Russia's Ukraine war troop casualties near 1 million, study says
Surpassing 1 million people killed and wounded would be “a stunning and grizzly milestone,” according to a report by a prominent Washington think tank.
Russia will likely surpass 1 million casualties in its war on Ukraine this summer, according to one of the world’s leading think tanks, reflecting the staggering human toll of President Vladimir Putin’s assault on his neighbor.
Around 250,000 of these Russian soldiers have died, the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies said in a report Tuesday.
Ukraine has also suffered heavy losses, with 400,000 casualties including between 60,000 and 100,000 killed, it said.
Almost 1 million Russian troops killed or wounded in Ukraine war, study says
Russia will likely surpass 1 million casualties in its war on Ukraine this summer, according to one of the world’s leading think tanks.Alexander Smith (NBC News)
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I just migrated a community from Lemmy to Piefed using the migration feature, it worked quite well
Context:
I tried to use the Piefed migration feature to migrate !barcelona@lemm.ee to !barcelona@piefed.social
piefed.social/c/barcelona now exists, with all the existing posts there, as well as the icon and description.
It even moved some subscribers (there are around 100 now), from what I understand those were Piefed subscribers that got automatically moved.
The one caveat is that from Lemmy instances, the community doesn't have show old posts (see lemm.ee/c/barcelona@piefed.soc…), but if you were restarting a community from scratch you wouldn't have access to your old posts anyway.
This ensure that at least the posts are transferred to a community on an active instance, which is probably the main concern for lemm.ee communities at the moment.
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Disclaimer: I'm not trying to discourage people from moving to or using piefed. I understand the enthusiasm for it and utility of it. This is meant to foster discussion not hate on piefed.
Is it just me or are a lot of people just ignoring the fact that a lot of communities and people are centralizing to pretty much a single point of failure again? Wouldn't it be wise to expand the number of piefed instances to help keep things spread out there too if that's the platform you prefer?
At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: lemmyverse.net/communities?ord…
You have to scroll 3 times to see !television@lemm.ee, the first Lemm.ee community.
Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).
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At this moment, 9 out of the 10 most active communities are on LW: lemmyverse.net/communities?ord…You have to scroll 3 times to see !television@lemm.ee, the first Lemm.ee community.
Lemm.ee was already a decentralization factor from LW, but it was still tiny in terms of communities compared to LW. Moving all of the Lemm.ee communities to Piefed.social (not that it's the case anyway, I've seen communities moving elsewhere) would keep the status quo that we were all living with.
Of course ideally over time more Piefed instances emerge, and we can spread a bit more. Also, thanks to the Piefed migration feature, we'll be able to move communities much smoother (even including subscribers).
Right, I've seen pretty much that same reply already.
I think it's a chance to learn a lesson from how and why lemm.ee is shutting down. Right now I think people are risking moving the same problem somewhere else. Sure, in theory the problem gets better with time because the tools to move around are there, but that only matters if there's somewhere to move.
It would be much more encouraging to see dozens of new piefed instances being launched/advertised. I think there's a big push towards something new because it's in the right place at the right time, and I genuinely hope it's a successful project long term. I just hope the people utilizing it are willing to support it as a platform and not just as a flagship instance.
The one constraint we have is time. Lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of the months. Some of the polls will take a few days, then depending on the communities, it will take a few more days for the migrations to happen, but we can't wait for dozens of new instances to pop up.
Using a diverse set of Piefed instances is indeed better, and hopefully that what we'll try to achieve down the line.
I think the urgency is being blown out of proportion as a knee jerk to really crappy news. There is almost a month to move, which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse. Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.
Again, I'm not against piefed or against people moving somewhere they feel more comfortable or like more. Those are positive things that the fediverse could definitely use. I just don't understand why we can't learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn't happen again before more instances pop up.
which should be plenty of time for new instances to launch and communities to disperse.
I mod a few communities, I can tell you I want this to be over as soon as possible. I'm busy in the coming weekends, and if there's something I've learned about the Fediverse, is that usually, if you want something to be done, you do it yourself.
Even after the shutdown the rest of the fediverse will be able to redirect users to the new communities, wherever they are homed.
The Piefed migration feature requires lemm.ee to be up if members want to get all of their communities content (post and comments).
I just don’t understand why we can’t learn the lesson and move on instead of moving on and hoping it doesn’t happen again before more instances pop up.
I've seen quite a few communities move to sopuli (a few communities I mod are voting for that one as well). It's not like everyone is moving to Piefed, some communities are, others aren't.
It's fine mate, I'm not here to crucify people who want to or have moved to piefed for any reason. People should be able to go where they feel comfortable and welcome and be happy about it. Do what you want and what works for you, of course. All I'm saying is that people should take note of what has happened and why, and do what they can to mitigate that problem going forward.
As long as communities are migrated and redirects are up before the last day of lemm.ee the transition will be miles ahead of what we've seen in the past where instances go dark without warning. Communities and users survived then and they will survive now I'm sure.
It's just a bit strange to see all the people saying how they would've helped lemm.ee if they'd known sooner or if more cries would've gone out, and then nobody spins up instances to actually DO the things they say.
It’s just a bit strange to see all the people saying how they would’ve helped lemm.ee if they’d known sooner or if more cries would’ve gone out, and then nobody spins up instances to actually DO the things they say.
I guess there's a difference between joining an existing team and starting a server on your own.
Trump is forcing states to funnel grant money to Starlink, Senate Democrats say
Summary
Senate Democrats accused the Trump administration of stalling $42 billion in broadband grants and redirecting funds toward Elon Musk’s Starlink by overturning Biden-era rules favoring fiber networks.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s “tech-neutral” policy prioritizes cost over quality, potentially sidelining more reliable fiber infrastructure.
