themselves. Cuz they just eat each other in a vacuum. Without some enemy to band together against like the boogeyman of boogeymen whitey, their inner chaos is all they're left with with no enemy to project it on, so they eat each other and everything just crashes and falls apart. No one needed to do anything, not even complain, just look at it in amusement and take another sip of their coffee and go about their day thanking god that's not you.

PoliticalAgitator ,

Did you forget you're not in your sleazy little far-right bubble?

Taohumor ,

I'm not a right winger. I just see an ouroboros when I see it, it's the snake eating itself.

PoliticalAgitator ,

Blantant lie.

Taohumor ,

Epic name

febra , to World News in Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says

The orders: “next time you commit war crimes don’t do it in front of the cameras!”

ModernRisk , to World News in Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says
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And certain countries and people will still shout the utter nonsense “right to defend themselves”.

Majority of the countries have failed humanity.
They’re doing nothing after so many atrocities and the UN only have words but zero actual actions.

This pretty much shows and proves that one small state is the ‘leader’ of every country, even the US.

sandbox ,

This pretty much shows and proves that one small state is the ‘leader’ of every country, even the US.

Could you clarify what you mean by that?

FlyingSquid Mod , to World News in Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says
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"Congratulations on violating orders, soldier. Here's a medal."

SupraMario ,

*house/land you mean.

Aralakh , to World News in Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says

I bet the UN will say they've really done it now 🫠

eskimofry ,

Finger wagging intensifies

quoll ,

what exactly do you think the un is and can do?

SkyezOpen ,
anticurrent , to World News in Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says

Israel is betting on the long haul, to keep the genocide going until people get tired of protesting and give up. and apparently they have won. there are less and less reactions to Israel's genocide around the world as their atrocities drag on.

Kalkaline , to World News in Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says
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Horrific, not only is it a vertically shot video, but it's also got bars on the side of it. The least shocking thing here is the IDF human rights abuses.

sirboozebum OP ,

Don't cut yourself on that edge.

YaksDC , to World News in Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says
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The orders: "Don't get caught"

lorty , to World News in Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says
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The US supports this btw.

DashboTreeFrog , to World News in Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says

Most moral army in the world

autotldr Bot , to World News in Israeli soldiers who drove with wounded Palestinian tied to their vehicle 'violated orders', military says

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The Israeli military says its soldiers violated orders and failed to meet the values of the country’s defence force when they drove with a wounded Palestinian tied to the front of their vehicle.

Video showed a wounded local man, Mujahed Azmi, lying on the bonnet of a jeep as it drives past two ambulances in Jenin.

News agency Reuters was able to confirm the location of the video from verified footage shared on social media that shows the same vehicle transporting an individual on top in Jenin.

The incident recalled scenes in the Second Intifada, when Israeli troops were criticised for tying Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, to the front of an army vehicle.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation in the occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, called the incident an example of "human shielding in action".

The IDF was banned from using Palestinians as human shields by the Israeli Supreme Court, but has been accused of using the practice multiple times since, the Guardian reports.


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CanadaPlus , to World News in At least 550 hajj pilgrims die in scorching temperatures

Uhh, normally that would be a crazy number, but it's Hajj. Is it still a crazy number?

alyaza OP Mod ,
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yes; as far as i'm aware there has never been a mass-death event like this in the contemporary history of the Hajj, although it's always been arduous and more potentially deadly when it falls during the summer

DdCno1 ,

Nope, these mass death events are a regular occurrence due to the Saudi government's incompetence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents_during_the_Hajj

CanadaPlus ,

Jesus! (Or Isa?) Some of these were like single localised events. I was just thinking about how many people come through without even bringing that into it.

Well, I guess a casual disregard for the life and limb of non-elite non-Saudis is pretty on brand for them.

DdCno1 ,

Yup, they are one of the most inhuman regimes on the planet, right up there with the likes of China and North Korea: https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/08/21/they-fired-us-rain/saudi-arabian-mass-killings-ethiopian-migrants-yemen-saudi

Devi ,

We're up to 922 according to that link. That's insane.

ItsComplicated , to Technology in Meta to use Instagram and Facebook posts from as far back as 2007 to train artificial intelligence tools

I am tired of my information making companies lots of money instead of me.(privacy issues aside) Shame you can't copyright yourself at birth.

