Spyware and state abuse: The case for an EU-wide ban
Spyware and state abuse: The case for an EU-wide ban - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
EDRi’s position paper addresses the challenges posed by state use of spyware in the EU, and the dangers of the proliferation of commercial spyware. The paper concludes that the only human-rights compliant approach is a full ban.European Digital Rights (EDRi)
Spyware and state abuse: The case for an EU-wide ban
Spyware and state abuse: The case for an EU-wide ban - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
EDRi’s position paper addresses the challenges posed by state use of spyware in the EU, and the dangers of the proliferation of commercial spyware. The paper concludes that the only human-rights compliant approach is a full ban.European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[Video] Massive "Red-Line" demonstration in The Netherlands yesterday, advocating for sanctions against Israel. Video shows the start to the end of the marching line
Tens of thousands march in The Hague demanding Dutch sanctions on Israel
Tens of thousands of people gathered Sunday on the Malieveld in The Hague to protest the Dutch government's stance on Israel, forming a symbolic "red line" march toward the Peace Palace and demanding urgent political action.NL Times
Samsung is desperate to compete on chips. Workers say it comes at a cost.
Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.
- Once a global leader, Samsung Electronics is losing in the fierce semiconductor race to dominate AI supplies.
- It’s also losing engineers, leaving the remaining staff to work long, intense shifts to compensate for vacancies.
- Engineers say they are required to falsify data and defects are slipping through, affecting chip quality.
How Samsung Electronics’ chip division lost its edge - Rest of World
Long hours, low pay, and a rigid culture are driving engineers out of Samsung’s chip division, raising concerns over ai chip quality and competitiveness.Gayathri Vaidyanathan (Rest of World)
Samsung is desperate to compete on chips. Workers say it comes at a cost.
Scarred by long hours, low pay, and a hostile work culture, many chip workers are leaving for competitors, including American companies.
- Once a global leader, Samsung Electronics is losing in the fierce semiconductor race to dominate AI supplies.
- It’s also losing engineers, leaving the remaining staff to work long, intense shifts to compensate for vacancies.
- Engineers say they are required to falsify data and defects are slipping through, affecting chip quality.
How Samsung Electronics’ chip division lost its edge - Rest of World
Long hours, low pay, and a rigid culture are driving engineers out of Samsung’s chip division, raising concerns over ai chip quality and competitiveness.Gayathri Vaidyanathan (Rest of World)
FediForum Keynote: Christine Lemmer-Webber (co-author of ActivityPub)
cross-posted from: discuss.tchncs.de/post/3855969…
Keynote by Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop, @dustyweb.bsky.social) at FediForum June 2025.More info: fediforum.org/2025-06
FediForum Keynote: Christine Lemmer-Webber
Keynote by Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop, @dustyweb.bsky.social) at FediForum June 2025. More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-06PeerTube.wtf
Microsoft reiterates: European data will remain in Europe
This year, Microsoft is busy charming European policymakers. It is doing so again by insisting that Europeans’ data will remain on the continent, regardless of whether the US government requires access to it.
Microsoft reiterates: European data will remain in Europe - Techzine Global
Microsoft promises that European customer data will remain in Europe under European law. Is this enough to allay sovereignty concerns?Erik van Klinken (Techzine)
Trump administration gives personal data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials
President Donald Trump's administration has released to deportation officials the personal data for millions of Medicaid enrollees, including their immigration status.
https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-deportation-immigrants-trump-4e0f979e4290a4d10a067da0acca8e22
‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone
The 15 metres wide battery can store a month's heat demand in summer - how does it work?
DARPA sets new records for sending power wirelessly
Looking forward to a future where laser beams replace power lines, DAPRA's Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program has set new records for transmitting more power wirelessly over longer distances.
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Processo a Giordano Bruno: arresto, accuse, condanna a morte
Processo a Giordano Bruno: arresto, accuse, condanna a morte
Il processo a Giordano Bruno porta con sé dubbi, incertezze e una serie di personaggi che giocano un ruolo centrale nella condanna al rogo del filosofo nolanoDaniele Martinelli (Fatti per la Storia)
VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown
German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USA
VMware and Siemens spar over where to stage software licence showdown
: German giant wants case heard in Germany, not the USASimon Sharwood (The Register)
Israel furious as France shuts four weapons stands at Paris Airshow
LE BOURGET, France/JERUSALEM, June 16 (Reuters) - France has shut down the four main Israeli company stands at the Paris Airshow for apparently displaying offensive weapons, in a move condemned by Israel that highlights the growing tensions between the traditional allies.
