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Ferrari vows to adapt 2025 F1 car to Lewis Hamilton


Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur has revealed the team will aim to adapt its 2025 F1 car to Lewis Hamilton amid the Briton’s declaration that the SF-25 is “alien” to him.
in reply to GreenEngineering3475

On the one hand, this could easily shaft Leclerc.

On the other hand, maybe input from a vastly experienced driver could help the team altogether.

I seriously hope it's the second one, they tortured Charles enough



These 7 GOP senators are backing a bill to curb Trump's tariff powers


Summary

Seven Republican senators, including Mitch McConnell and Chuck Grassley, have co-sponsored the bipartisan Trade Review Act, which would revoke presidential tariffs after 60 days without congressional approval.

The bill challenges Trump’s sweeping tariff authority, exercised under his recent "Liberation Day" policy.

Though facing a likely veto and limited legislative prospects, the effort signals GOP divisions over Trump’s trade agenda.

Supporters argue Congress must reclaim its constitutional power over trade, reversing decades of authority ceded to the executive branch. A House version is expected from Rep. Don Bacon.

in reply to Eat_Your_Paisley

Hopefully not too late. But yet, they certainly enabled all the horrors that Trump is visiting on the world.
in reply to MicroWave

Several Republican senators have signed onto the Trade Review Act, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington


Way to work with Republicans on the one issue they give a shit about while doing fuck all for human rights you fucking collaborationist scum



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Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks Order to Return Man Wrongly Deported to El Salvador





A network of X accounts is targeting Canada ahead of the election


in reply to Cows Look Like Maps

Chinese or American bots? There is a lot of psyops involved.
in reply to Cows Look Like Maps

Canada should ban twatter. It's a Nazi disinformation and propaganda platform anyways...


Spain: Tens of thousands protest nationwide housing crisis


Summary

Tens of thousands protested across Spain, including 150,000 in Madrid and 100,000 in Barcelona, over a worsening housing crisis fueled by real estate speculation, foreign ownership, and tourism.

Organizers demand rent cuts, more social housing, and the repurposing of vacant properties. Renters face soaring costs, with many spending over 40% of their income on housing.

Protesters accuse landlords and investment funds of profiting while evictions rise.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has proposed rent caps and limits on foreign ownership, calling the crisis a “social emergency” needing urgent action.

in reply to MicroWave

On the plus side, he said, both parties shared the same fundamental analysis: that Spain has a basic lack of housing.


rewinds a decade

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_…

In 2013, Raj Badiani, an economist at IHS Global Insight in London, estimated that the value of residential real estate has dropped more than 30 percent since 2007 and that house prices would fall at least 50 percent from the peak by 2015.[10] Alcidi and Gros note; “If construction were to continue at the still relatively high rate of today, the process of absorption of the bubble would take more than 30 years”.

[11]In the period for 2007-2013, Spanish house prices fell by 37%.[21] Each year almost a million homes were built in Spain, more than in Germany, France, and England combined.[22]


I guess that housing oversupply issue got solved despite Spain's population size being pretty flat since then.

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in reply to tal

Rich people and corporations buy up all the houses to rent out to poor people or rich tourists. That creates a shortage of homes that are for sale for normal people to buy. It's a false shortage. Banning corporations and foreign people from owning homes would solve a lot of it. Huge taxes for owning more than 3 homes would probably do the rest.


in reply to Tony Bark

Depending on your closeness to the actual technology I'd be damn tempted to take one for the team and sabotage these projects.

You can't imagine how literally violently mad I would be if any of my work was used to kill people. Doesn't matter who.

LOL they asked her to apologize. Never working for Microsoft. Fuck right the fuck off.

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Trump Administration Aims to Spend $45 Billion to Expand Immigrant Detention


in reply to inclementimmigrant

45 billion can eliminate homelessness in US. This is blatant corruption.
in reply to AwkwardBroccolli

NAEH estimes there were 970,806 people who experience homeless at least one night in 2023. That would require an average home building cost of $46,000 per homeless person if we assume all are permanently homeless. Building costs vary but the national average is about $317,000. I don't think this amount could "end homelessness" but it could make a dent.
in reply to AdamEatsAss

The assumption of 317,000 usd per home does not hold. Thats a very suburbian thought of ending homelessness. Its possible to build multi storey buildings housing more than 100-200 at roughly 20-36 million usd assuming units to be like a hotel room. For a million people, the number would be ~70 billion.
If we move away from the hotel rooms to a bunk bed(like traditional homeless shelters usually are), the number would come down drastically to something like 21 billion. Its possible to end homelessness with the budget for jailing people. Its a choice,


Qual è il mutuo più conveniente oggi in Italia?



in reply to Novocirab

Here’s the broader situation: 30 percent of American households are classified by Pew as low income, and 19 percent are upper income. And yet a 2024 Gallup survey found that only 12 percent of Americans identified themselves as “lower class” and just 2 percent as “upper class.” In short: No one wants to be perceived as poor, and no one rich ever feels rich enough.


