La notte dei biplani
Metti insieme un po' di neuralink, un po' di Firefox volpe di fuoco e un buon 5% del pil e viene fuori un bel prodottino veramente utile al genere umano.
Che poi, uomini. Mica erano uomini quelli. Ragazzi? Bambini spaventati. Con il cavo del BOT che gli spenzolava dal collo e le mani che non riuscivano a star ferme per via dei tremori.
"Non bevete l'Absynx", ci dicevano," una droga, vi fa male, vi distrugge il cervello". Ah si, certo. Perché il BOT, invece? Cosa combina al cervello? Quando siamo collegati tutti insieme, noi del carro, io sento i loro pensieri, entro nei loro corpi,e vedo. Vedo. E poi a cosa vi servono i nostri cervelli in fondo?
Volete che sopravviviamo per uccidere e farci uccidere.》
Freddo.
Ci avete mandato in battaglia. Contro il nemico? No. In Irlanda. Ma che ci avevano fatto gli irlandesi? Parlano la nostra lingua, sono proprio come noi."Non importa", dicevate, "dovete fare il vostro dovere e basta". Così l'abbiamo fatto. Ci siamo trasformati in un mostro ircocervo con cento gambe, cento braccia, dita di mitragliatrice e naso di cannone. Abbia-
mo sparato. E sapete una cosa?È stato bello. Bello, si, perché quando diventi un mostro, l'orrore è meraviglia.)
Non vedeva più niente, non sentiva niente. Era scivolato in una valle d'ombra da cui non c'era ritorno.
Poi ci avete mandato al fronte, dove c'erano i nemici veri, dove ci saremmo fatti onore. Invece ho visto solo trincee fangose, uomini pieni di pidocchi, sguardi tristi, filo spinato. E il nemico? Altre trincee, pidocchi, sguardi, filo spinato. Proprio come noi, anche quelli li. E io tremavo ormai, bevevo, avevo freddo, e Faulkner ci è morto a cena, stavamo mangiando e lui ha gridato ed è piombato a faccia in giù nella scodella del brodo, stava male già da tempo, perdeva sempre sangue dal naso."Pazienza", avete detto,"ve ne manderemo un altro".
"Domani ci sarà battaglia?", ho chiesto io."Ma certo Maddox
Economy under threat this year as hundreds of thousands of people leave U.S.
Economy under threat this year as hundreds of thousands of people leave U.S.
With the U.S. expected to have a population exodus of hundreds of thousands of people, at least 500k individuals, the stability of the economy is on the line.Alexangel Ventura (The Daily Drop)
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Visio mensuelle XR Auxerre
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Le groupe local d'Extinction Rébellion d'Auxerre se retrouve une fois par mois en présentiel et une fois par mois en visio pour une plus grande accessibilité à toustes sur notre territoire rural.
🖥️ Prochaine rencontre en visio : lundi 4 aout à 20h.
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Au programme : Accueil, retour sur les actions passées et projets en cours.
Si vous voulez rejoindre XR dans l'Yonne, vous êtes les bienvenu·e·s à cette visio.
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'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor
'Universal cancer vaccine' trains the immune system to kill any tumor
Following on from a breakthrough human trial that reprogrammed the immune system to overpower an aggressive brain tumor, scientists have now used the same mRNA tech to attack any cancer. It could make chemotherapy, surgery and radiation redundant.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
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Vehicle drives into Los Angeles crowd injuring 30 people
A vehicle drove into a busy crowd of people waiting to get into a nightclub in Los Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people, with at least five in critical condition.
The incident took place on Santa Monica Boulevard, the city’s fire department said, and people were quickly transported to local hospitals and trauma centers.
According to Cpt Adam VanGerpen, the public information officer for the LA fire department, the line of people struck by the vehicle, a Nissan Versa, were mostly female, and were waiting to get into the nightclub when the car also hit a taco truck and a nearby valet stand.
Vehicle drives into Hollywood crowd injuring more than 20
Los Angeles fire department says up to five people are in critical condition after incident on Santa Monica BoulevardGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
👋🏼 Bonjour à toustes,
Le groupe local d'Extinction Rébellion d'Auxerre se retrouve une fois par mois en présentiel et une fois par mois en visio pour une plus grande accessibilité à toustes sur notre territoire.
