Looking at the two big news publishers in my country. One isn’t reporting about the current bombings at all, while the other one is phrasing their words mostly anti-Palestinian....
That area, because of so many religions centered on it and/or the power it holds, has been fought over since Solomon’s Temple.
Nope! Solomon's temple was built 1000-600 BCE. From then till christianity took over it's mostly been a backwater, or buffer zone.
It only seems important because we have writing from people who lived there (the Torah, etc.) saying how important it was (to them), then that writing got the official stamp of truth when the Roman empire took over Christianity.
To the extent it was fought over, it was mostly because it was between much more important areas - the Egyptians and other powers like the Hittites, Babylonians or Assyrians.
Even then the neo-babylonians for example seem to have left the region largely depopulated - it's not like they actually wanted it for any reason
The neo-babylonians sacked Jerusalem, among many other cities and temples. Temples are where much of the wealth and power was kept, sacking the first temple had little to do with the potency of their specific religion. At that time the religion was just the normal Canaanite pantheon.
Judaism as we think of it, with the covenant between the special people and a single all powerful god - that only begins after the first temple is destroyed and Judah is largely depopulated, around the 500-200BCE time period.
What happened to the 2nd (actually 3rd) temple
The Romans destroyed it 70CE. ~600 years between major sacks of your city shows it's not that important.
Don’t forget, Crusades anyone?
Yes, during the medieval period Jerusalem finally starts to become an important goal of religious conflict - 2-2.5 thousand years later than the building of the temple of Solomon
A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.
In case you were wondering how an obviously insane person comes to be that rich, it's from stealing your data.
Apparently he was the founder and chief data scientist at SMA Communications. From their website:
SMA Communications owns data on over 247 million consumers and over 49 million business contacts. We also have over 179 million registered Voters, 165 million automobile owners, Social media connections and more.
A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it - The Guardian
Great to hear they're walking out! I recently offered to take a friend visiting from Australia to a Walgreens to see first hand how flimsy and shabby the US can be.
Every Walgreens looks like a store staffed by people who know that their boss wants to pay them less except it's illegal. You can smell the exploitative labour practices when you walk in the door.
So I’ve been using youtube ad blockers since pretty much when ad blocker extensions were first available. Lately though I’ve been getting hit more and more with these messages that YT was sending out every 5 or so videos telling me that adblockers aren’t allowed. No problem, just gotta wait 5 seconds to x it out and then...
increasing ads is not at all a “cause a problem” situation
Tech executives would disagree with you - creating a problem that users have to buy their way out of is one of the most popular business models going at the moment. The mobile gaming industry, for example, is basically $140B worth of intentionally created frustration.
There's been so much written about this obviously scummy practice. It's everywhere.
It's either naive or disingenuous to suggest they're not obviously trying to annoy cash out of people.
That's great! I overheard a Scottish couple talking about how Japanese "my sore toe" sounds. With their accents it was a lot like masato, which does seem to be a japanese name.
China actually does this - they steal back artifacts looted by colonial powers. There have been many high profile heists of museums where the only items taken were looted Chinese artifacts that the museum refused to return.
Yeah, it's not bad. The bit where Tucker is pretending to be Chinese isn't nearly as awkward as I'd remembered and the fight scene with all the throwing vases and arguing about which dynasty each one is from is pretty funny.
I suspect people see news about an aging rapist and it reminds them of other aging rapists in the news. It's not "shoving politics in" when it's the exact same topic.
Many states have laws saying that for every lottery dollar that goes to education, a dollar comes out of the education budget. Usually lottery profits end up in a general fund, the whole education thing is a legislated smoke screen.
The main function of state run lotteries is to take money away from organized criminals and give it to elected criminals instead.
Most states, there's this association that it supports education, but there's this bizarre scheme where for every lottery dollar that goes into the education budget, $1 from the education budget comes back out into the general fund.
So you end up just robbing Peter to pay Paul kind of thing. It doesn't actually add additional money to these causes that lotteries market themselves as helping.
a majority of the 42 states that run lotteries claim the games increase funding for education. But a CBS News investigation has found that most of the lottery sales never make it to a classroom.
But when you take away the amount shelled out for prizes (60% on ticket sales) and the cut to the lottery dealers, along with fees and operating expenses, it leaves about one third of the handle ($3.37 billion) for “aid to education”.
Moreover, NYS Assemblyman David DiPietro (R-147th District) claims the money is not always used for education expenses, at least not in the traditional sense.
According to DiPietro, the money on occasion has been “pinched off” by the state, to pay for a variety of items, including attorney’s fees for construction projects and even to pave roads near schools.
Totally destructive of any (fundamentally not so bad) businesses that give time the time of day, and utterly ineffective at actually meaningfully changing the mass cruelty of the meat industry
This is an interesting collection of words. It's not clear what you're trying to say, but I'm left with the sense that I probably disagree.
Maybe collect your thoughts, work out what you want to say and try again?
企鵝 is penguin. By itself, 企 means to stand on tiptoes, or to expect something. It's also the first character in 企業, business. Sometimes business is abbreviated as just 企.
But "commitment" in English doesn't literally mean 'commercial glove noun' just because 'com' can be short for commercial, and mit means glove.