This is just nonsense. Being in the upper class doesn't mean being in the top 19% of earners. Those 19% are middle class and they probably have never even interacted with anyone in the upper class. An upper-class person isn't someone who earns a $100k a year or even $1000k a year. In fact, he probably doesn't even have a job. CBS has a headline right now that says "Trump headlining $1 million a person super PAC dinner as stocks sink over tariffs". The people at his dinner (or the ones who could come but choose not to) are in the upper class.

Edit: As for the rest of the article, it makes a good point about the disconnect between the working class and the middle class, but I'm not sure that this disconnect is bigger now than it used to be.

Edit 2: Part of the disconnect is due to different values rather than different incomes, and this should be emphasized because Trump is popular with the working class (and unpopular with the middle class) not because he doesn't have much money but because he rejects middle-class values.

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in reply to ArbitraryValue

One can of course always argue over what percentile makes you which class (and to to what degree percentiles are useful for this question in the first place).

As for the question of influence, Piketty for example, while calling the top 10% the "upper class", calls the top 1% the "ruling class", which seems like a decent way to undercore this point.


in reply to return2ozma

Just block trade and get it over with.
in reply to return2ozma

Who wants to bet that the idea of retaliatory tariffs wasn't gamed out beforehand and they have no strategy?

It seems like if you want a trade war with China, you'd want partners to help you apply pressure and replace Chinese goods you can't do without. Maybe somewhere like Vietnam for cheap labor; Canada for rare-earth minerals; and the EU to buy expensive American goods and services. Oh no.



US Justice Dept mobilized armed Marshals to warn ex-lawyer over congressional testimony


Oyer has since told various media outlets that her firing came shortly after she declined to recommend restoring gun rights to actor Mel Gibson, a supporter of President Donald Trump.
She is one of several Justice Department officials slated to testify on Monday afternoon before a hearing organized by Democrats in the House of Representatives and Senate about the Trump administration's treatment of the Justice Department and law firms who act in cases disliked by the Republican president.

Democratic U.S. Senator Adam Schiff of California called the mobilization of the Marshals to deliver a letter an effort to "intimidate and silence" Oyer, while U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland compared it to a move "ripped straight from the gangster playbook."

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-mobilized-armed-marshals-warn-ex-lawyer-over-congressional-2025-04-07/

#News


EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech


in reply to Redditsux

No, not tariffs. Tariffs would make Europeans pay more.

Hit the US where it hurts: intellectual property. The US forced the rest of the world to adopt its absurd intellectual property protections as a condition of getting tariff-free access to the US markets. Now that the US has reneged on that, the EU should restore rights to EU citizens that were restricted with these new laws.


in reply to Shadow

A very sad thing about this is how underreported it is in the big news outlets. Yes, there are articles, but holy shit, it seems very downplayed. I didn't participate in the protest, but I live in a medium sized suburb and the turnout in our downtown was HUGE.
in reply to metallic_substance

A very sad thing is that it's a protest. Even if it was reported on what would happen? What is the result of any of this?

Now imagine all those people went online and just created and shared content. Imagine all those people creating 5 things a week. They countered every bullshit on YouTube. If they countered every ounce of bullshit on Reddit. If they fucked with the algorithm by calling out the Rogan sphere and other podcasters making them look like the dumb asses they are. If they just culture jammed the fuck out of this broken fucking culture. But they don't.

They drive 2 hrs to stand in the cold hoping a media that doesn't listen will spread a message. I bet the protestors are not very clear on what the expected result is here either. Most probably seen that someone asked them to show up and they did. They're willing to do the work but in my opinion, it's directed into an energy sink with minimal reward. I think we can do better with understanding how content is king. How this is about culture and message and ideas rather than old school methods like protest in the streetds. People can laugh all they want thinking online content is just stupid jokes. It is. But also it's culture and this is about culture.

