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by sa501428 2mo ago
Mughal India was roughly 20–25% of global output. It was British colonial rule that exploited and stole insane amounts of wealth and led to India’s economic decline. Comparing centuries of complex Indo-Hindu-Muslim history with British colo
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by sa501428 2mo ago
"700 years of Islamic occupation" is just false. Some Muslim dynasties began through conquest, as many dynasties throughout Indian history did. But over centuries, Muslims integrated, intermarried, adopted local languages and cust
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by sa501428 9mo ago
There's something very visceral in being attacked by Zionists, rockets, and bombs (for 70+ years) which makes some folks quite enthusiastic about resisting ethnic cleansing and genocide in their homeland.
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by sa501428 10mo ago
The primary threat to Palestinian civilians in Gaza remains the IDF. And in the West Bank, it's the Israeli settlers.
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by sa501428 10mo ago
>80% of the dead are civilians. What world are you living in? https://www.972mag.com/israeli-intelligence-database-83-perc... (Journalist from Israel)
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by sa501428 1y ago
Why is it surprising? Fwiw my Jewish friends have also been quite vocal in opposing Netanyahu/Likud, usually more vocal than Muslim friends.
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by sa501428 2y ago
Looks like they are using molecular methods on post-mortem brains - all sorts of bugs can grow post-mortem and molecular methods can give false-positives as well as detect non-viable microbes, etc. But that's also based on a quick skim
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by sa501428 2y ago
There are indeed restrictions on western foreign media. "Like all foreign news organizations operating in Israel, CNN’s Jerusalem bureau is subject to the rules of the Israel Defense Forces’s censor, which dictates subjects that are of
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by sa501428 3y ago
Before the Sharon/Netanyahu/extremist takeover, Israel was serious about peace. But in the last two decades, Netanyahu has seen Hamas as an asset to undermine the PA, block moderates, and eliminate the 2 state option [1,2]. Israel
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by sa501428 3y ago
From the article you quote, 51% of Gaza supported a 2 state solution, 75% face food insecurity, only 23% had a great deal or quite a lot of trust in Hamas, 52% had no trust at all in Hamas, most said their freedom of speech is limited or no
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by sa501428 4y ago
https://openstax.org/ has been working on this.
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by sa501428 4y ago
Link to the preprint: https://aidenlab.org/bitcoin.pdf Coindesk articles: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/07/new-research-unea... https://www.coindesk.com/layer2&
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by sa501428 4y ago
Link to the preprint: https://aidenlab.org/bitcoin.pdf Coindesk articles: https://www.coindesk.com/layer2/2022/06/07/new-research-unea... https://www.coindesk.com/layer2&
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by sa501428 5y ago
These days it costs <$1000 to sequence a de novo genome (not cents). For human genomes it's cheaper of course, but that's because we have a reference sequence to compare to. The Human Genome Project (and other efforts) had to b
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by sa501428 5y ago
Slaves in the Arab/Ottoman world could purchase their freedom, were not enslaved by race (rather as POWs), their children were free, had some legal protection, and had the potential for upward mobility (in rare cases slaves that becam
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by sa501428 5y ago
Same in the Arab world/Middle East.