As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity | Arwa Mahdawi
As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity
Every year has been catastrophic for Palestinians around the world, but the past 12 months have been unimaginable, writes Guardian columnist Arwa MahdawiArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
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When a Television Meteorologist Breaks Down on Air and Admits Fear
Florida TV Meteorologist Chokes Up on Air While Covering Hurricane Milton
John Morales, who has forecast weather for decades, went viral after choking up on air while discussing Hurricane Milton.Cara Buckley (The New York Times)
Florida Counties Refuse to Evacuate Jails in Hurricane Milton Flood Zones
Florida Counties Refuse to Evacuate Jails in Hurricane Milton Flood Zones
In areas where people are being ordered to leave as Florida braces for Hurricane Milton, those incarcerated in jails have no choice but to stay.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
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I don't use an ad blocker anymore but I do pay for a bunch of services and I always pick ad free. I never see ads really.
If I were to use an ad blocker I would set up a pie hole or similar. I had that before and it worked pretty well but with the server side ads on YouTube you would still see those.
On Linux or Windows? Firefox + uBlock origin (there’s nothing better than that)
On Mac? Firefox + uBlock origin (worse alternative: Safari + AdGuard, since you might synch browser with iPhone)
On Android? Firefox + Privacy Badger + uBlock Origin
On iOS? Safari + AdGuard + Vinegar + Baking Soda
On SmartTV it’s different.
Hardest overall solution: Get yourself a Pi-Hole pi-hole.net/
For WebOS TVs use this: github.com/webosbrew/youtube-w…
Android TVs should get SmartTube: github.com/yuliskov/smarttube#…
RokuTVs got either this thing: channelstore.roku.com/en-ca/de…
or the open source alternative: github.com/iBicha/playlet
I look forward to the day apple is forced to allow other browser engines to run on iOS.
Unfortunatly, they were smart. To the average lawmaker, Firefox, chrome, edge, etc all run on ios, so there's no issue.
I've been using this one for years, which filters out ads and sponsor segments:
Only for Android though. If you use iOS, switch to Android and you'll also get a really Firefox browser with ublock origin that blocks all the ads compared to that 30something% what every iOS browser does.
Yeah, the perks of the Android ecosystem. There's also a version for Android TV such as NVIDIA Shield. Again just works and filters out ads and sponsor segments.
I remember when I first noticed YouTube had ads. They've had them a while but before they got ads I had installed an ad blocker. So when I was setting up a new laptop and just testing if everything worked I loaded up a YouTube video and suddenly there was a pre roll playing and I wondered "What the fuck is this ... Ah yes still need to install an ad blocker"
Edit: Toni? Who the fuck is he? ;)
My first contact with the web (I had been in the internet for some time already) was when a collegue at university told me about the Arena browser, and this new system, "like Gopher, but with Hypertext and pictures". And yes, I've seen the CERN website, served from Tim Barners-Lee's NeXT cube, too.
So yes, I knew the web before there were ads, the internet when services were normally open to all sides, and when people on the internet that were actually much smarter than average.
Yes we had 3 more years where numerous other variants of things like pop-up/under ads, ads that ran malicious java script, infinitely self-replicating pop-ups, ads that instantly played music at full volume, ads that kept opening themselves again as you closed them, and so on.
Basically, the time when ads were not super intrusive, on the web, was a fleeting time, in its infancy. Didn't even make it 6 years before ad blockers were required to safely use the web.
you'll enjoy a fun browser addon then! - adnauseum
it clicks on every. single. ad both doing what you're doing, but also poisoning the data Google has on you. From their website:
As the collected data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user tracking, targeting and surveillance become futile
I have adblock on my Mac, but not on the PS5. Whenever I watch YouTube on my TV via PS5, I have to open and close videos sometimes 10 or 15 times before they just play the video I've clicked on and not some obnoxious 45 second long advert for some bullshit I don't want and won't use. Honestly not sure why YouTube finds it so hard to play the video I clicked on and not random other videos. I also tend to stop watching vids as soon as an ad break happens.
I work with a marketing department full time and they're exactly as annoying as expected, always pissing about on tiktok or Instagram creating shit that nobody could possibly feasibly care about.
Is there an alternative to YouTube on PS5 that doesn't have adverts? Or is there some way to get adblocking on there?
Basically me every time I open a website on my work laptop, where I cannot add browser extensions because of IT policies.
