How can journalists write about the persecution of their calling so bloodlessly?
These people were more than innocent: they were so-gooders of the kind we all claim to support. They were not only supposed to be protected not only as noncombatants, but especially guarded by their attendance to a sacred mission. They, like aid workers and doctors and nurses and any care giver or person seeking to provide justice is a designated target when the goal of a military operation is extermination.
In a weird way, I kind of appreciate that these people are being honest and transparent. Israel has already annexed the land for decades, but now they're dropping the pretense.
I'm so upset about the murder of Adwah Hathaleen last week. He was supposed to soak at my synagogue in July, but when his plane landed in San Francisco he and his cousin had their visas striped. Over a hundred people showed up at the airport in protest. But after flying 10 hours and spending thousands of dollars of sponsorship, they were sent home. And now he's dead. It's really got me shook.
I set up a Nextcloud home server. It was moderately easy.
I wanted to stop using Google Drive and went looking for the most popular free, open source alternative. I found that not only is NextCloud popular for this, but you can set it up by burning a premade .iso disk image to an SD card and then starting it up on a Raspberry Pi. So that's what I did.
I still had to follow guides to set up remote access and security, but following the guides was pretty straight forward. I really recommend it!
I stopped reading the NYTimes after I cancelled my subscription around 2019, but occasionally check it to see how close they're willing to walk to saying difficult truths. This article is a reminder why I left. It's pathetic watching them sheepishly murmur ugly facts and whisper when they should shout.
Within Israel, aid restriction is a loudly debated topic: on one hand are organizations, politicians, and pundits who argue that Israel should cut off all aid in order to exterminate every person in Gaza. And on the other are the "moderates" who argue that it is important to allow in a miniscule-but-non-zero amount of aid intended to achieve the same purpose while maintaining the farcical pretense that they aren't doing what they frequently admit they're doing. This is the range of mainstream discourse, and it is all out in the open.
They say the quiet part out loud on the floor of the kenesset every day. Does the NYTimes have some rule against reporting Netanyahu's own words if they're not spoken to an American audience? He and Smotrich and Ben-Gvir admit to committing starvation in Hebrew the same day Bibi will deny it in a speech in English.
First, I just want to highlight that when considering what is best for a kid, it's better to consider tradeoffs rather than whether something is "healthy or unhealthy". It's possible that it's unhealthy for your 12 year old to co-sleep with you, but it's also possible that it's unhealthy for them to suffer from a feeling of isolation. If so, it may be an appropriate trade-off.
Second, I agree with @Fletcher@lemmy.today. The important thing is to try and address underlying causes, and also make this kind of comfort a short-term practice if possible.
Does your kid have any regular contact with a school counselor that they trust? I think the key question is why they're doing this now. Is there anything recently that has caused additional stress that is hindering sleep? Could it be natural developmental processes impacting their sleep cycle? Would more physical activity in the afternoon help tire them out so they have an easier time falling asleep? Would a change in eating times or diet help? Would melatonin gummies help?
Also, I think this should be self-evident, but I find it worth saying: I think it's healthy to have these conversations with the kid. Tell them you're concerned that co-sleeping is not healthy, but want to make sure they're comfortable. Ask them if they know why they've been having more trouble sleeping lately. Involve them in the process of trying to figure out how to approach this so they learn approaches to mindfully examine and manage their own health.
I think you're over-parsing their language. A lot of people just naturally use gender neutral language on social media by habit.
Also, advice is often given generally. Although we're talking about a specific kid, the advice is directed towards any other parent reading the advice as well.
This article assumes a lot of contextual familiarity on the part of the reader.
I pay attention to Israeli-Palestinian news pretty closely, and even I don't know what is going on between the Druze and the Bedoins. Really, the extent of my understanding is that these are both minority ethnic groups in Israel. Neither is treated well by the government or society, but they're also not generally targeted as harshly as Palestinians.
I don't know what beef there is between these groups, although I'm displeased to hear that people are abducting people.
OP, if you could provide greater context I'd be appreciative.
Gaza has collapsed. It is beset by famine and starvation. Widespread unavailability of fuel is exacerbating the collapse of infrastructure and systems essential to preserve life. Gaza is in large parts no longer habitable.
I'm so sick of articles saying it's on "the edge of collapse" or "teetering on famine" or "soon to be uninhabitable".
It happened. It's a killing field. All life in Gaza is now persisting in spite of efforts to extinguish it. Nursing mothers cannot produce milk. The elderly die for lack of basic 20th century medicines. No food can grow and what water there is is tainted and unsafe to drink. Hospitals are barely more thanpiles of rubble at which the doctors who've not yet been assassinated tearfully go to provide insufficient care to the dying on sites that were once known as houses of modern medicine.
We are watching a ruthless genocide and no humanitarian need can be fulfilled without ending the brutal blockade intended to kill all living on this land. And this is not a "looming" or "imminent" risk, it's reality.
I don't believe you could really meaningfully deter their operations through casual poor performance. I think either you'd have to directly sabotage them or you'd have to be complicit.
I do think everyone should flood their applications systems with time-wasting fake applications, but actually interviewing and getting hired is unlikely to be productive.
I want to set aside my skepticism that this philosophy can be separated from misogyny.
Even if it could, it hurts the practitioner. This is a philosophy of nihilistic abandon and self-harm. If someone has adopted a radical belief in their own hopelessness and worthlessness, and the associated beliefs that life for them can hold nothing but suffering, that person is in crisis and needs help. There isn't a healthy version of that, and we should consider those people at great risk and in need of assistance.
It does hurt someone. It hurts the person who is adopting these views.
Also, not only do they rely on "just vision", crucially they rely on real-time processing without any memory or persistent mapping.
This, more than anything else is what bewilders me most.
They could map an area, and when observing a construction hazard save that data and share it with other vehicles so they know when route setting or anticipate the object. Not they don't. If it drives past a hazard and goes around the block it has to figure out how to navigate the hazard again with no familiarity. That's so foolish.
This article is so terribly tepid.
How can journalists write about the persecution of their calling so bloodlessly?
These people were more than innocent: they were so-gooders of the kind we all claim to support. They were not only supposed to be protected not only as noncombatants, but especially guarded by their attendance to a sacred mission. They, like aid workers and doctors and nurses and any care giver or person seeking to provide justice is a designated target when the goal of a military operation is extermination.
Has the BBC written an editorial confirming this?