Call me crazy, but I a) think the fediverse probably doesn't have more 'toxic content', harmful and violent content, and child sexual abuse material then other platforms like X, Facebook, Meta, YouTube etc, and b) actively like the fediverse because of that.
But after a few hours carefully drafting and sourcing an edit to make it clear that no, the fediverse isn't unusual in social media circles for having a lot of toxic content, I realised that the entire 'fediverse bad' section was added by 1 editor in 2 days. And the editor has made an awful lot of edits on pages all themed around porn (hundreds of edits on the pages of porn stars), suicide, mass killings, mass shootings, Jews, torture techniques, conspiracy theories, child abuse, various forms of sexual and other exploitation, 'zoosadism', and then pages with titles like 'bad monkey' that seemed reasonably innocent until I actually clicked on them to see what they were and, well.
I decided to stop using the internet for a while.
I've learned my lesson trying to change Wikipedia edits written by people like that - they tend to have a tight social circle of people who can make the internet a very unpleasant place for anyone suggesting maybe claims like 'an opinion poll indicated that most people in Britain would prefer to live next to a sewage plant than a Muslim' should maybe not on Wikipedia on the thin evidence of paywalled link from a Geocities page written by, apparently, a putrid cesspit personified.
I thought I'd learned my lesson about trusting Wikipedia.
It just makes me so angry that most people's main source of information on the fediverse contains a massive chunk written solely by a guy who spends most of his time making minor grammar edits to pages about school shootings, collections of pages about black people who were sexually assaulted and murdered, etc, and that these people control the narrative on Wikipedia by means of ensuring any polite critics' are overcome with the urge to spend the rest of the day showering and disinfecting everything.
You got banned for specifically using "Zio" -- A term coined by David Duke. I asked you to use a different phrase instead, such as zionist, zionazi or anything else, but you insisted on using Zio.
Your ban has expired by now anyway, I don't dish out perm-bans unless it's absolutely neccessary
yeah that's usually how extremists manage to crawl their way into movements. They hijack the movement and use specific dog whistles to identify each other while normalising extremism. It's why communities gotta be vigilant when these dog-whistles, such as zio, pop up.
You can't buy respect or admiration... Well he did for like 10-15 years, then he got high on his own narcissism and dropped the filter; plus a team of marketers manufacturing his image and curating his social media posts.
For some weird reason it hasn't affected the Tesla stock much? FSD is now a proven fiasco, together with obvious declining sales. But now people are buying the next big thing which is supposed to be his amateur robots and AI. Both areas where Tesla is even further behind than they are on FSD. But some people still refuse to believe Tesla is behind on FSD, despite the evidence is clear that they are. It's all build on a scam, and a lot of people are still buying it. Elon Musk is not a genius at technology or business, he is just a genius scammer.
People are buying only because it's a growth stock. Eventually enough people will get nervous and cause a stampede. Lots of owners are going to left holding the bag, an empty bag.
I've maintained that the stock market divorced itself from reality a long time ago. As of making this comment by market cap Toyota, BYD, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, GM, Volkswagen, Ford, and Porsche COMBINED are worth $100 billion less than HALF of Tesla. Is there anyone out there that would choose a minority stake in Tesla vs owning 9 of the biggest auto manufacturers on the planet outright?
Point being I don't see stock valuation as a measure of how successful companies are. How high were stocks in the dot com boom? In 2008?
Stocks are basically the same as crypto at this point. There is no benefit or utility at owning some, the only value is the idea of selling for more at some point.
They could fix this by requiring stocks pay a dividend as a minimum percentage of profit, and prohibiting the sale of a stock until a year after purchase.
The majority of investors now are "retail investors". Just regular people on apps like Robinhood. These people are investing in memes or making political statements.
I'm not trying to start a fight with you on this but by what metric do you measure that? To my knowledge institutional trading outpaces retail in terms of total dollars invested, number of trades, and total valuation (as in the total market value of the retail traders is more than the net worth of retail investors)
I can't find the source. I'm recalling a recent episode of TBOY podcast that talked about this. They cite their sources, but I'm not sure which episode it was. So, yeah without actual sources feel free to ignore what I said.
Shockingly, boycotts don't work if the actual customers don't take part in them. Companies don't care about your feelings, they care about money, and "I'm never buying a thing because of reasons!" doesn't matter if you weren't about to buy one in the first place.
Correct. That's why successful boycotts usually only happen because the company was already in decline. I would argue that the Disney/ABC situation was that.
TSLA is heavily manipulated. Insiders have liquidated something like 100M in stock this year. They're dead it just takes time, they don't have a market for any vehicles anymore, the CT was a boondoggle, they have no new tech and are behind in every category now.
Nissan is still operating, give it some time, people will continue to dump TSLA and Elon can't liquidate more than a couple billion in a year without tanking the price.
the system is worse than broken, it's working exactly as intended. the best solution? get out and meet your neighbors. talk to them about how they hate their bosses. tell them about things people are doing to undo this rigged game. don't at any point claim yourself to be a leftist. just offer to help them out of their nightmarish material conditions
He's not. This article is bullshit by a poor person. Elon, unlike someone like Bill Gates, still has most of his "worth" in TSLA. TSLA is held up purely by hype and the sunken cost fallacy. The hype is gone and now investor with brains are liquidating but Elon can't, he'd crash the stock selling more than a couple billion. So we get to watch the market desperately try to keep TSLA( that people put pension money in) afloat as the market burns around them and Elon's imaginary money dwindles. In reality he has something like 10B liquid and probably something similar in assets that aren't a dead car company.
Thank you! Someone around here gets it. Look at these comments. People seem to think he's actually holding that much cash.
People are only buying Tesla stock because it keeps going up, nothing to do with their perceived value of future earnings. It's fucking insane, reminds me of Wall Street, 1929. Fittingly enough, the world is making the same mistakes of 100 years ago because all the people who learned from those mistakes are dead.
If you took Musky’s ~~wrath~~ wealth as the GDP of a country. Musky would be ~~in~~ 33rd ~~higher~~ ranked country in the World, higher than the Philippines.
Imagine if 99% of his net worth were redistributed to the people who need it most and reivested in the economy. And even then, that asshole would still have $5 billion left over.
Almost all of that money is imaginary. Look at Tesla's $1.5T "worth". If you liquidated the company down to the staplers and pens, you're probably only going to get a few billion.
If we're saying that $1.5T represents current assets and future growth, yikes. Tesla ain't doing so hot and I hardly expect them to turn it around with this genius at the top. The stock price merely reflects people buying because people are buying. Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd! Someday that stock is going to crater.
Anyway, same goes for Musk. He can turn but a fraction of that net worth into cash. Imagine if he started selling Tesla stock. First off, the market would panic seeing the CEO dumping his own stock, the price would plummet, instantly. Even if word didn't get out, the market would still be flooded, driving the price into the ground.
CAVEAT: None of this considers the value of SpaceX. 🤷🏻
$1.5t is the market cap which is simply stock price x # of shares. It has no direct correlation to the assets of the company or the amount of profit it makes. People misunderstand market cap and what it means all the time.
Yeah but it’s not like he just has that money, guys! It’s wealth not actual money! God everyone who doesn’t get all their information about the economy from Ben Shapiros podcast just doesn’t understand how the economy works!
My math may be off, but, I’m good at my job and I make 1.78E-7 less money than this douche nozzle, who is terrible at everything, and slowly destroys all his companies.
Hm? Not sure if you're referring to me or what you might be (possibly legitimately) thinking, throwing me into a pot of 'these comments'. Which are? I am intrigued anyhow.
I was just thinking for me, he's not worth anything. He's a burden on humanity. But here we go, we make up financials and he's the top dog.
With what money? The vast majority of his "wealth" is imaginary. When Tesla investors, who know damned well they're riding a bubble, finally decide they've made enough money, risked it long enough and it's time to bail, the bubble pops.
Not saying that because the man is a raging douche nozzle, it's simply reality.
But he continues paying random women to have his kids because they all start hating him after a while, and apparently 13 tries hasn't been enough for him to notice the one thing in common with all of them.
It has started to make me question my sanity. Every week there is a headline like “Tesla sales collapse in Europe and Asia” or “Huge class action suit filed against Tesla” and the result is always the same: TSLA stock goes up.
Once his current-incarnation/life terminates, & all his unconscious ignoring/denying releases , .. firing his continuum/soul away from what he had been "possessing",
then his continuum's/soul's "reaping of what it had sown" will make his continuum's/soul's future-someones be having hell-lives after hell-lives after hell-lives, for all the exploitation/abuse his privilege stood-on, this-time-'round.. ..until it balances-out, grinding-through soul-unconsciousness, resulting in soul-gnosis/understanding.
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His continuum/soul will learn: that's the whole point of OceanOfAllPhenomena.
That original-awarenesses ( continuums/souls, not mere incarnation/life minds, let-alone the mere-hours-duration SurfaceMinds we narcissistically call "consciousness" )
.. get to have THEIR OWN experiencings, no matter how many lives+deaths that takes for a given continuum/soul, every single one gets to choose its own path, & is forced into experiencing ALL consequences of its indulgings/committings..
( technically, it's much less "personal"/sociopolitical:
a continuum/soul emits meaning into OceanOfAllPhenomena/Universe,
then it is trapped in OceanOfAllPhenomena BY that emitted-meaning, UNTIL it has reabsorbed ALL of the emitted-meanings, & ONLY THEN can it dissolve-out-from soul-containment/recycling/reincarnation. ( yes, universe recycles ALL energies contained within it, including meaning-energy, in spite of the Physicalist-dogma that meaning "isn't real" and "doesn't exist" )
This is why AwakeSoulism, aka "Buddhism", tells us straight-up that replacing lead-chains ( bad-karma ) with gold-chains ( good-karma ) isn't itself enough to free our continuum, one has to have NO karma, in order to become free-from-entrapment/imprisonment/containment.
The only way to have NO karma, is to have no involvement-attachment when committing circumstantial-action: to let go of everything, letting it all be, in equinimity, while committing only right-action, dismantling one's existing emitted-meaning-balance-sheet/karma, see?
Contrast that paradigm/principle, with what Musk, a former Vajrayana ( he counted Tenzin Gyatso, the "Dalai Lama"/Ocean-Guru, as his teacher, years ago ), is enforcing into his own continuum's/soul's Eternity..
The reason I'm explaining this perspective-difference, is simple:
The root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, told people that the 2nd Great Law was "love others as one's own brother", right?
The problem is that that was a dumbed-down version of LivingSpirit's instruction, appropriate to the Animals-&-Tribes-Time men he was talking to..
The CORRECT rendition of LivingSpirit's meaning is:
"love all SOULS as one's own soul's brother, but dispute the children-of-souls/lives/incarnations which are committing wrong-meaning",
which is entirely-more-complex than what would have stuck in the minds of benJoseph's followers ( he railed against their stone-heartedness, repeatedly, in their bible, try reading biblegateway's CJB book of Luke, for examples of that, if you want.. ).
So, considering the 2 perspectives, lives vs souls, simultaneously..
Musk is digging a grave & throwing his own future-someones into that grave, & tamping it down solidly, for sake of his personal dominion, only this time 'round.
Our regimes' accommodating of this behavior proves our regimes are narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy instead-of ForTheBenefitOfAll/ForTheBenefitOfLivingWorld, as they ought be..
But .. he CANNOT escape reaping what he has sown: none can..
Essentially, he's a toddler "eating candy instead of real-food, who doesn't understand that there WON'T BE ANY real-food, in his future", & has sold-out his own future-viability, for sake of momentary-supremacism, now..
This means that I don't need to have much/any emotional ( social/political ) involvement/entanglement with him: he's dug his own Eternity's grave, & G-D's LivingLAW, aka Karma, CAN process/deal-with his continuum/soul..
..but his distorting of our world, for narcissistic-machiavellian highjacking needs effective countering..
Limiting one's commitment to what is effective reduces burnout, right?
Someday a portion of humankind may find the spine to enforce-correctness into our economy..
The book "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann ( kobo.com/us/en/ebook/screwed-4… ) is strongly recommended, for understanding the REAL economic-rules that evidence showed to be true, historically.
I've only read the beginning of it, but the economic disinformation which has been well-established by "economists" got cleared from my view in seeing the truth in what he was saying..
Combine that excellently-clarifying ebook with fooledbyrandomness.com/tenprin… by Taleb ( who wrote the book "Anti-Fragile" ), & THEN one has PROPER economic competence's foundations in one's mind!
All this to say, correct-framing reduces emotional-burnout, our having economic-spine would prune-down oligarchy, effective-competence ( the book & the PDF I've linked-to ) would MASSIVELY empower our populations, all this is preventable, AND there are inevitable-consequences of doing as Musk & Bezos are doing, for their souls' future-someones, that Eternity-scale SANE people wouldn't ever want to be Eternity-scale imprisonned in.
May equinimity release all our lives from economic-oppression's grip, as that psychologist/psychoanalyst who was in a nazi concentration-camp realized: the guards had liberty, but they were not free, because they were entirely-entrained-within ideology..
He had no liberty, but he did have freedom, because he wasn't entrained-in-ideological-meaning..
( sorry I can't remember the man's name: a big name in psychology, Jewish, obviously .. dug his name up!
We need to learn the same lesson ( without the concentration-camp induction, obviously ), to make our creating-our-world become more effective, is all..
That effectiveness of more-universal-framing, is what I'm pushing..
Transport systems, hospitals and schools hit, as workers say laws kill hopes of work-life balance
A general strike has paralysed Greece as unions step up industrial action against labour laws introducing a 13-hour work day in a country that already puts in some of the longest hours in Europe.
The 24-hour strike brought mass disruption to services across the country on Wednesday as thousands of workers in the public and private sector stopped work and took to the streets.
In both Athens and Thessaloniki, the country’s second biggest city, transport systems were halted, while hospital staff, teachers and other civil servants stopped working. The seas around the Greek capital were vessel-free as crews, heeding union calls, kept ferries in ports.
I have previously worked a job where the work week alternated between three and four 12 hour shifts (that is, I'd work 36 hours this week, then 48 the next, then 36, etc.). It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize those numbers didn't add up; I don't recall how that was reconciled. The shifts were long, but so were the weekends. There were many problems with that job, but I do miss the schedule.
