Huge Sahara dust cloud smothers the Caribbean en route to the U.S.
A massive cloud of dust from the Sahara Desert blanketed most of the Caribbean on Monday in the biggest event of its kind this year as it heads toward the United States.
The cloud extended some 3,200 kilometres from Jamaica to well past Barbados in the eastern Caribbean, and some 1,200 kilometres from the Turks and Caicos Islands in the northern Caribbean down south to Trinidad and Tobago.
"It's very impressive," said Alex DaSilva, lead hurricane expert with AccuWeather.
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Thiago Ávila's message to his daughter
"Dear Tereza,I’m sorry for not being around these past days, but Daddy was trying to bring food to other children as beautiful as you. Unfortunately, they are starving because some people don’t understand that every human being has the right to freedom.
Your father is one of the millions of people doing something to end the greatest violation of rights of our generation.
I truly hope to come home soon. I think of you and your mother every day. And that is why I cannot accept that the world we live in has so much exploitation, oppression, and destruction.
Do not be afraid for your father. I am okay and hopeful."
Original, untranslated text and video is available here correiobraziliense.com.br/cida…
Vídeo: Direto da prisão em Israel, Thiago Ávila envia carta à filha de um ano
A carta foi enviada à mulher do brasiliense pela advogada que acompanha o caso de Thiago em IsraelCidades DF
Adalah Update - 12 June 2025, 13 PM Jerusalem Time
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via x.com/AdalahCenter/status/1933…>>
Two volunteers, Pascal Maurieras (France) and Yanis Mhamdi (France), remain in custody at Givon prison, ... awaiting their deportation tomorrow, 13 June, afternoon. They will be seen by their lawyers today.>>
The six volunteers expected to be deported today or early tomorrow morning are:
Mark [Marco] Van Rennes (The Netherlands),
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Yasemin Acar (Germany),
Thiago Avila (Brazil),
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So far, #Adalah lawyers are facing difficulties visiting them at the airport.
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Atom-Thin Tech Replaces Silicon in the World’s First 2D Computer
World’s first 2D, non-silicon computer developed | Penn State University
In a world first, a team led by researchers at Penn State used two-dimensional materials, which are only an atom thick and retain their properties at that scale, unlike silicon, to develop a computer capable of simple operations.www.psu.edu
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A promising start, but a thousand transistors at 25 kilohertz puts it where silicon tech was 60 years ago, so they've a long, long way to go.
If it scales, they can use modern tech and know-how to accelerate their progress and they can get funding, maybe this will be viable in a decade or so.
Macron to China: Keep North Korea out of Ukraine war or risk NATO coming to Asia
French president delivers veiled warning to Beijing during speech in Singapore.
French President Emmanuel Macron warned China that NATO could become more deeply involved in Asia if Beijing does not do more to stop North Korea from taking part in Russia's war on Ukraine.
"North Korea in Ukraine is a big question for all of us. If China doesn’t want NATO to be involved in Southeast Asia, it should prevent [North Korea] from being engaged on European soil," Macron said Friday during an address at a major defense summit in Singapore.
Has Pakistan shot down the French jets? India hasn't confirmed those losses. If true then France doesn't have much power to project.
On 7 May, Indian and Pakistani fighter jets battled for over an hour. Pakistan claimed that three Dassault Rafales, one MiG-29, one Su-30MKI fighter jet, and one Israeli-manufactured IAI Heron UAV belonging to the Indian Air Force were shot down. If true, would first time that a French-origin Dassault Rafale has been lost in combat, reportedly having been shot down by the Chinese-origin Chengdu J-10. This, along with the performance of Chinese-origin PL-15E missiles in the combat, reportedly gained global attention.
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All the downvotes, what's wrong with my comment?
All the downvotes, what's wrong with my comment?
It's a stupid as saying that Russia has shot down F16s in Ukraine therefore The US has no power to project.
Thanks for letting me know.
Seems that I am out of my depth because I cannot imagine what France could do militarily. I would assume that any ship would be vulnerable if Chinese aircraft missiles have a longer range than the French ones so that France cannot defend their ships with their aircrafts.
The Tangled Knot of Anti-Zionist Violence
The Tangled Knot of Anti-Zionist Violence
Doubling down on the conflation of Zionism and Judaism won’t stop violent attacks.Jewish Currents
Former Biden official Matthew Miller : Israel has 'without doubt' committed war crimes in Gaza
Former Biden official Matthew Miller Israel has 'without doubt' committed war crimes in Gaza
In a wide-ranging interview for Sky News' Trump 100 podcast, Matthew Miller also said if he was "outside of government" he would have preferred a "better candidate" for the 2024 presidential election than Mr Biden.Mark Stone (Sky News)
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Matthew Miller also said if he was "outside of government" he would have preferred a "better candidate" for the 2024 presidential election than Mr Biden.
If it helps, you see, he was “in government” at the time so he had no choice but to be a shit eating sycophant who told the president whatever he thought he wanted to hear. Had he been outside government, and free from the shackles of his own cowardice, he would have preferred a better candidate. A patriot if ever I saw one.
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If it helps, you see, he was “in government” at the time so he had no choice but to be a shit eating sycophant who told the president whatever he thought he wanted to hear.
"Just following orders" is very famously not a defense for being complicit in a genocide
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Biden was the best president since Jimmy Carter and with Harris as the VP he'd still be doing a better job than what we have now.
Harris and Walz would be amazing but the voters decided Trump is the better choice.
He took the shitty situation that the country and world was in and turned it around.
He was not and he is not a piece of shit and Trump getting back in is squarely on the shoulders of the people who voted Trump in or decided not to vote.
The world and the country would be in a better place right now almost everywhere if he won again.
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Biden was and is shit for his role in the Gaza genocide alone.
And now things are worse there too.
Being a single issue voter on the Gaza topic just makes the world a worse place.
Usually if you agree with 80% of what someone does you call them an ally.
With some on the left if you don't agree with 99.9% of what they do then they're an enemy and it makes them useless as a political bloc.
No matter how tough the single issue is you've got to look at the full picture and make a choice from there which I have.
Biden is not a piece of shit and Trump is making the situation worse and the fault lays on people who voted for Trump or chose to stay home.
Biden is not a piece of shit
So someone who enables genocide is not, in your moral framework, a piece of shit. Full stop. Not even a "lesser evil" argument, just straight out not-evil.
Good that we've got that definitively stated.
This feels like talking to anti-abortionist.‘When the issue is killing babies there’s nothing to talk about.’
I just posted this but it's worth repeating.
Gotta draw the line somewhere, and the left decided that genocide is that hard line that under no circumstances should be crossed.
If you don't draw the line at genocide, then where exactly do you draw the line?
Does it matter how morally bankrupt the 20% is?
Asking before I pose any analogies you might think is unfair
Idk man. If, just as an example, Biden "shot someone in the middle of 5th avenue", i think it would be hubris to expect him not to lose any voters
You can call that 'purity testing' if you want, but I'd say that the expectation for it to have no effect is just wishful thinking.
This feels like talking to anti-abortionist.
'When the issue is killing babies there's nothing to talk about.'
There was two options because the majority of Americans decided so for being fine with a two party system for decade if not more than a century . You can't blame third party voters which even if they all voted for Harris she would still lost for wanting change
he would have been better now than Trump is.
For Americans yes, for Gaza not all all. Trump being vocal about ethnic cleansing plan make you think he is a lot worse but the USA was never going to oppose Israel. Facts on the group is that the USA been giving billions dollars to Israel and unlimited diplomatic support no matter who is in charge. Democrats can't keep saying over and over about how Biden was trying to hard to stop the war , it won't make it true when no real pressure was done with actions supporting it.
We already forgot about Bush war crimes and don't want it to happen again.
Don't think I will forget that trump continued support the genocide when he is out either.
There were two options because the US has a FPtP voting system that always devolves to a two party system. The American voters didn't decide to go two part as a whole, it was predetermined.
I can absolutely blame third party and non voters. Everyone of them was complacent with a Trump victory, because unless they're completely ignorant, that was the known outcome. Doesn't matter how you want to paint it, that's the reality.
Keep lying yourself, keep complain, keep blaming third party voters and let the United Snake self destruct itself.
The reality is that third party voters has zero real effect on the ground about Harris losing . No amount of blaming will change that.
If you don't want to remind people about Biden complicity it's your choice but don;t tell other what to say
I been talking with multiple users on the post. I may get confused in certain points , forget some etc.
Lol it is you who do alternate facts. If every 3rd party voters voted harris she would still lost popular vote.
Just like cult follower you can't see facts
What's 75,000,000 + 2,800,000? Is it more than 77,300,000?
Math is hard for some people, and to those of you that struggle with it (the answer is yes, 77.8 million is more than 77.3 million) it may seem like alternative facts, but really, it's elementary level research and math.
