Highlights: Dr. Bernice King is no stranger to watching people on social media use her father’s legacy to score a point. But this time, she’d clearly had enough of it....
Totally agree. Opponents of affirmative action, reparations, and the like will quote this: line:
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Without doing the basic research to find that MLK Jr. was in favor of reparations. Or try to bend his words to supporting capitalism when he was more socialist (though he opposed totalitarian communism).
Greta Thunberg posed with a "Free Palestine" sign after the retaliation started. The IDF complained that she wasn't telling their side, that Israel had just been attached. Therefore, she was labeled a terrorist sympathizer. That really boils down their mentality.
A fun story about the origin of some of PHP's first function names. The hash function in the table for function names in the interpreter was strlen(), so names were chosen to have a wide distribution of lengths.
A fun story about the origin of some of PHP's first function names. The hash function in the table for function names in the interpreter was strlen(), so names were chosen to have a wide distribution of lengths.
And if they didn't want Hakeem Jeffries specifically, they could have bargained for someone else. If they were in the mood to cross the aisle, they would be holding all the cards.
Regardless, I'm glad they are being open about this. I use 1password, so I want to know absolutely anything that could be a threat, especially after the debacle with LastPass.
Seems like moderate Republicans weren't objecting to an extremist (ala Jim Jordan). They were objecting to an extremist who had too much of a public profile. They just needed someone obscure enough that they wouldn't catch too much flak for choosing them.
The Economist really does have a way with words sometimes. So many news agencies are "just the facts," but The Economist loves to mix in creative headlines and word play like that.
From what I hear, the aircraft carriers are mostly a threat to keep any additional actors from throwing their hat in the ring while Israel is distracted.
I'm seeing it on lemmy.ml. The mods on /c/worldnews there are removing any comment that isn't pro-Hamas. Not even pro-Palestinian, you have to follow Hamas' narrative or your comment gets deleted. Look at the mod logs if you doubt me. Even just doubting Hamas' honesty is grounds for a comment to be removed.
Yeah, that's what really gets my goat. Hamas is not a group that any of those people would like living under. Yet they have bought into this "Western" versus "non-Western" narrative so deeply that they will excuse even straight up war crimes by any group as long as that group runs counter to Western interests and values.
…To handle massive payout events like [Hurricane] Andrew, insurance companies sell policies across different markets—historically, a hurricane wasn’t hitting Florida in the same month a wildfire wiped out a town in California. They themselves also pay for insurance, a financial instrument called reinsurance that helps...
We should worry about both climate change and resilience. Yeah, there are the people who want to ignore climate change because getting off their ass and doing something about it would be inconvenient. But at the same time, it is here and severe. We need to acknowledge its effects and work to deal with the ramifications for both humans and the environment.
This is why we need a rebated carbon tax immediately. Pricing carbon emission equivalents into products is how we subtly signal to everyone along a supply chain "buy this not that".
As an aside, "Environmental, Social, and Governance" (ESG) investment is a way to make investments that at least purport to be socially conscious. One could make the case that they are in the company's self interest, since companies don't exist in a vacuum. They have employees, suppliers, customers, etc. that all get hurt when any of those three causes is weakened.
Edit: The argument about the company's self interest is important because people like CEO's and fund managers have a fiduciary duty towards the company or wealth they manage. They must at least be able to make an argument that they believe themselves to be acting in their clients' best financial interest.
That's part of the point, that it gets passed to consumers. The consumer gets nudged towards lower carbon products. The rebate is there to offset the cost of the carbon tax that is baked into goods and services. It is evenly split between everyone so that people who cause fewer carbon emissions than average will see a net benefit.
Yeah, it sounds like his legal team is trying to build grounds to appeal and whoever is governing his medication is playing into their hands. Seriously, how much effort does it take to properly treat someone when they already have a prescription written?
Come to think of it, it doesn't really make sense for Iran to want this sort of escalation to happen. The ideal situation from its standpoint is for Palestine to be a continuous thorn in Israel's side, but not too much. That's cheap to do and disruptive to Israel. If Israel connects the killing of hundreds of civilians to Iran, that could be justification for all out war. That would be damaging for both sides, but ultimately I think Iran would come out the worse.
For a vaguely comparable situation, look to Ukraine. NATO is willing to arm and train Ukraine, but committing NATO soldiers involves incredibly high amounts of risk. That's why NATO has held back, even though its conventional armed forces would have no trouble taking on Russia.
Bernice King Calls Out Amy Schumer For Implying Her Father [MLK Jr.] Would Support Bombing Palestinians (www.theroot.com)
Highlights: Dr. Bernice King is no stranger to watching people on social media use her father’s legacy to score a point. But this time, she’d clearly had enough of it....
CNN Host Left Stunned As IDF Confirms Israel Hit Refugee Camp With Airstrike (newrepublic.com)
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She's Thawing! (lemmy.world)
PHP is dead? (telegra.ph)
AITA: I’m a Republican who is blaming the Democrats for the House of Representatives being shut down. (www.patriciarobertsmiller.com)
1Password discloses security incident linked to Okta breach (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Mike Johnson elected House speaker with broad GOP support (apnews.com)
Developing World Sees Double Standard in West’s Actions in Gaza and Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)
Israel shows footage of Hamas killings ‘to counter denial of atrocities' (www.theguardian.com)
Video from security cameras, mobile phones and body cameras screened to journalists
As climate risks mount, the insurance safety net is collapsing (www.motherjones.com)
…To handle massive payout events like [Hurricane] Andrew, insurance companies sell policies across different markets—historically, a hurricane wasn’t hitting Florida in the same month a wildfire wiped out a town in California. They themselves also pay for insurance, a financial instrument called reinsurance that helps...
Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers say he needs more Adderall to concentrate in court (www.businessinsider.com)
YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf" (cdn.zmescience.com)
Some of the many articles about it:...
No evidence yet of Iran link to Hamas attack, says Israeli military (www.theguardian.com)