A May 30 letter warned delays could push projects back two years.
Trump also scrapped a separate $2.75 billion Digital Equity program, calling it “racist and illegal.” Critics say the moves undermine broadband expansion in rural and underserved communities.
Trump is forcing states to funnel grant money to Starlink, Senate Democrats say
Overhaul of $42 billion program could delay deployment for years, Democrats warn.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
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Right wingers love to claim that that judge is being authoritarian, ignoring the facts that:
- He was picked at random to oversee every case related to the coup attempt.
- The whole court is constantly reviewing all of his actions and are yet to find any wrongdoing.
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F-35 jet and Abrams tank costs soar with Trump’s 50% tariffs
F-35 jet and Abrams tank costs soar with Trump’s 50% tariffs
Trump’s 50% steel and aluminum tariffs raise costs for F-35 and Abrams production, impacting U.S. defense. Explore the effects on supply chains and budgets.Boyko Nikolov (BulgarianMilitary.com)
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Google services, Spotify, Cloudflare, and other services appear to be in a partial outage.
A Google Cloud outage took down multiple popular online services including Spotify, Discord, and Google, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.Cloudflare, which also reported service issues, attributed them to Google Cloud and said its core services were unaffected.
Google Cloud outage disrupts Spotify, Discord and Gmail
A Google Cloud outage took down multiple popular online services including Spotify, Discord, and Google, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.Paulina Durán (Capital Brief)
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Google services, Spotify, Cloudflare, and other services appear to be in a partial outage.
A Google Cloud outage took down multiple popular online services including Spotify, Discord, and Google, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.Cloudflare, which also reported service issues, attributed them to Google Cloud and said its core services were unaffected.
Google Cloud outage disrupts Spotify, Discord and Gmail
A Google Cloud outage took down multiple popular online services including Spotify, Discord, and Google, with tens of thousands of users reporting issues, according to Downdetector.Paulina Durán (Capital Brief)
Migrating communities in the wake of the lemm.ee shutdown
I'm a happy lemm.ee user and a mod of a small community hosted there. I'm also subscribed to a bunch of communities on lemm.ee. Sadly, they have just announced that they will be shutting it down. I understand that I can open an account on another instance and subscribe to the same communities. For my own community, I can probably re-create it on my new instance and DM every subscriber. But how do I find all the communities from lemm.ee in their new places? I'd like some practical advice.
lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month
Hey everyone
We’re really sorry to say this, but lemm.ee will be shutting down on June 30, 2025.What you need to know
As of now:
- New user registrations are disabled
- Creating new communities is disabled
What you should do:
- You can export your settings at lemm.ee/settings to take them with you to another instance.
- If you're moving to another instance, consider adding a note to your lemm.ee profile with your new username. Your old profile will still be visible from other instances even after we go offline.
- Alternatively, if you want to delete your lemm.ee profile, now is the best time to do it, so the deletion can federate out before we go offline.
- If you're one of the folks supporting us with a recurring donation, please remember to cancel it (Ko-Fi donations should have been cancelled automatically already). Our leftover funds are already enough to cover our bills for next month, so we can keep things running without any more support.
Because of how Lemmy is built, everything posted on lemm.ee will still be accessible from other instances, even after we go offline.
Why this is happening
The key reason is that we just don’t have enough people on the admin team to keep the place running. Most of the admin team has stepped down, mostly due to burnout, and finding replacements hasn’t worked out.The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.
We know this sucks. We're genuinely sorry it’s ending like this. Thank you to everyone who spent time here and helped make it better.
– lemm.ee team
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The #UK is 'currently' hosting & training Israeli terrists from the Iraeli Diaper Farce despite genocide allegations, a Labour minister has admitted....
The #UK is 'currently' hosting & training Israeli terrists from the Iraeli Diaper Farce despite genocide allegations, a Labour minister has admitted....
#LikudLabour #Shameless #WarCrime
#LabourFriendsOfGenocide
#KidStarver #Gaza #Genocide #Israel #IDF
Free Free Palestine!
Free Free Palestine! A space for activists and Palestinians to connect and amplify their efforts for the liberation of Palestine. Promote Palestinian solidarity events, or document and share here.Mastodon hosted on freefree.ps
US Senate permits arms sales to Qatar, UAE amidst controversy over jet gifted to Trump
Lawmakers alleged that the Pentagon’s acceptance of a $400m Qatari jet and an Emirati firm's recent investment in a Trump-affiliated cryptocurrency had compromised the integrity of the sales.
The resolutions sought to stymie a $1.9bn weapons sale to Qatar and a $1.3bn weapons sale to the UAE.
The Qatar sale consisted of eight MQ-9 Reaper drones, a model previously employed by the US in Gaza and Yemen, along with Hellfire II missiles and 227-kg bombs. The second resolution opposed the sale of six Chinook helicopters to the UAE.
Arms sales to the UAE have previously faced criticism over the UAE’s support for the Rapid Support Forces, a Sudanese faction accused by some, including the US State Department, of committing acts of genocide.
US Senate permits arms sales to Qatar, UAE amidst controversy over jet gifted to Trump
Arms sales to Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have been given the go-ahead after a Democratic Party-led effort to halt them failed in a US Senate vote on Wednesday. The resolutions failed 39-56, allowing the deal to proceed.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Lemmy,Mbin, piefed, what even are those?
First of all, how is called this category of programs, instance engine?
Second, why there are 3 different, basically inter-compatible projects out there, what are the benefits of each one over the others? and why does Lemmy prevail all of them.