🗣️ Prochaine rencontre en présentiel : vendredi 25 juillet à 20h00.
📧 Écrivez nous pour vous inscrire : auxerre@extinctionrebellion.fr
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🍻 N'hésitez pas à venir avec quelque chose à boire, à manger, à partager...
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Timelapse of Texas flooding shows the breathtaking power of nature
Timelapse of Texas flooding shows the breathtaking power of nature
Instance PeerTube généraliste francophone. General French-speaking PeerTube instance.Mes Numériques
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qbittorrent has a ton of unofficial search plugins wow
Unofficial search plugins
Search plugins for the search feature. Contribute to qbittorrent/search-plugins development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m of contraceptives for women overseas
The Trump administration has decided to destroy $9.7m worth of contraceptives rather than send them abroad to women in need.
A state department spokesperson confirmed that the decision had been made – a move that will cost US taxpayers $167,000. The contraceptives are primarily long-acting, such as IUDs and birth control implants, and were almost certainly intended for women in Africa, according to two senior congressional aides, one of whom visited a warehouse in Belgium that housed the contraceptives. It is not clear to the aides whether the destruction has already been carried out, but said they had been told that it was set to occur by the end of July.
Trump administration to destroy nearly $10m of contraceptives for women overseas
As part of president’s shuttering of USAID, destruction of the contraceptives will cost US taxpayers $167,000Carter Sherman (The Guardian)
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DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch
DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch
DuckDuckGo's new search feature comes as the internet is being flooded with AI-generated slop.Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)
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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
Who are these people? This is ridiculous. 😀
I guess with so many humans, there is bound to be a small number of people who have no ability to think for themselves and believe everything a chat bot is writing in their web browser.
People even have romantic relationships with these things.
People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into "ChatGPT Psychosis"
People experiencing "ChatGPT psychosis" are being involuntarily committed to mental hospitals and jailed following AI mental health crises.Maggie Harrison Dupré (Futurism)
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I use chatGPT to kind of organize and sift through some of my own thoughts. It’s helpful if you are working on something and need to inject a simple “what if” into the thought process. It’s honestly great and has at times pointed out things I completely overlooked.
But it also has a weird tendency to just agree with everything I saw just to keep engagement up. So even after I’m done, I’m still researching and challenging things anyway because it want me to be its friend. It’s very strange.
It’s a helpful tool but it’s not magical and honestly if it disappeared today I would be fine just going back to the before times.
Netflix’s first show with generative AI is a sign of what’s to come in TV, film
Netflix used generative AI in an original, scripted series that debuted this year, it revealed this week. Producers used the technology to create a scene in which a building collapses, hinting at the growing use of generative AI in entertainment.During a call with investors yesterday, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos revealed that Netflix's Argentine show The Eternaut, which premiered in April, is "the very first GenAI final footage to appear on screen in a Netflix, Inc. original series or film.” Sarandos further explained, per a transcript of the call, saying:
The creators wanted to show a building collapsing in Buenos Aires. So our iLine team, [which is the production innovation group inside the visual effects house at Netflix effects studio Scanline], partnered with their creative team using AI-powered tools. ... And in fact, that VFX sequence was completed 10 times faster than it could have been completed with visual, traditional VFX tools and workflows. And, also, the cost of it would just not have been feasible for a show in that budget.Sarandos claimed that viewers have been "thrilled with the results"; although that likely has much to do with how the rest of the series, based on a comic, plays out, not just one, AI-crafted scene.
Netflix’s first show with generative AI is a sign of what’s to come in TV, film
The Eternaut debuted on Netflix with a generative AI-assisted scene.Scharon Harding (Ars Technica)
Zohran Mamdani and the “Black Vote”
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33391116
Mychal Denzel Smith
July 18 2025, 2:30 p.m.
