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filister , 4 months ago to world in US approves Rafah op. in exchange for no Israeli counter-strikes on Iran - report

Hmmm, this didn’t age well, I guess.

filister , 4 months ago to world in US vetoes widely supported resolution backing full UN membership for Palestine

PA, you know Gaza isn’t Palestine. Plus the two state is set at the founding of Israel, and both Israel and Palestine have equal rights to be represented in the UN.

It is another story that Israel is trying deliberately to undermine Palestinian rights and oppose any statehood. All the road blocks, checkpoints, walls, settlement etc. built and imposed to the Palestinian population are completely illegal according to international law, but again Israel backed by the US act with extreme impunity.

filister , 4 months ago to news in Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°

This was actually officially rejected as the source of the rainfall, and even their weather forecast predicted unusually high rainfall for that day.

filister , 4 months ago to news in Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°

Perhaps those wealthier should also consider not hoarding real estate properties, so the less fortunate or younger have a chance to buy their own.

filister , 4 months ago to news in Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°

I think we are every year getting small sneak peeks of what’s to come and we still ignore the warnings nature is giving us and we are strictly focused on the short term growth.

Just look what just happened in Dubai, they had 256mm of rain in one day, while their annual rain rate is 96. That’s 2.5x more than the annual in just one day. And I am sure this caused a lot of financial damage to businesses and also the government

filister , 4 months ago to news in Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°

Oh man, I can’t afford buying a small flat let alone house. Things are really fucked up at the moment, price/salary wise. Like you need 300 average salaries to buy a small house in some God forgotten place.

filister , 4 months ago to fediverse in Is Lemmy growing or shrinking?

I didn’t know there were almost as many Germans as Americans, the majority of Reddit users were Americans which has created Americocentric perspective on a lot of topics which from a European perspective was quite annoying.

filister , 5 months ago to worldnews in Israel vows to retaliate against Iran for missile attacks

Netanyahu doing his best to trigger a regional war.

Because it will be a distraction of his internal and external policies failures, so he cannot be persecuted for the numerous crimes he committed.

filister OP , 5 months ago to technology in Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

Yes, my bad, I wanted to say the difference in price between the 8 and 16Gb model, I know that RAM became dirt cheap nowadays and there aren’t any excuses for Apple to continue offering 8Gb model, as this is exactly a planned obsolescence.

filister , 5 months ago to linux in Using ChatGPT with Linux

You can use Copilot or Mistral Chat for pretty much the same. Copilot offers GPT-4 (or 4.5) for free, Mistral Chat is using their own models which sometimes produce better results.

filister OP , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to technology in Apple argues in favor of selling Macs with only 8GB of RAM

Have you seen the difference between the 8 and 16Gb Macbooks, it is ridiculously expensive.

filister , 5 months ago to technology in Google Contract Shows Deal With Israel Defense Ministry

Once upon a time they had Don’t be evil in their code of conduct.

filister , 5 months ago to technology in The internet is dying - here's why.

I think this is the market model of a lot of American startup companies having a huge financial backbone. Work years even decades on loss in order to catch as much of the market as possible, and once you are a market leader start the enshittification and abuse your market position.

filister , 5 months ago to world in U.S. Intel Warns of Imminent Iranian Strike on Israel: Report

Are you trying to tell me that Palestinians were living the life in Israel before the 7th of October. …wikipedia.org/…/Human_rights_violations_against_….

Regarding Iran, think about, how would you feel if Iran has bombed your consulate in let’s say Armenia and killed a bunch of people? But at this point I highly doubt you are capable of critical thinking and/or human empathy.

filister , 5 months ago to worldnews in Israel on edge for Iranian retaliation as Tehran views strike on embassy as an attack on its territory

And in a way it feels that we are on the verge of another world war and I really hope I am wrong about that.