floofloof 5d ago • 98%
Appears? There's video and photos of people burning to death. At least one of the victims has been identified. There are reports from traumatized eyewitnesses. Why the timid headline? Do we have to wait for Israel's word on what happened?
floofloof 5d ago • 100%
The Phil Collins puppet bears a strange resemblance to Liz Truss.
floofloof 5d ago • 23%
I'm strongly opposed to Trump but these headlines seem like a real stretch. It seems a couple of medical emergencies in the crowd interrupted things and music was played while Trump waited on stage, then at the end he stuck around while more music was played. He looked awkward, grooving along, but this isn't what "Trump Breaks Down Onstage" suggests.
floofloof 5d ago • 100%
Pirating it is a bad idea if you're downloading it from a non-Microsoft source, since malware would be a big risk. That would defeat the purpose of installing a supported OS in the first place. If you download it from Microsoft and use a pirated key maybe that would work, but would you get the security updates?
floofloof 5d ago • 72%
You're not wrong, but the other candidate has criticized Biden for being too soft in foreign policy and urged Netanyahu to "finish the problem." Plus, with him you get a fascist autocracy at home.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905
www.dropsitenews.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21419291 > With the full support of the Biden administration, Israel is waging a merciless war of extermination against the 400,000 Palestinians remaining in the northern Gaza Strip as the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering a plan to annex the territory. > > No food, water, or medicine have entered the north since October 1 as Israeli forces have conducted a campaign of intense airstrikes and ground forces have invaded and encircled much of the area. > > As it orders residents to flee the north, Israel has intensified its attacks on Deir Al-Balah, a city in central Gaza that has not suffered the vast scale of destruction unleashed by Israel in other parts of the Strip. > > Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled to the city in recent months. In the early morning hours of Monday, Israel bombed a crowded tent encampment for displaced people on the grounds of Al Aqsa hospital, engulfing civilians in a massive ring of fire. > > Video from the scene showed patients—some of whom appeared to be in beds attached to IV cords—being burned alive as others in the encampment tried desperately to extinguish the fires with small buckets of water.
floofloof 5d ago • 100%
I just read about it and it is bad enough. I'll paste this quote from someone who was there:
“I swear to God I saw people burning in front of me. By god, no one could do anything. The man, the woman and the little girl burning in front of me, I swear to God. In front of me they burned, in front of me. Their souls left in front of me, in front of us, in front of all our eyes,” said Saleh Al-Jafarawi, an independent Palestinian journalist who filmed the massacre. “No one was able to do anything, no one was able to advance and get them. We tried, but we couldn’t, the fire was so strong that no one was able to advance and pull them out of the fire. They were burned alive. Their bodies were charred. This is a crime that we have never seen and no one has seen like it,” he added in a video posted on his Instagram account. “I swear to God the scenes that will remain in our memories, will remain in our hearts forever. We will never forget the scene that I witnessed today: The scene of the child and he is burning in the heart of the fire and no one was able to help him.”
Be warned that there's a very disturbing photograph in the source page.
floofloof 5d ago • 100%
“I swear to God I saw people burning in front of me. By god, no one could do anything. The man, the woman and the little girl burning in front of me, I swear to God. In front of me they burned, in front of me. Their souls left in front of me, in front of us, in front of all our eyes,” said Saleh Al-Jafarawi, an independent Palestinian journalist who filmed the massacre. “No one was able to do anything, no one was able to advance and get them. We tried, but we couldn’t, the fire was so strong that no one was able to advance and pull them out of the fire. They were burned alive. Their bodies were charred. This is a crime that we have never seen and no one has seen like it,” he added in a video posted on his Instagram account. “I swear to God the scenes that will remain in our memories, will remain in our hearts forever. We will never forget the scene that I witnessed today: The scene of the child and he is burning in the heart of the fire and no one was able to help him.”
This is what American tax dollars are funding. And neither of the election candidates proposes to stop it.
floofloof 6d ago • 100%
Regardless, if elected again, Trump will inherit the U.S. military’s regime-change plans for North Korea, modernized during his own prior administration. But he will also inherit updated, ultra-secret plans for CIA assistance in any such invasion
They won't stay secret for long then.
floofloof 6d ago • 96%
"Hospital patients burned alive" is becoming Israel's whole brand identity.
floofloof 6d ago • 100%
Which ones? I've used Firefox and Vivaldi (which is Chromium-based) interchangeably for the last couple of years, and I can't remember noticing any difference in their ability to handle sites. The main difference I've noticed is that Firefox renders fonts more nicely in Linux.
floofloof 6d ago • 99%
Soon, users will have to choose between accepting Chrome's inferior ad-blocking technology or switching to a different browser.
