LONDON, May 20 (Reuters) - Tesla is working to appease some European leasing companies after the automaker’s repeated retail price cuts tanked their fleets’ value and its slow service and expensive repairs alienated their corporate customers....
Putting out arrest warrants on both of them is so smart. It’s a way to avoid people claiming they are taking sides or playing favorites or aiding terrorists or being in favor of genocide or whatever.
It would be absurd and unjust to issue a warrant for only one of them. This was the right thing to do.
Spain's prime minister said during a rally in Catalonia that he is going to propose the parliament's official recognition of Palestine as a state on Wednesday, 22 May.
A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday blocked a new Biden administration rule that would prohibit credit card companies from charging customers late fees higher than $8....
A luxury yacht belonging to Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk was officially transferred to the Ukrainian state on May 15, said Ukraine's Agency for Investigation and Management of Assets, known by its Ukrainian acronym ARMA....
The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....
I don't know what the solution is either, but I do know that brutalizing and displacing the entire population won't make the average Palestinian friendlier to the Israeli cause. Say what you will about the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but at least they attempted to be more surgical.
It's an averaged-out view of what "the internet" thinks, with extra massaging to make sure it isn't too offensive. I think the chatbot's take here pretty much encapsulates the general US public opinion.
Don't know what? Do you mean about the question in the OP? I think in the USA's case it will be much like South Africa, where there's still tremendous resentment against Afrikaners even though they are an even smaller minority and no longer form government. I think it will take perhaps up to a century for white Americans to be treated as a minority by others.
Edit: and for the other angle of OP's question, we could look to the ancient world. Rome, for example, didn't care much about one's skin colour or place of birth. Cultural assimilation was what made you acceptable or not. Speaking good Latin and being a good citizen was enough.
LLMs work by predicting which word comes next based on training data ("the internet") and the model is then tweaked so that it doesn't sound like 4chan. How is any of that incorrect, o wise one?
This doesn't make any sense - if anything it's backwards. being oppressed doesn't give anyone a free pass to oppress others. That kind of twisted logic is what Israel uses to get away with murder.
I’ve yet to have anyone give me a satisfactory explanation for why Palestinian kids deserve to have their limbs blown off or killed for living in an area hostile to LGBT people
Is anyone actually saying this? What I usually see, like "queers for Palestine" is the opposite — people who excuse the extreme homophobia and misogyny in Islamic countries.
If that's the case then OP is an enormous jackass. That still doesn't change the fact that queer Palestinians are absolutely being oppressed in their country (or what should be a country) and this is too often swept under the rug.
Hassan said soldiers sometimes shared their food with the children in her family, but the relief was limited. She and the other adults began skipping meals, sometimes for two days straight, so the children could eat. Tree leaves boiled in water and sprinkled with spices became a part of their diet....
Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukraine dismissed as evidence of Moscow's "desperation"....
TBH I'm surprised that they waited until 800 days into their 3-day invasion to do this. I'd have thought they would fabricate something before they invaded.
This would hold more water if they hadn't tried to assassinate him on countless occasions already (especially during the first few days of the war), but that tortured logic is about what I'd expect from them.
Egyptian and US mediators have reported signs of compromise in recent days and Egyptian state news channel Al-Qahera said on Saturday that a consensus had been reached in the indirect talks over many of the disputed points but gave no further details....
Something I'm struggling to understand: if people say Hamas does not represent Palestine, why are they the ones representing Gaza diplomatically? Shouldn't the UN or someone step in so that Gazans can decide who their government is first, before anybody can make decisions for them -- especially a group of deeply corrupt oligarchs based in a different country?
Whoever represents a country is whoever has military control over the land and population inhabiting that country. Very rarely is there any other option (e.g. exiled leader).
Belgium in WW1, France and Greece during WW2, Spain during Franco, and I'm sure there are others... It isn't that uncommon. I'm not suggesting the UN occupies Gaza permanently, but Gazans should be able to decide who represents them (and I sure hope it isn't Hamas).
This is true, but it seems to me like an Italy in WW2 kind of situation (sorry for all the WW2 parallels, folks) where a government was voted in but overstayed its welcome, to put it mildly.
The people they picked don't even live there and do little but embezzle funds... Of course they picked "wrong". I am in favor of democracy and I don't think what's happening now in Gaza is democratic at all.