Last month’s results in some 15 percent of voting precincts with majority-Black populations, though, don’t tell the whole story. Rather than being a race about a mythically monolithic “Black vote,” Mamdani’s campaign could show us a different side of politics in New York — one that speaks to Black voters based on their material needs.Staying on message about affordability was Mamdani’s route to victory in the primary, and it could hold the key in the general, too. If he can win over some Black voters — rather than the “Black vote” — he may yet again shock political observers and land himself in the mayor’s office. His foes, however, are already seizing on his primary performance.
Zohran Mamdani and the “Black Vote”
Mychal Denzel Smith
July 18 2025, 2:30 p.m.Last month’s results in some 15 percent of voting precincts with majority-Black populations, though, don’t tell the whole story. Rather than being a race about a mythically monolithic “Black vote,” Mamdani’s campaign could show us a different side of politics in New York — one that speaks to Black voters based on their material needs.Staying on message about affordability was Mamdani’s route to victory in the primary, and it could hold the key in the general, too. If he can win over some Black voters — rather than the “Black vote” — he may yet again shock political observers and land himself in the mayor’s office. His foes, however, are already seizing on his primary performance.
Zohran Mamdani and the “Black Vote”
Mamdani struggled against Andrew Cuomo to win the "Black vote" — but his lackluster performance may not tell the whole story.Mychal Denzel Smith (The Intercept)
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Still not a genocide. There is no war where women, children, and other civilians don’t end up getting killed.
Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq
Also, a lot of people seem to think that this started in Feb. of 2022 when it really started eight years before.
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: 'I want to bring up a warrior': Ukraine's far-right children's camp – video
- Washington Post, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- openDemocracy, 2019: Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences
- Kyiv Post, 2019: United Nations: 13,000 killed, 30,000 injured in Donbas since 2014
- Al Jazeera, 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
- New York Times, 2024: U.N. Court to Rule on Whether Ukraine Committed Genocide
Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?
The suspensions have more to do with political polarisation than genuine security concerns related to the invasion.Volodymyr Ishchenko (Al Jazeera)
How A False Flag Massacre Led To The Proxy War In Ukraine
New research proves that the "Maidan Massacre" used to justify the 2014 coup in Ukraine was a false flag.The Dissident
That’s the referendum with 89% voter turnout where 97% voted to leave Ukraine?
Those are almost unbelievable numbers.
Getting 89% of people to do anything with 97% of those agreeing is impressive.
Even with the least controversial opinions there will be 20-25% who typically disagree.
Go look at numbers for anywhere outside of the North Atlantic Euro-American imperial core and you'll find that overwhelming majorities are commonplace.
For example, Harvard conducted a 15-year study of Chinese citizens living in China and found that 95.5% of them supported their national government and believed it was working in their best interests.
So they say, but there are Nazis fighting for Russia. Wagner group, named after Richard Wagner whose music Hitler was fond of. One of their founders and leaders was openly a Nazi. Rusich group also operates within Wagner and their leader is even more of a Nazi.
The links between the Russian state and right-wing extremist groups are numerous. But it seems to me in general that ultranationalist/fascist groups have stronger support in former Soviet states than elsewhere. Russia and Ukraine are no exception.
We're not selling weapons to russia for genocide.
There's a lot of people who have a problem with russia but dearly love everything netanyahu is doing.
Zohran Mamdani and the “Black Vote”
Mychal Denzel Smith
July 18 2025, 2:30 p.m.
Last month’s results in some 15 percent of voting precincts with majority-Black populations, though, don’t tell the whole story. Rather than being a race about a mythically monolithic “Black vote,” Mamdani’s campaign could show us a different side of politics in New York — one that speaks to Black voters based on their material needs.Staying on message about affordability was Mamdani’s route to victory in the primary, and it could hold the key in the general, too. If he can win over some Black voters — rather than the “Black vote” — he may yet again shock political observers and land himself in the mayor’s office. His foes, however, are already seizing on his primary performance.