When Republicans and Russia wanted to change our culture to favor the right wing they didn't invest millions into protests. They hired influencers and created networks. They paid college kids to make memes. They ran bot farms to flood spaces with comments that dismissed opinions that didn't favor their view. Money and power were directed to dumb assholes that could get more people on brand. Joe Rogan went from being a dumb comedian to a platform to introducing people to those networks. And it branched out from there. It was strategic. All I'm saying is we all should think more systematically and strategically. Protests have a use case. I'm not sure how effective it is in a digital world. Protests should evolve I think.

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in reply to Melvin_Ferd

We need the people who don't go online, or orly watch corporate news networks and only use corporate social media to notice, get interested and join in. We don't need to tell people in the echo chamber about the shit that is happening, we need to tell our neighbors, coworkers, and local politicians- to let them know that there are people who notice and want change.
We won't beat corporate funded media in their game.
in reply to nutcase2690

You think those people aren't online?

This is exactly my point. You're proving it. The left have no idea what they're doing. This is why the right are winning. They aren't wasting their effort and time. They're targeting key areas using modern techniques and even inventing their own. The left are so hell bent on this romanticized ideals of the hippie putting flowers into barrels that they haven't progressed at all. It has cost so much and will continue to lead us into obscurity or worse.

I'll tell you what, let's come back in a couple weeks and see what these protests accomplished

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in reply to Melvin_Ferd

Protest, solidarity and defiance is definitely the way. The French don't sit around and create memes or content hoping to change stuff, they bring their economy and their streets to their knees, making it clear who really holds the power.
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in reply to Bogusmcfakester

Do they? I've seen the headlines but do they really?

Every few years it seems like they are circling the same drain as everyone else.

Protests where we all just gather and walk around aren't effective. You need to be proactive and anticipatory. We saw it with George Floyd protests. There's no win. Either people will show up and go home. Or, the protests will grow to a point that it becomes out of control. When it's out of control then the police salivate and pull out their black book training manual for how to beat hippies and they get to work. Just as a farmer leads his cows to slaughter. The police have solved the protestor problem. You will not win. Tactics need to adapt



Congo, M23 rebels hold first talks after months of conflict


DOHA, April 5 (Reuters) - Congo's government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country's east, a source briefed on the discussions told Reuters.

The talks, which will continue next week in Doha, offer the greatest hope of a halt to hostilities since M23 seized eastern Congo's two largest cities, a rapid advance that since January has resulted in thousands of deaths and forced hundreds of thousands more from their homes.

The fighting has raised fears of a wider regional war, as Congo's neighbours Uganda and Burundi also have troops in the region.

Reuters reported last week that Kinshasa and M23 planned to hold their first direct talks in Doha on April 9. But the source with knowledge of the situation said private talks were also held last week.

They were positive, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity, and prompted the rebels to withdraw from the strategic town of Walikale, in an area rich in minerals including tin, as a goodwill gesture.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/congo-m23-rebels-hold-first-talks-after-months-conflict-2025-04-05/



Judge Rejects Government’s Attempt to Dismiss EFF Lawsuit Against OPM, DOGE, and Musk


cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/35711976

A lawsuit seeking to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing tens of millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) can continue, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

Judge Denise L. Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York partially rejected the defendants’ motion to dismiss the lawsuit, which was filed Feb. 11 on behalf of two labor unions and individual current and former government workers across the country. This decision is a victory: The court agreed that the claims that OPM illegally disclosed highly personal records of millions of people to DOGE agents can move forward with the goal of stopping that ongoing disclosure and requiring that any shared information be returned.

Cote ruled current and former federal employees "may pursue their request for injunctive relief under the APA [Administrative Procedure Act]. ... The defendants’ Kafkaesque argument to the contrary would deprive the plaintiffs of any recourse under the law."

in reply to arotrios

It seems this administration will be fought in the courts. I'm glad it turned out well today, but I'm wary of everything going to the courts. Some cases will be lost and irreparable harm will ensue.


DOJ demands SCOTUS stop judge from forcing Trump to return wrongfully deported father


Summary:


With just hours to go before the Trump administration has to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia — a protected Maryland resident who was mistakenly sent to El Salvador as part of President Donald Trump’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants under an 18th-century wartime authority — back to the United States as part of a judge’s order, the Justice Department has tossed up a “Hail Mary” bid to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to put the kibosh on the efforts.

“On Friday afternoon, a federal district judge in Maryland ordered unprecedented relief: dictating to the United States that it must not only negotiate with a foreign country to return an enemy alien on foreign soil, but also succeed by 11:59 p.m. tonight,” wrote Solicitor General D. John Sauer in the DOJ’s Supreme Court application to vacate the order.