His admin got a lot of good shit done and I think history will show it as one of the best presidencies in the past 30+ years, but Biden was and is a PoS for being complacent with genocide. I voted for the same complacent Harris and would have done the same for Biden because Trump was and is worse, but Trump being king of the shit pile doesn't absolve Biden's shittiness.
Voters and non voters are 100% to blame for Trump being POTUS, but that and Biden's admins accomplishments have no bearing on the quality of person that Biden is and was.
Biden continued the same policies every president had before him on Israel.
Genocide has become the left’s thought and conversation ending cliché.
Every president prior to Biden wasn't facing a full genocide in Palestine. I'm not saying it was sunshine and rainbows before, but it was full invasion genocide during Biden's tenure. The situation was very different, way worse, and while things should have been different for every president before Biden, he should have been better. He wasn't, and that's why he's a POS.
Also, the actions of other presidents has no bearing on Biden as a person. They were all independently also trash for many of their policies. They aren't mutually exclusive.
Why are you so hard on downplaying genocide? It should be a main topic in every conversation about US politics, because it's heinous. Like I've said, I voted for the lesser of two evils in the last two elections, I would have voted for Biden if it were him, but it doesn't excuse his actions.
Why are you so hard on downplaying genocide? It should be a main topic in every conversation about US politics, because it's heinous.
This is the updated version of ‘are you still beating your wife?’
This is the exact same as the anti-abortion activists screeching about the wholesale murder of babies.
I wish the world was as black and white as you desperately want it to be but if you scratch the surface you realize that it’s very complicated and nuanced and messy.
This isn't a single issue voter thing. This is condemning genocide and the people that enable it. It's not at all like anti abortion, because an abortion isn't murder while slaughtering living humans is. People that didn't vote for Biden on the grounds of Palestine are idiots, and I know they exist, but that's not what we're debating. We're debating the character of Joe Biden, genocide enabler.
If you don't think the genocide is a black and white issue, you're a fucking psycho. If you think that the genocide in Palestine is justified, you maybe had an argument for the first couple of days following the Hamas attack, but the moment it publicly went from trying to get back hostages to carpet bombing hospitals, shooting children, and blocking side to create a famine, you have nothing. That is black and white.
It’s thinking like that that makes wedge issues so effective.
I don’t think the genocide is justified but I think Biden was handling it much better then Trump currently is.
Lemme splain:
He expanded the IRS with, what, 84,000 agents?....under the guise of going after all the crooked billionaires. Everyone cheered!!! Then he set them against anyone who deposited $600.
The IRS immediately started harassing me for money that I absolutely DO NOT FUCKING OWE because that goddamn asshole told everyone to go out and justify their paycheck.
He didnt change any of the tax loopholes for billionaires. He attacked the working class instead.
He has ALWAYS been a right wing conservative, and he's a fucking demented asshole who should NEVER have been allowed near any nomination stage.
And he didnt win the nom in 2020. He was second to last ahead of Bloomberg. That shit was rigged because "its his turn! Remember obama??!!"
Then he REFUSED to defend the country from criminals and terrorists.
FUCK
JOE
BIDEN
I used the autofill function of lemmy without verifiying. That explain the lack of ponctuation.
As for his war crimes, is covering israelis war crimes which make him complicit aka also a war criminal under international law
Notice the distraction, pulling you away from a current harm and looking instead at an opportunity to blame for a past mistake.
Let’s reopen this criticism of these past mistakes later ok?
Mistake : an action, decision, or judgment that produces an unwanted or unintentional result
Biden and he knew very well what they was doing. That's not a mistake
I am sure that you agree that the statue of limitation do not apply to someone who committed a crime or assisted the killer. So why do you oppose condemning Biden and Miller and not forget what they did?
Let’s reopen this criticism of these past mistakes later ok?
Don't you mean never when did any American president been brought to justice for war crimes ?
Probably because it does nothing now while children are burning to death.
It should definitely not be forgotten... but it also shouldn't be our focus. Because if you focus on the inconsequential you get the situation we've constantly been in the last... well probably at least as long as the US has been a thing.
If this were more like reconstruction after the US civil war, where the damage has been done and we're trying to recover from it, it might be the same. Where forgiving past mistakes causes massive consequences that are still being felt. We're not at that point yet, if we ever manage to get there.
Not a single person in the world can fix all issues all at once. Most people can barely keep one important thing in their mind at a time. We have too many things to worry about to obsess about a group of people who have almost no power anymore. If the time comes when the pendulum swings back in their direction, sure, it's worth making it an issue... but the world is on fire and you seem to be spending an inordinate amount of time buying gasoline.
Stop trying to fight every battle all at once, and most importantly stop trying to get everyone else to care about every battle you're obsessed with fighting. They'll just end up treating it like everything else, too much to deal with.
Are people dying right now? That’s an immediate need, if so.
Are they in power right now? Campaigning for reelection right now? That’s an immediate need if so.
Please don’t demonize “let’s focus on immediate needs” as I feel that’s a reasonable thing to want.
Sure war criminals can be free with no accountability when they no longer in power.
What a terrible logic. We will demonize them as much as we want, you can't stop that.
Maybe if your presidents was held accountable like Bush , trump wouldn't feel free to do all the terrible thing he does.
Will you forgive trump and forget his crimes when he is out?
The immediate need is to not allow these weak willed genocide enablers anywhere near power again. We need the position of those connected to this administration to be in pile of pig manure, so that way we get people who aren't absolute fucking cowards doing less than the bare minimum to maintain their own system.
People are dying right now that Biden's administration could've saved, but because the cause long precedes the effect, we need to be looking farther ahead. Weak liberals will be complicit at best, and monsters at worst, so we need to work every day until the next somewhat fair election to make their brand weak.
When the fascists begin to bleed themselves dry, the left must lead the charge, not the money loving liberals. If we don't lay that groundwork before most can envision the fight, we'll have feudalists ushering in a "return to normalcy" with broad support from the public.
Doctors flee Trump’s America: 'It’s no longer safe or sane to practice here'
Earlier this year, as President Donald Trump was beginning to reshape the American government, Michael, an emergency room doctor who was born, raised, and trained in the United States, packed up his family and got out.
Michael now works in a small-town hospital in Canada. KFF Health News and NPR granted him anonymity because of fears he might face reprisal from the Trump administration if he returns to the U.S. He said he feels some guilt that he did not stay to resist the Trump agenda but is assured in his decision to leave. Too much of America has simply grown too comfortable with violence and cruelty, he said.
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What was the term back during Bush's war on peace?
"Extraordinary Rendition"
No. That was shipping "criminals" to torture camps and prisons in a third country so the US wouldn't be blamed for all the torture and illegal imprisonment.
That sounds familiar. Like recently familiar.
Still. Wonder if there's a name for kidnapping escaped scientists who fled the country and bringing them back. I bet there's a German word. There's always a German word. Might be 47 letters and entirely unpronounceable. But it probably exists.
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Past Trump has come back to haunt present Trump
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From the article, Google can technically let AOSP still exist while destroying it in practice:
what could happen is that Google takes Android closed source from here on out, spinning off whatever remains of AOSP up until that point into a separate company or project... This technically means “AOSP is not going away”,
From the author, a sentiment I fully agree with:
If in 2025 you still take statements from big tech based on best intentions, you're a fool.
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Gavin Newsom has shifted his stance on running for president
Gavin Newsom now says he could run president
Newsom has long implied that higher office wasn’t on his mind. Lately, he’s begun publicly acknowledging his presidential ambitions.Alexei Koseff (CalMatters)
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'Now The War Has Reached Us Too,' Russians Far From Ukraine Say After Drone Attacks
For more than three years, most of Russia has viewed the war sparked by the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from afar.
Now, some say, following an audacious attack by Ukraine that saw hordes of drones smuggled into Russia and then deployed on June 1 to wipe out dozens of long-range bombers, it has arrived on their doorstep.
In the Irkutsk, Murmansk, Ryazan, and Ivanovo regions, drones struck air bases, shocking Russian authorities and citizens.
"It was a fiery hell," residents of the Irkutsk region told RFE/RL's Siberia Realities.
In Siberia, some 4,000 km away, residents appeared to be shaken.
"Now the war has reached us too," residents told Siberia Realities.
'Now The War Has Reached Us Too,' Russians Far From Ukraine Say After Drone Attacks
For more than three years, most of Russia has viewed the war sparked by the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine from afar. Now, some say, an audacious attack by Kyiv deep inside Russia means it has arrived on their doorstep.RFE/RL's Siberia.Realities (RFE/RL)
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Reminds me of wildfires.
Australia was gripped by some of the worst wildfires in history, and it was said that, while wildfires are inevitable, climate change contributed to the scale of them.
Saw loads of Americans call it alarmism, abd not an issue because it was just Australia.
