Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced plans to cut diplomatic ties with Israel over its war in the Gaza Strip, which human rights advocates and other experts have warned could amount to genocide....
For a moment I thought it was Columbia University and was a little shocked by the reversal. After correcting myself: it's good to hear another nation is drawing some lines in the sand regarding behavior. Rules of war should mean something.
"The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus."...
The State Department is divided over whether Israel is using American-provided weapons in accordance with international law ahead of a fast-approaching deadline next week for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make a determination to Congress....
This has to be the funniest PR disaster in video game history. "Guy did not forsee players getting mad for locking a gamemode behind a $250 edition, doubles down on it and tells people to chill out"
“I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex so they go on the hunt for fake threats and the most popular threat through history is [antisemitism].”...
"Baby, that was amazing! I feel completely different about 110,000+ dead and wounded Palestinians. Turns out I wasn't morally conflicted about my country's involvement or where taxes are going, just horny."
Here's Bernie Sanders from a year ago talking about how a handful of companies control the news people see, read, and hear. TL:DR - He makes the argument that it's not fake news, that journalists are usually hard-working and honest. He says the problem is the limitation of allowed discussion - what topics make it to the consumer. He says for instance that he's never asked about wealth and income inequality.
I believe TikTok is being banned because as it stands now it brings topics outside the limits of allowed discussion to a lot of eyes in ways US government/companies haven't proven able to control. If the issues justifying a potential ban were truly data security or mental health as some argue (not without merit mind you), then the legislation to address those issues would look a lot different and include companies like Meta, Google, Instagram, etc. Those are valid concerns but the new measure is clearly not designed around them.
Finally, we've seen how Trump can tie up the courts for months on end even after all his self-snitching. Thus I very much doubt we'll see any actual action in the 9 months + 3 months grace period laid out for the resolution of the TikTok matter. There are too many constitutional and business law challenges in my (admittedly layman's) reading of expert opinion.
The footage of the premature baby born to a dead mother killed in a bombing, who then followed her into death moments later, was especially chilling. Can you imagine the outrage if that happened to someone from New York, or Britain, or Germany? But because they're Palestinians the mother and newborn, both killed inside a "safe zone", will be just a footnote.
There are no safe zones for Palestinians as far as Israel is concerned. Just in the last day Israel's Finance Minister Smotrich has called for the "complete destruction" of Gaza and stopping peace talks with Hamas. "He said Israel needed to attack Rafah "as fast and as strongly as possible, and then continue with the strip until its complete destruction".
It isn't too much to ask. According to Dr. K of HealthyGamerGG (Harvard Psychiatrist/Instructor), research shows that the release of non-consensual porn makes the unwilling subjects suicidal over half the time. Non-consensual porn = deepfakes, revenge porn, etc. It's seriously harmful, and there are other effects like depression, shame, PTSD, anxiety, and so on. There is functionally unlimited porn out there that is made with consent, and if someone doesn't want to be publicly sexually explicit then that's their choice.
I'm not against AI porn in general (I consider it the modern version of dirty drawings/cartoons), but when it comes to specific likenesses as with deepfakes then there's clear proof of harm and that's enough for me to oppose it. I don't believe there's some inherent right to see specific people naked against their will.
Oh FFS. This had better be an extremely limited response to Iran's response to Israel's bombing of an embassy. Here's hoping it's just the same type of symbolic attack that Iran made last weekend - all show and no intent. Just Israel refusing to let anyone else have the last word.
Anything more serious and things are about to become very messy and even more expensive. Although it would explain why Israel is suddenly arranging to get dozens of jets from the US in the last month or so. Lord knows they don't seem necessary if the only goal is to keep blowing up Palestinians.
I'd be careful about considering Israel's defense as a complete success, or at least an easy one. According to Israeli sources cited in this article, achieving that result cost Israel as much as $1-1.3 billion USD, and I can't find out if that includes the price of interception by other countries - a lot of the heavy lifting was done by the USA after all. Given that they say that's the cost for Israel specifically, I don't think it does but I can't find sources. Regardless, it's a big bill for an attack that everyone knew was coming days in advance and gives a sense of the economics involved in an open war several times more intense.
"The earliest identified isolate of HIV-1 comes from an unknown male in Kinshasa, Congo, in 1959. The first identified patient with HIV infection and AIDS was a Scandinavian man in the 1960s, who had visited west-central Africa. Then came sporadic cases among gay men in the United States and among Haitians in the 1970s, leading to the global explosion in the '80s and '90s and the literal decimation of peoples in several tropical countries."
I'd say don't source the history of diseases from NFL players, but those who would take my advice seriously probably don't need it.
