When I saw the show Hamilton, George Washington was black, not sure if that’s always the case. It was a really good show.

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Thank you. I also didn’t follow.

Well I would hope not. “Compromising” with a bully to only give up half your lunch money isn’t a great plan unless you are just buying time for some other plan.

I’m sure it must be a stressful time for Jewish people. All hate crime is horrible. Many people, Jewish and non-Jewish, oppose the actions of Israel.

I do hope the protests, to stop US arms being sent to Israel, grow in strength. And I do what I can personally to help.

When looking at the numbers its no exaggeration to say that the Palestinian people are being slaughtered by the Israel military.

• On October 7, 2023 Israel was attacked killing 1200 Israelis. Israel’s response to the attack has been completely disproportionate and has now (as of June 2024) killed over 7,797 children. In the same time the conflict killed 53 children in Israel.
• The most conservative estimate is that 7,797 Palestinian children have been killed, in the same time it is estimated that the total Israeli casualties; including military and civilian, including men, women, and children is 1200.
• on April 24, 2024 with many thousands of Palestinian children already dead, the US gave 14 billion in aid to Israel
• Neither US political party is stopping this.

Here are my sources, I am always interested to have other sources.

• I tried to pick from a range of sources and tried to include any statistic that made my argument weakest. Most of the numbers come from June to August of 2024.
• How many Palestinians have been killed? May 2024 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said 30,000 https://time.com/6979208/israel-gaza-death-toll/ The Gaza Ministry of Health said that 36,379 people had been killed by the end of May 2024, https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-gaza-deaths-women-children-360c6aabc03421c718d4a8452cec2c67 The associated press reported 40,005 in August 2024. https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-palestinians-statistics-40000-7ebec13101f6d08fe10cedbf5e172dde
• How many of the Palestinian deaths were combatants? hamas officials say 6000 to 8000 https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israels-six-week-drive-hit-hamas-rafah-scale-back-war-2024-02-19/, https://time.com/6979208/israel-gaza-death-toll/ Netanyahu says 14,000 combatants https://time.com/6979208/israel-gaza-death-toll/
• How many of the Palestinian deaths were civilians? Many articles state that most of the Palestinian death records don’t include combatant/non-combatant designations. The most common statistic given in this context is deaths of women and children. of those killed 58 to 48% were women and children https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-794306 of 24,686 identified casualties: 7,797 children (32%), 4,959 women (20%), 1,924 elderly (8%) https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/reported-impact-snapshot-gaza-strip-3-july-2024-1500 Netanyahu said “probably around 16,000 civilians have been killed” https://www.politifact.com/article/2024/may/24/the-un-adjusted-its-gaza-fatality-reporting-heres/
• How many Israelis have been killed? 1,200 in israel plus 320 israeli combatants in Gaza https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/reported-impact-snapshot-gaza-strip-3-july-2024-1500 1,200 in the oct 7 2023 attack https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-revises-death-toll-from-oct-7-hamas-assault-dropping-it-from-1400-to-1200/
• How many of the Israeli deaths were combatants? 318 of the 1,200 killed in the oct 7 2023 attack were combatants: https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-revises-death-toll-from-oct-7-hamas-assault-dropping-it-from-1400-to-1200/
• How many of the Israeli deaths were civilians? of the 1,162 identified fatalities, at least 33 were children https://www.unocha.org/publications/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/reported-impact-snapshot-gaza-strip-3-july-2024-1500 53 children killed in israel https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-gaza-war-palestinians-statistics-40000-7ebec13101f6d08fe10cedbf5e172dde

I have been commuting a good bit by bike lately so I thought I was getting strong… I just got whooped by two Brompton riders. I’m not sure I’ll ever recover from this humiliation.

No but I’m very interested by them. How often do you end up using it? Has it replaced other modes of transport for you?

This isn’t the first time that Wells Fargo has demonstrated exploratory ethics… exploratory of what a complete disregard for ethics looks like.

I agree.

I find the Teams app works great on Ubuntu. The Microsoft apps work OK in browser, until you have a lot of collaborators.

I rarely need to switch to windows, so when I do switch I expect to spend an hour doing updates.

Oh dang that’s creepy.

I changed my profile picture to one of the Fediverse graphics: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36806080

It has a lot of interesting thoughts from E. B. White

The answer to war is no war. And the likeliest means of removing war from the routine of national life is to elevate the community’s authority to a level which is above national level.

And

Whether we wish it or not, we may soon have to make a clear choice between the special nation to which we pledge our allegiance and the broad humanity of which we are born a part. This choice is implicit in the world to come. We have a little time in which we can make the choice intelligently. Failing that, the choice will be made for us in the confusion of war, from which the world will emerge unified — the unity of total desolation.

Hell, I would copy the question sometimes :P

Yeah I had a similar thought to your first paragraph. I mostly use MBFC for the “factual reporting” rating, because it seems easier to be objective about.

Just to clarify, I don’t develop any fediverse software, I wouldn’t want to take any credit from those amazing people.

I have always liked the saying that an overnight success takes 5-10 years. Getting frustrated with someone who is developing two different Fediverse platforms simultaneously after 12 days seems a little quick.

I think you make good arguments in your video about how similar loops and peertube are, but I don’t view that as a negative. We see lots of duplication in the world, even within open source (Linux vs BSD vs Redox, ardupilot vs pixhawk vs betaflight). When it’s open source they can all learn from each other and reach better solutions sooner.

Edit: oh looks like OP says loops is 5 years old. Still seems odd to show up after 5 years and expect something exciting within 12 days

These comments have made me very curious if that exists or how that might be designed.

Ok well nothing is as impressive as yours. Averaging 15 posts a day for the last 19 months is a full time job.

That seems like important nuance for sure.

This bot sure got a lot of hate, actually MBFC seemed to get most of the hate.

Even if it’s not the perfect solution it’s a great step towards solving a problem that I think most people can agree on.

Thank you Rooki for you work.

that worked thanks