Then the next year America was gripped by some of the worst wildfires in history. Suddenly those same people were wondering if it could be that climate change thing.
Oh totally.
I’m on the us west coast and the national news (think USA today, cnn, fau, etc.) is all “there is smoky weather over there or smthn, anyway here is a monkey dancing” each summer (local news is covering the smoke obviously)
BUT as soon as it started drifting eastward and reached Nyc/DC then the news lit up with it about climate change/hazardous conditions.
Funny how that happens
and now we collaborate quite nicely! we share fire fighting helicopters and fire fighters often fly over to help each other, since our seasons are offset
hopefully that remains and isn’t just seen as “giving things away” and used as a bargaining chip in a perverse game of number go up
Are you implying Ukraine was wrong to pull off this attack?
Because that smells like Russian apologism.
Edit yeah you can see whenever you catch Russians when they're thought they were being "smart". It's honestly ridiculous how low your bar is for that. It's almost like interacting with another species.
Well this attack is to make Russia realise they should stop killing Ukrainians?
Ukraine isn't doing it for fun, you know?
There were dozens of long range bomber destroyed. Bombers which have been dropping bombs on Ukraine, killing people.
So now there's less of that.
So... why the comment about "maybe stop killing people?" That's literally what Ukraine is trying to achieve with this.
Edit you downvote all you want Ruski bots
Oh I do. Lemmy is filled with Russian bots, who the fuck cares about votes? Lol.
So it's a pacifist comment then?
Because either it realises this attack destroyed equipment thats used to kill people, thus leading to less killing (ie on the way to stopping killing) or it's a "Ukraine shouldn't be bombing Russia, everyone should just live in peace" which is just dogwhistling Russian propaganda as there's definitely not any actual Ukrainian pacifists here.
And they're the ones getting bombed. But you're just here for a snarky oneliners, you don't possess the capacity to argue it.
Run along kiddo
Yeah, anyone who isn't a screaming idiot can see it.
I'm a Finnish person, in the Finnish reserves. I gladly kill Russians who break international laws, like the pathetic sack of shit Putin is.
And I can prove that.
I'm not like davel@lemmy.ml who claims to be American while sucking Putler's cock, spreading Russian propaganda.
From the downvotes and still not receiving an explanation to the first comment, yeah, everyone with a basic education from a developed country would know, yes. I assume that grouping doesn't involve, among others, you.
Dare you say any of those things or are you a pussy afraid of getting arrested over writing things online and then "having an accident"?
Yes, the old "mentally ill people have nothing to contribute".
Ever stopped to think about how stupid that fucking argument is, since more intelligence usually means a highers likelyhood of mental disorders?
Some of these leading professors in bipolar diseases take heavy doses if lithium for their personal bipolar diseases.
Disregarding that, the implication you're making is that there aren't Russian trolls on Lemmy, and definitely not a concerted effort of any sort, ever. And if there are Russian troll on Lemmy, they certainly wouldn't lie about being Russian trolls. Like davel@lemmy.ml is always admitting he's a Russian shill.
Oh no wait, he's always pretending to be an American.. How weird, isn't it?
Edit, weird how you stopped accusing me of being a Russian troll? 
There is a ignore button for you to use.
I've always found it enlightening when people assert their personal feelings as objective truth. Tells a lot about you, as a person.
So, you don't believe in Russian disinfo?
Why did you stop calling me a Russian troll?
Why can't you answer ANYTHING?
I've always found it enlightening when people assert their personal feelings as objective truth.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Whst exactly do you think I've asserted at any point in this thread, except for personal facts about me, like that I'm part of the Finnish Defence Forces?
I've explicitly stated I've not asserted anyone being definitely something. So please, do enlighten me?
Perhaps your English isn't yet on the level where you can distinguish "assert" and "imply"?
You realise you're still avoiding insanely simple questions, right?
Unlike some, no matter what I say here, I don't have to fear physical reprisal. Unlike Russians. In Russia, being a journalist is extremely fucking dangerous, and that's why most Russians are afraid for their lives and would never admit what a small-cock authoritarian Putin is.
Eugh. Such a bore, just vomiting the names of fallacies, not even understanding how one uses them.
Well, make it clear for everyone. You admit that Putin is a war criminal who should be seized and trialed for crimes against humanity, IMMEDIATELY? Right?
Why on Earth would you imply I "think otherwise"? Oh right, your verbal skills aren't enough to answer a single fucking question in English.
I forgot, izvini comrade.
edit just a reminder, this is my personal knife, and it's explicitly for killing Russian war criminals;
Stress on the pronoun "I" there.
I'm manufacturing defense of Putin? Me? A member of the Finnish Defence Force? A Finnish reserve member, trained to kill cyka ruskis?
Me who's saying Putin is a pathetic balding whore afraid to even appear in public because his country hates him so? Putler, who has an ICC warrant ouf for his arrest?
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I bet you don't dare to say any of those things.
Please, prove me wrong in that aspect. Please
ps how much military training you have?
No, I didn't misunderstand it at all.
I'm clarifying it.
You don't understand how clever Russian disinfo is. That is a comment that should be read as "Hey, Russia, please stop and Ukraine won't have to keep doing this to you" but it can also be read as "War is always bad, so this too was bad".
The fact there's two options and this is a pro-Ukraine article means it needs clarification. Because Russian disinfo accounts rely on things like that to build credibility to their accounts. If you're not completely sure when checking an account, if it's a little messy to figure out who a person is for and who they're not for, you're more likely to give up. And then that account can continue.
Lemmy is fucking infested with Russians.
And if you think this is cynic or paranoid or whatever, I've a bridge to sell you
Mate, as much as I want to believe you and I think you are right in general terms, in this particular case it is a false positive I have not tagged this account and I've glanced the account and I didn't see anything that would be tankie like.
However yes lemmy is infested with Russian disinfo but this ain't it chief.
I'm definitely not implying the first account is pro-Russian. (I didn't even check the profile)
I'm just pointing out there's an alternative way to see it, and we should be mindful of the sort of language we use and the implications it has.
Ah well, if you trust everyone on the internet, dear stranger, then so do I.
Henceforth I shall never question anything. It's not like bad actors actually exist.
Why bother retaining any sort of suspicion towards anything? It'd just be a waste of energy. Well meaning people have never been taken advantage of as far as I remberer.
I’m clarifying it.
That's the issue. You misunderstood and you try again and again to be right on the internet. It won't work. May I suggest some meditation? meditofoundation.org/ is free.
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Youre simplifying it.
Why is it that people online think they're masters of nuance, and other people just don't even understand what the word means?
Do you have any idea how good Russian disinfo is? That's like the only thing I'll ever give them credit for; spycraft and manipulation. They're fucking experts at it. CIA relies on machines and could never manufacture campaigns to shift Russian public opinion on the scale that Russia manufactures opinions in the Anglosphere. Russia uses people, and extremely effectively. Social engineering more than hacking, simply put.
I meditate daily, probably since you were born. If you speak Finnish, I'd suggest listening to Väinö Pertamo "Itserentoutushypnoosi" to learn the basics. Unfortunately even if you find the clip and manage to read the words said in it, I don't think it will work, because it's so much about the timbre of dr Pertamo. Basically more than half the lesson is not about the words.
Anyway, that aside, the point is I genuinely am glad of the downvotes. That will make some people question, why? It is quite the innocent comment. But to say it's obviously the meaning which is more likely, is well, to fall into the trap.
I'm not saying what it is. I'm pointing out that vaguely positively comments on Ukraine communities are something which Russian accounts use at the start to render credibility to their accounts, without having actually said anything that's not in-line with their propaganda.
You can jest and say I misunderstood and am making shit up, or that I'm being paranoid, but again, I simply care more about actually having this argument out there than you mocking me for it. For all I know, (and I underline I do not believe in this at all, but it is possible, if not even plausible), you're part of it. As me making that point would reveal that tactic, rendering it less useful unless it's "thoroughly debunked".
That's what happens with all of it. Once I caught davel@lemmy.ml, we went on for days, him claiming he's American. Now he doesn't even post anywhere else than lemmy.ml, because he knows he can't mod, so he doesn't want to, because he knows I or some other troll-hunter will be on him like stink on a pile of shit for the pretend-American he is.
And he's probably not even paid, just a nationalist moron. The people who actually get paid aren't that stupid.
Because again, Russia is terrifyingly good at manipulating people.
Although a part is ofc the ubiquitous nature of English and somewhat arcane nature of Russian. It's easier for a Russian to pretend to be from the West than the other way around. Except in voice chats. Reminds me of when I caught a Russian on the Irish national discord. He claimed he was Irish, but lucky for me their egos are easy to hurt. Dude didn't even know what a limerick was or where Limerick is. Once I managed him on voice, he had such a strong fucking Russian accent, and the most pathetic attempt at hiding it and trying a cartoonish Irish one.
