ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations- immigrants are also not given attorneys when asked.
The Nigerian man described being roused with other detainees in September in the middle of the night. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers clasped shackles on their hands and feet, he said, and told them they were being sent to Ghana, even though none of them was from there.
When they asked to speak to their attorney, he said, the officers refused and straitjacketed the already-shackled men in full-body restraint suits called the WRAP, then loaded them onto a plane for the 16-hour-flight to West Africa.
Referred to as “the burrito” or “the bag,” the WRAP has become a harrowing part of deportations for some immigrants.
“It was just like a kidnapping,” the Nigerian man, who’s part of a federal lawsuit, told The Associated Press in an interview from the detainment camp in which he and other deportees were being held in Ghana. Like others placed in the restraints interviewed by the AP, he spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
The Ukrainian defense is slowly collapsing. There aren't enough people on the front line, soldiers warn
iDNES reports that manpower shortages have led to a collapse of the Ukrainian front line. Wide gaps are forming between Ukrainian units, and on certain sections of the front, it has become impossible to maintain a continuous line of defense. As a result, Russian advances are breaking Ukrainian defenses.
Ukrainian commanders told the publication that the numerical superiority of Russian forces is becoming increasingly evident. They admitted that there are not enough soldiers, and drones are unable to fully monitor the battlefield, leaving many areas exposed.
Russian troops, the report continues, are taking advantage of these vulnerabilities, using fast off-road motorcycles to penetrate deep behind Ukrainian positions and bypass defensive lines. Such tactics allow Russian forces to approach Ukrainian artillery positions, often located 10 to 15 kilometers from the front.
According to Ukrainian officers, the situation on the front has reached a critical point, with a real risk of the defense collapsing. They also acknowledged that Russian reconnaissance units are systematically identifying and exploiting weaknesses in Ukraine’s defensive network.
Ukrajinská obrana se zvolna hroutí. Na frontě není dost lidí, varují vojáci
Po masivním ruském útoku na energetickou infrastrukturu zůstala v pátek část Kyjeva bez proudu, nejezdily trolejbusy a tramvaje.iDNES.cz
Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows
Secret Israeli military bunker located under Tel Aviv tower struck by Iran, analysis shows
The Grayzone has geolocated the underground bunker of an important military command and control center nestled within a densely populated Tel Aviv neighborhood. Known as ‘Site 81,’ the U.S.-built facility houses a hyper-secretive intelligence base.The Grayzone
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Stalin wasn't a saint, but he is overly demonized as compared to his peers. There has been a century of anticommunist mud-slinging at him, and now that the soviet archives are somewhat open, we can begin to actually judge him properly. Unlike Trump, Stalin was the leader of the world's first socialist state, and a good portion of soviet success in their earlier years can be attributed to policies he pushed for.
::: spoiler Demystifying Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
- J. V. Stalin
- Nia Frome's "Tankies"
[8 min]
- W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin
[6 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat
[30 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History
[16 min]
[42 min]
[38 min]
[9 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
[5 hr 51 min]
- Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin
[5 hr 25 min]
- Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World
:::
::: spoiler Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
- Che Guevara
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism
- History of the CPSU (B)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Marxism and the National Question
:::
Read Marxism and the National Question(Joseph Stalin, 1913) on ProleWiki
The period of counter-revolution in Russia brought not only "thunder and lightning" in its train, but also disillusionment in the movement and lack of faith in common...ProleWiki
Stalin was the leader of the world’s first socialist state
Socialist state is a contradiction in terms.
Stalin was CEO of USSR Incorporated.
It didn't. And I'm an anarchist.
If you're going to rely on ad hominems, you should at least try to make them somewhat accurate and relevant.
You have the fucking nerve to say that after calling the USSR a corporation. You're not even a radlib; you're a Christopher Hitchens neocon.
And yes your instance is a nazi bar. You just recently had to be shamed into banning one of your mods ADVOCATING for the holocaust.
Um... no. I'm an anarchist.
And you sound like a helicopter parent who's balanced on that fine line between hysterical tears and explosive rage because somebody at the playground said something mean about their darling USSR.
Isn't it interesting how this version of him has many medals, yet he is usually only pictured sporting one medal: Hero of the Soviet Union
Couldn’t find any info on periodic famines at that area. Do you mind sharing any clue, like name, specific area, years? Genuinely interested.
On communist part.
Ukraine SSR was established in 22, Holodomor started in 32. Famine in Tatarstan started in 21, year after Tatar ASSR established. So something not adding up. Even if one ignores those. There were no famines after USSR collapse in both areas. Feel free to point one if I’m missing something.
IDK how you know did I try or not. Sorry I didn’t spent whole day searching of info you claim to be true when it took me 5 mins to debunk your other claims. If you have some rare knowledge or you are some sort of history expert you are doing poor job spreading what you think is truth.
You need a source for what dates of establishment of Ukraine SSR or ASSR? Or Tatarstan femine, that is first hit in search - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921%E2%… You are so protective of communists so I assumed you knew some basic dates on topic. If you don’t, that’s also first hit in search. Let me know if you need help with that.
Also, adding “lol” doesn’t make it stronger argument, lol.
Thanks! I didn’t thought looking them up as “Famine in Russia”. We started this conversation from Holodomor. When Amnesigenic was speaking about “that area”, so I wrongly assumed we talking about Ukraine territory only. Not to say there was no famine in other places, just did have associations with broader famine of 31-33.
Going back to “periodic famine” argument, I don’t see how 3 times in 600 years is periodic and that’s including famine in 1315-17 which affected entire Europe all the way to England. I’m sure there were couple others which went under the radar.
But I think it’s delusional to claim Holodomor was not man-made taking into account that major USSR’s ex-member Russia stated that it was “famine caused by forced collectivization” and “strongly condemn the regime that has neglected the lives of people for the achievement of economic and political goals”. So no, it was not yet another periodically occurring famine
I mean this doesn't prove Stalin not bad.
Are these stats including dead people or just prisoners? I feel like Stalin may have been fielding a murder-forward build.
Stalin wasn't a perfect saint nor a horrendous monster. Stalin was a real socialist, with personal failings and mistakes, but also real victories and advancements as the leader of the first socialist state in its most turbulent era.
::: spoiler Demystifying Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
- J. V. Stalin
- Nia Frome's "Tankies"
[8 min]
- W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin
[6 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat
[30 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History
[16 min]
[42 min]
[38 min]
[9 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
[5 hr 51 min]
- Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin
[5 hr 25 min]
- Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World
:::
::: spoiler Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
- Che Guevara
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism
- History of the CPSU (B)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Marxism and the National Question
:::
Read Marxism and the National Question(Joseph Stalin, 1913) on ProleWiki
The period of counter-revolution in Russia brought not only "thunder and lightning" in its train, but also disillusionment in the movement and lack of faith in common...ProleWiki
True, why I count myself among y'all, I just quibble over the details frankly. Bad habit of mine. The results themselves overall in terms of quality of life speak volumes over the reduction in quality of life under capitalist systems generally. Even with failures like Mao's famines.
Frankly the socialist states are generally more friendly to cooperatives over corporations. But again I call myself a social corporatist and folks usually imagine I'm arguing in favor of a techno-libertarian corporate congress. Pardon me for the lack of outright clarity.
You know, that's a valid question I've been asking myself lately due to the intersection between American Union history and the current state of politics. Frankly, contribute to the local orgs already; so as I said, arguing I'm not under the umbrella isn't strictly valid.
The other bit being that you can loop folks further left out of the more extreme sections of the evangelical right by presenting yourself as a middle ground. Talk them into reading some libertarian theory, conservative theory, and to read Marx and Engels for comparative analysis. Or at worst, reduce the theory to memes and make them read it by cutting absurd bits. I'm a bit of a dadaism fan if it wasn't obvious.
The "shitty" I'd quantify as the sometimes downright underhanded defense of the ideology of the party of his age, more than any direct moral failings on his part. Or a commentary on the necessary rules of engagement for revolt in Russia traditionally suck for the revolutionaries and those who follow them and attempt to safeguard their philosophical ideals.
Granted, you're right, came in joking a little hot and heavy and I could have explained my punchlines better
I suspect for some folks Stalin is bad because [...]
For most folks in the west, stalin is considered to be a brutal authoritarian dictator who made a deal with the nazis to carve up europe into spheres of influence. It should not be surprising to anyone that a lot of anarchists hold to that view, especially given stalin's view of anarchists (see below).
We are not the kind of people who, when the word "anarchism" is mentioned, turn away contemptuously and say with a supercilious wave of the hand: "Why waste time on that, it's not worth talking about!" We think that such cheap "criticism" is undignified and useless.Nor are we the kind of people who console themselves with the thought that the Anarchists "have no masses behind them and, therefore, are not so dangerous." It is not who has a larger or smaller "mass" following today, but the essence of the doctrine that matters. If the "doctrine" of the Anarchists expresses the truth, then it goes without saying that it will certainly hew a path for itself and will rally the masses around itself. If, however, it is unsound and built up on a false foundation, it will not last long and will remain suspended in mid-air. But the unsoundness of anarchism must be proved.
Some people believe that Marxism and anarchism are based on the same principles and that the disagreements between them concern only tactics, so that, in the opinion of these people, it is quite impossible to draw a contrast between these two trends.
This is a great mistake.
We believe that the Anarchists are real enemies of Marxism. Accordingly, we also hold that a real struggle must be waged against real enemies. Therefore, it is necessary to examine the "doctrine" of the Anarchists from beginning to end and weigh it up thoroughly from all aspects.
So if I may ask you a question - if marxism and anarchism are fundamentally enemies, as stalin himself argued, why would any anarchist support the modern day ML penchant for rehabilitating stalin's reputation? It makes no sense. But sure, keep telling yourself anarchists hate stalin because of his virtues and not because of his other characteristics.
keep telling yourself anarchists hate stalin because of his virtues and not because of his other characteristics.
To be clear, those weren't the folks I was referring to in my comment. But:
if I may ask you a question - if marxism and anarchism are fundamentally enemies, as stalin himself argued, why would any anarchist support the modern day ML penchant for rehabilitating stalin's reputation?
Absolutely welcome to ask, and I'll give it a shot nonetheless.
I would ask the anarchist (and the modern day ML too) if they agree with this part of Stalin's theory.
I don't, and would venture to say a modern day ML may also disagree with Stalin in this but even also have a penchant for his rehabilitation, for other reasons.
More tangentally I think anarchism and marxism are not fundamentally enemies, (so, in disagreement with Stalin here), and would suggest they primarily diverge on the role a state plays in mediating conflicts of private and public interests.
But if I were to try and find common ground with the bit from Stalin you're citing, just for argument's sake, it would be that this divergence is a fundamental relationship between the two, but I'd still maintain the differences are not incompatible or irreconcileable.
But again, for the record, I was being more snarky about people who pivot from talking about how Hitler could've won to how Stalin could've lost.
For most folks in the west, stalin is considered to be a brutal authoritarian dictator who made a deal with the nazis to carve up europe into spheres of influence.
Do they not know of how the western leaders enabled the Nazis to carve up Czechoslovakia and opposed USSR's call for a united front against Nazis?
The Molotov-Ribbentrop non-aggression pact, USSR happened after the Munich agreement where Britain, France and Italy came together to allow the Nazis and Poland to annex Czechoslovakia.
And if you think there were no agreements before:
1934 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E…
1935 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Ge…
1938 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_A…
1939 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%…
And the next para from the text you quoted goes into the reasons, right? Searched with the text you shared and got this:
The point is that Marxism and anarchism are built up on entirely different principles, in spite of the fact that both come into the arena of the struggle under the flag of socialism. The cornerstone of anarchism is the individual, whose emancipation, according to its tenets, is the principal condition for the emancipation of the masses, the collective body. According to the tenets of anarchism, the emancipation of the masses is impossible until the individual is emancipated. Accordingly, its slogan is: "Everything for the individual." The cornerstone of Marxism, however, is the masses, whose emancipation, according to its tenets, is the principal condition for the emancipation of the individual. That is to say, according to the tenets of Marxism, the emancipation of the individual is impossible until the masses are emancipated. Accordingly, its slogan is: "Everything for the masses."
marxists.org/reference/archive…
How do you see his critique? Do you think that anarchism cares less about wider social emancipation?
I don't have much experience with literature on Anarchism(or Marxism, but relatively better there), so would be cool to know your opinions on it
How do you see his critique? Do you think that anarchism cares less about wider social emancipation?
I don't think it's accurate. And no, definitely not. It seems like he is describing libertarians more than anarchists imo, as mutual aid and community building are core principles of anarchism.
I figured I'd give this a genuine shot.
For most folks in the west, stalin is considered to be a brutal authoritarian dictator who made a deal with the nazis to carve up europe into spheres of influence. It should not be surprising to anyone that a lot of anarchists hold to that view[...]
I'll answer that statement from the end first (we'll get to the rest down the line). It isn't surprising that anarchists hold these views of Stalin and the USSR. After all, most of us in the English-speaking internet were raised in western countries, on internet dominated by westerners, all dominated by the cultural hegemony of bourgeois ideology. For the anarchist, there's a two-fold factor here:
- The soviet union was Marxist-Leninist, not anarchist
- The overwhelming concensus is already highly negative, making it more difficult to defend for not much benefit.
The Marxist has to tackle the soviet union. We have to study every fault, every success. We often are the most accurately critical of socialism as it exists in the real world, because we have to deal with the sins of real life. If we are to affirm that socialism is good, and that Marxism-Leninism is the answer, we can't just say "this time will be different!" And sweep aside the past, accepting bourgeois narratives. To do so would be historical nihilism. To do so would be to throw away the evidence of the tremendous strides made by socialism, proving it works.
