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Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR on Monday July 07, 2025 @11:27PM (#44496722)
It's possible to believe that both October 7th and the subsequent genocide of Palestinians are horrific.

It's the duty of the press to report on these horrors in an unbiased and impartial manner.

> You few bleeding heart lefties

Ad hominems aren't arguments, fyi

Re:BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-Israel PR on Monday July 07, 2025 @10:55PM (#44496540)
Sadly it seems like this is indicative of a broader trend in Public Broadcast in the west. In Australia we've seen similar internal criticism of the ABC of an anti-palestinian bias in reporting[1].

It's deeply concerning that these publicly funded media outlets are being co-opted and manipulated by a foreign power.

[1]https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/26/australias-abc-staf...

This brings to mind The Story of Mel from programming folklore.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/story_of_mel.html

Re:I Regret Ever Open Sourcing Java – Jill Malony Ratkevic on Thursday November 14, 2024 @07:56AM (#42135755)
I wouldn't call VS code an IDE either, personally
Re:Should We Actually Wealthtax Billionaires? on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:07AM (#31336718)

  Tax is a divisive issue and it always has been. This is because many of us care deeply about the fundamental question of
  Am I getting richer or poorer?
The author of this post has answered their own question. Am I getting poorer if everyone is contributing proportionally to the burden of tax? No.

I only become poorer due to tax because I pay proportionally more than people earning more than me.

Short of an absolutely radical restructuring of the society we live in, taxes are a necessity, so why do they make the very rich so much richer (proportionally)?

Re:“Don Quixote” as a manual for living on Monday September 13, 2021 @11:45PM (#28519981)
I own a smartphone, but I also really enjoy messing around with old hardware because its fascinating and illuminating to see what has changed and what hasn't. Maybe some present day readers of Don quixote find the same enjoyment?