If they vote Hamas in during a free and fair election, that is completely their right... But it'll also be the last vote they cast before Gaza is turned into a parking lot.
So if you would accept Hamas next time, why is it that you don’t accept Hamas now?
I said why earlier -- whatever the circumstances under which Hamas was voted in, this has long since passed any pretense of democracy, and the legitimacy of Hamas as a government today is questionable, to say the least.
If you genuinely believe that a group voted in 18 years ago who don't live in the country and haven't held an election since then can be considered a legitimate government, we're never going to see eye to eye on this.
You keep making this weird leap regarding the legitimacy of Hamas that you don’t seem to notice. It’s not Hamas preventing elections, it’s the US and Israel, and there preventing them because they basically know Hamas will win.
That doesn't make any sense, because they are already treating Hamas as the legitimate government. Why would they be so reluctant to allow something that would yield the same outcome that they accept today?
There is no question around the legitimacy of Hamas except in US and Israeli propaganda. The pretense of democracy is the one you are supposing where a people’s choice is only valid if it’s the one you preferred they make.
Likud are the ones who have been propping up Hamas. I'm sure the US would like them gone, though.
Exclusive: Tesla doing damage-control, discounts for European fleet buyers ( www.reuters.com )
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EXCLUSIVE: ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes over October 7 attack and Gaza war | CNN ( edition.cnn.com )
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez leads EU in push to recognise Palestine as a sovereign state ( www.euronews.com )
Spain's prime minister said during a rally in Catalonia that he is going to propose the parliament's official recognition of Palestine as a state on Wednesday, 22 May.
Judge blocks Biden administration rule capping credit card late fees at $8 ( www.cnn.com )
A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday blocked a new Biden administration rule that would prohibit credit card companies from charging customers late fees higher than $8....
Bro tried to divide by zero ( sh.itjust.works )
Ukraine says it has no reserves as Putin amasses half-million troops for summer offensive: report ( nypost.com )
Medvechuk's yacht officially transferred to Ukrainian state ( kyivindependent.com )
A luxury yacht belonging to Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk was officially transferred to the Ukrainian state on May 15, said Ukraine's Agency for Investigation and Management of Assets, known by its Ukrainian acronym ARMA....
"LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha" meanwhile : ( lemmy.world )
Terminal > Windows Registry.
Russia finds vast oil and gas reserves in British Antarctic territory ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
Reserves 10 times the North Sea’s output raise fears over drilling in protected region...
Moldova defies Russia with EU security pact ( www.ft.com )
In case of paywall: https://archive.ph/C3um4
Secret Hamas Files Show How It Spied on Everyday Palestinians ( www.nytimes.com )
The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in Gaza that conducted surveillance on everyday Palestinians and built files on young people, journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times....
How might perspectives on race change in a hypothetical fully-egalitarian future? ( sh.itjust.works )
Oh please let it be a fully egalitarian future…...
you don't need more 4GB of RAM ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Trump privately urged Greene to drop push to oust Speaker Johnson ( abcnews.go.com )
Trump told the Greene that the party needs to be unified, a source said....
The Palestinian activists fighting for LGBTQ+ rights against a neverending backdrop of war ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
As famine looms in Sudan, the hungry eat soil and leaves ( www.reuters.com )
Hassan said soldiers sometimes shared their food with the children in her family, but the relief was limited. She and the other adults began skipping meals, sometimes for two days straight, so the children could eat. Tree leaves boiled in water and sprinkled with spices became a part of their diet....
Kristi Noem defends killing dog: ‘I’m tired of politicians pretending to be what they’re not’ ( www.theguardian.com )
South Dakota governor and possible Trump running mate says she made ‘a choice between [my children] and a dangerous animal’...
Its a hard fate : ( ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
Why the oems resist giving proper drivers for fingerprint😡...
What's a job you couldn't get paid enough to do?
Russia puts Ukraine's Zelenskiy on wanted list ( www.reuters.com )
Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukraine dismissed as evidence of Moscow's "desperation"....
Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise as Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo ( www.theguardian.com )
Egyptian and US mediators have reported signs of compromise in recent days and Egyptian state news channel Al-Qahera said on Saturday that a consensus had been reached in the indirect talks over many of the disputed points but gave no further details....
Gnome developers in a nutshell ( lemmy.world )