*i will be using feddit as a umbrella term for all the reddit-like fediverse.
I don't have much of a technical Background to know how this things work under the hood, but I'm quite curious of where all of this is heading.
I see a lot of awesome features locked away in these other projects that would be just nice if it was standard to have them, like piefed's hashtag-like system that allows people to seek things by topic instead of going to a specific community hosted in a specific instance, it would instantly fix the fragmentation problem across feddit, lol.
How the future of feddit will be? will be all be using Lemmy or other specific project, or instances will use whatever project they like and they will be cross compatible enough that it won't be much of a deal what project is running underneath?
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The whole point of federation and open protocols is that you aren't tied to any specific piece of software, or any single provider, or any single set of features. People can experiment and innovate and collaborate and expand to build new things on top without losing access or interfering with people who prefer the old methods. People or software that abuses the system on the other hand, can be blocked or defederated.
A healthy software ecosystem should have many different pieces of software all written by different people with different goals, but all implementing most of the same things. Some will be more popular than others, and the popular ones might not agree with your own personal tastes, but that's just life. The point is that we (and software developers) all have the freedom to choose how we interact with this system without any formal rules or maintainer group deciding what is allowed and what isn't (except within their own software and/or instance).
and they will be cross compatible enough that it won’t be much of a deal what project is running underneath?
They are already cross-compatible enough, they are as cross-compatible as they need to be. It's not clear what more you could ask for. If you want them to all look and work exactly the same then what's the point of having different software at all? You're acting like the different features and choices are a downside when it is in fact a benefit. Pick the one you like the most and use it. If you like Piefed's hashtags, then use Piefed, it's great! There's nothing "locked away" in Piefed, everything in it is available to everybody, as it should be!
Donald Trump doubles US steel and aluminium tariffs to 50%
Donald Trump doubles US steel and aluminium tariffs to 50%
Trump doubles down on his tariffs, while sparing the UK from the latest duties.Natalie Sherman (BBC News)
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Damn.
I suppose the obvious question of why Amazon doesn't have an intuitive way of rate limiting those can be answered by the huge bills people rack up.
Amid Rising Heat, Hajj Becomes Test of Endurance for Pilgrims and Saudi Arabia
The hajj, one of the largest annual human gatherings in the world, begins on Wednesday in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Amid rising temperatures and logistical challenges, the pilgrimage has increasingly become a test of endurance both for pilgrims and the Saudi government.
Millions of Muslims from around the world travel to the city to take part; Saudi Arabia said 1,475,230 pilgrims from abroad have arrived since Sunday. Last year, the Saudi government said more than 1,300 pilgrims died, many from Egypt. Most of those who perished had been unregistered, Saudi officials said, meaning they had made the trip without the permits that gave them access to heat protections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-hajj-heat.html
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You might want to crack open a history book focusing on any of the attempts at socialism or communism in Asia. You will find many atheists persecuting theists.
There aren’t many theocratic states remaining.
Everything creates in groups and out groups, nothing does this better than leftism.
Considering that you are two comments in and you have already made a series of factual errors AND I have said Im an atheist I don’t think you are qualified to determine who is less intelligent than average.
You also need remedial English lessons because oof.
"Atheists" who make themselves, or the State, a swap-in replacement for God(s) are not much different from purely religious authorities who abuse their positions. It is apparently a common kind of power-seeking Dark Trait.
The Leviathan theory of the state -- the Motherland who is greater than us, who we would die for as cells die to preserve the body, and whose Exegeses come from the Great Leader/Supreme Council/President for Life.
It's exactly the same play on faith and credulity and servility that religions use.
Sure, but atheists don’t organize together to persecute theists for their beliefs,
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalinis…
Estimates differ, but anywhere between 20,000 and 35,000 "enemies of the revolution" were executed, a figure representing three to five percent of Mongolia's total population at the time.[2] Victims included those accused of espousing Tibetan Buddhism, pan-Mongolist nationalism, and pro-Japanese sentiment. Buddhist clergy, aristocrats, intelligentsia, political dissidents, and ethnic Buryats were particularly impacted.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecut…
Soviet Marxist-Leninist policy consistently advocated the control, suppression, and ultimately, the elimination of religious beliefs, and it actively encouraged the propagation of Marxist-Leninist atheism in the Soviet Union.[2] However, most religions were never officially outlawed.[1]The state established atheism as the only scientific truth.[14][15][16][17] Soviet authorities forbade the criticism of atheism and agnosticism until 1936 or of the state's anti-religious policies; such criticism could lead to forced retirement.[18][19][20]
The assertion that there is no God cannot be proven as you cannot prove a negative.
There assertion that there is a divine entity cannot be logically demonstrated in any valid way logically speaking.
The validity of either claim cannot be tested and thus have the same overall value and it is a matter of which you choose to accept.
Lacking a belief in God, asserting there is no God, and asserting there is a God are all equally impossible to prove provided that by “God” we mean an omnipotent omipresent being.
I dont know how to make that any clearer.
"I make no claim"
"You can't prove it!"
I mean, yeah, because no claim is being made. Do you genuinely not understand the difference between no claim and a negative claim? Even if you think they're the same thing, the burden of proof is still on the person making the positive claim.
The assertion that there is no God cannot be proven as you cannot prove a negative.
Correct, no one argued that.
There assertion that there is a divine entity cannot be logically demonstrated in any valid way logically speaking.
Correct again.
The validity of either claim cannot be tested and thus have the same overall value and it is a matter of which you choose to accept.
Do you really mean that?
If I were to accuse you of something terrible like being a child molester with absolutely zero evidence...
