There was a time in Palestine pre Oslo where waving the Palestinian flag was against the law and Palestinians were arrested and jailed for doing so. Apparently it became a custom to wave slices of watermelon instead. mastodon.social/@Lazarou/11121…
When one of the West's most ghoulish fascists in government says they have your back perhaps it's time to stop and think? #UKPOL #Tories #SuellaBraverman #FreeSpeech
Incidentally, the ban is still in place in the 80% of the West Bank still under Israeli military law. Military Order 101 says: “It is forbidden to hold, wave, display or affix flags or political symbols, except in accordance with a permit of the military commander”. (Source btselem.org/demonstrations/mil… )
Every appliance in the house beeps. Some loud, some soft, but it's always just "beep" instead of a synthesized voice saying "The refrigerator door has been standing open for five minutes!" which is what I need to know.
personally I feel like I've been getting better results by using a SearXNG instance and just changing the meta search settings to only use engines I've never heard of.
For UK readers desiring a sense of scale, this is the boundary of the Gaza Strip (area 365 km^2, population 2m) rotated so it can be overlaid on the Isle of Wight (area 381 km^2, population 140k).
Amidst the performative cries of “Israel has the right to defend itself”, it seems to be heresy to acknowledge the humanity of the few million people who get to live, in perpetuity, as Israel’s ritual punching bag, and are expected to do nothing in response, nothing in prevention, and accept the blame for others doing literally anything.
And even saying this will just result in tedious wankers going, “oh, you support terrorism then?”
The way the Palestinian people are treated is some serious Omelas shit.
You don't even need to say anything. The Tories are currently on a cancellation rampage trying to find opposing politicians who have yet to spout the performative line.
When the state of Israel was formed there was still a significant Palestinian area. Subsequent invasions and occupations by the state of Israel means there is very little left. Even Gaza, which is tiny compared to Israel is now half the size it was. One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fights. They have been invaded, occupied, controlled and had food, power and water controlled by a far more significantly armed nation. And although I can’t condone the murder of innocent civilians BY EITHER SIDE, I can understand the desperation in this action.
@Sarah Brown The main thing I remember from visiting Gaza was how full it was, and how closed in it felt. Border fences on three sides, sea on the fourth (but restricted). Even in the heady days of 1994 just post Oslo it felt like a cage. Sometimes the electricity would go off. You had to queue in the heat to get in or out, divided families shouted news to each other across the barbed wire fence. That was probably the high point of freedom. The thirty years since have raised a generation whose hopes for the future keep getting blown up and locked down at the jailers’ whim.
Yet another lightning connector dies from Electrolysis. Been cold plugging this one; it’s a lightning to USB C adaptor, and I’m working on the basis that cold plugging will extend the life.
But it still has a life expectancy of only a few months. My phone charges inductively but the iPad needs this fucking cursed connector.
I hate it with a passion. Useless piece of shit that doesn’t do the goddam thing it’s fucking supposed to.
Not just you: I’ve tried that same brand (and a few others); the premium-priced ones do seem to last a tad longer than the dirt-cheap ilk, but they all ‘fizzle out’ within weeks/months.
Never considered ‘cold plugging’ to rule out arcing/pitting but thanks to you I can see that’s extra effort that changes nothing.
Edited to include picture of my gently used adapter which isn’t working.
@So‑Called Vaughn The most premium one I ever bought lasted eight hours, because I used it to keep my phone charged when hiking in the damp,
Eight hours.
Came to the conclusion that spending extra money was a fool’s errand. Just buy what’s cheap and replace them when they die. Double the money does not get you double the life.
@rachel_norfolk Could it be climate related? Any other connectors do the same? Only lightning issues I’ve had are bends that crack the cable (which means it’s my wife’s cable. No shade or hate, I’m just unusually careful with stuff). Which is a pretty generic cable issue.
Must be horribly frustrating to have to switch out cables that often:(
Do you have the same experience with Apple branded cables? In my case the external white insulator starts breaking apart after some time (many months, more than a year, not sure exactly) but I haven’t seen the connectors themselves fail even once.
