Its fine to ask, but the answer is “no”. Autism is a blueprint for how the brain gets wired. Its not something a person ‘has’, it’s a defining attribute of consciousness itself - its what a person ‘is’.
If you had a pill that could rewire someone’s brain, it would kill that person and use their meat as spare parts to build a different person.
I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt and believe they’re referring to the pinkwashing of Hamas’ crimes and goals of turning that whole area of the world into a right wing theocratic ethnostate where anyone who isn’t arab, conservative, and muslim gets hunted for sport.
Seems complimentary with the other 10. Boil them down and you get from the 10, “be honest”, and from the 7, “be kind”.
If any are displayed, then both is better than one.
Really though, the book club from a 2,000 year old fantasy novel has no place in education other than its historic significance to the art of literature.
Its the other cancer peddling shitheel this time. Syngenta owns the patent, making it completely justified for Greenpeace to prevent them from gaining control of the food supply, even if they have to use BS arguments about food safety to do so.
Anecdotally, last time I was looking for a job, these kind of positions were offering about 50% less than the income you need to be considered poor enough to qualify for government assistance - you could work 80 hours a week and still need food stamps.
For the new study, Cambridge researchers investigated how waste concrete could be converted back into clinker, the dry component of cement, ready to be used again…
An electric arc furnace needs a “flux” material, usually lime, to purify the steel. This molten rocky substance captures the impurities, then bubbles to the surface and forms a protective layer that prevents the new pure steel from becoming exposed to air. At the end of the process, the used flux is discarded as a waste material.
So for the Cambridge method, the lime flux was swapped out for the recycled cement paste. And sure enough, not only was it able to purify the steel just fine, but if the leftover slag is cooled quickly in air, it becomes new Portland cement. The resulting concrete has similar performance to the original stuff.
Israel will not transfer much-needed funds to the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the decision by three European countries to recognize a Palestinian state, the country’s finance minister said on Wednesday, as its foreign minister denounced the European moves as giving “a gold medal to Hamas terrorists.”...
As far as I can tell, Israel does not actually collect money from people living in Gaza or the West Bank. The local governments of those places collect taxes themselves.
Israel taxes imports into Israel, and made a deal with PLO in 1994 to gift them some of that revenue. That deal expired in 1999, but until now Israel kept giving them free money anyway.
Those customs and import taxes referenced in the article are on goods that get imported into Israel, and they get paid by people in Israel. Until now, a portion of that revenue was gifted to the governments in Gaza and the West Bank.
Yep. Reasoning out why its getting framed that way is an exercise I’ll leave up to the readers, but those same sources have confirmed the facts even if they are getting framed differently - the goods are taxed when they get imported into Israel, and the tax is paid by people in Israel. If those good are then exported from Israel to Gaza or the West Bank, then the governments of those places would be within their rights to tax it again. However, the 1994 deal kept that tax burden off the Palestinians while maintaining their access to Israeli logistics and infrastructure as opposed to importing goods from Egypt or Jordan, or shipping them into Gaza directly from the Mediterranean. The governments of Gaza and the West Bank became dependent on the free money, and that gave Israel leverage which it is now choosing to use.
You don’t need to take my word for it. Its spelled out in the agreement that you’ve provided a link to, in Annex V.1.a.
One month after the signing of this Agreement - 50% of the revenues collected during this month from import taxes on goods, the final destination of which is the West Bank, and from excise on petroleum purchased by the Palestinian side for the West Bank.
The companies importing the goods into Israel pay the tax - that’s how excise taxes work. Israel agreed to give an amount of that tax revenue to the governments of Gaza and the West Bank, and that amount was calculated based on how much of those goods would later be exported from Israel to Gaza and the West Bank. Without the agreement, the governments of Gaza and the West Bank would be underfunded unless they levied their own import and excise taxes, which would have the effect of increasing prices for Palestinians.
