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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Editors in Vice’s news division actively welcomed the piece, Lubbock said, as it fitted with the outlet’s track record of reporting on LGBTQ+ rights, autocratic regimes and the Middle East.

Bad bot. The sentences before and after this are needed to understand the quoted sentence:

"Their reporting claimed the Saudi state is helping families to harass and threaten transgender Saudis based overseas."

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"However, publication of the article was repeatedly postponed and then cancelled at the last minute. Multiple sources at Vice said it was pulled after a high-level intervention by senior Vice managers, who said its publication could pose a threat to the safety of the company’s staff working in Saudi Arabia."

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is the Wikipedia article on granularity wrong when it says the USA uses middle-endian addresses when there's both an apartment and a street address, e.g. "200 2nd Ave. South #358"?

For me big endian is logical, while middle endian just seems batshit insane.

While English messes up 11-19 when saying or writing with words, other languages like German keep up the ridiculous small-endian names even after 20 (einundzwanzig is "one and twenty").

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 61 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Enslave" is a bit harsh, considering there are about 38-50 million people who are currently slaves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century

We're choosing to allow a lot of the things these companies are doing to us; but we could choose to walk away at the cost of some shiny things.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The 1st study https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1002605 mentions that "Students chose their summer housing preferences on a first-come, first-serve basis in a manner that was not expected to be associated with exposure or outcome.", but couldn't this be effected by wealth, and effect the results?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

NPR has a text version of their site, see article at https://text.npr.org/1190627995

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • Weak atheist: doesn't think gods exist.
  • Strong atheist: knows that gods do not exist.
  • Weak agnostic: doesn't know if gods exist.
  • Strong agnostic: says no one can know if any gods exist.
  • Physicalist: doesn't think supernatural things exist (unlike some atheists who think things like souls/spirits/spirituality/reincarnation exist).

I'm a weak agnostic, weak atheist, physicalist. I'll change my position when presented with scientific evidence, or good honest arguments.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago

To view a text only version of CNN pages, replace "www" with "lite". https://lite.cnn.com/2023/07/26/economy/china-youth-unemployment-intl-hnk/index.html is about 50 kB, whereas the original is about 2.7 MB.

BBC article.

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

operating heavy machinery with the potential to kill people really shouldn’t be done by 16-year-olds.

14 year olds can get drivers licenses in South Dakota (source, which of course requires either scripting to view the text or opening the page source).

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

which lists religious belief as a group covered by the law

If followers of a denomination of the Invisible pink unicorn (bbHhh) are provoked by people wearing pink clothes because one of their holy books says such people should receive the death penalty, does that therefor make wearing pink clothes illegal in Sweden?

[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Saudi Foreign Ministry called on Sweden to "stop all actions that directly contradict international efforts seeking to spread the values of tolerance, "

Tolerance. They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

How about tolerating freedom of speech against a death-cult?

"moderation and rejection of extremism"

The Saudi Foreign Ministry. That's like a fossil-fuel power-station asking a windmill not to release greenhouse gases.

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