A source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday that the instruction came from French authorities after Israeli firms failed to comply with a direction from a French security agency to remove offensive or kinetic weapons from the stands.
Three smaller Israeli stands, which didn't have hardware on display, and an Israeli Ministry of Defence stand, remain open.
EP.127 - Il padre delle terre rare in Cina e gli Usa
I can't see some PieFed posts from Lemmy
I made this post piefed.social/post/931182
But when I browse Lemmy, I can't see it.
aka. it's missing on lemmy.world/c/southafrica@pief…
Is it a ID10T User error? or is something else happening
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There have been some problems with federation lately. I believe the cause is that following piefed communities from other instances has had some bugs, which I've just fixed.
Going to Lemmy, leave the community and then join again will probably help to make future posts arrive. I've already done that for South Africa, you don't need to - I'm just saying it so others can see it.
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Mary Chapin Carpenter – Personal History (2025)
Mary Chapin Carpenter – Personal History (2025)
di Gianni Zuretti Se avessi avuto una sorella minore, avrei voluto fosse Mary Chapin Carpenter! Perché la sessantasettenne singer songwrite...Silvano Bottaro (Blogger)
Creator of roblox thinks he should be able to run the world since he made roblox.
Its real somehow: xcancel.com/Shedletsky/status/…
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A tweet by Jon sheletsky (@shedletsky) saying "Silicon Valley built the modern world. Why shouldn't we run it?. The tweet has 658k views, 70 bookmarks, 70 likes, 460 retweets/quotes and 694 replies. It was posted at 6:52 PM, 2/3/25.
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Is the Gnome Background Apps UI a complete Mess or do I miss something?
Since Gnome 44 there is a new UI to show apps (i.e. messengers, sync clients, ...) that run in the background. It is supposed to take the place of the tray icons. In my experience it's basically not working, though.
The only app I use that uses the UI is the nextcloud client. But that thing's autostart seems to be very unreliable and most of the time I have to start it manually after booting. Could be an issue with the app and not with Gnome, but I don't know.
I also use Telegram and Element, but both still seem to use the old tray icons that you now need to install an extension for to work. Meaning that with vanilla Gnome when you close the Telegram window, the app is stopped and can't receive massages in the background.
Is the new UI broken or are app developers just not implementing it into their apps or what's wrong with the current situaltion?
GNOME 44 Getting New Background Apps UI - OMG! Linux
GNOME devs want to make it easier to monitor and control background apps in GNOME Shell. So to this end, they're exploring a new 'Background Apps' featureJoey Sneddon (OMG! Linux)
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Ariel Vromen, Kevin Costner – „Das Jerico Projekt“ (2016)
Hier begegnen sich Science-Fiction, Spionagethriller und Psychodrama auf eine Weise, die fasziniert, weil sie unkonventionell ist. Der Film ist aus 2016 – moralische Fragen und technologischer Nervenkitzel haben in die Zeit gepasst. Was macht einen Menschen aus? Ich gebe zu: zwischendurch habe ich zwar das eine oder andere Mal den Faden verloren – hatte ein starkes Kopfschmerzgefühl – am Ende war ich ziemlich zufrieden. (@3sat)
Mediathekperlen | Ariel Vromen, Kevin Costner - „Das Jerico Projekt“ (2016)
Hier begegnen sich Science-Fiction, Spionagethriller und Psychodrama auf eine Weise, die fasziniert, weil sie unkonventionell ist. Der Film ist aus 2016…Mediathekperlen (NexxtPress)
Tom Waits - Bas As Me (2011)
Bad as Me è il diciassettesimo album in studio del cantautore statunitense Tom Waits, pubblicato il 21 ottobre 2011 dalla Anti-Records. L'album è noto per essere stato registrato già nel febbraio 2011 e la sua uscita è stata annunciata ufficialmente il 23 agosto 2011 sul sito web ufficiale di Waits e su vari social network... Leggi e ascolta...