That's valid? You can deny it, but your denial is of equal value to my accusation right? So if everyone in this comment section chooses to believe you molester children from now on... do you have a problem with that?
The reason I'm an atheist is the same reason I don't believe you're a child molester yet. I think there is a burden of proof of evidence that would need to be met before the accusation needs to be taken seriously.
There is no evidence of me being a child molester AND if I were there would be proof that’s why your example is a false equivalence.
If the Christian God exists, for example, there would be no way of knowing for certain because that God would be omnipresent and thus would be everything. If God is everything what do you compare it to?
If you spend enough time focusing on the truth of this you will eventually conclude you cannot prove your belief like they cannot prove theirs so neither side has anything demonstrable.
Do you believe in atoms? If so, prove them!
And no, linking to Wikipedia articles or to books about physics is no proof. That is just scriptures.
Bingo.
I have way more respect for ravers at Burning Man who OD on Ecstasy while dancing naked and copulating for 14 hours straight.
At least they enjoyed their completely unproductive dalliance
And you get to decide what people should or shouldn't enjoy?
Different people can have different life goals and find fulfillment in different ways.
Most of those who perished had been unregistered, Saudi officials said, meaning they had made the trip without the permits that gave them access to heat protections.
Why aren't these protections available for all? In Islam Allah requires all that can to go on Hajj at least once in their life. Why would those who steward the project let any be harmed?
But if you have tens of thousands of people extra it's not that easy to protect them as well - when you already shelter millions.
Don't get me wrong, I am not a fan of the KSA government (really) - but I do work in disaster preparedness/planning and that also includes crowd management.
And from that perspective the Hajj is pretty impressive. The conditions even outside the worst summer heat are extreme, the crowd has often only minimal education, there is a huge language barrier, people tend to be somewhat vacantly.
Read up on it, it's quite interesting.
Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
Meta Sues Nudify App That Keeps Advertising on Instagram
As part of what it claims is a new crackdown, Meta is suing a nudify app and "strengthening" its enforcement.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
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Google: Android Open Source Project not being ‘discontinued’ amidst Pixel change
Google says Android Open Source Project not being ‘discontinued’ amidst Pixel change impacting custom ROMs
With the launch of Android 16 earlier this week, Google did not release the Pixel hardware repos and device trees...Abner Li (9to5Google)
Trump Gets Snippy Over 1 Embarrassing Claim About His History With Harvard
Trump Gets Snippy Over 1 Embarrassing Claim About His History With Harvard
Author Michael Wolff speculated about what's fueling Trump's "grudge" against the university on "The Daily Beast" podcast.Elyse Wanshel (HuffPost)
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I hate the Trumps as much as the next guy, but I specifically refrain from dumping on Barron Trump, and you should too: the kid hasn't yet said or done anything that indicates he's going to become a dirtbag like his father or his retarted siblings, and he might very well choose to decide to distance himself from his terrible family.
Same reason why I don't dump on the Musk kids: at least one of them is decent, and the others might become good people too and they deserve a chance.
Give Barron Trump a chance too.
Well, but I don't see your problem with a hoop. it's the fault of Lemmy to open the site in the same tab, which is easy to avoid with a middle click on the link, same as it ocurrs in other posts. eg. news or articles in Lemmy.
Live updates - Israel launches major strike on Iran's nuclear and military sites.
Live: Israel launches ‘major strike’ on Iran
Blasts heard in Iranian capital Tehran as Israel carries out large-scale attack on country.Ted Regencia (Al Jazeera)
PieFed has a mobile app
Well, actually, PieFed.social has enabled it's API which means that the app Interstellar can be used with it. Find out more about the app at interstellar.jwr.one/. iOS users can use the testing version at testflight.apple.com/join/JXRt…
feddit.online, another PF instance, has enabled the API too and I expect others will follow in good time.
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75 Democrats express "gratitude" to ICE in antisemitism vote amid LA riots
75 Democrats Express 'Gratitude' to ICE in Antisemitism Vote Amid LA Riots
Seventy-five House Democrats backed a resolution condemning antisemitism and expressing "gratitude" for ICE.Sonam Sheth (Newsweek)
When an instance like lemm.ee shuts down, what happens to the posts and comments?
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All the images disappear, since they are just links on remote instances.
A copy of all the accounts, comms, posts and comments stay on any instance around to recive them, but they are not fetchable.
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
On my first day, the second official day of the mission, we were overrun; it was pure chaos. At the aid site’s entrance gates, we had people waiting in five lanes separated by metal fencing. One lane was strictly for women and children. The other four were all men, and they were letting people in, five, 10, 20 at a time – whatever we could handle. It was not organized, and people were getting smushed and trampled. Eventually, there were so many people in the lanes that the gates burst.
We fell back, letting people get the aid. They were never aggressive towards us. They were only trying to get aid – aid, by the way, that consisted of flour, rice, lentils, tea bags, and noodles; things that need water. They don’t have any water. And we’re not giving out water.
We soon had to fall back again, to a second perimeter. At that point, some personnel started firing warning shots in the air. I was later told that the Israeli military needed to clear those people out because they were going to come through. They soon showed up with tanks, as some sort of security presence, but we had pushed people out by then.
This idea that the Israeli military isn't involved is bullshit. They're very much involved. They have offices in our compounds. We share our radio communications with them. The higher-ups claim the Israeli military is not involved, but it feels like they’re the man behind the curtain. Sure, they’re not on-site with us, but their snipers and tanks are just hundreds of meters away. You can hear them shooting all day.ere.