Zohran Mamdani and the “Black Vote”
Mamdani struggled against Andrew Cuomo to win the "Black vote" — but his lackluster performance may not tell the whole story.Mychal Denzel Smith (The Intercept)
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Russia says Ukraine lost more than 1,195 soldiers in special operation area over past day
Russia says Ukraine lost more than 1,195 soldiers in special operation area over past day
Units of the battlegroup Deipro struck formations of Ukrainian mechanized and mountain assault brigades and two territorial defense brigades in the areas of the towns of Malaya Tokmachka and Novoandreyevka in the Zaporozhye Region and Antonovka and P…TASS
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Russia’s Battlefield Woes in Ukraine
Russia has performed poorly on the battlefield in Ukraine and will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark in the summer of 2025. New CSIS data details Russia's slow rate of advance, heavy losses of equipment, and significant casualties.Center for Strategic and International Studies
The Russian Armed Forces carried out the largest attack on the strategic hub of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Pavlograd
The Russian Armed Forces carried out the largest attack on the strategic hub of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Pavlograd — Guardian: EADaily
EADaily, July 19th, 2025. The Russian Armed Forces launched today the largest attack in history on the city of Pavlograd as part of massive strikes throughout Ukraine using hundreds of kamikaze drones and ballistic missiles.EADaily
Yemen Government Seized Large Drone And Missile Shipment En Route To Houthis (Video)
Yemen Government Seized Large Drone And Missile Shipment En Route To Houthis (Video)
A force allied to Yemen’s internationally-recognized government announced on July 16 that it had seized 750 tons of weapons and...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33390661
Sammy Gecsoyler
Sat 19 Jul 2025 14.41 EDT
Demonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend Our Juries.In London’s Parliament Square, beside the Mahatma Gandhi statue, police officers surrounded people at an event at which signs were held that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.
A woman who was detained in Parliament Square said: “We demand that #Palestine Action is de-proscribed.
“Our government is not only arming a genocide, they are using terrorism laws to silence people who speak out."
More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Sammy Gecsoyler
Sat 19 Jul 2025 14.41 EDTDemonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend Our Juries.In London’s Parliament Square, beside the Mahatma Gandhi statue, police officers surrounded people at an event at which signs were held that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.
A woman who was detained in Parliament Square said: “We demand that #Palestine Action is de-proscribed.
“Our government is not only arming a genocide, they are using terrorism laws to silence people who speak out."
At least 60 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain dozens of people and confiscate placards under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000Sammy Gecsoyler (The Guardian)
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Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.
During my kid’s surgery, I was denied a copy of my consent form — then sent to a ghost office – The Markup
Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.themarkup.org
More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
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Sammy Gecsoyler
Sat 19 Jul 2025 14.41 EDT
Demonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend Our Juries.In London’s Parliament Square, beside the Mahatma Gandhi statue, police officers surrounded people at an event at which signs were held that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.
A woman who was detained in Parliament Square said: “We demand that #Palestine Action is de-proscribed.
“Our government is not only arming a genocide, they are using terrorism laws to silence people who speak out."
More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Sammy Gecsoyler
Sat 19 Jul 2025 14.41 EDTDemonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend Our Juries.In London’s Parliament Square, beside the Mahatma Gandhi statue, police officers surrounded people at an event at which signs were held that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.
A woman who was detained in Parliament Square said: “We demand that #Palestine Action is de-proscribed.
“Our government is not only arming a genocide, they are using terrorism laws to silence people who speak out."
At least 60 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain dozens of people and confiscate placards under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000Sammy Gecsoyler (The Guardian)
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More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33390661
Sammy Gecsoyler
Sat 19 Jul 2025 14.41 EDT
Demonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend Our Juries.In London’s Parliament Square, beside the Mahatma Gandhi statue, police officers surrounded people at an event at which signs were held that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.
A woman who was detained in Parliament Square said: “We demand that #Palestine Action is de-proscribed.
“Our government is not only arming a genocide, they are using terrorism laws to silence people who speak out."
More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Sammy Gecsoyler
Sat 19 Jul 2025 14.41 EDTDemonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend Our Juries.In London’s Parliament Square, beside the Mahatma Gandhi statue, police officers surrounded people at an event at which signs were held that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.
A woman who was detained in Parliament Square said: “We demand that #Palestine Action is de-proscribed.
