Totally, in the end it boils down to that. England holds cultural heritage treasures that were undoubtedly stolen/robbed and they have no intention of giving those back either.
Yeah, earth in Dutch is “aarde” and in German it’s “erde”, which both sound related to “earth”.
However, it originally must have meant soil/dirt/land, long before those humans were even aware of the concept of planets. So who was the first to call Earth after earth or Terre after terre? Probably the first persons to figure out that they were living on a planet is my guess, it makes sense to name something after the part that you can see imo.
Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim,[a] constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE.[8] They traditionally spoke Yiddish[8] and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.
The “Poland-Lithuania” that most of these migrations went to, at the time included large portions of present day Ukraine, Belarus and Russia. The regions with the highest Jewish populations prior to WW2, seem to match the borders of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth before it was partitioned by their neighbours in the 18th century. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland
Strategy games are still my mainstay, but I’m always returning a few old familiar games. I’ve not bought any new releases in a long time. If too many other players are like me, then strategy game development is going to be in dire straits indeed.
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14 to 16h is too short for a default. Not everyone will (or even has) the ability to take out their smartphone multiple times per day every day to catch up with the news. Someone who will only read it during the evening, would need posts to stay up 24 to 26h. So that to me is the minimum. Personally I don’t mind if they stay up longer, there might be new interesting top comments if the post itself stays on top longer.
This pier has got to be one of the most expensive examples of virtue signaling ever. Since Israel controls the land that the pier connects to, aid that comes off this pier would always get the exact same treatment as aid that hits an Israeli overland checkpoint, the pier is a pointless + very costly edifice.
Imo the only reason that it exists is so that the USA government can claim to be helping by throwing money at the problem, without actually doing anything about the problem.
Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration....
That’s some easily disprovable bullshit: Obama’s final presidential approval rating in 2017 was 59%, which is pretty good. So much for “checked out in 2014”. Trump and Bush w had 34%, Clinton had the highest ever with 66%.
A Boeing 747-400 with 468 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Indonesia on Wednesday after one of its engines caught fire and began shooting out flames during takeoff....
My guess is that they wanted the plane to use up most of the fuel before attempting the landing. As long as the plane is flying, the speed of the plane adds a level of safety to the fire. Once the plane lands and slows down, that fire would start affecting the rest of the wing much more, but there can’t be a big kaboom anymore if the fuel tanks are empty.
I don’t believe for a second that that cop was actually afraid. This reads like he is a bully who grasps at every opportunity to pounce on someone who is in a weaker position than him. Classic bully behaviour that will continue as long as he gets away with it.
I found that it read like a fluff dramatization story from a The Guardian opinion piece, only shorter. Those are texts with a lot of words, but there’s usually very little actual substance relative to the length of the text, most is just meandering embellishments. So imo not necessarily ai, humans do write texts in this style as well.
Apart from leaking, Trump also erroneously declassified secret documents, leading to the disappearance (and likely deaths) of some informants. Best case was that the western agency was able to extract their informant in time, but that still means that there is 1 less informant. Here’s one case, but there were more: theguardian.com/…/russian-sources-disappeared-aft…
Trump his public obeisances towards Putin are also clearly recognizable as such. Trump Putin meetings are not meetings of equals, but one is clearly there to do the bidding of the other.
Put 1, 2, 3 and 4 together and there are many who believe that it was Trump who purposefully gave top secret information to his master. Including basically all western spy agencies, who now no longer can trust the USA with secret information. Trump is a traitor and everyone knows it.
I doubt that any evidence will ever be enough for republicans, I expect that they would just move the red line again, they know that Putin’s Russia is their ally too.
I can only see evidence that is really salacious or visceral work, something like Russia’s 1980s kompromat on Trump for example. Everything else would need a bit of explaining and the right wing media would then be able to muddle it.
Trump’s presidency was such a travesty, that without Roger Alles successful transformation of the media landscape, no other politician could have been seen to support Trump. But since Roger Ailes media plan has been brought to fruition, republicans know that facts are now optional.
The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....
I found that Qwant gives decent results in my native non English language, results similar in quality to Google, but way better than DDG which often just gives English results.
I didn’t read every little bit as well, but that was my take away as well. I saw an emotially invested CEO who could not bear seeing his baby dragged through the mud, and so he wanted to provide a counterpoint to what he saw as misinformation and accusations, but in a polite professional manner. My first instinct would be that he would have been wasting his time with that, but seeing as his comments got posted and they make a more convincing level headed argument then the accusations, maybe it was worth it.
Crowds of protesters have been braving tear gas and water canons after more than two weeks of protest against the Georgian government’s draft law targeting civil society....
It’s based on a Russian law that was used to destroy independent ngo’s and since the current Georgia regime is a Russian puppet, the long term intent in Georgia is probably the same.
De Standaard has always been cvp aligned, with a bit of Flemish activism (AVV VVK was on the front page for most of it’s history), so centre right I’d say. De Morgen has always been aligned with the sp, so more centre left.
There is no national broadcasting, each region’s broadcaster acts on its own and treats the other half of Belgium as if it is a foreign country. The vrt and rtbf might share a building in Brussels, but that does not mean that they work together across the hallway :)
Official regional broadcasting is the mouth piece of whomever controls the political appointments, which is the government parties. In the past that lead to a situation where the vrt news department was mostly controlled by cvp appointees and political interview/documentaries programs by sp appointees, which also forced them into a situation where they had to scratch each other’s back to cover for each other. I don’t know the current division of appointments, but I think nva is now the big honcho inside the vrt. So like you said, they’re supposed to be neutral, but in the end barking up the wrong tree can still kill their career in the blink of an eye.
