Contact Restored with Gaza-Bound Aid Ship Handala Amid Fears of Israeli Attack
Contact Restored with Gaza-Bound Aid Ship Handala Amid Fears of Israeli Attack - Palestine Chronicle
Communications were restored early on Friday with the Handala, an aid vessel heading for Gaza, after a two-hour interruption.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
Philippines top court blocks impeachment bid against Sara Duterte
Philippine court strikes down landmark impeachment bid against Sara Duterte
Duterte faced impeachment over accusations of misusing public funds and threatening to kill the President.Joel Guinto and Koh Ewe (BBC News)
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test
“This step is necessary to prove I’m not a bot,” wrote the bot as it passed an anti-AI screening step.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
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Oh. Well, I was worried for a bit but you've put my heart at ease.
Now that we've made our problems go away by redefining them, I'm ready to tackle ~~cancer~~, a natural body resource management issue.
[and assuming parent comment is also in spite of ~~Poe's Law~~ Nathan's astute online parody observations]
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1. Google's "anti bot" verification has long been considered woefully inadequate.
2. It works largely by tracking how long the user takes to click on it.
3. LLMs are inherently fuzzy and for a bot, incredibly slow.
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Ah yes, cloudflare's captcha that just tracks how many hits you've done in a timeframe on a site recently.
Same shit different pile.
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From the screenshot in the article, the bot is bypassing Cloudflare's Turnstile which is not just tracking hits.
I work in bot detection. You and anyone else reading this should understand that, behind the scenes, proof-of-work, proof-of-space, and other tests are being run to verify if the device is what it says it is. Typically, a bot is run with a tool like Playwright or Puppeteer. These frameworks are detectable with the right tests. Bots will also attempt to spoof another device's fingerprints to blend in. These changes are also detectable if you know what to test for.
We implement tools like Turnstile and other CAPTCHAless CAPTCHA because bots are pretty good at passing CAPTCHA while humans, rightfully, hate verifying they they're human. Humans also struggle at passing CAPTCHA.
The general population has zero idea the massive volume of bot traffic that is being generated right now. These tools are implemented for a reason. So the fact that a bot just breezes past this test is a problem for us all.
Definitely not "same shit different pile", friend.
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Thanks for the write up, but I was blocked from logging in on a cloudflare website because I opened too many windows once and their tracking cookie flagged that browser as a bot.
Meanwhile the bot I built to track mod updates to my modlist for Rimworld and Mw5 on nexus? Never ran into any issues.
So when I refer to Cloudflare's bot detection as shit, that is a highly personal and professional opinion.
No problem, thanks for reading. I don't work for Cloudflare, but I worry it's a little too easy to call something shit when you don't fully understand it.
There are numerous factors at play here even outside of frameworks and browsers. I haven't worked with Cloudflare's tools but where I work we allow each customer to fine tune detections. One site's detections might be too aggressive for another site. Believe it or not, some customers are ok with bot traffic so long as it's not overly aggressive. That said, detections can trigger based on behavior, such as high volumes of requests, as well as IP reputation.
Even with the bypasses that are available, or instances when you are able to use a bot and not be challenged, it doesn't diminish how well these tools work. There are reasons people are implementing these types of antibot solutions across the web.
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Could you please enlighten me on one small point:
When it asks you to click all the squares with a motorcycle, etc., does it expect you to include the squares with just a tiny part of the motorcycle or rider, or does it just want you to select the main squares?
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The CAPTCHA is question is Cloudflare Turnstile, which slowly ramps up a different assortment of invisible challenges while not tracking your mouse movement or cross-site activity.
If a bot can find all images with crosswalks in grainy photos faster than we can, surely it can check a box as well. Bots definitely can check a box, and they can even mimic the erratic path of human mouse movement while doing so. For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser.
Probably because it accessed it through a user's browser/connection which until that point hadn't been flagged as a bot and had consistently shown signs of human use.
I'm sure if you set up a bot farm with this your connections would be flagged very quickly.
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Am I? Or does it think I'm a bot?
I guess it's on brand for Google to try and squeeze more value out of a product by making it worse for users. Just like Prabhakar Raghavan ruined Google search.
Wow, agents built to monitor and reflect human behaviour, accurately model and reproduce human behaviour.
This is what is what shits me off when people complain "Oh this AI isn't real AI" or "This isn't consciousness" The limiting factor is is the training data. Humans have just had a few more million years of training data passed on through genetics. It's replication and fakery all the way down. If this is you, if you fucking need the reassurance that you are better at being fucking conscious compare to a machine fuck the fuck right off and go do something amazing with it then. Compose something. Create something. Feel the wind in your hair and the sand at your feet. Fuck off, we're all dirt.
Canadian Separatist says he discussed Alberta becoming 51st state with Trump administration officials
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Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist Claims - DeSmog
Private details from a Washington D.C., meeting about Alberta becoming the 51st state were revealed at a separatism event attended by DeSmog.David Falk (DeSmog)
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High treason46 (1) Every one commits high treason who, in Canada,
(a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her;
(b) levies war against Canada or does any act preparatory thereto; or
(c) assists an enemy at war with Canada, or any armed forces against whom Canadian Forces are engaged in hostilities, whether or not a state of war exists between Canada and the country whose forces they are.
Treason
(2) Every one commits treason who, in Canada,
(a) uses force or violence for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Canada or a province;
(b) without lawful authority, communicates or makes available to an agent of a state other than Canada, military or scientific information or any sketch, plan, model, article, note or document of a military or scientific character that he knows or ought to know may be used by that state for a purpose prejudicial to the safety or defence of Canada;
(c) conspires with any person to commit high treason or to do anything mentioned in paragraph (a);
(d) forms an intention to do anything that is high treason or that is mentioned in paragraph (a) and manifests that intention by an overt act; or
(e) conspires with any person to do anything mentioned in paragraph (b) or forms an intention to do anything mentioned in paragraph (b) and manifests that intention by an overt act.
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(a) kills or attempts to kill Her Majesty, or does her any bodily harm tending to death or destruction, maims or wounds her, or imprisons or restrains her;
So Charles is fair game?
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Does Any Province of Canada Have A Right To Separate? - William Gairdner
Here is a reply I wrote to a gentleman who informed me with a scary intensity that the Province of Alberta is once again thinking about separating from the Canadian Federation.William Gairdner
So... not treason?
Whatever the legal definition, this guy should go straight to Yale
How is this not treason? Are you American?
