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  1. Comment on US Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, upending central plank of economic agenda in ~society

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    Well, I guess that insider billionare who was paying ~30% in exchange for importer's tariff refund rights gets to make a ton of money now.

    Well, I guess that insider billionare who was paying ~30% in exchange for importer's tariff refund rights gets to make a ton of money now.

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  2. Comment on At these Gaza schools, ‘peace building’ is part of the curriculum in ~society

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    ... ... ... ... ... ... ... https://thegazachildrenvillage.org/ I sent a $100 donation because this gave me some hope that maybe, there's a path to the conflict not going back and forth forever,...

    Quietly, and despite considerable risk, a network of free private schools for war orphans and other children has sprouted in the Gaza Strip. The schools, called Academies of Hope, are the brainchild of a Palestinian American neurosurgeon, Dr. David Hasan, who first visited Gaza on medical relief missions soon after Israel invaded Gaza in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7, 2023.

    Though he hasn’t been back to Gaza since early 2024, he has built the institutions by forging partnerships with humanitarian groups on the ground, hiring Palestinian staff over WhatsApp and raising money — largely from Jewish donors — in the United States and Israel.

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    Operating schools in any war zone is hard enough, and schools across the enclave are struggling to rebuild. But Dr. Hasan has compounded his challenges. He revamped a much-criticized national curriculum and worked to keep Hamas from endangering his schools. He also verifies that none of his staff have ties to militant groups, a charge Israel has leveled against the United Nations agency caring for Palestinians in Gaza and some international aid groups.

    The schools teach a modified version of the Palestinian Authority’s curriculum, which is taught in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, but without any lessons demonizing Jews or glorifying perpetrators of violence against Israel. Dr. Hasan said the curriculum changes were made without the authority’s permission, prompting threats of reprisal from its education ministry. A ministry spokesman did not respond to repeated messages seeking comment.

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    Before-and-after excerpts from the curriculum illustrate the changes:

    A math problem comparing the number of “martyrs” killed in the first and second intifadas has been replaced with one involving attendance at a West Bank soccer match.

    A reading comprehension selection praising Dalal Mughrabi — a woman who led a 1978 massacre that killed 38 Israelis, 13 of them children — has been replaced with one about Hind al-Husseini, a pioneering Palestinian educator.

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    On social media, some Gazans have asked whether Dr. Hasan’s agenda is overly aligned with Israel’s. Others, embittered by Hamas, have retorted that it’s better to teach tolerance than to teach children to sacrifice themselves.

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    ...leaders of big families in Gaza have helped him obtain space for more schools. “The way we did it is by gaining trust,” he said.

    One way is by ensuring those families — as well as the Israelis and his donors — that his staff has no ties to militant groups. Dr. Hasan said that every employee had been cleared with the Israeli authorities and checked against a U.S. government sanctions list.

    He also makes clear that his donors include Israelis. “I told the elders, ‘I work with the Israelis,’” he said. “They said, ‘As long as they don’t want to brainwash our kids, we’re fine.’”

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    Born in Kuwait to Palestinians from the West Bank, [Dr. Hasan] left the Middle East at 18 to attend college in Texas. At 19, he dropped his given name, Emad, and called himself David.

    He said he felt stirred to action by the war. In December 2023, he was in Gaza on a medical mission, performing 20 operations in 10 days, often without anesthetics or antiseptics. He recorded video of maggots crawling out of unhealed wounds. Every patient he operated on, he said, eventually died of infection.

    He returned the next April with more medical supplies, and had better results.

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    He said he had not returned to Gaza since April 2024 because he had aroused suspicion. When he wasn’t operating, he said, he was poking into hospital storerooms and asking questions, trying to learn if Israeli hostages might be on the premises. He fled, he said, when he was alerted that armed militants were looking for him.

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    Dr. Hasan’s sixth school is set to open east of the southern city of Khan Younis with space for 10,000 children, some college classes and even a tiny zoo. And he wants to keep opening schools, with a goal to serve as many as 250,000 youngsters by the end of the year.

    https://thegazachildrenvillage.org/

    I sent a $100 donation because this gave me some hope that maybe, there's a path to the conflict not going back and forth forever, someday.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on The best protest songs of 2025 in ~music

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    A little self promotion is fine so long as you're also engaging at least as much elsewhere =)

    A little self promotion is fine so long as you're also engaging at least as much elsewhere =)

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  5. Comment on Some of my family members aren't convinced that ICE isn't overstepping and that they are just deporting people that broke the law, can you help me share unbiased links that proves they are? in ~society

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    Other folks are probably right that facts won't work, but in the spirit of answering your request, I posted this a few weeks back...

    Other folks are probably right that facts won't work, but in the spirit of answering your request, I posted this a few weeks back

    https://tildes.net/~society/1s78/before_and_after_the_trigger_press_that_killed_renee_good

    It's an incredibly thorough look at the legal background of the shooting of Renee Good and all of the expected police procedure that the officers involved ignored.

