Peter Bishai

Cyber-aware Pharmacist, Mental Health, Alcohol and Drug Counselor, and Photographer. “When you see a good move, look for a better one.”
-Emanuel Lasker

[Reuters @Reuters]

J&J beats lawsuit alleging that talc caused three women's cancer https://t.co/2rVttjVFeO https://t.co/2rVttjVFeO

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson publicly opposed an above inflation wage increase for Australia's 3 million lowest-paid workers.

Pauline Hanson: Talks like a Battler, votes like Billionaire.

#auspol

[VicTraffic @VicTraffic]

On the road this long weekend? Driver Reviver sites are set up right across the state, giving you a great reason to stop, revive and survive. Be sure to rest and recharge this King’s Birthday Weekend. For a Driver Reviver site near you click: https://t.co/OL5aYEBmDB #victraffic

[Peter Bishai @PBishai]

ONE #picturepinterest worth a thousand #words

[WAR @warsurv]

🇮🇹 Italian Prime Minister Meloni to Donald Trump 🇺🇸

We belong to no one; freedom always comes with a price.

For 80 years we entrusted our security to the United States, thinking it came without conditions, but it did not. The cost was dependence.

Freedom may be expensive, but it is still better than being anyone’s puppet.

[Whiplash437 @MrWhiplash_]

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump absolutely BRUTALIZES UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for JUST NOW deciding that he’s going to deploy two aircraft carriers to the Middle East

“That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer — But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won!”

FOLLOW ME THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

[Defence Security Asia @defence_asia]

South China Sea Power Shift: Vietnam Joins BrahMos Missile Network as Indonesia Nears Deal, Expanding India’s Strategic Footprint Across ASEAN
https://t.co/yEejhKp14n

[Peter Bishai @PBishai]

@defensearabia اكثر من رائع

[بريكس بالعربية @BRICSinfoar]

وقّع سلطان عُمان مرسوماً تنفيذياً يأمر بزيادة حجم العلاقات التجارية والاقتصادية مع إيران.

[الموجز الروسي | Russia news 🇷🇺 @mog_Russ]

🚨⚡️ أرادوا تقليد التكنولوجيا الصينية فغرقوا في البحر!

تحول عرض ضوئي في أستراليا إلى كارثة تقنية، بعد السقوط الجماعي لـ 89 طائرة مسيّرة (درون) غرقاً في مياه ميناء بسيدني إثر تداخل مفاجئ في الترددات اللاسلكية أدى إلى شلل تام في أنظمة الـ GPS الخاصة بها!

[محمد جويعد الرويلي|#أبو_فيصل_نت @mohj2100]

انفوجرافيك | من إعدادي
تبسيط تقنية فاينمان (Feynman Technique) و هي واحدة من أقوى الطرق للتعلم العميق والاحتفاظ بالمعلومات طويل الأمد. سميت باسم العالم ريتشارد فاينمان، وتعتمد على فكرة بسيطة: إذا لم تستطع شرح شيء ببساطة، فأنت لم تفهمه بعد +أربع خطوات

[واشنطـن بالعربية @info__usa]

ترحيب وتصفيق حار من قِبل طلاب الأكاديمية العسكرية فور إعلان المتحدثة عن حضور إيلون ماسك

هتاف جماعي صاخب وتحية حارة من صناع الأمن العسكري يعكس مدى تقدير جيل المستقبل من حماة الجو لصانع القفزات التكنولوجية،الذي يشاركهم الشغف نفسه نحو اختراق حدود السماء واكتشاف أعماق الفضاء.

لحظة استثنائية تلخص كيف يمكن للرؤية الطموحة أن تجمع بين حزم الجندية وإبداع المستقبل الرقمي.

[واشنطـن بالعربية @info__usa]

الرئيس ترامب يسحق مراسلاً إخبارياً مزيفاً في البيت الأبيض

المراسل : لماذا لم تستخدم قانون عام 1977 لفرض تعريفات جمركية في ولايتك الأولى؟

ترامب : لأنني في ولايتي الأولى كنت أحارب مجانين مثلك!

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Ancient Greek Historian Herodotus (484-425/413 BC), often criticized for inaccuracy in his Histories, his frequently-anthologized. On the Customs of Persians is regarded as accurate. The passage is all more interesting in that he contrasts the behavior and values of Persians with those of Greeks with Persians shown in a much more flattering light.

