It's crazy that it's up to individuals whether they can afford to have their relatives buried. It should be one of the first basic things a civilized country takes care of.
However, the United States might also benefit from looking inward and possibly even learning from China. China’s ascent was driven by strict mandates and targets—strategies currently unfeasible in the United States due to a politically charged environment where lobby groups can easily overturn sound industrial policy following a change in administration.
That is unfortunate, as such mandates have proved effective; for example, the EU’s target for 25 percent of its critical minerals demand to be met through recycling by 2030 has significantly bolstered the industry.
All that oil lobbying and the regressive politics it promotes is now visibly harming the USA while other countries advance. It's a failure across the (very narrow) US political spectrum, engendered by a corrupt system that serves entrenched business interests.
It looks like the USA is about to embark on another 4 years of reality denial and protectionism, after which it will be even further behind. Republicans have made it clear that they will make it as difficult as possible to run sustainable energy businesses while pushing hard for more fossil fuels. This will do not only environmental damage but also economic and political damage to the country.
‘Heavy-handed’ crackdown ignores underlying reasons for failure to attend classes, say critics
No company is quite so inseparable from the World Wide Web as Google, which made searching the internet an eponymous verb. The web made Google rich, too, but this week Google relegated it to a submenu. In a design of its next-generation home page that the company showed at its annual I/O developer c...
Geoffrey Hinton, known as the godfather of AI, said the technology could leave many without jobs.
Gonna try this on my weeds now. The neighbors don't have to look.
They just need "unless we can make more money in the short term by not doing it" appended to them. So, yes, they mean nothing.
In a statement to The New York Times, Alito did not dispute the image. He said he had no involvement in its flying, saying the flag was placed by his wife Martha-Ann Alito, who had been offended by a neighbor's yard signs.
"I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag," Justice Alito said in an emailed statement to the New York Times. "It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor's use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs."
The Times reported that the yard signs were anti-Donald Trump.
Well that certainly dispels any sense that he might be biased. It's just that his family feels personally insulted when someone criticizes Donald Trump.
I think they have worse things than prosecution in mind for trans people. We are talking about fascists here.
Small government, not interfering with people's freedoms, just as they always preach.
Country folk tend to like the independence offered by their cars, so how do you get them to use public transit? The Monocab system may be the answer, as it utilizes individual on-demand pods that travel on existing abandoned railways.
The headline says "by 2050" and the first line of the article says "by 2025". Is it me or is this confused?
And it's not at all clear from this article whether they took into account factors such as food and water shortages and wars arising from climate change, pollution-related health issues, and health problems arising from climate change and other environmental change, including the probability of new pandemics.
Overall, not a very informative article.
far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told a rally of thousands that the only way to defeat Hamas is to “return home” to Gaza and encourage “voluntary emigration” of its Palestinian population—a euphemism for ethnic cleansing.
And "ethnic cleansing" is in turn a euphemism for genocide. Netanyahu and his government's plan for Palestine is simply genocide.
Foreign ministry says it will reject all such stopovers because ‘the Middle East does not need more weapons, it needs more peace’
cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/6656708
> Spain has refused permission for a ship carrying arms to Israel to dock at a Spanish port, its foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, said on Thursday. > > “This is the first time we have done this because it is the first time we have detected a ship carrying a shipment of arms to Israel that wants to call at a Spanish port,” he told reporters in Brussels. > > “This will be a consistent policy with any ship carrying arms to Israel that wants to call at Spanish ports. The foreign ministry will systematically reject such stopovers for one obvious reason: the Middle East does not need more weapons, it needs more peace.”
Scientists have discovered a long-buried branch of the Nile river that once flowed alongside more than 30 pyramids in Egypt, potentially solving the mystery of how ancient Egyptians transported the massive stone blocks to build the famous monuments.
In 1991, Look of the Year was hosted by real-estate mogul Donald Trump at the Plaza Hotel in New York, which he owned. Former US President Trump and Copperfied were among the 10 judges.
Trump sat alongside him in the front row, with his then nine-year-old daughter Ivanka, who would later work for Elite as a model, perched on his knee. Naomi Campbell, then an Elite supermodel, co-hosted the black-tie gala with Casablancas.
Aimee Bendio, a 15-year-old American contestant, says she believes Copperfield also showed an interest in her during the 1991 competition. Footage from the contest shows Aimee being interviewed by the panel of judges in her swimsuit. Immediately after, the camera cuts to Trump and Copperfield leaning back in their chairs to talk to one another.
Yuck.
He went missing in the middle of a civil war when lots of people were being kidnapped and/or killed. Maybe because of this they didn't look as hard as they otherwise would.