It was hilarious.
So again, mock me all you want. No such thing as bad pr when it comes to talking about Russian disinformation
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Hate crime against gay people isn’t recognised by law
...it's not recognised in e.g. Germany either? Crime is recognised by law which plenty of states consider plenty. Punching people outside of self-defence is wrong doesn't really matter to many jurisdictions why you're doing it.
Protections against workplace etc. discrimination were introduced in 2014, gay marriage is on society's agenda but as so often the first reading was controversial and now there's a war and the constitution can't be changed, anyway.
You could say the same thing about people getting hospitalised at prides about Poland. Ukraine is a post-soviet state so the starting point was "not great, not terrible" (that is, it wasn't literally illegal to be gay but no social acceptance whatsoever), and is moving in the right direction. Don't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
Do note that the likes of right sector don't have wider societal backing. Politically, they're very much fringe.
You could say the same thing about people getting hospitalised at prides about Poland
Yes, Poland is a reactionary hellhole too. Being compared to Poland in gay policy is fucking dire.
is moving in the right direction
I hope you're right
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It was a fiery hell
No it fucking wasnt, they just destroyed some planes and you watched them burn from a few kilometers away. Victim complex ass people.
Major companies abandon law firms that signed deals with Trump: report
Major companies in the U.S. have begun shifting legal work away from prominent law firms that struck deals with the Trump administration, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ reported on a legal luncheon at Manhattan's Cipriani restaurant in May, where Brooke Cucinella, a top lawyer at the hedge-fund Citadel, told other lawyers present that they like working with lawyers who don't run from a fight.
Not only are firms that struck deals losing clients, but those actively challenging the Trump administration in court are attracting new corporate business, per the WSJ.
Major Companies Abandon Law Firms That Signed Deals with Trump: Report
Law firms that struck deals with the Trump administration are facing corporate consequences according to reports.Sophie Clark (Newsweek)
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Major companies in the U.S. have begun shifting legal work away from prominent law firms that struck deals with the Trump administration, according to The Wall Street Journal.
You and I both called this.
Not only are firms that struck deals losing clients, but those actively challenging the Trump administration in court are attracting new corporate business, per the WSJ.
Based.
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It makes sense.
How do the clients know that these law firms aren't sending every bit of confidential information to the Trump administration, attorney/client privilege be damned? Even if they are breaking the law in the process, why would it matter? The Trump administration can just hand-wave that away. Even if the law firms don't want to turn over the information, what do you think they're going to do when Trump says "Hand it over or I've got another EO waiting on my desk to be signed."?
These law firms have been compromised, and no sane client should be retaining them.
Walmart Workers Share Photos of Price Increases
Another product on the Walmart site that spiked in price was a left-handed fishing reel. It rose from $57.37 to $83.26 from April to May, a jump of 45 percent, with a post on Reddit showing the two price stickers. Aisle Gopher's price history says that the price of the reel was $51.12 on March 14.Another Reddit post showed an increase in the price of cocoa powder from $3.44 in May 2024 to $6.18 in April 2025.
Walmart Workers Share Photos of Price Increases
Walmart announced plans to raise prices on some products in May as a result of President Donald Trump's tariffs.Marni Rose McFall (Newsweek)
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and anyone with critical thinking capacity knows/has known that
I'd love to see this same perspective voiced with equal indignation when Joe Biden campaigns with black people and pledges support for BLM, but then doubles down on militarizing the police once elected. (Among other outright lies.)
Trump voters and all non-voters should not be immune from accepting their share of it.
Absolutely not. If you want people to vote for you, you have to give them something to vote for. Despite knowing the deep unpopularity of Biden's presidency and campaign, the Democrats crowned a weak candidate (wait no, two weak candidates really) who promised to change nothing about it. If we're being reasonable here, one has to credit Democrats' outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.
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Protest non-voter apologia, excuses, and mental gymnastics
Some day, maybe, they'll take responsibility for their own actions. Today is not that day.
Much like the Democrats who told poor people that they should, you know, just be joyful about it.
Then again, to take responsibility would require some introspection.
You of course can blame whoever you want, deep state, establishment, democratic party (never republicans though, for some reason), but that would be the deflection. Up until recently, US had a shitty but semi-functioning democracy, and whatever is happening is a result of your collective chosing.
one has to credit Democrats’ outright stupidity and obstinance in the face of a base demanding real change.
They're beholden to the same forces of campaigning and capital in a first-past -the-post system. If they wanted change that matters, their financial backers pull out.
So how's their strategy working out for them?
There are two groups at fault here:
1) The protest voters refusing to take the simplest action to prevent what is now happening.
2) The people who said "we're not going to try to change or improve anything because we're running against a literal dictator so it's not like we have to actually try to improve people's lives. What are they going to do? Let Hitler win?"
So how’s their strategy working out for them?
For the privileged classes, it's working out splendidly. For now anyway.
The fundamental problem with American politics is that you've got a party of callous, narcissistic far-right lunatics slavishly loyal to Capital that only knows how to lie, cheat, and be corrupt as all get out while the news media endlessly runs cover and gaslights the country into believing they're actually quite moderate and reasonable.
And then you've got the Republican Party coming in to replace them and make everything worse.
This isn't a problem of "Critical Thinking". This is a problem of the Bastions of Liberalism electing Gavin Newsom as Governor of the West Coast and Eric Adams as Mayor of the East Coast. And these are your top picks for President in 2028. Meanwhile, the furthest left-wing voices in the party are so utterly buck-broken that they can't admit they've once again kicked several billion dollars towards genocide. The moderate liberals in the purple states are vetoing wildly popular legislation that kinda-sorta prohibits price gouging in rental unit markets. The party leadership fully embraces cryptocurrency as a rich vein of fundraising cash. The conservative wing of the Ds is full on TERF
Think critically about the current state of the American political establishment and what you realize is that you're boxed in. Everyone of note is bought and paid for. The population is fully gaslit by a consent manufacturing machine running on overdrive. The best case scenario for someone of liberal disposition is that the government simply ignores you. The worst case is that gestapo punch through your door and drag you to an overseas prison to be tortured to death.
Republicans are frothing at the mouth for more, more, more. Democrats only know how to shrug, pocket more donor money, and tell you that Biden would have fixed everything if you'd just voted for him.
In states, some Democrats back anti-trans bills
Democrats in conservative districts are choosing to vote against LGBTQ equality groups, and the last Democratic president.David Weigel (www.semafor.com)
That’s why a total Revolution is the only actual solution.
Total Revolution is difficult and requires a very active, committed group of supporters acting both within and outside the administration. Absolutely something you want to aim for, but often the product of generations of struggle.
You could, for instance, argue that the current Trump/DOGE government is a kind of (counter-)revolution that is finally overturning the Progressive Era of liberal democratic government. But this was a project that played out over decades, with each new wave of outsiders agitating and being rebuffed and regrouping to try again, while moderates on the inside cleared more and more space for radicals to infiltrate and overturn the New Deal and the Warren Court.
If the Democrats wanted to try reform they would be acting completely different.
The deeply unsettling and grisly truth is that Democrats are as much a part of the Trump/DOGE government as the Republicans. Liberals demand a return to Clinton-Era governance and Chuck Schumer responds by posting taco memes while complaining about Trump being weak on Iran. They have been as much a force in moving our country towards fascism as the Republicans, through constantly splitting and vilifying the progressive opposition while holding out deceitful promises of reforms they never planned to implement.
Like, we're in the midst of a Revolution. It's just not the kind folks on this site want.
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No, it's not.
It's the fault of the Democrats, who had an abundance of information about the unpopularity of Biden and his presidency, and then made a series of awful decisions about the presidential campaign, not the least of which being nominating a weak candidate who prioritized Biden's ego over appealing to voters.
You also cannot tell voters who've been getting poorer while you've ruled that you won't change anything, and definitely shouldn't tell them to be joyful about it.
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Is it not the voters fault though?It’s the fault of the Democrats
...and...
You also cannot tell voters who’ve been getting poorer while you’ve ruled that you won’t change anything,
The opponent promised all kinds of things to voters who had been getting poorer, most of those promises were straight up fantasy, while others were distorted mistruths.
In your mind, do you think voters are free from have any responsibility for critical thinking? If a known liar is lying to you and you take action supporting those lies, should you be responsible when the lies are indeed shown to be lies?
and definitely shouldn’t tell them to be joyful about it.
This is the second time you've used this exact same language. Can you cite the source where you're saying Democrats told people they should be joyful?
If a known liar is lying to you and you take action supporting those lies, should you be responsible when the lies are indeed shown to be lies?
If I'm starving to death, and the most trustworthy man in the world says "I will do nothing to help you" while the most dishonest man in the world (Donald Trump) says "I will shower you with more food than you have ever seen in your life" I'm going to take my chances with the dishonest man. Maybe the lie is how much but there will still be something. Better than a guaranteed nothing.
