I didn't pick up what you're saying in this particular article.
If so, it seems painfully too little and far too late. More needs to be done and it needs to be done now.
I understand why the relationship between Israel and the US is important. What I don't understand is why the US can't hold them to account at the same time.
It boggles my mind how the government of the United States so easily facilitates atrocities. They can do better. They can be better.
When I hear "Make America Great Again", it seems everyone has lost their minds in terms of what "greatness" truly is.
I don't understand how they think citizens can be so stupid as to take these statements at face value.
The government gets away with things because it simply can.
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I recently read and really enjoyed The Left Hand of Darkness. It's crazy that she wrote such a book back then. Now I'm longing for more books like this.
Today, I'm on (a rare) vacation (yay!). I'm reading through her Earthsea books. When they ended sooner than I expected, I realized they were intended as young adult books. It's not as in depth as other fantasy, but I've enjoyed them nonetheless.
Makes unfortunate sense. I was also hoping somebody figured out how to liberate it, but I imagined it might be highly tied to the Google app.
- ChatGPT 3.5 isn't bad.
- Copilot is... undecided.
- Gemini I think I like the best in the realm of free AI, but I need to use it in a separate browser (Firefox nightly) and would prefer an app or even a PWA.
Anyway, I felt confident this was the case but people surprise me with how they can manage freeing apps and/or providing separate frontends altogether.
What an effed up story. Absolutely horrific. How can anyone have any sense of patriotism for a government so gross. Veterans should never be treated this way. Hell, look at the plight of so many veterans that are citizens. So many broken lives, tossed to the side and ignored.
This is not an American-only problem either. You can learn a lot about a country when you pay attention to how it treats its soldiers.
They are different organizations with different purposes and missions. Throughout all the changes within the boy scouts, I have yet to hear of any changes within the girl scouts.
For some strange reason clicking the link says address not found
I know. I absolutely adore that their finger is still firing off that shutter. A huge fuck you with each press.
There is a lot great about this article, but it's hard to keep completely positive in light of the many horrific abuses that have taken place within the Scouts. Youth organizations and religious organizations are highly susceptible to this. Scouting America has gone to great lengths to reform and protect youth today, but the stain will be there for a long time especially since abuse still happens (this just reported on days ago).
To be frank, it's a tense thing for me. Scouts was great for me in my youth and today as I'm involved with my children. However, I'm always on guard and paying attention. Whether it's scouts or some other youth organization, they are vulnerable. I teach my kids to pay attention and remain ever vigilant. As great as such organisations can be, they are very very susceptible to predators.
I hear you and applaud the conviction.
I feel very okay acknowledging myself as my own god and yourself as yours. It's certainly a reinterpretation, but I'm okay with that for the sake of offering this to my own children. Children hardly know what it means to believe in a god as it is, so I figure why complicate it. I love to teach them what it means to be reverent in a way that is different from the status quo.
In the end though, my preference is that atheists are permitted as they are. Period. Full stop.
We can teach reverence without an external deity.
Thank you for the update.
Is there any way to install and use the Gemini App without the Google App and forced association of the account with my Android phone?
I have a specific Google account just for Gemini, but I neither use the Google app nor desire for my phone to maintain this alt google account as one of the phone associates accounts. I think many folks would prefer login stay within the app itself.
Link? This headline doesn't say anything useful...
The only holy wars fought thus far involve conflicts over the correct installation of toilet paper rolls. And there is a right way.
Some things are worth dying for.
Religion, while required, plays a very minor role practically speaking. Even your "disfavored" beliefs should be permitted.
My "belief" in my own imaginary mythos is enough to satiate the non-sectarian requirements thus far. I simply don't speak about it any detail.
This thread has reminded me that talking to my kids about this is important because my eldest, practically speaking, is agnostic. I don't want them to feel uncomfortable lying for Eagle, so I want to share some options. There's a lot of ways for a scout to be reverent without actually believing in a deity.
Here's a little more on the requirement: https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2014/10/03/belief-in-god-scouting/
I can't wait until this "integral" part of the program is made a thing of the past.
I'd say fight it, because it can be won. Then again, I'd rather my child be a part of a troop that's welcoming and safe. It's hard to be a trailblazer.
There's a lot of reasons to shop around with different troops. This reason is particularly important.
As we know though, trans youth have it particularly bad from every direction right now. π
Afaik, BSA has accepted trans boys since 2017.
Considering the meaning, it's not a terrible word to describe the sufferings of many scouts.
The tenants are very much in kind with those of secular humanism. And the Cabra Cosmica is as real as I wish it to be, which is both simultaneously very real and very not.
I often give thanks for my good fortune to the Cabra Cosmica as I do the Cosmos itself. I just wish to be thankful towards a thing at times and it can help to personify it. I mean, I did it most of my life to another false deity. Why not any other.
I know the Cosmos. I exist within it. Science describes it and defines its laws. Sometimes I give it a face. And sometimes that is the Cabra Cosmica.
The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history. The Texas-based organization is announcing at its annual meeting in Florida on Tuesday that it will become Scouting America.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20749204
Another positive step in the right direction for an organization rife with brokenness. There's a lot I don't like about the organization, but this is something a love--a scouting organization open to young women and the lgbtq community. The next step is being inclusive of nonreligious agnostic and atheist youth and leaders. As well as ending the cultural appropriation of Native American peoples.