The anarchist can simply agree with the negative framing of the soviet union, Stalin, etc, deny the successes Marxist-Leninists uphold, or minimize them, and they don't have the rhetorical burden of dealing with the ghosts of the past. Unless an anarchist chances upon a hyper-fixation of soviet history, there simply isn't a pressure there to learn more and try to put yourself in the shoes of the soviets and the Bolsheviks, understand why they did what they did, and dust off the decades of Red Scare nonsense.
However, this is a mistake. When affirming the bourgeois framing of the soviet experience, you uphold bourgeois cultural hegemony. Upholding bourgeois stances on leftist history hurts anarchists as well, just like TERFs harm femninism by cutting out potential comrades. The more bouegeois lies and viewpoints we uphold as true, the stronger their entrenched viewpoints are, and the harder it is for anarchists to struggle as well against that.
Now, to return to the beginning. Claims of Stalin (and I'll group in the USSR, as they are often conflated) being an "authoritarian, brutal, dictator." For starters, Stalin has been described as having a collaborative method of leadership, often seeking input from people outside the Politburo directly. Even CIA reports described him more as "captain of a team" than a lone autocrat. The soviet system of democracy itself required such a system. The publicly owned and planned economy had many moving parts, and necessitated cohesive yet collaborative decisionmaking. Workplaces had places to provide feedback and suggestions, which had teams dedicated to going through them. The soviet system of democracy was rich, comprehensive, and was how Stalin was elected in the first place. Bourgeois cultural hegemony posits that the soviet system wasn't democratic, which is both false and affirms the idea that liberal, capitalist democracy is the only method that works.
Was Stalin a saint? By no means. As Nia Frome says in "Tankies":
Tankies don’t usually believe that Stalin or Mao “did nothing wrong,” although many do use that phrase for effect (this is the internet, remember). We believe that Stalin and Mao were committed socialists who, despite their mistakes, did much more for humanity than most of the bourgeois politicians who are typically put forward as role models (Washington? Jefferson? JFK? Jimmy Carter?), and that they haven’t been judged according to the same standard as those bourgeois politicians. People call this “whataboutism”, but the claim “Stalin was a monster” is implicitly a comparative claim meaning “Stalin was qualitatively different from and worse than e.g. Churchill,” and I think the opposite is the case. If people are going to make veiled comparisons, us tankies have the right to answer with open ones.
If you read, say, Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend, you'll find sober critique while juxtaposing it with anti-communist slander and contemporaries like Churchill that aren't nearly as demonized, when the opposite should be true. Stalin was homophobic, there was excess, Stalin did make mistakes. However, he also guided the soviet union through their most turbulent era. Both his failings and successes need to be understood, along with the USSR's successes and failings, as these are the legacy of working class movements.
As for Molotov-Ribbentrop, it was not a ploy to "carve up Europe." Neither the soviets nor the Nazis expected the pact to stay, it was purely a measure to buy time, and any long-term agreements need to be understood as little more than posturing. In Poland, the Soviet Union went in weeks after the Nazis invaded. The Red Army stuck to areas Poland had recently invaded only 2 decades prior and annexed from neihboring countries like Lithuania and Ukraine, and the Polish government fled, telling the Polish soldiers not to engage with the Red Army (though some did).
The west declared war on Nazi Germany for their invasion, but since the Red Army had not "invaded" in the truest sense, but merely prevented the Nazis from taking all of Poland and subjecting it to the Holocaust, they accepted the soviets. To the contrary of the "Nazi collaboration" myth, the soviets had spent the last decade trying to get an anti-Nazi alliance going. To the soviet dismay, the western powers were already signing non-agression pacts with Nazi Germany, doing copious amounts of trade, and sanctioning the USSR. The soviets even offered to send 1 million troops, as well as armour, if Britain and France agreed, but they rejected it. Instead, the west sacrificed Czechoslovakia.
Returning to Stalin's opinion on anarchists, it is best described as the Marxist stance on collectivization vs the anarchist stance for communalization, and how these differing viewpoints leads to ultimate division in the final analysis. It wasn't that Stalin or Marxists in general cannot work with anarchists, the framing of anarchists as the "ultimate enemy" is more in that anarchists and Marxists hold opposite answers to the same question. Obviously anarchists are superior to fascists, liberals, etc, but none of them even attempt to answer the same questions as Marxists as anarchists do. Really, the whole work should be read, not just snippets, and only with broader context from other Marxist works.
In total, anarchists should uphold the soviet experience, and disprove bourgeois framing of Stalin and the USSR. This weakens bourgeois cultural hegemony, strengthening both anarchist and Marxist movements. I know this was long, but I hope it was at least interesting to read!
For further reading:
::: spoiler Demystifying Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
- J. V. Stalin
- Nia Frome's "Tankies"
[8 min]
- W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin
[6 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat
[30 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History
[16 min]
[42 min]
[38 min]
[9 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
[5 hr 51 min]
- Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin
[5 hr 25 min]
- Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World
:::
::: spoiler Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
- Che Guevara
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism
- History of the CPSU (B)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Marxism and the National Question
:::
Read Marxism and the National Question (Joseph Stalin, 1913) on ProleWiki
The period of counter-revolution in Russia brought not only "thunder and lightning" in its train, but also disillusionment in the movement and lack of faith in common...ProleWiki
Well you see, I watched half of the yellow lecture and now good thing bad and bad thing good! Its Dialectical Materialism!
Neo-Stalinism is a meme ideology that produces radical liberal bureaucrats, not revolutionaries.
But principled MLs and Maoists are much better at decolonial struggles and centralization than most of the left. And they tend to be much better educated on history and theory than the based Stalinists, and certainly most ambient liberals.
The trick is to learn to tell the difference between aspirational leftists and real ones. The real movement, you can disagree but you have to prove yourself in action because in political struggle the stakes are real. And to be effective we have to work together in evaluating and acting on what is objectively real. But in the real movement, people come from all different backgrounds, and live in all different environments that affects the way they look at social problems.
The people you're arguing with don't understand that the most loyal supporters that Stalin enabled in those early days after the revolution, were later executed/purged on trumped (heh) up charges of anarchism and Trotskyism. They have memorized a few apologetics for why its good actually, or never really happened. Its because they want to be actual practical organizers, but they're still idealists who think repeating certain phrases legitimizes them. The older ML and Maoist organizers know this too, and try to educate where they can but any movement can become sectarian and self referential.
Don't take the bait, the history is deeply contradictory no one really understands how easily it breaks people's brains. Its better not to worry and focus on doing something real
This is disrespectful to common sense.
The number of people KILLED in the mentioned Gulags is in the millions. The total number of killed by the regime is estimated as ~~20 million people. The number of people imprisoned in the US is just a bit north of a million.
Having a mass murderer on a picture and trying to picture it as "wasn't as bad as the US now" is distasteful. Have self-respect, spend effort and verify the numbers. Think critically about the picture you're thinking to upvote.
P.S. I'm not a US citizen or resident. In terms of freedoms, both the Soviet Union was terrible, and a lot of the events happening in the US right now are terrible.
Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting
The justices did not comment on their order, which they issued without even asking the families of the Sandy Hook victims to respond to Jones’ appeal. An FBI agent who responded to the shooting also sued.
Jones filed for bankruptcy in late 2022, and his lawyers told the justices that the “plaintiffs have no possible hope of collecting” the entire judgment.
He is separately appealing a $49 million judgment in a similar defamation lawsuit in Texas after he failed to turn over documents sought by the parents of another Sandy Hook victim.
In the Connecticut case, the judge issued a rare default ruling against Jones and his company in late 2021 because of what she called Jones’ repeated failure to abide by court rulings and to turn over certain evidence to the Sandy Hook families. The judge convened a jury to determine how much Jones would owe.
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Zelensky deprives Odessa mayor, politician, artist of Ukrainian citizenship — decree
Zelensky deprives Odessa mayor, politician, artist of Ukrainian citizenship — decree
Since Gennady Trukhanov is no longer a Ukrainian citizen, he cannot remain mayor, the a Ukrainian host emphasizedTASS
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Delivery of Tomahawk missiles to Kiev could cause 'triple harm' — senator
Delivery of Tomahawk missiles to Kiev could cause 'triple harm' — senator
Alexey Pushkov said that US President Donald Trump can now either carry out his threat and damage the cause of peace, or choose to go a more rational routeTASS
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Meth disguised as Canadian beer kills 21-year-old in New Zealand
Canadian ‘beer’ kills 21-year-old in New Zealand
On March 2, 2023, Aiden Sagala did what many people do after a long, hot day at work. He cracked open a cold one. Little did he know, that swig of beer would kill him. Aiden didn’t realize that the can was full of liquid methamphetamine, not beer.Avery Haines (CTVNews)
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“He was screaming out, ‘I want my mom, I want my mom. I’m dying, I want mom. I’m dying, I want mom,’” Billy recalls.Aiden’s mom listened helplessly as he hadn’t hung up the phone yet.
I pity the poor woman who has to live with that moment in her memory for the rest of her life.
Holy fuck, imagine cracking open a cold one and instead of a brewski it's FUCKING METH!
That's insanity, that poor guy!
Always smell your beer before you drink it for two reasons: It could be meth, or it could be coors light!
AYYO!
This is fucking awful. Such a terrible, out of nowhere death
Have to say aswell, after reading the article, how stupid is his boss who gave him it? He was involved in the whole meth operation with these cans and decided to give away the excess ones that he thought only had beer in them. Why not just throw them away? Such an idiotic risk for no good reason. Was he high on the supply or something? Only thing I can think to explain why he'd do something as utterly careless as this. And now he's in prison for 20 years because of it
Un cibo che costa poco e fa molto bene
Le Regine del Mare in Scatola: Perché le Sardine Sono il Tuo Prossimo Superfood Economico e Sostenibile
Oggi parliamo di un alimento spesso sottovalutato, solitamente associato ad un pasto frugale di un tempo che fu, dove la miseria regnava sov...Giuliano (Blogger)
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German State Replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with Open-Source Email
German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email
Digital sovereignty isn't a phrase you often hear in the US, but it's a big deal in Europe. Here's why.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now | Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.David Brooks (The Atlantic)
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Google to spend $15 billion on AI data centre in biggest India investment
BENGALURU, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Google said on Tuesday it would invest $15 billion over five years to set up an artificial intelligence data centre in India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh, its biggest ever investment in the world's most populous nation.The U.S. tech giant's plan comes amid a tense diplomatic standoff between New Delhi and Washington over tariffs and a stalled trade deal, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged a boycott of foreign goods.
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/google-invest-10-billion-data-centre-south-india-2025-10-14/
Voting Rights Act faces pivotal test at US Supreme Court
Summary
- Case is latest US fight over racial issues in voting maps
- Louisiana map increased Black-majority US House districts
- Republicans could benefit if Voting Rights Act is undercut
The two words Democrats are avoiding in praising the Israel-Hamas deal
The two words Democrats are avoiding in praising the Israel-Hamas deal
Democrats are heaping praise on the peace deal struck between Israel and Hamas. But they're not mentioning one key aspect of the deal.Kevin Frey (MSNBC)
Senior prosecutor removed as Lindsey Halligan reshapes key US attorney’s office | CNN Politics
Maggie Cleary — the senior Justice Department prosecutor who briefly led the powerful US attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia last month before Trump ally Lindsey Halligan took over — has been removed from the office, according to two people familiar with the matter.It’s unclear if Cleary is still employed by the Justice Department, potentially now in a different role, the sources said. She couldn’t be reached immediately on Monday, and a Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/13/politics/federal-prosecutor-maggie-cleary-removed
Chinese freighter halves EU delivery time on maiden Arctic voyage to UK
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50963139
The Istanbul Bridge's maiden voyage, originally expected to take 18 days, was delayed by two days due to a storm off the coast of Norway but the ship still reached Europe earlier than the 40 to 50 days it takes freighters going through the Suez Canal or around the Cape of Good Hope.The new Northern Sea Route, running entirely through Arctic waters and within Russia's exclusive economic zone, can now be navigated by ships due to global warming.
Yeah, as the Clean Arctic Alliance recently said in response to China’s new containership route through the Arctic:
An increase in shipping in the Arctic will lead to
- an increase in shipping’s global climate impact due to black carbon emissions – which have a disproportionately higher impact when emitted in the Arctic,
- an increase in disturbance to wildlife and to communities dependent on marine resources due to increased ship pollution including underwater noise in a comparatively quiet ocean, and
- an increase in the risk of damaging oil spills.
As one report said, as the Arctic ice vanishes, maritime traffic boom fuels the climate crisis.
As Arctic ice vanishes, maritime traffic boom fuels the climate crisis
The Arctic is warming four times faster than any other place on the planet. As sea ice melts, new shipping routes between continents are opening up, and the yearly window for navigating through these freezing waters is expanding.Lara BULLENS (FRANCE 24)
Gotta catch ’em all: Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50962591
The Singapore Customs is investigating a case where a man entering Singapore did not declare that he was in possession of assorted Pokemon trading cards worth more than $30,000 in total.
Gotta catch ’em all: Man under Customs probe for not declaring over $30k of Pokemon cards at airport
The value of the items exceed the GST import relief granted to travellers. Read more at straitstimes.com.Daniel Lai (ST)
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It’s cardboard. It has the value of hard paper.
Edit: oh I see some graded ones in there
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from accessing the torrent of secret information constantly raining from the sky. You would, to a surprising and troubling degree, be wrong.Roughly half of geostationary satellite signals, many carrying sensitive consumer, corporate, and government communications, have been left entirely vulnerable to eavesdropping, a team of researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed today in a study that will likely resonate across the cybersecurity industry, telecom firms, and inside military and intelligence agencies worldwide.
List of Telegram STL groups for 3D Printing
Password: 00000111112222233333
Found this one in reddit.
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Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.Pastebin
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Do you fear technology
Oh yes! Greatly!