If I’m starving to death, and the most trustworthy man in the world says “I will do nothing to help you” while the most dishonest man in the world (Donald Trump) says “I will shower you with more food than you have ever seen in your life” I’m going to take my chances with the dishonest man. Maybe the lie is how much but there will still be something. Better than a guaranteed nothing.
Except its not a "better than a guaranteed nothing". The liar didn't just not shower you with food, he stripped you of what little clothing you had left, and threw you out in the desert to die faster, and he even has a history of that, so its not like you didn't know the liar was capable of it.
Best case scenario with the honest man: he does nothing and I starve to death. Worst case scenario with the lying man: I starve to death anyway. May as well try changing things.
Sure, maybe I starve to death faster, but you give most people a choice between "100% chance you starve to death" and "99% chance you starve to death and 1% chance you don't" and they will take the 1% chance.
At least the lying man admits there's a fucking problem. "Everything is fine and nothing needs to change" was not a good strategy.
Best case scenario with the honest man: he does nothing and I starve to death. Worst case scenario with the lying man: I starve to death anyway. May as well try changing things.
With the lying man, as in my example, you won't starve to death, you'll die from exposure long before you die of starvation. If you're seeing dying much sooner as direct result of his actions as an equal outcome, I'm not sure what to tell you.
At least the lying man admits there’s a fucking problem.
He's not admitting there's a problem, he saying whatever he thinks you want to hear to give him your vote. This man stiffed his own employees and contractors on a regular basis. On what evidence in his entire life, did you arrive at the conclusion that rich donald trump wanted to do anything at all to improve the life of people like us? Not words. Actions.
We don't have to speak in theoreticals though. trump won. Are you glad he got voted in? Is your life better now? Or is this now worse than under Biden?
If you’re seeing dying much sooner as direct result of his actions as an equal outcome, I’m not sure what to tell you.
There's dying, or a 1% chance of not dying. These are in fact not equal.
he saying whatever he thinks you want to hear to give him your vote
Which to someone starving to death is a lot better than someone saying "everything is fine, keep the status quo".
Are you glad he got voted in?
Nope. I was spending time trying to argue with people to do the bare fucking minimum to stop this, and the Democrats did not help with their campaign of "lets change nothing because everything is fine."
Is your life better now?
Not an American. I'll be fine. I can just understand why someone who is desperate (which according to polls is over 50% of your population) could decide to vote for someone who says they want to fucking change things, instead of the people saying everything is fine and they will change nothing.
Donald lied repeatedly
No It Won’tNo it won’t.
It just won’t. None of that will happen.
You’re getting worked up over nothing. Everything is going to be fine. So just relax, okay? You’re really overreacting.
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t
George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.The Onion Staff (The Onion)
Why would we not blame the voters?
Ignorance is not an excuse. We should not normalize that.
They were told, repeatedly, by everyone, including every economist in existence, that tariff's would be a tax on consumers. They didn't listen, because they're fucking assholes.
This guy has already lied to them many, many, many times over. They didn't learn either because they're unbelievably stupid, or committed to hurting others so much that they chose to turn a blind eye to the lies.
Of course I'm blaming the voters.
I commend these employees for posting the price increases.
Despite TACO Don's lies, really, we all knew this was coming. It's good to have validation, regardless.
As best I can tell from Trump administration statements, their strategy for mitigating their political damage has been to publicly demand that WalMart and other companies just take losses as he increases their input costs.
That's not going to happen, but I suppose that it doesn't matter, if enough people believe that it could.
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Liberal: "Haha, stupid conservatives, now we're all going to drown together, you idiot."
Conservative: "Fucking smug liberals, I'm going to put another big hole in this boat, just to show them."
Leftist: "Shit! Fuck! Guys, please let's not drown. We need to come together as working people and fight to reclaim the boat we've all worked so hard to build."
Liberal/Conservative In Unison: "God damn Tankies. This is all their fault. Let's throw'm overboard."
Walmart Chief Financial Officer John David Rainey previously told Newsweek: "As we look ahead, while operating conditions are expected to remain dynamic, our strategy is clear, our top-line momentum is strong, and we are flexing into our advantages to protect margins as we grow."
"Look, lord knows what our fuckwit President will do next, but our plan is clear. While our profits continue to be strong, we'll use our heft to squeeze suppliers and our near monopoly in rural areas to squeeze customers. In any case, we'll protect our bottom line and continue to grow."
Lemmy is big on making fun of "forever growth". But that's how the world has always worked, there is no ideal steady state. We Americans are within a couple of years of slamming into the brick wall of "can't buy shit".
Nothing will save us but straight raping the rich for what they've done to us. And since they've bought and paid for all the mechanisms to claw back even a morsel, too late. There will quickly come a time when they can no longer be their own best customers. We provide the labor, value and purchasing power.
I spent more for groceries than I ever have before last week.
I'm not looking forward to the future.
As a USian that just got back from world travel, the only freedom we have here that’s different from many places is the freedom from nasty-ass tobacco smoke EVERYFUCKINGWHERE. It’s the only freedom we have that’s better at home than elsewhere.
Also the weed and beer are way better here.
I do think it's ironic that a chunk of the places that have universal healthcare still have a massive smoking problem.
I can't help but wonder in a silver-linings-to-shit-stains kind of way if part of the reason smoking was curbed as much as it was in the states (aside from successful votes/lobbying) is because it's too expensive to die from.
(although I am a wimp in the cold).
it's 18°C here, and I'm frozen. No way i'd ever survive in Canadia.
There are only two places on Earth:
- Countries called the US
- Countries the US is planning to invade next
You've got some catching up to do then.
Pink is countries the UK has invaded. Purple is everyone else.
Newsweek has reached out to Walmart outside of regular working hours via an online contact form.
Lol gotta love how Newsweek doesn't even have someone they can reach out to at Walmart. At this point Walmart's PR department is probably an intern with a microsoft copilot account since no matter what shitty thing they do nothing happens to them and people still shop there.
You know where you notice this? As an American buying appliances in Europe. You can buy a front loading washing machine for 300€, including VAT. A refrigerator? 400€. Three years ago I paid 1800 for a fridge in the us, and last year bought a scratch and dent special washing machine for $600
Edit: and US prices are not including Tax.
The oven fan drives me nuts. It allows them to sell stupid shit like air fryers. Put convection in my fucking oven and stop charging up to $1000 extra for the option.
Also the combo washer dryer. I stayed with friends in Belgium for a month over 25 years ago. They had a front load washer/dryer. One appliance. We are now finally seeing these in North America but they suck balls and are really expensive.
Oh I hate them combos, great in theory often poor in practice. They are usually in rental properties here, cheap and cheerful resolution.
The ovens are crazy, no wonder the US have all these appliances. My oven steams and a dude on here would not believe me saying its not practical to have an industrial oven in my house.
To be fair though we have a higher voltage residential supply too so you guys might not be able to as effectively use this shit.
Due ye have dual supply or step up?
To be fair I got what I paid for, I paid shy of two grand for two full size ovens that include a steam and microwave function. We use them all the time. Do you guys have down draft hobs? Best thing I ever bought for the kitchen.
I'm not a typical North American. I have a full kitchen outside my house in an outbuilding that is fully set up as a commercial kitchen on three phase power. Inside my house I have typical shitty North American appliances. The "outdoor" kitchen is all second hand bought at auction commercial restaurant appliances. Gas stove tops. Commercial electric ovens. Vent hoods. The whole thing. It's taken years and years to build up.
We grow, forage and raise a lot of our own food and have a small galley style kitchen in our little house that just isn't practical for large batch stuff like butchering and canning.
HitlerPig's primary campaign promise was to lower prices, which were already under control. Now prices are going up significantly, and the media isn't going after him for it. I have heard him claim in multiple interviews that gas is $2 a gallon, and yet I've never heard a journalist challenge that easily disputable lie. There is not a single place in this country where gas is $2, so why aren't they demanding answers when he says this? Where is it $2?
Every interview should be demanding how he intends to bring down prices, like he promised, and when it will happen.
Well, you see, the people who voted for him weren't actually expecting lower prices, they were expecting racism, because they're racists.
So far he's delivered on schedule.
To be fair, there's a portion of Trump voters that just believe him because they're idiots who don't pay attention to any news and lack even the most basic critical thinking skills. I know from firsthand experience as several of my family members are in this category.
They're not red hat wearers but voted for him because they're poor and he said he'd make things cheaper. They're surprisingly not racist, but their stupidity supports racism.
And most of them are socialists. I sat my reliably republican voting aunt down and had a discussion about policy. Point for point. Healthcare. Immigration. Labor. Even stuff like gay marriage. Point by point I proved to her that she was and always has been a socialist. But the instant the big scary S word left my mouth her pavlovian conditioning kicked in. I was a fool and an idiot. Didn't know what I was talking about. etc.
