People who went the official route, getting a permit and going through a company were ok as they stayed in air conditioned places most the time. These people spend upwards of $5k and much more.
People who couldn’t afford it went through unofficial routes and were forced to sleep outside and had to walk everywhere and even some had to sneak into makkah through the fucking desert.
Islam doesn’t force people to go through pilgrimage unless they can do it both physically and monetarily. Also even of the ones that went through the official route MANY of them are super old with medical conditions and shouldn’t have even boarded the plane.
Wasn’t myopia linked to lack of exposure to sunlight while growing up? The cure is literally for children to go outside more. and for those with it LASIK is the only solution.
An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a state’s anti-discrimination law even though it does not have an office in Australia....
it’s about an old game called Façade where you visit a couple and talk to them through typing. The AI isn’t that good though so when you say melons the husband thinks you’re talking about his wife’s breasts and kicks you out
Egypt should be on the restricted list. Many VPN providers don’t work and they blocked OpenVPN so you can’t even get a vps and make your own (you probably can with other protocols but i haven’t looked too much into that).
A 4 min 1080p30fps video taken with my phone camera is 518MB, While a 12 min 1080p30fps video ripped from youtube is 341MB, both are using mp4 h.264 as codec and the youtube one isnt of lower quality, so why this big difference?
Hundreds died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia amid intense heat, officials say (apnews.com)
Jordanian reporter gets one year in prison under draconian new cybercrime law (rsf.org)
Maldives will ban Israelis from entering the country over the war in Gaza (apnews.com)
A myopia epidemic is sweeping the globe (www.nature.com)
Australian judge rules that social media platform X must answer to hate speech complaint (apnews.com)
An Australian judge has ruled that the social media platform X is subject to a state’s anti-discrimination law even though it does not have an office in Australia....
Rule question (i.ibb.co)
Rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
McDonald's menu for ex-presidents is quite exclusive (infosec.pub)
In other words, Eternity’s wrong thumbnail problem has returned with full force. Often, posts will show the thumbnail of a totally different post.
feeling attacked rule (lemmy.world)
marketplace (sopuli.xyz)
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rule of vpn customers but it's not misinformation this time (lemmy.cafe)
source (im aware it’s weird and corporate but it’s at least actual market research and better than random made up data)...
Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors (news.artnet.com)
A painting of Lord Balfour housed at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College was slashed by protest group Palestine Action....
Israeli road splitting Gaza in two has reached the Mediterranean coast, satellite imagery shows (www.cnn.com)
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Why are camera taken videos at the same resolution way bigger than ones ripped from youtube?
A 4 min 1080p30fps video taken with my phone camera is 518MB, While a 12 min 1080p30fps video ripped from youtube is 341MB, both are using mp4 h.264 as codec and the youtube one isnt of lower quality, so why this big difference?
coffee rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
'We are splattered here today' (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android)
Out of the way FROMSoft, Pokémon Sleep is now the hardest game ever created (cdn.imgchest.com)
seen on Twitter...