Today sucks

Pope Leo had telephoned Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, telling him, “It is time to stop this slaughter.”

This was second hand from an internal call, not an official statement. Even in an internal call he used the more graphic word “slaughter” rather than “violence” or “killing”.

Cardinal Pizzaballa and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem were leading a delegation into Gaza to bring hundreds of tons of humanitarian aid into the enclave.

This is action, which you have to admit is far beyond the bare minimum of flapping lips. Many politicians use the word “genocide” and do nothing beyond that. I disagree with organized religion as a whole but I am not going to bad mouth a group that was housing 600+ people in their church, including elderly, disabled, and children. The church was hit by the IDF and they killed the priest, and after all that the Pope calls his Cardinal in Jerusalem, not to tell him to stop his aid deliveries out of a concern for safety but to convey that they need to work harder to “stop the slaughter”. Again, that’s more than the “bare minimum”.

Stray ammunition? What a piece of shit.

Read the article.

needs a cross-post to !upliftingnews@lemmy.world

That gunshot wound is such an unexpected twist, especially since they do not specify if the victim was among those outside of the club or in the vehicle.

Black pill incel. Any bets?

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How so? It shouldn’t come as a surprise to him at this point.

Why does he always look like he’s surprised that he just shit his pants?

Before blaming AI, blame companies who decided to outsource as much as possible to the lowest priced options, regardless of quality. Once those options became “cost prohibitive” (read, not cheap enough to satisfy shareholders), only then did the rush to develop AI truly begin.

ethnic cleansing

the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area

genocide

U.N. Definition

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

You best be glad these sailors are drunk and laying about on their hoard. Before Steam, those sailors were pirates. Do not tempt them to set sail again.

It takes more than the ability to purchase a rifle to be able to shoot. If you want to be effective, you have to train and practice… a lot.

I’m all for hating the boomers. If you want to blame the disappearance of American manufacturing and the weakening of organized labor on Boomers, I’m all for that. They availability of higher education for the masses to the point where a college degree became a barrier to entry is something that came about thanks to the prosperity boom after WWII. Remember yuppies? Those fuckers were boomers enjoying the advantages their parents and socialist reforms laid at their feet.

So no. Boomers didn’t make college a barrier to entry, but they did milk their good fortune and left very little for those that came after them.

AI: Confidently Incorrect

I never said that boomers did not benefit from it, I said that they didn’t set it up that way. They benefited, exploited, abused, and left nothing for those to come after, but they didn’t set it up themselves.

I don’t think boomers set it up that way. I think boomers were the first to grow up into a world where a college degree was almost required to get ahead.