She shut down the convo.
Always have to clarify for the pedant that can't use context clues...
I thought it was made up organically by internet users as the source, rather than repeated from some peice of media.
In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945
the US struck a secret agreement with Ishii. In a memo to General Douglas MacArthur (1880 – 1964), commander of Allied forces in Japan, Washington recognized that although war crimes had been committed, the experiments led by Ishii and his colleagues were "almost incalculable and incredibly valuable to the United States."In exchange for the records of Unit 731's experiments, the US granted Ishii and his assistants immunity. Ishii died, and his collaborators went on to have careers in prestigious universities and private laboratories.
In Japan, newly released archives reveal the scale of human experimentation between 1938 and 1945
Newly uncovered documents confirm Japan's ambition to develop biological weapons during the Pacific War. The infamous Unit 731 of the Imperial Army in Harbin, China, was not the only group to use human test subjects.Philippe Pons (Le Monde)
Gig model of Russian subversion is a nightmare for Western intelligence services
Gig model of Russian subversion is a nightmare for Western intelligence services
The model works well for the Kremlin because it allows it to easily recruit freelancers, or “disposable agents” as they’re sometimes called.Elisabeth Braw (POLITICO)
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“We anticipate worsening conditions across all directions this summer,” said the senior lieutenant in the Kostyantynivka area. “Personnel are exhausted. There are not enough rotations. Everyone is operating at the edge of their limits.”
Le previsioni negative di Peter Brandt sui Bitcoin lasciano perplessi molti analisti
Le previsioni negative di Peter Brandt sui Bitcoin lasciano perplessi molti analisti
Bitcoin e il rischio crollo del 75%: verità o esagerazione? Il mercato delle criptovalute è costantemente soggetto a cicli di espansion...Antonio Marano (Blogger)
Forcibly disappeared Egyptian poet marks 145 days in UAE detention, family calls for release
Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi was extradited from Lebanon to the UAE in January, with no information disclosed to his family as to his charges and whereabouts.Qaradawi was arrested in Lebanon in January, and extradited to the UAE over a video he posted to social media while visiting Syria, in which he expressed critical views of the Egyptian, Emirati and Saudi authorities.
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In March, a group of United Nations human rights experts raised the alarm over Qaradawi’s continued forced disappearance, and called on the UAE to disclose his whereabouts.
They further expressed concern regarding the legal process of Qaradawi’s extradition, which was triggered by an arrest warrant issued by the little-known security body, the Arab Interior Ministers’ Council (AIMC), saying that the move was politically motivated and not based on legal criteria.
The extradition process orchestrated by the AIMC, they said, “is being abused by some states to silence criticism, shut down dissent, and pursue activists beyond their borders”.
The Arab Interior Ministers Council: What is it and why are there human rights concerns?
Read More »Qaradawi is one of an increasing number of perceived political dissidents targeted for extradition by the AIMC on seemingly political charges.
The experts also warned that Qaradawi could face further extradition to Egypt, where he faces a three-year prison sentence for “spreading false news”.
Forcibly disappeared Egyptian poet marks 145 days in UAE detention, family calls for release
The family of disappeared Turkish-Egyptian poet Abdul Rahman al-Qaradawi have issued a plea to the Emirati government for his release, as he marks 145 days of solitary confinement at an unknown location in the country.Katherine Hearst (Middle East Eye)
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Russia is using its army to try and take more of Ukraine. It's using its passports to control the population
For more than three years, every time 67-year-old Iryna and her husband stepped beyond their front door, the Ukrainian couple feared for their lives.
They could be caught up in shelling or in a drone strike — or end up being interrogated by security agents at gunpoint as they tried to cross a checkpoint in the southern part of Kherson region, an area still under Russian control.
Iryna, who CBC News agreed to identify only by her first name due to her concerns about retribution from Russia, said she and her husband felt they had no choice but to get Russian passports last year. That was when the local stores closed and it became impossible to get groceries without going through a Russian checkpoint.
Like many other Ukrainians, she and her husband accepted Russian citizenship because they feared what would happen if they didn't.
there are people here who believe the english language doesn't only deserve zero respect, it deserves active disrespect. I personally use proper punctuation and grammar when trying to be authoritative, but i also think getting upset about people not following arbitrary formalities is pointless in this context. no capital is involved; no laws either. so long as i am understood, who fucking cares?
if that's not an energy you can get comfortable with, then i really doubt this'll be the only problem you have with lemmy's culture
Japan whaling ship returns after taking 25 fin whales in Sea of Okhotsk
About 320 tons of fin whale meat were unloaded at Sendai port in Miyagi Prefecture on Monday, with some 1.6 tons set to be transported to six markets across the country including Tokyo and Osaka as raw meat.
Japan whaling ship returns after taking 25 fin whales in Sea of Okhotsk
A commercial whaling ship returned to a port in northeastern Japan on Monday carrying 25 fin whales taken in the Sea of Okhotsk.Japan Today
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There are traditional cultures that hunt whales, like Inuit people. But they take one whale, not 25.
Japan is not hunting in a traditional way nor holding to what their ancestors did.
That's fair. But Japan is harvesting fin whales that are second in size to the blue whale. Those whales are facing a huge proplem with overhunting.
The Faroes hunt is for pilot whales and dolphins which are not facing as an extreme population degradation.
How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules
How MAGA Lobbying is Undermining EU Climate Rules - DeSmog
“The CSDDD is the greatest threat to America’s sovereignty since the fall of the Soviet Union,” the Heartland Institute, a pro-Trump U.S. think tank, tweeted on 31 March.Sam Bright (DeSmog)
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Manjaro KDE Plasma is planned to move to Wayland
Manjaro KDE Plasma is planned to move to Wayland
Hello there! I was using Wayland for quite a while and things are more or less smooth (NVIDIA proprietary driver). I think it’s time for Manjaro to move to Wayland by default for both Plasma session and SDDM.Manjaro Linux Forum
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I'm partly to blame for this.
I have telemetry turned on and recently switched to Wayland. They're looking at the data and decided me switching was the final straw.
My Manjaro desktop already migrated.
I decided to install Plasma next to XFCE to see if I liked it. Then I thought I might as well try Wayland too.
Turns out the combo works great, even with games and Steam, so I'm quite happy with it.
Wayland had/has a couple of missing features. Personally, it's nothing I use so I've been on Wayland for years now, but if you care about those missing features, then they won't work.
Honestly I don't even remember what they were anymore. I think screen capture was a big one though.
Danielle Smith Pitches Tanker Ban Exception for Prince Rupert Pipeline Terminal
Danielle Smith Pitches Tanker Ban Exception for Prince Rupert Pipeline Terminal - DeSmog
The Alberta premier suggested feds could “carve” the northern port out of the legislation, making way for a new oil corridor to the coast.Taylor Noakes (DeSmog)
Manjaro Linux tornará o Wayland ativado por padrão
O Ubuntu não é a única distribuição Linux planejando uma grande mudança, pois o Manjaro KDE Plasma também planeja migrar para o Wayland.
Em uma postagem no fórum do Manjaro, Artem Grinev, responsável pelo KDE, intitulada "Manjaro KDE Plasma planeja migrar para o Wayland", ele afirmou: "Tenho usado o Wayland há um bom tempo, e as coisas estão mais ou menos estáveis (com o driver proprietário da NVIDIA). Acho que é hora do Manjaro migrar para o Wayland por padrão, tanto para a sessão Plasma quanto para o SDDM."
A postagem é curta e direta, com um pequeno FAQ e algumas opções de votação para os membros do fórum do Manjaro relatarem sua experiência atual com o Wayland.
Na imagem: a versão mais recente do Manjaro KDE Plasma
Esperamos que, quando a mudança for realizada, tudo ocorra sem problemas.
Mais detalhes na postagem do fórum.
Ubuntu 25.10 goes all-in with Wayland, dropping support for GNOME on Xorg
The Canonical Desktop Team have announced that starting with Ubuntu 25.10, they're going all-in with GNOME on Wayland.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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A BILL To prohibit the delivery of opioids by means of the dark web, and for other purposes.
Dark Web Interdiction Act of 2025
Here is the text of a bill introduced to Congress (US), ostensibly to combat the trafficking of opioids over "The Dark Web". There's a nice definition of "The Dark Web" at section 4.
I like the part where it says people are using "The Dark Web" both within the United States and "at the international border".
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1975/text/is?overview=closed&format=xml
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I like the part where it says people are using “The Dark Web” both within the United States and “at the international border”.
Because that would put essentially all computer crimes in ICE jurisdiction.
Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
Hong Kong invokes its national security laws to ban Taiwanese-made mobile game Reversed Front: Bonfire, marking the first known use of the laws to block a game
Hong Kong bans gaming app that police say incites ‘armed revolution’ against China
Gamers say it shows the government’s ‘fear of freedom’ as it extends its grip on dissent in the city.By RFA Cantonese (Radio Free Asia)
Right-wing opposition candidate Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election
Right-wing opposition presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki has won Poland’s presidential election, official results show. With 100% of districts having reported results, Nawrocki won 50.89% of the vote against 49.11% for his centrist, government-aligned rival, Rafał Trzaskowski.
Turnout stood at 71.63%, which is a record for a Polish presidential election, beating the 68.23% seen in 1995. It is also the second-highest turnout among all post-1989 Polish elections, behind only the 74.38% at the 2023 parliamentary election.
The outcome represents a remarkable victory for Nawrocki, a political novice who had never previously stood for elected office and trailed Trzaskowski in the polls for virtually the entire campaign. It will also have a huge influence on how Poland is governed during his five-year term.
Trzaskowski, who is deputy leader of Poland’s main ruling party, the centrist Civic Platform (PO), would have worked closely with the ruling coalition of PO Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
However, Nawrocki, technically an independent but whose candidacy was supported by the national-conservative opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party, is likely to wield his veto and other presidential powers to stymie the government’s agenda, just as the current PiS-aligned incumbent Andrzej Duda has done.
Trzaskowski, a multilingual former minister for European affairs and member of the European Parliament, would also have favoured closer relations with Brussels while Nawrocki – who was endorsed by the Trump administration during the campaign – is a eurosceptic who favours strong ties with Washington.
Sunday’s run-off vote came two weeks after Trzaskowski and Nawrocki had emerged as the top two candidates among 13 who stood in the first round two weeks earlier.
The initial exit poll, published immediately as voting ended at 9 p.m., placed Trzaskowski narrowly ahead, on 50.3%. However, with a margin of error of around 2 percentage points, that poll made the result too close to call.
Updated versions of the exit poll published later on Sunday and in the early hours of Monday – which also included the first official results as they began to filter through – showed a reversal of the situation, with Nawrocki now leading on 50.7%. That led many analysts to call the win for Nawrocki.
Among the first to congratulate Nawrocki on Monday morning was Duda, whose second and final term in office ends in August this year.
“It was a difficult, sometimes painful, but incredibly courageous fight for Poland, for how the affairs of our homeland are to be conducted,” wrote Duda, who endorsed Nawrocki during the campaign. “Thank you for this heroic fight until the last minute…Thank you…for the victory! Bravo!”
Duda, who himself defeated Trzaskowski at the 2020 presidential election, also thanked the losing candidate for his “determination in the fight for the presidency…[and] willingness to take responsibility for Poland”.
Neither Nawrocki nor Trzaskowski have yet commented on the result, but the first foreign leader to issue congratulations to Nawrocki was Petr Pavel, president of the neighbouring Czech Republic.
“I believe that, under his leadership, Poland will continue to develop its democratic and pro-Western direction and that our countries will continue their mutually beneficial cooperation,” wrote Pavel.
The final election results must also be confirmed by the Supreme Court’s chamber of extraordinary review and public affairs.
However, that process is shrouded in controversy because the chamber – which was created as part of the PiS party’s judicial reforms when it was in power – is regarded as illegitimate by Tusk’s government.
An attempt by the ruling coalition to change the way that the presidential election results are validated by the Supreme Court was vetoed in March this year by Duda
Sunday’s run-off vote comes at the end of a months-long campaign that has seen the interrelated issues of security and migration at the forefront.
The war in neighbouring Ukraine has seen both candidates pledge to continue efforts to bolster Poland’s defence capabilities through expansion and modernisation of the armed forces.
Nawrocki, however, has taken a much tougher line regarding Ukraine itself, including signing a pledge not to ratify its accession to NATO if he becomes president. Tusk, as well as Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland, criticised that decision, saying that it echoed Russian demands.
Both candidates have also pledged to clamp down on immigration and on the support given to immigrants already in Poland, though again Nawrocki has taken tougher positions.
Trzaskowski, meanwhile, has pledged that, if he were to become president, he would seek to sign bills liberalising the abortion law, introducing same-sex civil partnerships and undoing PiS’s judicial reforms.
Nawrocki, by contrast, holds deeply conservative views on social issues and has pledged not to sign any bills ending the current near-total ban on abortion.
During the final stages of the campaign, Nawrocki was hit by a series of scandals. It came to light that he had lied about only having one apartment. Not only did he own a second, but various questions came to light over how he had come to possess it and how he treated the elderly, disabled man living there.
Subsequently, a leading news website, Onet, reported that Nawrocki had helped procure prostitutes for guests at a luxury hotel where he worked as a security guard. Nawrocki denied the claims – based on testimony by anonymous former colleagues – and pledged to sue Onet.
Meanwhile, Trzaskowski faced questions after it emerged that hundreds of thousands of zloty had been spent on Facebook adverts supporting him and attacking Nawrocki.
The provenance of that money remains unclear, but there is a chance it came from abroad, which would be illegal under Polish election law. Trzaskowski has insisted that he and his staff had no involvement in or knowledge of the campaign.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: presidential systems suck. I'm not an expert on Polish politics, but it seems at the very least like the Poles were given a good choice of a candidate. Still, having too many people voting for a single candidate for a single office repeatedly leads to bad outcomes. France, Turkiye, USA - now we can add Poland to the list too.
Abolish presidencies! Embrace parliamentary systems!
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Pols:
Stop calling us stupid! We are anything but that! We are a proud and noble people!
votes back in power right-wing nut jobs who fucked them over the last time
Specific to elections: provide a principled left wing candidate with a platform that people can hear
For real substantial change: by taking away power from the powerful and giving it to the people
Most people agree with most leftist ideas (at least in theory), they've just been misinformed about what those ideas are and their true practicality
AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers
TL;DR
- Google has made it harder to build custom Android ROMs for Pixel phones by omitting their device trees and driver binaries from the latest AOSP release.
- The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.
- While Google insists AOSP isn’t going away, developers must now reverse-engineer changes, making the process for supporting Pixel devices more difficult.
AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROMs
Google has confirmed it isn't discontinuing AOSP, but it's making a change that makes it harder for devs to build Android for Pixel phones.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
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What i understand is porting over android 16 is gonna be slow.
discuss.grapheneos.org/d/23080…
AOSP and Pixel Device Support - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum
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The GrapheneOS team is very aware of their dependence on google. They are planning to either find an OEM for their own line of hardware or a brand whose phones support their requirements other than google. That being said, it will complicate work a lot, but for now it would be to early to jump to that conclusion.
Also, Google couldn't care less if <1% of buyers flash a custom ROM / OS on their phone, this is about tying the android ecosystem closer to google in general. Most other big phone manufacturers know this and are trying to come up with their own solution, like Huawei had to because of the ban when the orange man has been president the first time.
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or a brand whose phones support their requirements other than google.
Wasn't Graphene's "selling point" for long being that nothing but Pixels can match their reqs? I don't see why any current band would want to make it easier for them, and I also don't see new brand significantly entering the market.
Graphene boiled themselves in their own frogpan.
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This is not a selling point but rather a unfortunate but comprehensible circumstance. Nexus and later Pixel phones have not been anything more than reference hardware without significant sales until the Pixel 6. Google has been a software company that has greatly benefited by android being an "open" platform you could contribute to and use their services on.
The App / Cloud ecosystem has gained a lot of competitors, so Google is doing their best to reverse this course of action by pulling more and more functionality out of AOSP into Play services and now into Cuttlefish. We can only wait and see how other phone manufacturers react to this.
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The absolutely criminal dark patterns that they pull on people via Google photos auto backup is insane.
Just in my own orbit 2 of my friends wives, my parents, and my in-laws all wound up paying Google because they thought they had to or lose all their photos. We helped most of them disconnect the autobackup (that they didn't even know was activated) and move it to offline safely. But that was the most downright evil shit Google has ever done and literally a fire in me for manipulating the elderly and less tech savvy so blatantly.
devil's avocado: this move has saved many people's cherished photos from disappearing by having them auto save. before Google photos I'd run into cases (I used to do home IT support) where people had years of family photos disappear because they didn't back them up properly. Having to communicate what happened was never fun.
is Google photos perfect? No, but it's a great solution for people who don't want to manage their data.
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The company says this is because it’s shifting its AOSP reference target from Pixel hardware to a virtual device called “Cuttlefish” to be more neutral.
This actually probably make sense, but they could still be cool and have pixel drivers be open source in a different repo if that was the only reason.
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Yup, the entire culture of Google has nearly changed. It used to be coder- and innovation-driven, and open-source was a natural thing to support. Make more money by growing the pie, creating markets with new tech.
Now it seems it's middle managers and MBAs calling the shots, and their strategy is generic business zero-sum mindset - lock down, restrict, extract. They still see the PR value in open-source, but that's it.
