stevehobbes

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[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Who wants to bet 100% of these people are anti-Erdogan?

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol -3 points 10 months ago

That’s just another biased take that selectively chooses a different narrative.

Read at least several books from different perspectives and make up your own mind.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 2 points 10 months ago

If anyone is curious, in the US this is illegal unless the charity is actively displaying the art as part of their charitable mission (I.e. a museum accepts it, and it’s worth displaying).

If it’s for any charity that does not display art, you’re limited to deducting the cost of the item at acquisition ($1,000) which makes this not a loophole at all.

The real problem is we need more IRS agents to investigate whether or not any of the contributions are fraudulent.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago

😂 and so much ketchup. A1 is too spicy.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol -1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The difference between Hebrew and Latin was that only the Catholic clergy and intellectuals wrote in Latin.

The average Jewish kid could read and write in hebrew. Even if it wasn’t spoken.

Even in Morocco, the dialects spoken were often written with Hebrew characters - including a dialect of Arabic written with Hebrew characters.

They also would have more than a passing knowledge of Hebrew, obviously.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

More than a couple centuries - but dead isn’t quite right. While it wasn’t spoken in most Jewish enclaves, it was still used in all religion and quite a lot of commerce and literature. Most practicing Jews knew Hebrew, even if they did not use it in daily life. Jews from different countries often used Hebrew to communicate - mostly in writing because it was the common language they would both know.

Books have been published in Hebrew more or less continuously, including the first printing press in in the Middle East (now in what is Israel) in 1577 printed books in Hebrew.

Hebrew has never been dead - it just wasn’t used because most Jews lived in countries that spoke other languages that Jews learned and often created pidgin dialects like Yiddish (and others).

It is not like a bunch of zionists taught all the worlds’ Jews Hebrew, but if you put a German Jew and a Russian Jew in the same room, the only language they would both know is Hebrew.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It’s kinda the way taxes and insurance works. It wasn’t $75 - if you divide the annual costs of a fire station by the fires put out it’s probably $100-500k/fire. Or $75 from everyone whether they have a fire or not.

Which is also why the fire department kinda has to let it burn - because no one would actually be ok getting a $100k bill to put out their fire.

Can you imagine not paying the $75 for fire coverage? Surely the county could have just added it as a tax…… and actually provided fire coverage.

But this guy wouldn’t have voted for it almost certainly….

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 7 points 10 months ago

It’s bizarre because they solved this with ERs/hospitals forever ago - there used to be in network and out of network ERs/hospitals. Even worse, even if the hospital was in-network, some of the Drs working in the hospital would be out of network - so your surgeon would be in network but the anesthesiologist wouldn’t be somehow.

I don’t know why it’s taken them so long to solve ambulances too.

When you don’t have a choice in providers, it seems bizarre they can pull the in/out of network shit.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This was the libertarian utopia they wanted I would bet.

Right up until it affects them.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

A middle class family couldn’t afford this much McDonald’s. They’d also have more taste and class than to serve this.

Agreed they could call many restaurants that offer catering. Or, he, his wife, or any of his adult children could have made a home cooked meal for stellar optics instead of this travesty.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

Rwanda, Serbia, Armenia, and still ongoing that everyone is ignoring, the Rohingya, Uyghurs and Sudan.

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Despots all over the world apparently think it’s time to go shopping for more land that they don’t own.

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