Silverseren

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Silverseren ,

Passages Alaska, founded in 2020. The website is incredibly vague on whom the therapy they use is for. They claim it's for teens who "struggle with anxiety, depression, technology addiction, low self-esteem, and failure to launch" which is, as stated, incredibly vague.

Actual medical anxiety and depression isn't the fault of the person and needs medicine, not "mindfulness therapy". And I have no idea what "technology addiction" is. This sounds like parents who are mad at their kid being on their phone all the time.

It seems to be some New Age-y nonsense with a bunch of meditation and yoga BS.

Silverseren ,

Why would any of these be mentioned in practically any class outside of some law and education courses?

Graduate workers in California to strike over treatment of Gaza protesters ( www.theguardian.com )

Graduate workers in California to strike over treatment of Gaza protesters. Widespread disruption expected after workers vote to hold series of strikes, starting Monday with UC Santa Cruz. California’s huge university system is facing widespread disruption after workers voted to hold a series of strikes in protest of its...

New York City said 'no injuries' at Columbia arrests; students' medical records say otherwise ( www.reuters.com )

After the arrests of pro-Palestine student protesters occupying a Columbia University building last month, New York Mayor Eric Adams and senior police officials repeatedly said there were "no injuries," no "violent clashes" and minimal force used....

Business titans privately urged NYC mayor to use police on Columbia protesters, chats show ( www.washingtonpost.com )

A group of billionaires and business titans working to shape U.S. public opinion of the war in Gaza privately pressed New York City’s mayor last month to send police to disperse pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University, according to communications obtained by The Washington Post and people familiar with the group....

American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life ( theintercept.com )

Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of the plight of two ill-fated medical missions....

American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life ( theintercept.com )

Upward of 20 American doctors are trapped in Gaza as a result of Israel’s post-invasion closure of the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, according to sources with knowledge of the plight of two ill-fated medical missions....

Silverseren ,

This is the nuclear speech all over again.

A Palestinian teen was standing on the street when Israeli troops shot him dead ( www.haaretz.com )

A boy stands on a Tul Karm street watching as Israeli troops move toward the city's refugee camp. Soldiers fire shots from hundreds of meters away and one of their bullets slams into the boy's chest. Qais Nasrallah was 14 at his death

Silverseren OP ,

That's precisely why I consider conflating anti-Zionism as anti-semitic is itself anti-semitic. Because it is Zionists trying to tie the Jewish identity and Jewishness as a whole to everything Israel does. Which is just insulting to all Jewish peoples.

Silverseren ,

See, I was good with the article up until it started pushing long since debunked pseudoscience claims about glyphosate. The chemical biochemistry of it is clear and, yes, there have been dozens of studies over the years, which have shown that it is actually one of the lower impact pesticides used out there. Anyone using IARC as a source (when that's not even what IARC is for or about) is betraying their own anti-science stance.

And then they bring up nonsense about organic farming. Organic farming, on average, ends up having to use more pesticides because they use non-specific "natural" ones that are less effective against targeted weeds and thus have to be re-applied more often, such as pyrethrins and spinosad. Furthermore, the use of manure instead of options like drip irrigation causes more nitrogen leaching into the water table than conventional farming methods. If all of our farms were organic farms, this issue would be way worse. Example source: https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/18/333/2014/

And that's without counting the higher land usage requirements for an equivalent amount of food production from an organic farm compared to a non-organic one. If all our farms were organic, the amount of farmland would be way higher and there's be way less wilderness areas.

Silverseren ,

All herbicides are pesticides. Pesticide is the umbrella term for herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, ect.

Agreed on BT plants. The funny thing about that one is that BT toxin is a common pesticide used in organic farming too (and all other farming) because it actually is so effective and non-toxic to vertebrates (hence why it was used to make the BT toxin producing plants in the first place). And yet the anti-GMO groups still fearmongered about the plants anyways, never seeing the hypocrisy in relation to what organic farming uses.

Silverseren ,

They apparently mean private as in invisible to the legal system and not a part of any public records. Not sure what property has ever worked like that for them to be basing such an idea off of.

Name and shame: Pro-Israel website ramps up attacks on pro-Palestinian student protesters ( www.reuters.com )

Canary Mission is one of the oldest and most prominent of several digital advocacy groups that have intensified campaigns to expose Israel's critics since the war broke out, often leading to harassment such as Sayed experienced. The people behind the site have kept their identities, location and funding sources hidden....

Silverseren OP ,

Canary Mission is indeed one of the organizations that does. They aren't the only Israeli government funded group doing such targeted harassment, but they seem to be the main one.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/israeli-blacklisting-intimidation-mission-in-us/3096068

Name and shame: Pro-Israel website ramps up attacks on pro-Palestinian student protesters ( www.reuters.com )

Canary Mission is one of the oldest and most prominent of several digital advocacy groups that have intensified campaigns to expose Israel's critics since the war broke out, often leading to harassment such as Sayed experienced. The people behind the site have kept their identities, location and funding sources hidden....

