When people try to claim that the US defense industry is needed to stimulate the economy...
I always think they're literally just blowing up money. We could have just as much industry doing things like healthcare, aid, education, infrastructure...
This is most likely a consolidation of power because the left and right are both calling for elections and Bibi knows he ain't going to win an election.
Among the hardest hit are the Mughrabi family: more than 70 were killed in a single Israeli airstrike in December. The Abu Najas: over 50 were killed in October strikes, including at least two pregnant women. The large Doghmush clan lost at least 44 members in a strike on a mosque and the total soared over 100 weeks later; by spring, over 80 members of the Abu al-Qumssan family had been killed.
All it took to radicalize Luke Skywalker into blowing up a military installation with millions of people living in it was a dead Aunt and Uncle...
And people act like they don't understand why Hamas keeps getting recruits.
Imagine you were hanging out at a neighbors place and came home to see 70 members of your family dead and your whole neighborhood leveled.
During his hearing Monday, Black said he was invited to Russia by Aleksandra Vaschuk, and he went here to be with her, according to local Russian media.
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Dudes not getting bailed out by the military either, because he didn't disclose the trip when taking leave.
Even when he gets out of Russia, he's gonna face UCMJ charges. He'll likely get the boot without benefits, but might even end up having to do some time if they want to make an example
Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play....
But I feel like if you're this opinionated about things we figured out long ago, maybe listening would help more than reading.
Because it wouldn't have taken much for you to Google this at some point and realize we've been studying this for decades, and maybe, just maybe, science is better than your assumptions.
There are a lot of factors in play, and you seem to think it's because of...
What exactly?
Like it seems like you're just arguing women are bad at chess?
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Probably depends on your state, but in mine it just has to be a nurse.
Like, literally any nurse. So just call around to clinics and even pharmacies.
I got mine at a very young age, so it was an elementary school nurse most of the year, and then a small local clinic for summer shots.
Like, you're already walking into clinic, just have them give you the shot. They're 100% gonna call the cops if people are injecting each other in the lobby. If your partner is in healthcare, I have zero idea why that's being considered as a legit option.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the U.N. World Food Program said Sunday the program has “paused” its distribution of humanitarian aid from an American-built pier off Gaza, saying she was “concerned about the safety of our people” after what had been one of the deadliest days of the war there....
Completed in mid-May, the U.S. pier was operational for only about a week before being knocked offline by storm damage for two weeks. After repairs, it returned to operation again Saturday, bringing in 1.1 million pounds (492 metric tons) of food and other aid, before McCain said her agency was pausing its humanitarian work there.
Israel also blew up two nearby warehouses were food was kept.
No, it says the pier wasn't used just right next to it...
Video circulating online Saturday shows an IDF helicopter taking off from the beach with the U.S. pier in the backdrop. Two U.S. officials told CBS News that the U.S. pier was not used in the IDF operation. It is offshore to assist delivery of humanitarian aid. A U.S. official explained that the helicopter landed south of the facility on a beach but not within the cordoned area of the pier.
Which is why I said "this area" and not "the pier"
But honestly, it should be pretty clear what I'm talking about about. The article is about the warehouses next to the pier, they're also not actually on the pier. So I don't know how anyone would think "this area" means literally and only on this tiny tiny pier that's been used for civilian aid for like what? 2 weeks total?
It might have been longer but Israel pulled this shit almost as soon as it opened, and I'm sure you're about to tell us how that's a total coincidence....
I own a long dagger/short sword. The hilt is in the design of the German eagle with its wings spread out as the hand guard and in the middle of the hand guard is a swastika. The scabbard is also adorned with swastikas on the top, mid section, and bottom....
I mean, the only person who would want it is a nazi...
If you knew a blacksmith they might smelt it, but I don't even know if that would be a waste of money/effort for them. Maybe one would do it for the symbolism? Same for a scrap recycling place.
U.S. President Joe Biden last week announced a proposal for a phased plan for a cease-fire and hostage release, setting in motion the administration’s most concentrated diplomatic push for a truce.
Biden described it as an Israeli proposal, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly questioned some aspects of it, particularly its call for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza and a lasting truce. His ultranationalist coalition partners have threatened to bring down his government if he ends the war without destroying Hamas.
That appears to have only deepened suspicions on the part of Hamas, which has demanded international guarantees that the war will end. It’s unclear if such guarantees have been offered, and Hamas has not yet officially responded to the plan.
