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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2015/05/gaza-palestinians-tortured-summarily-killed-by-hamas-forces-during-2014-conflict/

In 2014 Amnesty International concluded the hospital was used for torture.

Some were interrogated and tortured or otherwise ill-treated in a disused outpatient’s clinic within the grounds of Gaza City’s main al-Shifa hospital. At least three people arrested during the conflict accused of “collaboration” died in custody.

Doesn't justify the scale of military action targeting the hospital though.

Tik tok is a news source?

Does a local biz owner count as a corporate troll?

This is actually a simile, not a metaphor. And a simile is a type of comparison .

The $15 USB adapters is kind of annoying, but I think I really only am really peeved about it is when I am flying and can't charge my phone and listen to music at the same time. For me I think there are a few factors that have made my headphone jack less necessary.

1. Covid and WFH. I used to listen to music on my commutes and in the office from my phone on wired cans. Now I WFH and have speakers or have headphones running from my PC's DAC.
2. Streaming Speakers/Receivers that are wifi enabled. I no longer have to worry about using AUX inputs on my speakers, since I have wifi enabled devices that allow me to "cast" music to any device in my home from my phone instead of plugging it in or using a weak bluetooth connection.
3. Android Auto or other car/phone USB/bluetooth integrations. No longer need to use Aux in cables to a car to listen to music.

I think that advice makes sense. Ideally put away more than 15% of your gross income if possible, but I think the general advice is that you should be saving 15% of your gross income every year. Whether part of that 15% of gross comes from employer match or directly from you doesn't matter.

I think my employer did have a grant or something for new hires as well. The other thing I think they have is automatic increases annually of 401k contribution. So just in case you are an employee that doesn't manually go in to modify contributions, those employees will automatically have an increase of 1% contribution to 401k every where up to a certain upper limit, iirc.

Good luck on the retirement. Hope it works out. Also, when you look at the calculators to project future retirement, they tend to assume the market will greatly underperform historical market performance. For me it looks bad on that default. When I flip the project to match historical performance, or out perform historical performance, my retirement looks excessive. So save as much as you can and follow the guidelines, but there is some luck of market factors involved as to how you will end up.

What's your employer match for you 401k? that 15% saving should be the savings after your employer match. So if you have that, you might be able actually sacrificing less than 15% of take home pay to save fore retirement.

Reminds me of this key and peele sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3h6es6zh1c

Can someone explain why faculty view this as an academic freedom issue when this seems like a student code of conduct and administrative issue at heart?

Did you read the article. This comment doesn't even attempt to engage with the content of the article. OP response is pointing that out, the commenter didn't read the article and is just arbitrarily expressing their POV.

As if this comment being responded to had an actual reply to the article. This article is clearly about Pennsylvania and it's University politics. Yet the comment is talking about the war and international politics only. OP is giving the commenter more credit than maybe they deserve by pretending they were engaging with the content of the posted article.

So when my co workers complain about my custom mechanical keyboard being too loud, I should tell them I'm doing it to improve our cyber security.

No, I've just been living in American for the past 30 years or so and have an understanding of what inflammatory and dehumanizing attacks on individuals and groups does to society. And even if it's permissible based on the rules of this community, it's still garbage journalism.

The bottom line is make not pirating more convenient and cheaper than pirating and I'll stop doing it.

How do you make it cheaper than pirating?

Is it too much to ask for civil, level headed, and nuanced discussion or posts?

But, is the piracy only justifiable if and only if the item you bought was unilaterally taken away from you? This seems to be arguing that: SOMETIMES purchased digital goods are stolen from a consumer, therefore it is ALWAYS justifiable for a consumer to pirate. I think we need a more nuanced take on piracy.

And now that SAG AFTRA concessions were made to give to more payout to actors and other creative folks based on streaming metrics, I think that means consumers should attempt to stream if available to help ensure the creators hit their metrics for payout.

If this rhetoric was used in a conservative opinion piece instead of a pro piracy opinion piece, I'm pretty sure it would be banned for calling for violence towards specific individuals.

Guillotine preview image and quotes like:

Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over an anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. But save the next anthill for the Sony exec who shipped a product that would let Zaslav come into your home and rob you. That piece of shit knew what they were doing and they did it anyway. Fuck them. Sideways. With a brick.

Sure, Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California, the loathsome David Zaslav, who oversaw the merger of Warner with Discovery.

What a trash article and site. How is this permitted.

As a rent stabilized new yorker, my POV is that if you can settle on a rent increase limit that both pisses off the renter and landlord in equal proportion, it's the right decision. Rents need to increase from time to time. And if you want improvements to building and units, there needs to be cash from the landlord to do it. When I consider buying, or renting another spot, I think it'd just be cheaper to put 10k per year into my rent stabilized place than rent at market value or buy and take out a mortgage.

That's a long way of saying, rent control and stabilization increases aren't always bad, but need to be reasonable. And for 3 years there were no rent increases. Inflation is real over the past 3 years.

I've been in tech for a while, I can't tell how much of this is due to over hiring and over paying for work during that crazy time 2 years ago. I had lots of friends bounce to hire paying jobs and a lot of folks were just trying to gobble up talent. A lot of those places doing that seemed to be having big lay offs in the years following. I think there was a lot of optimism back the about the market, and it seems like course correction and pessimistic outlooks at play.

Yes and no.

Yes the economic rigging is the billionaire class. But at 150k assuming. Single and not joint income, this is interesting. At that point you are 78th percentile of income. How is the top 25 percentile not able to cover expenses? I think that is a question worth asking.

Also read the article. It talks about paycheck to paycheck as not being able to cover full credit card expenses monthly.