Allowing China to sell their cars at a loss in the US is definitely a bad thing. It allows China to take over the US market by undercutting the competition. The reason for the teriffs, as far as I understand it, is that the Chinese government is subsidizing the EV manufacturers in an attempt to kill competition and corner the market. It is an anti competitive practice that, if it paid off, would allow China to artificially push other EV makers out of the market, then raise prices when their competition is gone.
I don’t understand why Republicans are so strongly on Israel’s side at this point. I think almost everyone was on Israel’s side on Oct 7th but since then there have been over 35,000 Palestinian deaths, including women and children, and their infrastructure has been obliterated. Israeli losses since Oct 7th only come to 260 soldiers.
Why would anyone suggest nuking Gaza? Oct 7th was terrible but it wasn’t perpetrated by the millions of people in Gaza. It was perpetrated by the terrorist group that rules Gaza and, at this point, it seems they aren’t much of a threat.
The only reasons I could see for nuking Gaza are:
To kill all Gaza s before the new crop of radicals being cultivated by Israel’s brutality become ripe.
To try to create a broader conflict with the Islamic world.
The UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership, in a move that signalled Israel’s growing isolation on the world stage amid global alarm over the war in Gaza and the extent of the humanitarian crisis in the strip. The move drew an immediate rebuke from Israel. Its envoy to...
This CNN article has a lot more information and context including who voted against the measure (nine countries including the US and Israel), the practical effects of the measure (new rights for Palestine to sponsor and support resolutions but still no vote), and what can be expected in the near future (a vote in the UN security council on whether to actually admit Palestine which might pass but which the US will veto).
Palestine gets new rights from this but it also triggers a vote in the security council on whether Palestine will actually become a full member. The US will veto and has already signaled as much.
Palestine gets new rights from this but it also triggers a vote in the security council on whether Palestine will actually become a full member. The US will veto and has already signaled as much.
Right? It sequesters 0.0001% of our annual carbon output. They say they hope to reduce the cost to $400-$600/ton by 2030 so,even using their 2030 estimate, this plant cost $14.4M - $28.8M. To sequester 1% of our current carbon emissions per year would cost $144B - $288B. $7.2T - $14.4T to do 50%.
This doesn’t sound like a productive use of the limited R&D funds that go into combating climate change.
What makes you think there aren’t modern physicists who are also philosophical?
As someone with a physics degree, I can say that there physicists have, do, and always will include people who focus only on the math and science and others who incorporate philosophy into their values and world view.
I really don’t think that’s how that works. If you revolt against your employer, I don’t think it’s likely that you’ll get to take over the company and continue running it.
My guess is that these were wealthy women who were able to afford the transfer. I highly doubt that the hospital or any insurance company paid for the transfers. I would bet that there were other women who were unable to afford similar care and had to suffer the consequences.
Are you just dense? The idea isn’t “no funding for Israel” the idea is “no funding for Israel until they start following international law and stop indiscriminately killing.”
Hamas is awful and should be destroyed but two wrongs don’t make a right and Israel is going much too far. Israel isn’t attacking Hamas at this point. They are doing to the Gazans what Hamas did to Israel, but a hundred fold worse. They are acting like either a terrorist organization or a genocidal regime.
I’m all for Israel defending itself. I am mostly okay with funding Israel to defend itself and stand up for itself. I am absolutely not for funding genocide and wars of retribution. At this point Israel needs to be brought to heel and, when safe, needs to be held accountable for its crimes and it’s long term policies of apartheid.
May I ask what service you switched to? I’m tired of my music app being cluttered with podcasts and audio books. I use other services for this things and don’t need them in Spotify.
The headline said exactly what happened. The aid group stated that they believed that their truck was bombed in a targeted attack. They didn’t say who they thought made the attack but requested that the Canadian government reach out to Israel to request an answer. They also requested an investigation by Canadian authorities.
It is fairly clear that the aid organization thinks Israel committed the bombing but they are allowing the Canadian government the latitude to be delicate with the situation.
On the second day of the former president’s New York criminal trial, the defense argued against seating jurors who had posted negatively about him online...
Has his staff managed to insulate him from memes like this or is he just realizing that they’re not going to be able to weed out everyone who thinks that way? Surely not every potential jurer who dislikes trump has publicly posted memes about him.
I’m really encouraged to see that congress is actually doing something to revive the 4th amendment. It is essentially dead in the digital space right now.
The vote was pretty bipartisan, actually. There is a faction in both parties that wants this and a faction in both parties that doesn’t.