I feel like this would be a lot easier to work out, if Biden wasn't constantly lying to make it seem like Israel wanted peace...
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has notified Israel’s Defence Attache in the United States, Major General Hidai Zilberman, of his decision to add Israel to the blacklist of countries and organisations harming children in conflict zones....
What does the US have to gain? Location, pressure, denial of certain attacks (like Israel assassinating Iranian generals), being able to position nuclear weapons close to Iran, as well as distracting Iran from attacking US targets directly, among a host of other benefits. This also extends to other countries in the same vicinity.
I don't see anything that requires genocide, or that another country couldn't provide... Hell, we have a LHD out there 24/7 and SSBNs are kind of our thing if it goes nuclear, they can be anywhere and don't need to be close.
Israel would definitely have the funds to take out Palestinians if they weren’t being supported by external forces.
The only thing stopping other countries from holding Israel accountable is the US. Israel can genocide helpless civilians just fine, but not everyone else who has a distaste for genocide and a grudge against Israel anyways.
So, like I was saying, Israel needs the US waaaaaay more than the US needs Israel.
When people complain about how capitalism is fucking shit up, there's usually some McKinsey employees (again, dumb rich 20 something's straight out of college) way back at the beginning of the problem telling everyone to do the thing that caused the problems.
They do an absolute dog shit job of helping, unless the only people you care about helping are the wealthiest. McKinsey always comes up with solutions that make the wealthy more money.
The wealthy already know those "solutions" they just need a third party to suggest it so when it hurts everyone else the wealthy can act like even the experts couldn't see the obvious downside coming.
The school’s demand stemmed from a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) policy that states schools “must not directly or indirectly restrict the sale or marketing of fluid milk.” Doing so would violate the rules of its participation in the National School Lunch Program, which all public — and many private — schools heavily rely on to subsidize their meals, and could result in fines and other corrective actions.
America doesn't have a political party that priotizes Americans over corporations....
Like the milk push was for childhood nutrition, but nowadays our main health problems with kids is obesity.
So pushing calorie dense milk on teenagers makes zero fucking sense.
We should be teaching these kids that water is supposed to be the main beverage.
Milk and juice can still be available, but shouldn't be the default, and soda shouldn't really be an option for most school kids.
But there's no "big water" lobby to push kids drinking more water. There's water lobbyists, but that's about taking water reserves from one area, and then shipping it all over the country to sell at ridiculous prices because it's been bottled.
The episode starts with the Doctor stepping into a fairy circle, causing him to vanish and locking the Tardis. I'm not a huge fan of this season's "magic is real" vibe, but so far it tracks....
If the Doctor isn't around, security measures lock it down, even preventing the use of keys.
After a long build up explaining just how serious the fairy circle is, it turns out no that’s just racist
I took that as a reference to how people don't believe in it, but that doesn't stop it from being real.
Dr Who magic isn't Tinkerbell magic, people don't need to believe in it for it to work.
So this woman makes everyone near her hate Ruby. Everyone. Why? Who fucking knows
I think it's not that she "says" anything, it's that standing next to an old her, and looking at present her "breaks their brains" due to fairy magic and perception filter being crammed together. They likely still just see the blur, but subconsciously the paradox ducks with them. Like how when multi doctor episodes happen, the younger versions forget it.
Then she goes back in time. How? Why? No idea. It just happens and you gotta deal with it.
Everything weird is because of the intersection of magic and time travel fields... Someone getting thrown back into time isn't that off the wall. Especially if viewing her life and the fairy circle as two never ending loops.
This. Makes. No. Sense.
It's Dr Who mate... Unbelievable things happen every episode, but will likely eventually be explained by really advanced tech
So as far as this season supposed to be supernatural...
That's not new, in Dr Who the British royal family are all werewolves and vampires are real just aliens.
Any sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic. Even the Doctors tech is often confused with magic. It's entirely possible all the "magic" is going to be tech from some alien species (maybe more than one) living among humans for a very long time even under the Doctor's radar.
This year I think they're just waiting instead of explaining it away with timely whiney bits until later in the season when it all gets tied up with a bow.
When the fans have to make up explanations for an episode
Dude...
The show runner literally just said this season was moving away from self continaed episodes...
I don't agree with it, but we know it's happening.
We're not going to end every episode neatly wrapped on and on to the next planet. Before if that happened the episode was always advertised as "part 1". Now it's just going to be a more connected season.