I like the documentaries from apache (independent website) and Pano (Flemish tv documentaries, so I have no idea how you would translate this). They are fact based and critical, which now is apparently considered “leftist”, so maybe this is what you are after. apache.bewww.vrt.be/vrtmax/a-z/pano/
Hln.be is the most popular Flemish news site + paper. Populist and centre right, fairly far to the right probably. The comment sections on the site are often unhinged, but good if you want to get a taste of what some Flemish people are thinking.
RTL.be is the same thing in Wallonia (same owner even after an acquisition), but I think it’s relatively less popular.
Some other news sites from the top of my head: De Standaard (center right + elitist = culture snobs, I know, I read it daily for the longest time). Het nieuwsblad (same news as De Standaard, but less words, same owner). De Tijd (center right, with an emphasis on money).
Most (according to RTL all) old walloon news papers were saved with money from the walloon government and are rumored to have lost their independence. But I don’t know myself, I only ever read one incidentally when passing through.
Even without climate change, working in the sun in the afternoon at that latitude and altitude, was always a bad idea. Sevilla in Spain is more northern than this and they’re famous for their afternoon siesta, but that siesta is actually also present in many other countries with similar climates. And those people have been doing this for millennia, no climate change needed.
That they managed to convince so many people to completely vote against their own interests is a testament to the power of propaganda. And you don’t have to be spiteful, stupid and/or uneducated to fall for propaganda, it helps a lot obviously, but there are still many progressive and/or smart people who fall for it as well.
The combination of spreading “alternate” facts through complicit mass media AND indifferent addictive social media is something that Goebbels could have only dreamt about.
To understand how people can become so misguided, I recommend reading or watching a few testimonies of people who lost a loved one to alternate fact rabbit holes. It’s similar to losing a loved one to a cult, only now it’s much more widespread than ever before. I did a quick search and found a testimony from an Irishman that is a good read: old.reddit.com/…/my_dad_is_falling_down_a_farrigh…
And for people who did not fall for “alternate” facts propaganda, to put all this history and background into words is not easy, so it’s easier and especially quicker to call people who have joined the far right cult, stupid and hateful. The cultists are stupid because they have fallen for the lies, and they are spiteful/hateful because hate is a large part of the far right cult. The far right cultists might not always have been stupid and hateful, but they sure are now.
In February, HouseFresh managing editor Gisele Navarro called out publishers like BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone as some of the culprits that publish content about air purifiers despite a lack of expertise — but Google rewards these sites with high rankings all the same. The result is a search results page filled with SEO-first...
Turkey rejects claim Lord Elgin had permission to take Parthenon marbles (www.theguardian.com)
Official says no sign of permit in Ottoman archives, in blow to British Museum, which defends legal right to statuary
TIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years. (www.skyatnightmagazine.com)
Partly translated German map about the number of jews killed under Nazi rule (discuss.tchncs.de)
www.bpb.de/fsd/…/ermordete_juden_nach_land.php
A glorified terrorist group (lemmy.world)
Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds (www.ign.com)
Now that DuckDuckGo is out. Give me your search prompts and I'll answer them as best I can. That includes images (based on what I have saved on my PC). So what is it you wish to know or see?
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That has to be fake (sh.itjust.works)
Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population (edition.cnn.com)
Trump floats idea of three-term presidency at NRA convention (www.theguardian.com)
Donald Trump flirted with the idea of being president for three terms – a clear violation of the US constitution – during a bombastic speech for the National Rifle Association in which he vowed to reverse gun safety measures green-lighted during the Biden administration....
Engine Bursts Into Flames on Boeing Plane With 468 Aboard (www.thedailybeast.com)
A Boeing 747-400 with 468 people aboard was forced to make an emergency landing in Indonesia on Wednesday after one of its engines caught fire and began shooting out flames during takeoff....
Microsoft stoops to new low with ads in Windows 11, as PC Manager tool suggests your system needs ‘repairing’ if you don’t use Bing (www.techradar.com)
Texas mom says police held her face in pile of fire ants, covering head and neck with hundreds of bite marks (www.nbcnews.com)
PSA: A website called SteamHistory enables stalkers through Steam mass data harvesting. Here's how stalkers found me despite creating a new, private, anonymous account.
tl;dr: Watch what you put online and who you friend, especially on Steam. Once it’s on the internet, it’s there forever....
Why Would He Help Putin? (lemmy.world)
The Verge shows how Google search is useless (www.theverge.com)
The Verge published this spam article about the “best printers of 2024” to demonstrate how terrible Google’s search results are. It now appears as the top non-sponsored post if you search “best printer” on Google....
Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website
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'No to the Russian law!’ - Georgia protesters demand a ‘European future’ (www.aljazeera.com)
Crowds of protesters have been braving tear gas and water canons after more than two weeks of protest against the Georgian government’s draft law targeting civil society....
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Florida workers brace for summer with no protections: ‘My body would tremble’ (www.theguardian.com)
Effects of heat are expected to worsen after bill prohibiting municipalities from enacting shade and water protection is passed...
A cool guide to most popular foreign cuisines in different European countries (i.redd.it)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2834788...
Enlightened Centrists (i.ibb.co)
Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites (www.theverge.com)
In February, HouseFresh managing editor Gisele Navarro called out publishers like BuzzFeed and Rolling Stone as some of the culprits that publish content about air purifiers despite a lack of expertise — but Google rewards these sites with high rankings all the same. The result is a search results page filled with SEO-first...