“Our government is not only arming a genocide, they are using terrorism laws to silence people who speak out."
At least 60 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain dozens of people and confiscate placards under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000Sammy Gecsoyler (The Guardian)
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More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Sammy Gecsoyler
Sat 19 Jul 2025 14.41 EDT
Demonstrations were held in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol and Truro on Saturday as part of a campaign coordinated by Defend Our Juries.In London’s Parliament Square, beside the Mahatma Gandhi statue, police officers surrounded people at an event at which signs were held that read “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”.
A woman who was detained in Parliament Square said: “We demand that #Palestine Action is de-proscribed.
“Our government is not only arming a genocide, they are using terrorism laws to silence people who speak out."
At least 60 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action
Police in London detain dozens of people and confiscate placards under Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000Sammy Gecsoyler (The Guardian)
Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.
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Help us understand the challenges patients face opting out of voluntary uses of their data, or getting access to their records.themarkup.org
Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org: The Matrix.org network has great potential, but after years of dealing with glitches, slow performance, poor UX, and one too many failures, I’m done with it.
- Hackernews.
> After five years of using Matrix.org/Element as my primary communication platform, and rooting for it, and promoting it, and enduring its many quirks, I’ve decided to move on (or rather back). Despite promising ideals and growing institutional adoption, the network remains slow, unreliable, and confusing for everyday users. Development feels directionless, client and server projects are fragmented, and the user experience still lags far behind my expectations. A recent incident that essentially broke my own community channel on the Matrix.org homeserver was the final straw: I’m heading back to XMPP.
Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org
The _Matrix.org_ network has great potential, but after years of dealing with glitches, slow performance, poor UX, and one too many failures, I'm done with it.マリウス
Health experts raise alarm over RFK Jr’s ‘war on science’ amid mass firings and budget cuts
The Trump administration’s “war on science” appears to have entered a new phase in the aftermath of a recent supreme court decision that empowered health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a prominent vaccine sceptic, and other agency leaders, to implement mass firings – effectively greenlighting the politicization of science.
The decision comes as Kennedy abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting of a key health care advisory panel, the US Preventive Services Task Force, earlier this month. That, combined with his recent removal of a panel of more than a dozen vaccine advisers, signals that his dismantling of the science-based policymaking at HHS is likely far from over.
“The current administration is waging a war on science,” warned Celine Gounder, a professor of medicine and an infectious disease expert at New York University in a keynote talk in May to graduates of Harvard’s School of Public Health.
Health experts raise alarm over RFK Jr’s ‘war on science’ amid mass firings and budget cuts
Experts warn that the dangerous ideologically driven cuts at HHS will have long-term consequences for healthcarePeter Stone (The Guardian)
Ukraine proposes new round of peace talks with Russia next week
Kyiv has proposed to Moscow a new round of peace talks next week, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, after negotiations stalled in early June.
Two rounds of talks in Istanbul between Moscow and Kyiv failed to result in any progress towards a ceasefire, instead yielding large-scale prisoner exchanges and deals to return the bodies of killed soldiers.
“Security Council secretary [Rustem] Umerov also reported that he had proposed the next meeting with the Russian side for next week,” Zelenskyy said in his evening address to the country.
Ukraine proposes new round of peace talks with Russia next week
Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterates willingness to meet the Russian president Vladimir Putin face to faceGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
and deals to return the bodies of killed soldiers.
Did Ukraine eventually retrived those bodies? At first they refused to.
One dead, six injured in Russian drone attack on Ukraine's Odesa
July 19 (Reuters) - Russian forces staged a mass drone attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa early on Saturday, setting ablaze at least one multi-storey apartment building and killing one resident, authorities said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the attack on Odesa injured six people, including a child.
https://www.reuters.com/world/one-dead-six-injured-russian-drone-attack-ukraines-odesa-2025-07-18/
At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food
At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food
Witnesses say scenes near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs in the south of the territory resembled a massacreDonna Ferguson (The Guardian)
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in case you (the reader) weren’t aware, the amount of Palestinians shot dead by the IDF while waiting for food has surpassed the amount of israelis who died on October 7th
think about this the next time someone’s like "but what about Hamas!!!!!"
