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@Miro_Collas @palestine

To me, the difference between the UK and US is that the former is signed up to various international laws, and courts. As a result this is yet more evidence, if it can be shown that these are UK supplied weapons, the UK should be hauled infont of the international criminal courts.

Lawyers here have warned we could be breaking international law by supplying weapons (or other help I guess) that leads to the deaths of civilians.

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"A harrowing image captures two young girls trapped under rubble after an airstrike by occupying forces targeted their family’s home near Abu Hussein Schools in Jabalia refugee camp.

With no ambulance or civil defense teams available in northern Gaza, a massacre unfolded, claiming the lives of over thirty people and leaving dozens injured or missing beneath the debris."

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#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
#AnasAlSharif
@palestine

Sad to learn that Thomas Kurtz, co-inventor (with John Kemeny) of the BASIC programming language, recently passed away on November 12.

I got my start with computers by programming in BASIC. My early days of computing were on the Apple II computer, and I taught myself how to write programs in AppleSoft BASIC.

Later, my family replaced the Apple with an IBM PC, and I learned IBM BASICA and GW-BASIC -- and much later, QBASIC on MS-DOS 5.

@Daojoan

Excellent piece there, I agree, and some great points made, l especially around AI,

I am currently listening to the Audiobook of the Hound of the Baskervilles, interestingly I am up to chapter 10, and holmes has hardly been in it, in fact it is Watson, mostly at Baskerville hall, and area, chapter 10 is more Watson writing to holmes updating on the investigation so far.

I guess Sherlock Holmes and Watson could be a good example of why critical thinking is so important, deduce conclusions from evidence and observation.

@JimmyB

It would help if the media would report FACTS, rather than on every speculation that comes out, which is usually contradictort, I would much rather read an update every few weeks, that includes evidence on both sides so as a reader we can draw our own conclusions, the current situation is something is reported, then the next day it is changed.

In a trial you get the Prosecution, Defense put their points across, the judge then sums up, the jury then make a decision based on the evidence presented, hence they are not allowed do their own research, they can (I think) ask for clairification on various points if needed to help with the decision.

It’s amazing how much of the case against Lucy Letby is unadulterated speculation…mostly by senior men who feel exposed themselves for their own professional inadequacies

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@CStamp

+1 , old internet saying 'Don't feed the trolls'. Attention seeking seems to be far more common place now, but at one time if children were doing this, they were told by adults to stop, grow uo or something similar, we now have to see attention seeking as a cry for help for example, where as at times it is just attention seeking and needs to be abrubtly ended.

That's the inside of the Virgo gravitational wave detectors in Pisa. It looks like a 3.5km long metal pipe, and it basically is, but together with Ligo in the US it detected a displacement of order 1e-18 meters due to the passage of gravitational waves from colliding black holes and it opened a whole new era in #astronomy #science

#NFL Week 11 Scores: 

#NFL Week 11 Scores:

Ended Games:
#WSH 18 @ 26 #PHI
#GB 20 @ 19 #CHI
#JAX 6 @ 52 #DET
#MIN 23 @ 13 #TEN
#LV 19 @ 34 #MIA
#LAR 28 @ 22 #NE
#CLE 14 @ 35 #NO
#IND 28 @ 27 #NYJ
#BAL 16 @ 18 #PIT
#ATL 6 @ 38 #DEN
#SEA 20 @ 17 #SF
#KC 21 @ 30 #BUF
#CIN 27 @ 34 #LAC
Running Games:
13:51 - 1st #HOU 0 @ 0 #DAL

#nfl #nflfootball #football

@cmdr_nova

I feel that, with social media you need to take control and take care if your elf, at least with Fedi, I am not sure about bluesky, no one cares if you take a week off from posting or interacting, but I mean this in a positive way, but not quite sure how to express that. You also don't get endless notifications making you feel guilty for not interacting.

@hal_pomeranz

Are there plans to include in the @linuxmint

repositories?

@realTuckFrumper

Great start to a new administration when your own party representing a state calls out lies / misinformation by the main party (RNC)

@pthane @astro_jcm @MadeyeTheCarnaptious

I think a lot of people are in the same or similar situation, and feel the same, I guess a form can only have so many fields, for the backend dataase, however there is no reason why a field can't be town/city, which would make a little more sense.

They just make assumptionsn based what ever data they have, as think everyone lives in a city, similar to the UK where a majority of people seem to live in London/South East, and when it comes to the South West anything south of Bristol does not exist or people there are not important enough to have events closer or they are able to commute.

All this collected data you would think they would be able to accommodate more varied needs.

@w7voa

Will President Trump ensure the same in 4 years? Assuming there is an election.

@w7voa

I get the impression given the situation and polarisation that would be like dropping an ice cube in to a volcano that is erupting to try and cool it down.

@briankrebs @zleap my general thoughts on money items: Learn yourself and don‘t listen to a banker or financial advisor. If he is any good, he would be so rich that he would not have to work giving advice. Case closed your honor.

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