“This order sets the United States up for failure,” Sauer said.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis on Friday granted a preliminary injunction and gave the DOJ just over three days to facilitate bringing Abrego Garcia back to the country, referring to his deportation as “an illegal act” in her order. The 29-year-old was sent to El Salvador on March 15 in error as part of President Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to rush through mass deportations — which have since been blocked by a federal judge — without providing due process to those being flown out of the country, often not to their country of origin. Abrego Garcia was in the country with protected legal status at the time of his deportation. His wife and 5-year-old child are U.S. citizens. The DOJ admitted to the lower court on Friday that his deportation was an “administrative error,” leading to the suspension of a 15-year DOJ vet who made the public confession.

On Sunday, Xinis issued a 22-page opinion saying she would not back off from forcing the Department of Homeland Security and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who are being sued, to return Abrego Garcia to U.S. soil. The DOJ filed an emergency motion to stay Xinis’ preliminary injunction on Saturday with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals and lower court, “given the urgency of harms to the government,” the DOJ filings said. The 4th Circuit denied the motion on Monday shortly before the DOJ filed its Supreme Court application.


in reply to arotrios

That dog murderer needs to be locked up in a kennel herself.
in reply to sndmn

And have that kennel accidentally fall out of a military transport over the ocean.
in reply to Nasan

Don't we have enough garbage in the ocean as it is?
in reply to ThermonuclearCactus

Good point, the decomposed remains could attract more waste and form another great garbage patch.



Hamas slams US claim it uses ambulances for ‘terrorism’ after medics killed


“[The remarks] are a hideous example of immoral solidarity with the Nazis of our time in their brutal war against defenceless civilians and humanitarian organisations,” the group said.

“Hughes’s accusations that Hamas is using ambulances are pure lies, devoid of any evidence, propagated by the US administration, alongside the government of war criminal Netanyahu, to justify its heinous and documented crime against paramedics and rescue workers.”

in reply to geneva_convenience

lol wow. Even Israel themselves backed down from their narrative when confronted with video footage that clearly established that they were lying. But that clearly doesn’t matter to orangeboi et al.


YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy





Trump asks Supreme Court to block order requiring US bring back man mistakenly deported to El Salvador


cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/25857740

This is INSANE! Trump is asking the Supreme Court to bless his administration screwing up TO THE POINT THEY CEEDED CUSTODY OF A PERSON THEY DIDN’T HAVE LEGAL CUSTODY OVER and not require them to fix it?

If SCOTUS backs Trump here, literally all is lost. Due process will have NO MEANING if this isn’t fixed ASAP.

Remember, if they did it to this guy the only thing stopping them from doing it to you or me is dumb luck.

https://www.kmbc.com/article/supreme-court-mistaken-deportation-case/64408087

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lemmy - Collegamento all'originale
BedSharkPal
This. This case is a hard red line for the constitution.
in reply to GuyFawkes

Anyone who's watched Trump for any length of time shouldn't be at all surprised by this. Just ask the five Black men who wrongfully spent years in jail for the 1989 assault of a jogger in Central Park, before being exonerated in 2002 due to DNA evidence and a confession by the man who actually did it; because a full fourteen years after their release from prison, Trump maintained that they were guilty (and probably still does).

The man is biologically incapable of apologizing or taking responsibility for his actions.



Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 32, mostly women and children


Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials said Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to the United States to meet with President Donald Trump about the war.
in reply to technocrit

I believe they are competing with Hitler numbers and want to prove they've been chosen to murder everyone.


The Real Housewives of Hasbara: When the Gaza War Is Good for Business


A wave of women influencers have transformed into super-engines of Israel advocacy since Oct. 7. The 'hasbaristas' seamlessly blend lifestyle content with nuance-free Zionist activism. Are they good for hasbara? Was hasbara ever good for Israel?

https://archive.is/19DIA

in reply to technocrit

Makes me wonder how deep does the algorithm divide go.
In these 1.5 years I was never served an explicitly pro-Israel content. On the other hand I was served pro-Palestinian and even some anti-Israel creators.

Sure this is just anecdotal, but there must be something behind it. The algorithmic bubble, or intentional manipulation, idk?

in reply to technocrit

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 34: War is good for business!
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EU offers Trump removal of all industrial tariffs


Summary

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered a “zero-for-zero” deal to eliminate all industrial tariffs with the U.S., following Trump’s 20% tariff hike on EU goods.