His depiction of Persians here is even more engaging when one considers how he presents Persian monarchs Cambyses II (r. 530-522 BC) and Xerxes I (r. 486-465 BC) as often-irrational tyrants and Darius I (r. 522-486 BC) as under the control of his wife elsewhere in his work. Herodotus probably wrote his Histories when Persian king Artaxerxes I (r. 465-424 BC) was in power as work is thought to have been published 430-415 BC.

Another interesting aspect of Persian passages as memory of Xerxes I’s invasion of Greece in 480 BC, would have still been fresh and Artaxerxes I, rejecting direct confrontation, was engaged in subtler means of bringing down Greek city-states. Even if one assumes that Herodotus knew nothing of Artaxerxes I's various schemes, it would have been no secret that Persian Achaemenid Empire was no friend of Greeks at this time. Still, Herodotus consistently presents the Persians in a positive light even though, elsewhere, he clearly allows his personal feeling to color his depiction of an individual or event.

First chapter (1.131), Herodotus claims Persians “have no images of the gods, no temples nor altars” and this has been challenged on grounds that Zoroastrian religion  of Persians did include temples and altars but, it should be noted, these were by no means like temples and altars of Greeks. Rest of his description is entirely accurate as Zoroastrian fire temples were located on “summits of loftiest mountains” and other high places.

He is also accurate in his description of birthdays as important annual events as Persians are known to have created practice of observing birthdays and also of instituting serving of desserts after a meal (I.133). Although claim has been challenged, he is also correct in his passage in same chapter on Persian love of wine and their policy of making decisions drunk and then reevaluating same when sober.

Glowing description of Persians – who, he notes, think it “the most disgraceful thing in the world” to tell a lie (I.138) - is contrasted with the Greeks without Herodotus having to even mention his countrymen. Only time he specifically references Greeks is in I.135 when he says how Persians “have learnt unnatural lust from the Greeks.” There would have been no need for him to directly contrast Persian love of truth with Greek tendency to prevaricate because his audience would have been well aware of it and this same model holds true for rest of his description of Persian customs.

Herodotus’ seemingly impartial and objective treatment of Persians is deceptive in that he seems to be quietly reminding his Greek audience of their own short-comings and perhaps reminding himself of the same, in believing themselves superior to other cultures. Scholar Robin Waterfield notes how Herodotus frequently uses antithesis to make a point without having to state it directly.

Herodotus does this at a number of points throughout Histories but, as noted, his passage 'On the Customs of the Persians' is especially interesting given their relationship to Greece at the time he was writing. Criticisms of Herodotus’ work focus on his exaggerations or inaccuracies but there are many passages throughout which are not only reliable but reveal a sensibility and understanding in author that is not as apparent in every ancient historian.

#archaeohistories

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🚨⚡️ FIRST IMAGES:

President Putin officially steps off Flight #1 onto the red carpet in Beijing! 🇷🇺🇨🇳

Received directly at the aircraft stairs by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and a full military honor guard.

Hundreds of Chinese students lined the tarmac, waving Russian and Chinese flags in a massive welcoming display.

Tomorrow, Putin and Xi Jinping kick off high-stakes narrow and expanded bilateral talks to sign historic strategic pacts.

[معلومات تفيد ®️ @mlqbnmmd3]

20 سلوك سيجعل الناس يحترموك 🤯👌!.

[محراب الثقافة ‏ @vidu_ff]

وفر فلوسك.. أدوات AI مجانية بدل المدفوعة

[واشنطـن بالعربية @info__usa]

الكاريزما الشخصية للرئيس ترامب تكسر جمود البروتوكولات الدبلوماسية الصارمة.

حيث أمر بتوقف موكبه الرئاسي حتى يتمكن من مشاهدة المزيد من مراسم الترحيب وليعكس إعجاباً حقيقياً بالدقة والتنظيم الصيني الفائق به وبمرافقيه.
ويبعث رسالة تقدير لآلاف المستقبلين وحرس الشرف الذين أمضوا ساعات في التحضير لهذه المراسم الاستثنائية.

[Peter Bishai @PBishai]

https://t.co/69PaTRnSRc #china @DJIGlobal @usealtai #usa #xi #trump

[Arab-Military @ashrafnsier]

قام السلطان حسن البلقية، سلطان بروناي، بقيادة طائرته الخاصة من طراز بوينج 747 بنفسه إلى مدينة سيبو لحضور قمة آسيان. يُذكر أن السلطان طيار مرخص، وغالباً ما يتولى قيادة طائرته الرئاسية العملاقة بنفسه.

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Dozens take part in an anti-war rally held outside the US embassy in Paris, in solidarity with Iran and the resistance.

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