  6. Comment on The mega-rich are turning their mansions into impenetrable fortresses in ~finance

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    Can you give a short description of the documentary? Watching things like this tends to wreak havoc on my anxiety lol

    Can you give a short description of the documentary? Watching things like this tends to wreak havoc on my anxiety lol

    10 votes

  7. Comment on Joy of sharing a creation replaced by a longing sadness in ~talk

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    How about something like Tailscale on a residential IP?

    How about something like Tailscale on a residential IP?

    1 vote

  8. Comment on AI fails at 96% of jobs (new study) in ~tech

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    I'm not so convinced, outside of toy sized projects. That was already a trend we were seeing before LLMs entered the mainstream. Once the architecture of the code is the "heavier" factor in how...

    But what we are seeing in the real world is companies hiring less inexperienced developers. Which strongly suggests that AI can make inexperienced developers more productive.

    I'm not so convinced, outside of toy sized projects. That was already a trend we were seeing before LLMs entered the mainstream. Once the architecture of the code is the "heavier" factor in how your program works than basic syntax, agentic AI tools can be misleading at best, or actively harmful unless you have the skills and knowledge necessary to catch their mistakes.

    5 votes

  9. Comment on What are your food aversions? in ~food

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    That's me! ^pls label joke
    • Exemplary

    Interesting.

    That's me!

    ^pls label joke

    6 votes

  10. Comment on What are your food aversions? in ~food

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    Blue cheese ruins everything. It's not even the mold I dislike, I love Brie. It just tastes awful. Peanuts too.

    Blue cheese ruins everything. It's not even the mold I dislike, I love Brie. It just tastes awful.

    Peanuts too.

    4 votes

  11. Comment on The right in the US is coming for same-sex marriage with an insidious new campaign in ~society

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    Strange that Loving v. Virginia is exempted.

    Strange that Loving v. Virginia is exempted.

    8 votes

  12. Upcoming solo trip to San Diego - any advice?

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    Hey, I'm headed to San Diego in March after getting selected for a work conference. The last time I was in California was San Francisco more than a decade ago with my dad, so I'm excited to be...

    Hey, I'm headed to San Diego in March after getting selected for a work conference. The last time I was in California was San Francisco more than a decade ago with my dad, so I'm excited to be visiting again.

    The first few days will be the conference (which includes a recreational afternoon for networking, I picked the San Diego Zoo). I purposely scheduled my plane flight to be a few days after the conference ends to I can explore the city, but it'll be my first real solo trip; originally, my sister was going to tag along in my hotel room, but she had an injury and needed to drop out.

    I fly in on March 18th, check out from the conference is the morning of Saturday the 21st, and I fly back home on the morning of the 24th. That gives me almost all of Saturday, and all of Sunday and Monday to explore the city.

    Definitely, one of the things I want to check out is Balboa Park, though I would appreciate advice on specific museums, since I can't imagine it's possible to see even half of them in a day.

    Another thing I've considered is a day trip to Tijuana to walk around. It's been a while since I had a good opportunity to practice my Spanish. Worst case scenario I can get a dental cleaning if I can't come up with any other ideas 😂.

    Eating out alone isn't really something I've done before either. I think I want to do a nice sushi bar Omakase one night just to treat myself, if people have suggestions on where, and I'd love other suggestions for places to try where it wouldn't be too weird eating solo.

    Does anyone have any suggestions for other things to do, places to see? Where I should stay after leaving the Marriott Marquis, since at >$500/night it's a little expensive for me? I won't be renting a car, so ideally, something either in walking distance or easily accessible via transit. I'll probably do a mix of ride shares and public transit for travel.

    I'd love to hear ideas, along with what anyone else here has done in San Diego. Worst case scenario, I'm sure I'll figure it all out, but it's nice to poll the crowd sometimes.

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  13. Comment on I recently finished the Cradle series by Will Wight and have post series depression. What shall I read next? in ~books

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    I started there as well and branched out into the LitRPG genre, so here are some similar things I have liked in the last few years Dungeon Crawler Carl (before it was cool lol) Apocalypse...

    I started there as well and branched out into the LitRPG genre, so here are some similar things I have liked in the last few years

    Dungeon Crawler Carl (before it was cool lol)
    Apocalypse Parenting by Erin Ampersand
    I did like Mother of Learning too, but also,
    Years of the Apocalypse, if you don't mind something in progress

    A little more off the wall suggestions based more just on what I like:
    Scholomance
    Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels
    The Martian
    Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow

    Will Wight also has a few other series if you look on his website. I haven't read any of them though.