Windows
Ah, a different kind of fear was meant....
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Long term everything they make is for the landfill. Soldered RAM and SSDs on most M-series made it clear Apple doesnt expect the devices to last very long.
A 5-7 year lifespan is enough if your customers generally upgrade every 2-4 years.
That's certainly a way of looking at it.
The talent was upset at a conflict between kernel maintainers and posted a personal attack on Mastodon. The comment is now deleted ( web.archive.org/web/2025020400… ).
The Code of Conduct explicitly lists public harassment as an example of unacceptable behavior.
Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:-The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or advances
-Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
-Public or private harassment
-Publishing others’ private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission.
-Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting
Even if he is correct about about it being a code of conduct violation (it wasn't), there is way to take action and it isn't posting an attack on social media.
Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be reported by contacting the Code of Conduct Committee at conduct@kernel.org. All complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The Code of Conduct Committee is obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident. Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.
There has certainly been drama around Rust, but as was said in the thread: "Being toxic on the right side of an argument is still toxic, [...]"
Hector Martin (@marcan@treehouse.systems)
Behold, a Linux maintainer openly admitting to attempting to sabotage the entire Rust for Linux project: https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250131075751.GA16720@lst.Treehouse Mastodon
The talent has nothing to do with Rust AFAIK. Only the GPU driver is written in Rust. There are however efforts put into other drivers written in Rust.
The developers could have written those drivers in C instead, or to hell with those close-minded Linux developers, fork Linux and keep writing in Rust.
Forking Linux and continuing to do that instead of up streaming is a massive task, especially as time goes by and code similarities drift. It's much better to upstream. This is why fortune 500 companies contribute to the Linux kernel.
The old guard in the Linux kernel have a real stick up their ass against anything not C, despite Linus himself advocating that rust drivers should at least be looked at. It's turned off a lot of new blood doing projects like Asahi because they don't have upstream support so the burden of the project is much too great for a hobbyist endeavor for something that should otherwise be fun and mentally engaging.
Agreed. I was fully aware that forking Linux is more of a joke than anything.
Spot on on the hobby point. If I am writing code while not being paid, I need to enjoy every moment of it. In addition to coding, project managing and ensuring backlash make me nope the fuck out of it.
Blender - Open Data
Blender Open Data is a platform to collect, display and query the results of hardware and software performance tests - provided by the public.Blender - Open Data
I guess you do understand what the M chip is, which makes your comparison even more surprising. First, comparing a SoC to a GPU is wildly unfair. Second, you are severely underselling exactly how much more energy efficient an M chip is versus a CPU/GPU combo. My PC laptop with an i7 and a 4070 built in will run for about 20 minutes, maybe 30, under a full workload, all the while being hot enough to fry an egg and noisier than a jet engine. Even then, the performance will be trash and get worse as the temps rise. My MBP M3 Max will run a DAW sessions my PC could never dream of, with multiple plugins, on battery, silent, no heat, for a couple of hours without even the hint of a stutter.
All of that said, when it comes to price, Apple's gonna Apple.
PS: I'm typing this on my phone while the idle i7/4070 laptop is fanning (again, fully idle) because it runs so hot. I might need to start traveling for work again and, if I do, I might need to switch to a MacBook Air for work on the road unless I can find an ultra-slim, powerful yet efficient, high resolution screen, Linux supported laptop. Simply because of the chip. We need an equivalent on the PC side.
I'm convinced Arch with archinstall is the easiest Linux to use for users competent with computers. It just requires that the user isn't afraid of command line interfaces.
I've tried the Mint, Ubuntu and uBlue. Had something go wrong with each. Mint didn't install graphics drivers, Ubuntu had nonsensical design with snap and uBlue corrupted the boot order after a month.
With distros designed to just work it isn't easy to fix issues when they come up. With Arch there's no expectation that things work by default, so when something goes wrong you can just make it work again.
Pretty much. But if you need to test it, you can buy another drive and install linux and your games there. If it doesn't work, you can use the extra drive for something else.
In Steam on Linux, use settings to enable Experimental or Proton for Windows games.
Edit: This is computer science, you must report your findings!
Is fortnite on steam though?
Good info either way, just not sure whether its relevant
It's not.
And the owner of Epic, which owns Fortnite, is rabidly anti Linux. I believe he's made some concessions to lose less of the Deck market share, but he's made many insulting and untrue statements of Linux and its users in the past as well as actively sabotaging Linux functionality in games that used to have it.
Can I run my whole steam library on linux?
Depends on the games you have. The biggest issue is anti-cheat, so competitive online games have a worse chance of working, nearly all other games should work though.
And also get the same performance from AAA games?
Again depends on the specific games. Some have worse performance than on Windows, some have better performance.
UK Intel Warns Politicians of China and Russia Spying Efforts
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44053091
Archived
- The UK's domestic security service, MI5, warned politicians and their staff that they are being targeted by spies from China, Russia and Iran in efforts to undermine British democracy.
- MI5 said foreign actors may use methods such as dishonest online approaches, hacks and cyber attacks to recruit assets and obtain information, and may use financial donations to influence politicians' decisions.
- The security service urged politicians to be wary of "overt flattery", conduct due diligence on new contacts, and report any suspicious interactions to their security team promptly.
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“The UK is a target of long-term strategic foreign interference and espionage from elements of the Russian, Chinese and Iranian states which, in different ways, seek to further their economic and strategic interests and cause harm to our democratic institutions,” according to the advice.
The document comes just weeks after a high-profile espionage case in which two men were accused of spying for China fell apart, sparking criticism of the government’s handling of the case and Starmer’s wider policy toward Beijing, with which he has sought to improve diplomatic ties since entering office last year.
Separately, Nathan Gill — a former Welsh leader of Nigel Farage’s populist right-wing Reform UK party — pleaded guilty last month to taking bribes in exchange for making statements in favor of Russia.
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Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network publishes AI-generated images mocking Armenia’s PM Nikol Pashinyan ahead of the country's parliamentary elections
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44050202
ArchivedThe pro-Russian Matryoshka disinformation network has launched a new campaign against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of the country’s June 2026 parliamentary elections.
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The bots are spreading videos on X and BlueSky disguised as content from Western media outlets. These clips criticize Pashinyan for “destroying Armenia’s cultural code” and “imposing non-traditional values of tolerance.” They also accuse his administration of threatening opposition journalists and bloggers, as well as promoting an “unrealistic and dangerous” plan to create a “Fourth Republic.” The term refers to a declaration proposed by Pashinyan at the congress of his Civil Contract party and adopted by a vote of the participants. The document envisions extending the current government’s mandate for another five years after the 2026 parliamentary elections, adopting a new constitution through a referendum, formally renouncing Armenia’s territorial claims to Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh), and pursuing a course toward joining the European Union.
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The bots have also shared AI-generated images of Pashinyan being humiliated by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (including one in which Erdoğan forces Pashinyan to kiss his knee), and U.S. President Donald Trump. In one of the fake photos, Pashinyan is shown cleaning up trash in front of the White House.
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[In September 2024, Pashinyan confirmed that the country would go ahead with its plans to join the EU in spite of warnings from Russia.]
Pro-Kremlin Matryoshka bot network publishes AI-generated images mocking Armenia’s PM Nikol Pashinyan
The pro-Kremlin Matryoshka disinformation network has launched a new campaign against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan ahead of the country’s June 2026 parliamentary elections, according to insights from the Bot Blocker Project (antibot4navaln…The Insider
The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy.
Just a little thought I wanna discuss.
Unlike the more massive social media or the real world where theres not many leftists and we are gladly more united Lemmy and its left leaning tendencies with the instances providing natural cult grouping tendencies. Add to that the matrix in groups there and we all seem to be making a thing out of how to anger each other. How to troll each other or annoy x or y instance.
I hate this.
Living in an extreme right wing nation I know no other anarchist. A few left wingers. Even the libs here are right wing extremists by the standards of a western nation. I hold dear any solidarity.
I support unions here even when everyone there is a religious fundamentalist who wants sharia law bc they still qantnto improve the conditions of the working class.
Many folks here, who again I don't have any hate for, I see intending these fights and dramas. Having the goal to be banned from x or y community or instance.
- Why!?!?
- What do you gain?
- What is the desire here??
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Tribalism. Humankind haven't progress beyond the instincts of having in-groups and out-groups.
Until that happens, there will be discrimination. People would see things in black and white instead of understanding there are shades of gray between.
It's just tribalism. This is ingrained in us. Our group good. Other group bad. It's survival.
Doesn't make it right. Or logical. Best we can do is check ourselves when we have these thoughts or perform these actions. And to call out others who do it.
They tend to congregate at the extremes both left and right. Anywhere when they can loudly judge and exclude others.
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I work with this by feeling morally superior to people with un-nuanced opinions.
I wonder if I can start a movement...
I'm not a fan of the infighting either. It's a very online kind of tribalism. I'm pretty active in anarchist organizing where I live and routinely have people from all sorts of tendencies showing up to help out without it devolving into a struggle session over factional infighting from a hundred years ago.
Just from the time I've spent here it seems like it's specifically the people occupying the centrist liberal positions who are most invested in fostering a culture of leftist infighting
Talking of the tribalism. How come an anarchist is on .ml
Is the experience there OK?
Oh I see, it is I who have to "welcome a different option".
Most of "communism" here on lemmy is either hardcore stalin/lenin/mao authoritarian ruling or it is some sort of workers dictatorship. What's not to criticise? And when you try to discuss you get downvoted and people act aggressively, or so I feel.
I also does not know what that has to do with anarchism?
Oh I see, it is I who have to “welcome a different option”.
reread my comment, not what I said. Maybe if you're less quick to call people tankies you might not get called a liberal in response.
I consider a workers dictatorship to be a lesser evil compared to the dictatorship of capital we live in currently.
I also does not know what that has to do with anarchism?
To put it simply, anarchists want to abolish hierarchy, communists want to abolish private property. They overlap when you want both. Liberals tend to oppose dismantling both of those things.
Okay, like I'd love everyone getting together well, but I know it won't happen, but I can still try, and maybe make the world a little better.
Your ideas are absolutists, there is no possible gradation, and even taken one by one they are insane idea that has never worked, and you want both? How is that even going to work? No property, no rulers, I mean good luck with that.
It's just not possible to have a serious conversation here, so I wish you luck!
Cheers
Edit: well look at all that civilised discussion right here! Ah no? Only anonymous downvotes without any reason? Who would have thought...
you: "It's impossible to have a serious conversation here, so I wish you luck!"
me: okay, I won't bother responding
you: "woe is me, nobody responded, only downvotes"
idk what you expected tbh
Well I did hope for an answer, but all I got was victim blaming.
If you can't say, respectfully, what you think, how do you think there could be a meaningful excange of ideas?
For what I have understood: you roughly think all actual existing government are bad, police is bad, banks are bad, enforcing rules are bad, having your own things are bad.
If that's so, how is your society suppose to do anything productive or useful?
Just read these 14 books from 1930 if you want to have an opinion. No, I can't summarize anything from them. They can only be understood in their entirety.
All hail Putin, Xi.
Seems like a caricature rather than someone that's actually around.
I really don't see anyone of consequence on lemmy being like 'no Putin is good actually.'
One example, I was reading a hexbear (allegedly tankie central) thread a while back where they were shitting on the CPRF for receiving praise from Putin for their support of the SMO. (ie saying that they were losers that lenin would have had shot, and that they're not communist)
You are a tankie though.
In what substantive manner (real world issues) are you different from a stereotypical tankie?
In this very thread you bring up "approved narrative" in context of russian genocidal imperialism. This is comically stupid (and very ironic) for anyone that knows russian and has lived there.
You even bring up "workers dictatorship" in a seemingly serious manner. There have never been any worker's dictatorships, just some thugs dominating everyone else with some communist styled marketing and PR.
Right wingers will be like, "Well he's racist but we agree on taxes and the gays so he's all right with me."
Left wingers will be like, "We disagree on one of the 100 most important issues to me, therefore you are my enemy!"
No.
Centrists lie when they claim to agree with progressives, as indicated by their legislative accomplishments: blocking progressive legislation and arming genocide.
You may agree with them on those points, but don't pretend that centrists care about anything else at all because they just fucking don't.
I'm going to go right now into your history and upvote every comment of yours I agree with
Edit: I found a few dozen from recent weeks. We agree on more than you think. Many I'd already upvoted.
It's great that you agree with me on some things.
Democrats still need to listen to criticism. They still need to realize that there are things they can do that will cause people who would otherwise vote for them to stay home in well-earned disgust. Voters have standards, and when they see a party willing to do nothing for them and anything for a genocidal apartheid regime on the other side of the planet, the expectation of unquestioning enthusiasm takes a lot of gall.
You can blame voters all you want, but the party wasn't failed by the voters. The voters were failed, repeatedly, over the course of decades, by a party that has no interest in ever actually representing them.
You're encouraging people to "stay home in well-earned disgust". That serves the fascists.
End of story.
There are ways to say what you want to say carefully. But in my opinion stopping the Nazis needs to come before any other priorities.
You’re encouraging people to “stay home in well-earned disgust”.
I'm remarking on a genuine phenomenon. At no point did I tell anyone to stay home, but anyone who wants no criticism of the party interprets all criticism as such.
There are ways to say what you want to say carefully.
There is no criticism of the worst behavior of the party that won't be regarded as disloyalty from people who like how the party moved so far to the right that it supported genocide.
But in my opinion stopping the Nazis needs to come before any other priorities.
democrats didn't even consider that enough of a problem to change their most odious position.
Nothing but performative worship of democrats for their support for genocide will ever satisfy centrists.
Nothing the left ever does will ever be enough because every centrist got the only thing any of them wanted with the genocide support.
The party is shit on purpose until they change and their apologists love it.
