They’re mad because they’re terrified that, in order to compete without paying slave wages for Chinese labor, they might have to gasp! get paid less to make up the difference! Not smaller profits! Oh, no!
I read it— but, more importantly, I also know the one thing that China has which constantly allows them to undercut Western manufacturing: cheap labor.
CAIRO, May 28 (Reuters) - Israeli tanks shelled a tent camp in an evacuation area west of Rafah and killed at least 21 people on Tuesday, Gaza health authorities said, while advancing to the heart of the southern Gaza city for the first time after a night of heavy bombardment....
“The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms, and he extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, as reported by others,” the Vatican said in a Tuesday statement....
I don’t think we can know what he intended. We can make an assumption based off his past actions, and I’m inclined to believe this explanation. Italian isn’t his first language, he’s old, and I think it’s a likely explanation that he slipped up and made an old man mistake.
sorry, i don't agree. you can believe what you want, however we can't really know... and i'm not convinced.
edit: to clarify: i do believe his position about gay priests is homophobic. i just don't believe that he intentionally meant to use a slur while discussing it, and am willing to believe the "old man slip-up" excuse. it's hair-splitting, i know.
Italian media has said that the pope used a highly derogatory slur against LGBTQ+ people at a bishops conference. The remark may sour attempts by the pope to make the church more welcoming....
“The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms, and he extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, as reported by others,” the Vatican said in a Tuesday statement.
“As he (Pope Francis) has said on several occasions, ‘in the Church there is room for everyone, everyone! No one is useless, no one is superfluous, there is room for everyone. Just as we are, everyone.’”
Seems like they’re playing it off as “grandpa had a woopsie”.
All things considered, I am. He’s old, Italian isn’t his first language, and he has a history of progressive changes in favor of the lgbtq+ community. I’m more inclined to believe it was a mistake than to think it was intentional or malicious. Especially given how quickly an apology has been issued.
It doesn’t matter what word he used, he was using it in an anti LGBT sentiment.
i think it does matter wrt what he actually said or intended to say. whether he's being homophobic in his position regard gay clergy isn't a matter of debate: he is.
the issue is that he claims not to have intended to use an offensive term, and apologizes for the offense cause by the term. That i'm willing to believe. i'm not debating his gay clergy policy, which i obviously agree is bigoted.
Back in the day, you needed a floppy drive to boot from a CD ROM (or a special reboot command). It wasn’t until a new BIOS firmware came out that allowed you to boot from CD ROM.
i can see it being ok for overnight, actually. like, i'm not against the idea, it's just that it services a narrower range of travel needs due to its long duration.
i'm from NYC, so i'm perfectly happy with train travel, but 7 hours is a long-ass trip.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield lines, four Russian sources told Reuters, saying he is prepared to fight on if Kyiv and the West do not respond....
The benefits, basically, are that it can provide an architecture that is designed for modern computing needs that can scale well into the future. That means high performance with low power consumption and heat.
The x86/64 model has been up against a wall for a while now, pumping out red-hot power hogs that don’t suit modern needs and don’t have much of a path forward wrt development compared to ARM.
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture "This is a pipe", I'd have been lying!
Persuading the BBC not to describe sperm whale clicks as “language” in their Blue Planet II series was the highlight of my science communication career. Why?
A lot of complex communication is going on in cetaceans, much of which we still don’t understand. However, I am convinced that we should drop the stifling and anthropocentric focus on language. It crowds out other perspectives on what is going on – for example, the relationship between rhythm-based communication and music might be a better way to understand the bonding function of coda synchrony in sperm whales.
We should be wary of ranking species on a single dimension relative to humans, as if all evolution is a path to something like us (much like early anthropologists ranked societies by their progress toward western “perfection”). Instead, let’s take ourselves off the top of the ladder and see other animals as distinct branches of an evolutionary tree.
I find great logic in the argument of understanding animal communications in relation to the animals themselves rather than their relation to us.
I’m not seeing that this is the case here. Wearing white wedding dresses is traditionally only for “virgins”. The Queen was the head of the Church of England. It might even be unusual for a 90-year-old head of the church, not to object to something like this.