Tom Waits - Bas As Me (2011)
Bad as Me è il diciassettesimo album in studio del cantautore statunitense Tom Waits, pubblicato il 21 ottobre 2011 dalla Anti-Records. L'album è noto per essere stato registrato già nel febbraio 2011 e la sua uscita è stata annunciata ufficialmente il 23 agosto 2011 sul sito web ufficiale di Waits e su vari social network. Lo stesso giorno, la traccia che dà il titolo all'album, “ Bad as Me “, è stata pubblicata come primo singolo dell'album su iTunes. L'album è il primo album di Waits composto interamente da materiale nuovo in sette anni da Real Gone (2004). L'etichetta di Waits, aveva recentemente concordato un accordo di distribuzione con la Warner Music Group che consentiva loro di pubblicare l'album a livello internazionale. Questa segna la prima pubblicazione di Waits tramite l'organizzazione Warner dai tempi di Heartattack and Vine (1980). Alla sua uscita, Bad as Me ha ricevuto ampi consensi dalla critica. L'album è stato nominato per un Grammy Award come miglior album di musica alternativa. Dopo l'uscita, Bad as Me divenne il primo album di Waits nella top 10 negli Stati Uniti, raggiungendo il numero 6.
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What peertube channel do you recommend?
I'm looking to subscribe to some peertube channels and not go to youtube for entertainment.
Which ones do you recommend?
Thanks in advance
Edit It can be for anything. For example gardening, news, tech, etc.
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What are your interests?
In the meantime you could follow a couple of communities is where people share interesting videos:
- !peertube@lemmy.world
- !peertube@lemmy.wtf
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She married a U.S. citizen for love. After she alleged abuse, he threatened deportation.
Excerpts:
The Facebook message that popped into her account started as a flirtation: "Hey, how are you?"She had newly arrived from Bangladesh to study for her master's in information technology on a student visa in 2022 and wasn't interested in a relationship.
She liked the message. Then he texted again a few days later, "Hey, I have tickets to a Broadway show."
She had never been to a Broadway show before, so she went — and their whirlwind first date quickly turned to love for her and then marriage. […]
Her new husband filed for a green card for his wife. A temporary one was granted, and she moved to his family's house in Brooklyn.
The future seemed bright. […]
Now, just a little more than a year later, the 31-year-old woman, who asked CBS News not to use her name due to safety fears, has separated from her husband after alleging abuse — and is now worried about being deported.
[…]
Crystal Justice, chief external affairs officer at the National Domestic Violence Hotline, told CBS News in a statement that they have seen abusive partners "threatening to deport a partner or their family or withholding legal documents to limit a person's ability to travel."
She married a U.S. citizen for love. After she alleged abuse, he threatened deportation.
There has been a rise in the threat of deportations by abusers, said Esther Limb, Immigration Practice Director at Her Justice in New York City.Cara Tabachnick (CBS News)
Friends say Minnesota shooting suspect was deeply religious and conservative
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-shootings-lawmakers-suspect-21b2165404bc66f77dd5e0e36efeb065
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Tilberi, un verme demoniaco ritornato dalla tomba per suggere il prezioso latte bovino - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Tilberi, un verme demoniaco ritornato dalla tomba per suggere il prezioso latte bovino - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Con passo timido influenzato dal disagio, la pastora Guðrún si avvicino alla forma bianca e ricurva conficcata nella terra ai margini del pascolo ereditato dalla sua famiglia.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
China Plays Rare Earths Card in EV Tariff Negotiations With EU
China Plays Rare Earths Card in EV Tariff Negotiations With EU
Negotiations around Beijing's rare earth blockade have now become part of talks on the EU's tariffs on China-made electric vehicles (EVs)Asia Financial
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What the U.S. Feared Is Happening: China’s Chip Empire Is No Longer a Fantasy—Huawei and Xiaomi Just Opened a New Front
What the U.S. Feared Is Happening: China’s Chip Empire Is No Longer a Fantasy—Huawei and Xiaomi Just Opened a New Front
Cut off from U.S. technology, China’s biggest tech giants weren’t supposed to recover this fast. A surprise comeback is reshaping the balance in the chip industry. What Huawei and Xiaomi pulled off is already turning heads in Washington.Evelyn Hart (Indian Defence Review)
Oh good, it will be in the public domain.