I honestly cannot fathom why large companies don't include at least simple adblockers in their browser configurations. I don't even need to block youtube ads, the banners on stackoverflow are bass enough). Would probably save fairly significant amounts of bandwidth, too.
Me if that happens:
jk, i barely use YT as it is. I'm waiting for the YT ToS update that causes a mass migration to peertube
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Personally I've been maintaining a chrome extension for about 10 years, and it's sat happily with about 7000 users that entire time. I built it because I wanted to use it, and I've declined several offers to buy the extension and monetize it.
It's an extension that makes GitHub pages full width: github.com/xthexder/wide-githu…
Admittedly the usefulness has gone down a little bit in the last couple years now that GitHub themselves have made code diffs and some other things full width by default.
When I first wrote this I had just gotten a giant 4K display at work and was really annoyed I still had to scroll left and right with the page only covering 1/3 of the screen.
This is why I just set up a media server at home.
It's mine, you can't pump it full of ads. All the media is mine and those companies can go fuck themselves.
Sail those seas folks
it has adblock + sponsorblock
put a pi-hole in my rooter
Giggity What would be the definition if it was in the urban dictionary?
Most of the tech billionare's ideas comes from watching a dystopian 80s scifi and saying "let's do this but where I'm the bad guy."
Show me one thing Elon ever came up with that isn't in Total Recall.
Show me one thing Elon ever came up with that isn't in Total Recall.
Musk is trash, but to be fair, Philip K. Dick pretty much invented like 90% of popular, modern sci-fi tropes.
The upside to using ad blockers - no ads!
The downside to using ad blockers - not knowing what any of the movies currently in theaters are.
I mean the concept is pretty simple, all they have to do is make whatever the content it is not play without the verification.
Now I do have to say, it does come down to what is the system we do want? We can agree we don't want intrusive ads. We can say that the paid for services are too expensive. But at the end of the day when we refuse to pay for the content, and then bypass the ads, we do leave content creation in a rough spot. We've kind of reached a point where we need a new system. Yet all we seem to do is try and find ways to break the existing one.
Honestly I disagree... From what I've heard from app developers etc... ads generate far less money than even $1 app sales. Now maybe that's the brokers etc... But there's also a reason why Hulu shut down their purely ad supported tier, and none of the big companies are leaning into that. Only "subscribe and get ads" lower dollar tiers.
I'm no super expert, but I think ads are still very inefficiant ways to make money... the profit per customer is very small even with the most privacy invasive blast you away with everything aspect. I don't claim to be an expert, but it appears to me an ad supported service needs around 100x more users to make the same money as a low cost service. However, in actual userbases it goes closer to 1000x when that offer is on the table.
No cell phones, no internet, no social media. Just people being people. Really living in the moment.
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In double breakthrough, mathematician solves two long-standing problems
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Yeah but they wont admit that they just want to snack!
Ive met one woman that knew what she wanted to eat and ever meal choice wasnt a struggle.
No no no! A man doesn't ask, he tells. Women generally like a man to take charge. You have to dovetail that decisiveness with what your woman likes.
Little trickier that, but not too hard if your paying close attention to pleasing her. And if you're not paying close attention to your woman, what the fuck are you doing anyway?! Because I promise, she's paying close attention to you.
Easy money. The man decides and quickly gauges her reaction. Women like decisive men, not wussies.
"We're going to the Mexican joint for dinner. Sound good?"
See how she reacts. This is easy for a normal human. If she hesitates, change the plan.
"No good? OK, the Italian place it is then."
If she still doesn't look happy, you don't know her well enough. Do better, learn about your woman. Same goes for sex.
Live: Aid organization warns of 'erasure' of Palestinians in north Gaza
Live: Aid organisation warns of 'erasure' of Palestinians in north Gaza
Israeli forces also gun down four Palestinians in the West BankNader Durgham (Middle East Eye)
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Live: Aid organization warns of 'erasure' of Palestinians in north Gaza
Live: Aid organisation warns of 'erasure' of Palestinians in north Gaza
Israeli forces also gun down four Palestinians in the West BankNader Durgham (Middle East Eye)
Open letter to the judges of the International Criminal Court - Yanis Varoufakis and Brian Eno
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Open letter to the judges of the International Criminal Court - Yanis Varoufakis and Brian Eno
(Diem25, 2024-10-07)diem25.org/open-letter-to-the-…
------"Today, on 7 October 2024, exactly one year after the start of the latest and most brutal phase of the 76-year-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we feel the need to address you directly..."