I work a 4x10 now. I'd never voluntarily go back to a 5x8, but it's surprisingly challenging to find employers who are okay with my preferred schedule, not that I've looked in a while (I like my current job for the most part).
Ya but Greece is wanting 13 hours, 5 days a week, forever. Not the same thing. Even more so when Greece wealth inequality is just as bad as anywhere else.
Optional... When profit is the main goal of society, is it really a option for those without gross amounts capital? Greece is suffering from a huge labor shortage, so this 13 hours bull will seep into every job eventually. Some wealthy person on high crunched the numbers and realized that the imaginary line on the graph won't keep going up if everyday people don't break their backs so those in power can have 7 homes and perverted sex island. The global economy is collapsing and all we can think of is to poor more gas in the fire.
But no, this wouldn't mandate everyone to work 13 hours or even mean it's likely. Even in the wasteland that is the US, where 13 hour days are (frequently) allowed, it isn't common.
But yes, someone would be motivated to screw someone else here for the reasons you're saying.
It's just like all the other garbage 'leadership' decisions based on how it's always been done, rather than focusing on actual outcomes.
Sadly it's way easier for underperforming management to say "ass in chair m-f 9-5" as a productivity improvement than to try and quantify reduced turnover as how it relates to output or wasted man hours from training up new people.
Many moons ago I was in charge of scheduling for all the guards at a security post for several months. Got everyone together and talked to them, and we all agreed to try out 3x12 instead of 5x8. It'd cut a couple people's hours, but a few others would get some more. Iirc, a few people only had 2x12, but it was a long time ago.
We all fucking loved it. 4 hours shy of 40 didn't make a huge difference in pay, but working fewer days than you were off (on for 3, off for 4, every week) more than made up for it. We stopped getting call ours, people showed up on time. It was awesome.
As soon as I stopped making the schedule they changed us back, and we went right back to all the old problems
so wait. you were doing the 12 hour thing and you weren't hourly??? its supposed to be every other week you get 8 hours overtime so 12 hours pay. So basically its supposed to be a bonus days pay every two weeks.
That's a standard shift for the majority of nurses and doctors. Which is (should) then be compensated by working only three days a week. For some jobs and people it works wonderfully - you have less commute time and four entirely free days every week.
The extreme case are firefighters, one 24 hour shift every four days. Unless shit hits the fan and then all bets are off - you don't exactly walk away from a forest fire because your shift ended a minute ago.
But Greece wants to allow up to 13 hours 5 days a week, which if actually done would burn people up ridiculously fast.
I tried working a 10x4 work week for a few weeks, my experience was I really only had two days free, as Friday was basically spent recovering from the week.
Friday is a workday, saturday morning is spent recovering, and sunday you have to plan so that you can go back to work on monday morning. You get your one free 24 hours split between saturday and sunday. Yay...
Technically it would, as the law change is to allow 13 hour days, not to force them. Same as the previous one that allowed six-day work weeks.
I'm assuming it's similar to how it's here in Finland, where the law generally limits work days to 8 hours and a maximum of 40 hours a week. Changing those legal limits wouldn't directly cause anyone to have to do more work, but it would now be legal - Finland has a few exceptions to it as well, some jobs have the limit be 80 hours per two weeks for example to allow longer/more days crunched together.
If it's combined with a limit, like "The law now allows up to 13 hour days or six hour work weeks as long as it's under 40 hours a week", then in theory it's a good thing - being able to choose anything between 13h x 3d and 7h x 6d depending on what works best for the job would be useful. The problem obviously is "Hey, you are fine with 13 hour days six days a week right? Oh you aren't? Well there's the door we'll find someone desperate and stupid enough to replace you."
It's odd that they consider the really specific case of a teen that works two jobs to make ends meet, and decide to make national sweeping changes to accommodate that. No, no way could it have any negative effect on anyone else. And they definitely shouldn't try to address the problem of one job for that teen not being enough to support themselves.
THIS is what a union helps you do. To stop shit like this. This is an unthinkable possibility in the US because there's no unions in any effective capacity.
and at least you have 3 days to recover. there is also a 3.5 day (it actually alternates 3 and 4) 12 hour shift schedules but again you get long periods to recover.
Details are continuing to emerge of a major incident at a synagogue in Manchester - here's what we know so far:
Police responded at 09:31 to reports of a car driving towards members of the public, and a man being stabbed, at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue
A major incident was declared by Greater Manchester Police, with firearms officers being deployed to the area
When paramedics arrived to the scene, they found four people injured - police say the injuries were a result of the both the vehicle and stab wounds
One man has been shot - police say he's believed to be the offender
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says "it is believed" the offender's dead, but tells BBC Radio Manchester this information hasn't yet been confirmed
He also says he's been told that "the immediate danger appears to be over"
Despite this, members of the public are being warned to avoid the area while police deal with the incident
Thursday's incident came as the community observed Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar
Police said they had shot a man suspected in a stabbing and car-ramming that injured four people at a synagogue Thursday in the northern English city of Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Greater Manchester Police said in a series of posts on X that a major incident was declared after a member of the public reported that they had "witnessed a car being driven toward members of the public" and that one "man had been stabbed" near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, an area known for its large Jewish community.
Police declared a terrorist incident after two people were killed and three others were seriously injured when a man rammed a car into a crowd and stabbed people at an Orthodox synagogue.
I'm going to need to know the synagogues position on Zionism and genocide before I deign to give a shit.
And for the downvotes that are about to come, I know how awful that is. I feel gross even saying it.
But, it just shows you how effective the Israelis have been with their multi-billion dollar propaganda and lobbying efforts to conflate Zionism and Judaism.
They got me, now they are the same to me, until proven otherwise, and on a case-by-case basis.
Do you think this attack will help end the genocide? Or help the flotilla? Or help Palestine Action? It won't, adventurism doesn't work.
Synagogue attacks directly benefit Israel. It makes Jews afraid to live outside of Israel and encourages them to become settlers, it's used by Zionist-aligned governments to crack down on all opposition to Israel, and it creates martyrs when people get killed.
Once again, I never said that I supported violence, or endorsed this attack.
Because yes, I agree that this will result in a counterproductive backlash to my own desire to see the end of the genocide in Gaza.
But because of that genocide, and Israel's 's full-throated efforts to remove any separation between Zionism and Judaism, I find myself with a lack of emotional energy available to care about the in-group perpetrating that genocide.
That is very different from celebrating this attack.
I am very aware of how this will be leveraged to attack the people and groups who are opposed to genocide.
I was very specific about who my apathy was for.
Additionally, after a mod removed my first post, I revise and resubmitted it. This time doing a cursory glance at the the people who run that synagogue.
To the surprise of no one, they're pro-genocide, anti-Palestinian self-determination, and outspoken Zionist political activists.
And for 26th time, I am anti-violence and do not condone, support, or sanctify this attack. Furthermore, their beliefs do not justify violence, and if one's goals are to end the genocide, this type of violence makes that harder.
So far we don't have any information on the attacker's motive. Right-wing antisemitism is more commonly violent and isn't going to be impacted by a change of leadership in Israel.
Which is not necessarily related to this crime. Antisemitism is not a unified ideology where decreasing the prevalence of one form will impact the safety of Jewish people from another.
Mods removed my comment for saying I don't have the emotional energy left to care about attacks on pro-genocide groups.
Not that I supported killing them, or that I endorsed this attack, but that it's hard for me expend emotional energy caring about an in-group actively engaged in a genocide.
I also went out of my way to explain how Israel's role in conflating Judaism with Zionism is a key reason why I feel that way.
And let me be clear: this attack was wrong and it is 100% counterproductive to bringing an end to the genocide.
I do not support or condone this violence, but I will not be guilted into having a different emotional response just because others find it more acceptable
And while I strongly feel that my own background should have no bearing on the conversation, I will point out that I was raised in a Jewish Zionist household. So please don't tell me how I'm a self-hating Jew, anti-semitic, or otherwise racially prejudiced against myself.
With all of that out of the way, let's take a closer look at the target of this attack:
He has previously held a number of rabbinic and educational positions in Israel and the UK.
Rabbi Walker was educated at Manchester Jewish Grammar School and went on to study in yeshivas in the USA and Israel, where he received his ordination in 2003.
As an organisation, we are appalled by the motion passed by Labour delegates on the Middle East conflict. To agree to the text without referencing the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7th October 2023 when 1,200 innocent people were murdered or the fact they continue to hold 48 hostages means they have no credibility to comment on what is an extremely complex issue.
The fact a more moderate motion that did reference these key facts was defeated highlights how many seem unmotivated to work towards a peaceful solution to the conflict. The text is not binding and we will continue holding conversations with key stakeholders within government to advocate against taking divisive and deeply problematic positions.
During our time at Conference we have held a number of meetings with Ministers, MPs and the press focusing on our concerns around the record levels of antisemitic hate crime across society. We also reiterated our strong opposition to the unilateral recognition of Palestine, supported the Government’s position on proscribing Palestine Action, highlighted concerns around antisemitism in cultural spaces including the need to cancel events by those who incite hatred whilst emphasising the importance of holding the Iranian regime to account by enforcing snapback sanctions.
This is an Orthodox Zionist organization helmed by an yeshiva educated conservatives. They are explicitly against Palestinian self-determination and who don't express an ounce of sympathy or concern for the Palestinians being slaughtered.
For a final time, this attack was wrong. Violence is wrong. This should not be supported, celebrated, or sanctified.
But please don't censor people who are expressing valid feelings about how they emotionally process attacks against organizations of unashamedly racial supremacists, who are actively part of the in group currently perpetrating a genocide.
This is also relevant discussion to this topic because it speaks to a larger issue facing the Jewish community and public sentiment and opinions that are only getting worse, whether they express themselves through inexcusable violence like today, or by people having tragically apathetic emotional responses to violence.
For all I know a bunch of users reported my comment and a mod removed it accidentally because they're overworked or tired.
I'm not trying to denigrate the work they do, just highlighting a small issue that I personally had.
And to be fair, my original comment was less articulate and more to the point, so perhaps the fault was mine for not providing the proper disclaimers about my positions regarding the rejection of violence. I thought I had, but I can accept that others may have interpreted it in ways that I did not intend.
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The evacuation of the total 580 hikers who were stuck on Mount Everest's east side in Tibet is complete and the people have been taken to safety, reports the state Chinese media according to BBC.
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Austria's proposal to unfreeze €2bn of Russian assets has caused worry on creating a bad precedent, with Hungary and Slovakia also threatening to delay new EU sanctions.
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Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war
Is it? Has this been confirmed? I see lots of western media claiming Russia but don’t see any objective evidence.
Edit: it’s quite surprising how even on Lemmy, how easy it is to push an unquestioned narrative. Not just me, but anyone even questioning from mainstream narrative gets downvoted to oblivion.
That's the point. They typically hire some useful idiot, either locally or in a neighbouring country. And after they've done their little act, they move back to another territory. But the Russians are never directly involved.
I would not be surprised to learn that Russia has plenty of sleeper agents with drones just waiting for a call from their handler to take it out and disrupt air traffic, or distract the security services while another operation takes place.
Despite incessant aggression from the Israeli occupation navy, 30 boats of the flotilla are still sailing strong, now just 46 nautical miles from Gaza.
“Houses burned. Neighbours killed. Hope vanishing.” With those stark words, General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock opened a high-level UN conference on Tuesday, as alarm rises over the impact of Myanmar’s deepening crisis which threatens to des…
It's almost as if "humanity" is a romanticised concept peddled by Hollywood and humans are actually just cancerous scum, with exceptions proving the rule.
Easy for me to say, they should have kept rolling and forced the Israelis to get violent. I'm American, with a few reasons to fear these our fascists, made my choice. If it comes to it, I fight. Neither my government nor Israel has shown any quarter, no reason not to die with our boots on.
It's much more effective to do what they did than to intentionally instigate an attack. Don't give Israel any leeway to say "Well we were justified because..."
No, no they do not. They are cowards, only acting strong when they hugely outnumber everyone around them. But they don't outnumber us. They only do, if you sit in your house and tell people to do the same thing.
Then start assembling your army and go invade Israel.
No? Right. The flotilla didn't have the ability to muscle past the Israeli military; grassroots endeavours never will. The only way to win is to continue drawing attention to how awful they are until the people with real firepower do something.
If that never happens, then the fascists in charge of Israel win. It sucks, but talking tough on the internet won't change it. The Communists didn't prevent the Nazis rise to power by brawling with them in the street either.
This can have a massive impact on European politics, especially in Italy and especially if the response from the Italian dockworkers totally fucks up the operations of Italian ports for a couple of weeks.
Also I'm curious about the reaction in Spain given that the frigate they sent did fuck all.
I agree mostly, in this case, because they have the media attention. If they didn't then they aren't protected by everyone watching, and also going down fighting would bring attention to the situation, which is beneficial.
Would be even funnier if they sent out a ship loaded with bombs in international waters and then detonate it when the Zionists put their nose where it doesn't belong.
Tell me you've never been on a sailing yacht on the open seas deciding whether you're going to try and ram your way through some navy ships without telling me you've never been on a sailing yacht on the open seas deciding whether you're going to try and ram your way through some navy ships
Legality. Israel can't arrest someone in international waters. They can kidnap someone in international waters. But an arrest implies they have any legality to it. They do not. They're the ones committing a crime not her.
It's like saying the bank robber arrested their hostages.
Legality is a fiction created by the powerful. I’m saying the word arrest is a synonym for kidnapping. It’s only existence is to mislead people into accepting the violence of our rules against ordinary people.
This is a perfect example. The kidnapping of Greta is blatantly illegal. Yet the world will pretend otherwise. And not because of the law but because of power.
While most legal systems are far from ideal, a lot of people appreciate having some semblance of law and order.
An arrest is made when someone is believed to have committed a crime. A kidnapping is the unlawful capturing of an individual.
Enforcers of the legal system (police, ICE, and other 3 letter agencies) carry out both legal arrests and unlawful kidnappings, the latter of which is what's being discussed here.
The fact that "the world will pretend otherwise" is exactly why it is so important to emphasise the difference between the 2 words.