People sometimes have to travel miles to get to the sites – and that means through Israeli-controlled areas. Any excuse the military can come up with to say someone is a threat, they’ll take. There’s not really any international media in these areas, and the West doesn’t really want to believe the Palestinian media, so you get to this point where the truth itself is murky. All the while, all I’ve heard all day is Israeli tanks, machine guns, snipers, and bombs.
But never any fire from the opposite direction.
EXCLUSIVE: American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
I thought I was signing up for an aid mission. But what I've witnessed in Gaza is horrific.Anonymous (Zeteo)
What is cia.world/politics? Is that a lemmy instance, a euphemism for reddit, or a euphemism lemmy.world?
EDIT: Nevermind. I found it.
You broke the community rules:
Is there a reason that you believe the rules shouldn't apply to you?
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Lol he specifically added that to his own post. It is not a blog it is a news website.
They previously adhered to the Zionist MBFC guidelines until even MBFC added Zeteo as a credible site. Then he added this arbitrary rule. It is nowhere to be found in their side bar rules.
Lemmy.world is famous for upholding whatever narrative is needed to be spread by the empire and disallowing news sources challenging it.
It is not a blog it is a news website.
Where does he say it's a blog as you claim?
They previously adhered to the Zionist MBFC guidelines until even MBFC added Zeteo as a credible site. Then he added this arbitrary rule. It is nowhere to be found in their side bar rules.
Its in the VERY TOP STICKIED post called "basic rules". Now, you can be surprised because its not in the sidebar, but when its pointed out that its in the "basic rules" stickied thread, you can't rationally complain about your article being rejected.
Lol he specifically added that to his own post.
He's the moderator of the Community. He's one that sets the rules. He can add anything he wants as Moderator. You don't have to like those rules, but neither you nor me gets a vote except by participating or not in the Community. Your post is certainly welcome elsewhere, like here, so whats the problem?
He is mod of all the big 'news' communities on .world
He even started shoving it down /news where he got added as mod recently. I do not have to guess who wrote the removal reason on the substack one. Notice what it is called in the reason.
The mod has already extensively lost debates about why substack is not a blog with the entire community but still decides to enforce this as his rule everywhere he moderates so he can ban dropsite and zeteo.
South Korea elects Lee Jae-myung president - The Korea Herald
cross-posted from: piefed.jeena.net/post/179335
- Voter turnout reaches 79.4 percent, 4th highest since 1987
- Lee's projected victory expected to turn page on political crisis that shook the nation for past 6 months
South Korea elects Lee Jae-myung president - The Korea Herald
Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party of Korea has clinched the presidency, turning the page on six months of relentless political upheaval and a leadership vacJi Da-gyum (The Korea Herald)
Global alarms rise as China's critical mineral export ban takes hold
German automakers became the latest to warn that China's export restrictions threaten to shut down production and rattle their local economies, following a similar complaint from an Indian EV maker last weekChina's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets has upended the supply chains central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.
Diplomats, automakers and other executives from India, Japan and Europe were urgently seeking meetings with Beijing officials to push for faster approval of rare earth magnet exports
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China's decision in April to suspend exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets has upended the supply chains central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.
We were working on this several years ago.
Extraction:
lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/…
In the Mojave Desert, the rebirth of the only American rare earth mineWith support from the US government, mine operator MP Materials is reviving the Mountain Pass site. The company is taking advantage of the global appetite for magnets for electric motors and wind turbines.
Those MP Materials guys also do processing.
argusmedia.com/en/news-and-ins…
Attempts to establish commercial-scale rare earth separation and processing outside China are growing in number and progressing gradually with a view to ramping up output over the next two years.Mineral resources developers are scrambling to reassess and upgrade their estimates of mineable rare earth element (REE) content as western governments attempt to encourage producers to establish production closer to home. And new efforts to develop high-volume processing capacity outside China — which currently accounts for more than 80pc of global refining — are emerging.
Western countries are well behind China in advancing technical processes to refine REs from raw materials, as they seek alternatives to the highly polluting solvent extraction process. But with China banning the export of RE extraction and separation technologies in December 2023, as well as exports to the US of key electronic metals in December 2024, the impetus is growing to come up with viable Western production.
RE oxides are used in the manufacturing of permanent magnets for electric vehicle (EV) motors, wind turbines and electronics, as well as batteries, lasers, metal alloys, medical devices and military equipment.
Given that latter application, the US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded more than $439mn in financing since 2020 to support a new domestic supply chain, from the separation and refining of materials mined in the US to downstream production of magnets. In a broader trend towards "friendshoring" of critical material supply, the DoD considers Canada, Australia and the UK as domestic suppliers.
Like the US, European countries are also targeting domestic production in a bid to secure their supply chains.
Projects include the expansion of Nd and NdPr processing capacity at UK-based Less Common Metals (LCM), the addition of NdPr production at Belgian chemical group Solvay at its plant in France in 2025 and French consultancy Carestar's plan to start production in 2026 of RE oxides from mining concentrates and, later, recycled magnets. REEtec in Norway plans to start a commercial NdPr plant in 2025 and Swedish state-owned LKAB plans to start an RE oxide demonstration plant by the end of 2026. These initiatives are in line with plans across Europe to increase EV manufacturing and renewable energy.
Rare earth mining projects in Africa and Australia are largely targeting supply deals or integrated production in Asia or North America. Miners in Brazil, such as Aclara, are also planning integrated production by developing separation plants close to demand in the US and Europe.
Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming
Ocean current ‘collapse’ could trigger ‘profound cooling’ in northern Europe – even with global warming - Carbon Brief
A “collapse” of key Atlantic ocean currents would cause winter temperatures to plunge across northern Europe, overriding the warming driven by human activity.Cecilia Keating (Carbon Brief)
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Oh please oh please. These heatwaves are killing me.