OpenAI, which is also fighting a string of copyright lawsuits, donated $50 million this year to a group of research institutions including Oxford University’s 400-year-old Bodleian Library, which is digitizing rare texts and using AI to help transcribe them.When the company first reached out to the Boston Public Library, one of the biggest in the U.S., the library made clear that any information it digitized would be for everyone, said Jessica Chapel, its chief of digital and online services.
“OpenAI had this interest in massive amounts of training data. We have an interest in massive amounts of digital objects. So this is kind of just a case that things are aligning,” Chapel said.
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Advice on a CAD solution
I'm in need of a CAD program with an easy aproach for someone with zero experience on this type of software.
3D printing is not a concern
I intend to draw the blueprints for my house. The building is old, no blueprints exist for it, and I intend to make renovations to it, so having blueprints to work on to plan the renovations will be a huge help.
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I've been doing amazing stuff in FreeCAD. It has a lot of power that lets me do things I never thought I would be able to do. It's also riddled with bugs that will make you want to throw your computer out the window.
My success with FreeCAD comes from extremely strict version control and years of use. I've learned to live with a few specific bugs. For example, external geometry doesn't work and hasn't for 14 months. Don't believe the forum when they say it works. It does not. In any given sketch, you will be able to make is 0 or 1 external link work properly without breaking your drawing. If you have more than one external link, even if you aren't using any of them, it will give you a "wire not closed" error when trying to pad or pocket.
Oddly, the subshape binder works perfectly and it is the illegitimate brother of external links. It even uses the external link tool to define import links from the binder object. Using a master sketch and the subshape binder is absolutely brilliant and wildly productive.
It comes down to having several tools to do any given thing but only one or two may be working.
There is a decent architectural plug-in for FreeCAD. I think Yorik wrote it, some time ago, but it's brilliant. I've used it for doing exactly what you describe on several house projects and it's helped quite a bit with renovations.
SweetHome3d is also a decent app but extremely primative and it's not going to create professional looking blueprints for anyone. It's really just a toy but can be extremely useful for mocking up a design or room layout. I have used it for years with great benefit. It's simple, quite powerful, and a brilliant visualization tool.
Honestly, if you want to create real blueprints to give to a builder, you're going to need Windows or OSX and one of a handful of applications, preeminently AutoDesk REVIT. REVIT is probably over specified for your purpose but it's the adult table. At least know it's there if you find linux apps have too many shortcomings.
Look at QCad. They have a paid ($40), and a free version that is fully functional and open source. It's the most autocad-like app out there, so learning that has the advantage of learning the UI of autocad too.
LibreCad that others suggested was forked from Qcad about 15 years ago and hasn't moved much in terms of features. While QCad has. So in my opinion, it's the best solution.
Then there's Freecad, but that's more about 3D cad, and it's more complicated overall.
Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges
Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025 — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced the Saturday execution of prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who had been detained for seven years on charges of treason, foreign collaboration, funding terroris…CPJ Staff (Committee to Protect Journalists)
Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived
Nadya Tolokonnikova, the co-founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, was sitting in a replica Russian prison cell in downtown Los Angeles when the police started shutting down the streets around the art museum.
Tolokonnikova was only three and a half days into what was supposed to be a “durational performance” reenacting her two years as a political prisoner in Vladimir Putin’s Russia.
But Donald Trump had ordered national guard troops into Los Angeles, over the objections of California’s governor, and the protests against immigration raids that Trump wanted to target were happening just a block from the gallery where Tolokonnikova was performing.
The Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) hastily decided to shut its doors. But Tolokonnikova, 35, whose political art has left her as a wanted criminal in Russia, chose to continue her performance inside the empty museum.
“Police State Exhibit Closed Today Due to the Police State,” she posted on Instagram.
Pussy Riot’s founder built a ‘police state’ in an LA art gallery. Then the national guard arrived
Nadya Tolokonnikova tells the Guardian she felt she had ‘entered a wormhole’ when her police state exhibition was shut down – by the police stateLois Beckett (The Guardian)
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Pro-capitalists love calling communists lazy. But isn’t it ironic tha...