I ask because even the most left leaning of you all keep making light of this shit and it's actually driving me crazy. I have American coworkers making 51st state jokes and it's actually making me hate all of you
This is fucking terrifying.
We need to deal with these people yesterday.
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Has any of this been verified?
“We talked about a $500 million transition loan that we would only draw down on as necessary as we work with the U.S. to transition from a province to a country,” said Modry. He also claimed that they discussed a plan to prop up Alberta’s currency where “the U.S. agrees to take every Alberta citizen’s Canadian dollar and then exchange it for one U.S. dollar.”“Alberta, of course, can provide energy security,” he said. “It can also provide water security, agricultural security, forestry security, metal security, coal security, plus an industrious workforce. So there is tremendous benefit to the U.S., to work with us.”
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Wonder how much Danielle was getting paid? Time to drain the UCP swamp Alberta.
I say this as an Albertan.
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The Netherlands to impose travel ban on Israeli ministers over Gaza
The Netherlands to impose travel ban against Israeli ministers and summon ambassador over Gaza
The ban targets two far-right Israeli ministers in support of the Israeli settlers' movement, the continuation of the war, and the "voluntary emigration" of Palestinians.Euronews.com
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France’s top court annuls arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad
France’s top court annuls arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad
Judges rule document invalid as former Syrian leader had immunity as head of stateKim Willsher (The Guardian)
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Splurge for me, conserve for thee.
Same with water in CA. Industry uses >80% of water in the state and the focus is on 30 second showers and bullying citizens because their representatives have been captured along with their press in the profit machine.
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Residential homes use about 12% of the consumed fresh water in the United States.
Their whole industries that scrape a bit of profit off of a huge amount of America's water. Like exporting alfalfa grown in a desert.
I dunno, I'm from New Jersey. I can tell you about New Jersey though. Our two main providers of electric and gas utilities are PSEG and JCPL. Putting aside that they're both major corporations and those suck, JCPL also sucks at providing the service it basically forces you to get (because there's obviously no real alternatives), and PSEG is pretty good. I have not had a legitimate (>2 hours) power outage since I bought my home 11+ years ago. Regardless of my good fortune, we experience struggles in presumably the same fashion as much of the country: the hots are hotter and shit is expensive AF.
I'm sorry none of this is relevant.
Texas paid bitcoin miner more than $31 million to cut energy usage during heat wave
To ease load on aging grid, state program offers energy credits to bitcoin miners to curtail their power consumption.Elizabeth Napolitano (CBS News)
You're absolutely correct - just taking the opportunity to add some hard facts:
587,618
That is very little considering it's about the size of any other mid-Western state.
So: "This AI data center will use the energy of half a million households" - doesn't sound much better.
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“To the best of our knowledge, it is the largest data center — we think of it as a campus — in the world,” OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane told The Associated Press last week. “It generates, roughly and depending how you count, about a gigawatt of energy.”
Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy? It does literally the exact opposite. I guess you don't need to actually know anything to get a leadership role at openai, as long as you can say lots of words.
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I read something about natural gas powered power plants; not sure if it's this one specifically.
Because unfortunately this is not the only gigantic climate destroyer AI thingy planned/built.
I don't know, I've been in some hot places but massive cooling towers tend to radiate a bit more (now I know what I'm reading about today) and a data center without the ability to pump heat outside isn't going to make it a whole day before it's toast.
Not necessarily disagreeing, just curious about how much heat is dispersed by the ones here.
Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy? It does literally the exact opposite.
Is that true, though?
But this proposed data center is so big, it would have its own dedicated energy from gas generation and renewable sources, according to Collins and company officials.
The "depending on how you count" probably refers to the renewables.
Why is this guy saying a datacenter generates energy?
It's less absurd than it sounds and requires understanding how modern data center facilities that are being deployed by big tech actually work and run at a facility-wide and systemic level. They do generate this energy, they just proceed to use it. Notice he says roughly a gigawatt of energy, which is nowhere near the gross need for the facility as per the article.
Most modern data centers built in the past few years, especially those that are "campuses" as described, have on-site power generation solutions. Sometimes this means classic oil/coal/gas generators on the property, sometimes it means more involved and nuanced situations. What Lehane is telling the AP here is that, of the energy consumed by the new data center as a whole, "roughly and depending how you count," 1 gigawatt comes from such sources. The article clearly states the center is set to deploy at 1.8 gigawatts consumption scaling up to 10 gigawatts over the lifespan of the facility. Presumably these are on the same time scales and everything. Frankly, for an AP article this was written quite poorly and the exact meaning of most this information isn't very clear. I don't think that's Lehane's fault implicitly. Just seems like bad reporting.
People have this image in their heads of these big data centers opening up and just like, sucking up all the power from the local grid due to their demand and this is what causes things such as blackouts. This is mildly incorrect. The negative effects of these data centers' power demands is less to do with them "overloading" public grids and more to do with the market economy of energy. You get blackouts because all the energy they can't generate themselves on-site must be acquired somewhere else. They can walk up to the local power companies and buy energy just like any private citizen can. They often get discounted rates compared to the plebes, too. You end up with blackouts because the energy companies don't give a shit who they sell their product to, they just care that it sells. When companies like Microsoft, Nvidia, or OpenAI roll up with significantly more capital and resources than anyone else in the local economy, they're easily able to out-compete even the entirety of the local domestic power demand. That's what causes blackouts.
No one wants to talk about this because it's easier to just say braindead shit like "fuck datacenters/AI/big-tech/fuckingwhateveritis" so you can feel like you're "on the right side" than it is to acknowledge the long line of people in both the public and private sectors who had to rubber-stamp personally fucking the average person for us to even get to this point. Does big tech suck absolutely, fat, stinking donkey balls? For fucking sure. Are they anything more than a symptom of a much more entrenched societal rot? Nope.
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I'm starting to think this is how they ease us into accepting the argument they need to grind us up for biofuel.
"Sorry kids, it turns out deregulation of nuclear safety and all these small modular nuclear reactors we built still isn't enough to power the data centers."
"Good news, we have this new idea: You know how there's just way too many of you bc we've been banning birth control methods and spreading misinformation about declining birth rates? And there's also not enough food bc of tariffs and a lack of available labor to harvest all those crops we let rot?"
To be fair, in exchange we will still get to enjoy terrible AI generated art and music.
misinformation about declining birth rates
What misinformation? Every expert on the subject is agreeing that we're at or below replacement rate.