Let there be a silver lining to the 1% destroying the planet.
Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE
Trump formally asks Congress to claw back approved spending targeted by DOGE
The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.The Associated Press (Federal News Network)
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Elon wants more money to spend on his shitty companies
Well more than that, musk wants the nail in the coffin for all the government agencies that want to tell him things like, you can't work people to death, you can't tell people cars are self driving when they crash into stuff on their own, you can't commit massive frauds, you can't spew poison gas all over Memphis, etc...
Musk benefit's massively from a huge chunk of what he ordered DOGE to do, even if we only count the destruction of the departments he shut down, and don't factor in the possibility that the money may be re-alocated towards his own companies.
The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming | After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north. - The Atlantic
The United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that eats animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human. (Its scientific name, C. hominivorax, translates to “man-eater.”) Larvae of the parasitic fly chew through flesh, transforming small nicks into big, gruesome wounds. But in the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture laid the groundwork for a continent-wide assault. Workers raised screwworms in factories, blasted them with radiation until they were sterile, and dropped the sterile adult screwworms by the millions—even hundreds of millions—weekly over the U.S., then farther south in Mexico, and eventually in the rest of North America.The sterile flies proceeded to, well, screw the continent’s wild populations into oblivion, and in 2006, an invisible barrier was established at the Darién Gap, the jungle that straddles the Panama-Colombia border, to cordon the screwworm-free north off from the south. The barrier, as I observed when I reported from Panama several years ago, consisted of planes releasing millions of sterile screwworms to rain down over the Darién Gap every week. This never-ending battle kept the threat of screwworms far from America.
But in 2022, the barrier was breached. Cases in Panama—mostly in cattle—skyrocketed from dozens a year to 1,000, despite ongoing drops of sterile flies. The parasite then began moving northward, at first slowly and then rapidly by 2024, which is when I began getting alarmed emails from those following the situation in Central America. As of this month, the parasite has advanced 1,600 miles through eight countries to reach Oaxaca and Veracruz in Mexico, with 700 miles left to go until the Texas border. The U.S. subsequently suspended live-cattle imports from Mexico.
Central America is shaped like a funnel with a long, bumpy tail that reaches its skinniest point in Panama. Back in the day, the USDA helped pay for screwworm eradication down to Panama out of not pure altruism but economic pragmatism: Establishing a 100-mile screwworm barrier there is cheaper than creating one at the 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. Even after screwworms began creeping up the tail of the funnel recently, the anti-screwworm campaign had one last good chance of stopping them at a narrow isthmus in southern Mexico—after which the funnel grows dramatically wider. It failed. The latest screwworm detections in Oaxaca and Veracruz are just beyond the isthmus.
The ‘Man-Eater’ Screwworm Is Coming
After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.Sarah Zhang (The Atlantic)
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A grim poll shows most Jewish Israelis support expelling Gazans. It's brutal - and true
Archive article: archive.ph/LJPiZ
A new survey showing that 82 percent of Jewish Israelis support the expulsion of Gazans was met with disbelief among those who stubbornly believe that the extremists are outliers. But these trends are as consistent as they are shocking
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YSK: db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com set up a AI image generator bot on the Threadiverse for anyone here to freely use
db0 set up an AI image generator bot both on the Threadverse and Mastodon some time back for anyone to use. All one needs to do is mention it in a comment followed by the text "draw for me" and then prompt text, and it'll respond with some generated images. For example:
@aihorde@lemmy.dbzer0.com draw for me An engraving of a skunk.Caused it to reply back to me with:
Here are some images matching your requestPrompt: An engraving of a skunk.
Style: flux
The bot has apparently been active for some time and it looks like few people were aware that it existed or used it --- I certainly wasn't!
I don't know whether it will work in this community, as this community says that it prohibits most bots from operating here. However, I set up a test thread over here on !test@sh.itjust.works to try it out, where it definitely does work; I was exploring some of how it functions there, and if you're looking for a test place to try it out, that should work!
It farms out the compute work to various people who are donating time on their GPUs via AI Horde.
The FAQ for the bot is here. For those familiar with local image generation, it supports a number of different models.
The default model is Flux, which is, I think, a good choice --- that takes English-like sentences describing a picture, and is pretty easy to use without a lot of time reading documentation.
A few notes:
- The bot disallows NSFW image generation, and if it detects one, it'll impose a one-day tempban on its use to try to make it harder for people searching for loopholes to generate them.
- There appears to me in my brief testing to be some kind of per-user rate limit. db0 says that he does have a rate limit on Mastodon, but wasn't sure whether he put one on Lemmy, so if you might only be able to generate so many images so quickly.
- The way one chooses a model is to change the "style" by ending the prompt text with "style: stylename". Some of these styles entail use of a different model; among other things, it's got models specializing in furry images; there's a substantial furry fandom crowd here. There's a list of supported styles here with sample images.
db0 has encouraged people to use it in that test post and in another thread where we were discussing this, says have fun. I wanted to post here to give it some visibility, since I think that a lot of people, like me, have been unaware that has been available. Especially for people on phones or older computers, doing local AI image generation on GPUs really isn't an option, and this lets folks who do have GPUs share them with those folks.
AI-Horde-Styles-Previews/previews.md at main · amiantos/AI-Horde-Styles-Previews
Automatically generated preview images for AI Horde styles - amiantos/AI-Horde-Styles-PreviewsGitHub
Gaza: UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla Coalition - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights)
GENEVA – UN experts today called for safe passage for the Freedom Flotilla Coalition’s ship carrying essential medical aid, food, and baby supplies to Gaza which departed from Italy on 1 June 2025.