Pro-capitalists love calling communists lazy. But isn’t it ironic tha...
Pro-capitalists love calling communists lazy. But isn’t it ironic that in capitalism, being “free” means reaching a position where you work less and profit from the labor of others? Who’s really th...TankieTube
Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iranian supreme leader: US official
Washington (AFP) – US President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a senior US official told AFP Sunday."We found out that the Israelis had plans to hit Iran's supreme leader. President Trump was against it and we told the Israelis not to," said the US official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Earlier Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dodged a question about reports that Trump had asked his country not to kill Khamenei.
"I'm not going to get into that," he told Fox News.
"But I can tell you,... we'll do what we need to do, and I think the United States knows what is good for the United States," he said.
The comments came as Israel and Iran exchanged another barrage of missiles Sunday, with residents told to seek shelter as booms were heard over Jerusalem, and aerial defense systems reportedly activated in Tehran.
After decades of enmity and a prolonged shadow war fought through proxies and covert operations, the latest conflict marked the first time the countries have traded fire with such intensity, triggering fears of a lengthy conflict that could engulf the entire Middle East.
It began Friday, when Israel launched an attack that has killed top military commanders and nuclear scientists, and struck military bases, nuclear sites and residential areas across the country.
As Israel struck targets across Iran again on Sunday, Netanyahu vowed to make the country pay a "heavy price" for killing Israeli civilians.
He also strongly suggested to Fox News that Israel had killed Iran's intelligence chief Mohammad Kazemi, saying it had recently "got the chief intelligence officer and his deputy in Tehran" as its jets carried out raids over the capital.
Trump has insisted that Washington, a strong ally of Israel, "had nothing to do" with Israel's bombing campaign.
But he also threatened to unleash "the full strength and might" of the US military if Iran attacked US interests, later urging the two foes to "make a deal."
Trump stressed to ABC News Sunday that the United States is "not at this moment" involved in the military action, but said it was "possible we could get involved."
He also said he would be "open" to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin being a mediator to resolve the conflict.
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Two tutorials to start 3d on godot - super simple
I found these two super simple tutorials to get started with a 3d character and its animation tree.
Is there a way to have the script automatically written by the animationtre ?
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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'Immediate' Pirate IPTV Shutdowns? No Problem, Please Ask Us Yesterday * TorrentFreak
'Immediate' Pirate IPTV Shutdowns? No Problem, Please Ask Us Yesterday * TorrentFreak
Sports rightsholders have revised their calls for illegal streams to be taken down inside 30 minutes, with “immediately” the new standard.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
Trump’s Military Parade Gives Shoutouts To Corporate Donors: ‘Special Thanks To Our Sponsor – Coinbase’
That included Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange that donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee in January. The following month, Trump’s Securities and Exchange Commission dismissed a lawsuit against the company.
Trump’s Military Parade Gives Shoutouts To Corporate Donors: ‘Special Thanks To Our Sponsor – ...
President Donald Trump's military parade on Saturday featured 22 corporate and foundation sponsors, some of which received shoutouts over the public address system.Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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Prefiguration.
The idea of resisting domination by living outside it. Creating your own grassroots community structures without state or corporate control.
'Immediate' Pirate IPTV Shutdowns? No Problem, Please Ask Us Yesterday
Sports rightsholders have revised their calls for illegal streams to be taken down inside 30 mins. It must now happen much more quickly, with the word 'immediately' given the thumbs up. How much of this additional pressure is bargaining strategy isn't clear, but in site-blocking countries like Italy, the UK, and Canada, detecting pirate infrastructure isn't a last minute effort. Many targets earmarked for blocking are identified not just hours in advance, but in some cases days earlier.
'Immediate' Pirate IPTV Shutdowns? No Problem, Please Ask Us Yesterday * TorrentFreak
Sports rightsholders have revised their calls for illegal streams to be taken down inside 30 minutes, with “immediately” the new standard.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
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No names are mentioned in the submission but platforms including Twitch, Vercel, Scaleway, and CDN77, were previously reported as voluntarily cooperating after their IP addresses kept getting blocked as LaLiga aggressively pursued action against pirate sites. As a result of this voluntary cooperation, disruption to their businesses due to site blocking measures seemed to reduce quite quickly.Set company on fire.