The offer revives a proposal from a decade ago that was nearly finalized under the TTIP — the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership — that was ultimately scuppered by Trump in his first term.

The deal would cover cars, chemicals, and other industrial goods. Trump's tariffs have rattled global markets, with EU stocks seeing their steepest drop since COVID-19.

The EU warned it is also ready with countermeasures if negotiations fail.

in reply to MicroWave

Why are they throwing him this lifeline?

Let it all burn

in reply to Tramort

Because it's something the EU wanted and didn't get in the last round. It'll be funny if Trump accepts because it basically concedes that his negotiating position is weaker than it was eight years ago.

I'm with you though. I think a united front from all the countries where Trump imposed tariffs would be more effective at nipping this nonsense in the bud. And I think countries are shortsighted if they don't recognize that the U.S. is becoming a fundamentally unreliable negotiating partner and their approach to negotiating with the U.S. should reflect that.



Trump Orders Four Mile Military Parade for His 79th Birthday


President Donald Trump is making plans for a military parade in Washington, D.C., on his 79th birthday, according to a report.

A source in the capital told the Washington City Paperthat Trump has earmarked June 14—which is the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army—for the event.

The display of military might will march around four miles from the Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, to the White House, the D.C. source told the publication.

in reply to TheDeadlySquid

All the fucked up authoritarians did/do.

Kim Jong, Stalin, Mao, Mirziyoyev, Putin…now Trump.


in reply to FrankMaleir

Maybe this will at least get people to stop buying maga hats and flags now.


The world reacts to Trump's sweeping tariffs: 'No basis in logic'


Summary

Global leaders criticized Trump’s new tariffs, which range from 10% to 49%, warning of trade wars and economic fallout.

The UK and Italy urged negotiation, while Brazil passed a reciprocity bill. China and South Korea vowed countermeasures.

Australia and New Zealand rejected Trump’s logic, citing existing trade deals and low tariffs. Norfolk Island was baffled by a 29% duty despite having no exports.

Financial markets dropped, oil and bitcoin sank, and leaders warned of inflation. Analysts say Trump risks fracturing global trade with little to gain economically.

in reply to Sizing2673

For when your food grows up in so much squalor that you need to dip them in chlorine to fake the bacterial culture tests.


The First Victim of Trump’s Trade War: Michigan’s Economy


Paywall - archive.ph link here

Excerpt:


If President Trump’s trade war has a physical battleground, it is Michigan, where companies and workers are already feeling the beginning of an onslaught that could blow a hole in the state’s economy.

Nearly 20% of the economy is tied to the auto industry, which has become increasingly dependent on parts and vehicles from Canada, Mexico and China—imports Trump hit with steep tariffs in recent weeks. This trade has grown so large that Michigan ranks fifth in the nation by the size of its imports and exports, even though its total economy ranks 14th.

Detroit’s automotive executives have shifted into battle mode. They are stockpiling imported components, wrestling with suppliers over price increases and setting up war rooms to figure out how to cut costs.

Workers at the state’s biggest auto factories are tightening their belts, too, in case tariffs spark layoffs by causing a spike in vehicle prices and a drop in demand. Some early moves have added to their jitters. Hours after the latest tariffs took effect last week, Jeep parent Stellantis temporarily laid off about 900 workers in Michigan and Indiana who supply parts to factories in Canada and Mexico that the company idled at the same time.

One auto executive early last week darkly predicted “Chernobyl” if tariffs broadly hit imported parts, which they’re scheduled to do next month. Industry executives and analysts later said what the administration outlined Wednesday was worse than they expected.


https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-first-victim-of-trumps-trade-war-michigans-economy-ea6ff8b2

in reply to arotrios

They got themselves into this mess in 2008 by switching their entire fleet lineup to big trucks, and they did it again in 2025. I don't feel bad for companies that don't learn from their mistakes.
in reply to NocturnalMorning

Big rigs don't work in old EU or Asian cities that's why Chinese and Japanese brands sell because of practicality over attention.
in reply to NocturnalMorning

Well fun thing, no one who is at risk of getting laid off over this was involved in those decisions. The execs will be fine and people who didn't have a choice will pay the price.
in reply to HuntressHimbo

Im familiar, i used to work for one of the three auto companies in the engineering side.
in reply to arotrios

Why are these CEOS so Upset? They LITERALLY spent MILLIONS and BILLIONS of Dollars for these Honorable Tariffs!


salvinanza mattoide contro la sinistra che odia — vs adolescente pazzo nazista odiatore