Silverseren OP ,

And people have been. A counter group was made called the Raven Mission that calls out explicitly pro-Zionism and pro-genocide people and their comments.

Silverseren ,

Question: Is it appropriate for those civilians to get weapons and fight back against the IDF that is killing them?

Silverseren ,

I'm talking about right now. For example, for the people in Rafah. Do the Palestinians in Rafah have the right to fight back against the IDF that is shelling them and attacking their homes with tanks?

Silverseren ,

So, they just have to let themselves be blown up and shot and fighting back is illegal?

Silverseren ,

pats your head It's okay, I know reading comprehension is difficult for some people.

Silverseren ,

So, since they're attacking Rafah right now, that means you're stop giving them weapons right now, right? Right?

Silverseren ,

I knew about that, but that action was taken a couple of days ago before the Rafah attack started. I remember the news articles about it then. Hopefully the above indicates this stoppage will be true for any and all weapons shipments, not just those bombs.

Silverseren ,

The shipment stopping prior was only for that one set of bombs. Not all weapons aid entirely.

Motorist charged with assault for striking CUAD protester with car at picket outside trustee’s home ( www.columbiaspectator.com )

Reuven Kahane, a 57-year-old man, drove a car into a crowd of protesters on Tuesday morning at a picket organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest in front of Barnard trustee Francine LeFrak’s home, a New York Police Department spokesperson told Spectator....

Silverseren OP ,

So, yeah, apparently trying to prevent a car from purposefully running you over is illegal. It's "attempted criminal mischief", in fact.

These university administrations and police are such a joke.

'Your Name' Movie Producer Confesses To Have Paid Over 20 Underage Girls For Sexual Favors - Animehunch ( animehunch.com )

The Wakayama Prefectural Police revealed on May 8, 2024 that Your Name. movie producer Koichiro Itou has been referred to prosecutors for additional violation of Child Prostitution & Pornography law in Japan, after it came to light that he had paid an underage girl for sexual intercourse....

Silverseren ,

I certainly hope so. Japan is notoriously light on punishment for pedophilia. They usually just give small fines for people found with child pornography, no matter the amount.

A Columbia professor wanted to document history. NYPD arrested him outside his home ( www.usatoday.com )

Gregory Pflugfelder had just finished the final class of his career at Columbia. In 28 years at the university, he achieved many accolades as a professor of history who taught a popular course on Japanese monsters – mostly focused on Godzilla and "the role of the monstrous in the cultural imagination."...

Silverseren OP ,

The police like to use the argument "are you near any police in any fashion? Then you're interfering".

A Columbia professor wanted to document history. NYPD arrested him outside his home ( www.usatoday.com )

Gregory Pflugfelder had just finished the final class of his career at Columbia. In 28 years at the university, he achieved many accolades as a professor of history who taught a popular course on Japanese monsters – mostly focused on Godzilla and "the role of the monstrous in the cultural imagination."...

Israeli airstrike on Rafah refugee camp in Gaza kills boy, 4, and his sister, 2 ( www.cnn.com )

An Israeli airstrike on Al-Shaboura refugee camp in southern Gaza’s Rafah city late Tuesday killed two young children and injured several other people, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza and the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah....

Israeli airstrike on Rafah refugee camp in Gaza kills boy, 4, and his sister, 2 ( www.cnn.com )

An Israeli airstrike on Al-Shaboura refugee camp in southern Gaza’s Rafah city late Tuesday killed two young children and injured several other people, according to the Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza and the Kuwait Hospital in Rafah....

Silverseren ,

"We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice"
-Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Silverseren OP ,

I've seen so many pro-Israel people essentially make a "look what you made me do" argument every time the IDF murders a child. It's gross.

Silverseren ,

So, if you want to talk about "outside agitators"...

Daughter of prominent Palestinian poet killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza ( www.cnn.com )

Shaima Refaat Alareer, the daughter of a prominent Palestinian poet, was killed alongside her family in an Israeli airstrike on a house west of Gaza City on Friday, according to multiple sources, four months after her father died in a similar attack....

Daughter of prominent Palestinian poet killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza ( www.cnn.com )

Shaima Refaat Alareer, the daughter of a prominent Palestinian poet, was killed alongside her family in an Israeli airstrike on a house west of Gaza City on Friday, according to multiple sources, four months after her father died in a similar attack....

US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports ( www.reuters.com )

Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's...

Silverseren ,

He didn't need to order is specifically. He was kept in prison in terrible conditions and died because of that. The outcome of his dying was still what Putin wanted (or at least didn't care if it happened). No orders required.

This sort of reporting and claims from the intelligence community feels like obfuscation by using a technically true statement, but irrelevant to the overall issue.

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