Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....
The best description I heard was that he was a man born with the greatest privilege of all - to have never once been disturbed by the stirring of a conscience.
A lot of these hand axes may have had some kind of not-strictly-functional purpose during their heydey in the stone ages as well. Heaps of them show no evidence of wear or use and are noticably gorgeous - just really pleasingly shaped.
Why are they including their invasion of Ukraine, Napoleon's Russian invasion AND the period of Mongol dominance over the Rus? Is Putin claiming the Mongolian conquest of Kievan Rus as a military accomplishment of Russia?
Normally I don't have any time for stuff making fun of trump supporters. Vile as their views may be, most memes and comments I see in this vein make me feel uncomfortable - maybe it feels like punching down or making fun of the disabled, or maybe a lot feel classist? I dunno.
Squirrels are just the best. If anyone goes to visit Taiwan - which I certainly recommend as strongly as possible - there's a park in the capital Taipei called 2/28 Memorial Peace Park (二二八和平紀念公園).
There are these gorgeous squirrels with red bellies that will eat nuts right out of your hand. They'll come up to you, take a nut and then run off about midway up a tree. Using their back legs to hold onto the bark, they dangle head-down against the trunk, eating with their front paws. Then you look around and all the trees have these vertical furry tree-slug looking squirrels dangling against them. Just cuting it up cutefully.
Red-bellied plumpers is what my wife and I called them. They're just the best.
Jealous! My sister lived in that area and we went squirrel walking a few times on visits but I was never so lucky as to have one crawl over me.
That walking up to you and standing up behavior - I've started to see that at a cemetery here in Portland that we walk around, but so far all the squirrels have waited a short distance away for food to be thrown to them.
Trinity has agreed to work towards total divestment from Israeli institutions in an unprecedented victory for Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)....
Ireland is known for having the most support for the Palestinian cause in all of Europe for exactly the reason you imply - they know what it's like to suffer under violent colonial rule.
Irish support for Palestine is well known enough that there was a sporting furor last year when an Israeli team said in a pregame interview "we expect a tough match because everyone knows the Irish are all antisemitic", conflating support for Palestine with antisemitism.
Yesterday NPR ran an interview about student calls for divestment... with an economist who had no connection to either the protests or BDS. She was literally just guessing at what the goals might be and then explaining why it won't work. "If their goal is..."
Interesting problem here. So I self host jellyfin, happy to share my (owned) movies with my family. Well, my mother has asked me to digitize her collection too and have me host it. Originally, fine, you give your movies to me, I host them, same thing....
I personally believe that preserving a false and misleading picture of reality designed to trumpet a deranged cult that is working to make the world objectively worse for everyone including themselves is not acceptable.
I would say, "Look mum I love you more than anything in the world but preserving some of these movies crosses an ethical line for me."
Of course I grew up in a house of atheist jewish academics, so making and justifying personal ethical stances that contravene wider group stances is expected behavior in my family. And we take document preservation fairly seriously.
A lot of the larger abandoned magazines are just spam pools now. I don't see their posts in my feed, but I don't like that the two sidesbars of random posts and threads are now just spam advertising sidebars. I triedblocking the magazines, but doesn't that prevent the posts from showing in those sidebars....
Kbin got the same rexodus boost as lemmy but since then has many more atrophied communities and far fewer moderaters to do anything about it, hence spamalot.
I've only seen 1 or 2 pieces of spam in my feed and that was months back - interesting that you seem to be seeing more of it on a federated server. I only started blocking those magazines when I noticed the spam on desktop sidebars.
Being an asshole is a consequence of being rich. Having social power in the form of wealth, status or fame causes neurological changes that reduce your brain's capacity for empathy, giving you a brain that looks more like someone born with psychopathy. Power corrupts on a brain-chemistry level.
Why are you getting down voted?
I don't see any downvotes, but i'd guess it's because people presume bad faith on the internet - not without some reason - and are interpretting my comment as a rude attack on the previous poster rather than an expansion of the same sentiment.