So che ridere o lamentarmi di Salvini ormai è praticamente come sparare sulla Croce Rossa… ma non è colpa mia se lui si mette in condizione di dire cose (stavo per scrivere “o fare”, ma lui non fa mai niente, parla solo…) che vengono completamente ribaltate o smentite dall’universo nel giro di giorni! E stavolta […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…


salvinanza mattoide contro la sinistra che odia — vs adolescente pazzo nazista odiatore


So che ridere o lamentarmi di Salvini ormai è praticamente come sparare sulla Croce Rossa… ma non è colpa mia se lui si mette in condizione di dire cose (stavo per scrivere “o fare”, ma lui non fa mai niente, parla solo…) che vengono completamente ribaltate o smentite dall’universo nel giro di giorni! E stavolta è bella succosa… 😋
matteosalviniofficial: “La fine di Musk e Trump sarà violenta, il loroepilogo politico sarà nel SANGUE”. Ma vi sembranoparole normali? Considerando che il presidenteTrump è stato già colpito da due tentativi diassassinio, di cui uno quasi fatale, e le aziende diElon Musk sono oggetto di deplorevoli episodiquotidiani di vandalismo e violenza. Che vergogna!Viva il libero voto democratico del popoloamericano, alla faccia di questa sinistra che sa soloODIARE, ODIARE e ODIARE.Questo è cosa il signorotto ha scritto in un post di due giorni fa, dove cita (omettendo una o due parole) una frase pronunciata da Saviano in un video che lui stesso allega; per giunta, così facendo dimostrando o di non aver capito cosa Saviano volesse dire, o di averlo volutamente travisato per portare avanti la sua retorica inutile. (facebook.com/salviniofficial/p…)
Ahh signora mia, ma come dobbiamo fare con questa sinistra che sa solo odiare odiare e odiare? Ma vi sembrano parole normali signora Concetta? Visto che il povero self-made man Trump è già stato vittima di ben due tentativi di omicidio, poi… Che faccia tosta questo signor Saviano, per permettersi di ricordare che chi semina vento raccoglie tempesta, che chi sparge sangue perderà anche il proprio! 😤😤

Io voglio anche far finta che a Salvini, poveraccio, non sia mai arrivata nota del fatto che quei due sparatori non avevano niente a che fare con “la sinistra”, essendo il primo addirittura repubblicano registrato, e l’altro non si sa ma comunque non era sostenitore dei blu, mentre Saviano tutto ha detto in questo video tranne che parole di incitamento all’odio… Ma ora c’è una novità! 🤡

È notizia di poche ore fa infatti che, negli Stati Uniti, sia stato appena scoperto che un adolescente che ha ammazzato i genitori faceva parte di un gruppo neo-nazista dove, oltre ad esaltare Hitler, si pianificava (principalmente lui, a quanto pare, che avrebbe anche prodotto diversi scritti) di rovesciare l’attuale governo, passando giustamente per l’uccisione del Donaldo… 😳

Ma come?! Non era la sinistra che odia? In realtà quelli che odiano sono semplicemente scarti della società che si fanno abbindolare da movimenti politici estremisti che, nei casi in cui non sono ascrivibili a nessuna parte dello spettro politico, in realtà sono puntualmente assimilabili invece a quella destra ultra-estrema che non va avanti ad ideali veri, condivisibili o meno, ma semplicemente a violenza e convenienza personale? Ma tu pensa… 😓

Tutto è bene quel che finisce con un subumano nazista prossimamente incarcerato? Purtroppo, nonostante la realtà dei fatti sia questa, ho paura che gli esponenti della nostra destra — non estrema, ma nemmeno vera ed onesta, semplicemente stupida come la merda — continueranno a tenere gli occhi chiusi. E comunque, questo bimbo è stato anche molto cretino: il motivo per cui lo hanno sgamato è che ha smesso di andare a scuola dopo il duplice omicidio, quindi giustamente le autorità hanno iniziato a cercare i genitori, ed ecco qua. 🥱

#adolescente #assassinio #destra #Donald #hate #nazi #nazista #neonazi #neonazista #odio #omicidio #Salvini #teen #TheDonald #Trump #USA #USPOL




Palestinian teenager who died in Israeli prison showed signs of starvation, medical report says


Seventeen-year-old Walid Ahmad, who had been held for six months without being charged, suffered from extreme malnutrition, and also showed signs of inflammation of the colon and scabies, said a report written by Dr. Daniel Solomon, who watched the autopsy, conducted by Israeli experts, at the request of the boy’s family.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of Solomon’s report from the family. It did not conclude a cause of death, but said Ahmad was in a state of extreme weight loss and muscle wasting. It also noted that Ahmad had complained to the prison of inadequate food since at least December, citing reports from the prison medical clinic.

https://apnews.com/article/autopsy-palestinian-deaths-israeli-prisons-torture-starvation-0fcaaceb7420b684bb449f798434477b

in reply to HellsBelle

Palestinian teenager ~~who died in Israeli prison showed signs of starvation~~ starved to death by zio terrorists, medical report says


Imperial news up to its old tricks...

