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But how many is it if you add up all of the fractions of planes that have also fallen?

gedaliyah ,
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Sodastream was always such a strange target. It's a niche product, and hasn't been relevant for a decade. Closing their original factory put 100s of Palestinians out of work; it was one of the companies that fostered cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians.

Why not post about a major company like Intel or Apple? They have core products and development in Israel.

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"I hate to day I told you so..."

-literally everyone

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This is a revisionist view that requires ignoring a lot of historical facts. Almost a million Jews were expelled from MENA countries in the 20th century, many of whom survived only by escaping to Israel. The Palestinian Authoriry has never accepted any status for Jews. Christians, Muslims, Druze, yes, but no Jews.

Meanwhile, there are about 2 million Arab citizens (mostly Muslim) of Israel who are entitled to equal rights, including government subsidized Churches and Mosques.

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This guy:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/44a2a274-9166-4055-b9e9-e8d4b690c3a1.jpeg

How Counterprotesters at U.C.L.A. Provoked Violence, Unchecked for Hours - (NYT Gift Link) ( www.nytimes.com )

A New York Times examination of more than 100 videos from clashes at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that violence ebbed and flowed for nearly five hours, mostly with little or no police intervention. The violence had been instigated by dozens of people who are seen in videos counterprotesting the encampment....

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It was always just propaganda to discredit the NYT, which is not only the paper of record for the nation, but also has a history of championing high journalistic ethics.

That said, this behavior is heartbreaking and deplorable. It seems clear that this violence was initiated by people who stand opposed to terrorism and in solidarity for the return of hostages. This should never have happened and I hope that those who led this charge are brought to justice.

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But this is actually a good thing? They will be targeting wealthy enterprises to pay what they owe.

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Any word yet on who bought all those matching tents and construction materials for the pro-Palestine encampments?

gedaliyah ,
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Trying to distract people from the fact that Colombia is in shambles due to poor leadership?

gedaliyah ,
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I don't think this is true - at least not in the Hebrew Bible (I don't know much about the Greek/Christian parts). What verse/ passage are you thinking of?

gedaliyah ,
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Somehow conservative Christians never seem to apply this logic to Leviticus 18:22.

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Well, that's the difference. This is just Daniel Whedon's personal interpretation. It's not included in the list above because those are all explicit - not just one person's interpretation. Obviously a commentary is subjective by nature. Why open up a solid argument to debate by introducing a lower quality argument based on a subjective opinion?

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Here are a few examples of arguments that this entire line of thinking opens you up to:

  1. "keep" is a mistranslation - the original text says הַחֲי֖וּ, which means "let live."
  2. "young girls" is a mistranslation: "young girls" would be ילדות, but instead this says הַטַּ֣ף, which could mean "children" or "families,"
  3. According to BDB (one of the most widely used English biblical lexicons), sometimes the "word includes (or implies) women as well as children"
  4. Other commentaries say that they were taken not as wives, but as slave workers.

Why do you want to mess around with all that nonsense? Just use the unambiguous examples from OP's infographic.

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The entire idea that any of this has to do with being "saved" is a Christian invention anyway. The Hebrew Bible uses the exact same wording regarding eating pork. These were clearly a code of behavior that were intended to apply to one particular group of people, and possibly only a subgroup of that group.

Additionally, many scholars consider this passage not a condemnation of homosexual sex, but relating to inappropriate sexual domination. Of course it's extremely problematic that heterosexual sex would be considered a dominating act, but that's more than we should really get into right now.

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How do I learn this mystical skill?

ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it ( noyb.eu )

It’s clear that companies are currently unable to make chatbots like ChatGPT comply with EU law, when processing data about individuals. If a system cannot produce accurate and transparent results, it cannot be used to generate data about individuals. The technology has to follow the legal requirements, not the other way...

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Yeah, Vine (now defunct) is probably the originator. YouTube has Shorts, Instagram has Stories, and it's the same in WhatsApp. Snapchat has one, Facebook has one, X has one (or used to? I'm not sure)... They are a part of most social media at this point, almost as ubiquitous as posts, shares, and links. Of course, TikTok is king right now their main innovation is inclusion of licensed music and removing most of the interface so that one video just flows into the next.