Israel agreed to the deal that kept prices low for Palestinians and provided funding for the governments of Gaza and the West Bank at Israel’s expense. A cynic might believe they did so, at least in part, to cause dependency and to gain leverage rather than exclusively out of a spirit of humanitarianism, nevertheless they did agree to the deal and it did materially help the Palestinians and the governments of Gaza and the West Bank.
Soil has a saturation limit beyond which it can’t absorb more carbon - eventually organic matter in the soil will decay and release CO2 at the same rate that new organic matter can be added. Trees only hold on to carbon temporarily, until they die and decay and the carbon is released back into the atmosphere.
Turning a field of grass into a forest might delay the impact of one year of energy use for Microsoft, but its not a sustainable practice. How will they delay the impact the next year? What’s the plan for when that carbon is inevitably released back into the atmosphere as the trees decay?
Planting trees as a means of carbon capture is snake oil, and I believe the likes of Google and Microsoft are too smart to fall for it, so that begs the question - what’s their true motive for doing this?
That might work for a little while, but I suspect there is an upper limit to how many trees a bog can absorb over a given time before it stops behaving like a bog.
If the biomass inside hugelkultur garden beds didn’t decay, then it would just be a means of water retention. It does decay though, which enriches the soil but also releases CO2.
Hugelkultur can reduce demand for fossil carbon based fertilizer, but IDK if composting trees is economically viable without some level of carbon tax, or even logistically viable for meeting demand at the scale of modern, mechanized agriculture. It would be cool if it were though - paired with machines that run on liquid fuels created using renewable energy, fertilizer made from compost could be part of a zero net carbon system for growing food.
There are no left wing political groups in the US. Closest thing we’ve got is a centrist named Bernie who has no political party supporting him, and a ‘squad’ of Democrats pretending to be progressive while they support culturally conservative politics, virulent ethno-nationalism, and violently ignorant theocracy in other countries.
The claims about price are sus too, for all the EVs mentioned. The actual price of Tesla’s cheapest Model 3 starts around $45k, so the author’s claim that you can buy a Model Y for $34k throws the veracity of the entire article into question.
I feel so old (lemmy.world)
New President of Mexico Warns of Remorseless Criminals North of Border (www.borowitzreport.com)
Idaho bar celebrates "Heterosexual Awesomeness Month" with free beer for straight men (www.lgbtqnation.com)
“An all-male Monday sounds pretty gay to me.”...
How was this show made (lemmy.world)
Solidarity (lemmy.world)
Louisiana could become first state to require display of Ten Commandments in classrooms | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Wikipedia has a bunch of 'famous last words' pages. I compiled the most amusing ones I saw.
Note: I did these for a website that doesn’t allow swearing, so I didn’t include some funny sweary ones....
I support this transformation (lemmy.world)
‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of children could die after court backs campaign group over GM crop in Philippines, scientists warn...
Despite surging demand for long-term care, providers struggle to find workers (apnews.com)
The hardest part of Culix Wibonele’s first job in long-term care was not getting injured....
Conspiracies (mander.xyz)
'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement (lemmy.world)
Israel Responds to Move to Recognize Palestinian State by Withholding Funds (www.nytimes.com)
Israel will not transfer much-needed funds to the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the decision by three European countries to recognize a Palestinian state, the country’s finance minister said on Wednesday, as its foreign minister denounced the European moves as giving “a gold medal to Hamas terrorists.”...
Big Tech thinks it can plant trees better than everyone else (www.theverge.com)
Senators blame sky-high drug prices on abuse of the patent system (www.nbcnews.com)
South Carolina governor signs into law ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors (apnews.com)
Biden: What's happening in Gaza is not genocide (www.gmanetwork.com)
“What’s happening in Gaza is not genocide. We reject that,” Biden said at a Jewish American Heritage Month event at the White House....
Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results (arstechnica.com)
NIO undercuts Tesla Model Y with new $30,000 L60 EV, kicking off cheaper Onvo brand (electrek.co)
A literal depiction of how capitalism invades all aspects of life (lemmy.world)