I didn't know why the show runner felt the need to spoil the surprise till this exchange though.
HDR video streaming can also consume 5% to 10% more data than SDR streaming, according to a Dolby executive (h/t: Pocket-Lint). That means there are potential bandwidth savings on offer by switching to SDR video, although this isn’t a given for every platform.
Like acoustics make things sound good, it's honestly really complicated and hard to get right.
Having shit everywhere prevents noise from bouncing off things.
The confusion is probably because recording booths are sound dampened. That's not to make the record sound better, it's to isolate everything else so that the mix can be clean and prevent echos.
A good echo is literally what people stereotypically look for to gauge the acoustics of a space.
His comments highlight the complexity for firms desperately needing supplies and parts manufactured in China, but not the competition from complete kits made there that undercut Western firms.
We can't afford not to buy parts so other companies can assemble them...
But we also can't allow China to sell complete units because then those middle men companies can't make money...
I'm no climate scientist, but at this point I have no sympathy for energy companies or their profits.
It's insane lots of world leaders say climate change is an important issue, then turn around and tariff or outright ban green energy products from China because they're so cheap everyone would buy them.
Just sounds like corporate welfare where whatever maximizes their profits is necessary, and everything that doesn't gets banned.
Imagine you were starving in the desert for weeks, finally stumble across a McDonald's, but then go "nah, I don't like their business decisions" and walking away...
Climate Change is kind of a big fucking deal
We constantly bail out industries, they can take a short term hit while they learn to compete.
It's better than causing long term damage to our entire fucking planet.
Jesus dude, just listen to yourself:
Short term profits are more important than the survival of intelligent life on Earth.
Wilson last visited the DMV site last summer when she was renewing her disability parking placard online. At that time, she did not know that Google obtained her personal information when she filled out her application, communicated directly with the DMV, searched on the site, or clicked on various URLs, all of which she said revealed that either she had a disability or believed she had a disability.
Her complaint alleged that Google secretly gathers information about the contents of the DMV's online users’ searches, logging sensitive keywords like "teens," "disabled drivers," and any "inquiries regarding disabilities."
Google "knowingly" obtained this information, Wilson alleged, to quietly expand user profiles for ad targeting, "intentionally" disregarding DMV website users' "reasonable expectation of privacy."
So it's not like they were skimming the medical info provided, but if you went to the DMV page, Google knew what you clicked.
So they pulled all that.
But because they didn't set it up to exclude anything about disability plates, it violated a specific law in California from the 90s.
It's valid, although I doubt Google intended to gather info specifically on people with disabilities, they don't respect the law to ensure they follow it, they grab everything and pay settlements later if they need to.
The White House on Tuesday provided the most complete definition yet of what it considers a "major ground operation" in Rafah that could trigger a change in United States policy toward Israel, and said Israel's actions there have not yet reached that level....
For everyone saying Israel doesn't have to listen to the ICC:
Israel, like the US, Russia and China, is not a member. After Palestine’s acceptance as an ICC member, any alleged war crimes – committed by those of any nationality – in occupied Palestinian territories now fell under Bensouda’s jurisdiction.
You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...
They keep saying it's impossible, when the truth is it's just expensive.
That's why they wont do it.
You could only train AI with good sources (scientific literature, not social media) and then pay experts to talk with the AI for long periods of time, giving feedback directly to the AI.
Essentially, if you want a smart AI you need to send it to college, not drop it off at the mall unsupervised for 22 years and hope for the best when you pick it back up.
Palestinian Territory - Israel continues to ignore orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), including the Court’s most recent ruling. This ruling requires Israel to halt its military assault on the Rafah Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip and reopen the Rafah border crossing to facilitate the movement of...
The point that was made was they'll declare it over after the first handful of states, and if you keep voting progressive early, they'll take your delegates away.
A couple years ago the DNCs lawyers made another point to a judge:
It doesn't matter if we interfere in the primary, it's not real and we can just ignore the results.
Tell me again why anyone cares about the primary?
2020 we said it could pull Biden to the left. It did till the election, January wasn't even over before he said he couldn't change any Dem senator's mind so it would be a waste of time to try for anything.
So while letting the primary run to the convention would help the party's choice in the general, they're not prepared to take the risk of their pick losing and having to nominate against the primary result.
So please, let me know there's so magical way primary votes matter.