Republicans:
Yay: 123
Nay: 90
Present: 0
No Vote: 5
Democrats:
Yay: 96
Nay: 109
Present: 1
No Vote: 7
It scares me how many in both parties believe that warrantless surveillance of citizens is appropriate. Sure, maybe law enforcement can’t perform warrantless themselves, but I don’t see much difference between doing it themselves and buying it from professional data brokers.
In fact, it is almost certainly more efficient and less costly to buy the data than to develop their own systems for collection and sorting. Getting this kind fo info on suspects might not even be possible for law enforcement without purchasing it.
I assume that Miami-Dade County had a reason to draft legislation like this. There weren’t political points to be gained here since this was a low profile issue until this bill made it high profile. The county wouldn’t have gone through the effort if there wasn’t a problem to be addressed.
I could understand repealing a statewide mandate for protections if it was costing money to enforce and wasn’t seeing results. I don’t understand restricting local governments from implementing their own local protections. What harm would the protections have done?
This is not intended to defend Israel. From what I’m seeing, what Israel is doing here is heinous. For example, the mass graves at al-Shifa hospital.
This is just intended to point out that the modern usage of the term “anti-semitic” has come to mean “anti-jewish”, even if that doesn’t really fit with the older history of the word “Semitic”.
Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping “Semitic languages” in linguistics.
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The terms “anti-Semite” or “antisemitism” came by a circuitous route to refer more narrowly to anyone who was hostile or discriminatory towards Jews in particular.
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In 1879, the German journalist Wilhelm Marr began the politicisation of the term by speaking of a struggle between Jews and Germans in a pamphlet called Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum (“The Way to Victory of Germanism over Judaism”). He accused the Jews of being liberals, a people without roots who had Judaized Germans beyond salvation. In 1879, Marr’s adherents founded the “League for Anti-Semitism”, which concerned itself entirely with anti-Jewish political action.
Objections to the usage of the term, such as the obsolete nature of the term “Semitic” as a racial term, have been raised since at least the 1930s.
A new mass grave has been discovered at al-Shifa Hospital where a two-week siege by the Israeli army has turned the facility into a graveyard and put what was once Gaza’s largest medical complex out of service.
Help the company during this difficult time! We’re all in this together!
Wait, you want raises? You want the raises you would have gotten if you hadn’t forgone them during the pandemic? Hahaha! AHAHAHA HAHAHA! Wait, you’re serious!? AAAAAAHAHAAAHAHAAAAHA… cough cough… I can’t breathe! No, stop that’s too funny!
Tariffs on China aren't the way to win the EV arms race – getting serious on EVs is (electrek.co)
Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’ (www.thedailybeast.com)
UN votes to back Palestinian membership, prompting Israeli envoy to shred charter (www.theguardian.com)
The UN general assembly has voted overwhelmingly to back the Palestinian bid for full UN membership, in a move that signalled Israel’s growing isolation on the world stage amid global alarm over the war in Gaza and the extent of the humanitarian crisis in the strip. The move drew an immediate rebuke from Israel. Its envoy to...
The world’s largest direct carbon capture plant just went online (www.engadget.com)
Letter from Einstein where he labels zionist as "terrorist organizations" and "misled and criminal people" (lemmy.ml)
Florida workers brace for summer with no protections: ‘My body would tremble’ (www.theguardian.com)
Effects of heat are expected to worsen after bill prohibiting municipalities from enacting shade and water protection is passed...
Idaho AG Suggests Hospitals Are Airlifting Pregnant Patients Out of State as a Political Ploy (www.jezebel.com)
USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow (apnews.com)
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees (fortune.com)
Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much “work around the work” as he laid off 17% of the group’s workforce in December.
New streaming services give you the same convenience you had in the 90s (lemmy.world)
Canada contacts Israel after aid agency says water truck bombed in 'targeted' attack (www.cbc.ca)
Impulsive purchases (lemmy.world)
Trump forced to see mean memes about him shared by prospective jurors (www.rollingstone.com)
On the second day of the former president’s New York criminal trial, the defense argued against seating jurors who had posted negatively about him online...
House passes bill requiring warrant to purchase data from third parties (thehill.com)
DeSantis signs bill banning local heat protections for workers (thehill.com)
House approves resolution condemning Palestinian rallying cry “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" as antisemitic (thehill.com)
Mass grave found at Gaza hospital occupied by Israeli forces (www.aljazeera.com)
A new mass grave has been discovered at al-Shifa Hospital where a two-week siege by the Israeli army has turned the facility into a graveyard and put what was once Gaza’s largest medical complex out of service.
Pearson: Airline catering employees vote 96% to strike, wages frozen during pandemic to help company, now management brags about profitability while offering raises as low as 89 cents an hour (teamsters.ca)
Be the Handbag of Freedom (lemmy.world)
Its Saturday in Japan, so I got time to make breakfest. (lemmy.world)