Just becoming 1990s Microsoft or 1980s IBM.
Idk man.
I love my OP12. But we're switching carriers to a Verizon MVNO which "won't work" with my OP12, so I bought a Pixel 8 Pro on sale last week and need to switch over.
I'm starting to wonder if that "it won't work" is bullshit tho...I've got a Verizon SIM in slot 2 and it works fine. Maybe I'd be missing out on 5G speeds? I got 5 bars on my tmo sim and my vz sim...but my Tmo got 1.1Gbps down, and my Vz sim only got 70Mbps.
"You sure you just don't want to work or something"
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Disabled fantasy: Being able to sit in the room with all the doctors who ever asked if you were maybe just making your symptoms up...while they experience your symptoms. And ask them if they're making them up
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Chronic Fatigue ≠ ME/CFS [Hallmark symptom of ME/CFS is PEM]
So sorry to hear you got post-COVID tho. Hope your baseline improves.
UK prosecutors collaborate with Israel to persecute anti-genocide activists as 'terrorists': Report
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/5093117
The UK's neo-liberal New Labour regime happily lies in bed together with fascist Tel Aviv.Snip:
UK prosecutors are colluding with Israeli embassy officials to classify protesters resisting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza as terrorists and to imprison them on heavily politicized grounds, an investigation by The Grayzone journalist Kit Klarenberg showed.
“Documents released by the British government reveal that London has been coordinating with Israeli officials to prosecute protestors associated with activist group Palestine Action for disrupting the operations of Elbit Systems, which manufactures deadly weapons being used in the genocide in Gaza,” Klarenberg wrote.
The documents suggest that Israel has successfully lobbied the UK to abandon well-established legal standards in order to charge activists resisting Israel’s genocide under harsh counter-terror laws.
UK prosecutors collaborate with Israel to persecute anti-genocide activists as 'terrorists': Report
Activists disrupting the production of Elbit drones used by Israel to kill civilians in Gaza are being prosecuted under UK counterterror lawsthecradle.co
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That's well beyond merelly "neo-liberal" and already into Fascist.
Mind you, Israel bought the current British Government by having Israeli-linked Jewish Organisations support the campaign that smeared Corbyn as an anti-semite in order to topple him from the leadership of the Labour party and bring these guys in which, in due course given that the UK has a First Past The Post electoral system, rotated positions with the Tories and became the governing party, so zero surprise that the British Government is just a puppet of the Israeli regime.
I'm just glad the UK has left the EU so that their rot doesn't interfere with how things work in the EU (it's bad enough that we have Racist and increasingly Authoritarian Germany and Austria, not to mention the outright Fascist Hungary, we don't need the country were de facto the two main parties are Fascist).
Nah, this isn't uncharacteristic for neoliberalism. Siding with fascists for imperialist reasons is the neolib way, and the Brits traditionally use a less restrained hand when censoring speech.
Even in the US, with our near free speech absolution, neolibs were supportive as cops cracked down hard on peaceful civil disobedience. If that's what American liberals were willing to do when bought by Israeli lobbyists, this makes perfect sense for the British version of the Democratic party. They'll be replaced by the proper fascists come next election anyhow.
I lived in the UK as an EU immigrant for a decade up to Brexit, and my feelingby the time I left was that they by then were pretty close to just being a posher version of Fascism.
Maybe Fascism is really just the natural end state of Neoliberal Capitalism: you can only go so far in helping the few pillage the wealth of the many before you have to start throwing the empoverished masses some outsiders (immigrants, other nations) and powerless insiders (like the poor and minorities) as scapegoats to distract them away from the (very much local) powerfull that are making them poorer, and as people grow increasingly skeptical of the traditional propaganda machine (for example, all the celebrating of a "growing GDP" doesn't work quite as well when people feel their pockets getting ever lighter) start forcefully cracking down on any dissent that's gaining traction and endangers the interests of the powerful.
Certainly I can't seen any end state of Neoliberalism that's not either Revolution or Authoritarism: all those politicians who got used to an environment were it's entirelly legal and totally normalized for them to get non-executive board memberships, gold-plated consulting gigs and millionaire speech-circuit fees from people they were "friendly" towards whilst in power, aren't going to turn to the people whose "friendship" yields such payouts and tell them they're going to start having to take a smaller cut of the country's wealth and pay more taxes, hence the only ultimate outcomes left are either some kind of Revolution of the masses that forces a cleanup of the political system, or increasing authoritarian measures to stop the masses from rebelling and given that if they're already rebelling it's usually too late (certainly it's far harder to stop it, impossibly so with no damage), what's normally done is to control information and to keep the masses divided and fighting amongst themselves - hence things like Identity Politics, which you can see in the US being fully weaponized - so that they don't rebel again the powerful.
Federated 3d printing design hub like Thingiverse?
I'm just curious if anyone knows of an effort to build a federated version of something like Thingiverse, Printables, Thangs, etc. I'm not really a fan of the centralized control, commercial tie-ins and profit motivations of those and similar sites, but the community of collaboration and remixing designs means they are basically indispensable for time efficient 3d printing, they're basically like the Github of 3d printing.
For me the ideal would be to have a federated alternative where users can host and share their own creations and collections, as well as rate and comment each other's designs to help improve discoverability of the best models in the community. This seems like something that would be a good fit for the ActivityPub protocol but I'm not sure if there is something like this already out there. All I could find is this old reddit post that seems to have gotten a lot of support (and good suggestions for features) in the comments but has gone nowhere as far as I can tell.
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Fediverse itself is still "early phase"
There are plenty of proposal of features social web community, handled W3C organization, such as easier way to find content (if the instance want it to be public.)
There's definitely a value of community being able toset up instance of their own 3D pirinting models.
There are always needs for self-hosting for everything.
I can see some education institution set up their 3D model instance, and make it federated with other entities.
The problem is content discovery, right? As I said before, people are working to fix that right now.
Social web is basically similar to early internet, where discovering new things is hard.
Analysis by CSIS makes it clear that restricting ethane exports is a desperate measure that "inflict more damage on U.S. companies than Chinese competitors"
U.S.-China Trade Talks in London: Ethane Export Controls and the Need for Better Economic Statecraft
A new commentary from the CSIS Economics program analyzes the myriad issues with the recent U.S. ethane export controls.www.csis.org
Hexbear federation?
Some context and history on the topic.
I wanted to ask if there is change in opinion on this topic, while slrpnk was down I had account federated with Hexbear and it didn't seem that bad. Yet I way be just propagandised enough to not see the problem.
What do you think?
Spain aims to ban flushing of wet wipes, with manufacturers paying for cleanup
Spain aims to ban flushing of wet wipes, with manufacturers paying for cleanup
Government’s draft legislation also includes ban on releasing disposable party balloons into the environmentSam Jones (The Guardian)
I've always wondered this, but how do you prevent a bidet from festering? When dedicating, micro poop particles get everywhere in the bowl, and therefore my conclusion would be that it would get on the bidet spout. Over time, since it's moist, wouldn't a very thin microbial biofilm form on the spout? Then you'd be blasting in potentially dangerous bacteria back into yourself. Do you have to clean it after every use? Every day?
The only way I could see it maybe keeping clean would be if it was behind a small door that opened when it'll be in use and then retracted once more.
So far the most hygienic option would be wet wipes.
I’ll preface my comment with the fact that I never saw a bidet until I was in my 30s, so I was never properly “bidet trained”, but I can tell you that at a glance the prospect of having a damp ass after every shit does not appeal to me. Particularly in humid regions where damp bodily areas leads chafing and rashes. It also looks like a lot more effort than just wiping and moving on with minimal difference in results.
That said, if you prefer bidets and have access to them, more power to you.
After a shower you dry off with a towel, obviously.
Do you dry your ass with a towel after using a bidet? An ass towel? Because that's disgusting.
Indian Aircraft Bound for London Crashes on Takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport, 244 on Board
Indian Aircraft Bound for London Crashes on Takeoff from Ahmedabad Airport, 244 on Board
An Air India passenger aircraft carrying 244 people crashed on Thursday afternoon in the northwester...Al-Manar TV Lebanon
$1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up
not only created a fake AI company that was ‘all humans, no intelligence,'” he also “dared to falsely report 300% revenue to investors.”
Name: builder.ai
$1.5 Billion AI Company, Builder.ai, Collapses, Accused Of Fraud
Builder.ai, one of the United Kingdom’s most hyped AI startups, is now broke and accused of being a complete fraud.Douglas Charles (BroBible)
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable.www.inkandswitch.com
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Did a quick check I think it is equal performance to Snapdragon 7 Plus Gen 2. Which is great for every day use. Not the fastest stuff but midrange.
Huawei still appears to be very expensive in the West though. Not sure if their in-house production is really driving price down as much as simply being independent