Nah it’s why we need to challenge this idea that violence done by the state is automatically legitimate. Such as by critiquing the words we’ve created to separate things that clearly aren’t very different in reality.
The use of specific vocabulary is important in how media normalizes the actions of "the powerful".
What you're saying is similar to how "died" could be a synonym for "killed". This was used constantly during the genocide. Israelis were "killed" or "slaughtered" on October 7th. Soldiers in tanks were "kidnapped" that day. But every day in Gaza children just "died". Like the news articles were describing some natural disaster event and not a genocide. The people spending decades in Israeli prisons camps with no trial were "prisoners" exchanged for "hostages".
Words matter. Especially when media is forming a narrative. Yes, legality is "fiction" but that doesn't mean the majority of the Western world doesn't believe that fiction. The entire idea of a justice system is "made up" it's power comes from the collective belief in that system and the use of "justified" violence it maintains a monopoly on. You may not believe it. But most people in the west still do.
It is important to call out the inconsistent and unfair use of the vocabulary the media uses to describe Israels actions. If we stop labeling their crimes because "it doesn't matter anymore, clearly no justice exists" but at the same time that language is still used to describe anyone's resistance to Israel then they have won the narrative.
I’m not saying don’t call it out. I wish more people would. But I’d like to go further to eliminate this type of propaganda as even an option whenever possible. Some words are too linguistically useful to eliminate but some things like kidnapped vs arrested are literally the same action just different context. There’s no need to ever use the word arrest and its elimination or undermining would weaken abusive authorities and their ability to spin the narrative in ways people don’t question.
Yeah. We just fundamentally disagree then. These words are not interchangeable. I would not say a pedophile was "kidnapped" by the state. The context matters. There is a difference between materialism and dialectical-materialism. You seem to be removing the tool of dialectics and saying only the material action is what matters. The way words are used to shape material actions (or lack thereof) and concent matters.
I mean you can think it’s good for people to be abducted under some circumstances. Maybe you are right, maybe not, but at least then you’d have to justify it. “Arrested” already means justified in most people’s minds. It’s a thought-terminating cliche, and as long as we make that distinction, it will be abused as in this case.
Using less savory words like kidnapping or abduction more accurately relays the severity and violence that’s happening. And yes, violence is sometimes necessary, but it’s still unsavory.
Abduction implies someone secretly being taken away and kept at an unknown location, their fate unknown and probably someone trying to ransom them to their family.
Here we have pictures of the IDF taking her, we know exactly where they're taking her and what's going to happen. They're not going to physically harm her, going to give her an inconsequential slap on the wrist, and put her on a plane back home.
It's ok to feel that's wrong, but trying to make it seem more horrible by using words invented for something else just seems petty.
the state kidnapping a pedophile and puting them in prison.
vs.
a pedophile kidnapping a child and putting them in their basement
are different beyond just the material action of forcefully taking someone against their will. There is context that matters. So we use different words to describe the different contextual relationships. This example is a clear difference. I really hope we don't have to debate that. It's why I'm using it as an example. So we can remove the moral ambiguity and agree to this distinction.
There are obviously less extreme examples of this. That is the why understanding how language is used is important. In reality we say "the child was kidnapped" and "the pedophile was arrested". It is vocabulary that describes the relationships of morality that we as a society assume to uphold.
By your reasoning they "are both acts of violence and taking someone against their will and imprisoning them". I get that mate. But the world you want to live in where we describe both these actions as "kidnapping" does not exist.
Like, in what reality is your opinion even useful to reality? We don't live in a world where language is used the way you want it to be. You need to understand the world you live in and the way language is used.
Understanding how and why the media uses words like "arrest" vs. "kidnap" to infer a false justification is significantly more helpful than saying "well we should simplify language". Human language isn't a programming language. It can't be. It needs to deal with significantly more ambiguity, emotions, and morals.
Like, how are you even trying to apply this type of reasoning to the world? It's useless for describing reality. Language isn't used the way you want it to. And it never will work that way. What you're trying to argue for isn't useful to describing reality.
Language is always subject to change and evolution. I can’t predict the future and neither can you. I think explaining that context verbally is less harmful than implying it with weasel words.
And even if my desired change doesn’t happen, I think it’s valuable to challenge the assumptions built into these words to make people think about them and the way they are used instead of just blindly accepting “the criminal was arrested”.
Weasel words? Kidnapped and arrested literally both have implied meanings related to innocence. What is a non weasel word for that to you? I feel like you're just arguing to argue at this point.
Legal systems are a necessity as long as there are people willing to do violence to others. Ideally, they'll constrain the use of violence on behalf of the collective to cases where it's the only way to stop violence being perpetrated by individuals: To arrest them.
Practically, any human creation will have flaws, and nearly all systems will be biased in favour of the powerful. That doesn't categorically make it useless for the people.
Arrest in international waters is actually legal during a naval blockade. If a ship has announced its intention to break a the naval blockade, continues to head for it, and doesn’t react to hails, then it’s legal. Look up maritime law on blockades.
Same as you can arrest a criminal just before committing a crime.
Wrong. Israels actions of blockade and starvation are illegal. Full stop. The law you're referring to does not apply to a nation in violation of these laws. Israel doesn't get to point to a law to protect them as they violate other international laws and genocide a population. You're just wrong. That's not how laws work. You can't just read one law and then say "welp, guess they can do this". They can't when the very blockade itself is illegal. The blockade itself has to be a legal blockade that does not starve a population of aid and committing acts of genocide.
Yup. But it's only been a few months since Trump started ruling like Kim Jung Un. I'm not ready to accept this as a new normal. How are we tolerating this?!
I suppose we're tolerating it one person at a time by simply being in shock and not doing anything at all. Just like I'm doing right now. Laying in bed shitposting all over the internet & making no effort to affect any changes.
This is how Hitler became a genocidal maniac in plain sight while everyone watched, brainwashed, speechless 😵💫
Oh phack! Again? Why can't they just let Gretta win? Its just a few truck loads of food. WTF. This world is just so evil. How can any god let any of this happen?
the IDF/benny cant have a PR campaign against him, her being so infamous internationally brings more attention to the matter. hes already in a tenous position, he wants to stay out of jail from his previous crimes.
I mean... They did, didn't they? It was never the goal to actually get there. The goal was obviously media attention (again) and we are now commenting under a news article...
Its just a few truck loads of food.
That's the point... Why let a few influencers enter a war zone with the risk of them getting killed when they could instead easily let a few trucks waiting in front of the boarder enter Gaza?
Gaza is under a siege designed to oppress and break the population so that they can't fight back, israel forces control everything that goes in and use it as a tool to displace people.
I am constantly surprised by how many people worshiping the thing haven't actually fucking read it. Or just heard some cherry picked platitudes from it in church.
The Epicurian Paradox. God claims to be omnipresent, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent. But the mere existence of evil overwhelmingly disproves this claim:
If god is able and willing to stop evil, but evil is able to hide from/fool god, god cannot be omnipresent.
If god is able to find all evil and willing to stop it, but unable to do so, god cannot be omnipotent.
If god is able to find evil and stop it, but unwilling to do so, god cannot be omnibenevolent.
In any of the three cases, if evil exists, god has been proven a liar in at least one of the three claims. Potentially two, or even all three. But at least one must be true if evil exists. And if at least one is true and god is a liar, why are we following him?
they did absolutely nothing, stopped following then when they reach the orange line, which is not gazan or Israeli territorial waters, but the heart of the Mediterranean where Israel likes to attack civilians.
For once, it doesn't have to be blackmail. The Zionists have Uncle Sam. Relations between the EU and the US are already not the strongest they've been. Risking the ire of a large power like that is not exactly smart diplomacy.
Would it have been the right thing to do? Absolutely.
Gaza aid flotilla in the title. Not Greta's flotilla. Her name is there because she's the most well known person there, probably and also because not everyone was arrested.
It says in the article
The Global Sumud Flotilla said most of its vessels were continuing their journey as of early Thursday morning, nearing the coast of the Gaza strip despite the interruptions.
Mind you, whilst you are totally right, The Guardian have long been "fucking Zionists" and even now that they toned down their overt support of the Genocide, still are "fucking Zionists" judging by their continued practices of framing both sides differently, such as how in their articles Israelis "are killed" whilst Palestinias merely "die".
I’m a Guardian reader and I would say in recent months they have taken a largely pro-Palestinian viewpoint. For example: theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…
Parts of Gaza are experiencing famine because of an Israeli blockade, while more than half a million people have been displaced south by bombing over the past six weeks. Israel insists there is no famine, contrary to the findings of most global aid bodies. Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 66,200 Palestinians and wounded about 170,000, according to the Gaza health authority.
That doesn’t sound like Zionist propaganda to me, it sounds like an accurate tally of the suffering that Israel is causing.
Italian unions called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the international aid flotilla for Gaza, while protests sprang up in a number of cities late on Wednesday after reports that the ships had been intercepted by military personnel. In the southern city of Naples, demonstrators got into the main railway station and halted train traffic, while police surrounded the Termini railway station in Rome after protesters gathered close to entrances.
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In the northwestern city of Genoa, the USB announced that it intended to block the port and called on all protesters to gather at 10 p.m. (2000 GMT) at one of the main entrances. Over the past two weeks, protesting Italian dockworkers have prevented various ships from docking and loading, targeting vessels they say were involved in trade with Israel.
They shot and killed a 19-year-old US citizen in international waters a decade or so ago, and the international community did this 🙈🙈🙈 because regional stability or some shit
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Considering how often Israel and bibi commit crimes without repercussions, I'm fearing for Greta. I mean, the USA doesn't even care when its own citizens die because of zionists - aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/18/h…
What, getting your cause in the news because you got arrested for supporting it, while also showing the wrongdoers doing wrongs, doesn't have a positive impact? Does getting in the news prevent a genocidal, journalist-killing regime from doing a little activist-unaliving on the side? Or is it that no one could possibly have motives less narcissistic and self-serving than our so-called "leaders"? What even are you saying?
Murder. You're allowed to say murder. This isn't YouTube or some other corporate entity that will silence and demonitize you for using the correct words to describe the violence committed by others.
Yes, murder in all cases. Not like I fully analyzed my word choice at the time, but I think I did have some intent behind calling it that so I'll see if I piece that back together: I think my overall stance was pretty well established at that point, so not risking confusion there. For "journalist-killing" vs "-murdering", my guess is that the former just rolled off the [mental] tongue better, and I would've been more concerned about ambiguous attribution, for which both are basically equal, than morality, so just went with that. I believe "unaliving" supported the more casual off-tone of that question ("doing a little ... on the side") as part of my facetious approach towards the other comment, using that discongruity with the subject matter to emphasize the absurdity I was alleging in the other comment. The frog might be completely unrecognizable at this point though, so YMMV, but yeah, the intent of that word choice wasn't to obscure the nature of that [potential] violence or avoid censorship or other automated tools, I do stand behind considering it kidnapping and murder.
If you're unable to explain something as basic as reading (and you clearly didn't bother practicing it either), I'm not sure if explanations are really the right thing for you, but I guess I'll try anyway: Even if those were her only motives (which I'd already have to stretch pretty far to accept), that would not refute the comment you replied to, nor would it support any other inferences one might make from your opposition. Thus, I questioned what meaning you had actually intended to contribute to the conversation, since I assumed that you were trying to communicate some coherent point and not just be a waste of space and energy. If this attempt at insulting me was all you could muster in response though, I don't have high hopes of every hearing that point, and I should probably rethink that assumption.
No doubt they'll do what they did last time and just force her to watch Oct 7th footage and go "...Are you... Are you convinced yet? Please be convinced... Please"
Idk what people here were expecting, but I thought it was obvious that countries like Italy and Spain only meant that they were going to protect the ships when they were in EU waters, specifically their respective national waters.
I'm not a big fan of theocratic countries myself, but if my choices for the state of the world tomorrow morning are two theocratic countries or one theocratic country next to a field of charred bones, I think I could pick the former pretty easily.
A two state solution is what was agreed with the UN. Although it is sort of stupid to assume that the hate from either side will die down anytime soon, there are workable solutions like not having a Palestine state be propped up by Hamas. A terrorist group that was propped up by Netanyahi and who alongside Israel eliminated people's ability to vote for new leadership, it's clear that Israel wanted to stoke hate and a boogeyman they could also easily defeat.
What are you confrontationally blabbing about? If you agree that most countries agrees to have a Palestinian state should be ruled by the PA and Israel and the USA refuse any state, then we have no disagreement.
How about you simply admit that what ticked you and other people downvoting my comment is the fact that I call out Hamas along with Israel? I realize there's a lot of opposition being promoted by pro-Hamas groups, but they really don't need to make it that obvious. Anyway, I'll let you get back at your next attempt to gaslight me.
Although I am surprised that you conceded to a two state solution. Now that there is consensus that Israel is performing genocide, there has been a change in the narrative towards a more of a "destroy Israel, our state is the rightful state" subtly, beginning by claiming that the two state solution is a Zionist lie along with the claim that a lot of people in Israel are discontented with Netanyahu, all to portray them as one great villain (sort of what Netanyahu and his far right buddiers are doing to Palestinians, too). Are you sure you've got the latest memo?
You are claiming that Hamas is the reason why there is no state, it is factually wrong. If you condemn hamas killing or attacking civilians , i eould havr no problem with that.
It is part of the reason there isn't. Most of it is due to Israel, but that's also why they propped up Hamas over the PA. Sorry not-sorry to have offended your pro-Hamas sensibilities.
It is part of the reason there isn't. Most of it is due to Israel, but that's also why they propped up Hamas over the PA
Everything is due to Israel because even if Hamas is destroyed they will refuse to end occupation. Netanyahu said it there will be no Palestinian state because the land is our.
If you was alive during Nat Turner revolt you would have talked about how Nat Turner was part of the reason why slavery existed for long time instead of saying the salve owner was the only one responsible for it. If you where alive during a bloody revolt from indigenous people against the settlers you would have talked about how indigenous people was part of the problem. You have no moral and should be ashamed of your BS
Sorry not-sorry to have offended your pro-Hamas sensibilities.
I am offended by hypocrites like you who give excuse to the occupier to continue the occupation.