Edit: Well to be honest, not exactly the same sentiment - I think accusing only the 'baddies' of this 'we own the world' attitude requires forgetting or forgiving a lot of western history.
There's a piece from stanford and harvard business review (of all places). I couldn't find the original studies on academia.edu after a couple minutes of searching but maybe you'll have better luck. I think there's a behind the bastards podcast episode about it too.
A lot of things i thought were cute and nice like dolphines, ducks, cats (i saw one cat eat anothers new born), dogs (multiple cases of eating dead owners due to a variety of reasons starting from trying to wake em up to other malicious reasons), hamsters etc turned out to be wrong . Raccoons are the only thing i believe in...
I agree with you pretty much everything you said, I just think that drawing a strong distinction between any one species and every other one mischaracterizes the situation. Evil is a human construct that applies as poorly to human behaviour as to the behaviour of every other animal, for the same reasons.
If you'll excuse me simplifying your point, "They're animals of course they do that, evil doesn't come into it" is not quite as accurate as "We're all animals, evil doesn't come into it", to my mind at least. Because OP didn't just misunderstand an aspect of non-human animals, they misunderstood an aspect of how life works.
‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms (www.theguardian.com)
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah....
Report: Trump promised to scrap climate laws if US oil bosses donated $1 billion (www.motherjones.com)
The Iran-Iraq War was a Terrible War, even by War Standards. (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
Marjorie Taylor Greene fails to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (www.bbc.com)
The House killed the far-right Republican's motion to remove Mike Johnson over support for Ukraine aid.
TIL Many bronze age peoples forgot what stone age tools were, and thought discovered ones as some kind of mystical talismans or signs from a thunder god (www.theguardian.com)
Also mistaken for fulgurite by the more naturalistically minded, apparently. Maybe most common in the Nordics, based on viking references?...
At some point it's got to be easier to get it over with and just do the damn dishes. (sh.itjust.works)
Russian Copium Banner for May 9 Victory Day - Su-30SM over the Pentagon. (sh.itjust.works)
r*ddit
They're not the brightest... (lemmy.world)
RFK Jr. says he had parasitic brain worm and undisclosed memory loss (www.washingtonpost.com)
Archive Link
Squirrels sleeping in their nest (lemmy.world)
Trinity to work towards total divestment from Israel in unprecedented win for BDS (trinitynews.ie)
Trinity has agreed to work towards total divestment from Israeli institutions in an unprecedented victory for Trinity Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)....
a win in the future, yet a victory nonetheless (lemmy.cafe)
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC)
"You remind me of my daughter": Stormy Daniels testifies that Trump compared her to Ivanka (www.salon.com)
Trump also assured Daniels that he and Melania didn’t “even sleep in the same room," she testified...
Chinese network behind one of world’s ‘largest online scams’: Vast web of fake shops touting designer brands took money and personal details from 800,000 people in Europe and US, data suggests (www.theguardian.com)
A trove of data examined by experts indicates the operation is highly organised, technically savvy – and ongoing....
How do you handle family requests that you disagree with?
Interesting problem here. So I self host jellyfin, happy to share my (owned) movies with my family. Well, my mother has asked me to digitize her collection too and have me host it. Originally, fine, you give your movies to me, I host them, same thing....
Could blocked magazines no longer appear in Random Post and Random Thread sidebars?
A lot of the larger abandoned magazines are just spam pools now. I don't see their posts in my feed, but I don't like that the two sidesbars of random posts and threads are now just spam advertising sidebars. I triedblocking the magazines, but doesn't that prevent the posts from showing in those sidebars....
Report: Bernie Moreno closed down local roads to test drive $3.4M imported car (heartlandsignal.com)
Hey i just wanna know are raccoons evil in some kind of way ?
A lot of things i thought were cute and nice like dolphines, ducks, cats (i saw one cat eat anothers new born), dogs (multiple cases of eating dead owners due to a variety of reasons starting from trying to wake em up to other malicious reasons), hamsters etc turned out to be wrong . Raccoons are the only thing i believe in...