@Miguel Arroz Yes to Apple branded cables. They all do it. Without exception. Every lightning connector that provides power to the phone (peripherals last longer).
The connectors undergo corrosion/electrolysis and die. Doesn’t matter who makes them.
I’ve pretty much never had one where the connector failed structurally. They simply never last that long.
Interesting. The ones I use most frequently have the typical burnt pin, but they all work fine. I only replace them when the cable itself is falling apart. Wondering if the difference in weather between here and there has anything to do with it.
No other connector does this to me. It’s just lightning cables that provide power, and only lightning. USB C doesn’t do it. The old iPod dock cables didn’t do it. It’s just lightning, and they will always do it.
Bit pissed off with the EU for the “solidarity with Israel” posts. Solidarity with the Israeli citizens maybe, but with the state? Nopenopenope. Bet they don’t express solidarity with Palestine when Israel piles in and levels half the city again.
Apparently, 1,2-propanediol is one of the main carriers in vapes. Though I'm not sure vape manufacturers care enough about their customers for that to put it in one class or the other.
Just had some random pop up on Reddit, necroposting to reply to something I posted in 2022 saying, “you will never be a woman”
And, ok, whatever, but I replied asking if they’re able to explain what it is that doing this is doing for them.
And I hope they reply because I’m actually fascinated.
I get that they’re trying to offend me, but on the one hand, poor target selection because I’m years past that, and on the other, why not something contemporary? I mean, if they’re picking year old posts to reply to, their target might never even see it.
I guess I just don’t understand why they spent their time doing this in this way.
> I guess I just don’t understand why they spent their time doing this in this way.
It's the inner goblin tendency. You attack something small with the idea that the damage is so inconsequential that a retaliation would be too much work. But there will have been damage and they'll skulk away smirking and rubbing their hands at a job well done.
Who cares enough to reply to post from a year ago? That's crazy. I'd do this to someone if I wanted to get back at them, but just a little. A tiny peck.
I shouldn’t watch 16th century period dramas. It just makes me sad that the wrong side won the Wars of the Roses and begat a dynasty of ghastly homocidal despots.
but the amount of people with such diagnose doesn't match the amount of gluten free produce sold by an order of magnitude, right? I think the joke is targeting the gluten free shopper that also has saitan in their basket. (Really happened, I was there trying to keep it together 🤣).
@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I have non coeliac gluten sensitivity (if I eat it, I get rheumatoid arthritis), and my partner has coeliac disease. The prevalence of what we call, “Los Angeles Gluten Free” types is something we regard as a bit of a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it creates a market for gluten free food because 90% of most supermarkets are simply off limits to us.
But on the other, it creates establishments which claim to sell/serve “gluten free food” which is nothing of the kind.
The worst offenders store their gluten “free” and wheat products on the same shelf and use the same utensils to handle them!
@iwein 🏴☠️🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺 I would, however, note that it’s perfectly normal to buy gluten free and gluten containing produce in the same shop. Our household has a gluten free kitchen, but for the one member of it who does eat gluten, who has her own grill, we also buy gluten containing food.
Households contain more than one person, quite often.
Maybe it started like the way 15 and 16 are sometimes written as 9+6 or 9+5 in Hebrew numerals rather than 10+5 or 10+6 to avoid a Name? This could also explain the reluctance to explain?
@John Loader People need to stop thinking about the speed. HS2 is, and always was, designed to separate mainline and local traffic. That's what it's for.
It was envisaged as an LGV because that's what you do these days. There's no point building a new intercity line at less than LGV spec.
@Fish Id Wardrobe Lord Torydonor. This isn't corruption because money laundering taxation into your party coffers via your mates' bullshit companies is apparently a perfectly legitimate thing to do, because corruption is what they do in Africa.
In theory both the East and West Coast main lines were upgraded to 140mph - hence tilting trains. They weren't. Welwyn viaduct needs a by pass - 2 tracks in the middle of a four track network ridiculous
@John Loader Welwyn is ... difficult to solve. Not just logistically, English Heritage don't want a viaduct spoiling the view of the viaduct, because viaducts.