The PA is the one who allows Palestinians to be attacked by the settler terrorists and continue to respect the oslo accords that israel is not respecting everyday
You can't refute everything i said so you rely on deflection. You think you are smart but everybody know all your BS. The only people i insult is people who defend genocide or the one who started the insults. At least i am not offended by people downvoting me unlike you
Netanyahu said there will never be a Palestinian state because the land is our so Israel is the only one who do not want peace
You aren't even responding rationally, or maybe I'm being too generous and you are just trying to continue to gaslight. Maybe you shouldn't get so passionate when you handle the language you are communicating in and its comprehension so poorly.
Is it in poor taste to observe that you certainly live up to your username?
I am rational. Israel believe the whole land belong to them so they will refuse a Palestinian state no matter what so just apply basic logic Israel who have all the power is the reason why there is no Palestinian state . Everybody understand what i am saying , it is always pro genocide that accuse me of that.
I am still waiting for counter argument but you don't so you just try to make the discussion about me
Got it so more gaslighting from Mr. Down. At this rate, you have to have a syndrome named after you.
Is this your strategy? Find anyone who criticizes Hamas and try to paint them as pro-Israel / pro-Hamas? Does it actually work in subs you don't control? You guys realize this isn't reddit, right?
More deflection. Prove me wrong. Netanyahu said there will never be a Palestinian state because the land is our. Explain how it is not 100% Israel fault that there is no Palestinian state
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Cool, blocking is the best thing you can do for me. It is a one side block so i can see your propaganda comments and reply to them without you knowing and deflecting
Oh, ew. The preservation of Palestine is about the preservation of people and culture that have every right to exist. Not religion first (which isn't wrong even if you are against it). This is a ghastly take.
Really? I wonder who Gazans and people from the west bank voted for in the last Israeli elections. Right, they're under the control of Israeli occupation but can't vote in the democracy, all millions of them. But you know, it's also the only country in the world that explicitly states that it's the country of all Jews in the world and not its citizens'. Remarkably democratic in fact, so democratic that it redefines democracy as ethno-supremacy.
They never had intention nor desire to have naval combat with Israel, they just wanted to send enough boats that it becomes more and more difficult for Israel to contain the press coverage and to create more international condemnation and pressure.
And it's working.
Whatever else everyone says, the plan is actually working. Not nearly fast enough for all of us to stop feeling daily physical illness for the countless lives being extinguished for no reason, but nothing politically ever happens fast enough. At least something is happening.
It's something but it's not enough. There needs to be an international coalition that imposes a no fly zone over Israel, and an embargo of their ports, and sends food aid to Gaza and military aid to the PLO
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Greg Mello, director of the Los Alamos Study Group, which studies the US nuclear arsenal, stated that none of the current US or other countries' missile defense systems are capable of countering Russian non-ballistic nuclear weapons.
According to him, the US initiative to create the Golden Dome system is technically unfeasible. Mello noted that Russia possesses weapons such as the Poseidon underwater drone, hypersonic missiles, and cruise missiles, which are specifically designed to overcome missile defense systems.
He emphasized that instead of fanciful projects like Golden Dome, real arms control measures are needed to ensure mutual security.
There are classified programs that Greg Mello may or may not know about that are capable of countering all three of those weapons listed. There might also be classified Russian programs that are capable of countering those counters. And you can be sure we know at least something about those countering counters. Kill Chain analysis has been a huge focus area for the last few years, so the US military has developed ways to counter threats.
Golden Dome is still a wildly expensive, fanciful, and technically infeasible program. Even if we know exactly how to detect and counter these threats, the US is a gigantic fucking country with TONS of border to enclose. It's one thing to have a way to detect, track, target, and shoot down one of those three things. It's another to do that for 40 at the same time in wildly different areas of the world (made up number since I have no idea how many weapons Russia is able to unleash). It's a lot easier to protect an area the size of New Jersey than it is to protect the entire US.
No, I get that, wasn't trying to slap you down. I'm just adding emphasis to your (very good) argument by demonstrating just how far you were lowballing your estimate (ie, just how generous you were being).
Hypersonics, at least, are likely overrated. They reduce the window between detection and countermeasure deployment. They also can't maneuver very well without losing their hypersonic speed or generating too much heat, and therefore travel on a predictable course.
Drones have been the champion technology of the Ukraine war, and that's probably the future. Of course, those are also a reason why a Golden Dome plan wouldn't work.
the Iron Dome, which is what trump wants to install (and calls the Golden Dome) was never meant to stop ICCBM missiles. It's a system designed to catch the relatively short ranged rockets being used by Hamas and other missiles.
Trump is a moron.
To put the system into perspective, Israel has about 8,500 square miles of landmass. the US? 3.2 million.
It's actually so much worse than that, as the article explains.
Iron Dome was the inspiration, but with Golden Dome what they're planning is space based interception. It's Reagan's Star Wars project back from the dead.
The problem with this is two fold; no known system in the world can reliably intercept ICBMs, and doing so from space is ludicrously expensive. It costs, in effect, about ten times as much to shoot down one ICBM as it does to build an launch one, meaning that a peer adversary can just build more missiles and flood the system. To stop even a Hundred ICBMs would cost hundreds of billions of dollars. China has six hundred.
Basically, like so much of what Trump spends money on, it will amount to a very expensive but completely useless toy.
They probably* don’t even have launch vehicles for the warheads they do have. That particular branch of their military isnextremely corrupt, with people selling everything they could off on the black market. Including, apparently, launch fuel.
I would find it surprising if they could mass produce them in any meaningful quantity.
(*not something I’m willing to bet on, to be clear. This is one of those plan for the worst case. The worst case is probably they sold off a portion of warheads to the highest bidder a la Sum of All Fears but the rest are all operational.)
The best hope if Russia decides to deploy nuclear weapons, is probably that those are expensive to maintain, and Russian corruption is likely to have made a portion of them unworkable.
I swear to fucking god if they do this, actually name it "Golden Dome," so I have to think about this fascist piece of orange shit every time it is mentioned, for years to come, I'm going to lose it.
I just want nothing more than to never have to read about this piece of human detritus ever again.
Greg Mello, director of the Los Alamos Study Group, which studies the US nuclear arsenal, stated that none of the current US or other countries’ missile defense systems are capable of countering Russian non-ballistic nuclear weapons.
Interesting. Can we have a link to this? It's not in the article.
Hmm, so that's a civilian think tank. The name had me thinking it might be somewhat official.
Historically, interception has been a pipe dream, but in the 21st century complexity is cheap. I do worry a little that it's not as far fetched as it sounds, and MAD might break down.
Could someone explain to me why this matters? If they have this amazing weaponry, why aren’t they deploying it against Ukraine? If it’s so great that war would have been over in 3 days as originally promised. Sounds to me like some stupid Boogeyman talk.
"You better believe we have weapons you can't defend from, like, at all! We could totally take on NATO, easily. So like, don't, like, even think about helping Ukraine any more!"
Russia (and/or the Soviet Union) has been doing variations of that to Finland since WWII.
That's basically why it took us so fucking long to join NATO, because the argument used to be "uuuh, we can't afford to piss off Russia!"
But since they obviously don't care about their own capacity for war and invaded Ukraine, we thought, "fuck it, why not".
So Russia used to have a bit of a buffer with Finland but since we joined, Putler is having even more heatenings.
Thus this sort of saber rattling.
Seeing as we're on .ml I wouldn't be surprised if Davel or Dessalines or one of the others just deletes this as some sort of anti-Russian discrimination and bans me.
Oh and just to remind Vanja. Don't try to come over our Eastern border. #(Unless you're alone and escaping Putlerism, but you should do that before the remining is done.)*
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If they have this amazing weaponry, why aren’t they deploying it against Ukraine?
because they can beat the shit out of ukr civilians every night for cheap. hypersonic weapons are expensive.
the underwater drones: well ukraine basically sunk their navy in the black sea, so probably not there...
they did use some cruise missiles early in the conflict, but again, expensive compared to shaheeds and other shitty terror drone weapon platforms. when you're bombing apartments you don't need pinpoint accuracy.
I'd also wager they don't have very many of the fancy weapons ready at any given time, and reserve them for conflict against other nuclear powers.
remember, russia has always underestimated ukraine in this fight, at the very beginning the invaders brought their dress uniforms because they were told they'd be marching in victory parades in just a few days.
in short, I don't think these weapons would be all that useful against ukraine but poland and denmark might see some action if things continue to escalate. or if Ukraine starts landing significant hits against moscow itself.
Russia has lifted its moratorium on the deployment of intermediate- and shorter-range missiles, paving the way for the deployment of the Oreshnik system in Belarus. This is a response to the growth of NATO missile forces in Europe and the changing strategic balance.
The Oreshnik is a ballistic missile with a range of up to 5,500 km and hypersonic warheads (up to Mach 10), virtually invulnerable to missile defenses and equipped with decoys. Deployment in Belarus reduces the flight time to Europe by 3-4 minutes, threatening key NATO facilities, including NATO headquarters in Brussels.
Russia believes the collapse of the arms control system is a consequence of the actions of the US and its allies. The deployment of the Oreshnik system in Belarus is a necessary measure to restore the strategic balance.
The Belarusian Ministry of Defense explained that the West's hype surrounding the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear weapons and the Oreshnik system is due to their role as a strategic deterrent. Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Belarusian Armed Forces Viktor Tumar noted that these weapons are intended for use only in extreme cases, but their very existence discourages adversaries from aggressive plans.
He emphasized that the presence of tactical nuclear weapons and the Oreshnik system allows Minsk to avoid an arms race and preserve funds for social programs. According to Tumar, the West, on the contrary, is increasing its military presence and reducing social spending.
The Rubezh/Oreshnik/Whatever you want to call it exists as less than 10 missiles. And of those, already two have been used. They were made almost 20 years ago and include components whose production was ended in 1990's and can no longer be produced by any factory in any country. The only reason Lukašenka is talking about the Rubezh missiles is that Putin wants to scare us into giving Ukraine to the Russia. I haven't really seen any western hype of the Rubezh in the way Lukašenka talks about.
And furthermore: Rubezh is a type of missile that is banned by international agreements on reducing the nuclear danger. That the Russia has held to almost ten of those for several decades tells a lot about how dangerous the Russia is. While others have stopped using such mid-range ballistic missiles and have scrapped them, the Russia had just hidden them. And now has dug them back out and put the laber "Oreshnik" on them. Them having launched already two of their Rubezh (or Oreshnik, if you prefer that name) tells that they only use them for the purpose of scaring. If they really planned to use them for something serious, they would not launch one fifth of them without nuclear warheads as they have done now.
A cheater country, such as the Russia is, must fall.
you want to call it exists as less than 10 missiles. And of those, already two have been used.
maybe you give me source?
They were made almost 20 years ago and include parts whose production was ended in 1990’s and can no longer be produced by any factory in any country.
You idiot. Sorry, but its real fact.
Rubezh is a type of missile that is banned by international agreements on reducing the nuclear danger. That the Russia has held to almost ten of those for several decades tells a lot about how dangerous the Russia is. While others have stopped using such mid-range ballistic missiles and have scrapped them, the Russia had just hidden them.
you want to call it exists as less than 10 missiles. And of those, already two have been used.
maybe you give me source?
This is the first thing that I found with a quick internet search. It'll give you enough pointers to find the rest of the information, I'm sure! So, here goes: eurasiantimes.com/russias-game…
And then: There were blog posts analyzing the debris of the Rubezh missile launched back in November and December 2024. The debris shows that it is not a new development. It cannot be directly proven that the Oreshnik and Rubezh are the same missile, because Rubezh, being against treaties signed by USSR, was a very secret project, of which only very little information leaked. But, the debris shows that the "Oreshnik" missiles were made around when we know Rubezh had been made. And they are missiles for the same purpose. It's unlikely that the Russia would have developed two separate missile types for the same purpose at the same time.
No, but it forces the issue of Israel intentionally terror-starving Palestinians to come back up and Israel can't help but self-own by calling aid organizations Hamas
Are the flotilla recognised as legal humanitarian aid providers? I understand from other threads that Israel is legally required to allow humanitarian aid through. I assume here this would mean recognized humanitarian aid. Else it would be akin to just random people trying to run a blockade without a legally recognized reason, which would not put the IDF in the 'legal' wrong.
Their subsequent treatment of the flotilla and it's crew is something else to discuss of course
I don't even know if there's such a thing as 'legal humanitarian aid' as opposed to an 'illegal' one.
“Legal” who is enforcing these international laws that we can all see Israel breaking? Think about this situation as how colonialist America legally took over all of the Native American land and exterminated them “legally”. It is the same story. Meanwhile Israeli settlers enjoy free universal healthcare and schooling the United States funds.
It’s just so weird to give a fuck about how other people choose to live their lives with a literal child molester and human trafficker in the White House, a protected British royal child molester and a rapist on the Supreme Court. It’s really sick. Just let peaceful people exist in their own way. The gender role structure of how people should act and feel is all based on colonialist pseudoscience.
No no, Israel are only allowing aid providers that they are okay with into Palestine. This means going directly through Israel's singular entry system, which through a joint program with the US called USAID, takes the aid and trickle feeds the food and occasional blankets to a relatively small group of Palestinians. It is thoroughly controlled. Letting humanitarian aid access via any other means would mean Palestinians actually receive life-saving care.
Don't forget that the purpose of the mass murder of Palestinians is the same as it was 3,500 years ago, and hasn't changed since Israel was created by England in 1948 to facilitate the mass migration of Jews: To completely erase the Palestinian people and have the Land their god Promised. Israelites - that is to say, Zionists who believe in stopping at nothing to establish an ethnically cleansed Israel - are, and always have been, a horrible, murderous colony. They are the root cause of the common knowledge that religion is the largest scapegoat of historical violence. Hell, the word 'scapegoat' originates from the ancient Hebrew ritual of superficially absolving a community's sense of guilt for their sins.
Standing question as to how far they'd get. With Italian and Turkish support, there was some amount of speculation as to whether the IDF would risk a shooting war with a NATO state over a handful of civilian protesters doing an aquatic sit-in.