No one here brought up the Democratic Party or genocide except you.
This is a post about division on Lemmy.
You actually don't have to demonstrate that. You can choose to find common ground in the culture of the platform and save the division for matters that are important to you in the communities that discuss them. That's up to you, friend.
No one here brought up the Democratic Party or genocide except you.This is a post about division on Lemmy.
And it sure would be nice for all the centrists who spent a solid year screeching abuse at anyone who dared to say that genocide was wrong if anyone who said it could be silenced by saying that they're being divisive.
Meanwhile, I don't see you saying boo to anyone who's calling anyone to their left a tankie in this thread. "Divisive" is a club used by the orthodox to enforce orthodoxy.
You actually don’t have to demonstrate that. You can choose to find common ground in the culture of the platform and save the division for matters that are important to you in the communities that discuss them.
I can choose to agree with genocide or shut up. That's the only thing you're saying.
I'm not scrolling through the thread to police people. I'm just responding to you as one person to another. I'm certainly not trying to shut you up.
I didn't call you or anyone else in this thread a tankie, because I actually agree with the premise that Lemmy could benefit from a more collaborative culture. I'm not identifying and harping on which political issues we disagree on here, because there are plenty of other threads on Lemmy for that.
I'm just letting you know that I honestly believe that you and I are on the same side. We agree on 90% of the most important issues in the world right now. I don't think there is any daylight between us when it comes to Trump or unions or healthcare or LGBTQ+ or protecting online speech or most other things. I don't consider you an enemy at all, and I hope you think the same about me. We can and should (and have) discuss when we disagree on threads related to topics where we differ.
Neglecting the majority of topics where we support one another does not benefit us, Lemmy, or the world.
I didn’t call you or anyone else in this thread a tankie, because I actually agree with the premise that Lemmy could benefit from a more collaborative culture.
Then tell the people who supported genocide for a solid year. Oh wait. You agree with them about 100% of everything and wonder why I'm so hung up on a little insignificant thing like genocide.
Progressives have been betrayed by the party for decades. We've watched the party come up with constant procedural bullshit to throw in their own way to block progressive policy for decades. And then we watched them ignore actual law because they wanted, dearly wanted netanyahu to have his genocide. And because we had the temerity to be upset at genocide, we're being blamed for the loss democrats refused to let go of their only actual policy to avoid.
I don’t think there is any daylight between us when it comes to Trump or unions or healthcare or LGBTQ+ or protecting online speech or most other things.
Democrats slow-walked the trump investigations out of an unwillingness to pursue justice. They happily broke the rail strike. They let republicans set the narrative on trans people and did nothing to challenge that narrative at best, and actively participated in it by running republicans' hateful "boys in girls sports" talking point in their own ads at worst. Their actions run contrary to their stated positions.
I don’t consider you an enemy at all, and I hope you think the same about me.
You have made it clear that you don't want me to talk about topics on which we differ, on the grounds that expecting accountability from democrats is "divisive."
Hey, I don't speak for anyone here, but this isn't a problem. Decentralization is a means to an end, not a desirable state in and of itself. Federated networks being separate from each other is fine. I feel this has been a critical misunderstanding among advocates of open source social media.
Honestly, best experiences I have had on ActivityPub were replacements for a group chat of 40-200 persons, not an attempted replacement for Twitter. (Also crucially not on a Mastodon fork but stuff like Akkoma.)
Since this app is clearly for some people a replacement for the general mechanics of websites like Stack Overflow, HN, and Reddit, and for other people meant to be a direct fork of specific Reddit communities, it makes sense to me that the networks would diverge completely, though it seems it hasn't happened yet.
What really kept me from using Lemmy is the poor integration with Mastodon. It's not a UI thing. Mbin and Kbin were a step in the wrong direction by furthrt splitting the UI between two types of posts that are the same under the hood
Nobody hates leftists like other leftists with a slightly different flavour of leftism. This is by tradition as long as the leftist discourse has been up. Plenty of people find it unthinkable with nuances or compromises even for communal goals that would benefit everybody.
Add to this that social media is inherently toxic and anonymity brings out the absolute worst in many people to spew hate for slight differences in opinion.
It's too bad but I'd recommend you to not get caught up in it and don't let it get to you. People are people and the chances that they will change in any foreseeable future are small. Keep doing what you think is positive and constructive and don't let others make you disappointed.
It would be interesting to learn something about the demographics on Lemmy.
I usually liken the bad vibes on Lemmy to being stuck with a bunch of cynical teenagers. Nothing is ever good enough, nothing good can happen. They know this with absolute certainty.
I am also probably older than average here.
I think some of it is intentional, and some are just taken along by that.
Also it's always easier to throw rocks from the sidelines than to actually lead. It's so much easier to find something wrong with everything than it is to try to figure out the right thing to do.
Plus nuance is always difficult. Better to just treat everything as back and white.
Amen.
Honestly, IRL or online, once that 'my leftism is the only good leftism' shit starts, I leave the community. I have no time for bigots and bullies in my life. No matter the flavor of their politics.
And I go find another group where they actually do good work, rather than sitting on their asses pontificating about how noble and good they are and how they need more minorities in the group to improve their brand image.
In my experience, we don't have quite that many leftists trying to rile each other up. What often happens is that some people want to character assassinate some others due to previous dislikes or because they oppose one of their core beliefs, so they try to blow up any "impurities" they can find in order to turn people against them. You can see it with people who get short term bans from leftist places and then get into year-long grudges.
Generally I would suggest people start ignoring people who constantly post and try to stir up drama about whole instances or specific subgroups of lemmy users. For example, I dislike intensely, like threads.net, hilariouschaos and lemmygrad and yet you don't see me constantly opening drama threads about them.There's some caveats in this statement, but it by and large, it applies imho.
Yeah 'my honor has been slighted and so i must now escalate' is quite common.
Character assassinations too.
But yesterday we had 2 fellow dbzer0 folks do this very trolling/ baiting. Which they also planned in the matrix channel. I think I instantly made clear I strongly disliked that. So did the community. And there was an apology luckily.
But we both know there's one provocateur there. Who I personally always have had lovely chats with. But someone who likes to go looking for trouble.
And thats not an isolated case. Many similar profiles I've seen.
There's a lot of .ml users that make accounts on db0 because so many instances blocked .ml and their users.
db0 also doesn't do much to stop their instance from being abused like this.
I can say I have, used to see a lot of propaganda from my country being constantly crossposted from ml and hexbear, since dbzero (among others) tolerates them, it helps them bypass the faulty defederation/blocking system that lemmy has so it kept appearing in my feed and I had to see accounts dedicated to defend the propaganda.
Until I moved to Piefed and was able to actually block them (also this instance defederated them).
Tribalism isn't always bad, sometimes it's needed to help take care of others by cutting off bad instances or instances that enable them. It's not black and white.
Ive never seen non anarchists capable of understanding the anarchist perspective. Its like theres some mental block preventing it.
And not just on Lemmy. Just generally, unimaginable idea for people
And then they never back it up.
A lie gets around the world before the truth puts on its pants.
Oh shit, that's news to me! 🫠
Guess I have an alternate personality that actually knows tech and can host awesome wesites like ComLib? News to me! Or, this personality of me?
You have repeatedly made this claim but still haven't given any proof after a few weeks.
Please demonstrate the users you believe are alts of .ml and other instances. Any and all of them.
Might be worth looking at the behaviour of so called leftists on Lemmy.
Many of them openly support and cheer for russia's invasion of Ukraine and support summary killing of Ukrainians ("summary executions in Bucha [and beyond] is a BIA conspiracy!!!" is not a serious statement), openly state that Ukraine does not have the right to self-determination and generally support the extermination of Ukrainian culture, language and identity.
I am from Ukraine, from Donbas (Lugansk) no less. What sort of reaction do you expect when you see alleged leftists cheers for the total occupation of Lugansk by the Russians with BS like "Lugansk is free of da Nasizzz !1!1!".
Or what about Jeromy Corbyn fanboys denying Corbyn's open support for russian genocidal imperialism (keep in mind these type of things get reported in Ukrainian media)? The fucker literally worked for Russia Today (which is managed by russian intel) and cheered the annexation of Crimea in 2014.
As far as I am concerned, I hope all tankies meet the same fate as "Donbas Cowboy", Russell Bentley.
Bentley’s wife, Lyudmila, then claimed that Russian soldiers from a tank battalion abducted him.According to the Investigative Committee, Vansyatsky, Agaltsev, and Iordanov tortured Bentley on April 8, and he died shortly afterward.
Vansyatsky and Agaltsev are suspected of blowing up a car with Bentley’s body in it and ordering Bazhin to get rid of what was left of his remains.
Is this an unreasonable reaction to disgusting tankies? What reaction do you expect?
Russian Soldiers Charged With Involvement In American's Death
Russell Bentley, a Texas man who as the "Donbas Cowboy" gained notoriety for joining Russian-backed forces in eastern Ukraine, was tortured before being killed in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk, Russian authorities said.Current Time (RFE/RL)
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It's still possible for internal US dynamics to change and there have been positive outcomes from US foreign policy (Germany, Japan, Poland, Baltic nations).
The same cannot be said about russia and China.
To call America a fascist state is just dishonest. To call the EU fascist is unhinged. Where America is certainly struggling internally with a legitimate attempt at a fascist takeover, too many fundamental principles of the republic remain intact to honestly define the country as a fascist state. There are plenty of things to criticize about the US government, it being fascist isn't one of them.
Russia, however, is literally doing an old school imperialist invasion right now. Like, shaky casus belli and everything. They're even throwing in a whole host of red flags indicating a genocide. Their "elections" are consistently used as textbook examples of rigged elections using statistical analysis. Political enemies of Putin are assassinated, jailed, and suppressed. The state sponsors a narrative campaign of a fictitious idealized Russian ethno-state. Public dissent is actively and harshly suppressed by the state. There are re-education camps to indoctrinate certain demographics with Russian supremacist propaganda. Russia is a fascist state. The tankies that rush to defend Russia online are defending a fascist state. That is directly contradictory to leftist principles and is, quite frankly, fucking stupid.
So to reply to someone pointing out how ridiculous it is for tankies to support a fascist state like Russia with "hurrdurr libs support fascist usa/eu" is yet another dishonest strawman wrapped in a red herring. And, certainly no surprise to anyone paying attention, just serves as another example of a tankie talking point that refuses to engage the actual argument.
Don't forget the libs openly promoting genocide in palestine.
Tankies and libs are basically the same thing with different imperial branding.
Strongly disagree on this one. Tankies and MLs are almost universally supportive of genocidal imperialism and authoritarianism.
Had some unhinged ML quote tweet my post about how she was in no position to complain about removal of Soviet monuments (she doesn't live in Kyiv, doesn't walk in Kyiv's parks and doesn't pay local taxes).
"Libs" do not all hold identical views on Palestine. If anything, negative perceptions of Israel (not just the current leadership) is on the rise. Libs are no where near tankies or MLs in terms of toxicity and comical stupid polemics (I refuse to believe tankies genuinely believe NK is a vanguard against imperialism and a great place to live).
If anything, negative perceptions of Israel (not just the current leadership) is on the rise
So only after a genocide is escalated do libs finally move away from open support? Damn what a group to be aligned with.
What a myopic and childish worldview.
We live in an imperfect world, good trends need to be capitalized on and not dismissed with some edgelord BS.
good trends need to be capitalized on
The good trend in this case is murdering half a million Palestinians has slightly shifted liberals views on their chosen settler state?
By god, at this rate it will only take the genocide of the entire middle east by israel to finally have liberals decide that it all should end. Just in time for the racially pure ethnostate to by complete! How convenient!!
I have Lemmygrad and Hexbear blocked. ML still has a few communities that need to move off ML.
FWIW, I actively mod/curate several communities that have become vibrant alternatives to the original (half dead) ML variants.
I actually joined Threadiverse via ML (did think the domain and their application was strange but didn't think too much about it) and then I realized Dessalines also admins Lemmygrad and he is a scumbag; of course I left ML ASAP.
I am generally doing my part to move over to Piefed, which also has a lot of cool features and better devs.
openly state that Ukraine does not have the right to self-determination
It was my understanding that the USSR insisted that its constituent republics were independent. Maybe the tankies need to revisit that.
So independent that Moscow could extract all food supplies from Ukraine to create a horrific man-made famine.
The fact of the matter is that tankies don't believe in self-determination or democracy (the few who are not shitposting and/or engaging malicious demagoguery).
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Youre an anarchist so I get seeing tankies as right wing. Infact I'm the weird one for not seeing them as right wing but i don't.
Libs yes are righties
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Tankies feel like they push pseudo communism with the bourgeoisie still at the top giving scraps to the proletariat and passing it off as paltry socialism. There’s no societal change to the hierarchy, balance of power, or wealth. Usually some power of personality to rally around as their God who's surrounded themselves with oligarchs who are enriching themselves and providing scraps to pass off as communist enough.
It’s more a weird ultra nationalism where proletariats are being tricked into thinking power has been given to the people when the ones at top are abusing their power to oppress forms of counter thought to seize whatever they want and retain their wealth. I wouldn’t consider them left just because there’s some form of socialism. Lot of countries do if at the very least they fix roads and have fire fighters.
The integration of authoritarianism just conflicts with my idea of communism, since my idea of communism is power to the people and one where the government fears the people because people control the means of production and they choose who stays in power. Not trading the usual suspects of kings, dictators, warlords, or whatever they call themselves for a different coat of paint.
You're correct. They aren't right wing. They are communists.
I haven't figured out if I'm fully anarchist, a "left libertarian" who can accept a restrained state, or if I'm coming around to being an ML, tbh.
And I'm not sure if I care. I just want capitalism dismantled and fascism/conservativism opposed. And I don't want a police state.