"... When can we expect indictments from your Court?"
"... Today humanity needs more than ever a court like yours, where impartial legal minds from around the world can reach consensus on standards of legal conduct in war and its aftermath. Your role is vital, and we implore you to act immediately."
(Appeal to the readers)
"Join us by endorsing this letter via [ i.diem25.org/en/answers/new?fo… ]. You can also send the letter to the International Criminal Court. We need them to act as soon as possible."@palestine@lemmy.ml
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#ICC #YanisVaroufakis #BrianEno #diem25
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Ramstein Meeting On Ukraine Canceled, NATO Sources Tell RFE/RL
Ramstein Meeting On Ukraine Canceled, NATO Sources Tell RFE/RL
A high-level meeting of the Ramstein group of Ukraine arms donors has been canceled after U.S. President Joe Biden scrapped a visit to Germany this week due to the impending landfall of Hurricane Milton in Florida, two sources from NATO told RFE/RL o…Rikard Jozwiak (RFE/RL)
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They could create a system that picks one person out of the millions that do it, and then still make a random number generator pick a number that they have to choose out of 1000, and it would still mean that "You have a chance" to win. Sure, a chance, like, but at what odds, and that's only if they were actually checked if it was true.
We all know there was never a chance.
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As I understand it these are basically an insurance policy. The promoter takes out a policy detailing the odds of a payout being required, and pay a premium based on the insurer's risk assessment.
And of course the insurer wants to minimise the odds of paying out, and the promoter wants to minimise their premium - so the top prize is usually, as above, near-unwinnable.
In the US, especially in the 90's, there were a lot promotional mailers, TV ads, and so on to prey on people's desperation and ignorance that were sent out that would say that the person has "a chance to win $1M!" or "may have already won!"
Of course, I've never heard of anyone who actually won anything from them. It was probably just a data collection thing or asking people to send $20 to enter the fake lottery, I'm not sure. But, I have to admit, I did join a lot of those because I was a kid and I thought it'd be fun or easy and my dad would humor me by going through the process—or, at least, pretend that he did. We never won anything though.
Saudi Arabia executes 213 people in less than 10 months, setting new record
Saudi Arabia has executed 213 people so far in 2024, more than it has in any other calendar year on record, as the kingdom competes for a seat at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC). According to the London-based rights group Reprieve, which documents the death penalty worldwide, the largest recorded figure prior to this year was 196 in 2022, followed by 184 in 2019.
“As the world's attention fixates on horror elsewhere in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia is clearing death row with a bloodbath,” Reprieve’s deputy director, Harriet McCulloch, told MEE.
“The Kingdom smashed its own grim record for most people executed in a year in the first nine months of 2024,” she added. “With 213 executions and counting, death row prisoners are at greater risk than ever before, their families desperately awaiting news of their fate in the news.”
The executions are taking place under the government of Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, the kingdom’s prime minister and de facto leader, who pledged in a 2018 interview to minimise capital punishment.
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They execute anyone who they consider to be an 'enemy of the state' all the time. They call political dissent 'terrorism' and simply murder people.
I know a little about this than I should as I know people who have been in the system and got all range of sentences. The only people I know who were executed were because they leaked classified military information to Iran-affiliates. Regardless of their motives and justifications, no state would tolerate that. But the government would never say why publicly and it will be reported as another possibly unjustified execution, only who know know. The people who were just outspoken got lengthy prison sentences, not fair, but it is what it is.
My politics don't always go well with the government so I keep in mind what my parents told me at 6: 1. don't talk politics 2. don't talk religion 3. all phones are monitored. Though my main objection is in its international affairs and apathy towards regional causes. Domestic policy reflects the current culture and it can't be helped.
As long as the majority of Muslims want Shariah Law it makes no difference whether it is an absolute monarchy or a democracy. There's a lot of crimes that require capital punishment in Islam.
Depending on where you live, even in the West, capital punishment is popular.
I know that means me too but if I get to take the rest of them along with me that's still a good deal.
We know the best court in the land will fail about 4% of the time. That's the best we can in our nightmarish surveillance state.
Bitcoin you mean irredeemable, you mean they can be released from prison and start creating value. Like we have to keep them in a box and pay for the box.
You mean we should execute them because they are a net resource loss to keep alive in the box yes ?
Did I use redeem wrong? I thought it comes from redemption. Some people cannot be rehabilitated and will always be a danger to others.
We know the best court in the land will fail about 4% of the time.