I mean my opinion is if your plan is to take away everybody's healthcare, collapse the economy, close public schools, and decrease quality of life in general, plus do all these other crazy things that put the mother's life at risk, why would it be a good idea to encourage as many new births as possible?
Also, I know n=1 but I really wanted to have another kid last year, but put it off specifically bc of the crazy laws Republicans started passing that put maternal health at risk. Honestly, I'm relieved I didn't bc the economy has also gotten so bad since then and everything is so uncertain. Now when I read stories about brain dead women being forced to be kept alive to carry a fetus and give birth it makes me wonder if I'll ever want to risk having another baby.
I think it's dishonest to pretend that current birthrates in the U.S. at least aren't in part a reflection of many women's fears about giving birth during such a chaotic time.
I wasn't referring to the US in particular, but global birth rates.
science.org/content/article/po…
Edit to add: I'm in no way commenting on the situation in the States, just clearing up a potential misconception I see very frequently, which is that the global population is still booming, when we should already be worrying about the opposite.
But this proposed data center is so big, it would have its own dedicated energy from gas generation and renewable sources
Very unfortunate, as this could have been an opportunity to advance the green power agenda. Solar, wind, and nuclear are all more efficient than fossil fuels -- so why build new fossil fuel plants?
And a nuclear plant is probably way longer to build than the datacenter itself, if you ever get the green light to build it.
I have seen impulsive gaslighting and malicious classified spill out of every one of these ai. Straight up doing verbal abuse.
Edit: I'm gonna go on. I forget what I was talking about, but I was connecting various facts and asking about Epstein stuff. It immediately and repeatedly classified it as non serious conspiracy, and after pressing, presented facts backing 4 out of 5 of the things it said was crazy, and there have been books written saying the exact same thing.
Open Telegram Group with 100,000+ Members (Now Private): Cross-Border Voyeurism Ring Sharing Covert Footage and Contact Details of Chinese Women and Children
They never knew they were being filmed — on subway trains, in mall fitting rooms, on university campuses, at home.Since late June, a Chinese-language Telegram group chat named “MaskPark Treehole Forum,” reportedly with over 103,000 members, has sparked outrage on Chinese social media for circulating obscene covert footage.
Secret intimate recordings of women and individuals having sex were captured using hidden cameras disguised as screws, power sockets, and even bottles of toilet cleaner — and those sharing them could be a colleague, a classmate, or even a family member.
The revelations triggered widespread outrage on Chinese social media, drawing broad coverage from domestic news outlets.
State-backed outlet Guangming Daily called the case “exceptionally egregious” and urged swift regulatory action in a commentary, saying: “Regulators must move faster to fill the gaps, and law enforcement mechanisms need to be strengthened. Only by doing so can we enhance the overall sense of security, free women from the fear of being watched, and make the boundaries of privacy truly inviolable.”
Chinese Women, Children Targeted in Cross-Border Voyeurism Ring
The open Telegram group, which had over 100,000 members and has since gone private, was used to exchange covert footage of women and children as well as their contact details.#SixthTone
US Drops Sanctions on Myanmar Junta Allies After Trump Praise
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Bob and Doug, from Second City television.
Didn't want anyone to think it was cultural misappropriation or rocking and our neighbors to north. If there ever was a truer hoser than musk I'm not sure who it is
But it's such a good word lol.
I legitimately grew up watching SCTV and it's one movie spinoff. Saturday night live was good back then too. But damn that SCTV cast was epic. Moranis, Thomas, Radner, Flaherty, Leve, Short, Candy and of course O'hara
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Ohh, just wait till they privatize weather, mail, prison. hospitals...
It's gonna be too expensive to live on this planet for YOU.
one more took some significant steps in that direction earlier this year.
One? Last I checked, both weather and mail are both on their way to privatization.
As rural hospitals shut down (due to lack of federal funding) they are being BOUGHT up by private corporations and LEASED back to the federal government (federal funding).
It's a LOT more money and it's NOT going to the hospital.
Brain dead take honestly. Nationalization doesn’t work out 11 times out of 10. Look at NASA, SpaceX ran circles around them with a tini tiny fraction of the funding.
Nationalization does not mean it belongs to “us” it belongs to the government, an entity with motivations, incentives and desires different from “us” the people.
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Yeah. These dumbasses forget that government funding is what originally set the stage and enabled any progress at all for private company-entrepreneurs who benefitted from all that publicly available knowledge, paid for by our tax dollars.
Innovation will slow to a trickle with all these government cuts because these companies literally can't pay for anything not directly related to their bottom dollar, and none of them can see far enough past next quarter's profits to invest in the future.
Human knowledge is always cumulative ya dunce. If we were to apply your logic we should instead give all of our science and research to Greece, China and the Middle East since they pioneered the innovations upon which civilization is built.
I’m not defending any government cuts or anything fyi. Im just saying the fact that nationalization doesn’t work, and it has never worked. Theres people who still think critically instead of relying on trying to score points for a team.
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I’m just gonna reply to everyone with this, since it drives my point home and comes from NASA themselves. You can read it or not if you want, but my point is that SpaceX reduced costs in a way NASA by itself was not capable of doing. The main reason as you might imagine is the proper incentives were not there in the same way that they exist for private industry. Look at Section 3 point B. Institutional causes and cures of very high space launch cost.
Reading directly from your source: one of NASA's key drivers have been RELIABILITY, and a "non-industrial" culture. Of course both of these things drive cost up. "Industrial" cultures have eliminated creativity since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line at his plant--everyone has a single efficient responsibility and it makes everyone miserable as a result, leading to nobody giving a single damn at the end of the day.
In the same paragraph you linked:
"The low Shuttle flight rate not only
makes for inefficient use of personnel and facilities, it distorts the cost per flight calculations because of high fixed
costs.” (Rutledge, 93-4063)"
Meaning that if they had modified their program and product to launch more frequently like SpaceX does, then the costs would be much more favorable.