Doesn't seem like a terribly difficult choice. Firefox it is.
floofloof 6d ago • 100%
Neither vote will. Trump's even worse on Gaza, if that's possible. So you may as well vote on other issues.
floofloof 6d ago • 100%
Who would you vote for?
floofloof 6d ago • 100%
Why only images of sentient beings though? Did God not create the rest of it too?
floofloof 6d ago • 100%
OK, yes, that is a bit odd. Thanks for pointing out that the numbers on my instance would be incomplete - I hadn't thought of that.
floofloof 6d ago • 50%
Right now they have 897 posts and 2.99K comments, so that seems a bit less than your numbers. Looking at their history they seem to be human, not a bot, and they submit news stories in bursts, which isn't as odd as if there were a constant stream of submissions. In between, they comment and discuss. I make it about 2.7 submissions or comments per hour. If they just have times each day when they binge Lemmy, that's not in itself suspicious.
Edit: I agree now that this is a bit odd.
floofloof 6d ago • 100%
What if you sneak around Afghanistan whispering "Don't think of an elephant!" to people? Are they in trouble?
floofloof 6d ago • 100%
What if my own blasphemous eyes and mind keep creating images of living things?
www.theguardian.com
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21381352 > The Dutch have seen their prison population decrease by more than 40% over the past 20 years. At the other end of the spectrum, Britain has the highest rate of incarceration in western Europe, and is struggling with an unprecedented prisons crisis. Britain’s minister of prisons, James Timpson, calls the Netherlands a source of inspiration. > > What could the Dutch system teach the rest of the world? First, the declining prison population is not actually the result of recent policies by visionary politicians. Much of it is due to changes in reported crime and the nature of crime. As in many other western countries, the number of violent crimes has significantly dropped in the Netherlands in recent decades. > > This does not necessarily mean that there is actually less crime overall, as Dutch criminologist Francis Pakes, professor at the University of Portsmouth, who has studied the reasons for the emptying Dutch prisons, told me: “There is less conventional, violent crime, like murder. On the other hand, a lot of conventional crime went online and is less visible. And it is quite possible that there is a kind of organised crime that we have little visibility on. But fewer serious cases are coming to the police and courts.” And so fewer people end up in jail. > > But while the Dutch don’t have a model policy the world can copy, the overall Dutch attitude towards imprisonment could be instructive. According to Pakes, the Dutch are much more aware that a stay in prison does more harm than good. Society may be rid of a criminal for a while, but in many cases, criminals simply resume their activities when they leave prison. They may become more ruthless, due to the violent prison climate in which they have had to survive. And perhaps they have a wider criminal network that they built up behind bars. > > This also applies to shorter sentences. Even these can completely turn an offender’s life upside down. You can lose your job, home and social network. And you rarely become a better person during a short stay in jail.
www.bbc.co.uk
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26372640 > Analysis from the BBC (who are usually quite motivated and effective at justifying Israel actions). > > The sheer devastation is incredible. 66% of buildings damaged. 90% of the population displaced. Water and sanitation systems non-functional. 53/500 needed lorries entering the territory per day (down from 142). They're not even trying to look they're helping now. The population have been squeezed into over-populated tent cities. > > It feels like they think if they create the conditions for disease and it kills people, they don't get blamed. > > To me, it's hard to think of a way this could get closer to genocide. Absolutely sick. > > Israel seem to be galvanised by inaction of the world and probably looking to do the same in Lebanon. Is Yemen after? Where does this stop?
www.bbc.co.uk
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26372640 > Analysis from the BBC (who are usually quite motivated and effective at justifying Israel actions). > > The sheer devastation is incredible. 66% of buildings damaged. 90% of the population displaced. Water and sanitation systems non-functional. 53/500 needed lorries entering the territory per day (down from 142). They're not even trying to look they're helping now. The population have been squeezed into over-populated tent cities. > > It feels like they think if they create the conditions for disease and it kills people, they don't get blamed. > > To me, it's hard to think of a way this could get closer to genocide. Absolutely sick. > > Israel seem to be galvanised by inaction of the world and probably looking to do the same in Lebanon. Is Yemen after? Where does this stop?