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People who tell me they're totally isolated are, in my experience, lying.

They don't mean to be lying, but they don't see customer service workers as people.

That's just a cashier, that doesn't count! It's not like I've been seeing my friends, I just went to the bank and the grocery store!

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Google's Green Light project retimes traffic lights for 30% fewer stops
L: newatlas.com/transport/google-
C: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
posted on 2023.10.16 at 13:56:46 (c=1, p=4)

The other day I was thinking about a strategy for finding the source of #HashtagGames like following more players every day.
Voilà, without even doing anything:
oldfriends.live/@hashtaggames/

V Haaretz, by Sam Sokol (story written up in the Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202 and in Arutz Shiva as well israelnationalnews.com/news/37 ):
'BBC "urgently investigating" journalists at BBC World (Service)'s Arabic channel (who) are accused of writing and sharing social media posts in support of Hamas and (allegedly) claiming "no Israelis are civilians"

haaretz.com/world-news/europe/

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PM #Netanyahu insists #Israel's expanded emergency government is working around the clock and together with a united front. He vowed Israel's unity relays a clear message to the nation, enemy and wider world.

A moment's silence was held for victims of the #Hamas onslaught last Saturday.

The Israeli leader told the cabinet that the military knows the "entire country" is behind them and understand "this is a fateful hour"

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V Haaretz:
#IDF Spox stmt saying that following an assessment of the situation and the shooting incident in the north, the army decided to 'isolate the area of up to four kilometers from the northern border with #Lebanon '.

The spox clarified that 'entering the area is strictly prohibited and asks the public to be vigilant. Residents staying up to two kilometers from the border are required to be near a protected area.'
#Israel #Gaza #hamas

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Some headlines v #BBCMonitoring:
#China 's Wang Yi says #Israel 's actions in #Gaza have 'gone beyond self-defence'

#Pakistan , #UAE urge 'cessation of hostilities' amid Israel- #Hamas war

Tunisian parliament considers bill criminalising normalising ties with Israel

#Afghan #Taliban condemn Israel's 'brutal' measures in Gaza

Pakistan paper warns of Israel-Hamas war turning into 'regional war'

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Just now, the #US embassy in Israel has said it has offered Americans and their immediate relatives in the country evacuation by sea.

Those eligible will leave from the northern Israeli port city of Haifa for Cyprus on Monday.

Meanwhile the UK Foreign Office is telling British nationals in Gaza to prepare in case the Rafah border crossing into Egypt is opened:
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67114394

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