[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Nope its definitely accurate!

Indycar does not have a constructors championship, and the format encourages each car to operate as its own team, and since all the teams (except McLaren) are owned by one random guy, that encourages them to make each car they field to have more sponsors. And the brand appeal of like, one guy, isn't as powerful as something like McLaren, a famous car company with the color Orange.

Anyone heard of Penske? RLL? Meyer Shank? Dale Coyn? No. Aside from Penske, those other names are only big names within Indycars history, just like Hendricks is only big inside Nascar history.

IndyCar is pretty popular, but because of the company split in the 90s, there was no one to compete with Nascar throughout the 90s and 00s in terms of US popularity. So essentially the entire series is really behind and hasnt built up financial appeal to sponsors.

Thus, in order to keep staying in business, the teams sell ad space on the cars anytime they can, leading to teams running special liveries for one race, a driver bringing a big sponsor so the team changes the car to accomodate, and all the cars look different.

Different enough to warrant a spotters guide for a few races.

IndyCar could change that by enforcing a team liverie, but I bet the teams wouldn't like that.

For an average race, the teams don't really do team orders. It's VERY rare. And teams usually allow their own drivers to fight hard all the time. Since teams as a whole don't affect the race, you don't focus on that much.

Team owners only care if one of their drivers causes another to crash, and they don't care who wins because each driver they field is another chance at a win.

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Here's a PBS video https://youtu.be/jRccpmfQrEE?si=lv3pfejLk1n9E7sg

It's probably a lot more than 40 in various states of intentional or indirect dismemberment, burnings, decapitations, or complete disintegration to the point where only teeth remain.

There are also various archives with have images and videos corroborated by this report and other news outlets, like Haaretz, NYT, the Guardian, and others.

EDIT: Ah this was about Palestinian burned bodies not Israeli, my apologies.

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Some of the sources I wanted to sub to but could never afford it are TIME magazine and The Atlantic.

WSJ I don't believe gives all it's articles to Apple. Could be wrong.

I wish the NYT was still in there, but they pulled out a while back.

I think The Guardian is in there though.

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

A PBS poll recently showed that the divide on Israel-Palestine is 60-ish% in favor, but for the youth its split 48% for Israel and 52% for Palestine. That is quite the even split.

This has got to be one of the most divisive issues among people my age, which is ages 18-25.

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Holy shit, that's a big stamp of the foot. That's the first country to ban Pro-Palestinian demonstrations isn't it?

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah there is a thread put out by Geoconfirmed on Twitter, he only geographically locates where footage is, so he's pretty unbiased.

By basically confirming where and when footage is, putting all the videos of this event together paints a pretty clear picture on its own, even without considering the other evidence.

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I can give you other sources, like the Al Jazeera stream, and the analysis provided by Geoconfirmed.

This is publicly available information.

The reason I chose the AP is because they were the first to report what the Gaza Health Ministry said, and reported it as "Israel strikes Hospital, killing 500".

They do in fact pursue truth and update stories accordingly, to my relief.

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Al Jazeera had been live streaming and live reporting the entire thing, and there are multiple angles and phone videos from them and other sources that show the entire incident, from the rocket barrage, to the booster failure, to the hospital explosion.

The Associated Press has the complete analysis to your question, including the videos I mentioned, posted yesterday.

Alot of the videos in there were confirmed 8 hours after the incident, this is the first mainstream media outlet that put it all together.

The AP was one of the first to report what the Gaza Health Ministry said, "Israel strikes hospital, killing 500", then edited their article 3 times in 1 hour, with new titles and recharacterizing the report as "they said" to try and cover the increasing uncertainty of the situation. Along with the casualty number dropping. Now some might say "But any death at all is bad, 50 or 500!". That's true, it's still really tragic, but it's also a 90% error, which is a disaster for journalism.

The article covers the JDAM theories, the Israel warned them, the Hamas announcing their launching rockets a little after the incident. All things that would make the situation more murky.

I admit I do sound like I'm defending Israel with this. This particular event is a flashpoint for me personally since I'm heavily invested in the state of journalism in an age where the flood of information can overwhelm news and lead to innaccuracies.

The rocket turning around video is a different video from last year.

Unfortunately I got banned from World News on lemmy.ml because posting this was "War Crime Denial" apparently.

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Let's not forget that the act of using civilians as shields is a warcrime in the first place to prevent this kind of situation from occurring.

If Israel tells Palestinian civilians to evacuate because there's Hamas military targets in that building, and Hamas troops tell them no. Then they die, and Hamas can cry wolf.

It would be Israel who is following international decorem and Hamas making it difficult for any country to support them.

Just now, Austria cut off aid to the Gaza region. Is that Israel's fault? Nope.

Hamas had good PR going and they fucked it up by escalating with brutality.

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Morally, it's a complicated situation.

Geopolitically, Israel probably has the support of most Western nations simply due to the fact that they engage in diplomacy and have proper decorem, with a government system that is a relatively modern system despite political leanings.

Additionally, Israel has a better human rights record DOMESTICALLY than Palestine and the Gaza region. It's still dominated by religion, terrorist leaders, and its own population's semi-justified bitterness. Freedom of expression and freedom of press is heavily restricted, just like any other Islamic religious state in the middle east.

The sole responsibility of the escalation and subsequent destabilization of the region lies with Hamas. The sole responsibility of the withdrawal of Palestinian aid from countries like Austria, lies with Hamas.

And with all the videos popping up over the treatment and killing of Israeli civilians, it's hard for the Western world, and especially Western governments to garner the sympathy for the Palestinian people that they had 1 week ago.

Both sidesing isn't correct, whataboutism isn't correct, blindly supporting either side isn't correct, supporting efforts to contain the conflict is correct. The best way to do that is to monitor Israel's progress in containing Hamas.

We know that Hamas hides in schools and civilian buildings, using their own civilians as a shield. That's a warcrime it itself. So it's going to be messy as hell.

The US sent the USS Gerald Ford into the Mediterranean as a deterrent. If any country starts to try to 3rd party the conflict, oh shit oh fuck WW1 vibes. That's how tender this situation is.

And with 1 other active conflict in the world, this is shaky ground.

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How easy is it to transfer a file from one device to the other? For example, let's say you had to transfer photos, a pdf, an epub, and a video file. How easy is that?

And then do you think it's going to be much easier when USB-C comes out so I can use a flash drive to do all the work?

Do you use Apple News at all?

Do you carry both on your person or does one go in the bag.

I think that covers most of my curiosities.

Edit: Also thanks for answering politely!

[-] JWayn596@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Outside of the popular streaming apps, I've found streaming apps to be a lot better and less buggy on Apple devices.

Waze has some of its functionality taken away on Android Auto.

And since I'll be uninstalling the phone app on my Pixel, I was going to use the Phone and Messages app for regular texting, that's a preferential thing. I'd use Signal but it doesn't do SMS anymore.

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