@engineering_bae I might travel longer at the holidays because I remote work and can fly 3 days early for a cheaper fare, but I am taking that time off because I donβt go see my family to hide from them when not at dinner.
@Amanda_Jodeh@glosswitch There are placebo trials for vaccines. My son was in the Covid vaccine trial as a baby. He got the placebo, his cousin did not.
One of Hamas's key motivations to launch the attacks on Oct. 7 was to capture Israeli soldiers in order to free Palestinian prisoners via a swap.
Israel is still imprisoning ~9,000-10,000 Palestinians.
5,000 of them are administrative detainees, i.e., hostages, held without charge or trial, and their detention is renewable indefinitely. https://t.co/gwOFsmWFP9
Israel starves, tortures & rapes Palestinian prisoners to death as matters of standard operating procedure. Israel has killed at least 75 Palestinians in Israeli detention since 7 October 2023. https://t.co/jhGahKa2q5
You wonder how Israel thinks it's in its interest to sadistically torture so many Palestinian prisoners knowing what led to Oct. 7 in the first place. They are creating conditions for their own destruction.
Shadi Abu Sido, a Palestinian photojournalist from Gaza, was arrested at Shifa hospital in March 2024 and never charged.
While held at the Sde Teiman torture facility, guards told him his wife and two children had been killed in the war. He described the moment as the lowest point of his life, a psychological blow intended to break him. βI got hysterical,β he told reporters. βI was astonished, it cannot be explained, they were alive. Imagine amid death β life.β
Abu Sido was also physically tortured. He described being severely beaten, shackled so tightly his wrists were left raw, blindfolded, and forced to kneel for long periods. These kinds of abuses have been reported by other Palestinian detainees, especially since the war in Gaza intensified in late 2023.
When he was released in a ceasefire prisoner exchange, Abu Sido returned to Gaza and found his family aliveβa moment he described as his soul returning to his body.
This is the sort of mental and physical torture innocent Gazan hostages were subjected to.
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@EERandomness@karpathy I had to do this in India, I was a horrible experience and so wasteful of my time and money. Took weeks to manage with my work load.
@Riley_Gaines_ Tariffs were taught in the middle school and high school curriculum of the 99s and 2000s in TX. Not k bowing about tariffs is is probably on you.
Under Biden, inflation was at 9.1%, highest in 40 years
gas at $5.02 and and food prices up 20%
Every liberal says the Biden economy was the best.
Zero liberals say high prices under Biden were bad.
Many, like Krugman and Yellen even suggested the high prices were a sign of a βhot economy.β
So which is it? Was Bidenβs economy awesome or are high prices and inflation bad?
You canβt have both.
A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since.