I like it, it's a smart and revealing strategy. Glad I originally misunderstood now because this comment of yours is really helpful and interesting.
Making solar power less affordable is exactly what the USA and the world needs right now.
This is in Canada so US law is irrelevant. And your "fat" thing is a bit offensive.
Whichever technology you use to recognize AI-generated content will get repurposed quickly to help generate AI content that can't be recognized. So it's an arms race, and at some point the generation may get good enough that there is no effective way to recognize it.
Sorry, I misread "from a girl to a woman or from a boy to a man" in your first comment, so I misunderstood your intent.
Outsmart them by breaking each bar in half. Now you have 20 bars without spending a penny more!
Personally I think we should be giving kids a lot more support in not transitioning. And by transitioning, I mean transitioning from a girl to a woman or from a boy to a man. If the child isn't 100% certain they want to go through with massive irreversible hormonal changes, they shouldn't.
I think you're underestimating the care and caution with which these decisions are approached. No one is rushing kids into transitioning. No one is imposing it on young people who are not sure. There are many safeguards to make sure transitioning only happens where it's appropriate and the person fully understands and agrees to it.
I use the one that gets auto-suggested. Sometimes I miss that it doesn't quite match the headline in the article, and sometimes they change the headlines later. I don't make up my own.
NGA rebuffs efforts by billionaire to take down painting by award-winning artist Vincent Namatjira
Bird Piche, 24, remains in hospital, but her condition is ‘trending in the right direction’ following the incident in Buffalo, New York, on April 30
The Landlord and Tenant Board found the landlord's conduct 'deplorable,' saying they clearly took advantage of a vulnerable tenant.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21108234
> > The Landlord and Tenant Board found the landlord's conduct 'deplorable,' saying they clearly took advantage of a vulnerable tenant.
Dozens of Ontarians are expressing frustration in the province’s health-care system after their family doctors either dropped them as patients or threatened to after they sought urgent care elsewhere.
Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20917977
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15236948 > > > Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives > > > > *** > > > > In September 2022, Fawzia al-Otaibi was a week into a trip to her home country of Saudi Arabia, staying with a friend near the Bahrain border, when her phone rang. As soon as she heard the male voice on the other end of the line, she realised that returning had been a terrible mistake. > > > > It was a police officer who, in 2019, had tracked her down and fined her for public indecency after she had posted a video on her Snapchat account, showing her dancing in jeans and a baseball cap at a concert in Riyadh. She and her two sisters, Maryam and Manahel, had become targets in a campaign of arrests, threats and intimidation by the Saudi authorities after they had used their popular social media channels to post about women’s rights. For her, the dancing clip wasn’t a political statement; it was just about sharing a happy moment with her followers. > > > > After the fine, Fawzia left Saudi Arabia for Dubai and hadn’t been back to her home country in three years. She thought the authorities had forgotten about her. She was wrong.
Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15236948
> Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives > > *** > > In September 2022, Fawzia al-Otaibi was a week into a trip to her home country of Saudi Arabia, staying with a friend near the Bahrain border, when her phone rang. As soon as she heard the male voice on the other end of the line, she realised that returning had been a terrible mistake. > > It was a police officer who, in 2019, had tracked her down and fined her for public indecency after she had posted a video on her Snapchat account, showing her dancing in jeans and a baseball cap at a concert in Riyadh. She and her two sisters, Maryam and Manahel, had become targets in a campaign of arrests, threats and intimidation by the Saudi authorities after they had used their popular social media channels to post about women’s rights. For her, the dancing clip wasn’t a political statement; it was just about sharing a happy moment with her followers. > > After the fine, Fawzia left Saudi Arabia for Dubai and hadn’t been back to her home country in three years. She thought the authorities had forgotten about her. She was wrong.
It opens the door to a new era of electric efficiency.
A London police officer was arrested while off duty on Tuesday, in relation to a criminal harassment investigation into repeated communication with a victim over email and phone.
A musician and audio engineer, he helped define the sound of alternative rock while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry.
A musician and audio engineer, he helped define the sound of alternative rock while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry.
In an exclusive interview, the Cyber Army of Russia laid out their grand ambitions of disrupting US infrastructure. In reality, they've missed the mark—but that hasn't stopped them from hyping their hacktivity to the government back home.
Neom and its enormous skyscraper, the Line, is set to cost trillions more than anticipated and is already mired in construction setbacks.
US labor department announced that Fayette Janitorial Service agreed to $650,000 fine and mandate to no longer employ minors
"We had already run out of words to describe how catastrophic the situation is in Rafah—but this next chapter will take it to indescribable new levels," said Save the Children International's CEO.
