No, I understand that. I'm saying the Hindus will find out what the Christians found out.
Damn it, I have this bull all ready...
If you mean wall, yes. The only thing that marches around my waste is all that baklava I've been eating.
Yes. It should not be brought up at all. There are plenty of other ways to respond to this action.
As an example in a similar situation, I'm hoping you wouldn't say of a similarly protesting Palestinian group that you guess they're all terrorists. Even in sarcasm.
It's not productive. It doesn't convince any actual person who would say that in earnest that they're wrong. What they'll do, if anything, is say "yes, but seriously."
On top of that, Israel wants people to think Jew = Israeli. Just putting that grain of thought in people's heads can result in bad things over time.
So there are better responses. Even if you want to express this specific sentiment in a sardonic way. "Watch Israel call this antisemitism" would be one way to go.
I hope that makes sense.
What? I will have you know that they're the most beautiful cars ever built! And if you add a few finishing touches, you look real tough.
Real tough.
Jericho. Duh. Those Babylonian weirdos play trumpets inside the city and what's an Asgard?
I tried living in the belly of a fish, but they kicked me out after three days.
Rude.
They think of it as a sauna.
I’m not anti-hunting, at all. Hunting is easily the most humane way to eat meat.
Ironically, hunting deer is now necessary here in Indiana because people hunted all the bears and wolves to extinction and now the deer population explodes and they all starve to death if hunters don't keep the population in check.
Early humans ate lions. Even pre-human ancestors since neanderthals did too and we share a common ancestor. So I guess it's okay to have carnivores as part of a varied diet of various meats and plants.
Sponges are even weirder. You can put a sponge in a blender, wait a while, and then you'll get a sponge back.
Can I say as a JVFP member that this sort of sarcasm is really not helpful to us? Even when it's sarcastic, it still plays into the idea that if you're Jewish you support/should support Israel.
One of the things we're trying to do is work against that stereotype to show that wanting to end genocide has nothing to do with one's ethnicity.
Scientists accidentally discovered deep-sea 'jelly' creatures fused into a 'single entity' after an injury
Cool!
Also, yuck!
Good for them and fuck the New York Post.
You can join JFVP for as little as $18 a year.
I didn't want to step on anyone's hopes and dreams.
Christensen kick-started online culture by inspiring thousands of hobbyist communities.
Christensen kick-started online culture by inspiring thousands of hobbyist communities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Tolukko
CalMatters and The Markup used Facebook’s AI model to count the millions of dollars it makes after violent news events
> In the 10 weeks after the shooting, advertisers paid Meta between $593,000 and $813,000 for political ads that explicitly mentioned the assassination attempt, according to The Markup’s analysis. (Meta provides only estimates of spending and reach for ads in its database.) > >Even Facebook itself has acknowledged that polarizing content and misinformation on its platform has incited real-life violence. An analysis by CalMatters and The Markup found that the reverse is also true: real-world violence can sometimes open new revenue opportunities for Meta.
> If you count all of the political ads mentioning Israel since the attack through the last week of September, organizations and individuals paid Meta between $14.8 and $22.1 million dollars for ads seen between 1.5 billion and 1.7 billion times on Meta’s platforms. Meta made much less for ads mentioning Israel during the same period the year before: between $2.4 and $4 million dollars for ads that were seen between 373 million and 445 million times. At the high end of Meta’s estimates, this was a 450 percent increase in Israel-related ad dollars for the company. (In our analysis, we converted foreign currency purchases to current U.S. dollars.) > >The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a lobbying group that promotes Israel, was the major spender on ads mentioning Israel. In the six months after October 7th, its spending increased more than 300 percent over the previous six months, to between $1.8 and $2.7 million dollars, as the organization peppered Facebook and Instagram with ads defending Israel’s actions in Gaza and pressuring politicians to support the country. > >As the war has roiled the region, AIPAC paid Meta about as much for ads in the 15 weeks following October 7th as the entire year before.
> To examine the assassination attempt merchandise, we ran a simple search of Meta’s Ad Library for ads that mentioned “assassination,” including any in our analysis that also mentioned “Trump” and hundreds of others that didn’t mention the former president by name but were clearly related to the shooting. > >“First they jail him, now they try to end him,” one ad read. A conspiratorial ad for a commemorative two-dollar bill claimed “the assassination attempt was their Plan B,” while “Plan A was to make Biden abandon the presidential campaign.” Some ads used clips from the film JFK to suggest an unseen, malevolent force was at work in the shooting. > >Gun advocates paid for ads, using the assassination attempt as a foreboding call to action. One ad promoting a firearms safety course noted that “November is fast approaching.” A clothing business said in an ad that, since “the government can’t save you” from foreign enemies, Americans “need to be self-reliant, self-made, and self-sufficient.” > >“Because when those bullets zip by, you are clearly on your own,” the ad read.