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in reply to technocrit

They didn't list a cause of death, so it could be the case that they just shot him to death after starving him for a while.

Not that that's better...


in reply to silence7

All these headlines make sure to mention how illegal it was and yet I'm never seeing anyone being arrested for breaking the law
in reply to silence7

The MSPB dismissals got me since the MAGA folks seem so obsessed with anything that they deem to be not based on merit. Obviously they lie, and this is great evidence of that.


The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too


Amazon’s recent decision to stop allowing people to download copies of their Kindle e-books to a computer has vindicated some of my longstanding beliefs about digital media. Specifically, that it doesn’t exist and you don’t own it unless you can copy and access it without being connected to the internet.

The recent move by the megacorp and its shiny-headed billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos is another large brick in the digital wall that tech companies have been building for years to separate consumers from the things they buy—or from their perspective, obtain “licenses” to. Starting Wednesday, Kindle users will no longer be able to download purchased books to a computer, where they can more easily be freed of DRM restrictions and copied to e-reader devices via USB. You can still send ebooks to other devices over WiFi for now, but the message the company is sending is one tech companies have been telegraphing for years: You don’t “own” anything digital, even if you paid us for it. The Kindle terms of service now say this, explicitly. “Kindle Content is licensed, not sold, to you,” meaning you don’t “buy a book,” you obtain a “digital content license.”

The situation brings to mind an interview I did over a decade ago, with the executive of a now-defunct streaming platform. He told me candidly that the goal of all this was to make digital media a “utility” like gas or electricity—a faucet that dispenses the world’s art as “content,” with tech companies in complete control of what goes in the tank and what comes out of it.

Hearing this was a real tin foil hat moment for me. For more than two decades, I’ve been what some might call a hoarder but what I’ve more affectionately dubbed a “digital packrat.” Which is to say I mostly avoid streaming services, I don’t trust any company or cloud with my digital media, and I store everything as files on devices that I physically control. My mp3 collection has been going strong since the Limewire days, I keep high-quality rips of all my movies on a local media server, and my preferred reading device holds a large collection of DRM-free ebooks and PDFs—everything from esoteric philosophy texts and scientific journals to scans of lesbian lifestyle magazines from the 1980s.

Sure, there are websites where you can find some of this material, like the Internet Archive. But this archive is mine. It’s my own little Library of Alexandria, built from external hard drives, OCD, and a strong distrust of corporations. I know I’m not the only one who has gone to these lengths. Sometimes when I’m feeling gloomy, I imagine how when society falls apart, we packrats will be the only ones in our village with all six seasons of The Sopranos. At the rate we’re going, that might not be too far off.

in reply to sugar_in_your_tea

How big of a library do you have? I have a goal of buying an HD tower plus 6 more HDD to host everything.
Yes, my physical library is pretty decent but my current digital one can fit on just a few external HDs. :/
in reply to miraclerandy

Something in the 100-200 range, so reasonably sizeable, but not huge. Most are DVDs, but we have a bunch of Bluray as well, and I've ripped them all.


China Displaces U.S. as Global Leader in Research - FPIF


The latest Nature Index rankings reveal an astonishing trend: nine of the world’s top 10 research institutions are now Chinese

To fully appreciate China’s meteoric rise, one must look back at the academic landscape a decade ago. When the Nature Index Global rankings were first released in 2014, only eight Chinese universities made it into the top 100. Today, that number has more than quintupled, with 42 Chinese institutions now ranking among the world’s best

One of the most notable policy shifts has been the move away from publication-based evaluation metrics. Previously, Chinese academics were incentivized to publish as many papers as possible, often at the expense of quality. However, recent reforms have introduced a more rigorous peer-review system that prioritizes impactful and innovative research over sheer volume. This shift has resulted in a significant improvement in the credibility and global influence of Chinese scientific output.

in reply to schizoidman

Please, oh please do or do not research in Chinese. I'm too old to give a flying fuck. But it would be hilarious if suddenly the world had to learn Chinese to be able to use the research results.
in reply to werefreeatlast

I'd like to learn Chinese (which one though?), but I'm afraid I never will. LLMs may help with translation, though.