But, and this is gonna be hypocritical of me, I feel like the sectarianism always seems to be coming from online anarchist and progressive spaces. Like no don't join our mass movement against capitalism if you, IDK, don't dislike China enough? Doesn't make sense to me.
I’m kind of surprised to not see this answer, so I’ll throw it in: it seems to me that there are a lot of people from various countries who have built-in language for politics that they believe is shared across the world - but it isn’t.
As a dumb American, I’ve always been a liberal because that was the inclusive, progressive, luxury-gay-space-communism option as opposed to the conservative, regressive, racist, ignorant violent option. People from other countries don’t seem to appreciate that at all, because their “liberal” is what we’d call neoliberal or corporate Democrat, and they apparently don’t have a FPTP / Slaver’s College fix on their elections and they just don’t grok the two party thing.
As you can imagine on here there’s a lot of hate from both conservatives and leftists for “liberals”. I think that’s ridiculous but it’s usually easier to try and adopt their definitions than to explain why the other 379,999,999 of us don’t use it that way. (Well - 350M, say. Parts of the PNW use it that way too.). It’s just kind of exhausting in threads about American politics.
If someone calls me a “liberal” (or libtard, libcuck, etc) I naturally assume they’re racist, fascist, AM radio fuckwits. But then they want to jump into some world where H4A, UBI, No Oil is what they’re all about and once again I’m like - well, yeah we agree, again. So.
(Usually the retort is, “well then why are you a liberal?!” Which. Goes back to the exhausting thing.)
The most important point of unity for the left is the economics. Political identity must be defined by being the proletariat first and foremost.
When you have people who break that, well their place is questioned.
Mmm hmmm. Yeah. Yes.
So an American proletariat is . . . Anyone who is limited by health insurance, student loans, and mortgage rates? Or is it something else?
We don’t really use the word proletariat, uh, at all. Ever.
That’s pretty much every liberal I know, yeah.
Well. I know some house painters I guess. They don’t work for someone else, per se.
Yeah being part of smth and identifying as smth are two separate things.
I'm a man, straight, brown, proletariat etc. The question is what part of that do I see as the most fundamental part of my identity or politics.
This is also where the concept of alienation in the Marxist sense comes in. He took Hegel's framework, which Feuerbach and Bauer had used to analyse religion and he applied that to law and economics.
So this Marxist alienation which is in the Hegelian tradition is worth reading.
Now alienation can interestingly also be a desired outcome in leftist movements as the French existentialists talked about.
We also have a third brand of alienation in Buddhism etc.
Some want it some hate it.
I'm with Marx on this one.
If you are interested I can find some introductory article for you to take a look at.
I have a little knowledge there, but I'm good, thanks. I'm really more interested in defeating the republiQan hate machine so we can get people healthcare and save the environment.
Not that it's not interesting - I just have a slightly different take than Marx because Marx didn't live in 2025.
To me as a European, posts and comments about US politics can be very confusing. There’s the different interpretation on the word liberal you mentioned. There’s also the fact that the colours are reversed: here red is for the left - socialists and communists - while blue is the liberal right (not so much conservative right, though there are conservative subgroups of the “blues”). And there’s the fact that they often assume familiarity with political events and people unknown to me.
Somewhat related: posts and comments from the far and extreme left are often even more incomprehensible. They seem to have their own language entirely.
Liberalism has an actual definition. Neoliberalism is a subset of liberalism. Either way, neither position is socialist and both are capitalist. That's the distinction. That's always been the distinction. Leftist politics is distinctly anti capitalist.
To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism's contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources. And most of the social stuff was being advocated by leftist groups in the west for years before they became popular enough for the mainstream, liberal parties to embrace.
I'm an American. Conflating liberalism with leftism is a media game that has successfully ensured the Overton window does not shift left. It reveals the mass political ignorance here. Of the policies you've listed, only H4A is arguably socialist.
You can understand the two party system and make decisions to support certain candidates/policies in an election without identifying as a liberal.
To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism's contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources.To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism's contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources.
Well put, and yes I’d agree. Where I seem to draw the ire of leftists is when I point to the clock and say we have one year before we have to vote, and all things being equal we’re going to vote for the Democrats because attacking the central tenet of this country’s dominant ideology is not going to happen in this election cycle.
The 2024 Presidential election threads were a depressing reminder that some leftists can’t get out of their heads, or ivory towers, or whatever to make incremental progress because the glorious revolution is at hand. Or something. So I get to be the evil liberal who wants healthcare for all, student loan forgiveness, and a Green New Deal. And all of those things go down the shitter because republiQans vote as a single juggernaut bloc and we don’t.
I'd like to share my offline perspective here. All online spaces are kind of heightened versions of the discourse, Lemmy less so than other places but it's still there.
In the real world leftists are generally kind and empathetic people who genuinely want to do good. It's nice when you find another leftist, I have friends who are various flavours of anarchist and socialist and even some real life, genuine, aging commune hippies now living in town. There is no animosity and we would basically all agree on local direct action or local politics. In my experience even most liberals are just naive rather than genuinely holding counterproductive political beliefs.
It can feel very lonely but you're not alone.
Because politics is not limited to Left and Right, compressed down to it's minimum reasonable simplicity it is at least two dimensional. In mass media you see "Left" vs "Right" division, on Lemmy you see Lib Left vs Auth Right vs Center divisions, which are just as strong but largely suppressed by entrenched political interests especially in the US but also across the industrialized world where Lib Left has been suppressed by the capitalist political apparatus.
Note that most of the time when someone on the Fediverse decries "Liberals" they mean capitalist centrist in the "Neo-Liberal" mode. In some specific circumstances though you might see Auth Left criticizing Lib Left with the term, essentially insulting them by lumping them in with the Centrists. In other cases more in line with mass media you might see any Right position using the term against anyone center or left of center.
Essentially, Liberal has become a term only meaningful in context, and for that reason largely useless in common discourse. This is why the Political Compass is so useful a tool, situating political positions in their context, though of course it is flawed by being only two dimensional when actual political groups are very much multidimensional.
The political compass is actually a terrible tool. Left vs right is broadly okay if framed as collectivized ownership as principle vs privatized ownership as principle, but economies in the real world aren't "pure," and trying to gauge how left or right a country is by proportion of the economy that is public vs private can be misleading. The next part, "libertarian vs authoritarian," is a false binary. The state is thoroughly linked to the mode of production, you don't just pick something on a board and create it in real life. There's no such thing as "libertarian capitalism," as an example. Centralization vs decentralization may make more sense, but that can also be misleading, as centralized systems can be more democratic than decentralized systems.
The creator of the compass is also politically biased.
As a fun little side-note, I can answer the standard political compass quiz and get right around the bottom-left while being a Marxist-Leninist that approves of full collevtivization of production and central planning. Yet, at the same time, the quiz will put socialist states in the top left, seemingly based on how the creator wants to represent things. It's deeply flawed. Add on the fact that it's more of an idealist interpretation of political economy than a materialist one, and you've got a recipe for disaster.
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At first read I see a flaw in the first part of your argument, which is that centralization vs collectivization of economic ownership is not directly indicative of policy, rather it is the percentage of economic output which is used for collective services that dictates the Left/Right spectrum, which indeed is how a Far Left position can be coextant with a market economy and private ownership but with a tax or public stake in economic actors that returns a majority of the "profit" to collective service, it is rather the degree of enforcement of property rights as one of a set of rights and regulations by a central Authority which lies on the Auth/Lib spectrum that dictates the structure of the economic order. This is how for example you could be a Lib/Left Marxist who prefers central planning of the economy, so long as you don't believe the central planning should be enforced by monopoly of violence and instead implemented by collective consensus, there is no fundamental conflict in the position. Leninism on the other hand implies use of force by a centralized state military/police to restructure the economy along central planned lines, which is an Authoritarian position.
I agree the "quiz" is very flawed, it would need an order of magnitude more questions to be accurate, and authorship bias is certainly an issue.
That said, the compass itself I find to be quite accurate to the mental political models of most individuals. What you are pointing to, Centralization vs Distribution, is a relatively new way to concieve of the older Federal vs Local or State vs Community political framework. I would indeed view this as a "third axis" or omission by the two axis compass, as both Authority and Economy can have organization and flow biased towards fewer or more numerous nodes of participation/enforcement. To go back to your Lib Left Marxism, you could say that the Marxism part of that formula calls for a State economic planning model with high collectivization of economic output and low State enforcement of policy. On thing often missing from the Auth/Lib axis description is that reduced State enforcement does not mean reduced enforcement overall, but rather that the enforcement does not rely on the state monopoly on violence, instead directing enforcement through social exchange relying on the individuals applying their independent power onto each other to discourage deviancy from the consensus.
An easy example of this is in many tribal groups and including pacifist Western religious sects the worst corrective action an individual faces is shunning, which relies on all of the individuals of the community independently choosing to no longer participate socially or economically with the individual being corrected. The decision to do so may be more or less centralized or decentralized (for example a Priarch/Priest might declare shunning in a nonviolent Christian community, while a specific tribal group may only do so through a process of full group consensus, or even the most lib/local of all a spontaneous reaction of each individual against the deviant based on norms.
You're wrong about the Marxist-Leninist position, though, and that's exactly why the compass makes no sense. Marxists all agree on using the state as the collective means by which planning is accomplished. All the compass does is make things more confusing.
Overall, it is much better to abandon trying to measure things on a non-existent spectrum than it is to try to force them into one.
Hybrid threats force Poland to tighten medicine supply controls as the country aims to wean itself off Asia for essential drugs
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44047903
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Efforts to diversify domestic manufacturing and supply are ongoing, focusing on supporting Polish pharmaceutical companies and building facilities closer to European markets. However, production decisions regarding active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) or finished products remain commercial, independently made by responsible entities based on business strategies.
A key ministry goal is to reduce Poland’s reliance on external markets, especially on Asian suppliers responsible for most raw materials and APIs. “Uncoupling from Asia is crucial to enhancing Poland’s supply chain stability,” the ministry noted, highlighting its cooperation with the Government Strategic Reserves Agency (RARS), which plays a vital role in crisis management. RARS maintains expert capacity and logistics, proven during COVID-19 vaccine deployment and aid to Ukraine.
Another key area in Poland’s pharmaceutical security strategy is the National List of Critical Medicines. First presented in December 2024, this list has since been updated to include 401 substances deemed crucial for patient safety and the resilience of the healthcare system.
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“True security lies in producing medicines in the EU and Poland,” [president of Medicines for Poland Krzysztof] Kopeć stressed. While acknowledging the ministry’s National List of Critical Medicines, he emphasised that lists alone don’t guarantee security. Reducing dependence on Asia requires cost acceptance by the EU and national governments. European producers need profitable prices to manufacture medicines sustainably.
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[Michał Byliniak, director general of INFARMA, the Employers' Union of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies] emphasised the need to ensure patients’ needs are met during armed conflict, with timely access to medicine, even before emergency procedures are activated. “We faced such challenges after the Ukraine war began, guaranteeing treatment continuity for patients who suddenly lost access,” he recalled.
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https://www.euractiv.com/news/hybrid-threats-force-poland-to-tighten-medicine-supply-controls
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China detains dozens of members of underground church as government pressure on Christianity increases
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ArchivedThe authorities in China have detained the pastor of one of the country’s most prominent underground churches, along with dozens of other people affiliated with his church, according to the pastor’s family and members of the church, prompting worries about a renewed crackdown on religion.
The pastor, Jin Mingri, who also goes by the name Ezra, founded Beijing Zion Church in 2007. It grew into one of the country’s largest unofficial congregations, with several satellite campuses and over 1,000 people attending its weekend services.
Mr. Jin, 56, was detained on Friday at his home in the city of Beihai in Guangxi Province, according to his daughter, Grace Jin, who lives in the United States. Around the same time, nearly 30 other Zion Church pastors or workers were taken into custody or went missing around the country, including in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other cities, she said.
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In recent months, [...] surveillance on Mr. Jin seemed to have ramped up, Ms. Jin [who is Mr. Jin daughter who lives in the US] said. In September, the government issued new regulations limiting religious activity online to officially registered channels.
Mr. Jin had also suggested to the state security officers monitoring him that he might retire from Zion so that he could join his family, Ms. Jin said. But she said the officers refused to let him leave.
“After this kind of posturing, it seemed like something big was going to happen again,” Ms. Jin said. “We just didn’t know when or to what extent. But I also feel like my dad is always the optimist.”
She added, “He is sort of like, ‘Well I can’t live in fear every day, so I’m just going to continue on with what I need to do.’”[...]
Corey Jackson, the founder of Luke Alliance, a U.S.-based group that advocates for persecuted Christians in China, said that the detentions were “without a doubt” the biggest crackdown on Christianity in China since 2018.
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Small protestant church which gained popularity during the covid lockdowns? Sounds like a cult to me, whats next? Reuters reporting the membership have the bestest organs and the ceeceepee is taking their kidneys? (Ala Falon Gong, who coincidentally have a bunch of racist, anti gay, and anti communist teachings. Who's rag the epoch times openly supports Trump and US imperialism)
There are 10s of millions of muslims, christians etc in the PRC, one private underground church group bring restricted is not the CPC cracking down on religion as msm would have you believe
Be skeptical, reuters founding is tied back to Thomas Reuters, who in the 1850s had a monopoly over mines, tobacco and railroads in Iran, their hearts are not in the right place
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There are 10s of millions of muslims, christians etc in the PRC, one private underground church group bring restricted is not the CPC cracking down on religion as msm would have you believeBe skeptical, reuters founding is tied back to Thomas Reuters, who in the 1850s had a monopoly over mines, tobacco and railroads in Iran, their hearts are not in the right place
Yes, there are indeed, among others, muslims like Uyghurs in Xinjiang. China's genocide there is well known.