What's extra crazy is that they're being arrested 80 miles off the coast in international waters, dragged into Israel, forced at gunpoint to sign deportation orders, and then being forced out again. That is, of course, assuming none of the soldiers decide to kill one or more of them along the way.
No but now there will be massive strikes in Spain and Italy that will shut down a bunch of stuff. Boycotting and sanctioning a country is a step by step process and this pours a lot of fuel on the fire that is the international anger at Israel.
The smart move would've been to make the boat that Thunberg is on a decoy, and put all of the aid on other ships. Let them target her while the actual aid slips past.
I'm looking for federated Q&A forums specifically focused on Linux and software-related issues. I'm not referring to platforms like NodeBB, Discourse, Lemmy, Kbin, PieFed, etc. I'm asking for specific instances that focus on Q&A about Linux and other software related issues. I know of some popular non-federated platforms like Stack Exchange, AskUbuntu, Arch Linux Forum, etc. But I'm particularly interested in federated sites.
If you have any recommendations for such forums, please share them! Thank you!
Forum Internet, Czas Działać! from Poland, not specifically Linux, but rather software privacy and consumer rights (made by a privacy rights advocate organisation)
I've been thinking about adding Q&A features to PieFed for a while... Initially just the ability to set a comment as the solution to a post and then give that comment more emphasis in the UI. What else do we need? Maybe display the number of solution comments on peoples profile.
Honestly, I wouldn’t recommend adding the feature to mark comments as solutions. Websites like StackOverflow often have many answers that aren’t the best marked as solutions, and I believe platforms like Codidact have learned from those mistakes.
Reputation is a key factor that motivates people to contribute answers. However, StackOverflow suffers from over-moderation due to the reputation gained from moderating. I’m curious about how Codidact has addressed this issue.
Instead, consider allowing users to mark questions as solved rather than comments. Implementing a voting system similar to Slashdot, where users can categorize responses as helpful, funny, or other descriptors, might be more effective. This way, contributors are incentivized to help, as they can gain reputation points. Then a leaderboard showcasing the most helpful contributors on a weekly or monthly basis could further encourage participation.
Feature
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User Profiles with Reputation Points
Allow users to earn points for asking questions, providing answers, and receiving upvotes.
Encourages participation and rewards knowledgeable contributors.
Question Marking System
Enable users to mark questions as solved, rather than comments.
Simplifies the process of identifying resolved queries.
Voting System
Implement a voting mechanism for answers (e.g., helpful, insightful, etc.).
Helps surface the best answers and encourages quality contributions.
Leaderboards
Create weekly or monthly leaderboards showcasing top contributors.
Fosters competition and motivates users to engage more actively.
Categorization and Tagging
Allow users to categorize questions and tag them for easier navigation.
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Search Functionality
Develop a robust search feature that allows users to find questions and answers quickly.
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[Derek] When Watts dug deeper, he realized that the network structure did matter. In the more clustered networks, people were more likely 30:27 to copy each other. So if by chance someone started out cooperating, then everyone would cooperate. 30:34 But it was equally likely that someone would start out by defecting, in which case everyone else would defect. 30:40 And over all the games they played, these two effects canceled each other out, which is why it seemed like 30:46 the network structure didn't matter. - [Duncan] It's sort of on a knife edge, right? Where like one person does something selfish 30:54 and everything goes south. In another world, everybody kind of holds it together 31:00 and everything goes well. It's crazy that the world could be like on a knife edge like that, you know, 31:06 could tip one way or the other, kind of just depends on how someone gets out of bed that day. 31:11 But then Watts realized something. See, in real life, you can choose who you hang out with. 31:17 So he reran the experiment allowing players to change who they were playing with. And this time he used the prisoner's dilemma 31:23 so that players could easily identify the defectors. - [Derek] And the finding was clear, the more you allowed players 31:30 to choose who they were playing with, the more likely they were to cooperate
Could federated social media networks enhance cooperative behavior between everyone, relative to both insular and massively popular services?
[Derek] When Watts dug deeper, he realized that the network structure did matter. In the more clustered networks, people were more likely 30:27 to copy each other. So if by chance someone started out cooperating, then everyone would cooperate. 30:34 But it was equally likely that someone would start out by defecting, in which case everyone else would defect. 30:40 And over all the games they played, these two effects canceled each other out, which is why it seemed like 30:46 the network structure didn't matter. - [Duncan] It's sort of on a knife edge, right? Where like one person does something selfish 30:54 and everything goes south. In another world, everybody kind of holds it together 31:00 and everything goes well. It's crazy that the world could be like on a knife edge like that, you know, 31:06 could tip one way or the other, kind of just depends on how someone gets out of bed that day. 31:11 But then Watts realized something. See, in real life, you can choose who you hang out with. 31:17 So he reran the experiment allowing players to change who they were playing with. And this time he used the prisoner's dilemma 31:23 so that players could easily identify the defectors. - [Derek] And the finding was clear, the more you allowed players 31:30 to choose who they were playing with, the more likely they were to cooperate
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He should make it interesting. Pledge, say, 300 billion to a number of humanitarian charities if he doesn't succeed in making a highly reviewed AI game in 2026. Put it in an escrow account in the meantime.
Well, you know what they say; Shoot for the Moon and you'll suffocate in space while everyone on Earth is left to deal with the repercussions of your horribly inefficient pollution-producing 'great' AI 'game.'
Con il repentino ingresso del Giappone nell’epoca moderna, successivamente all’apertura forzata dalle navi nere del Commodoro Perry a partire dal 1853 e la conseguente serie di sconvolgimenti sociali, amministrativi e culturali che portarono alla cad…
While a drone defense system is of course a mandatory requirement of modern warfare, the real solution is to ramp-up Ukraine's ability to strike russia.
Additoanly the EU really needs to implement their own hybrid warfare methods against the russians.
I switched from Chrome to MS Edge and don't have that YouTube ad-blocking issue with uBlock anymore. Other than that, MS Edge works exactly like Chrome.
Tldr: youtube forced ai into video monitoring and it keeps killing videos it shouldn't, so instead of saying Ai is bad they're blaming af blockers because why not lie when there's no repercussions?
YouTube views are dropping because they are using AI to vet and cull age innappropriate content from minors. the problem is the ai is very bad at its job and marks way too many videos as not advertiser friendly, which effectively kills YouTube promoting that video in feeds. this is the default view for new accounts, so you have to specifically turn off parental controls to see a normal feed. this started happening about 4 months ago. a number of channels I watch have made comments about this, including Redlettermedia
the article provides one "official" explanation for views dropping, and i am citing an alternative explanation from the perspective of creators themselves who see the analytical data and the judgments being past on their videos.
Because when you comment, "TLDR" under an article, it's assumed to be a "TLDR" of the article. It also doesn't make sense to say TLDR was a summary of your long comment because you didn't make a long comment to summarize, you just jumped right in with TLDR.
The Israeli military said it will close on Wednesday the last remaining route for residents of southern Gaza to access the north, as it presses its offensive on Gaza City.
The military’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee said on X:
"Al-Rashid Street will be closed to traffic from the southern sector area at 12:00 (0900 GMT). Movement southward will be allowed for those who were unable to evacuate Gaza City. At this stage, the [Israeli military] permits free movement southward without inspection."
In figures reported less than two weeks ago, the UN said that more than a quarter of a million people had been displaced from Gaza City in the previous month. Tens of thousands more have been forced to flee makeshift homes and shelters daily in the face of a new Israeli offensive, it added.
Israel has zero interest in ending this war until every Palestinian is emigrated or dead. October 7th gave them every excuse they need for this genocide and annexation. Embarrassing that any world leaders are talking peace when they know damned well what's going on.
The West either allows this to continue or bombs Tel Aviv into glass and ruble. There is no magical "in between" state where this levels out to an ante bellum status quo.
I didn't even think about that. They cannot turn the clock back, even in their own country. And what do they wish to accomplish anyhow? This is ultimately pointless and only bound to bring even more chaos and poverty. Personally I just hope they will get some sort of Nuremberg Trial in the end. Cruel perverts.
TSMC and Taiwan have all the leverage. If China invaded Taiwan, the US would be fucked and semiconductor supply cripple the states, and all the stuff Trump is investing personal money in (crypto, AI, etc)
If the US wants a robust semiconductor industry, they should break Intel’s chip design and fab into two separate companies, and lean into more chip-act type investments.
As ever, Trump and his pals are bloody stupid. Money is just to make it easier to get cool stuff. You don't get neat things when civilizations die, and partnerships are dissolved.
"Canada called me a couple of weeks ago, they want to be part of it, to which I said, 'Well, why don't you just join our country. You become 51 — become the 51st state — and you get it for free,'" Trump told the assembled officials.
"So, I don't know if that made a big impact, but it does make a lot of sense."
Trump also claimed Canada is having "a hard time up there" because "as you know, with tariffs, everyone's coming into our country." The president then boasted about investment leaving Canada and other countries and going into the United States, pointing to automobile plants.
as you know, with tariffs, everyone's coming into our country.
Say what? Pretty sure there's record numbers of people leaving the country right now, and tourism is down across the board so people aren't even coming in temporarily never mind permanently. If we needed any more proof Trump was delusional this is certainly it.
You're absolutely right, there's no way Canada wants anything to do with the absolute cluster fuck Trump has turned the US into.
I've watched part of this speech, and it made me wonder if his handlers actually sometimes roleplay stuff for him. Like, some stories he tells sound like they're based on things he experienced in real life, but they're obviously absurd, so maybe it was just things that were played for him to make him feel good?
E. g. the part about the leaders of Azerbaijan and the other country (Trump seems to have forgotten its name, once again):
Azerbaijan was — this was going on for 36 years. They said, it’s not solvable, sir. You can’t — don’t do it. I said, I will do it. I will do it. And I got on the phone with the two countries. They were great. They were great. I knew immediately. I knew as soon as I started talking to them, we’re going to solve that war. And we did. Now they’re so happy. Now they’re friends. One said he’s been President for 32 years — 22 years. He said, you know, for 22 years, I did nothing but kill his people. They were in the room together at the Oval Office. And they started off spread like this. They have the beautiful Resolute Desk. And one was here, and one was here. You couldn’t get further away. That’s the furthest I’ve ever seen two people in front of me. And as the hour went by, they got closer, closer, closer. And at the end of the hour, we had it done. And they hugged and hugged and hugged. And I said, that’s so nice, and you’re going to remain friends. And I spoke to them — one of them — the other day. He said, no, he’s now my friend. But for 22 years, he’s been the head of Azerbaijan for 22 years. And the other guy — great guy, too — seven. And you know that war. That was a war that was not solvable. He said, for seven years. And the other one said, for 22 years, all I did was kill his people. That’s all I’ve done. I said, well, we’re going to put a stop to that. So we solved that.
Well ok, maybe he's just completely talking out of his ass here. But look at this story about some tariff billions they found on a shelf:
But the money coming in is, we’ve never seen anything like it. The other day, they had $31 billion that they found. Thirty-one billion dollars. So we found $31 billion, and we’re not sure from where it came. A gentleman came in, a financial guy. I said, well, what does that mean? He said, we don’t know where it came. I said, check the tariff shelf. No, sir. The tariffs haven’t started in that sector yet. I said, yes, they have. They started seven weeks ago. Check it. It comes back 20 minutes later. Sir, you’re right. It came from tariffs. Thirty-one billion. That’s enough to buy a lot of battleships, Admiral, to use an old term.
When he says a "gentleman came in, a financial guy", I really wonder if it was some staffer dressed up to tell him a feel-good story about tariffs.
(0:00 – 0:19) Ladies and gentlemen, the Secretary of War. Well, you’ve heard from me. So now it’s the main event, our Commander-in-Chief. (0:19 – 0:35) I have the privilege […]
A convenient way for a character to disabuse the idea that they're either gay, too socially inept for a relationship or simply unlucky in love is to claim that they indeed have a girlfriend — but the other characters have never met her because she lives in Canada. She doesn't visit very often, but when she does they just spend all day in bed. Look, here's her entry in his phone's contact list. No, you can't see a picture.
The idea is that since "she" lives in a different country, and presumably would have to get a passport and go through all that hassle in order to visit her "boyfriend", it's particularly tempting to make her Canadian as a way of discouraging others from asking too many questions.
A convenient way for a character to disabuse the idea that they're either gay, too socially inept for a relationship or simply unlucky in love is to claim that they indeed have a girlfriend — but the other characters have never met her …
This idiot really thinks that Canada will just roll over and let itself be eaten alive just because he hurt their economy a little. They'll just bite the bullet, diversify their trade partners and get out of it stronger than they were before.
One of Canada's prime defenses, and America's too, is that it's fucking massive dude. There is literally no amount of troops you can deploy that can effectively cover that much land, especially the northern reaches, which leaves ample space for guerrilla movements to form. Even if the US took the lower 100 miles, they'd have to deal with the fact that Northern Canada would never surrender and Southern Canada would never let it be a peaceful occupation. Good luck trying to find those guerrilla networks in several million square km of forest and mountains.
Yeah it's huge, but like Russia, most of that is empty space. You don't need to control that land. And it's cold continental land, almost tundra, not the dense jungles of Vietnam.
And we know how to live on the land with very little. I will live outside in winter and eat dirt and ice before I cede one centimetre of land to fat fascist yanks. Amerikkkans can’t function without their Starbucks, SUVs, steady diet of McDonalds and medi-chairs to get around. So - enjoy a neverending insurgency fuckfaces. Aunties can poison wells too.
But likewise, while Canadians are able to deal with this terrain, out southern 200 km is very similar to America's northern 200 km, and a lot of us sound and look like a lot of you. Infiltrating America and attacking domestically would be easier for Canadians than just about any other country.
DonOLD Shittler and sycophants have no idea how fucking petty Canadians truly are. If US fascists try to take our land and resources we go full scorched earth without any discussion amongst ourselves. Speaking of FAFO.
If he wants a 51st state so badly why not make it DC? Or American Samoa. For a country that revolted due to taxation without representation, they sure do have alot of "territories" that aren't being represented as their own states.
Actually if I recall, America is having a shortage of Canadian visitors and I, for one, have noticed very little change in my lifestyle due to tariffs.