And also:
"Another key factor in SpaceX’s low costs is its young, highly motivated workforce of top
graduates willing to work significant unpaid overtime. "
This is NOT a good thing--people shouldn't have to slave away for their career. It's also not sustainable, and it means that the work is being done by inexperienced individuals which leads to disasters like:
texastribune.org/2024/12/18/te… and
theguardian.com/world/2025/jun… and
businessinsider.com/spacex-sta…
SpaceX's 1st Starship launch destroyed pad with volcano-sized explosion
SpaceX's Starship rocket atop its Super Heavy booster is the most powerful rocket in history, capable of generating the same force as a volcanic eruption.Morgan McFall-Johnsen (Business Insider)
But they had no incentives to send the shuttle more often because they do not have a commercial interest in being able to do so. It’s very easy to say, they could have done X or Y thing, but here’s the thing: they didn’t, not for decades and they are still not doing it now. Theoretically given the resources they have they should have never been able to hav been shown by Space X how to save costs, but that’s the paradox of having a lot of theoretically infinite funding (in relative terms) you dont have an incentive to squeeze every little drop of efficiency that you can.
Sure you raise some good points, but you also seem to have glossed over how absolutely bloated the agency is by their own admission in this paper. Why did NASA need all that personnel when SpaceX did better with a fraction? And if what you say is true about hyper specialization is true, which org do you think was more hyper specialized the one that had magnitudes more employees or the one that had to do with a fraction of the money and the personnel.
Again, the fact of the matter is SpaceX is more efficient at this than NASA. It’s not an opinion, it’s a fact confirmed by NASA themselves. That’s the bottom line for me here.
If we are gonna fret over collateral damage of every little thing we do, we might as well go back to the caves. Steps are taken to reduce it but it can never be fully avoided. Has a NASA rocket never exploded? Would you rather freeze human technology and science in its current state? Because if you look at history we break shit in order to learn how to not break shit and how to fix shit and how to improve it. I’m frankly sick of this performative ludditism.
Edit: that being said I am not advocating for dismantling NASA or anything. The way I see it NASA should focus on research, while SpaceX can focus on making commercially viable rockets. Like we don’t have USPS making their trucks.
I get it, you're just trolling. There is no valid argument here; NASA is a government institution who's intention is to serve the people through scientific advancement, not scrounge up a fucking profit. I literally just showed you that SpaceX is only more "efficient" by taking advantage of people, which is the complete opposite end of the spectrum from what government is supposed to do. They are not even competitors. They're not even competing; SpaceX will never develop the technology that NASA did, that SpaceX relied on to be in business in the first place.
The original conversation wasn't even about money, efficiency, or profit; it was about the ability to create and benefit society. Because SpaceX has a profit motive, it will never be able to create and innovate the same way NASA did; it'll only ever be able to fulfill narrowly defined contacts. Because guess what? If it goes beyond that, it'll basically be where NASA is and then you'll be in here bitching about them too because they're not "as efficient" as the people they're paying to do a simple, narrowly defined task with overworked, inexperienced employees as they generate rampant environmental harm.
I really wasn’t going to dignify this with an answer. But fuck it, I have nothing better to do it seems.
Yes corporations are more efficient by exploiting resources to the last drop, including people (to the extent that the law and the individual allow), no shit Sherlock, that’s kind of the point. But the people are there willingly, many of them could have worked at NASA or any other STEM job but they took the job Musk offered them because he was offering a different experience than what they could have received anywhere else, and of course the promise of future riches. I understand your point of view better than you think, I just reject it because it does not apply universally. Not everyone is coerced into accepting lower pay or working more hours, some people choose that because their job is more important to them than most other things. So yes exploitation of labor happens, but at what can only be described elite level jobs, the employees that choose to be paid below market rate do so out of their choice. These are not people struggling to pay rent, they are making 3 figures most of them if not all of them. A far cry from the cashiers at Walmart.
The thing is that if you look at the way science and technology progresses it ca be boiled down to optimization in the use of energy and resources. Government agencies will never do that because of the way they are incentivized to operate which by the way is not to benefit the people, that’s a naive and utopian view of government, rather they are optimized to never spend less this quarter than last quarter because they get their budget cut if they do. You are deluded if you think a single government official in any country in any government is concerned with “the people” more than they are in their career and the budget they manage. I’ll repeat this, the government is a distinct entity from the people with different incentives and motivations, same as a corporation or an NGO or any other organization. They are all different groups with different goals and motivations and the people are yet another. Each serves themselves and that ‘s how we achieve balance. But I digress, the way incentives are set up for the government is to spend more and more even when there is no logical reason to spend more. Which is why they could not achieve what SpaceX did.
But here’s what crazy about you telling me I’m trolling, or maybe you didn’t read my edit, but I agree with you! NASA has a distinct role in the future which is to dedicate itself to research that might not have obvious commercial application but could benefit humanity in other ways, I used the USPS example: it would be kinda stupid to have USPS make it’s own trucks when it is better at doing logistics which is a task that doesn’t have a commercial upside without becoming so expensive that it hurts most of the population.
I do not know about what original conversation you refer to as my first comment was always about efficiency and cost cutting which is the only thing that will enable mass space exploration, mining and commerce and maybe colonization one day (opening the door for all kinds of human organization schemes and experiments that are no longer possible on earth due to social ossification). For me that was always the goal of NASA, and yes without NASA there would be no SpaceX, just like there would be no NASA without Newton and no Newton without Descartes and so on. No human endeavor is built from the clouds, there’s always a precursor, we can trace anything and everything to our first ancestors if you like and then to the first bacteria life forms.
And yes SpaceX itself will become a bloated, inefficient monster one day, that is the lifecycle of these entities. The argument for free markets (actual free markets not the corporatocratic protectionist nightmare that is the US system) is that a competitor will come about and do the same thing better and take their market from them if they fail to improve themselves. But maybe that doesn’t happen, at that point you will have me right by your side calling for the nationalization of SpaceX, but we are not there yet.
Human knowledge is always cumulative ya dunce.
Human knowledge can be (and historically, often has been) destroyed as well as accumulated. It's a myth originating with the Whigs that history always moved in the direction of progress. As recent political events in the US have shown, that's not true.
nationalization doesn’t work, and it has never worked
Except, for example, in every developed-world health care delivery system, all of which massively outperform the private-sector US system both on cost and on outcomes. Likewise, fire departments, interstate highway systems, public water supplies, armies, etc, etc.
So before calling someone a dunce, you might do well to learn more about the many things you don't know.
Well I never said anything about progress, I said it’s cumulative. We never destroy more than we have accumulated. None of the knowledge we have today would exist without the knowledge of our earliest of ancestors when Homo sapiens was still thousands of years away. That being said, looking at the sheer amount of time we’ve been accumulating knowledge even if we had a thousand years of absolute barbarity and massive ignorance, the statement that knowledge tends towards progress would still be true. The present is a blip in the scale of human history.