"Woman" is hilarious to define as an agenda - like there's no clarification required to toss half of humanity under the bus. So I watched the video (I don't know Coney, but it's just him making fun of this insane preacher) and it's essentially that bad. The preacher says, and I quote, "She's headstrong and stubborn, constantly arguing with Ash. Typical woman" then laughs and apologizes but never says anything else about her. The mental athletics involved in the preacher's conclusions would make him a master of any gym.
As OP's article notes, it's a dangerous moment and a lot is going to depend on which nations are willing to do what. Hopefully there will be a period of calm reassessment leading to stepping away from an open war that will benefit almost no one at all.
Thousands of Palestinians, including men, women, children and elderly, attempted to return to their homes in northern Gaza on Sunday when they came under Israeli fire....
It's estimated that between 1,000 and 1,200 settlers surrounded the village, and around 500 stormed it just after midday local time on Friday, blocking all the roads in the area....
1st Rule of Mental Health ( lemmy.world )
I'm told the source is Usagi Drop.
When you roll a Nat 1 on your Survival check. ( lemmy.world )
The next one on my playlist will actually blow your mind. ( lemmy.world )
Devil and sorceress art can be found here and here. Freddie Mercury can be found in the hearts of music lovers everywhere.
Stranger Things have happened when I get angry... ( lemmy.world )
MRW I hear a music track that Rule(s), but I can only understand every 4th word. ( lemmy.world )
I'll take Eminem, Ludacris, Snoop, 50 Cent etc. over mumble rap any day. Though in the end love what you love - it's just a meme about my opinion.
Colombia to cut diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza war, Petro says ( www.aljazeera.com )
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has announced plans to cut diplomatic ties with Israel over its war in the Gaza Strip, which human rights advocates and other experts have warned could amount to genocide....
"Natural Family Planning" ( lemmy.world )
The corpse of Twitter is behind the desk. ( lemmy.world )
Most Patient Cat in the World Just Wants to Loaf Up ( www.youtube.com )
Gimme some other phrases that work this way ( lemmynsfw.com )
History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes - Mark Twain ( www.instagram.com )
"The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre) were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus."...
Some in State Department don’t believe Israel is using US weapons in accordance with international law, source says | CNN Politics ( www.cnn.com )
The State Department is divided over whether Israel is using American-provided weapons in accordance with international law ahead of a fast-approaching deadline next week for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make a determination to Congress....
It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene. ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14841802...
Escape From Tarkov studio boss says he "did not foresee" players would get mad about charging extra for PvE ( www.rockpapershotgun.com )
This has to be the funniest PR disaster in video game history. "Guy did not forsee players getting mad for locking a gamemode behind a $250 edition, doubles down on it and tells people to chill out"
ruleberg ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Mr. Pretty from Dildo, Newfoundland photographs penis-shaped iceberg. (shamelessly stolen from tumblr)
College students aren’t having enough sex — so they’re turning to anti-Israel protests: NYU professor ( nypost.com )
“I think part of the problem is young people aren’t having enough sex so they go on the hunt for fake threats and the most popular threat through history is [antisemitism].”...
I fell into a burning ring of fire ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14797615...
In my defense I didn't resist very much ( lemmy.world )
TikTok will not be sold, Chinese parent ByteDance tells US ( www.bbc.com )
Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on designated 'safe zones' ( www.nbcnews.com )
Israel: ‘Investigate what?’ A response to mass graves being found in Gaza. ( www.politico.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14741297...
An AI company has been generating porn with gamers' idle GPU time in exchange for Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards ( www.pcgamer.com )
Israeli missile has struck Iran, US officials say - BBC News ( www.bbc.com )
An Israeli missile has hit Iran, two US officials have told the BBC's US partner CBS News....
Aaron Rodgers says AIDS was created by the U.S. government in the 1980s ( www.outsports.com )
woman rule ( lemmy.blahaj.zone )
Nothing lasts forever ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14358178...
The Jerusalem Post: "Netanyahu asks IDF to provide 'target options' for Iranian attack - report" ( www.jpost.com )
According to the report, the targets include an Iranian facility in Tehran or a cyberattack....
Shadow war no more: Hostilities between Israel and Iran have strayed into direct warfare – is there any going back? ( theconversation.com )
Thousands of Palestinians attempt to return home to northern Gaza, but face Israeli fire | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
Thousands of Palestinians, including men, women, children and elderly, attempted to return to their homes in northern Gaza on Sunday when they came under Israeli fire....
Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, setting cars and homes ablaze ( edition.cnn.com )
It's estimated that between 1,000 and 1,200 settlers surrounded the village, and around 500 stormed it just after midday local time on Friday, blocking all the roads in the area....
Gamer Gatekeeping ( lemmy.world )
Glass Half Full ( lemmy.world )
Fab Ciraolo's Cobain and Wonka ( lemmy.world )
Creator's Instagram is here with lots of other great pics.