“Aid is desperately needed for the people of Gaza to forestall annihilation, and this initiative is a symbolic and powerful effort to deliver it. Israel should remember that the world is watching closely and refrain from any act of hostility against the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and its passengers,” the experts said.
“The people of Gaza have the right to receive aid through their own territorial waters even under occupation, and the Coalition ship has the right to free passage in international waters to reach the people of Gaza,” they said. “Israel must not interfere with its freedom of navigation, long recognised under international law.”
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Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie
Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.Mother Jones
Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks
Stop using it immediately.
Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire and burn risks
Anker is warning consumers to stop using its PowerCore 10000 batteries immediatelyAndrew Liszewski (The Verge)
Irish government rejects motion to stop sale of Israeli bonds
The decision to reject the bill comes after a similar, unsuccessful motion was put forward by the Sinn Féin party last month.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/euronews.com…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
US | Judge declares mistrial on Harvey Weinstein rape charge after jury dispute
A judge declared a mistrial in the Harvey Weinstein sex crimes retrial on Thursday after a dispute between members of the jury on the outstanding rape charge against the disgraced Hollywood movie mogul. The jury was unable to reach a verdict on the charge that Weinstein raped Jessica Mann, and a retrial on that count will follow at a later date.
LA man faces 8 years in prison for ‘spitting at an ICE agent’ after being charged with assaulting a federal employee
Omar Pulido Bastida was charged with assaulting a federal employee after spitting in an ICE agents face.
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The GOP’s New Medicaid Denialism | Unable to defend their health-care cuts on the merits, congressional Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.
We project that implementation of the retractions outlined in the reconciliation bill would result in more than 42,500 deaths annually
The GOP’s New Medicaid Denialism
Unable to defend their health-care cuts on the merits, congressional Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.Jonathan Chait (The Atlantic)
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US Senator Alex Padilla forcibly removed from Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference in LA.
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Senator Alex Padilla is forcibly removed from Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. "Hands off!," Padilla can be heard yelling. Never seen a US senator handled this way.Bluesky Social
Come visualizzarle da Mastodon e da Friendica le testate italiane che Flipboard ha finalmente federato?
Come visualizzarle da Mastodon e da Friendica le testate italiane che Flipboard ha finalmente federato?
Ora che anche diversi account italiani di Flipboard si sono uniti al Fediverso, cerchiamo di capire come seguirli al meglio, per non perderci nulla, ma anche per non farci sommergere dal flusso di informazione
Come visualizzarle da Mastodon e da Friendica le testate italiane che Flipboard ha finalmente federato?
Ora che anche diversi account italiani di Flipboard si sono uniti al Fediverso, cerchiamo di capire come seguirli al meglio, per non perderci…informapirata
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Mi sembra un'ottima notizia, nel passaggio da Facebook al Fediverso una delle cose di cui sentivo più la mancanza (a parte gli amici...) erano proprio le notizie del Post. Ho messo il "follow", vediamo com'è.
Grazie per la guida, è stata un'ottima idea.
EDIT: posso finalmente rimuovere il dubbio sul "vediamo com'è", funziona perfettamente 😁
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Canada opens war crimes probe into dual Israeli-Canadian IDF soldiers
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/31107913
The original source article: thestar.com/news/canada/rcmp-s…
Canada’s federal police have launched a criminal investigation into several IDF soldiers who also hold Canadian citizenship, on suspicion of crimes against humanity allegedly committed during their military service, Canadian media reported Tuesday.The report, first published by the Toronto Star, marks the first time Canadian authorities have formally opened a war crimes investigation against dual Israeli-Canadian nationals. The move has triggered concern and controversy within Canada’s Jewish and Israeli communities.
According to the report, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are investigating Canadian citizens who served in the IDF, whether in active duty or as reservists, during the war in Gaza. The probe reportedly began in 2024 but remained under wraps until now. It could include evidence collection, information sharing with international bodies and potentially even indictments on Canadian soil.
Canada opens war crimes probe into dual Israeli-Canadian IDF soldiers
Canada’s federal police have launched a criminal investigation into several IDF soldiers who also hold Canadian citizenship, on suspicion of crimes against humanity allegedly committed during their military service, Canadian media reported Tuesday.The report, first published by the Toronto Star, marks the first time Canadian authorities have formally opened a war crimes investigation against dual Israeli-Canadian nationals. The move has triggered concern and controversy within Canada’s Jewish and Israeli communities.
According to the report, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) are investigating Canadian citizens who served in the IDF, whether in active duty or as reservists, during the war in Gaza. The probe reportedly began in 2024 but remained under wraps until now. It could include evidence collection, information sharing with international bodies and potentially even indictments on Canadian soil.
Canada opens war crimes probe into dual Israeli-Canadian IDF soldiers
Canada quietly probing citizens over alleged war crimes committed while serving in the IDF during Gaza war; launched in 2024, investigation remains unannounced; Jewish community voices concern: 'Canada is becoming more hostile toward us by the d…Itamar Eichner (ynetnews)
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I wished they did something before the death toll rose above 50,000; Because to those people they did nothing.
Well they actually did something to those people: A couple of months ago Canada was still Arming the genocidal army.
And i think we should never forget that. Ever. The UN special comnittee already found Israel's methods of war consistent with genocide last year. If Canada really wants to do something about this. (And by "Canada" i mean it's people and it's government.) They should seek putting everyone complicit on selling arms to Israel on trial for crimes against humanity.