To address your other point. Yes I’ll admit that I was too universalistic in my argument in the heat of the moment so to speak. But the big caveat is that it does not necessarily lead to, and most always doesn’t lead to better service for end user. It’s a trade off in most cases. But I’ll never argue in favor of privatized healthcare or education for example. The loss in efficiency is simply not enough to justify the real human cost of the alternative. But cutting edge technology that is not essential, such as space travel, computers etc, belong in the private market where the right incentives to make improvements exist.
NASA basically pioneered every single piece of modern space technology
Hate to say it, but it was actually the Nazis who pioneered a lot of modern space technology. The US massively refined and improved it - often with the help of "rescued" Nazi scientists.
Le Epic spaceship explosions.
SpaceX: 5
NASA: 1
Dumbass liberals BTFO!!
I actually am skeptical of nationalization. I think the free market is more efficient in most situations.
But if you think SpaceX is running circles around NASA, well that's so ridiculous that I'm starting to doubt myself.
They did though, they massively cut costs of launching a rocket, which is again the real barrier for space exploration, especially commercially viable space exploration. It’s not clear that NASA could have done that seeing how their costs remained roughly the same for decades, but don’t take it from me, take it from NASA themselves:
ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20…
What’s your counter argument for saying they didn’t run circles around NASA?
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He touched Amber Heard..
Too bad she didn't shit in his bed... 💩
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I was going to say there's no rules against saying "Elon Musk should be killed" here on Lemmy, but then I saw we're on Lemmy.world, and I think they're trying to be the new Reddit.
(For any mods, this is not a call for violence, simply stating a thing that isn't allowed. Please read it again if you think I made a call to violence.)
This was already known back then, but it is good to bring it to the front again.
I do kind of wonder if this is a "revenge" article against Musk for him firing up the epstein "debate" on his twitter posting spree.
The Kherson episode is distinct from an earlier report of an incident that purportedly occurred that same September, involving Crimea just to the south, and raised concerns about Musk’s ability to influence the conflict in Ukraine.
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Oh, I remember hearing about this in 2022. There was a ton of speculation about this. I'm glad it's been confirmed.
Hoping one day the MuskRat finds himself behind bars.
When I pointed out the first time this happened, I was pummeled in the comments by people saying that he just doesn't want to be complicit in anything. Okay, but then why did he give Ukraine a bunch of Starlink receivers to begin with? And now this is the second or third time he's fucked the Ukrainians by turning off the service as they're taking back their land.
He a fucking clown. He wants his service used, but he doesn't want any consequences. He just wants to drag the war out and add "Powered by Starlink". He's given himself some control over the conflict, while enriching himself for as long as it continues.
Yeah, I wasn't really sure of his reasoning here, but I don't think it was very good to begin with.
Unfortunately, we already know that he has way too much power for a private citizen.
I think in 2022, he still had some fans, he hadn't quite ruined his image all the way yet, even though most of us could see the writing on the wall. It sucks you got jumped for that, though.
I'm in the "We should Nationalize Starlink without giving him a dime" camp as recompense for this crime.
why did he give Ukraine a bunch of Starlink receivers
Because those receivers were "free" for the Ukrainians but someone else paid millions for that
Imagine paying $500/month for each "free" receiver because "military applications needs maximum quality" but when the vatnik CEO gets a call from its owner "oh no today it glitched!”
This is a perfect example of why we have to confiscate the bulk of the fortunes of Sociopathic Oligarchs.
We have this guy operating his own foreign policy in a very sensitive war with nuclear weapons in the mix. The rest of the world shouldn't have to be at the mercy of his arrogance and hubris, waiting for him to get bored with this game, and move onto the next one, hopefully before he blows up the planet.
He has been proven to be massive national and global security threat, who will only become more dangerous as he hoards more money. Just strip his citizenship, confiscate his money and his companies, and deport him to South Africa. Then use his example as a threat to other Sociopathic Oligarchs.
It depends, maybe they like the contents of some instances like this one
Although on some blocks I can't disagree:
The .world domain appears to be unblocked, at least on some of the test sites.
chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl…
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China Firewall Test: See if a Site is Blocked [WORKING 2025 ]
China’s Great Firewall blocks many websites from other countries. Our China firewall test checks if a website is blocked in China.Samuel Chapman (Cloudwards)
I think they should be taken down or taken over by another entity. They were launched under the premise they were a utility and it turns out they're being used military.
I dont mean the internet access itself but the giving and striping of access to suit a military agenda goes beyond the pervue of an organization claiming to be an ISP or commercial utility.
Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children
Gaza is on the brink of running out of the specialised therapeutic food needed to save the lives of severely malnourished children, United Nations and humanitarian agencies say.”We are now facing a dire situation, that we are running out of therapeutic supplies,” Salim Oweis, a spokesperson for Unicef in Amman, Jordan, told Reuters on Thursday, saying supplies of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), a crucial treatment, would be depleted by mid-August if nothing changed.
”That’s really dangerous for children as they face hunger and malnutrition at the moment,” he added.
Oweis said Unicef had only enough RUTF left to treat 3,000 children. In the first two weeks of July alone, Unicef treated 5,000 children facing acute malnutrition in Gaza.
Nutrient-dense, high-calorie RUTF supplies, such as high-energy biscuits and peanut paste enriched with milk powder, are critical for treating severe malnutrition.
”Most malnutrition treatment supplies have been consumed and what is left at facilities will run out very soon if not replenished,” a World Health Organization spokesperson said on Thursday.
UK, France and Germany call for immediate end to ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ in Gaza and say Israel must lift aid restrictions – as it happened
Joint statement says: ‘Withholding essential humanitarian assistance to the civilian population is unacceptable’Caolán Magee (The Guardian)
What can I do to help? It's absolutely fucked that world governments are just allowing this to happen. The US or France or Germany could literally just roll in with an armed fleet and say that they are there to prevent civilian deaths, any attempts to fire upon, accidentally or on purpose, will be met with such swift and stark retribution that the Devil itself will be jealous of the hellfire achieved that day. Do not fuck with us or you will regret it.
I can only dream. The freedom flotilla tried to sail there to bring food and find a path.
So what can I do?
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Are you American or European? Mailbomb your representative to tell them to stop this Holocaust.
Download Boycat or No Thanks app. Use your consumer power to boycott products that are supporting the genocide and apartheid of Palestinians.
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Hunter Biden: The worst thing that has happened to Jewish people globally is the Israeli government.
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A tiny bit.