    5 votes

  14. Comment on Ian's Shoelace Site is still the best site for tying your shoes in ~tech

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    Hm. Perhaps an "answered" label that only the person responding to you can add? Kind of like the button on StackOverflow

    Hm. Perhaps an "answered" label that only the person responding to you can add? Kind of like the button on StackOverflow

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Before and after the trigger press that killed Renee Good in ~society

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    An incredibly in depth article about the legal circumstances and usual law enforcement procedures relevant to Johnathan Ross's shooting of Renee Good. I highly recommend reading the full article....

    An incredibly in depth article about the legal circumstances and usual law enforcement procedures relevant to Johnathan Ross's shooting of Renee Good. I highly recommend reading the full article. My "taste" here really only shows how much analysis there is.

    Regardless of whether deadly force was legally justified, Renee Nicole Good’s death was preventable.

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    Whether Ross violated Homeland Security’s deadly force policies—and thus also potentially Good’s Fourth Amendment rights—is certainly one of the most important questions to arise out of her death. But amid the high passion and tumult of the debate, other, equally pressing issues remain largely unaddressed: Namely, what do the events which occurred immediately before Ross took the slack out of his trigger, and the response of him and his colleagues right after the final press, tell us about how ICE is conducting itself as it executes the largest apprehension and deportation operation in the history of the United States?

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    At every step which led to the fatal trigger press, ICE could have behaved differently. It could have behaved more tactically. It could have behaved more humanely. The nation—to say nothing of Renee Nicole Good’s family—deserves an honest accounting of why it did not.

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    Why was ICE interacting with Good in the first place?

    The question isn’t rhetorical. Video footage shows that she was clearly—at least for a few moments, if not longer—blocking traffic by positioning her car in the middle of the road; furthermore, she was doing so while in the presence of law enforcement vehicles with lights and sirens activated. Such behavior would appear to be a prima facie violation of Minnesota Statute 169.20 §5, a misdemeanor punishable by a $300 fine, and perhaps diversion to a remedial driving school. If a peace officer with the appropriate authority ordered her to move, and she chose not to comply, she also may have been violating Minnesota Statute 169.34 §1(11).

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    Minnesota defines a peace officer as “an employee of a political subdivision [i.e. a local municipality] or state law enforcement agency,” and only grants their federal counterparts arrest authorities for the purposes of state and local violations when a number of conditions are met. The most important of these prerequisites requires that the federal officer be on duty, acting at the request of a local or state officer, and operating pursuant to the supervision of that local or state officer. At this point, neither ICE management nor any executive branch officials have argued that these conditions were met; indeed, the tenor and tone of statements by the Minneapolis mayor and Minnesota governor would certainly suggest otherwise. The proper remedy, then, for Good’s obstruction of traffic would have simply been for the ICE officers to request that local police join in the response and facilitate the movement of her vehicle.

    But let’s put this argument aside, for the moment.

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    But let’s put this argument aside for the moment as well.

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    But let’s put aside this argument, too, for the moment

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    But let’s also put this argument aside, for the moment

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    But let’s put this argument aside as well, for the moment

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    At this point, we have run out of arguments which we can momentarily cabin. As videos of the incident show, as Renee Nicole Good turns her steering wheel to the right and begins to drive away, three shots ring out, her vehicle careens into a parked car and light post, and the assembled bystanders scream.

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    Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and within hours of the event, Secretary Noem—whose own deadly force experience recalls nothing so much as the finale of “Old Yeller”—quickly pronounced the shoot justified. The vice president and president of the United States followed suit. And to be fair, many critics of ICE have come to the opposite conclusion with similar alacrity. But this article is not about whether deadly force was justified at the moment Ross let loose with three rounds of ammunition; it is simply a series of observations about steps that could have prevented the need to even make that choice.

    12 votes

  17. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of January 12 in ~society

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    I kind of wish that reporter had done everything short of showing up to their first day of work, just to see how far they could get. There's more actual checking to adopt an animal than for the...

    I kind of wish that reporter had done everything short of showing up to their first day of work, just to see how far they could get. There's more actual checking to adopt an animal than for the government to give you a gun and enforcement powers...

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  18. Comment on US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shoots and kills a woman during the Minneapolis immigration crackdown in ~society

  19. Comment on Mohammed Ibrahim's stolen year: the newly freed sixteen-year-old Palestinian American shares his first account of 9½ months in Israeli military detention in ~society

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    Fuck Ben Gvir and those who enable him to create torture camps.

    Fuck Ben Gvir and those who enable him to create torture camps.

    6 votes

  20. Comment on Hate Brussels sprouts? You may be living in the past. in ~food

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    The words I would most likely use are "kick", "brightness" or "freshness", but what you meant came through clearly, so I would call it a success =)

    as it adds a much needed sting

    The words I would most likely use are "kick", "brightness" or "freshness", but what you meant came through clearly, so I would call it a success =)

    6 votes