Bernie Sanders May 08, 2025

[based on speech given to US Senate]

"Thursday marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel.

Hundreds of truckloads of lifesaving supplies are waiting to enter Gaza, sitting just across the border, but are denied entry by Israeli authorities.

... Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Israel’s policy is clear: No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers.” "

Spectators watch a passing column of Russian armored vehicles in Moscow on Wednesday, a rehearsal day before the big Victory Day military parade there on Friday.

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American here. I have a job where they have a perk where you submit receipts through their app or website and you earn points you can cash out at some point if you shop with clients of our company. Sounds like a nice little promotional incentive, right?

Well, they say it’s optional but it’s not. You can apparently get in trouble for not using this and we’ve been pulled aside about it and warned we must use this stupid thing.

The idea is the app you install must be given permission to see your location at all times. It then checks the area to ensure you are favoring clients of our company as opposed to our competitors when you shop. When you shop at one of our clients, you must report your receipt to the company showing everything you bought while there. Even if you are buying gas, you need to report it.

I don’t participate in this invasion of privacy. I actually want to put less of my data out there in general, not more. I don’t even have a grocery store discount card. We were told in a meeting this week that promotions in this company are influenced by how much/if you participate in the program. We were told people have been denied promotions because they did not participate in this program.

If I’m off the clock they don’t get to decide what I do. They can fuck themselves. And I am surely not giving them a little report of what I buy. But saying we are ineligible for career advancement within the company unless we buy groceries, gas, etc from preferred vendors seems sketchy. Is this legal?

Jessica Corbett
May 08, 2025

""Today marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel."

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) not only highlighted those conditions in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday but also called out the fact that the worsening humanitarian crisis "gets very little discussion here in the nation's capital or in the halls of Congress," even though Israel has spent the past 19 months destroying Gaza with armed and diplomatic support from the United States."

A group of white South Africans rallying outside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, earlier this year.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29823642

Brett Wilkins
May 08, 2025

"Israeli occupation forces enforced a ban on the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees on Thursday by storming three schools in East Jerusalem, terrorizing children and staff as they shuttered the facilities and drawing condemnation from human rights defenders.

According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, heavily armed Israeli security forces raided the schools in the Shu'fat refugee camp in illegally occupied East Jerusalem, detaining one UNRWA employee and forcing around 550 children out of their classrooms as the invaders closed the facilities."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29823575

Jessica Corbett
May 08, 2025

""Today marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel."

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) not only highlighted those conditions in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday but also called out the fact that the worsening humanitarian crisis "gets very little discussion here in the nation's capital or in the halls of Congress," even though Israel has spent the past 19 months destroying Gaza with armed and diplomatic support from the United States."

Originally Posted By u/serious_bullet5 At 2025-05-08 08:25:28 PM | Source

Brett Wilkins
May 08, 2025

"Israeli occupation forces enforced a ban on the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees on Thursday by storming three schools in East Jerusalem, terrorizing children and staff as they shuttered the facilities and drawing condemnation from human rights defenders.

According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, heavily armed Israeli security forces raided the schools in the Shu'fat refugee camp in illegally occupied East Jerusalem, detaining one UNRWA employee and forcing around 550 children out of their classrooms as the invaders closed the facilities."

So I don't know if this is the right place to say this but, How does one find smaller (& new) gaming channels ??

Also please do list out your favorite small-medium gaming channel & why you like them

Zu einem schweren Verkehrsunfall kam es am späten Mittwochvormittag, 7. Mai, in Hilchenbach an der Straße „An der Sang“. Eine 87-Jährige hatte ursprünglich ihren Wagen auf dem Parkplatz des dortigen Gemeindehaus geparkt.

Später wollte sie mit zwei weiteren Mitfahrerinnen wieder ausparken, hat an ihrem Automatikfahrzeug aber offenbar fälschlicherweise den Rückwärtsgang eingelegt. Der VW durchbrach einen Jägerzaun, stürzte eine etwa drei Meter Tiefe Böschung hinab und überquerte rückwärts die Straße „An der Sang“.

Auf der anderen Straßenseite fuhr der VW eine Böschung hinauf und blieb in einer Hecke stecken. Die drei Insassen wurden im Fahrzeug eingeschlossen und mussten von der Hilchenbacher Feuerwehr befreit werden. Zwei Frauen wurden leicht, eine schwer verletzt.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29824159

Bernie Sanders May 08, 2025

[based on speech given to US Senate]

"Thursday marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel.

Hundreds of truckloads of lifesaving supplies are waiting to enter Gaza, sitting just across the border, but are denied entry by Israeli authorities.

... Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Israel’s policy is clear: No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers.” "

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I want to mention that I am a software engineer, and as a software engineer, Monero has the best technical features to be a cryptocurrency for daily and general use. I can mention the reasons here, but the 3 most important reasons are:

1. Privacy. A cryptocurrency that is not private is not a real cryptocurrency. The idea of crypto is not to trust anyone. How can you avoid trust if you are transparent like a glass of water? Frogs can investigate you by tracing your identity back with enough transaction history.
2. Fungibility. It's more about the usage of the currency and less of a problem in the currency itself, but still, Bitcoin is not great if 1 BTC has less value than another 1 BTC if the source of the first BTC is crossed with fraudulent transactions.
3. Inflation. I get the point of most Bitcoin fans who say that Bitcoin is a hard currency and has no inflation. The downside of it is that you have to pay 30$ for a transaction because you take all the cost. For big amounts, it's not a big deal, but completely unacceptable for smaller amounts. Monero on the other hand, has a fixed amount of inflation to make the ecosystem pay the transaction fee instead of burdening one user who uses the currency by making a payment (Mining Fee). In the beginning, I was also against it, but I understood the benefit and agree after all.
4. Dynamic Transaction Size. Where Bitcoin gets fucked is when the system is used by many users in the same time who issues transactions in the same time. That was the reason for the fork to Bitcoin Cash. They have increased the transaction size. Monero is superior because it's dynamic and adapts to the size of users automatically.

I wonder since long time why Monero has not become more popular despite its amazing features. Can someone explain to me why Monero is not even in the top 10 of the cryptos, and what we can do to make Monero more popular and used?

From my perspective, I can only consider Monero as a payment cryptocurrency among all others. Am I wrong?

Place your bets!

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