Sahil Talwar @_pwep

@the2ndfloorguy Shouldn't the gov owe us money for not having fixed it?

The percentage of child dead in the Ukrainian conflict is 0.3%. Zero point three per cent. The percentage of child dead in the Gaza conflict is 37.7%. Thirty seven point seven per cent. In a single statistic, there you have the difference between a war and a genocide.

New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever. Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car. Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother. In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write. This is the article: volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…

@martyrdison @raqisright agreed, but it's women too and doesn't apply to everyone - only the people with parents as described who haven't yet figured out how to not fall into this trap. many see that it's toxic and mature out of this attraction

@ssvankai @cszhu @HiddenSchools 😂😂😂

The single dumbest conspiracy theory in the entire world is that every major humanitarian institution on earth is conspiring to falsely frame Israel for the crime of genocide. And yet believing this bat shit insane conspiracy theory is the only way to think it’s not a genocide. There is no other way to claim that there is no genocide happening in Gaza without treating this self-evidently ridiculous theory as true. In order to believe that there is no genocide in Gaza, you need to accept it as a given that the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory is conspiring to frame Israel for this crime. You also need to believe that the International Association of Genocide Scholars is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe that Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, another Israeli organization, is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe that Amnesty International is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe that Doctors Without Borders are in on the conspiracy. You also need to accept that Human Rights Watch are in on the conspiracy. You also need to accept that the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights is in on the conspiracy. You also need to accept that the International Federation for Human Rights is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe that the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention is in on the conspiracy. You also need to believe the conspiracy is so widespread and pervasive that there exists not a single major human rights group which holds that Israel is NOT committing genocide in Gaza. You need to believe this conspiracy goes all the way to the top. Toward what end are all these institutions conspiring to deceive the world into thinking that the innocent, virtuous state of Israel is guilty of these heinous crimes? Well, that’s where the “theory” part of conspiracy theory comes in. You need to have some reason why all these groups would be working together to trick everyone into thinking Israel is committing genocide. “Cui bono?”, as they say in conspiracy circles. If you press the average Israel defender to explain why all these institutions would be lying about Israel’s actions in Gaza, you will eventually get them to admit that their theory is that all these institutions secretly hate Jews. That it’s a giant antisemitic conspiracy designed to discredit the Israeli state and make Jewish people feel sad. I defy you to find me a dumber conspiracy theory than this. There’s nothing that can possibly compete. QAnon. Flat earth. Reptilians. They all seem fairly reasonable in comparison to this demented nonsense. They’re certainly a lot less harmful. They’re a lot less harmful because they’re not being used to justify an ongoing genocide, and because they’re not being promoted by the most powerful people in the world. All the major western powers who’ve refused to acknowledge that we’re looking at a genocide in Gaza subscribe to the dumb conspiracy theory in question. All the mass media institutions who frame genocide as an unfounded accusation rather than an established fact verified by the overwhelming consensus of the world’s relevant experts necessarily subscribe to the world’s dumbest conspiracy theory as well. It’s the dumbest conspiracy theory in the world, but it’s also the mainstream narrative. It’s what our governments and our media tell us is reality. They’re a bunch of tinfoil hat-wearing crackpots, and they rule the world. The western empire is the craziest, most murderous, most deceitful, and most dangerous power structure on earth, and it is only getting more so. Which is why the narratives we’re being asked to believe are getting dumber and dumber by the year.

@honeyNonABG it's a fine list, but do you really think people should choose hobbies - whose entire notional purpose is entertainment - based on ROI?

Update: the 12 year old girl I mentioned in this story who was hunted down by an Israeli drone has died from her injuries.

courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages

a month ago

What does terrorism mean to you? If it’s no double-tap killings of paramedics, journalists, and today a 12 year old girl, then what is it? Westerners, where is your humanity? Cameraman: @AliEzzedine7

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@brendanchatt @catalinmpit Not sure I'd personally do that before narrowing it down to even oxygen, but afterwards that might be useful if relevant for sure

@catalinmpit For better or worse, because I've seen so many people go through this process, I've become somewhat knowledgeable about it. Feel free to DM me if you wanna chat more 😄

@catalinmpit In my case, they first sent me home with a sleep study kit, then brought me in to do one at the office to confirm the diagnosis. Sometimes you can skip that first step. But they'll monitor everything while you sleep and hopefully diagnose what's up

@Bourbaki219433 @AfterDaylight @frankgreco @burkov Yeah, I also interpreted that as 'this use case is simple enough for the model to be able to be recreated from text prediction', though admittedly I'm also no expert 🙂

it's genocide ( @amnesty ) it's genocide ( @hrw ) it's genocide ( @btselem ) it's genocide ( @MSF ) it's genocide (IAGS) it's genocide ( @alhaq_org ) it's genocide ( @UNHumanRights ) it's genocide ( @UN_HRC ) it's genocide ( @pchrgaza ) it's genocide ( @AlMezanCenter ) it's genocide ( @WarOnWant ) it's genocide ( @PHRIsrael ) it's genocide ( @fidh_en ) it's genocide (PHROC) it's genocide ( @LemkinInstitute ) it's genocide ( @theCCR ) it's genocide ( @ECCHRBerlin ) it's genocide ( @unitedforrights ) it's genocide ( @JURDIasso ) it's genocide ( @TheElders ) it's genocide ( @Oxfam ) "What is going on in Gaza" is not genocide but a secret second thing I cannot name. ( @MHurabiell )

Marie Hurabiell for Congress @MHurabiell

a month ago

What is going on in Gaza is heartbreaking and must be addressed but it is not a genocide.

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@Bourbaki219433 @AfterDaylight @frankgreco @burkov Yeah, came here to say the same thing. The model it's making is of the text prediction, not of the real world. The model is undeniably useful, but for small, narrow tasks - just like OP said

The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank. It just published a 30-year study showing immigrants paid 14.5 trillion dollars more in taxes than they received in government benefits. Every single year. For thirty years. Without exception. The country was lied to. Here is what the study found.🧵

@restacked_dev @jaron95 @allenanalysis As for jobs: we largely eliminated manufacturing, hurting blue collar jobs. And we embraced shareholder (vs stakeholder) capitalism - profit above morals & people; stock buybacks, the highest profits in history alongside massive layoffs and anemic, underpaid workforces.

@restacked_dev @jaron95 @allenanalysis Yes. Both issues have many factors, but 2 of the biggest ones for housing are wall street buying homes and renting them instead of letting normal people buy them, and regulations being misused to prevent housing development to inflate prices.