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The Ministry of Settlements and National Mission, which is headed by a far-right settler leader, confirmed it budgeted 75 million shekels ($20.5 million) last year for security equipment for “young settlements” — the term it uses for unauthorized Jewish farms and outposts in the West Bank. The money was quietly authorized in December while the country’s attention was focused on the war against Hamas in Gaza.

On Friday, the top United Nations court said Israel’s presence in the Palestinian territories is unlawful and called for an immediate halt to settlement construction.

Netanyahu’s far-right government is dominated by West Bank settlers and pro-settler politicians.

“That being said, I am happy to give up my right to vote as a trade for a significantly better quality of life. It’s cleaner, it’s safer. There’s more opportunity in mobility,” she said.

Cross posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17854948

Cross posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/37608017

Retailers have figured out how to set prices based on your age, mood, and sexual orientation

“One thing Myspace had going for it: it was exuberantly ugly. The decision to let users with no design training loose on a highly customizable user-interface led to a proliferation of Myspace pages that vibrated with personality.”

“The most febrile, deeply weird and authentic prompts of the most excluded outsiders produce images that feel the same as the corporate AI illustrations that project the illusion of personality from the immortal, transhuman colony organism that is the limited liability corporation.”

“I used to say that outcomes are gonna be worse,” Rogers said. “And that’s a nice, polite euphemism for babies are going to die and mothers are going to die in emergency rooms because of a lack of prenatal care and a lack of obstetrical care.”

Bangladesh, which faces a myriad of systemic issues, is now dealing with deadly riots and government backlash, neither of which are likely to make the rising seas and temperatures they face easier to adapt to.

The collapse if consensus reality has probably been the strangest side effect of recent decades, but we can see it accelerating here.

Cross posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/37308333