> After the mass school shooting in Parkland, Fla., the NRA increased its spending on Google and Facebook ads, the Tech Transparency Project noted in one report. In 2018, the year of the shooting, Meta received “more than $2 million in advertising fees from the NRA starting in May of that year,” the report found, which also found that “NRA ad spending reached its highest levels on Google and soared on Facebook” following a week of mass shootings the following year that left dozens of people dead. > >Just days before the January 6th insurrection, the Tech Transparency Project found that Meta hosted ads offering gun holsters and rifle accessories in far-right Facebook groups.
> Meta’s ad policies forbid calling for violence. But when faced with crucial tests of its content moderation practices, the company has repeatedly failed to detect and remove inflammatory ads. A 2018 report, commissioned by Facebook itself, found that its platform had been used to incite violence in Myanmar, and that the company hadn’t done enough to prevent it. > >Alia Al Ghussain, a researcher on technology issues at Amnesty International, said that as troubling as some ads might be in English, ads in other languages may be even more likely to pass Meta’s content moderation. “In most of the non-English-speaking world, Facebook doesn’t have the resources that it needs to moderate the content on the platform effectively and safely,” she said. > >Despite later admitting responsibility for violence in Myanmar, the company continues to be faulted for gaps in its international moderation work. Another advocacy organization found in a test that the company approved calls for the murder of ethnic groups in Ethiopia. More recently, a similar test by an advocacy organization found that ads explicitly calling for violence against Palestinians—a flagrant violation of Meta’s rules—were still approved to run by the company. > >“If ads which are presenting a risk of stoking tension or spreading misinformation are being approved in the US, in English, it really makes me fearful for what is happening in other countries in non-English-speaking languages,” Al Ghussain said.
A series of reports from multiple federal agencies has outlined the challenges it faces in the rush to adopt AI.
If you recently bought Minute Maid Zero Sugar Lemonade, please note that Coca-Cola voluntarily recalled 13,152 cases because it was found that they contained full sugar. Check the label before you drink it, especially if you're watching your sugar intake for medical reasons.
I know the headline sounds funny, but remember that could kill a diabetic.
> Kids as young as 15 were stripping on TikTok’s live feature fueled by adults who were paying for it. > >That’s what TikTok learned when it launched an internal investigation after a report on Forbes. Officials at TikTok discovered that there was “a high” number of underage streamers receiving a “gift” or “coin” in exchange for stripping — real money converted into a digital currency often in the form of a plush toy or a flower. > >This is one of several disturbing accounts that came to light in a trove of secret documents reviewed last week by NPR and Kentucky Public Radio. Even more troubling was that TikTok executives were acutely aware of the potential harm the app can cause teens, but appeared unconcerned.
> For the second time in four days an earthquake was confirmed in South Carolina, and the most recent tremors were among the strongest recorded in the Palmetto State in 2024. > >A 2.4 magnitude earthquake was confirmed early Sunday morning in the Greenwood County area, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. This is the second consecutive earthquake recorded in South Carolina to hit in that area. > >The previous earthquake was last Thursday in nearly the same location of the Palmetto State, and was recorded at a 2.2 magnitude, according to USGS. > >Sunday’s earthquake was confirmed at 4:48 a.m. in the area near Coronaca, the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources said. It happened about 2.5 miles beneath the surface, the USGS said. > >The most recent seismic activity, the third most powerful in 2024, coincided with the start of S.C. Earthquake Preparedness Week, according to the state’s Emergency Management Division. > >This was the 18th confirmed earthquake this year in South Carolina, after 28 quakes were recorded in 2023, according to the state Department of Natural Resources. > >These back-to-back earthquakes in Greenwood County happened weeks after two earthquakes were recorded in the area near South Carolina state line with North Carolina.
TIL:
> The strongest earthquake ever recorded in South Carolina — and on the East Coast of the United States — was a devastating 7.3 in Charleston in 1886. That quake killed 60 people and was felt over 2.5 million square miles, from Cuba to New York and Bermuda to the Mississippi River, according to the state EMD.