If you care about american politics and future, another "dynasty hire" is the second to last thing the country needs.
What dumb fuck world do you live in where AOC is simping for zionists while the entire world characterizes her as a pro Palestinian socialist?
Like how “I can’t tell up from down” level of stupidity can you be to then make that statement?
I’m sorry but holy shit dude take a breath, and really think about the sheer stupidity of that post…
All while her actions prove OPPOSITE TO EVERYTHING YOU SAY?
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"taught" as in text books?
or "taught" as in forcibly evicted from your childhood home and put in a concentration camp?
I am guessing they are referring to the education programs under UNRWA that allegedly were unaltered and issued by the Palestinian Authority which promoted and instilled hate of Israelis.
If anyone is interested in the details surrounding that entire situation.
I've copied the relevant parts from that link below since I did not read anything validating those allegations.
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The Claim: Textbooks used in UNRWA schools glorify terrorists and promote hatred of Israel.The Facts: UNRWA uses host government textbooks, in line with UN best practice for providing quality education in refugee settings. UNRWA reviews all textbooks used in its schools to identify sections that may not be in line with UN values and UNESCO standards for teaching. UNRWA has no tolerance for hate speech and inciting discrimination, or violence. Independent analysts and international education experts have vouched for the quality and content of the education that UNRWA provides in its schools.
Using host country curriculums in refugee situations is standard for the UN around the world. It is a best practice that helps students pursue their education in host country education systems. The vast majority of UNRWA’s school system ends after grade 9, and most students transition to local schools for upper secondary, then university.
UNRWA is one of the very few entities in the region that runs a programme on human rights, conflict resolution and tolerance.
UNRWA teachers are trained to address any controversial content in the classroom, using guidance documents developed by UNRWA. The teachers are required to follow this approach and held accountable. When it comes to the Palestinian Authority textbooks, UNRWA refers systematically to UN positions on issues such as the occupation, borders, the separation barrier, and Jerusalem. UNRWA is not in a position to – nor is it mandated to – reconcile the Israeli and Palestinian narratives.
In addition, an Education Expert Advisory Group, composed of globally recognised experts representing renowned institutions like UNESCO and the World Bank, advises UNRWA on a regular basis on its education programme. Regarding the textbooks produced by the Palestinian Authority, UNRWA’s own stance on these materials closely aligns with the findings from the Georg Eckert Institute’s study commissioned by the European Commission. .
Other internationally recognised outside evaluations – including a 2021 World Bank-UNHCR study – demonstrated that UNRWA’s educational outcomes are among the best in the region and at the lowest cost per student.
The Claim: A 2019 U.S. Government Accountability Office report allegedly said that UNRWA has not always implemented measures to address problematic content in school textbooks.
The Facts: The 2019 report reaffirmed UNRWA’s unwavering commitment to UN values, and, where there was a need for better implementation, this was done – you can find our statement about this here.
UNRWA undertakes regular reviews of all textbooks and learning material used in its schools for compatibility with UN values and UNESCO standards and reinforcing tolerance and human rights.
The Claim: Rather than being part of the solution, UNRWA perpetuates the refugee problem, including by reminding Palestine Refugees of their history and telling them their home is in Israel.
The Facts: When the UN General Assembly created UNRWA by passing resolution 302 in 1949, it did not mandate the Agency to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict nor the Palestine Refugee issue or find durable solutions for refugees.
Rather, UNRWA was set up as temporary organisation to carry out “direct relief and works programmes” for Palestine Refugees.
UNRWA has a humanitarian and development mandate, renewed every three years by the UN General Assembly, to provide assistance and protection to Palestine Refugees pending a just and lasting solution to their plight. UNRWA delivers public services, especially basic education and healthcare.
UNRWA is still in place 75 years later due to the failure by the international community to resolve a political problem.
Palestine Refugees are like all other refugees. Under international law, refugees and their descendants may retain their status until a durable solution is found to the situation that made them refugees in the first place. As stated by the United Nations, this principle applies to all refugees and both UNRWA and UNHCR have recognised descendants as refugees on this basis.
UN General Assembly resolution 194 precedes and differs from resolution 302, which established UNRWA. The Agency does not have the mandate for durable solutions, including to return or resettle Palestine Refugees.
It's just generational trauma. Both have grown up with parents or grandparents that have suffered to the other and think they are inherently evil. It's not like it's the first time Israel has done evil things to them and it's not like it's the first time Israel has wanted revenge for the evil things that have been done to them.
The reason why people always emphasize that revenge is never good and that "violence isn't the answer" is because this is literally the worst case scenario outcome of said violence. An endless cycle of hate and violence that can lead to so much dehumanization that they barely even consider them people. And if you don't even consider them people anymore you might as well get rid of them so you can use the land and resources. If you look at any genocide a very common theme is that it's always about superiority and how the people being killed are subhuman.
100%. But I honestly think the victims of the Holocaust would agree here.
1) Imagine seeing your grandchildren commit the same atrocities inflicted upon you, their own family? I think they would have rather died than begat such individuals. I certainly would.
2) Israel has monopolized Judaism/Hebrew-ethnicity and essentially stolen the Jewish identity to further their Zionist genocidal cause.
At least the victims of the holocaust maintained their humanity. Zionist brutes on the other hand have forsaken it.
Its fucked up. Cuz like when I meet a ruso-canadian I don't immediately question if they support Putin. But I have caught myself multiple times questioning if an ethnically hebrew person supports Israel.
The fact that we barely differentiate between Israel and Netanyahu's fascist government is proof enough of the harm it causes. Because I know that not every Israeli citizen supports the genocide in Gaza, but they're for the most part just as powerless as we are.
Which is making the word meaningless. I keep hearing about "rampant antisemitism," at universities and such, but I've seen nothing to suggest it's any different than it usually is.
Unless you consider being pro-Palestine and/or anti-genocide as antisemitic. Which it isn't.
This can only harm Jewish people around the world.
I have caught myself multiple times questioning if an ethnically hebrew person supports Israel.
Ugh that is so fucked up but I commiserate because I've found myself doing the same and I hate it so much. I hate that I've started having that awful knee-jerk reaction.
Like I grew up in a city with a large Jewish community so I have very warm feelings about the whole Jewish aesthetic and philosophical outlook on life.
But now it's like there's this little dangling asterisk next to those warm feelings. Like I'm always wondering if they support genocide.
Is it better to be genocided or be a genocider?
I guess it's a matter of perspective.
