Before Google decided to let extremists rename bodies of water, it used common sense.

From 2008: "...if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage."

https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html

#Gaza #Palestine

Hard-right Dutch political leader Geert Wilders on Wednesday blamed “Moroccans” for attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam last week, asserting that they “want to destroy Jews” and recommending the "deportation" of people convicted of involvement if they have dual nationality.

In July 1942, the deportations to the extermination camps began. A total of almost 103,000 Jews from the Netherlands were murdered. This corresponds to around 75% of the Jewish population.

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OME, Japan — Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 liters (2,640 gallons) of the Japanese rice wine that is the product of brewing techniques dating back more than 1,000 years.

READ: https://tmt.news/2004307

'How Christians Betrayed C.S. Lewis'
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They went totally against his intent, fuelled by their zeal for the Christian religion...
https://medium.com/@weareji/how-christians-betrayed-c-s-lewis-b465f49dc363?sk=f0d0c7968532dced07e85d56e448bb8f
...and in the process, tarnished something that was precious & shot themselves in the foot.

#Christianity #CSLewis #Narnia #children #books #betrayal #manipulation #literature #fiction

This holiday season Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, & Facebook fires 11K workers—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳

A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers. Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.