You should always being skeptical when consuming media, but thank you for the reminder.The founder's activities in 1850 have, of course, nothing to do with the current agency stance, though. And a certain "Thomas Reuters" has nothing to do with it. The agency's founder was Paul Reuter. The company has been called Thomson Reuters after Canadian media company Thomson acquired Reuters.
Do yourself a favor and stay away from wherever you receive your information. Your statement is out of touch by any means.
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Windows 10 End Of Life - Your Story
As the Windows 10 EOL date is close I was wondering what fellow Linux users thoughts about it are.
Are you helping open minded people making the switch to Linux? If yes, which distro are you using? Are you using resources like endof10.org?
Or are you using the the opportunity to get your hands on some cheap hardware for your homelab? Are you keeping an eye on special websites or just ebay (or your local equivalent)? Are you talking with local companies to get the hardware directly from them?
Or are you just observing and enjoy your peace of mind because you switched already to Linux before?
Whatever it is, we are very interested to hear your stories concering this interesting time.
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You can strip ISOs of some bloat but you cannot strip M$ out of it
, tho. And there's always a chance an update adds it back in.
I had outlook appear back on one of my laptops after an update. I had removed it ages ago. Some services do the same.
So, are you going to limit updates too? That'll make it vulnerable.
My point is, it's just going to be cat and mouse game with "cleaning or stripping" Windows.
See, I run a stripped Windows for playing games that don’t run under linux. I update it regularly and nothing intrusive was re-added by updates.
The other systems I use are linux and macOS, with each OS having its purpose.
In acknowledge that Linux is not intrusive and that you have to have PiHoles and other DNS sinkholes for a basic protection, which is hard for regular people. But in the end you have to look at peoples needs and if somebody insists he needs Windows, and you are knowledgeable in IT stuff, make it as secure and clutter free as possible.
have to have PiHoles and other DNS sinkholes for a basic protection, which is hard for regular people
mullvad's free dns. free for all, not just their subscribers. encrypted doh or dot only. a basic ad and malware blocking dns sinkhole is a fairly simple configuration away if your os supports it (win11 and android do.. those are what i've set it up on for others so far).
I had already dabbled in Linux on and off years back. I already wanted to switch, but I'm a moron at computer stuff, so Linux was always a bit out of reach. Too much to learn and memorize for the basic things I needed it for. (addendum: We're talking about 25 years ago)
But Win 10 annoyed the piss out of me. Like, to the point of breaking my laptop in a fit of explosive anger. I'm not usually a "throw-the-controller" kind of guy. But that shit got to me.
So around the time Win 11 was first announced, I decided to give Linux yet another shot. And lo and behold, I found Mint. Everything was setup and streamlined exactly for a moron like myself. It was literally easier and more straight forward than Windows.
And with a little bit of reading and copy/pasting commands smarter people than myself have written around the internet, pretty much any problem I've encountered have been solved within a few minutes.
So I recommend Mint to anyone looking for alternatives to Win 11.
It has been good to me.
And a big Thank You to all the glorious nerds that take the time to not on only make this, but also take the time to help us hapless dummies fix the small problems we encounter in the process of switching.
I bet you also have a 4 digit slashdot id!
(This is not an insult. Quite the opposite)
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Moved family mostly to Zorin. I stay with Tumbleweed.
Keeping Windows on dual boot for some edge cases. For the app or two that doesn't run with Linux I keep Windows in a virtual machine (which sadly I need once or twice a day).
95% of my daily business runs on Linux.
Now I wish my phone would do that too.
Work. Sadly Linux cannot run most Windows Store apps.
And there's some niche software that runs, but crashes too much for my liking. So unfortunately in these cases: Windows.
Well damn.
My hatred of Windows got so much in the past two years, when I abandoned ship last year for Linux (using Arch btw), I was ready to ditch software that was not available native, without even bothering with trying to run them through Wine. In the end I had to abandon three of my absolute favourite software, totalcmd, notepad++ and foobar2000. Luckily I was able to replace them with nearly similar quality equivalents in Krusader, Kate and DeaDBeeF. Bit less polished, but very configurable.
My work requires me to have a windows based laptop or a Macbook. They've told me that they've been trying Fedora workstation before, but supposedly the VPN doesn't work on it. I've checked and the VPN expressly supports certain distro, including fedora. But they've simply disabled VPN access from non-win/mac based systems since. I suspect there's either some skill issue or something fishy going on. I know they are monitoring incoming and outgoing files to the system via some tool, which may indeed be not supported on Linux workstations. However the way I use this laptop is simply by accessing it through RDP, and then share files between it and my personal desktop via SMB on LAN, and no one ever complained. I have the lid closed on it all the time. So in essence I just use it like a terminal, and only run work related webportals through a browser on it, like JIRA and shit. Most of my work related to our platform I'm running on my own desktop, because it's significantly faster.
Not sure what I'd do if I still had to run Windows or even VMs for stuff.
I hosted an endof10.org event at my local public library. Advertised like crazy, posting flyers around town, posting online, etc. I had over 30 USB installers ready to go with Debian 13. I was worried that I was advertising too much and wouldn't have room for everyone.
Only 2 people showed up, and neither were prepared to go through with an install. In a town with well over 70k people and a major university, I expected more.
Now I'm thinking an event like this would only be viable in a major metropolitan area.
In my circle of friends and family, I only knew of one person who was faced with the Windows 10 dilemma, and he chose to purchase new hardware (granted he's nearly 80 years old).
No offense, but this question is what is holding many people back that would otherwise be on the fence or ready to go.
If there were just Mac / Windows / Linux, it would be an easy sell.
But we have Mac / Windows / two million Linux flavors.
It does not matter which one you pick, it is bound to cause questions or issues. And once you've chosen a Linux flavor, someone asks you why you chose that desktop and not foobar9000 instead which everyone knows runs much better on your Linux flavor anyway.
I honestly think that Linux' biggest enemy is Linux. Sure, choice is good, but this is too much. Way too much.
While I agree with you, my question implied that Debian might not be the right choice for beginners. It's not that easy to use compared to Mint that comes with many quality of life features which makes it the perfect introduction to Linux.
All the important software is there, you have all the necessary codecs to play the most popular media files, you have an easy to use software store with a friendly interface, and you don't have any complicated concepts like immutable or atomic OS.
I understand your frustration. And I agree that choice is an impediment to adoption.
That said, I am not that comment deserved your reply.
As far as I can tell, the OP was only offering one option—Debian. So your concern does not apply there.
And the next comment did not suggest having more options or adding confusing choices either. I think they were ok with offering just one distro. They just wanted to know why the single recommendation was not Mint.
He was not asking a new user why they chose Debian. He was asking the Linux expert why he chose Debian over Mint. Your comment does not seem to apply.
There is nothing wrong with Debian so I certainly think it is an acceptable choice. That said, Mint probably would offer a less jarring transition than Debian for Windows users. Mint defaults to Cinnamon (very Windows like). Debian defaults to GNOME (a less familiar desktop metaphor). Mint also comes with just a few extra tools and touches that can keep new users off the command line (unless they want to go there).
And if you like Debian, LMDE gives you Debian with the Mint GUI and tools.
Honestly, it seems like a fair question.
If you are only going to give them one option, why not one more likely to work for them? Them being everyday Windows users.
And all that said…I do agree that keeping it simple is the most important thing and offering a single recommendation is the right strategy regardless of which distro you choose to recommend.
Debian is a stable operating system and as user friendly as mint once you get past the installation.
Mint also uses a Ubuntu base but Debian has better quality of packages and is less likely to break.
LMDE is also a good option in this case
Yeah Debian is stable, but it also doesn't come with an easy to use app store or pre-installed codecs for multimedia.
The installation process isn't exactly user friendly either. And if you plan to use BTRFS with Timeshift for easy snapshot creation, you have to do some pretty technical stuff.
And finally, there's stable and stable. Linux Mint being Ubuntu based is already VERY stable, but you still get fairly recent packages. With Debian you have to wait much longer for the latest software.
Wdym not user friendly? I use Debian everyday and the stuff you were talking about dates back to the bullseye days.
Trixie is a lot more user friendly and even includes the calamares installer now which is a GUI installer that’s similar to mint’s one
It also comes with gnome software and you can enable flatpaks with 2 commands. I don’t see how that’s not user friendly in any way.
Of course nonfree software is a different case but you can always use snap or flatpak for it
Yeah nobody in real life really cares about this. Anyone techie enough has already replaced their system and runs Win11, or has already switched to Linux themselves.
Anyone not techie enough doesn't care and will continue using Win10 (or just follow the Windows nagging and buy a new PC from Best Buy).
I'm still using Windows on dual-boot with Arch because of games, that's the only reason. I've Windows 10 LTSC IoT, which is the most debloated version available, plus I ran a debloater script, so the OS is basically raw now, no Microsoft account linked.
Unfortunately Windows still gets more performance, at least on my experience, I've a Laptop 16GB RAM, Hybrid GPU (GeForce 1650 4VRAM + AMD).
I'm still not prepared to give up from this little extra performance just to switch to Linux, it really makes a difference, and I pass the whole day dealing with Linux so at the end of the day I just want to boot into something that just works without major tweaks.
I know it's not Linux fault, but most games are made to run better on Windows. If and when W10 become unusable, I'll switch to 100% Linux without any doubt, it's my last Windows.
If and when W10 become unusable, I'll switch to 100% Linux without any doubt, it's my last Windows.
Depending on your usage, it may mean years, especially as it's IoT that iirc has longer update cycle.
Microsoft didn't lock anything meaningful behind w11 upgrade, like they did with DirectX versions, RAM limits etc. So as long as your software doesn't drop Win10 support (like Steam dropped Win7 just a couple of years ago), you'd be fine.
It would be pretty interesting to see where Linux would be by that time tho.
I got my new laptop back in April, had a Windows 11 preinstalled (I wish it wasn't the case, it would've been cheaper but it's very rare to find OS-less PCs in my country)
Anyway, I prepared a Fedora installation before the laptop got home, booted Windows once to make sure everything (regarding hardware) works, and the rest is history.
I've been dual booting since 2000 starting with Mandrake. Then Ubuntu and stuck with it or Xubuntu or Kununtu ever since.
I had been using win 10 a lot more when I eventually installed it. It was a great OS in my opinion. Until it wasn't because Microshits decided to make it bad. I was getting angry with that and learned last year that it would reach EOL this October. So I booted in Linux and started experiencing with Steam and Proton and Bottles and I was blown away by how easy it had become and how well the games played. So last December I wiped the disk, installed Kubuntu 24.04 and it's been a great experience ever since. Honestly it's insane how easy it has become. To think I had to recompile my kernel to have all the features of my hardware back in the early 2000s. LoL!
I tried to convince my GF to move to Linux but she can't due to her job. It's complicated.
I switched to Linux about a year ago.
I was a windows power user and now I'm a Linux noob, but couldn't be happier.
I hate to say it, but there's still reasoning to have Windows. I use a VM with ameliorated windows running for the few things I can't get away from.
For others, I tell them my story. Most people I talk to won't or can't make the switch, which I'm respectful of. To those that would benefit, I recommend at the minimum O&O Shutup but highly recommend ameliorated. This has been more welcomed.
People won't care until they have a reason to care. I'll still be around when they do.
but there’s still reasoning to have Windows
For sure. There's a lot of software that's built for Windows only. I have some Garmin aviation software that only works on Windows or Mac. It's pretty shit software, but I have to use it, and since I can do windows in a VM, that's what I use. Similarly, there's another bit of software I use all the time that's only built for iPad. So I have an iPad for that app. There's not always a choice.
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I've finally swapped over my main personal (gaming) PC 6+ months ago. Should've probably done that a lot sooner, but lazy. I knew I wouldn't upgrade my Win 10 to 11, and didn't wanna wait until the last minute, but have fallback options and time to distro hop if needed.
I'm not new to Linux at all, as most servers I'm running (personally or in my job) are Linux based. Debian, usually, cause servers. But I haven't used a Linux desktop in well over 20 years.
My choice fell on CachyOS, as I wanted something pre-configured for performance/gaming/wine, but kinda dislike fedora (rules out Bazzite, Nobara, and actual fedora). Also in the running was PikaOS, but I tried CachyOS first and stuck with it. I had no experience with Arch, but what a brilliant base that turns out to be for me. Love the rolling up-to-date-ness and AUR accessibility. I'm used to having to contort myself to get a more current version of software, possibly compiling from source and screwing with dependencies, but everything is literally just there and up to date. Critically, all games basically just worked. Everything just worked. EXcept all mail programs suck to an unexpected degree, but that is literally my only complaint.
I do use the EoL of win 10 as an opportunity to get people to move over or at least try it out. Depending on their use case, I usually still recommend Mint for non-technical people, mostly because searching for help from a Windows convertee likely finds appropriate solutions. The more technical ones get personalized recommendations, depending on context. For example I do have a colleague who spends half his day complaining about anything Microsoft, but still uses Windows at home, but that is mostly because of a single piece of software (and so far I haven't been able to get that to run, but haven't tried very hard yet either).
EXcept all mail programs suck to an unexpected degree, but that is literally my only complaint.
What's wrong with Thunderbird/Betterbird?
Unfortunately still have to use W11 for some anti-cheat games I play with friends 🙁
But being forced to update to 11 motivated me to come back to Linux on a PC. I already have a little homelab with all the flavors, but was wondering how it would game on my desktop.
Ultimately went with Debian + KDE on a second SSD, and it’s just awesome. Especially coming from WSL on my desktop, it’s just so seamless.
Had a little trouble getting Nvidia drivers for my relatively new card (Debian’s latest proprietary driver still didn’t support it lol), so I had to use the official Nvidia repo. And it was a little tricky signing it for Secure Boot, but other than that, awesome.
