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Memmy for Lemmy iOS app released in App Store
Trying it out right now! So far looks great!
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Memmy for Lemmy iOS app released in App Store
Trying it out right now! So far looks great!
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AITA if I buy stolen airline miles?
Make sure you pay for them with your CC and home address so the karma can come around more quickly.
You’re trying to justify theft.
YTA
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Congress voted against funding a cure for cancer just to block a win for Biden
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Not to be pedantic, but an impressive pharmaceutical industry is not the same as leading cancer research. Still impressive. Not the same. Again, I get your point, but no need to exaggerate realities.
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Congress voted against funding a cure for cancer just to block a win for Biden
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While I get the point you’re trying to make, it’s just incredibly wrong about cuba. Carry on for the rest.
Source: I do lots of cancer related research.
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yay, no dunning kruger for me! hold up, oh no
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Fine. It’s not even a concession to say that people are a mix of nature and nurture. But people assume that saying there exists such bell curve for intelligence is the same thing as saying that people’s worth is on a bell curve, and no one is suggesting that (or at least I’m not).
It’s ok to say that there exists natural differences between people.
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yay, no dunning kruger for me! hold up, oh no
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This is stupid. Noting that there is a bell curve of some innate talent we label intelligence is like noting there’s a bell curve on a person’s height.
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Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says
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This is only true of GnRH related medications. Use of hormones as well as more effects. Just to be clear.
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North Korea is evading sanctions by animating Max and Amazon shows
Fucking tankies in this thread.
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I absolutely love the idea- but previous reviews noted the battery life was notably lacking. Here’s hoping that’s fixed.
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Israeli troops advance toward Gaza City as the Palestinian death toll rises above 9,000
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Just to note- Hamas was elected to govern in 2007. They are the elected governing body of Gaza. This is to say there are two governments at war.
I would also ask, as to responsibility: if Hamas fires a rocket from behind a human shield, and the innocent is killed as a result of return fire- wouldn’t Hamas be responsible for the war crime? Aren’t they responsible for the innocent life due to their purposeful choice to involve the innocent from the beginning?
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Second person to receive experimental pig heart transplant dies nearly six weeks after procedure
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Your body has the miraculous ability to identify ANYTHING that isn’t itself: viruses, fungi, bacteria, even lots of nearly-self things like cancer.
It’s likely not a solvable problem.
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Arterial, tiny bubbles cause strokes. Venous, giant bubbles cause air emboli.
Sometimes there’s connections that shouldn’t be there that can cause venous bubbles to cross over and be a problem.
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[OC] Oceanside, CA Pier
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No joke, we used to visit every year growing up. Then a lot of years past and I had kids of my own I took last year- it’s disheartening.
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Gaza says Israel's strikes on refugee camp kill more than 195 people
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A loss for words is still a loss.
It’s a shame, really. Not that the herd here will care- but I have always been a liberal. For 20 years I’ve voted democratic and pushed for understanding. But things are changing- have changed. We’ve polarized to the point of absurdism, arguing that one atrocity is ok and the other is not solely on the parties involved. We’ve bathed so much in the incestuous pond of cable media and internet misinformation that anything that isn’t exactly “party line” is dismissed and derided.
Currently, the line is perceived power is ultimate evil- that everyone with it is by definition a victimizer everyone without is by definition a victim. In this paradigm, the Jews, ironically, are the colonialists and can do no good, while Hamas can do no wrong. Reality is rarely so black and white.
This is no justification of Netanyahu administration. But equivocating here is wrong. Hamas started the war with capturing, raping, and murdering innocents, and wants to avoid repercussions by hiding behind their own civilians. We should be able to denounce evil where it lies- with those who caused the war. Want to end the war? Call for Hamas to surrender.
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Gaza says Israel's strikes on refugee camp kill more than 195 people
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Don’t be an ass. Your claim was I was spreading misinformation because hamas never said that 500 people died, and was a product of western media. This isn’t what your article argues, rather that dead might have been mistranslated from injured. The core thrust of my argument remains the same- data supplied by Hamas is suspect, at best.
Again, if you’re able, explain your argument.
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Gaza says Israel's strikes on refugee camp kill more than 195 people
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You can’t articulate your argument. That’s on you, bud.
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Emotional outburst on live TV from Gaza over death of reporter encapsulates collective grief
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It’s an interesting article, but it’s not an exhaustive look at the situation. Look buddy- the article is from the point of an American, and proscribes American actions that should be taken. While that is interesting, it doesn’t touch nearly at all on what the current parties should do (vis a vis Hamas and Israel) and it doesn’t apply ANY scrutiny to Hamas or suggest any actions they should take.
It’s not that it’s not an insightful piece, but it’s POV is limited, and can’t be applied generally.
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Having read the supplied article, the author has no information except that kills might be mistranslated. Not to get into the weeds, but it doesn’t dispute the source, nor does it offer more credible information.
And as a rule of thumb- a single dude publishing a substack doesn’t deserve more credibility than a long time news source. Not that the article supplies and information that might be argued- the whole point is that he didn’t get any information.
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Gaza says Israel's strikes on refugee camp kill more than 195 people
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Not sure what you mean?
I read the article and it didn’t say what you said it says.
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Gaza mothers fear for premature babies as Israeli siege cripples hospitals
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This is not a one sided situation. Hamas is diverting fuel from hospitals to store for their war needs. If Hamas didn’t take civilian fuel the hospitals wouldn’t be out of it. This makes them at least partially responsible, no?