The tariffs are absolutely fucking up our country right now, and I live in the US, and we absolutely deserve it. It's affecting every single one of my projects (I work in an engineering/manufacturing company). Turns out 10-25% tariffs really cuts out a lot of the margin for people so we've had to significantly bump prices on aerospace components. This in turn will drive ticket prices up eventually as well. It's also affecting our groceries. And then the side effects of all of it, is the boycotts from numerous countries. It's absolutely crushing our trade.
That said, all of the boycotts are absolutely fantastic. Keep it up. Our lead-addled half of the US needs to understand what isolationist policies do to our country. Maybe it'll be the wake up call that people need to understand that international cooperation is the key to success.
So he declares Canada a 51st state, and suddenly the Canadian army trying to defend their country against the southern invaders suddenly is "the enemy within". Now this makes sense!
If you've read the Constitution then I've got some bad news for you. Unless you interpret its amendments, then good news. But then there was the Southeast Asia doctrine by Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon... which is bad news. But then there is good news if you follow the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Oh but then there's some muddy waters about Emergency Powers which goes back and forth with the Supreme Court which ultimately is bad news. Even worse was the Authorization for Use of Military Force against Terrorists passed by Congress around 9/11.
Realistically none of this matters because Trump has never had a precedent of following the law or respecting boundaries with little girls so I guess I just wasted a few moments of your time.
If the US military is your last hope of holding on to a democracy, I’ve got wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam and countless regime changes in Latin America and the Middle East to prove otherwise.
Yeah, it's not just that number of people who'd be insurgents, it's that Canada's a bit more advanced tech-wise than the Taliban, and the US's defense infrastructure has predominantly NOT been engineered for decades to repel any sort of land invasions. We also look, and outside of those crazy newfies, we sound like most generic Americans, making identifying potential threats that much more difficult.
I also think a number of civilians and military would straight up revolt at the prospect of attacking a country with a century of personal and economic bonds.
Western Canada is cutting loose it seems, they've had it with their government. Whether or not they have anything to do with the US is still to be seen. They might benefit a little financially from it, but the land will be better off if they don't. We'll come in and trash everything.
Even if part of Canada wanted to leave and join another country, why the fuck would they join the US? Our job growth is in the shitter, no one can afford groceries, fuck you if you need medical attention because it'd be cheaper to just die. Plus there's the orange cancer toddler-in-chief currently stinking up the white house, brainworms is in charge of health, and the military is run by a moron who preaches manliness to the fucking Generals...
The BRICS nations, originally composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, have had many discussions about establishing a new reserve currency backed by a basket of their respective currencies.
Italy said it will stop accompanying the international flotilla trying to deliver aid to Gaza, despite concerns by activists that the fleet will be attacked within the coming hours. Italy and Spain deployed navy vessels to assist the boats after they were hit by drones armed with stun grenades last week.
"Many would be happy to disrupt" a peace plan pushed by US President Donald Trump, Meloni said in a statement. "I fear that the flotilla's attempt to breach the Israeli naval blockade could provide a pretext for this."
This is kinda fair enough - Netanyahu doesn't want a ceasefire since he partly started this all to avoid his legal problems.
The notion of a "peace plan pushed by US President Donald Trump" is a farce to begin with. This is nothing but fascists colluding with fascists to piss on us and tell us it's raining.
Yeah. Also, it's a humanitarian mission. Treating it as a political move is just fucked up. These are civilians bringing food and help to civilians. This is peace. Your "peace plan" probably is based on weapon sales
It's worse than that; they're fascists. It took a fucking general strike in Italy to get them to deploy the naval forces to begin with, and their Mussolini fangirl prime minister called them off again as soon as she could bullshit an excuse.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed for the first time that Israel delivered Patriot air defense systems to Kyiv, adding two more batteries will arrive in the fall after months of speculation and denials
As a finn, I very much want "gifts" from Israel. Their air defence systems are amazing, and they have very nice looking defence capabilities against drones. Which seems to be a growing risk from Russia.
I hope nobody is surprised to hear that I value the people of Finland over the people of palestine.
Honestly I’d rather Ukraine have them than Israel. Am I supposed to be mad that they’ve micro-disarmed by doing this? Fuck no that’s a bit less firepower in Israel’s hands
Keep going! We love your charity Israel, give it ALL to Ukraine! 🥴
No, but I didn’t delude myself into thinking it matters either, and now somehow because Ukraine has weapons that Israel didn’t use in their genocide they’ve got cooties or something.
People in here like “Now Ukraine is guilty by association! Tainted morals! Blood on their hands!” - it doesn’t matter.
Now, what’s fucked up, who does have blood on their hands, is the United Ststes who are obviously going to resupply Israel.
A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines late Tuesday, killing dozens of people at a sports arena and raising fears of major damage, officials said. The quake hit around 10 pm local time at a shallow depth near Palompon, close to Bogo city in Cebu province, the US Geological Survey reported.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press.
The plastic 3D-printed replica pistols formed part of display stands Patel presented to at least four senior New Zealand security officials in July. Patel, the most senior Trump administration official to visit the country so far, was in Wellington to open the FBI’s first standalone office in New Zealand.
Pistols are tightly restricted weapons under New Zealand law and possessing one requires an additional permit beyond a regular gun license. Law enforcement agencies didn’t specify whether the officials who met with Patel held such permits, but they couldn’t have legally kept the gifts if they didn’t.
It wasn’t clear what permissions Patel had sought to bring the weapons into the country. A spokesperson for Patel told the AP Tuesday that the FBI would not comment.
US FBI Director Kash Patel visits New Zealand, immediately provides local officials with 3d printed, potentially operable firearms...
... which is a crime, that could carry up to a 3 year prison/jail sentence in NZ...
... and would also potentially be somewhere between a misdemeanor and a felony depending on where you are in the US, as 3d printed firearms are generally without serial numbers and are thus 'ghost guns', which are often illegal if unregistered, if not outright banned, though this differs from state to state and city to city.
(Oh also, I guess he is so concerned about properly investigating the death of Charlie Kirk that he is uh, personally looking for leads in New Zealand, or something.)
3d printed firearms are generally without serial numbers and are thus ‘ghost guns’, which are illegal
This is not correct. Under federal law, building them for yourself is legal. However, selling them without a serial number is illegal. Manufacturing them without having a license is even more illegal.
The law in the various states may be more restrictive.
US gun laws are incredible. Short Barreled Rifles are illegal. So they just make them with "pistol braces" instead, and sell them as "pistols." AR-15 with a 10.5" barrel? Pistol.
Yep, and then if you put a 'not a pistol brace but an actual buttstock' on one of those things without registering it as an SBR... probably you are now a felon, maybe?
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What is it for a rifle, 16 inch min barrel, 26 inch from toe to tip min length?
You would think this would spur bullpup adoption / creation around those exact specs... and I guess the PSA Wolverine, Kel Tech RDB and Springfield Hellion are that, though ... the general gun community seems quite hesitant toward and skeptical of anything that doesn't match their already learned standard AR 15 muscle memory.
Generally, puppies have less recoil simply as function of being a bit heavier, literally having more mass, but this can vary a lot depending on what you are comparing to, and the exact bullpup's internal mechanics.
This is assuming we are comparing a bullpuppy and standard layout weapon shooting the same caliber, of course, from similar barrel lengths.
However, another large factor maybe isn't quite recoil per se, but the overall balance point, center of mass of the weapon.
A lot of guntubers I have seen give bullpups a decent chance say that they are so well balanced, that you can reasonably accurately operate them single handedly, which is fairly important in a combat scenario where maybe you get shot in an arm or shoulder.
They also say that it is easier to get the weapon aimed at a target, and that follow up shots are also easier to aim precisely and get off more rapidly, because of the balance of the weapon, and that it is less fatiguing to hold a bullpuppy in a shouldered, ready to aim and fire position, and you can do this longer without your arms tiring.
As a video game modifier and fps enjoyer, I find it funny that that last part is almost never modelled or simulated by games. Sure, sniper oriented games will have a hold breath mechanic, but almost no games simulate that... just holding a weapon upright, shouldered, sighted in... this is tiring.
Like, grab a 7 pound semi gun shaped object and hold it as if you are just 'iron sighted in', in a game... I'll bet your arms start getting weak and wobbly in a number of minutes, now try that with double or triple the weight to approimate an older /heavier rifle or MG of some kind, and you'll see how silly the notion of just running around with like an M60, and using it as an assault rifle is, unless you are a fucking beefcake.
There are also studies that show that is is significantly easier to train an untrained shooter to be a decently accurate marksman with a bullpup than it is to do the same with a standard layout weapon.
But flip side of that are things like uh, field repairs can be more difficult and time consuming to repair, and widely reported heavier and/or chunkier, less smooth trigger pulls.
==For the record, I've shot a number of different weapons and calibers irl, but never an actual bullpup, so my 'bullpup knowledge' is second hand or theoretical==
Genuienly, maybe I've missed a tac shooter or milsim and could get a new recommendation to check out, but I am mostly dogging on ... the kinds of shooter games that have very realistic graphics stylings, but have rather arcady, unrealistic actual game mechanics.
I am not saying no games do this, but I am saying that such games tend to be less popular, more niche, their own subgenre.
I have played waaaaay too much Arma 3, and from what I remember, to actually get shouldering a weapon to be its own distinct fatigue / wobbly arm mechanic, as if it was its own sort of mini stamina meter... you have to use ACE or some set of massive realism overhaul style mods.
Like, iirc, vanilla Arma 3 will make your aim shitty after you just sprinted a kilometer, but ... the act of shouldering your weapon alone does not cause its own kind of fatigue.
I have played a bit of EFT, but given that it is full of try hards and hackers, and is also basically constantly broken in some way, I haven't played much in a while, but I do not remember if it did or did not have this mechanic... but I am leaning toward no, at least a few years back, it also did not have a fatigue mechsnic specific to shouldering/aiming a weapon.
Maybe it does now?
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But like.. COD and Battlefield, much more popular, definitely do not do this.
The only other one I can think of is America's Army, maybe 3.0 or later. I know the 2.x versions didn't do aim fatigue. But I think they shut that game down years ago.
Personally I've only handled a bullpup. It was created as a replacement for the old M16 the army used to use. Didn't have much training with it, after a session of virtual training, we were sent to the live firing range to shoot. Managed to get a couple of shots under marksmen. As a video game enjoyer getting to shoot, and throwing live nades, was probably the only fun part about basic training.
So yes I think it's a pretty good weapon for even novices to shoot accurately. Idk about fatigue tho since we were made to carry that thing around all the time and just got used to the weight as my own.
I more mean fatigue specifically in your arms, that makes it more difficult to aim accurately the longer you have the weapon shouldered, different from the kind of general fatigue based basically on the weight of your overall kit / loadout.
But either way, thank you for the first hand account!
Ok, the actual legal status of this is quite complicated, I will ammend that section with more qualifiers.
::: spoiler Long version:
I'll give you that at the Federal area, right now, this is not illegal, to make and possess your own unregistered, unserialized firearm... but if you go by the proportion of people that live in states or cities that have just outright made possession of a ghost gun a crime in and of itself...
Yeah thats uh... at least ~126 million US residents where unregistered ghost guns are specifically some kind of illegal at the State level, and thats likely an undercount given that there are likely a lot of larger cities / counties that have their own restrictions, but are within States that don't have them at that level...
So yeah, it is probably explicitly illegal by local/state law for about half the US by population to self mfg and/or possess a 3d printed gun with no serials / registration
However, selling them without a serial number is illegal.
That's not correct either . Federally it is legal to sell a self built firearm with no serial number as long as you did not originally build it with the intention of selling.
As stupid as that sounds, something a little less stupid may, may hold up as a defense in court, depending on where you are, and if you have a couple million dollars to blow on legal fees and/or can get some kind of gun rights advocacy oriented legal firm type thing to work for you.
Pistols are tightly restricted weapons under New Zealand law and possessing one requires an additional permit beyond a regular gun license.
Restricting pistols (i.e. the type of firearm most useful for crime and least useful for hunting or militia defense) more than long guns makes a ton of sense, and it's a shame the US doesn't do it that way too.
The US does have more restrictions on handguns than long guns in the same way. Youll notice in NZ you cant have a gun in general without a license, which obviously doesnt exist in the US. That said, federal law restricts ownership of handguns more than on long guns. 18 year olds can buy long guns and ammo for them, but cannot buy handguns nor handgun ammo. One has to be 21 or older to buy a handgun. Although legally an 18 year old can own a handgun if they are given it as a gift. But they still cant buy ammo for it themselves
1) I tried to demark a clear difference between the quoted text of the article, and my own editorializing, not in a quote block.
2) If you read the actual article, it does actually describe that the reason why these 3d printed weapons were destroyed by the NZ police was that they were assessed as 'potentially operable firearms'.
From the article:
Inoperable weapons are treated as though they’re operable in New Zealand if modifications could make them workable again. The pistols were judged by gun regulators to be potentially operable and were destroyed, New Zealand’s Police Commissioner Richard Chambers told AP in a statement Tuesday.
I did not change the narrative, I simply read more of the article than the initial subset I presented in a quote block.
Please actually read the whole article, not just the preview sampler.
Doesn't the FBI look into issues within USA borders? And doesn't the CIA look into issues outside these borders? I'm confused as to why an FBI office needs to be in Wellington, especially since NZ is a sovereign country. Unless somehow the NZ government is somehow now a state of the US.
The FBI has like... sub offices, attachés to consulates/embassies... but uh... thats for coordinating with local law enforcement and I guess handling US expats.
Yeah I don't know what the fuck Patel is doing here, unless he is kind of just publically admitting that all those other FBI sub offices and attachés just routinely handle Five Eyes / Nine Eyes / However many fucking Eyes type shit.
Which is, I mean, yeah, duh, but also, you're not supposed to just say that outloud, Patel.
You're supposed to be investigating the globalist deep state panopticon world controllers, not fucking building a new branch office for them...
Oh my god his brain must be the size of a walnut, he isn't even good at what he is trying to be good at, holy shit.
I mean, the CIA has frequently, with documentation, illegally operated on US soil... often by facilitating international gangs and drug cartels...
But yes, the ice gun with puffer fish poison is also a thing too lol.