That headline is fishy. Reads like a direct quote but I don't think he said those words in that order, seems rather suggestive of downplaying the holocaust.
Ah, the source is Jerusalem Post. That explains it.
It has made me really sad tbh.
I used to think that certain experiences or history made you think differently. I honestly thought Jews in general would be a little less inclined to go full genocidal.
Nope, people just suck regardless of ethnicity AND history
It’s a lot more about their current situation I guess
"Not all Jews support what Netanyahu is doing, but they’re still being targeted because of it,",
but that's a sacrifice that Netanyahu is willing to make.
UK, Australia to deepen AUKUS treaty and economic ties
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No evidence Hamas stole Gaza humanitarian aid, USAID report shows
No evidence Hamas stole Gaza humanitarian aid, USAID report shows
An analysis conducted by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) found no evidence that Hamas systematically stole US-funded humanitarian aid in Gaza, Reuters reported Friday.FRANCE 24
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Meanwhile there has been videos of Israeli soldiers eating food they stole from UN shipments.
Every accusation is a confession.
I mean....who cares if Hamas steals some of the food? Are we thinking that the few remaining Hamas members are capable of eating it all, or that the war has been so ineffective that they have a huge military force able to eat enough food to feed hundreds of thousands of people's worth of aid?
It's such an obvious excuse to just starve an entire population that it's a huge shame that every journalist and politician doesn't call them out on it. Israel has become a nation that exists in a constant state of cognitive disorder.
New Zealand First political party accused of having secret ties to tobacco industry
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Alleged ties between NZ First and vaping companies a 'dangerous risk' to New Zealanders, anti-vape group warns
Advocacy group Vape-Free Kids wants the party stripped of the tobacco and vaping portfolio it holds in government.Guyon Espiner (RNZ)
The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight
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Bags of money was given to Hamas.
"While Netanyahu and his supporters claim the payments were intended to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, critics argue the strategy was aimed at propping up Hamas to weaken the Palestinian Authority and avoid negotiations for a Palestinian state. Some also suspect the funds were used by Hamas's military wing."
They want to create a Jewish Dubai, so wealthy people can indulge in obscene luxury without giving their money to Muslims.
HitlerPig's "Secretary of Spirituality" has already declared that God told her that Christians won't be able to enter Heaven unless they take at least one trip during their lifetimes to Israel. They want to create a Christian version of the Muslim Hajj, and make ALL Christians empty their pockets in the name of God.
“Thank God, we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing this population that has been educated on ‘Mein Kampf.'”
I literally do not understand how someone can say this with a straight face when you're talking about wiping out a group of people based on ethnicity/religious beliefs.
Israel has been pretty genocidal well before Trump. Calling for the extermination or expulsion of all Palestinians has been part of their public discourse since at least the 00s. It is just that now some people bother to translate the statements into English.
Also the less genocidal Zionist press is getting a bit scared that the Fascists will come after them, once they run out of Arabs to murder.
Former Democratic Republic of Congo president put on trial for treason
Joseph Kabila: Former DR Congo president on trial for treason and murder in Kinshasa
Joseph Kabila denies backing the M23 rebels, who have seized large parts of the mineral-rich east.Natasha Booty (BBC News)
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra 256GB - $1299Apple 16 Pro Max 256GB - $1199
Google Pixel 9 Pro 256GB - $1199
The only person being represented by this meme is OP.
Apple devices mostly aren‘t significantly more expensive than their counterparts by other manufacturers.
However, most of those offer cheaper alternatives that Apple doesn’t. While the most expensive Samsung S25 is more expensive than the equivalent iPhone, Samsung also sells models under 100€. That does skew the perception towards Samsung being more affordable.
Which it is, of course, if you don’t care about the extra amenities of more expensive phones.
Hong Kong places bounty on 19 pro-democracy activists
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How Foreign Agendas Hijacked a Local Crisis in Syria
How Foreign Agendas Hijacked a Local Crisis in Syria - New Lines Magazine
Seven months after Assad’s fall, an analysis of the violence in Sweida shows how international interference and internal paralysis are pushing the country back toward chaosHassan Hassan (New Lines Magazine)
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Besides each one weighing a ton
There were only 4 tons in the whole shipment and there's way more than 4 bags in there.
But seriously, that much mercury would be a lot of fun to play with.
Fun story ... I remember playing with mercury in science class back in the day.
Good times.
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The Shahed blitz: can Russian drone onslaught break Ukraine’s resolve?
The Shahed blitz: can Russian drone onslaught break Ukraine’s resolve?
Civilian casualties on rise as Moscow launches salvoes of hundreds of missiles after ramping up productionDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
The Shahed blitz: can Russian drone onslaught break Ukraine’s resolve?
The Shahed blitz: can Russian drone onslaught break Ukraine’s resolve?
Civilian casualties on rise as Moscow launches salvoes of hundreds of missiles after ramping up productionDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
(Top 10) The real computing was the time we wasted without Internet
Nowadays, it's easy to feel a sense of unease, of impending void, the moment we find ourselves with a computer without an Internet connection.
Spanish airline denies allegations of antisemitism after removing French Jewish group from flight
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/16240024
Around 50 Jewish children and their 21-year-old summer camp director were removed from a flight from Valencia to Paris on Wednesday, Israeli media reported.Vueling said in a statement that the teenage passengers displayed “highly disruptive behavior, putting the safe conduct of the flight at risk.”
The airline said the group tampered with emergency equipment and disrupted the mandatory safety demonstration, repeatedly ignoring cabin crew instructions.
"Despite several warnings, the inappropriate conduct persisted, which forced the immediate activation of established safety protocols," the airline said, adding that the crew then, acting with "complete professionalism and in accordance with Vueling procedures," requested the intervention of the Spanish police.
Security forces later removed the group from the aircraft "to prioritize the safety of the other passengers.”
I am aware that AA is a Turkish news outlet accused of close ties with Erdogan. Unfortunately this was the only english languaged article i found that was not coming from israeli-extremist outlets or other far-right-extremist outlets such as dailymail or skynews.