Need to run better side-by-side tests, but it at least feels like a 10% or so performance improvement.
Thank you Linux! And fuck Fortnite, release a Linux port already!
I would help if asked, but I'm not out there trying to convince people. This isn't the first Windows version to be EOLd, and Apple and Android have all but convinced people that a 2-3 year hardware replacement cycle is normal. I just don't think this is a significant consumer event at all.
Or are you just observing and enjoy your peace of mind because you switched already to Linux before?
Yeah, but I wouldn't say "switched" is the right word for me. I've been using a variety of OSes for personal and work for a long time. I worked in embedded software, and we had to support a variety of build toolchains for different host OSes and different target OSes. So the idea of using a different OS on my own computer is not a big deal. Over the years it's been Solaris, BSDos, Mac, Windows, and more flavors of Linux than I can recall.
Not the question you asked, but it was gratifying when Raspberry Pi really started to take off because it was the first time that developing for a different hardware arch and OS target was going mainstream. I would enthusiastically help people with that sort of thing. But even fewer ask. lol
I used windows 10 on my gaming PC for many years. I "upgraded" to 11, and it felt bad. The UI/ux was tolerable, but between the AI features and everything requiring a Microsoft account, it got on my nerves quickly.
I literally just wanted to upgrade the firmware on my Xbox one controller (so it'd work in Linux..) and that forced a login. At that point I logged in, upgraded my controller, formatted as ext4, and now I rarely look back.
Every once in a while a game will crash or not be playable on Linux, but I'd trade that for being in control of the hardware I've spent thousands on over the years.
Very happy with bazzite on my htpc and a kde based distro on my main computer. I pop over to my MacBook for casual computing, but for the real stuff I'll never use windows again (barring being forced by future employers)
Linux on all of my main machines, so I'm grabbing the popcorn. Got LTSC for all the remaining Windows use cases: VMs, beater laptop for Windows-only stuff, and a couple of computers from family.
Most of my friends replace their computers quite frequently, so they're living blissfully unaware on Windows 11 or MacOS. The ones who do have older laptops tend to be tech-savvy enough to have figured out LTSC or Linux themselves. On one occasion, a good friend of mine had an old iMac that wasn't getting updates anymore, so I installed Debian and themed XFCE to look like MacOS, taught them the basics, and they were impressed with the result.
As for family, they're usually very happy with the Linux Mint Debian Edition that I install for them, but some I know just won't use the computer if it doesn't have their familiar Windows-specific software, so I get them started with LTSC.
I frankly have an excess of unused hardware that's piling up, which won't be helped by my access to a good source of e-waste. Old computers have already been trickling in, but I'm excited to see what's next now that the Oct 14 date has come.
The EoL doesn’t affect me. I use Linux and Mac. My work pc is windows 10 but that’s their problem.
My roommate refuses to move on. I flat out gave him an old surface pro X with win11 and a spacious new SSD. I offered to migrate him to fedora and teach him how to use it. I offered to help him pick out a new pc if he wants. No, he’ll just keep waiting 20 minutes for his old crusty Dell to boot up, then another 10 to load chrome. For updates, he said he’ll just download hacks as people post them online.
All his shit is on its own VLAN now.
I am a chicken, I could not make the switch for the home desktop and work computer, so I just downgraded to Windows 11. There are some financial apps that needs switching, damn.
Maybe I could convince people to let me use Linux at work..
It is just a computer. Don’t let us nerds intimidate you. Use what you are comfortable with.
That said, you could dual boot or even just boot of a USB stick into a live Linux session. That will let you play with it and decide if it is as scary as you feared.
Linux Mint can be written to USB and booted into a live Linux session I believe.
Macbook/Linux user here: People (And organisations/governments) who are reasonably skilled with technology will understand that on hardware which can't use windows 11, and is stuck with windows 10 without security updates need an alternative operating system. When institutions switch to linux, they will likely contribute to the opensource project, and overall bring the user base numbers up, which will make more software developers add support for linux.
But while this should happen, it might work in microsoft's favour, (Like when Netflix stopped password sharing) meaning people, who are used to windows will just buy new windows 11 machines, overall increasing microsoft's company value. Microsoft also supports the Israel military during the genocide, and Bill Gates personally supports Trump and had close ties with Epstein, so it would be best if the general public does an accident, or purposeful boycott. Personally I buy secondhand stuff and put linux on it, if you want new stuff either buy a mac, or buy one of those new linux machines from Lenovo?
Microsoft will for sure benefit here.
Many users, especially businesses, will simply upgrade.
Some will pay for the ESU.
Some will sign up for cloud backups.
All these benefit Microsoft.
Some fairly small number will work around Microsoft’s plan by upgrading Windows 11 where they are not supposed to or finding a way to get the updates for free.
Sure, probably the biggest fraction of users will probably do nothing. But they were already doing nothing for Microsoft so nothing changes in this case. Of anything, the load in Microsoft servers goes down a bit.
So ya, Microsoft has little incentive not to charge ahead.
I've been using Linux for about 25 years. I completely stopped using Windows at home more than a decade ago.
I do some volunteer work for an organisation that refurbishes old computers and gives them to people who can't afford one. For the time being we're using Rufus to bypass TPM and other hardware requirements so we can install Windows 11 on everything.
We're willing to install Linux for people who want it, but unfortunately I haven't seen that happen yet. Most of our customers have no idea what an OS is. A lot of people also need Windows for education or work. There's a free course available that teaches how to use a computer and of course that is also Windows-only.
We helped one of our colleagues to install Mint on his old laptop, though.
For the time being we’re using Rufus to bypass TPM and other hardware requirements so we can install Windows 11 on everything.
Heads up, Microsoft has stated that they do not support machines that don't meet requirements and that those machines may stop receiving security updates at any time.
not a whole lot of takers here either, and not a single one yet due to win10's "retirement".
everyone wants windows. but after that, most are pretty receptive of other foss options like libreoffice.
I would gladly run Linux but have yet to understand why no Debian live media would ever boot on my main laptop
Switched to Mint over a year ago from win 10 on my desktop and my wives laptop, we both love it. It was fresh, user friendly and familiar in the same time. To be fair we are pretty much average users without any specialized needs, other than gaming.
Later this year I built a new gaming pc 100% with Linux in mind. I am running Bazzite on it and it works absolutely amazing. Bazzite is currently my favourite distro. Im not a distro hopper or a big tinkerer myself, don't have time for experimenting, so not planning to switch. It just works perfectly.
Or are you just observing and enjoy your peace of mind because you switched already to Linux before?
Yes, that. As far as my circle of friends and acquaintances who are running Win10 are concerned, I've made the effort to advise them to switch to something newer for security reasons. They will probably switch to Windows 11, but that is their concern.
Believe it not, Steam even works on RHEL if you use Flatpak.
But you are probably going to want to go for something a bit more current. Fedora or Bazzite may work for you as they use the same core layout and userland as RHEL. Fedora is the test bed for the ideas that go into CentOS that becomes RHEL.
I’ve been using Linux and macOS since 2020. I shifted my main PC from Windows 10 back in April of 2020 right as lockdowns were hitting my locale, when I discovered how much Linux gaming had improved. I was curious to see if I could make it work for myself.
At that time, I had been interested in using Linux more frequently than on random old computers that I had lying around, but my opinions on Microsoft’s and Windows’ “quirks” were… less advanced. At that time I was unconcerned about Windows telemetry and advertising, but it also wasn’t as bad then.
It took me about a week to get everything set up and ready to go and to get settled. At first, I didn’t know if it’d end up sticking. Well, it did. I started with Ubuntu, and quickly went after Pop!_OS. I used that for a while, and eventually shifted to Garuda where I still am today.
Windows 10 end of life has almost no impact on me. My mindset has shifted dramatically since I first started using Linux on my main PC. When I used to not be bothered by Windows’ telemetry I find myself strongly off-put by it. Even macOS, which some say isn’t as bad as Windows puts me off and I’d rather not use it. Having had to set up Windows 10 for someone about a year back, I saw how much worse it got. It was insufferable.
Right now, my brother and sister in law still use Windows 10. They don’t see the problem with that. My brother specifically says he’ll just keep using Windows 10, because he “doesn’t have anything important” on it (I mentioned his Steam account has linked payment info). He’s also told me that he’d rather use Windows 11 (which he hates) than give Linux a try, a stance I don’t understand. It’s clear he doesn’t really understand the situation, and he doesn’t realize that Linux is not necessarily the difficult and unfriendly OS he thinks it is.
I’d rather him use Windows 11 than Windows 10, despite how awful I know it to be. At least there’s somewhat lower risk of nasty compromise there. I also know that he does play at least a couple games with anti-cheat that explicitly block Linux, so that introduces some complexity. But, I’m done preaching. I know how it makes me look, and I’ve tried in the past to change his mind but he’s unwilling to do so, so at this point the only way he’s going to learn is for something really bad to happen. Maybe his computer gets hit by ransomeware that took advantage of an unpatched vulnerability. That might be what it takes to finally make him do something.
I hate that it’s like this. I’ve tried to tell him about the risks. He doesn’t understand the full scale of it, and he dismisses me when I try to explain it to him. But at this point, what can I do besides say “I warned you” when something goes wrong?
proooobably should think about putting Bazzite on the gaming PC soon. but my partner is reluctant.
how's online gaming on linux going these days? the issues with anticheat are a bit of a pain.
I have used Linux for a good while around the early 2000’s. Good memories.
Fast forward to now. Bought a new laptop with W11. hated it.
(Just imagine a long list of frustrations about W11, because I’m not going to contribute anything new by saying it)
-and finally, I want my data to be mine!
And so now I get to annoy my wife about how awesome Linux is. My dad is on the train as well. We both annoy our wives with Linux.
Man I use Windows 11 daily for work and I can't stand how fucking buggy and clunky everything is. It's so bad.
Once in a while I'll boot my Linux desktop and it's just.... Bliss. Other than that I spend a lot of time on my steam deck, love that too.
Indian textile exporters turn to Europe, offer discounts to offset US tariffs
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50939117
Indian textile exporters are seeking new buyers in Europe and offering discounts to existing U.S. customers to cushion the blow from steep U.S. tariffs of as much as 50%, industry executives said.
I wrote my thesis on Nike's unethical practices. I knew what happened in Pakistan and its just as bad in India (predictably).
All these fucking corporations need to be made to own and operate their own factories.
They outsource to other companies who are unbelievably abusive. I could link NGO researches if anyone wants.
This means they then take no accountability for anything.
From Uyghur Muslims in labour and reeducation camps to mass faintings in Indonesia and rape and sexual assault EVERYWHERE. Not paying labour for months in the pandemic. I actually remember it being years.
It is impossible to do so I tell you. They threaten to pack bags and leave if you dare take any action against them.
No government can control corpos. Hell they were using 'tax saving methods' that hurt the US, were in the panama papers. Also part of a dodgy scheme in the Netherlands.
I could go in detail but i can assure you that it is impossible to do so your way.
Korea's military faces officer shortage amid record exodus - The Korea Times
According to data obtained from the Ministry of the National Defense by Rep. Yu Yong-weon of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP), the number of voluntary resignations among officers and noncommissioned officers with 10 to 20 years of service reached an all-time high last year.A total of 1,821 personnel in that category left the military in 2024, up from 960 in 2021. As of the end of September this year, 1,327 had already filed for voluntary discharge.
The number of officers taking leave has also increased sharply, from 2,252 in 2021 to 3,412 last year, with this year’s figure already at 3,401.
Korea's military faces officer shortage amid record exodus
South Korea’s military is confronting a deepening personnel crisis as record numbers of mid-ranking officers — the backbone of its command structur...Bahk Eun-ji (The Korea Times)
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Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns
new data show that one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics“Antimicrobial resistance is outpacing advances in modern medicine, threatening the health of families worldwide,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Antibiotic resistance surges globally, UN health agency warns
Common infections are becoming harder – and sometimes impossible – to treat, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday, as new data show that one in six bacterial infections globally are resistant to standard antibiotics, endangering mi…UN News
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So super ebola is gonna come from the US.
How Israel is laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon
For the early Zionists, settling Palestine meant settling the largest possible territory that vaguely overlapped with their biblical vision of the holy land.
Maps presented by the World Zionist Organization to the Paris Conference clearly show that Zionists sought to include in their territory southern Lebanon, including the Litani River and up to the coastal city of Saida - an estimated 60km from the current border.
Zionists, like all European settlers, were also keen to secure the most fertile land and fresh water sources. Eastern boundaries of the proposed map included large swathes of Syrian and Jordanian territory that fully engulfed Lake Tiberias and the Jordan River. French counter-proposals forced the Zionists to confine their activities after WWI to what is now referred to as historic Palestine.
Initial ambitions to colonise southern Lebanon were shelved but never extinguished. During this latest war, Michael Freund, who previously served as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deputy communications director, claimed that “historically speaking, southern Lebanon is in fact northern Israel”. He cited the Book of Joshua as mentioning “Sidon explicitly as being promised to the Jewish people”. Freund also listed several shrines in the south as Jewish and evidence of the right to the land.
The invocation of religious sites as justification for colonial conquest is an old and debunked Zionist trope. Freund was not alone in reviving it. One of Israel’s pseudo-archaeologists, Zeev Erlich, was embedded in the Israeli army during the recent invasion of Lebanon. Israeli troops burned and destroyed parts of the shrine. Before withdrawing, they demolished the surrounding historic buildings of the village’s old quarter, the very place they claimed as theirs.
How Israel is laying the groundwork for ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon
Domestic haggling over the disarmament of Hezbollah is overshadowing the long-term and regional dimensions of Israel's warMiddle East Eye
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup
Meanwhile, the Venezuelan opposition, led by former presidential candidate María Corina Machado, the far-right extremist who just won the Nobel Peace Prize, used the UN General Assembly (UNGA) as a lobbying platform, courting the Trump administration and sympathetic foreign governments to support a coup to depose President Nicolás Maduro. She has been part of multiple calls for US interventions in Venezuela, including to, in her words, secure the “total asphyxiation of the Venezuelan economy.”