Anyway uh, the article says:
News of Patel’s visit caused ripples in New Zealand at the time because the opening of the new FBI office in Wellington wasn’t divulged to news outlets or the public until it had already happened. An FBI statement in July said the move aligned New Zealand with FBI missions in other Five Eyes intelligence-sharing nations, which also include the United States, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
The office would provide a local mission for FBI staff who have operated with oversight from Canberra, Australia, since 2017, the statement said.
Where are you getting that Patel was there for intl. drug gang investigation?
New Zealand ministers who met Patel, the highest-ranking Trump administration official to visit New Zealand, quietly dismissed his claims.
A government statement on Thursday emphasised joint efforts against crimes such as online child exploitation and drug smuggling, with no mention of China.
"When we were talking, we never raised that issue," Foreign Minister Winston said Thursday.
Patel said what he said because he is a fucking moron. If Patel lied, he is a moron for creating diplomatic problems for an ally. if Patel didn't lie, he just brought a whole lot of unnecessary attention to a spy base in NZ.
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said in June that China posed an imminent threat and urged Indo-Pacific countries to increase military spending to 5% of GDP.
Part of the reason for being of the five eyes countries is getting around our laws forbidding intelligence agencies from Spying on their own citizens. They have their ally do it and then share it with them.
Americans can't do this though, because they're owned little bitches who can't live without the feel of daddy trumps little mushroom inside them.
Edit: vote guys! You gotta vote! And yell at people who didn't so they know how much you hate them–how little you blame the people actually doing this.
For many workers, the membership card mattered less than the struggle, and they did not hesitate to strike even if they were not members of the unions that called the strike.
This is common in Italy. A minor part of the workforce is part of a union (our unions are different from what an American might be used to, btw), mainly because membership has a cost (usually ~1% of your wages), and because many are afraid of what employers may think when they find out.
Non-members still regularly join strikes and protests when they care about the subjects.
I strongly suspect the Israelis were running OPs in Europe similar to the one they ran with Epstein in the US and have a ton of blackmail material on ruling European politicians.
I wonder what is worth more to ABC/Disney, all those direct subscribers, or these affiliates that are consolidating into two or three big media companies?
This might be the beginning of the death of the affiliate model. What would happen if Sinclair simply stopped affiliating with ABC altogether? They own enough stations that they can do their own thing. Would it matter if there is no ABC station in Mobile, Alabama, if people who still want to watch can stream it?
The problem for OTA affiliates/broadcasters is content. Their business model relies on getting eyeballs so they can justify what they charge for advertising. Creating content that your viewers actually want to watch is expensive.
Aside from some of the larger PBS stations, I don't know that any of the major broadcasters, like Sinclair, have any experience producing their own content. They can throw their little tantrum and refuse to air Kimmel, but that's just going to hurt them in the short term as advertisers will decide OTA timeslots are not a good investment.
Sinclair seems to have some experience producing their own Fantasy shows (masquerading as News Content). They don't have to put in that much effort to capture the attention of the MAGA crowd.
lol they are already on another "cracker barrel trend" right now, about a music performer making maga mad. also CB situation was fueled mostly by a certain propaganda source.
Most CEOs are generally bright enough to look at the sales data rather than all of the online rhetoric and if the sales data isn't going down they can ignore everything else.
Everyone knows the right are terrible at organising themselves, they need a central figure in lieu of that they never achieve anything. When they try and boycott something it generally fails because most of them will continue to use the service while declaring loudly online that their not. The right don't have actual moral values, other than selfishness.
The ancient connectivity standard still has years of life ahead of it.
Firewire is getting a new lease on life and will have extended support up to 2029 on Linux operating systems. Phoronix reports that a Linux maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has volunteered to oversee the Firewire subsystem for Linux during this time, and will work on Firewire's core functions and sound drivers for the remaining few that still use the connectivity standard.
Further, Takashi Sakamoto says that his work will help users transition from Firewire to more modern technology standards (like perhaps USB 2.0). Apparently, Firewire still has a dedicated fanbase that is big enough to warrant six more years of support. But we suspect this will be the final stretch for Firewire support, surrounding Linux operating systems. Once 2029 comes around, there's a good chance Firewire will finally be dropped from the Linux kernel altogether.
I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I've got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).
I'm just passing a FireWire PCI card through to a VM though. Though with how old the box is, it doesnt really need to be a VM. Thats a whole different discussion though.
I had some FireWire audio interfaces too, 8ch and 16ch, but I got rid of those a while back. I'm sure someone's making use of it though! Probably the m-audio delta 1010 I sold too, I think they are still going for a few hundred each despite being so long in the tooth.
I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).
Yeah, that's a thought...though honestly, unless whatever someone is doing requires real-time processing and adding latency is a problem, they can probably pass it through some other old device that can speak both Firewire and something else.
Probably the m-audio delta 1010
That doesn't have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.
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Oh, I'm thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.
That doesn't have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.
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Oh, I'm thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.
No I'm talking about the PCI card, just commenting on the longevity of some devices. I know two people still using FireWire for their interfaces in spare kit (RME fire faces), which got me thinking of some of my old kit I've replaced like the delta1010.
Yup, that's what I'm doing.. an rme fireface. Incredible device, but uses fw. And since Microsoft is a bunch of aholes, I have to figure out how best to go forwards post windows 10. Except since I'm poor it's my main interface that I've upgraded to.
Linux is a good way forward if you want to try it and keep the fireface. Ubuntu is not my favorite base, but Ubuntu Studio (I'd suggest the LTS if you don't need the latest and greatest all the time) is nicely set up, but I'd make one change from their preinstalled and I'd use Reaper over Ardour, but thats me.
Your biggest headache will be plugins if you've got a ton of vst's, not all will work on linux.
I do a lot of privacy and cyber advocacy and research. Selling lists is what already happens, so this is more real-sounding than I expect Damage@feddit.it knew when saying it.
Oh, I'm absolutely not criticizing your comment at all. Far from it. It's fully bonkers that you made a joke that was a good joke, and I can't take as joke because it hits too close to reality for me.
Liberals make up more of the consumer class than conservatives. That highly marketable strata of people that have disposable income tend to be affluent, college educated liberals. Its why they keep winning the culture war and it drives conservatives insane.
the problem is these corps/media is controlled mostly by conservative ceos, which will lick TRUMPs boot anytime, they are fickle and untrustworthy, but the gop is the most consistent in not interfering with "unethical business pratices", plus they also use these media/ to issue propaganda in many forms, like you said to institute culture wars.
That depends on whether the person in charge has any. See rupert murdoch, or the red bull owner basically saying it would be great if he could also be like murdoch.
A company that's controlled by investors (aka mostly banks trying to get returns) will basically always just chase short term profit though, and that's most of them.
To pressure these companies into doing the morally right thing, we would have to pressure the banks, but that seems hardly realistic since shifting your money away from one in response to an event like this is anywhere from majorly inconvenient to impossible, plus there'd be a direct monetary tradeoff that a lot of people either can't or aren't willing to take.
Yes, and most of that consumer base needs to stop tolerating quite a bit of reactionary bullshit (yes, American "conservatives" aren't conservative, they don't keep status quo, they actively destroy it for regression, they are reactionary).
Conservatives have always been reactionary. This isn't a US thing it's a global thing, they don't want to keep things the same they want to return to some rose-tinted version of history that never existed. They're the ones that call themselves conservative.
But you can't call everyone you disagree with a delusional idiot even if they are, because the insult loses its power. So we might as well call them by then preferred name
It also helps that the conservatives constantly shoot themselves in their foot by defining their own reality. They decide for example that people don't like "the gays" but really it's only the right wing thugs that really have an opinion. The moderate conservatives aren't bothered one way or the other. So now they're trying to sell policies to subjugate a group of people that probably only about quarter of their membership really care about.
It is really obvious with Trump, they just invent entire new things to be mad about, like this Tylenol thing. That just came out of thin air because they couldn't think of anything else to distract people with, but even their own supporters don't really care about it because until about 3 weeks ago it wasn't a claim that anyone was making.
It may seem like a small percentage loss when talking dollar for dollar subscription loss vs Disneys massive revenue, but the scarier thing for their board of directors is damage to their brand.
The thought that a situation like this could cause any long a lasting or irreparable harm to the iconic mouse ears in any way would make keep them awake at night.
Disney has been trying to keep thier streaming alive, despite the massive costs maintaining one(paying all those actors and studios it aint cheap) which is why you see declining quality in the shows and movies.
Palestine isn't American, it's some far off place that most people have no connection to, no care for or about. And people generally have enough fucking problems in their own life to care about a place they likely will die before visiting or giving two shits about. So beyond just being yet another random thing the news yaps about to keep people scared. It's just not important to most people.
While Kimmel himself may not matter to many. The situation does directly affect the world and problem many Americans are worried about. It's a literal representation of the turmoil that fills many Americans minds.
Not to mention Kimmel is a famous person that people know and have heard of. So his problem actually makes it to the ears of those that will resonate with the problem that his situation is in relation to.
You on the other hand are a literal nobody by comparison that no one but yourself and your immediate group will give any weight to your words.
Not to mention the hell does Palestine have to do with Disney...? That's an extremely tenuous connection.
Its a shitty fact that just cause something's important doesn't mean people can care about it. We all have a limit, and if your own ducks arnt in a row worrying about others is a good way to drive yourself to madness and help no one.
Disney directly acted against Kimmel, caving to political pressure from the government, a wanton act of government censorship. What did Disney do to Palestine? Bomb them?
I feel this, I've tried to get cis people to go to protests and mobilize for trans rights for years, and crickets, but they manage monthly marches and even a general strike (in my country) for Palestine since Oct '23. People usually have the capacity to organize, they just don't think most issues are worth it.
The total allegedly includes subscriptions to Disney+, Hulu and ESPN. That falloff reportedly marked a 436 percent increase over the usual churn rate for the service.
So 317.000 users would have cancelled anyway and the actual protest was 1.3 million. If my googling is right, in total there are ~207 million subscribers.
Summarizing, they lost the 0,6%. Much more that what I expected, but hardly noticeable. I'd love to know how many already subscribed back.
This is flawed thinking. There is no "them" with a huge salary. The people making decisions are salaried or invested employees, and their livelihood depends on the stock regardless. There isn't "one guy" that this hits, like it would with a salary, there's thousands of investors which must be appeased.
Also, it's likely many of those canceling were people who didn't use the service as much as power users, which means they're losing the cheapest to maintain customers (industry insight, no research to back this up, to be clear).
If we had boycotts and cancelations even a quarter this big across other media giants, our media would be a far better place.
This just shows that the whole "muh, it is the corporations fault for the climate emergency, there is nothing I can do about it!" is a load of BS. You can vote with your wallet. Become anti-consumption.
It takes two to tango, they say. Corporations have a lot more wallet to vote with, as it were - but we are not powerless or blameless when we support them out of complacency.
That's an incredibly naive and misinformed opinion you've got there. Most of the companies polluting are not businesses that members of the public buy services from. The vast majority of the largest polluters are business to business providers, Joe public can't do anything about that.
Just look up Monsanto, if we took them out the total pollution worldwide would probably drop by about 50% but they sell to farmers, so you might say well don't buy from farmers that buy from Monsanto but the problem is all farmers buy from Monsanto, so there isn't another option.
I was trying to buy food that wasn’t covered in plastic. I don’t have an option. I have looked for butchers, bakers and general food items that sell without plastic wrapping and it just isn’t feasible.
Vance was recently on tv saying carr isn't responsible because "look, Jimmy is still on tv, so what'd Carr do wrong?", trying to sweep it under the rug.
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Donald Trump’s new security directive labels anti-capitalist beliefs as a predictor of political violence. The irony: left-wing structural analysis actually pushes people away from lone-wolf attacks and toward mass organizing for change.
It was part of his plan to address “domestic terrorism.” Also don’t forget, Kathy Hochul preceded Trump in sending in the national guard to “fight crime” despite every statistic showing a drop in violent crime.
We are not only at war with Trump and the GOP, but the entire political class.
I live in a pretty rural area, I don't know anyone who's addicted to any type of opioid
now whenever I visit the biggest city in my state, there's fentanyl addicts and probably also meth and crack addicts in very alleyway and under every bridge. It's not safe to be outside at night in that town. you will absolutely get stabbed, shot and/or robbed. It's never happened to me. But I had to stay hotel there once a few years ago and I heard the drug addicts outside screaming all night.
Does she have chronic pain or a debilitating mental illness and unable to afford medical care or is she simply a poor rural drug addict that enjoys living in squalor?
I live in a pretty rural area, I don't know anyone
Could have just stopped there 🤷
The whole thing with meth and the like often being overrepresented in rural areas is that there's fewer people around to notice when you want to keep things secret.
This includes addiction, meth labs, secret pill mills and more.
Sure, cities are more convenient for distribution and the like, but if your main priority is secrecy, the boonies is where it's at.
When your next door neighbors are a mile away, you'd have the be very nosy to notice much of what they do.
whenever I visit the biggest city in my state, there's fentanyl addicts and probably also meth and crack addicts in very alleyway and under every bridge. It's not safe to be outside at night in that town. you will absolutely get stabbed, shot and/or robbed
My first time in New York, I accidentally got off the airport bus a couple of stops too early and walked through the infamous Jamaica, Queens neighborhood. In the middle of the night with all my luggage clearly labeling me a tourist.
I didn't get mugged or stabbed. Other than one guy politely hitting me up for a cigarette and then equally politely taking his leave, I was left alone entirely.
FLOWER MOUND, TX—Condemning the “woke left” for what he called the “modern evisceration of masculinity,” local conservative man Hank Daniels confirmed Monday that he was never going to stop being proudly frightened of everything.
After Britain, the country that benefited the most from the China trade—and, therefore, the global traffic in opium—was none other than the United States. And in the United States, unlike in Britain, it is well-established that the beneficiaries included many of the preeminent families, institutions, and individuals in the land.
Long before the Sacklers appeared on the scene, families like the Astors, the Peabodys, and the Delanos cemented their upper-crust status through the global trade in opium.