FaceDeer , (edited )
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Everything you make is already copyrighted by default. Copyright is limited in what it lets you do, however. AI training likely isn't restricted by it.

ItsComplicated ,

Maybe patent yourself would work better...hmmm

Lost_My_Mind ,

That sounds messy. Do we need any primer, or patent thinner? How many brushes do we need?

fatalError ,

Well, nothing is free. If you aren't paying with money, you are paying with data or time, which may or may not be more valuable to you than money.

ItsComplicated ,

Even paying for apps and services does not stop the collecting and selling of your data.

fatalError ,

I know, but not paying to begin with created the incentive to have such an infrastructure to spy on people, even if these people decide to pay. And I am not saying it's users' fault.

balder1991 ,

The thing is, now that the game changed with machine learning techniques, there’s 0 incentive not to use it regardless of what previous deals existed in the past.

technocrit , (edited )

Well, nothing is free.

False. Friendship, family, sunshine, peace, etc. Free for now at least.

kevindqc , to Technology in Meta to use Instagram and Facebook posts from as far back as 2007 to train artificial intelligence tools

And they will probably use the energy equivalent to a small nation to do the training. LLMs are great.

doodledup , (edited )

Their data centers are 100% powered by renewable energy. Google is 100% carbon free. It's not as bad as you think it is.

ben_dover ,

the post is talking about Meta though

SaltySalamander ,
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Their data centers are 100% powered by renewable energy

exanime ,

Google promised to be carbon free by 2030.... Just as other have done and never even moved an inch towards that goal

The point is exactly to get gullible people like you to think it's all good until 2030 when some responsible people will battle to out that Google did nothing in reality to get there... Then they'll promise it again for 2050

doodledup , (edited )

Sorry I was a little wrong. Apparently 100% of Googles annual electricity consumption is matched with renewable energy that is supplied back to the grid. So basically, at night when there is no sun they use power from the grid and during the day they compensate it with excess renewable energy production.

It's not 100% carbon neutral. But it doesn't sound that bad either. There is worse things than that.

exanime ,

Sorry I was a little wrong. Apparently 100% of Googles annual electricity consumption is matched with renewable energy that is supplied back to the grid

Not even... what they do is "pay" someone for renewable energy (not the energy they consume, nor do they produce energy on solar panels or anything renewable to go back into the grid)

This is their own statement: "In 2022 – for the sixth consecutive year – Google matched 100 percent of its global annual electricity consumption with purchases of renewable energy" (source)[https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/cleanenergy/]

And even that is not true since their actual report says that in 2021 they barely made it to 66%

Globally, 66% of the electricity use at Google data centers was matched with carbon-
free energy on an hourly basis, 5% higher in 2019 but 1% lower in 2020. We expected
this fluctuation: in 2020, we brought a large number of CFE projects online, leading to a
large jump in our 2020 CFE % and thus a high baseline for calculating changes between
2020 and 2021
(source)[https://www.gstatic.com/gumdrop/sustainability/2021-carbon-free-energy-data-centers.pdf]

So, in a nutshell... they are throwing some money at it and pretending they are not polluting anymore.

It’s not 100% carbon neutral.

Google declared itself carbon neutral (whatever they think that means) back in 2007

There is worse things than that.

this is literally the lowest bar to clear

doodledup ,

Purchasing and producing renewable energy is the same thing. If you purchase it, somebody else is producing it for you.

exanime ,

But they are not even using said energy themselves.... that is like throwing my garbage right on the street but paying someone in India to pick some garbage over there (for at lot less)... if you are my neighbour, would you think it's fine?

I don't need google "producing" clean energy... I want them CONSUMING clean energy... as it is, they are pollution just as much as ever (more every year) but they pretend to be clean by throwing money at it... at the end of the day, the planet keeps getting polluted and the climate nicely on its way to cooking us alive

PresidentCamacho ,

90% of the time they are "carbon free" through carbon offsets, which are generally a huge amount of bs.

Minarble , to Ukraine in As Ukrainians hold off an offensive from the enemy, the ABC was taken to a secret position near the Russian border

Unleash the drones of war

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