~But it's not like people in power are reading World news on lemmy for suggestions. or to get discouraged We are just talking here among ourselves.~
Yes. Yes they would. That should be obvious by this point.
Just like the people who spent last year shouting that the best way to stop the Gaza genocide is to elect the guy who said he wants Israel to "finish the problem."
Google quietly paused the rollout of its AI-powered ‘Ask Photos’ search feature
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Google is pausing the rollout of its AI-powered “Ask Photos” feature within Google Photos, which has been slowly expanding since last fall. “Ask Photos isn’t where it needs to be,” wrote Jamie Aspinall, a product manager for Google Photos, in a post on X responding to criticism, citing three factors: latency, quality, and user experience.
The experimental feature is powered by Google’s “most capable” Gemini AI models. Specifically, it’s a specialized version of its Gemini models that are “only used for Ask Photos,” according to Google.
Aspinall said Google had paused the feature’s rollout “at very small numbers while we address these issues,” and that in about two weeks, the team would ship a better version “that brings back the speed and recall of the original search.
At the same time, Google also announced Tuesday that keyword search in Photos is getting better, allowing you to use quotes to find exact text matches within “filenames, camera models, captions, or text within photos,” or search without quotes to include visual matches too.
Google announced the feature last May at I/O 2024, and positioned it as a way to query your Photos app for common-sense questions that another human would typically have to help with — i.e., asking about which themes you’ve chosen in the past for a child’s birthday party, or which national parks you’ve visited.
“Gemini’s multimodal capabilities can help understand exactly what’s happening in each photo and can even read text in the image if required,” the company wrote in the announcement. “Ask Photos then crafts a helpful response and picks which photos and videos to return.”
It’s not the first time Google has paused the rollout of an AI-powered feature, as it competes in a quickly intensifying AI arms race against other tech giants and startups alike.
Last May, within weeks of debuting “AI Overview” in Google Search, Google paused the feature after nonsensical and inaccurate answers went viral on social media, with no way to opt out of usage. Two high-profile examples: The feature called Barack Obama the first Muslim president of the United States, and recommended users put glue on pizza to keep the cheese on.
And last February, Google rolled out Gemini’s image-generation tool with a good deal of fanfare, then paused the feature that same month after users reported historical inaccuracies, such as an AI-generated image depicting the U.S. Founding Fathers as people of color.
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Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis
Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.Adi Robertson (The Verge)
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Elon Musk derides Donald Trump’s tax bill as ‘a disgusting abomination’
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Elon Musk derides Donald Trump’s tax bill as ‘a disgusting abomination’
Billionaire lashes out just as US president urges Senate to pass his ‘big, beautiful’ fiscal plan
Elon Musk lashed out at Donald Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill on Tuesday, describing it as a ‘disgusting abomination’© AFP/Getty Images
Elon Musk has lambasted Donald Trump’s signature tax bill, calling it “a disgusting abomination”, in an outburst that threatens to destroy the relationship between the US president and his billionaire backer.
In a series of posts on his social media site X on Tuesday, Musk, who abruptly left the administration last week, hit out at what he called a “massive, outrageous, pork-filled Congressional spending bill”.
He added: “Shame on those who voted for it: you know you did wrong. You know it.”
Musk’s comments came just hours after Trump had criticised Republican Senator Rand Paul, a staunch fiscal conservative, for his opposition to the proposed legislation, which the president described as a “BIG GROWTH BILL” on his social media platform.
The legislation, which Trump had coined his “big, beautiful bill”, passed the House last month by one vote and is currently being considered by the Senate. It has been criticised by fiscal hawks for adding trillions to the national debt when investors are already worried about the US’s widening deficit.
Supporters of Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) have also criticised the bill, claiming it would undo some of the initiative’s savings.
Asked about Musk’s latest comments, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “Look, the president already knows where Elon Musk stood on this bill. It doesn’t change the president’s opinion. This is one big, beautiful bill, and he’s sticking to it.”
This is a developing story
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“Piracy is piracy”: Disney and Universal sue AI image generator Midjourney in a Hollywood first
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Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’ Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was unnecessary
California national guards troops and marines deployed to Los Angeles to help restore order after days of protest against the Trump administration have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they do not want to join.Three different advocacy organisations representing military families said they had heard from dozens of affected service members who expressed discomfort about being drawn into a domestic policing operation outside their normal field of operations. The groups said they have heard no countervailing opinions.
“The sentiment across the board right now is that deploying military force against our own communities isn’t the kind of national security we signed up for,” said Sarah Streyder of the Secure Families Initiative, which represents the interests of military spouses, children and veterans.
Troops and marines deeply troubled by LA deployment: ‘Morale is not great’
Several service members told advocacy groups they felt like pawns in a political game and assignment was not necessaryAndrew Gumbel (The Guardian)
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in reply to TheHiddenCatboy • • •Russia needs to keep Moscow and St. Petersburg completely isolated from the effects of the war.
It limits their recruitment pool a lot.
The Russian Army is also corrupted as fuck, everything has been for sale for quarter century and over
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This not innability. They dropped the ball on 3 day operation, sure. Dumb fucks ignored proper intel.
They are breaking Ukraine. Slowly grinding the will away.
They want to install a new Belarus-like government. This is what russia means by the bs of "denazifying Ukraine". Puppets will run the country under the guise of a free country.
This was ussr and they want it back.
They are OPENLY talking about.
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in reply to MicroWave • • •Hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths all because of the power-hungry egos of an elite few (specifically Putin and his oligarchs, not the Ukrainian people defending themselves).
The first to call for these wars should be the first on the front lines. Fuckers.
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