May this organization continue to build up youth, never allow further violence against youth, and make amends for all the wrongs. There's a lot of good that comes out of organizations like this and I won't discount it even though it's riddled with a dark history.
The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history.
Another positive step in the right direction for an organization rife with brokenness. There's a lot I don't like about the organization, but this is something a love--a scouting organization open to young women and the lgbtq community. The next step is being inclusive of nonreligious agnostic and atheist youth and leaders. As well as ending the cultural appropriation of Native American peoples.
May this organization continue to build up youth, never allow further violence against youth, and make amends for all the wrongs. There's a lot of good that comes out of organizations like this and I won't discount it even though it's riddled with a dark history.
The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States aren't just plentiful, they're downright weird.
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Could anyone recommend a OnePlus 11 telephoto lens attachment? My searches are coming up dry so far.
A new study of Japanese tits provides the first evidence of non-primate animals using gestures to convey messages
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13638497
> A new study of Japanese tits provides the first evidence of non-primate animals using gestures to convey messages > > When a mated pair of small birds called Japanese tits arrives at the nest, one of them might flutter its wings at the other. The second bird then typically enters the nest first. This motion might be a signal, meant to convey the message βafter youβ to the other bird, scientists reported Monday in the journalΒ Current Biology. > > The research provides the first evidence of animals besides primates using gestures to communicate meaning. The result βshows that Japanese tits not only use wing fluttering as a symbolic gesture, but also in a complex social context involving a sender, receiver and a specific goal, much like how humans communicate,βΒ Toshitaka Suzuki, a co-author of the new study and a biologist at the University of Tokyo, tellsΒ Science Newsβ Darren Incorvaia.
My youngest shared a page from his funny poem book with me. I laughed out loud quite literally and thought I would share it with you all as well. π
Can anyone recommend a OnePlus 11 telephoto lens attachment? My initial searches seem to be coming up dry.
Photo Description
Top Left: Tree unbalanced. Left side producing little. Right side producing well.
Top Right: Shown from opposite side. Full limbs visible without flowering.
Bottom left: Close up of the left side of the tree. Several branches not flowering down full length.
Bottom right: Closer view of the graft and up.
Please do ask for any more clarifying photos if you think it would help.
Questions:
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The tree just started blooming this week. Is it too late to start pruning or should I wait until Autumn?
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Pruning the tree is going to make it even more lopsided than it already is. Would you all recommend trimming back the healthy branches so it's not so heavy on one side?
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This website gives the advice below. Any thoughts otherwise?
Thank you all so much!
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How to Prune a Weeping Cherry Tree
The different types of weeping cherries can grow to between eight and 40 feet tall. Proper pruning keeps these trees looking beautiful and can prevent the development and spread of diseases. Prune while the tree is dormant (no flowers or leaves on the branches) in early spring or late fall. Take the following steps once a year with bypass pruning shears or a pole pruner.
- Cut back any branches that contact the ground until theyβre at least six inches off the ground.
- Remove branches that are rubbing against each other.
- Trim back branches that are closer than two inches apart.
- Remove dead branches.
- Remove stems or branches growing out of the trunk or around the base of the tree (a.k.a. suckers).
- Trim back the tips of the branches around the perimeter of the canopy until itβs a balanced, uniform shape.
- Remove branches that are growing straight up on grafted cherry trees because they will continue to grow upward instead of weeping down.
- Thin out the mangled cluster of branches that often develops near the base of the canopy of grafted trees.
- Remove diseased branches as soon as theyβre discovered, regardless of the time of year. Sterilize the blade of your cutting tool in between cuts to prevent disease spread.
Does anyone know of a Duolingo-like birding application that gamifies bird identification?
(Particularly for Android and extra points for sound ID in addition to visual ID)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
"Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion.
"A U.S. intelligence report declassified in mid-December 2023 estimated that 315,000 Russian troops had been killed or wounded in Ukraine. If accurate, the figure would represent 87% of the roughly 360,000 troops Russia had before the war, according to the report."
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I will never feel as though I fit in this world, a place where the so-called leaders of humanity callously throw away the lives of their own people--slaughtering the innocent along the way--in their own broken, vileness.
There is no goodness from such death.
We have the ability, today, to be so much more than we have ever been. We can realize the greatest of human potential. Yet we continue to choose death.
Had I only been born in a later age where I could spend my one life in an era that is extraordinarily glorious. Presuming of course that our species would survive itself to such a time.
I am one with the Force and the Force is with me.
The White House says it is preparing additional βmajor sanctionsβ on Russia in response to opposition leader Alexei Navalnyβs death in an Arctic penal colony.
Even more major than the current major sanctions...
A Texas judge has granted a pregnant woman permission to obtain an abortion in an unprecedented challenge to the stateβs ban that took effect after Roe v.
The first trans-Atlantic flight by a commercial jet powered solely by so-called sustainable aviation fuel has flown from London to New York.
The first trans-Atlantic flight by a commercial jet powered solely by so-called sustainable aviation fuel has flown from London to New York.
Birds in North America will no longer be named after people. The American Ornithological Society announced the move Wednesday.
Hospitals and health care systems are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence to help summarize doctorsβ notes and analyze health records.
Footage from deep in the Pacific Ocean has given the first detailed look at three World War II aircraft carriers that sank in the pivotal Battle of Midway.
A white Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in 2019 has agreed to pay more than $5 million to families of the victims.
Genuinely curious and ignorant about restitution from inmates who spend the read of their lives in prison.
How would he ever be able to pay 5M+ USD?