I’m a bit concerned about how much my husband has been watching his videos, but he’s a hard man to argue with. I want to understand what it is Joe Rogan is saying, but I don’t want to give the man my viewership. How/where do I get the info I can use to debate my husband?
You can also read into some of the very easily disprovable professional morons that appear on show. Jordan Peterson is a great example because he's obviously wrong in a very well researched area.
No they're not. Usually they're two-bit grifters spouting nonsense they obviously know nothing about, in order to sell some BS. Like how spam emails use bad grammar on purpose to select for the gullible.
According to the article, it's not that simple. This is from the ToS for the Unity Editor, which is subservient to a broader Unity ToS that has much stricter legal language about changing anything without warning and the customer being able to go fuck themselves.
So, yes, technically this bullshit may be completely legal. Devs who were sold Unity on "no royalties" may be forced to pay royalties. Which is definitely healthy for our society and not obviously a problem.
So if you've published a game, just keep on keeping on. You can sell that game, maintain an older copy of Unity to update it for bugs, even develop new content for that game with the older version of Unity.
According to the article, probably no.
Many devs may have updated unity and used it for minor updates, but also the clause in question probably doesn't protect anyone anyway. There's a broader ToS that supercedes it with much more restrictive language.
Quick reminder that kbin was still fairly early in development when the reddit exodus began and sped things up much sooner than anticipated. A few teething issues are to be expected and Ernest, the dev, has been open and communicating about what's going on.
Chants of “See our might, see our power, landlords get no happy hour” ... “Parasite!” and “Get a job!”
Love it!
About an hour into the rally, the picketers entered the venue ... Witnesses said a male attendee of the BPOA event [landlord] then slapped a female TANC member [protester] in the face and pushed her.
Thuggish landlords throwing their weight around? I'm shocked. Interestingly, police who were monitoring refused to enter the venue.
No one's profits are more important than anyone's right to shelter. While there'll never be justice in a world with landlords, at least there can be some nice music:
Where can I NEUTRALLY keep up to date about the Palestina/Israel situation?
Looking at the two big news publishers in my country. One isn’t reporting about the current bombings at all, while the other one is phrasing their words mostly anti-Palestinian....
"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report (lemmy.world)
Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China (www.theverge.com)
Major Republican Donor Who Called Barack Obama the N-Word Dies After Attempting to Kill His Wife In Murder-Suicide Gone Awry (atlantablackstar.com)
A former GOP donor, who once made headlines after calling former president Barack Obama the N-word, fatally shot himself after attempting to kill his wife, according to reports.
Please see the chart (files.catbox.moe)
Anon finds a glitch in the modern dating system (images.pr0gramm.com)
I hate to tell ya... (lemmy.world)
Vegan food: The west vs India (lemmy.ml)
If you're feeling left out it's probably because you defend billionaires who would mince you into fertilizer (lemmy.world)
‘People are happier in a walkable neighborhood’: the US community that banned cars (www.theguardian.com)
A new housing development outside Phoenix is looking towards European cities for inspiration and shutting out the cars. So far residents love it - The Guardian
Religious parents (lemmy.zip)
Walgreens pharmacy staff walk out, citing unsafe working conditions (www.washingtonpost.com)
I totally forgot how terrible a non-ad-free YouTube experience is
So I’ve been using youtube ad blockers since pretty much when ad blocker extensions were first available. Lately though I’ve been getting hit more and more with these messages that YT was sending out every 5 or so videos telling me that adblockers aren’t allowed. No problem, just gotta wait 5 seconds to x it out and then...
Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11 (www.theregister.com)
X rolls out new ad format that can't be reported, blocked (mashable.com)
Am I being detaineded? (i.imgur.com)
reverse Indy (discuss.tchncs.de)
Three-Time Convicted Sex Offender, 73, Gets 25 Years for Molesting 5-Year-Old Girl at USD Church (timesofsandiego.com)
Is it not grotesque to give a random person 1.2 billion dollars in a lottery?
It serms incredible to me to give over a billion dollars to a random person.
As some carmakers run from Apple CarPlay, Porsche embraces it (arstechnica.com)
Grimes sues Elon Musk over parental rights (www.nbcnews.com)
Grimes, whose legal name is Claire Boucher, filed a petition to establish a parental relationship in San Francisco Superior Court on Friday....
Mugging (lemmy.world)
These labels mean much less than you'd think (lemmy.ml)
Capitalism is only 400 years old (lemmygrad.ml)
Hello am business goose. (lemmy.world)
How do I get informed on Joe Rogan without watching his videos.
I’m a bit concerned about how much my husband has been watching his videos, but he’s a hard man to argue with. I want to understand what it is Joe Rogan is saying, but I don’t want to give the man my viewership. How/where do I get the info I can use to debate my husband?
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Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? (arstechnica.com)
Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits.
Removed Kbin.social communities
Hello everyone,...
Drew Barrymore’s Co-Head Writer Says Drew ‘Will Prolong the Strike’ by Resuming Show: ‘It’s Not Too Late’ to ‘Stand in Solidarity’ With the WGA (variety.com)
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/drew-barrymore-head-writer-show-strikes-1235723861/
It’s all a scam, don’t even try to tell me it’s useful (i.imgur.com)
Landlord Party In Berkeley Ends In Fights (www.berkeleyside.org)