Company cooperate to not get set on fire.
"Voluntary cooperation is high"
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Why boycotting the Harry Potter TV show accomplishes nothing and what to do instead.
I have to say, this is just such an in-the-weeds moral stance that it crosses the boundary of reasonableness. Honestly, it's this sort of thing that drove me away from left wing styles of thinking a while ago.
The impact you make on the world in any of your possible actions with regard to Harry Potter is miniscule. Like, truly, utterly insignificant. Are you going to organize an anti-potter boycott? Participate in a protest? Harass the actors in an online trolling movement? Throw eggs at JK Rawling's house? Great! Go do all those things! Actively participate in changing the world for the better! These actions might actually lead to real change.
But denying yourself pleasures in the name of moral purity accomplishes nothing. If all you do is sit at home and think to yourself "I wanna watch the new Harry Potter thing, but I can't, because then I'm a bad person." (or in this case, "I wanna talk to my friends about the new Harry Potter thing I pirated, but I can't, because then I'm a bad person) then you are accomplishing literally nothing except making yourself miserable. Again, if you are going to actually do something, then go do it! But if you don't have the time or energy or interest or social battery to actually do something, then shaming yourself or others into not doing things is actively counterproductive. Go take a road trip without calculating if the pleasure you will derive is worth the carbon footprint! Eat an ice cream cone without feeling bad about the the suffering of the factory farmed cow it came from! Get one of those good-paying jobs in oil and gas or defence and make some goddamned money! You are simply not important enough for any of these actions to have any actual real-world impact. The only thing that happens is that you convince yourself that if you ever enjoy anything, then you are a bad person. You train yourself to constantly be looking for the ways in which life's simple pleasures are destroying the world, so you can feel bad about them.
Just stop it. Be happy. Do whatever you need to do to chill out and enjoy your life and gain some sense of contentedness and security. And then go out and make the world a better place by actually doing something. Hyper-anxious, shame-ridden, depressed know-it-alls rarely create effective social change because no one wants to hang out with them. No one see them and thinks "yeah, that's what I want my life to look like."
In order to lead by example you have to show a path to a better world. Not a cell.
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“The squirt guns are to bother the tourists a bit,” Andreu Martínez said with a chuckle after spritzing a couple seated at an outdoor cafe. “Barcelona has been handed to the tourists. This is a fight to give Barcelona back to its residents.”Martínez says his rent has risen over 30% as more apartments in his neighborhood are rented to tourists for short-term stays. He said there is a knock-on effect of traditional stores being replaced by businesses catering to tourists, like souvenir shops, burger joints and “bubble tea” spots.
“Our lives, as lifelong residents of Barcelona, is coming to an end,” he said. “We are being pushed out systematically.”
They have a point. People may dismiss this as “xenophobia” but I see it more as a matter of class divisions where rich tourists are prioritised over lower class residents.
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in reply to IndustryStandard • • •IndustryStandard
in reply to Diplomjodler • • •Estimates range between 150.000 to 200.000 at the high end.
So around 1 in every 100 Dutch people showed up.
Melatonin
in reply to IndustryStandard • • •Looks like the US sucks in comparison.
We have the government we deserve.
Tangentism
in reply to Melatonin • • •You have a system that is mostly based on gentlemans agreements from a time when most of them were slave traders/owners.
Similar to the British system, if a cunt gets into power, there's no real safeguards against them acting cuntishly because it's a system based on gentlemen agreements amongst the descendants of the Norman aristocracy
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in reply to Tangentism • • •As a British citizen, we've certainly ejected cunts from power.
The big difference between our system and the US system is that the US system is codified in a single document and as a result it doesn't evolve except through rare amendments. The British constitution is written through precedent. If a situation hasn't occurred before then we decide what to do today. We don't try to take the 250yo (or more) words of people who had never imagined the situations of today and try to apply the right to bear arms on AI powered kamikaze drones.
wurzelgummidge
in reply to wewbull • • •We've ejected one set of cunts from power but we still have cunts in power and we'll have cunts in power after the next shit show of a popularity contest. Because there is fuck all else to vote for.