Lower than I expected but still too high for something irreversible. When the failure rate is 0% then, in my opinion, capital punishment can be justly applied. Since that would never be achieved, no state should have the power to execute. I don't oppose it of religious or moral reasons, I don't think it is wrong in ideal terms, but I don't think flawed and biased people can be trusted with it.
I don't care if the state legal bureacracy can go back in time and know for sure. Still unacceptable. Also, prisons, unacceptable for anything in their current form.
We put people in prison for our societal convenience, we want to kill or enslave them for economic reasons. It is collectively a greater crime than all crimes by all criminals.
There's what 4 million in prison in US alone. In specifically designed places to be open pits of hell. If that is civilisation then it deserve to taste activation of the MAD doctrine.
No. It absolutely makes a difference if a state is free or ruled by some tyrant. Saudi Arabia here is a prime example.
Some stats that were hard to find: imgur.com/a/executions-by-coun…
Eh, question... what's their charges? Murder? Treason?
The official human rights authority in the kingdom, the Saudi Human Rights Commission, also falsely claimed that child defendant Mustafa al-Darwish, who was sentenced to death for protest-related offences, was over 19 at the time of the crimes.But Reprieve and ESOHR provided evidence that proved he was in fact under 18. Darwish was executed on 15 June 2021 despite the evidence.
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Wealth distribution in the United States
Wealth distribution in the United States
Forbes recently published the Forbes 400 List for 2024, listing the 400 richest people in the United States. This inspired me to make a his...www.righto.com
Maeve
in reply to Peter Link • • •And "if you're a third party presidential candidate voter, you're doing more to harm Palestinians than if you vote for either genocidal candidate." *The level of gaslighting defies credibility; yet here we all are.
*Quotation marks added for clarity.
ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
in reply to Maeve • • •~~Lol no, get fucked nazi.~~
Edit: Turns out I was replying to sarcasm, unfortunately hard to tell these days
Maeve
in reply to ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them] • • •I don't think it's worth bothering arguing with them, anymore, since it tends to deflect from both major parties being the beneficiaries and at least sideline architects of genocide. I'm voting Claudia. I said what I said, nothing to argue about. Let them shadowbox.
Eta: didn't think I'd need the sarcasm tag, in my original comment. But I will add quotation marks.
ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
in reply to Maeve • • •Maeve
in reply to ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them] • • •Maeve
in reply to ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them] • • •It sure is! It's my fault too. And it's sad that we can't tell anymore.
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in reply to Maeve • • •When the third party candidate admits that their campaign is solely to siphon away votes from Democrats? And the Republican alternative has actively stated Palestine should be wiped out by Israel?
Can't vote Democrat because support of Israel. That means you also can't support Republicans, because they support the full extent of the genocide even more. And that means you can't support (most) 3rd party candidates, because the Green Party is primarily funded by Republican donors and, quote,
So that leaves us with... A candidate who at least is saying a 2 state solution, and one who told Israel to finish the job. Plus you know, all of the American focused policies, such as education.
With this in mind, and with how the ev
... show moreWhen the third party candidate admits that their campaign is solely to siphon away votes from Democrats? And the Republican alternative has actively stated Palestine should be wiped out by Israel?
Can't vote Democrat because support of Israel. That means you also can't support Republicans, because they support the full extent of the genocide even more. And that means you can't support (most) 3rd party candidates, because the Green Party is primarily funded by Republican donors and, quote,
So that leaves us with... A candidate who at least is saying a 2 state solution, and one who told Israel to finish the job. Plus you know, all of the American focused policies, such as education.
With this in mind, and with how the events of 2016's election turned out, you can understand why people are suspicious about 3rd party voting, right?
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in reply to Maeve • • •Count042
in reply to averyminya • • •Two responses.
One just says wrong.
The other actually engages with you on the topic.
Yet you respond only to the one that just says "wrong" complaining that they didn't engage you on the topic.
Self righteous smugness is a hell of a drug, isn't it?
averyminya
in reply to Count042 • • •What you don't realize is that I did write up a response to the other one. Then I got distracted, the app closed, I lost my response and I moved on.
But sure, insult me more. Good discussion.
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in reply to averyminya • • •By "How 2016 turned out" you mean the Democrats ran a conservative, establishment Democrat when literally everyone was saying we want change? Then she was beaten by an "outsider" and the Democrats went all 'shocked Pikachu face' and blamed progressives for their choices?
Dems think that we owe them our votes while they refuse to represent us. That is not democracy.