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Israel slams UN chief for saying Hamas attack ‘did not happen in a vacuum,’ calls for his resignation
  • Context is anti semitic

    It's sarcasm the way I'm reading it, i.e. he is saying the the UN chief is providing context and that is being deemed as antisemitic, which it's not.

    The Israeli ambassador is conflating the state with the entire set of Jewish people, which as you said is itself antisemitic

    I think you're both on the same page

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    Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord
  • They're quids in (unless they've based their finances on the capital gains from owning property in a ridiculously expensive city while shunting the costs onto lower paid workers who are forced to commute long hours at their own expense).

    Well they have to have their side hustle too, gig economy and all!

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    I feel stupid asking this
  • I think this is very interesting, and you should go pester ones like Stephen Fry on mastadon to come have a play with lemmy

    Just as a homage to Stephen Fry in particular, here's a fantastic audiobook version of hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy on archive.org

    https://archive.org/details/hhgttg-ab

    Mythos is also awesome

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35074096-mythos

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    Remote employees ‘don’t work as hard’, says head of world’s biggest commercial landlord
  • There are no metics to support any drop in productivity. There are lots of metrics to support making people go back to the office is bad for the environment. The traffic were I live is pretty much back to what it was before. It's gross just watching the haze of fumes knowing it is there so these dickheads can maintain their property portfolio.

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    The infamous amazon Union busting video
  • Wow be on the lookout for people talking to people they didn't talk to before, or people being upset, this is thought police, this is actually, literally, fucking 1984!

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    Little light, no beds, not enough anesthesia: A view from the ‘nightmare’ of Gaza’s hospitals
  • Aaaaaa you're so wise! I bet everyone in your life just adores hearing you put the world to rights. And they don't think you're a self centered moron only concerned with sniffing their own farts.

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    Outrage after Greta Thunberg arrested at London oil summit protest
  • I don't think anyone is mad at her, people are looking at this and seeing naked corrupt authoritarianism.

    So to explain my confusion, not wanting things to progress is something I don't understand, so when you said progressive I then thought you were saying Greta is doing good.

    Fundementally, being against progression means you are regressive. I think being static isn't something well defined, because it doesn't seem feasible, it would required being entirely insular, i.e. solipsistic, which is mad.

    If you don't mind me asking, why do you want things to regress? In recent times ( bar the rise of the far right ideologies causing a fair bit of war and death), it's statistically been one of the most peaceful periods in history, bar some notable regions, really Europe's stopped brutally annihilating each other. Arguably, this has been due to global cooperation on an economic and cultural level, it could be nuclear weapons as well, but cooperation is good, so I would personally roll with it.

    Would you prefer to go back to a time when countries where more insular and thus more likely to end up in war with each other? Or what other benefits do you see in being regressive?

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