@OddOpinions5 Yep. A corrupt Tory called Marples owned large stakes in road construction businesses, and coincidentally commissioned a “captain of industry” Dr Richard Beeching to recommend the closure of about 1/3 of the then extant railway network (and over half the stations).
@ajlanes The four track also stops at Northallerton going North from York, a heavily used route but there were plans to add a third line and platform as a short loop for stopping trains there. But trains towards Teesside have to cross both main lines
I have come to the sad conclusion that when you see a lovely healthy verdant garden, the way the owner has achieved it is almost certainly, “neonicotinoids”.
That's one reason I'll never have a "lovely healthy verdant garden" on my property. What I do have (and lots of) are native plants (which my neighbors call weeds) that feed native pollinators.
The plants on the balcony in Tenerife are the kind that you can ignore because I’m rubbish at remembering them. Cacti and the like. They seem to do well on a diet of abuse and neglect. Local wildlife is cicadas and lizards.
Demande récurrente qui m'embarrasse le plus : "Bonjour est-ce que vous avez des bulles pontificales concernant le prieuré médiéval de Saint-Trucmuche ?"
Alors.
Je vois pourquoi vous pensez qu'on aurait ça hein. On pourrait croire. Oui.
Mais. Est-ce qu'on a ça. Euh.
Peut-être. Ça dépend un peu de quand elle est, votre bulle. Et un peu de ce que vous voulez dire par "bulle". Ou de ce qu'ils entendaient alors par là. Et même si on l'a pas ça veut pas dire qu'y'a pas nulle part. Faut voir.
Just rewatched episode “Q Who” of TNG (the one where they encounter the Borg for the first time), and I feel like Guinan really should have been far more shit scared than she was.
@Alexandra Lanes Yeah. Q is like, "you have no idea what's out there" and Picard is like, "show me", and Guinan is like, "this place is not safe, turn round and leave", and Picard is like, "lol whatevs"
Pondering tiredness and how it seems to be working with me at the moment. I had a long day visiting Brighton on Wednesday and so it didn't seem unreasonable that I was a bit sleepy the following day. I did a bit of OU work and life admin stuff and watched TV. Today, two days on, the tiredness feels mental, as if the physical body is fine but the brain wants a time out and is kind of noping out of doing very much at all.
Is that the world's first practical electric railway, wot inspired tophatted folk down from London to use the electricalness underground, wot I spot in the background?
Grr. You buy a ticket with Apple Pay on your phone and it turns out to be a paper ticket like it’s the 19th Century or something. So I have to collect it from the machine. Which wants the bank card with which I paid for it. Which is impossible since I used Apple Pay.
(Fortunately any bank card will do and the assistant put hers in, but but but)
ah, that explains something that's worried me for a while. I often buy tickets using PayPal and at the machine I offer up my Amex card (which is probably the funding source for PayPal) and the machine accepts it. I wondered how it knew ... sounds like it doesn't.
Weird dream last night that I had an adaptor that exposed the contents of my phone to GEM via the Atari ST cartridge port. My subconscious needs to get out more
While I might be sceptical of some of the dodgy metaphors (putting concepts in my constitutional bag?) and iconography (toothpaste symbolises a convention, apparently), the subject matter of this OU Public Law module is fascinating. Via a "go search for something to do with the constitution" exercise I came across this article about constitutional conventions. This sort of nitty gritty, the analysis if you like of the "meta-rules" of the constitutional game, is definitely something I am here for. ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:cd64…
Dunno how accurate their portrayal of Margaret Beaufort is, but they’re portraying her as exactly the sort of woman who would wield power in the court of a Tudor monarch and yet still die of old age.
And if she was anything like that, then she’d have been beyond terrifying IRL, and an utter inspiration.
@Alexandra Lanes This morning it greeted me with, "fetching fucking forecast. If you sunbathe too much, serial killers will not harvest your skin to make a suit".
hahaha I love carrot weather, I recommend it one of my friends and they came back to a couple of hours later and said “this app is insane” fantastic forecasts and personally
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