The opposition organized demonstrations in front of the Secretariat Building to denounce Maduro and call for the world to intervene. Pedro de Mendonça, Press Director for Machado’s campaign, hosted a protest saying, “Maduro is not the legitimate president of Venezuela, but the head of the Cartel of the Suns and the Tren de Aragua.” Mendonça called for “a free Venezuela and a secure West” through an “international coalition.” This is as direct a call for intervention as you could get. Machado retweeted it.
Venezuela’s Opposition Used UN Meeting to Lobby for US Coup | naked capitalism
The so-called opposition, with a much-needed rebranding assist from the Nobel Committee, proposes total economic surrender to US oligarchic interests.Conor Gallagher (naked capitalism)
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Ceasefire Sparks Fresh Calls for Global Media Access to Gaza
Ceasefire Sparks Fresh Calls for Global Media Access to Gaza
Press groups are also demanding justice for the more than 200 journalists slaughtered in Palestinian territory over the past two years.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
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Haha, I was just joking with my buddy the other day about how liberals only know how to ask for better institutions. When they form an organization, its purpose is to ask malicious institutions to become kinder. You won't be the people to solve this issue.
By the way, you don't use this reply guy alt account enough to make it believable. Are you getting too slow?
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C
If we plateaued right now and did everything possible to draw CO2 out of the atmosphere and oceans, it would probably take a few thousand years to get back down. The reasoning - we weren't the main CO2 contributor, we just were the extra catalyst to throw things off to begin the acceleration up. So now that things are off balance and feedbacks are kicking in, how can we reverse what we put into the environment AND counter the extra feedback outputs? It's like trying to stop the boulder that was easy to push onto the hill slope.
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Here in South Australia we are starting to see the effects and it's pretty chilling.
The algae bloom affecting many of our suburban beaches (which is most of Adelaide) and a lot of country ones are seeing huge numbers of dead marine life being washed up.
Anything from leafy sea dragons to fish, stingrays, and sharks. The foam created on some days covers whole sections of beach.
While apparently it's safe, there are warnings that you may experience breathing issues and rashes so your supposed to bring your inhaler and rinse off after you have been in. On windy days it can affect you even if your walking close to the beach.
As we head into summer the damage to local seaford providers (the seafood is fine to consume but people are wary) and cafe owners will be huge and is already starting to take effect.
Because our beaches are so close, people would go down after work for a dip or have a drink at the suburban pubs and cafes.
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Jessica Haynes (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
From the Abstract:
"Our analysis reveals three critical success factors: (1) higher carbon prices per capita are essential for carbon reduction, (2) the necessity of penalties on carbon price per capita from EUR 20–EUR 100, and (3) expanded market coverage maximizes impact. To address global disparities, we propose a Uniform Carbon Pricing Mechanism under the Global Carbon Resilience Framework (GCRF), based on carbon price per capita tiered pricing: EUR 100/t (developed), EUR 30–50 (developing), and EUR 5–15 (least-developed countries). This balanced system supports vulnerable regions while cutting emissions, proving that fair carbon pricing is crucial for climate goals and economic stability."
Those points look sane, to me.
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Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
Did Qatari Money Drive Trump’s Push for Gaza Ceasefire?
Trump’s stance on Gaza shifted after Israel’s attack on Qatar — a close ally where he and his family have key business deals.Jonah Valdez (The Intercept)
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Donald Trump's speech at Israeli parliament interrupted as legislators call him "terrorist"
Donald Trump's speech at Israeli parliament interrupted as legislators call him "terrorist" - LGBTQ Nation
The politicians held signs that said "genocide" and "recognize Palestine" while Trump spoke.Daniel Villarreal (LGBTQ Nation)
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A banner at an August 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference conference read, "We Are All Domestic Terrorists."
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Did a CPAC Banner Say, 'We Are All Domestic Terrorists'?
A banner at an August 2022 CPAC conference read, "We Are All Domestic Terrorists."David Emery (Snopes.com)
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Powering the deadly EV boom: 30,000 Chinese migrant workers travel thousands of miles to remote islands in Indonesia to process nickel — and put their lives at risk
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Driven by economic and social pressures, tens of thousands of workers from China, mostly middle-aged men, are employed in eastern Indonesia’s nickel industry, which has sprung up in the last decade. Just as critical minerals crisscross the globe before they’re incorporated into cutting-edge products, so too do some of the people who make the world’s green dreams a reality.
[According] to more than a dozen of these Chinese workers and their family members, as well as Indonesian labor leaders who have negotiated factory conditions with top Chinese executives [it was found] that, even following fatal accidents at the smelters, efforts to improve working conditions have been slow, hindered by a lack of oversight from companies, governments, and international labor groups that were dependent on U.S. funding terminated by the Trump administration. We also obtained an internal company review of a nickel smelter expansion that shows facilities are likely spreading pollution and illness well beyond factory walls. Despite the challenges, new nickel processing plants continue to emerge in Indonesia and hire from China.
Before joining Indonesia’s nickel rush, most of these Chinese men had spent almost all their lives in their home country, working in declining steel factories. [...] they had never before owned a passport or boarded a flight. Their leap into the nickel refining industry has helped create entire towns on remote islands in Indonesia, and it’s made them an unlikely backbone of the world’s green energy transition.
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Nickel is a crucial component of EV batteries and energy storage systems. More nickel in an EV battery pack means longer mileage and improved performance from a single charge.
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Indonesian workers, the Chinese companies that run the nickel factories, and international labor and environmental organizations have been attempting to improve working and living conditions. But the few changes that have taken place have come slowly. And such efforts have been hamstrung by the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, which terminated almost all international grants from the U.S. Department of Labor. Those grants funded various initiatives to improve labor rights, occupational safety, and health, including in Indonesia.
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“Tsingshan [Holding Group, a Chinese metal and stainless steel giant Tsingshan that was among the first companies to set up production in Indonesia in the early 2010s] started to snatch up economically strained factory workers nonstop in droves,” said Jiahui Zeng, an anthropologist studying eastern Indonesia’s nickel belt at Tsinghua University in China. “For Chinese nickel workers, migration is pushed by family pressure, such as buying an apartment in a better school district for their children or preparing for a son’s marriage.” But these pressures make Chinese workers extremely vulnerable.
“Terrified of losing their income, they are reluctant to organize and wary of speaking out in Indonesia,” she added.
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[Chinese migrant worker] Wong recalled the instructor telling them there were more than 40 accidents in the industrial parks [in Indonesia] each year that resulted in severe injuries and even deaths. [...] “I didn’t understand much at the time,” said Wong.
But before long, Wong had two close calls of his own. First, he burned the back of his right hand when metallic liquid from the furnace splashed at the exit of the waste tunnel as he was walking past. And one night after heavy rain, soon after he clocked out and left the furnace, Wong stepped on what he thought was a puddle, only to find out that it was a neck-deep pond. Not knowing how to swim, he was only able to save himself by grabbing a nearby pole and pulling himself out of the water.
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Some workers he knew weren’t so lucky. An Indonesian colleague suffered severe injuries to his fingers after disregarding safety protocols to manually fix a glitch in the pouring chain. Another Chinese worker walked onto the top of an electric furnace in wet working boots and was instantly electrocuted into unconsciousness.
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[A] review showed workers at the nickel-processing facilities, as well as residents nearby, were increasingly seeking care for respiratory diseases like tuberculosis, acute pharyngitis, and acute rhinitis. Despite the industrial park being operated by multibillion-dollar corporations, the villages surrounding it still lacked wastewater drainage systems and access to clean water. In six villages outside the complex, a quarter of the residents live less than 30 feet from polluted water sources, and 41% of the residents have symptoms of dry cough.
In 12 nearby villages, the number of children with signs of stunted growth due to malnutrition and gastrointestinal infections increased by 50% in two years. “Officials and agencies know about all this,” an environmental consultant and author of part of the report, who chose to remain anonymous for fear of retribution at work, told Grist. Hardly any of the health and environmental risks were present before the construction of the Morowali Industrial Park [in Indonesia] they said.
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Yet as eastern Indonesia’s nickel industry grows, Chinese migrant workers still don’t have a seat at the table in discussions about their careers and safety.
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Chinese migrant workers drive Indonesia’s nickel industry for EVs - Rest of World
Over 30,000 Chinese workers travel to Indonesia’s remote islands to work in nickel smelters, fueling the global EV transition while facing dangerous conditions.Kate Bubacz (Rest of World)
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Ah yes the oil supporting Uproot Project of the Environmental Justice Fellowship...
Just because nickel mining is verifiably awful doesn't mean oil rig work is any better. The point most serious environmental groups make is that we shouldn't just replace fossil fuel based exploitation and environmental destruction with metal and rare earth ones instead.
We should focus on an overall reduction of consumption not just taking the over 1 billion cars and turning them electric but instead rethinking our whole relationship with nature.
Actually fair enough - having read the whole article it does seem much more preoccupied with the dangers of nickel mining than the proven negative effects of fossil fuels and stuff like this is quite obvious pro-ff propaganda
It’s almost impossible to transition away from fossil fuels without nickel from Indonesia,” said Johnny Linghui Ni, a United Kingdom-based research analyst for Project Blue, a data provider on critical minerals. “And it may stay this way until at least 2030, if not longer.”
Still useful to learn about but compared to the landscape of positive oil rig articles this definitely doesn't pass the smell test - thanks!
The article doesnt talk about fossil fuels because it has nothing to do with fossil fuels. Everyone knows fossil fuels are bad, that doesnt give a pass to labor violations and the environmental issues with nickel mining in Indonesia.
Arguing otherwise is like saying that someone writing an article on the health issues of vaping and environmental issues with their battery waste isnt spending enough time talking about how bad smoking cigarettes is, or how bad cigarette butts are for the environment. Its like… the article is talking about completely different shit. Advocating for reforms in the nickel production industry doesnt necessitate opining on how fossil fuels are worse.
People have no media literacy anymore, for fucks sake. Fossil fuels propaganda would spend a ton of time saying “look how bad nickel mining is in comparison to fossil fuel production” which this article doesnt do whatsoever. The only secondary aspect of this article is about the collapse of steel industry in rural northern china has supplied most of the workforce to the nickel plants in Indonesia, and how those areas are contracting due to their workers being exported
I feel it's complicated - on one hand yes they are supposedly anti-fossil fuels and are saying to replace them with electrified alternatives - on the other the website has so many pro-AI articles that do have some anti-ff messaging but also an underlying "well it does suck but it's unrealistic to power them with anything else so whacu gonna do"
Some data centers have invested in transmission and distribution networks, at times increasing their investment by over 35% to connect to the grid. Still, concerns about the energy deficit and the impacts of fossil fuels haven’t affected new investments, Rivera Cerecedo said.“We aren’t seeing a slowdown in the industry,” she said. “The effort that companies developing data centers are making to stay in Mexico is big.”
and for a newspaper focused on "VCs sitting in Palo Alto to think twice when a proposal from Indonesia comes across their desk" the above does read like unvoiced support for whatever gets them their superintelligent AI dream.
Idk I'm just saying that this may not be pro-fossil fuels but its still definitely pro-capitlaism and industrial exploitation under the veneer of neo-liberal human rights concerns..
Telling the Untold Tech Stories
“My goal is to change hearts and minds.” Sophie Schmidt, the founder of Rest of World, an Award-winning nonprofit international journalism organization focused on the impact of technology beyond the Western bubble. Brunswick's Kirsty Cameron reports.Kirsty Cameron (Brunswick Review)
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I guess if it looks like something commissioned by the oil industry, people assume it is. The headline looks like something a bot would link me to try to convince me how "an electric car is the same as an f150 in the end".
Mining nickel looks like it sucks and there's some real consequences to it, but I feel like I'm hearing about it for an other reason.
Lithium phosphate batteries don’t need nickel. Or cobalt. The industry has already started using them.
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/10/i…
cnn.com/2022/06/01/cars/tesla-…
It’s back! The 2027 Chevy Bolt gets an all-new LFP battery, but what else?
255 miles of range, new infotainment, but where did all the torque go?Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting
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I think that the guys at lemmy.dbzer0.com might not be against it
Although, I think one community containing all the feeds you are interested of might be a little bit too personal for a general population instance. It might be better to set up your own instance, with just one community and join it from the account you use
There is also ibbit.at !meta@ibbit.at but with that one, I guess you will have to ask for separate communities per feed and the admin does care about the type of content it would be pulling
There is also ibbit.at !meta@ibbit.at but with that one, I guess you will have to ask for separate communities per feed and the admin does care about the type of content it would be pulling
This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for, and I see the sources I wanted are already there, so there's no need to post my own.
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You could run your own.
Running an RSS reader is probably a lot easier though.
If you are familiar with Azure there is the project PandaCap by @lizard_socks@lemmy.world which is a self-hosted reader for activity-pub, ATProtocol, RSS/Atom and integrated with DeviantArt and other art sites.
ASP.NET Core Identity is backed by an in-memory database (since 11.1.0); the only allowed login method is via Microsoft account, but DeviantArt and Reddit accounts can be added in user management (which will connect these accounts to Pandacap's main database).
Does this literally mean I need a Microsoft account to run this on my own machine, or is that only for deploying on Azure?
I see, thanks for the explanation!
I've been working on a frontend/browser client for "exploring" activitypub instances in my spare time, and CORS basically requires me to have some sort of separate server process that can fetch and auth using my account(s). I'm unsure of how much sense it would make to try to bolt my client on top of your software, but at least now I know I can try without needing to involve a Microsoft account.
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