Top Trump Official So Freaked Out by Tariffs, He Wants to Quit - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may be planning to cut and run


Summary:


Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent may be planning to cut and run after Donald Trump’s disastrous “reciprocal tariff” announcement earlier this week.

During an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Friday, contributor Stephanie Ruhle reported that the key Cabinet member is already looking for an escape hatch.

“My sources say that Scott Bessent is kind of the odd man out here and, in the inner circle that Trump has, he’s not even close to Scott Bessent or listening to him,” Ruhle said. “Some have said to me, he’s looking for an exit door to try to get himself to the Fed, because in the last few days he’s really hurting his own credibility and history in the markets.”

To be sure, Trump’s tariff policy represents a sort of defeat for Bessent, a former hedge fund manager who entered office under the delusion that he might actually succeed in stopping Trump from wrecking the economy. Should he flee the administration now, he would likely forfeit what little credibility remains.

Bessent warned other countries Wednesday not to make any rash decisions in reaction to Trump’s sweeping “retaliatory tariff” policy, which included a 10 percent baseline tariff on almost every country in the world.

“My advice to every country right now is: Do not retaliate. Sit back, take it in, let’s see how it goes. Because if you retaliate, there will be escalation. If you don’t retaliate, this is the high-water mark,” he warned.

Bessent’s warning came off particularly clueless given that democratically elected foreign leaders are likely beholden to their electorate, who won’t take lightly to Trump’s blatant bullying.

Ruhle’s sources told her Bessent must understand just how ridiculous Trump’s tariff policy is because he “actually understands how the markets work, and what’s happening right now is only going to hurt markets,” she said.

And it already has: The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq Composite experienced their single worst sessions since 2020 on Thursday. Bessent’s nomination had received strong Republican support because of his experience with financial markets.


in reply to arotrios

My advice to every bullying victim right now is: Do not retaliate. Sit back, take it in, let’s see how it goes. Because if you retaliate, there will be escalation.
in reply to Venus_Ziegenfalle

In this scenario, it may actually good advice - we don’t have one victim here. We have a bully that’s been successfull enough that he’s trying to bully the whole school. While he could never stand up to a united school, you can’t control whether all the victims will stand up.

However bullying everyone is unsustainable. Nobody has time for that. Any victim that stands up too tall will get the bully’s focused attention, while victims that kind of roll with it will be quickly forgotten about and ignored. The most important thing for the bully is to say “I win”, and it doesn’t hurt you for him to say that



Taiwan stocks plummet in biggest one-day drop on record after US tariffs


Taiwan stocks plummeted almost 10% on Monday, the biggest one-day percentage fall on record, in the first trading since U.S. tariffs were announced last week, with Taiwan's president taking to X to pledge a "golden age" of shared prosperity with the U.S.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/taiwan-stock-exchange-unveil-more-market-stabilisation-steps-if-needed-2025-04-07/

in reply to schizoidman

At least ... Trump identified Taiwan as a country.


What Eddy Burback got wrong about his phone... [Discussion of Fediverse as an alternative within]


cross-posted from: lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/pos…

Companion article here: blog.gardinerbryant.com/what-e…

in reply to AbnormalHumanBeing

I loved his video, but there were some pretty key actions that he could have done to reduce his phone usage, e.g., limiting/deleting his social media apps, reviewing/turning off his notifications, or setting Focus times to limit distractions during productive times of the day.

Fun experiment overall, but I wasn’t expecting any new revelations on attention spans from a comedian.

in reply to AbnormalHumanBeing

I think he made a good video but I couldn't stop thinking about this new "anti-consumerism consumerism". So many "I needed my phone to do x, so I bought this to do that." Even without the immediate ability to buy anything anywhere he is fundamentally locked into this mindset of "I need so I buy".

Could have used parental controls(like so many "adults" need to have their friends set on their phone) and locked your phone as only a phone. Delete every app that isn't essential. You can make your phone useless when you're bored, you can pick it up but nothing will be there to give you "relief". No distractions, no ability to install distractions. Your phone is yours, you can have it do whatever you want. I guess some people are just so addicted they can't even be near it. They're like people that stop smoking just to get addicted to vaping. Still addicted, just not to the old dirty style of getting your fix.