A postgraduate in philosophy, politics, and jurisprudence, now employed at a small book publishing firm. I have interests in ancient history, cross-cultural dialogue, religion, mysticism, and psychoanalysis.
The BBC will start an emergency radio service for the people of Gaza in response to the ongoing conflict in the region, the British broadcaster's World Service arm said on Wednesday.
Civilians have not been able to leave Gaza for the past three weeks, but some injured and foreign nationals are now entering Egypt.
The PLO and Fatah both recognise the state of Israel and its right to exist, have given up armed struggle, and signed the Oslo Accords with Israel, accepting a peaceful political pathway to a two state solution.
It’s now the left-wing France Unbowed party, not the far right, that strikes fear into the Jewish community.
I don't think burying this and pretending it didn't happen is helpful when Jews around the world are telling us right now that they are terrified and under attack
"We do not rest," says ambulance driver Mahmoud Badawi as medical supplies in the Strip run low.
Group lights flares and chants anti-Semitic slogans in unverified footage of demonstration in Australia
Meticulously planned for months under nose of IDF, thousands of terrorists burst through fence under cover of immense rocket fire to unleash deadliest massacre in country's history
We are at war, says Israel's PM, after major surprise Palestinian attack
Dozens of gunmen from the Islamist militant group Hamas infiltrate southern Israel amid a barrage of rockets from Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has quietly taken steps toward cementing Israel's control of the occupied West Bank with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leading the way.
Argentina's annual inflation rate shot up to 124.4% in August and hit its highest level since 1991, stoking a painful cost-of-living crisis in the South American country.
Coup for Britain’s opposition leader as French president agrees to bilateral summit.
A precise tally of the rising number of people killed is incredibly difficult given the level of destruction in Derna and chaotic political situation in the region.
The city of Derna has buried thousands of people in mass graves, Libyan officials said Thursday, as search teams scoured ruins left by devastating floods and the city’s mayor said that the death toll could triple or more
Berlin suspends voluntary intake deal ‘until further notice’, saying Italy is not meeting obligations under bloc’s transfer rules
The Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is a first point of arrival for people seeking asylum or looking to keep moving north to other European countries.
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The Biden administration released its list of 10 prescription medicines that will be subject to the first-ever price negotiations by the U.S. Medicare health program that covers 66 million people, with big-selling blood thinner Eliquis from Bristol Myers Squibb and Pfizer among them.
The country’s breakaway Transnistria region is complicating Moldova’s attempts to set up a carbon pricing scheme.
Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have all been invited to become members of BRICS.
Seven opposition parties in South Africa have reached an agreement to form a coalition in a bid to unseat the ruling African National Congress if it fails to win a majority in next year's general election
Why does Russia think anyone cares what it says at this point? Until the war ends, nobody is required to do anything for Russia.
Nothing but respect for my country deciding to impose economic sanctions on itself 🫡
Classic Mastodon moment
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I don't think he's completely wrong. A lot of people felt similarly. I know SkillUp felt similarly that if you had a really good PC and could overlook the (unforgiveable, admittedly) bugs, it had a lot going for it.
I agree. I don't want a small number of highly motivated individuals with grudges, vendettas, and ideological priors having that much power. Ban TheDonald type stuff, bots, etc. but otherwise be very careful
Definitely. About two years ago, I read Michel Houellebecq's Soumission. And it's still just sort of constantly in my head. I don't read it as a kind of reactionary book at all – in fact it's a strangely utopian book, pessimistic about the possibility of secular politics to rectify deep metaphysical questions in our societies, but strangely curious and probing about whether Islam could in fact at least answer them. The ambiguity at the heart of that novel still puzzles and interests me.
I should read it again...
I've been going back and reading Freud's Civilisation and its Discontents again. I still think it has some pretty profound wisdom about the nature of desire, conflict, violence, and what it takes to make civilisation possible!
I maybe got like 10-15 hours into it? I quite liked it but it felt underbaked in many areas. I'm curious to see just how expansive the improvements to basic core gameplay systems are in the final product here. Because graphically and narratively, I felt they had something pretty special.
Yeah doesn't work in comments either. I tried Firefox on my Mac too which had never even browsed to this website before, signed in, tried to upload a picture to my /c/Books sub, same error. Tried to reply to this comment with a picture, nope, same error.
Strange, may be the implementation? I've tried using both Chrome and Brave
That was fast! Layout seems to have changed a little bit, but in mostly subtle ways.
But now I can't seem to upload an icon to my /c/books community, I get a JSON error. Should I try deleting site data from my browser and refreshing?
Specific error message:
SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', "
<html>
<h"... is not valid JSON
Similar errors when I attempt to update the sidebar.
Lemmy.world starting guide
What is the ideal resolution for a community banner so as not to unnecessarily 'weigh it down' with a super high-resolution image?
