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Amusingly, this is the reason given by Vietnam for banning the Barbie movie from theaters.

Israeli think tank lays out a blueprint for the complete ethnic cleansing of Gaza

An Israeli think tank with ties to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a report on October 17 promoting the "unique and rare opportunity" for the “relocation and final settlement of the entire Gaza population.”

Disproportionate is an understatement.

Meduza has good reporting on this too.

• Meduza.io

The Hannibal Directive

Some required reading whenever journalists uncritically report retailer's narratives:

• The Great Shoplifting Freak-Out
• What the Shoplifting Panic Reveals About U.S. Crime Policy

An electron is both a particle and a wave. This can be confusing, because an electron can also create waves (called photons, which are both waves and particles too) when it changes energies. Basically if you measure an electron's position, it will behave like a particle, but when unmeasured, it will exist in a region of space described by a probability equation, like a wave. If you measure the location repeatedly over a time period and super-impose those measurements, it will look like a cloud of electrons taking the shape of the electron's probable location in space. But when it is not being measured, it doesn't constantly 'move' - it exists everywhere inside that shape at the same time, the same way a sound exists everywhere in a room at once.

Those regions of probability are called orbitals, but they don't look like planetary orbits -- that's just the name they got from Bohr's flawed model. Here's a sample of some of the more elegant shapes an orbital can take. In these pictures, the hazy cloud you might see in the super-imposed example is replaced with a solid shell so the shape is more obvious.

The pictured shapes are all scaled to look roughly the same size, but with more electrons, you get larger and stranger shaped electron clouds, which again, represent the likelyhood of finding an electron there if you measured it.

Not included but relevant is the prominent journal editor fired for endorsing a satirical article from The Onion about Israel-Hamas conflict.

That's correct. @aral@mastodon.ar.al discovered and boosted the post, and it snowballed across the Tootiverse. They're all pinging @Five because that's how Mastodon does post replies.

Confirming your complete lack of irony.

Are you making a justification for a hospital bombing?

People keep bringing up the parking lot incident as if admitting that there isn't definitive proof it wasn't Israel is the same thing as proof that is was Hamas, and errors in reporting mean nothing reported is credible. Building your propaganda model on split hairs is back-firing badly for you. Humanistic Judaism can not be constrained by the straight-jacket of colonial Zionism.

The Undisputed Facts in Gaza Are Enough by Eric Levitz

The case for a ceasefire in Gaza does not rest on Israel’s culpability for any single air strike. The undisputed facts are more than enough to indicate that Israel’s campaign against Hamas has featured a callous disregard for civilian suffering. We don’t need to rely on Hamas to know that Israel has cut off food, fuel, electricity, and water to much of Gaza’s population. Israel’s own government has told us that. Similarly, data from the Gaza Health Ministry is not our only indication that there have been massive civilian casualties in Gaza. The U.N. tells us that Gaza is running out of body bags, while photos published by the IDF portray the large-scale decimation of civilian infrastructure.

Except for Twitter, which burns through the last of its lifeline to bolt-on ActivityPub to the code only to not find anyone to federate with.

This is a mural painted by Jorit in Italy.

You were banned for violating rule 1 and rule 2, and the ban will expire in two days. You might have been banned on your world account, but there's no record of it. In any case you are not banned on LW and may be able to log in now.

Rule 1: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

Rule 2: Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.

My guess is picking fights with authoritarian leftists and calling them "tankies" is what attracted the wrath of the mods.

Lemmy.ml mods tend towards the authoritarian left, and consider use of that insult bigotry. Unless you plan on changing your political orientation, you might be better off on a different Lemmy instance.

What are the names of your accounts on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world?

Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners also received a lot of backlash from the British LGBT community for supporting a group that was stereotyped as homophobic and intolerant. And yet:

The alliances which the campaign forged between the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and British labour groups proved to be an important turning point in the progression of LGBT matters in the United Kingdom. Miners' labour groups began to support, endorse and participate in various gay pride events throughout the UK, including leading London's Lesbian and Gay Pride parade in 1985. At the 1985 Labour Party conference in Bournemouth, a resolution committing the party to the support of LGBT rights passed, due to block voting support from the National Union of Mineworkers. The miners' groups were also among the most outspoken allies of the LGBT community in the 1988 campaign against Section 28.

The video on Sexual harassment and assault in Astronomy and Physics by acollierastro is a must watch on this subject.

I'm disappointed that you're replicating the flawed asymmetric standards of Israel in this conversation. I've linked to sources for my statements, but you've made controversial claims while putting the burden on me to find what sources you're using to bolster your confidence. If your goal is to signify your 'team,' this conversation is over. If you would like to try and build a shared reality where we can agree on facts, your lack of respect for me is harming that goal.

To their credit, the g20 video they streamed alongside their false commentary is enough to discredit their interpretation of events.

All journalism should be subject to verification, especially news from capitalist or authoritarian regimes. It should be noted that the BBC did not say they were wrong that Israel struck the Al-Ahli Hospital, only that they were wrong to report that Israel struck the Al-Ahli Hospital.

Responsible journalism holds itself to particular standards, such as having reliable sources, or multiple independent indications of evidence. The BBC journalist was speaking live on air, off the cuff, and had no way to reliably verify the source of the explosion besides his gut instincts. Meanwhile Al Jazeera has done significantly more work reporting on this issue, including digital forensics and interviews with military specialists. They won't retract their statement because it holds up to the highest of journalistic standards. While Jon Donnison was wrong to report what he did, his intuitions appear to have been ultimately correct.

It should be noted that Israel's internal reporting does not appear to follow these journalism norms. Arab and Muslim reporters are outraged by the lack of journalistic standards behind some of the reports that have been widely spread to incite public outrage in against Palestinians, when their reporting is held to comparatively impossible standards.

While Al Jazeera Arabic and the state of Qatar have a justifiably bad reputation, Al Jazeera English is staffed with veteran reporters from Britain, America, and Australia who have distinguished themselves in their field. They consistently outperform the BBC on most metrics of journalism when reporting on anything besides internal Qatari affairs. This is not to say they are flawless or do not make mistakes, only as you continue to hold them accountable, consider the context in which they are reporting and the norms they should be held to.