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My guess is that these were wealthy women who were able to afford the transfer. I highly doubt that the hospital or any insurance company paid for the transfers. I would bet that there were other women who were unable to afford similar care and had to suffer the consequences.

Where did I accuse you of being in favor of indiscriminate killing?

Hint: I didn't.

Do you want to try engaging with my argument that we shouldn't continue funding for Israel until they stop the genocide and follow international law?

Are you just dense? The idea isn't "no funding for Israel" the idea is "no funding for Israel until they start following international law and stop indiscriminately killing."

Hamas is awful and should be destroyed but two wrongs don't make a right and Israel is going much too far. Israel isn't attacking Hamas at this point. They are doing to the Gazans what Hamas did to Israel, but a hundred fold worse. They are acting like either a terrorist organization or a genocidal regime.

I'm all for Israel defending itself. I am mostly okay with funding Israel to defend itself and stand up for itself. I am absolutely not for funding genocide and wars of retribution. At this point Israel needs to be brought to heel and, when safe, needs to be held accountable for its crimes and it's long term policies of apartheid.

Ah, it's from an earnings call so it is trying to put everything in the best possible light. I wonder how much fan-splattered shit he is glossing over in that statement.

May I ask what service you switched to? I'm tired of my music app being cluttered with podcasts and audio books. I use other services for this things and don't need them in Spotify.

Amazon did. They kept the price the same, added commercials, then offered to remove the commercials for an additional $4/month.

I'm really encouraged to see that congress is actually doing something to revive the 4th amendment. It is essentially dead in the digital space right now.

The vote was pretty bipartisan, actually. There is a faction in both parties that wants this and a faction in both parties that doesn't.

Republicans:

• Yay: 123
• Nay: 90
• Present: 0
• No Vote: 5

Democrats:

• Yay: 96
• Nay: 109
• Present: 1
• No Vote: 7

It scares me how many in both parties believe that warrantless surveillance of citizens is appropriate. Sure, maybe law enforcement can't perform warrantless themselves, but I don't see much difference between doing it themselves and buying it from professional data brokers.

In fact, it is almost certainly more efficient and less costly to buy the data than to develop their own systems for collection and sorting. Getting this kind fo info on suspects might not even be possible for law enforcement without purchasing it.

I assume that Miami-Dade County had a reason to draft legislation like this. There weren't political points to be gained here since this was a low profile issue until this bill made it high profile. The county wouldn't have gone through the effort if there wasn't a problem to be addressed.

I could understand repealing a statewide mandate for protections if it was costing money to enforce and wasn't seeing results. I don't understand restricting local governments from implementing their own local protections. What harm would the protections have done?

This is not intended to defend Israel. From what I'm seeing, what Israel is doing here is heinous. For example, the mass graves at al-Shifa hospital.

This is just intended to point out that the modern usage of the term "anti-semitic" has come to mean "anti-jewish", even if that doesn't really fit with the older history of the word "Semitic".

From the Wikipedia article on "Semitic People":

Semitic people or Semites is an obsolete term for an ethnic, cultural or racial group associated with people of the Middle East, including Arabs, Jews, Akkadians, and Phoenicians. The terminology is now largely unused outside the grouping "Semitic languages" in linguistics.

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The terms "anti-Semite" or "antisemitism" came by a circuitous route to refer more narrowly to anyone who was hostile or discriminatory towards Jews in particular.

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In 1879, the German journalist Wilhelm Marr began the politicisation of the term by speaking of a struggle between Jews and Germans in a pamphlet called Der Weg zum Siege des Germanenthums über das Judenthum ("The Way to Victory of Germanism over Judaism"). He accused the Jews of being liberals, a people without roots who had Judaized Germans beyond salvation. In 1879, Marr's adherents founded the "League for Anti-Semitism", which concerned itself entirely with anti-Jewish political action.

Objections to the usage of the term, such as the obsolete nature of the term "Semitic" as a racial term, have been raised since at least the 1930s.

I don't really understand a few things about this conflict.

• What prompted Israel to bomb Iran's embassy in Syria? I know there are tensions between Israel and Iran. I also know that Israel has been targeting Hezbula targets in Syria. Why attack Iranian generals in Syria?
• Why would Israel think that they can attack an Iranian embassy without reprisal?
• Why is Israel acting like the aggrieved party in this instance where they appear to be the aggressor?
• Why does Israel think it is a good idea to add another front to their current conflict? A stronger front than the one they are currently fighting?

The name comes from the name of the person who first proposed the Julian Calendar, Julius Caesar.

How is this different from a tenant taking their patio furniture with the? "It's worth more with the patio furniture". "The new tenants are expecting the nice patio furniture to be there!"

Plants cost money and effort and, in many cases, can be successfully transplanted to a new location. It seems to me that the tenant simply took their property with them when they left.

How is this different from a tenant taking their patio furniture with the? "It's worth more with the patio furniture". "The new tenants are expecting the nice patio furniture to be there!"

Plants cost money and effort and, in many cases, can be successfully transplanted to a new location. It seems to me that the tenant simply took their property with them when they left.

Other instances hosted outside of Russia but available from inside Russia can still federated with them, though, right?

If I had to guess, they pulled Reed over because thought he had something illegal in the car. The just used the seat belt as an excuse to pull him over and attempt to establish probable cause for a search of the car.

That is probably supported by this:

The Civilian Office of Police Accountability said preliminary evidence showed Reed fired first, injuring an officer in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the city’s West Side. Then four officers returned fire, shooting 96 rounds.

As well as the fact that, even after a cop had emptied his magazine, Reed still managed to start driving away.

I'm normally an ACAB guy, but the video makes it look like they were justified in continuing to fire, especially if it's true that Reed fired first.

Oh, do you mean X the window manager or X the social media website?

The fact that a clarification like that needs to be made shows that Twitter has a branding problem.

Now, tell me which is which:

A not-guilty verdict can't be appealed, but the length of the sentence resulting from a guilty verdict can be appealed, at least in certain situations.

This is great. I'll wait to see the actual proposed legislation before judging it, but this summary indicates to me that the bill is severely lacking in two major respects. Unless it is missing from the summary, it doesn't appear to address data security requirements nor does it place limits on the types of data that can be collected.

Regardless, this is a step in the right direction, I just hope it isn't the only step and that it has some significant teeth. Most legislation like this seems to just be a tax on companies rather than a true penalty.

It's nice to see a republican admitting this. It would be better if he would name names and admit that it goes beyond taking the propaganda bait. It would be nice if he would say "Congressman _____" regurgitates Russian propaganda and may be compromised.

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Just some additional context.