Not necessarily. It might be because of the crimes in the public groups and channels in Telegram. That makes it no more immune from responsibility than Facebook or Twitter.

See this thread

Signal doesn’t have those.

Can someone please paraphrase the following which I didn’t understand?

Somebody raised to believe they have high IQ is more likely to fall for this than somebody raised to think less of their own intellectual capabilities. Subjective validation is a quirk of the human mind. We all fall for it.

But if you think you’re unlikely to be fooled, you will be tempted instead to apply your intelligence to “figure out” how it happened. This means you can end up using considerable creativity and intelligence to help the psychic fool you by coming up with rationalisations for their “ability”.

And because you think you can’t be fooled, you also bring your intelligence to bear to defend the psychic’s claim of their powers. Smart people (or, those who think of themselves as smart) can become the biggest, most lucrative marks.

Blasts is only six letters. Slams is only five. That is why they get used in headlines so often.

to the point of being an apartheid state that treats non-Jewish citizens worse

Maybe in practice, but certainly not in law.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs states that “Arab Israelis are citizens of Israel with equal rights” and states that “The only legal distinction between Arab and Jewish citizens is not one of rights, but rather of civic duty. Since Israel’s establishment, Arab citizens have been exempted from compulsory service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).”

https://web.archive.org/web/20160803050854/http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/mfaarchive/2000_2009/2001/8/arab israelis

A Petabyte would be a thousand movies. No cinema has a thousand movies on its program.

Secular democracy for Palestinians? That is delusional.

When Palestinians ain’t leaving and Israelis ain’t leaving there is no other realistic option (regardless of our political leaning and whether we think Jews have a right to statehood in that part of the world.).

Here’s hoping the publicity boosts his career and encourages discussions about legalisation of weed in Romania.

It would have been seen by terrorists as a reward for Oct 7 and encourage further attacks.

OTOH establishing a Palestinian state would have been a precursor to a 2SS which is a hopeful path towards peace.

Likud (and Hamas) are both against a 2SS therefore, as you say, this vote count is no surprise.

Regardless of the Hamas issue, that anti-vax publication did untold harm. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary vetting.

Am going off topic, but the BMJ (another titan in the journal industry, and it is an industry) was responsible for publishing a paper incorrectly linking plaques with Alzheimer’s which ended up wasting billions of dollars through more than a decade of other followup studies chasing that angle.

It was only debunked a couple of years ago. To be fair it is also irresponsible for all that subsequent research to have gone ahead, seeking glory for “the cure” while nobody cared to replicate the study.

As a science under-graduate myself I am disillusioned especially since my Mum has had dementia for thirteen years now.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

As if you didn’t know my point…

Their credibility is damaged enough to be sceptical about this report (which is not even medical research).

And here is another example:

They published (and retracted) a key study that linked anti-malarial drug HCQ to increased risk of death and irregularity in heart rhythms in coronavirus patients.

Lancet is the same journal which published Andrew Wakefield’s bs claim that vaccines cause autism.

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I suspect the ranting author failed to appreciate that Bluetooth is probably cheaper to implement for the audio because regular headphones require three wires while power supply only requires two. Ingenious really.

EDIT: Proper wired headphones would also require a soundcard in the dongle.

The guy was having a funny geeky bitch. He was laughing at himself. He doesn’t expect Apple to change anything.

EDIT: I think you are right, that last paragraph of his is weirdly serious. Would have been pure comedy without it.

Aren’t ads dispersed throughout the discussions? If not, then why not?

I prefer promotion of humility and a lifestyle which puts the emphasis on values relationships, nature, personal time etc, for instance…

In August 2020 the Chinese government launched “Operation empty plate”, a campaign to stop food and beverage waste and cultivate frugality.

However banning materialist fetishes will probably do more good than harm anyhow. Slippery slope though.

In my quote the claim was that Australia was there enforcing the UN resolution. That resolution was made a long time ago, well before China took sides in the Ukraine war. Too late to veto the resolution now.

PS Admittedly my quote is not from a credible source. I haven’t time to test its veracity.

The “you came close to your airspace so we scare you away” response seems like regular old territorial bullying to me.

See my other comment about the EEZ.

Which UN Security Council Resolutions do you think he was referring to if not the NK sanctions?