Palantir’s AI machines need data for fuel—data in the form of intelligence reports on Palestinians in the occupied territories. And for decades a key and highly secret source of that data for Israel has been the US National Security Agency, according to documents released by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. After fleeing to Hong Kong in 2013 with a pocket full of flash drives containing some of the agency’s highest secrets, Snowden ended up in Moscow where, soon after he arrived, I met with him for Wired magazine. And in the interview, he told me that “one of the biggest abuses” he saw while at the agency was how the NSA secretly provided Israel with raw, unredacted phone and e-mail communications between Palestinian Americans in the US and their relatives in the occupied territories. Snowden was concerned that as a result of sharing those private conversations with Israel, the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank would be at great risk of being targeted for arrest or worse.”
“Now, with Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, critical information from NSA continues to be used by Unit 8200, according to a number of sources, to target tens of thousands of Palestinians for death—often with US-supplied 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons. And it is extremely powerful data-mining software, such as that from Palantir, that helps the IDF to select targets.
Lavender was developed by the Israel Defense Forces’ elite intelligence division, Unit 8200. One officer was quoted as saying: “This is unparalleled, in my memory. The machine did it coldly. And that made it easier.” Another said: “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do dozens of them every day. I had zero added-value as a human, apart from being a stamp of approval. It saved a lot of time.”
Just as Palestinians are dehumanised by the rhetoric around the conflict, the technology furthers this dehumanisation. People become ‘targets’ and the technology is seen as simply a mechanism for efficiency and time-saving in the process of killing.
Technology didn't kill those people. It might make that guy sleep a little easier to pretend he's just a "stamp of approval," but thats because he's deluding himself.
If Alex Karp and Peter Thiel had created a deadly biological weapon in a lab, then sold it around the world for profit knowing it would be used to commit mass murder, nobody would be pretending they weren't responsible for those deaths their weapon caused.
They created this monster, and the U.S. helped it flourish by feeding it the data it needed. And now they're just pillaging hoards of data from the entire world. And we're just letting them. As if they have no responsibility for what they're doing, and we have no way to stop them.
They refused and still refuse to regulate it. It's not that they can't, it's because nobody forced them to. Why not? The technology isn't to blame for this, they are. They created a technological weapon of mass destruction, and for some reason, we're all just going along with the idea that what they've done is somehow different than unleashing a deadly disease on humanity. As if they're somehow removed from responsibility once it's in the buyer's hands because it's a different category of weapon.
I remember a year ago or so, I was reading about NATO and concerns over A.I. use triggering article 5. I didn't understand what tf they meant, but it's pretty obvious now. So why are we pretending these guys aren't war criminals just like the people who purchased and used their weapon against other humans?
It's scarier that this is clearly a testing ground. Gaza is too small for anything real, it doesn't really incur expenses, and it doesn't really provide profits when cleansed of people.
Also since Britain is in the title - I'd reminisce on the old picture of Russian Imperial, German Imperial, Soviet and partially even Nazi propagandist view of the world, where Britain was the center of evil aiming for, well, something like this.
It seems telling that USA, Israel, and the Commonwealth (for all military and totalitarian purposes Britain and its former dominions are still one thing) are in this together and have dropped any pretense of internationalism and rules on the world stage.
So what I think - propaganda, that's in its name, is used to propagate information. That information is augmented and simplified by those providing it, but it wouldn't have any meaning if it had zero correlation with the real world, and providing correct information is beneficial long-term for any elite, except few of them can afford to disregard short-term effects.
Perhaps that picture had something in it, or again has something in it.
See, these countries have notably interconnected and very developed intelligence services, world military logistics, propaganda means above anything openly totalitarian countries could ever hope. Totalitarian counties close up and institute censorship because you can paint a pond red, or a small river, but you can't paint the world ocean red. USA+Israel+Commonwealth can and do paint the world ocean red ; perhaps the color is paler around its remote parts.
And now they are developing and testing, on the scale of a small country, weapons that, combined with these means, can indicate that we know who will deliberately start WWIII with the goal of world domination, except it might not last long enough to be called a war.
I've also heard that British royalty still consists of types who classify people and nations by color, and those more colored in their perception have no rights at all.
And the whole constitutional monarchy and separation of dominions and independence of their puppet organizations in other (sometimes very totalitarian, I know) countries - these things can maintain structure without hard joints.
Say, when some opposition party in Georgia is technically its own thing, but receives grants, the more the better it works, that's not having a hard joint yet having a hierarchy. And, say, the glory of Saakashvili's war on corruption shouldn't be overestimated, he mostly did it through abuse. When in Armenia in the 90s Vano Siradeghyan was the internal affairs minister, its crime and corruption problems were also much less than before and after, because police would simply murder mob bosses (except for those in the government, of course). I don't know anything about Vano being pro-western or receiving grants or aiming for political power, but he used absolutely the same means the wonderful reformer Saakashvili did. OK, these are local examples.
The point is - the modern state of existence of the British Empire (in my humble opinion US has slowly receded to being part of that for many years) doesn't favor hard joints. One should look not only at grant eater groups in various countries, one should also look at many small independent states, like Arab monarchies or Baltic republics, whose foreign affairs positions have little consistency and often seem as if they were saying what the US or Britain don't want to say themselves yet.
So - getting back to weapons, we might be living in an interbellum, not for world wars, but for imperialist and anti-imperialist wars. WWI and WWII can be united into one thing in some sense, in WWI empires crumbled and socialist movements raised their heads. In WWII socialists survived and even reinforced some of their positions, but empires managed to play on both sides, and speaking about Nazis, they were very bad people, but their plans for future weren't compatible with the old concept of empires. So in some sense Nazis and USSR got played to fight each other where they shouldn't have.
So - Star Wars is often blamed for touching politics where, in the opinion of those talking, it's superficial in that. I don't think Star Wars is superficial in that, I think its EU's portrayal of that inhabited galaxy and its politics is pretty similar to our real world, just more directly exposed and has a far smaller difficulty level for the good guys. Both can be considered conventions of art.
I think we'll see the empire where it naturally won't make any sense to call it anything more specific.
I’ve also heard that British royalty still consists of types who classify people and nations by color, and those more colored in their perception have no rights at all.
The thing about this, is that it doesn't matter if it's happening in Brittain or the U.S. or Israel. It's a form of social control for elites who view the world as a social hierarchy. There are no rules for them, but they need the masses to believe there are.
They're at the top. God or nature chose for them to rule, and at the end of the day, nobody has any rights other than their right to rule over others. It just "is what it is." They love social darwinism as long as they control the game, but they also know the reality is that if the masses were to ever unite and rise up against them, they would very quickly lose their spot at the top of the hierarchy.
Creating a value system on something arbitrary like skin color is one of the easiest ways to divide and conquer. Control of the masses by tricking some of them into believing they share something inherent with those who actually dominate all of them. Skin color, nationality, religion, or political beliefs as a measure of the value of human life, lulls the subordinates into a false sense of safety by default. They can be made fully aware of atrocities happening on the other side of the world, or even next door to them, but believe their belonging to the perceived in-group means it won't happen to them.
When one out-group is eliminated, a new arbitrary out-group will be created to divide and conquer those who remain and destroy any who oppose. It's happening in the U.S. right now.
We allowed immigrants to be rounded up like animals. We rationalized children screaming and crying in fear as their families were torn apart. They weren't here "legally" so they didn't have the same legal rights as everyone else. And since we allowed a group of humans to be considered "illegal," a loss of human dignity is just accepted as the inevitable consequence of their actions. As if they somehow deserved this.
Then when we learned there were people who were here legally, but also being rounded up illegally in the rush to get all the "illegals" off the street, we accepted that it was simply a mistake, but a consequence of so many illegals with similar ethnicities overwhelming the system. A fault of the group, not a fault of the system. Nothing we needed to worry about, things would get sorted out, eventually. The system is never held to account.
Last week an entire apartment building was raided in Chicago when government agents dropped from a helicopter to a rooftop to break in. Most residents woke up to their doors kicked in around 1 am. Adults were handcuffed. Children were zip tied together and taken from their families screaming and crying. And in all the chaos and confusion, their American neighbors were also rounded up, handcuffed for hours, and denied due process. When they were finally released, they returned to find many of their friends and neighbors missing (and still unaccounted for), and many of their homes raided of valuables.
Surely this will be the line for America, right? We can all see this has nothing to do with immigration and "legal" status, right? The system is commiting the crime. They system is breaking all the rules it claims to enforce.
Or, will we all just accept that because it happened to mainly black and brown American citizens in an inner city apartment building, it was simply a mistake due to similar ethnicities overwhelming the system? It's not something you need to worry about if you're not one of them. You're safe. Surely things will get sorted out, eventually.
President Trump released a new memo a few weeks ago that very few have paid much attention to. The vague language is phrased as targeting associates and funders of radical leftist groups like "Antifa," but it's vagueness essentially equates any act of political opposition with an act of domestic terrorism.
I mean, yes, that's what gradual escalation doctrine means. Unfortunately that system is comprehensive, it works from the ground up this way, and any system modeled after it (which after the Cold War became most of the world) reinforces it and impedes the cure to it.
The cure would be not only many leftist ideologies, but also, for example, things like ancaps and sovcits. The problem is that all of these are so negatively perceived that even denying them voice is not seen as a problem for many people.
People think it's normal, this gradual process. That it is democracy, waiting for your enemy to do vile shit like this and then argue it "by the law", and never God forbid start first.
While the solution would be preventive rebellion, and none of popular philosophy substantiates that. Everyone thinks that's something only terrorists, bad-bad fascists and bad-bad bolsheviks do. With plenty of history to support that viewpoint, of course, except millions of dead under colonial rule in Africa and from British blockades even in the two world wars were killed by neither bolsheviks nor fascists.
Getting back to the system, I mean culture of social interactions by that, which is beneficial for them in most of the world. As a reaction to other transgressions, maybe, but that doesn't change the fact.
The White House’s office of management and budget (OMB) is arguing that federal workers who are furloughed amid the ongoing government shutdown are not entitled to back pay.
In a draft memo first obtained by Axios, OMB argued that an amendment to the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act (GEFTA) of 2019 would not guarantee furloughed workers back pay and that said funds must be set aside by Congress.
“The legislation that ends the current lapse in appropriations must include express language appropriating funds for back pay for furloughed employees, or such payments cannot be made,” said Mark Paoletta, OMB’s general counsel, in a draft addressed to White House budget director Russell Vought, the Washington Post reported.
The OMB previously revised a shutdown guidance document on Friday to remove reference to the GEFTA Act, reported Government Executive, a media site reporting on the US executive branch.
Donald Trump previously signed GEFTA into law after the 2019 government shutdown, which lasted for 35 days. While many understood the law to automatically guarantee pay for federal workers, the White House’s OMB is arguing against that interpretation, suggesting that the law only created the conditions for back pay.
With the advent of Google's draconian business decisions, do we have alternatives?
The entire reason I use an android phone is that it's just like a little computer where I can decide how it's used. I was wondering if anyone is familiar with other options.
I remember the PSP with its 3g modem that was a fun novelty. Are there any modern devices like the OpenPandora that could be suitable?
Most of my paid apps are through alternative markets so I'm fairly sure with some effort I could get them running on a Linux device.
I thought about using a laptop but it wouldn't have the same convenience to answer calls asap from my pocket. I'm also unsure if it's possible to use tools like Google maps to navigate.
My apologies if this isn't the appropriate community. I'm hoping that because this likely affects everyone here it's the right place for this discussion. Thanks for reaching the end 💜
Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.
These numbers don't make any sense to me, as the hed is about buying lots of chips, and the body is about power use. No matter how you slice it, $8.76/kWh is a terrible fucking investment ... if that's chip-inclusive, that's another story.
Still, the audacity of saying "we're going to invest $1 trillion" is Dr. Evil-level humour.
OpenAI is signing about $1 trillion (€940 billion) in deals this year for computing power to keep its artificial intelligence dreams humming.
On Monday the outfit inked a deal with AMD which follows earlier tie-ups with Nvidia, Oracle and CoreWeave, as Sam Altman’s outfit scrambles to secure enough silicon to keep ChatGPT online and the hype machine alive.
The latest commitments would give OpenAI access to more than 20 gigawatts of computing capacity over the next decade, roughly the output of 20 nuclear reactors. At about $50 billion per gigawatt, according to OpenAI’s estimates, the total tab hits that $1 trillion figure.
Analysts are not convinced this financial engineering makes any sense. DA Davidson analyst Gil Luria said: “OpenAI is in no position to make any of these commitments,” adding that it could lose about $10 billion this year.
Money maths doesn't add up OpenAI is signing about $1 trillion (€940 billion) in deals this year for computing power to keep its artificial intelligence dreams humming.
La notte passata, mentre dormivo, si è avverato quello che negli ultimi giorni presenziava nella mia testa come uno degli incubi più peggiori che sarebbero stati a portata di colpirmi… e quindi palle: si è rotto il cinturino (merdoso, di fabbrica, porca miseria quante schifezze fanno pur di risparmiare) della Mi Band, si è spezzat, […]
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in reply to moubliezpas • • •Wikipedia certainly isn't wrong, the Fediverse is filled with so much political extremism, made worse by the Tankie Developers
!meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works to see more of how widespread tankies and their extreme bigotry and violent rhetoric spreads across the fediverse
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in reply to goat • • •M0oP0o
in reply to IndustryStandard • • •IndustryStandard
in reply to M0oP0o • • •M0oP0o
in reply to IndustryStandard • • •Is that the same person?
IndustryStandard
in reply to M0oP0o • • •goat
in reply to IndustryStandard • • •You got banned for specifically using "Zio" -- A term coined by David Duke. I asked you to use a different phrase instead, such as zionist, zionazi or anything else, but you insisted on using Zio.
Your ban has expired by now anyway, I don't dish out perm-bans unless it's absolutely neccessary
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in reply to goat • • •goat
in reply to TragicNotCute • • •No, no -- Specifically "zio"
Not Zionism -- "Zio"
TragicNotCute
in reply to goat • • •Gotcha, thanks for the clarification. Clearly I don’t run in right circles to have ever heard that before.
I’m still getting a ton of reports about this thread. An open call for everyone to cool their jets please. I don’t really wanna lock anything.
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