cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46389822
April 24, 2026
According to media group The Aftershock, the activists used ladders to climb over razor-wire fencing to enter the premises.
After occupying the roof, they drilled holes into it and subsequently abseiled into the building.
The Aftershock reported that the ceiling of the clean room, where Israeli drone parts are reportedly made, was broken. It said that such contamination of the clean room could knock it out of use for some months.
One of the activists involved said: “We are sick and tired of our government’s collaboration in this genocide that Israel is committing on the Palestinian people."
Abseiled? Someone brought out the thesaurus for this one
The benefits of not living somewhere that’s dumbed-down the language to a series of woops and y’alls.
Their brains are too busy trying to understand the farenheit scale and using the imperial system.
Quite the supercilious response pal
And with a superfluous and grammatically incorrect hyphenation, to boot!
Isn’t that correct?
Yeah, that pained me too but I figured “dumbed-down” then <noun> was grammatically ok. I agonized over “the” in “dumbed-down the language” for a few seconds then decided articles could probably be dropped from the em-dash rule. Life is hard, no need to make waves if its not truly a life and death grammatical correction.
In the US it’s generally called rappelling - absailing is derived from the german term, but it’s seldom used in the states.
I don’t know if it’s just a me thing, but I think of rappelling as being against a surface, while if you do it in the open air it’s abseiling (though you could call it abseiling against a surface too).
Conversely, in Australia I’ve only ever heard ‘Rappelling’ in US movies, the common term is Abseiling here.
Yep, I’ve never really heard Rappelling used in the commonwealth countries (outside of super tourist-y areas).
Thesaurus? Someone brought out the glossary for this one