I think this is a stretch, and assuming rather a lot about someone you don’t know
The queen did object to Camilla wearing a white dress when she married Charles
Overall, I rate this a 7/10 troll. 5 base points, plus 1 for sticking with it and another bonus point for that shit about Ned Flanders. That made me laugh so hard, I almost broke character and called you out, but I wanted to see how far you’d take it.
Thanks for the practice. I haven’t had a good one of these since my Reddit days.
if this post gets 1024 upvotes, i will post again with twice as wide en passant ( lemmy.world )
only as in free beer ( lemmy.world )
Rapid rollout of clean technologies makes energy cheaper, not more costly ( www.iea.org )
There Can Be No Energy Transition Without China, Says Siemens Energy CEO ( www.forbes.com )
New Israeli attack today (Tuesday) on Rafah evacuation zone ( www.reuters.com )
CAIRO, May 28 (Reuters) - Israeli tanks shelled a tent camp in an evacuation area west of Rafah and killed at least 21 people on Tuesday, Gaza health authorities said, while advancing to the heart of the southern Gaza city for the first time after a night of heavy bombardment....
Pope Francis apologizes for using a homophobic slur during a meeting with bishops | CNN ( www.cnn.com )
“The Pope never intended to offend or express himself in homophobic terms, and he extends his apologies to those who felt offended by the use of a term, as reported by others,” the Vatican said in a Tuesday statement....
Pope uses homophobic slur in meeting with bishops — reports ( www.dw.com )
Italian media has said that the pope used a highly derogatory slur against LGBTQ+ people at a bishops conference. The remark may sour attempts by the pope to make the church more welcoming....
Sealed Windows 2000 Advanced Server floppy disks ( lemmy.world )
Amongst all this AI hype of the past few years, nobody talks about that it's finally feasible to create an MS Clippy that works.
GET FREE WAM ( sh.itjust.works )
swap feels like cheating
‘They call us Nazis’: inside the wealthy German town where the far right is on the rise ( www.theguardian.com )
Amtrak Borealis launches, connecting Chicago and Twin Cities – NBC Chicago ( www.nbcchicago.com )
Voters in 13 Oregon Counties Approve 'Greater Idaho' Measure Seeking to Secede From Liberal-Run State ( www.nysun.com )
Thirteen counties in Oregon have voted in favor of measures to begin negotiations on seceding from the state and joining neighboring Idaho....
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search ( www.theverge.com )
US officials say North Korea may be planning military action to create chaos ahead of US election, report says ( www.businessinsider.com )
US officials fear North Korean military action ahead of the US election, NBC News reported....
Exclusive: Putin wants Ukraine ceasefire on current frontlines ( www.reuters.com )
Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to halt the war in Ukraine with a negotiated ceasefire that recognises the current battlefield lines, four Russian sources told Reuters, saying he is prepared to fight on if Kyiv and the West do not respond....
Windows XP can run on an Intel CPU from 1989 thanks to dedicated modder ( www.techspot.com )
Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach ( techcrunch.com )
Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs ( arstechnica.com )
Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 75% of threads retract in 1st ( arstechnica.com )
Chaos Reigns Inside Tesla as Workers Await Next Slew of Job Cuts – One worker likened the state of the company to ‘Squid Game,’ the TV series where contestants fight for survival. ( www.bloomberg.com )
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I just realised that this is not a painting by René Magritte ( en.wikipedia.org )
Are we really about to talk to whales? ( theconversation.com )
Queen thought Meghan’s wedding dress was ‘too white’ as Sussexes mark 6th anniversary ( www.independent.co.uk )
American Citizens Arrested for Alleged Congo Coup Attempt, Ambassador Says ( www.thedailybeast.com )
If you are a Libertarian and hold liberty as your core value, why do you not believe in universal healthcare? Nothing impacts liberty more than sickness and death.
how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres?
I see people sleeping on concrete, in cramped plane seats etc...
What to watch?
Sick and feel like I've hit the end of Netflix, Prime, ... Is there a community about what everyone is streaming/recommending?
After Spending Years Relentlessly Chasing Fame, Sam Altman Complains That He's Getting Recognized In Public Too Much ( futurism.com )