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Are you suggesting that someone from the Ministry of Truth would LIE?

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This site reads like a creepy Ayn Rand fesish tribute page:

As mentioned previously, railroads were the first large scale industry. The railroad revolution brought with it tremendous improvements in standard of living and a fall in the cost of transportation of goods and people. However, as is the case with most revolutions of industry, the government intervened heavily with subsidy and regulation.

Some railroads (for example The Great Northern) were indeed built in this Libertarian fashion, as purely free market enterprises which competed on the marketplace of transportation (coincidentally these were usually the few that did not go bankrupt) and productive land ownership.

Why is replacement for home device controls so complicated?

I recently learned about Home Assistant here on Lemmy. It looks like a replacement for Google Home, etc. However, it requires an entire hardware installation. Proprietary products just use a simple app to manage and control devices, so can someone explain why a pretty robust dedicated device is necessary as a replacement? The...

gedaliyah OP ,
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I don't really understand why a computer is necessary at all, is the thing. I know that it's possible to use wifi network to send a signal between two devices. I have a sound board that works this way, and manages to communicate precise multichannel instructions directly over the network without an internet connection.

If I want to turn on a light switch, it seems like all I should need to send is the location of the light switch on the network and the on/off command. I know that there is not the computing power in the light switch itself to process much more than that.

Do these devices all connect to a remote server to switch on and off??

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This is really amazing to me. I had no idea that it was using the internet to send the on/off signal from my phone, up to a server (multiple servers), just to send the command back to my home network, and to the device. That seems like an absolutely bonkers system to turn on a switch. I would be better off to repurpose an old RC toy to control the switch!

gedaliyah OP ,
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Thanks. That helps.

gedaliyah OP ,
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That's helpful. It seems like a system an insane person would come up with, but I understand it.

gedaliyah OP ,
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In my case it was a specific use case in that I have a number of outdoor lights that I want to control without needing to go back in the house every time. Folks here have given a few options that would work well for this without relying on the internet, but I already have the setup installed at this point

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From the article:

The accusation of Jews as ‘killers of prophets’ is a well-known antisemitic trope made in several Islamic texts, which is understood by many, including Al-Nassr himself, as a charge against the entire Jewish people valid for eternity.

This allegation is reminiscent and perhaps reflective of the charge of deicide by which Jews were accused in classical Christian texts.

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"But I'M the one who exploited the workers MYSELF."

Actually, never mind. They usually find someone else to do that for them anyway.

gedaliyah Mod ,
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Somebody once said that if you want to know how free society is, you only have to look at how they treat their prisoners. When prisoners have rights, that means everyone in the society can be free. When prisoners are stripped of basic human rights, that means anyone can be imprisoned with out a legal or moral recourse.

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Yep.

For the "land of the free," we have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. Singapore is at 156 (per 100k), Israel is at 168, Russia is at 300, Brazil is at 389, and USA is all the way up at 531.

UC Berkeley’s campus is in turmoil. It’s unlike anything in recent memory. ( www.politico.com )

Liberal members of the state’s legislative Jewish caucus have publicly castigated UC Berkeley for its handling of hostility toward Jewish students and professors amid the war. They’re pushing state laws targeting antisemitism in response to the events — including a violent protest of an Israeli speaker in late February...

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The best of life happens after 25. I know it feels impossibly far, but yes, it gets better, and yes, you have made it through the worst of it. It gets even better after 30 by the way.

Please, if you have a moment of clarity, go to a hospital and get checked in. I know that a mental health hold is some miserable bullshit, but it can save your life. Don't buy a gun. Just don't do it. Stay home.

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This raises some interesting questions. The premise of these scientists is that consciousness can be quantified empirically. Yet many of the tests described in this article can be passed by machines. Does that mean that the scientists who signed the declaration consider some smart devices to demonstrate consciousness? And what are the implications?

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This ass hat is a complete troll. He's like Israel's Lauren Boebert. Both need to go.

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What is the story behind this image??

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