At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food
At least 32 people were killed and more than 100 injured on Saturday morning when Israeli troops opened fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking food from two aid distribution hubs in southern Gaza, according to witnesses and hospital officials.
People on the scene described it as “a massacre”, and claimed Israel Defense Forces fired “indiscriminately” at the groups of Palestinians – reported to be mostly young men – who were making their way towards the hubs run by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
Most of the deaths, which civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmud Bassal attributed to “Israeli gunfire”, occurred in the Teina area, about two miles from a GHF aid distribution centre east of Khan Younis.
At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food
Witnesses say scenes near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs in the south of the territory resembled a massacreDonna Ferguson (The Guardian)
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in reply to WanderWisley • • •StinkyFingerItchyBum
in reply to mad_lentil • • •🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Doctors should put billionaires into involuntary commitment in psych wards.
that level of greed is a serious immediate danger to everyone.
mrductape
in reply to WanderWisley • • •The ratings would not be through the roof. Although they might be richt people, they are still people. Naturally people are social creatures who don't like to see other humans suffer greatly.
Yes, people are cruel, but seeing people dieing and suffering is not something most people will willingly seek out unless they are already depressed or traumatized.
I certainly won't be watching. Now just taking their money, leaving them enough to still live a life and then improving the world, I would be watching that.
But I really do not understand why people hate rich people so much. Yes, Bozos is an asshole for exploiting employees and treating them really bad, but that is about his actions and everything that flows from that. His money alone would not make me hate him.
🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to mrductape • • •those people are actively destroying the very planet we live on, and causing untold human suffering in the process so they can own more yatchs that they can conceivably enjoy.
every child that dies of hunger, every sick man who dies due to unaffordable healthcare, every person who worked themselves to an early grave for them to live in misery, all so those ghouls can suck more and more.
then being put in a molten lead tub is barely a tiny fraction of the cumulative amount of suffering they have caused.
Gyroplast
in reply to 🍉 Albert 🍉 • • •The argument is not how one gruesome, cruel, sociopathic behavior outweighs the other, but being opposed to extremely anti-social behavior in general. Nobody wins the cruelty olympics.
Frankly, even the idea of "it is ethical, enjoyable, or just tolerable to cruelly hurt X in any way, because they are objectively worse than whatever I can think of" should be fundamentally repulsive to anyone, more so when attempting to take any moral high ground.
It's too close for (my) comfort to normalizing suffering as somehow deserved by anyone, which is how "the other side" likes to argue how exploitation is totally fine. "Everyone else would do it, too, I'm just faster or better at it than them." - "If they weren't subhuman, worthless losers, they could hold a job in my orphan blending factory, and just not be homeless or pay for medication". These are examples of an anti-social mindset. Honestly wishing, not just out of righteous, powerless anger, another conscious being cruel harm for any reason is a very slippery slope towards that mindset. I try to fight this urge.
I follow the argument insofar that "they" caused unfathomable suffering in multitudes. I would really prefer if the reaction to this wouldn't be the prevalent "I want to see them hurt in (un)kind, because they deserve it", but rather "how can such people be effectively discouraged from ever wanting to become a scourge to society", while still accepting that universal human rights are still universal.
Of course this is much more complicated than "just take the money, and shove it elsewhere", and quite possibly not even achievable within the time we have left, and coming from societies as they currently are. Without that little quantum of optimism, hope, and belief in a fundamentally sociable human nature, though, I don't see much in our future than eventual, total destruction, one way or the other.
TL;DR:
Yeah, molten lead isn't even close to the cruelty inflicted by those doused with it. But why are we one-upping each other in cruelty, again? What's the point?
🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to Gyroplast • • •the same way that it's unethical to chop people's body parts, but it is if said body part of a tumour.
it's best just to end the system that creates them. however, they are fighting tooth and nail to maintain it.
Bunbury
in reply to mrductape • • •Rekorse
in reply to mrductape • • •dylanmorgan
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Uh, I have some notes. First, lead is toxic-can it be a giant blender instead?
