It is important not to estrange the people, no matter how deluded they are. This is a product of the hegemonic order.

Hezbollah has political allies (including christians) which together amount(ed) to a majority.

See: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-allies-win-62-seats-lebanon-parliament-losing-2018-majority-reuters-2022-05-17/

And it’s not Hamas which holds elections, but rather the Palestinian authority, presided by the leader of Fatah (opponent of Hamas) who has been impeding elections since 2006 because his party is losing popularity.

See: https://archive.ph/Jn4KJ

Edit: I do not mean to offend anyone but I beg you (anyone reading this) please be more aware about what you write and say, especially if you haven’t looked into the issue in depth.

Once the week is over I will go back to normal :)

I’m not joking when I tell you that I saved it on up to five devices including phones, PCs, flash drives and and a cloud service.

Lesson learned successfully.

Ok I will see. As I said, the laptop doesn’t have a HDD but an eMMC soldered on the motherboard.

No luck today finding a store that can repair it. Will see next week, but I pretty much lost hope and began writing all over again. fml.

You’re right. I have both local and online options so I maximise the chances of file safety but my work is the only thing I didn’t make a recent backup thereof, even though it’s the easiest thing to backup out of my files.

Laptop stopped working, it reeks of burned smell. I don’t know if extracting the data is even an option since the device has no HDD but instead a tiny chip soldered onto the motherboard.

It’s completely my fault, I should’ve known better.

Please do! Better be safe than sorry.

It’s funny (or tragic?) because I have syncthing and did not bother sync my work. Only thought about it in retrospect.

You can contribute monetarily, check https://join-lemmy.org

It’s even harder the second time… I should stick to ink and paper.

So for how long could they have been doing it?

Semantic Scholar, maybe ResearchGate? Academia.edu ??

Make sure to look at their T&C and privacy policy.

I’ve been using their service for two years now. It’s open source and encrypted, and the upload speeds exponentially improved.

The Lebanese military is extremely underfunded, hence the indispensability of Hezbollah. Before Hezbollah became a thing it was Palestinian guerilla fighters who took that role.

Their government is dealing with its own domestic shit. They haven’t had a president since early last year.

I’m sorry I don’t understand what you mean.

Definitely. I also noticed how little these supposed economists know what marxism is. Their entire doctrine is incoherent.

• Musical theme: Kahlil Gibran wrote an eloquent essay on music, though good luck finding it.

• Outside your comfort zone: Capitalism as Civilisation by Ntina Tzouvala, a theoretical work which examines how western legal scholars categorized non-western polities based on a racist standard of civilisation and justified colonising them.

• Book from a different cultural background: the Cairo Trilogy by the Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz, a chronicle of a wealthy family witnessing the instability of the 1930s in British-occupied Egypt.