And what the ones of us in the 45 states that don't vote till long after the DNC declared a victory can do?
Hell, my ballot literally didn't even have a "undecided" option. There was one circle next to Biden's name and that was fucking it.
‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years ( www.theguardian.com )
Millions face disaster as Sudanese army and RSF accused of using food access as a weapon in on-going war...
Netanyahu disbands his war Cabinet ( www.nbcnews.com )
Takeaways from the AP investigation into the Palestinian families being decimated in Gaza ( apnews.com )
US soldier detained in Russia pleads partially guilty in court, local media reports - ABC News ( abcnews.go.com )
He did not admit to the charges of assault or threat to kill, reports said.
With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?
Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play....
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‘It is not illegal to teach drunk’: Charges dropped against 2nd grade teacher accused of being intoxicated in class ( lawandcrime.com )
While the District Attorney’s Office agrees that it is highly inappropriate to teach while intoxicated, it is, unfortunately, not illegal.”
Advice Needed: How to get immunotherapy treatment in a rural area where the clinics do not administer the shots?
I have already seen an allergist, and was on ramp up. We had to move, and to my surprise none of the clinics here will administer allergy shots....
UN food agency pauses its aid work at US pier in Gaza over security concerns, in latest setback ( apnews.com )
WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the U.N. World Food Program said Sunday the program has “paused” its distribution of humanitarian aid from an American-built pier off Gaza, saying she was “concerned about the safety of our people” after what had been one of the deadliest days of the war there....
What do you do with Nazi memorabilia?
I own a long dagger/short sword. The hilt is in the design of the German eagle with its wings spread out as the hand guard and in the middle of the hand guard is a swastika. The scabbard is also adorned with swastikas on the top, mid section, and bottom....
What does Israel’s rescue of 4 captives, and the killing of 274 Palestinians, mean for truce talks? ( apnews.com )
Israel rescues 4 hostages kidnapped in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7. ( apnews.com )
Israel said Saturday it rescued four hostages who were kidnapped in a Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7....
UN adds Israel to blacklist for harming children in conflict zones ( www.middleeastmonitor.com )
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has notified Israel’s Defence Attache in the United States, Major General Hidai Zilberman, of his decision to add Israel to the blacklist of countries and organisations harming children in conflict zones....
Biden apologizes to Zelenskyy for monthslong congressional holdup to weapons that let Russia gain ( apnews.com )
Federal government flouted rules when awarding McKinsey contracts: AG report ( www.cbc.ca )
Auditor General Karen Hogan's audit couldn't determine if contracts delivered value for money
Biden: ‘every reason’ to believe Netanyahu is prolonging Gaza war for political gain ( www.theguardian.com )
US president’s remarks to Time magazine about PM’s role in conflict draw heavily critical response from Israeli government...
Big Milk has taken over American schools ( www.vox.com )
Unpopular opinion: 73 Yards makes no sense
The episode starts with the Doctor stepping into a fairy circle, causing him to vanish and locking the Tardis. I'm not a huge fan of this season's "magic is real" vibe, but so far it tracks....
Netflix's upcoming HDR toggle might save your movie experience (APK teardown) ( www.androidauthority.com )
Hoarders must have really good room acoustics.
There Can Be No Energy Transition Without China, Says Siemens Energy CEO ( www.forbes.com )
Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities ( arstechnica.com )
It’s not just boomers, young people are voting far right too ( www.politico.eu )
Ahead of the European election, striking data shows where Gen Z and millennials’ allegiances lie....
US defines 'major' Rafah operation that would change Israel policy ( www.reuters.com )
The White House on Tuesday provided the most complete definition yet of what it considers a "major ground operation" in Rafah that could trigger a change in United States policy toward Israel, and said Israel's actions there have not yet reached that level....
Spying, hacking and intimidation: Israel’s nine-year ‘war’ on the ICC exposed ( www.theguardian.com )
What's up with all the ads here?
So, uhm, what the hell is going on with all these ad posts I’m seeing in this community?
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information ( futurism.com )
You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...
Gaza: After ICJ order to halt attacks on Rafah, Israel launches over 60 air raids on the city in 48 hours ( euromedmonitor.org )
Palestinian Territory - Israel continues to ignore orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), including the Court’s most recent ruling. This ruling requires Israel to halt its military assault on the Rafah Governorate in the southern Gaza Strip and reopen the Rafah border crossing to facilitate the movement of...