Okay, that was my only note, actually.
WanderWisley
in reply to dylanmorgan • • •Rekorse
in reply to dylanmorgan • • •ObjectivityIncarnate
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Assuming you could wave a magic wand and convert their net worth straight into cash 1:1 (you can't), you couldn't even do the last thing on that list, much less all the others:
Assuming in the US, using 2023 figures:
Too many people have been deluded into believing that 'the billionaires' are capable of easily solving all societal ills if only they gave away their wealth, and aren't they such assholes for keeping their wealth and not solving them?
Most people are not nearly aware of the actual costs of these things.
U.S. Billionaires Now Worth a Record $5.2 Trillion - Americans For Tax Fairness
Americans for Tax FairnessThalion
in reply to ObjectivityIncarnate • • •Yoddel_Hickory
in reply to ObjectivityIncarnate • • •Sandouq_Dyatha
in reply to Yoddel_Hickory • • •and a lot of developing countries, Algeria which had a literacy rate of 3% had universal healthcare in the 70s, 10 years of not being a settler colony
Samsuma
in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • • •Libya too before 2011 (except the literacy rate was recorded to be 89 to 99% at one point)!
not to mention the fact that that the "developed" countries depend heavily on the exploitation of the Global South to provide free/universal healthcare, yes European reader reading this, this includes Finland and no Poland isn't excluded either.
Sandouq_Dyatha
in reply to Samsuma • • •Samsuma
in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • • •of course they did, anything so much as hints at providing welfare services that isn't born out of imperialism is a threat to their imperialism... so they needed to make an example out of Libyans by turning it into a sex slave trading hub.
يلعن شكلهم
𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥
in reply to Samsuma • • •والله صح الله يلعن أمريكا وأوروبا، دمروا نصف العالم لمال
Sandouq_Dyatha
in reply to 𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥 • • •𝔽𝕩𝕠𝕞𝕥
in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • • •ما قرئت اسمك من قبل ههههههه
Samsuma
in reply to Sandouq_Dyatha • • •Grapho
in reply to ObjectivityIncarnate • • •4.9 trillion assuming you're paying everything through the corrupt, extortionate gringo system.
Actually civilized countries like China and Cuba manage to give universal healthcare to their citizens at a much, much cheaper cost per capita, and without the horrible deficiencies of US healthcare, all under international embargo in the case of Cuba.
Also, really convenient how y'all bootlickers are all about passive income but you pretend assets are going to become cash and nothing else, not to mention the fact that the government can literally print dollars and keep the currency stable as long as industrial output and taxation is well managed.
ObjectivityIncarnate
in reply to Grapho • • •lol
skisnow
in reply to ObjectivityIncarnate • • •Guess why that number is so much higher per capita, than it is in countries with universal healthcare.
Also, spending their money isn't the only benefit to boiling them in lead. You also get the benefit of them not using that money to corrupt democracy, or fund propaganda designed to turn the working class against itself.
gandalf_der_12te
in reply to ObjectivityIncarnate • • •That would be $12K /person /year.
That's a lot. That really shows the inefficiency of the US healthcare system, not the inevitable cost of healthcare.
HiddenLayer555
in reply to WanderWisley • • •🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to HiddenLayer555 • • •obelix
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Grapho
in reply to obelix • • •Typical lack of logic from billionaire haters. You get shit too hot, you release horrible gassed and the cleanup would be terribly tedious.
You need to submerge them in boiling piss.
blockheadjt
in reply to Grapho • • •Rekorse
in reply to blockheadjt • • •🍉 Albert 🍉
in reply to obelix • • •Siresly
in reply to WanderWisley • • •https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmmbBo8RYoE
plyth
in reply to WanderWisley • • •teagrrl
in reply to WanderWisley • • •PartyAt15thAndSummit
in reply to WanderWisley • • •WanderWisley
in reply to PartyAt15thAndSummit • • •SabinStargem
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Crassus is a model we wish all billionaires aspire to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR7VDPUj5AE
Mangoholic
in reply to WanderWisley • • •Good enough for me.