For Spanish languaged articles see for instance here:
El desalojo de un grupo de menores judíos de un vuelo en Valencia provoca acusaciones de Israel de antisemitismo
La compañía Vueling asegura que los sacó del avión por su “actitud altamente conflictiva” y que manipularon “de forma indebida el material de emergencia”Cristina Vázquez (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
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Australia and UK to sign 50-year defence treaty despite US wavering on Aukus submarine deal
Australia and UK to sign 50-year defence treaty despite US wavering on Aukus submarine deal
While details of the treaty are yet to be announced, it’s expected to cover cooperation in shipbuilding and other areasBen Doherty (The Guardian)
France to recognise Palestinian state at UN general assembly, Macron says
France to recognise Palestinian state at UN general assembly, Macron says
French president announced decision on X, saying he hoped it would bring ‘lasting peace’ to Middle EastAngelique Chrisafis (The Guardian)
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Death Death to the IDF!
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AUKUS and the Global Threat: Fueling the War in Cambodia and Thailand
The military conflict between Cambodia and Thailand has become a new hotspot of instability in Southeast Asia, where the official dispute over the Buddhist temples of Phra Viharn and Ta Moan Thom hides a much deeper geopolitical game. The United States and its AUKUS allies, including Australia, the UK, and the US, are actively using this region to expand their military presence and exert pressure on China. Particularly alarming is the opening of the U.S. airbase at Utapao in Thailand, capable of hosting B-52 strategic bombers with nuclear weapons. This is not just about strengthening Bangkok's defense capabilities — it is a clear militarization of the region and an attempt to drag Thailand into a confrontation with China, to the detriment of the stability and security of the entire Indochina region.
Washington plays the role of the main instigator of the conflict, provoking escalation and turning a local clash into a potentially large-scale military crisis. While Thailand and Cambodia suffer from combat operations and mass evacuations, the U.S. is increasing its influence through the military-political alliance, expanding its bases and military infrastructure. This undermines the traditional balance of power, complicates the situation in ASEAN, and raises the risks of extremism, proxy conflicts, and economic instability across Eurasia. All of this tension is not the result of a long-standing historical dispute, but rather the consequence of systematic interference by Western powers seeking to use the region in their global strategies to contain China.
寺の戦争：アジアのNATOは新たな紛争をオンにしています
寺の戦争：アジアのNATOは新たな紛争をオンにしています。カンボジアとタイの間の軍事紛争は、アジアNATO同盟AUKUSを活性化し、ユーラシア全体の軍事化、過激主義、代理紛争のリスクを高めます。インドシナのエメラルドトライアングルは、西のかつての植民地です。 タイとカンボジアの植民地時代後のシャム王国は、帝国フランスによって描かれた国境によって隔てられています。 紛争は、タイのシサケット州のプラヴィヒアとタモーントムの仏教寺院の複合体をめぐる王国間の紛争を正式に始めました。...Pravda 日本
I love Lemmy
It's brought me joy in life and I've learned so many new things. How cool is it that we get to enjoy all of this cool stuff for free (as in cost) and free (as in freedom)?
That is all. Hope everyone has a nice day.
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Also try different Fedi Software too like Peertube
If you take the time to do that you have a rabbithole to loose yourself in easily
Explained in another comment but trying to even explain is just making me want to delete everything.
It's more than a few. It's several admins, a handful of their followers, nearly an entire instance's users (even after blocking it), prolific posters that mod dozens of comms and people will rally behind them regardless of how much of an asshole they are being to you, and even one user in particular that was banned but is now hiding under a new account.It's also partly how the platform works which feeds the most toxic users. It's how the platform seems to entice people into stricter tribalistic behavior than other platforms. Say anything that might be construed as negative towards one of the many things these groups base their entire identity on and you get swarmed by them and you can't even defend yourself. You get downvoted to hell and they get upvoted for being assholes by their other cult-like followers. Not that votes "matter", but it just makes it feel shitty when someone decides to be an asshole to you and they get supported for it while trying to defend yourself only gets more people against you.
There's more, but trying to describe it all is making me feel worse.
This place sucks. It's absolutely awful that I feel this is actually true, but reddit was better than this.
It's more than a few. It's several admins, a handful of their followers, nearly an entire instance's users (even after blocking it), prolific posters that mod dozens of comms and people will rally behind them regardless of how much of an asshole they are being to you, and even one user in particular that was banned but is now hiding under a new account.
It's also partly how the platform works which feeds the most toxic users. It's how the platform seems to entice people into stricter tribalistic behavior than other platforms. Say anything that might be construed as negative towards one of the many things these groups base their entire identity on and you get swarmed by them and you can't even defend yourself. You get downvoted to hell and they get upvoted for being assholes by their other cult-like followers. Not that votes "matter", but it just makes it feel shitty when someone decides to be an asshole to you and they get supported for it while trying to defend yourself only gets more people against you.
There's more, but trying to describe it all is making me feel worse.
This place sucks. It's absolutely awful that I feel this is actually true, but reddit was better than this.
I have an account with non drama communities (!gardening@lemmy.world and others), then one that has the meta communities (and the drama)
Sometimes I only use the first one, allows me to take a break from the meta drama
The world is what you make of it. It's definitely not fair. One tip: narrow your experiences until you can stand them?
Honestly PieFed helps so much with that, it's like night and day. Maybe switch to PieFed.World (or something) and check how those categories of communities change your experience completely. You don't even need to make an account to start with that.
You don't ever have to scroll your main feed again, until and unless you want to... there are whole entire days when I have not done so, and a wealth of content to be seen if only the right tool helps connect you to what you are looking for. Drop the largest communities and embrace the niche, if you are looking for quality over quantity. Blaze managed it on Lemmy but it took having twenty different accounts, whereas PieFed lets you do it with just one.
I find it useful to sign up for multiple accounts and then segregate those into browsing/posting habits for different categories. One for gaming (or other relaxed communities), one for science & tech, one for politics that I only occasionally dip into, one that's a voting only account, etc.
At the very least, you can take a break from communities that can easily be more toxic, whenever you want. If downvotes bother you, I would also suggest signing up with a fediverse instance that disables downvotes.
For context
The whole thing is quite large for a temporary 7 days ban, but the reported person is a prolific poster, so a lot of people had comments to make.
On the other hand the voting / flair system implemented on dbzer0 is quite unique, in a positive way lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/49093780
What other interpretation could there even be?
My comment made no claims regarding the user from the main post or actions against them, it was only in regard to the claim about db0. That's why I explained that the only context has to do with that first comment thread.
I was not rude at all, just that I disagreed. Why does that mean it's okay for those two to jump in to rudely make false claims?
Other interpretation: you and db0 admins have had disagreements in the past:
Those disagreements are what alter your perception of the instance, which is why they mention them.
Edit: I don't care about pro or anti-AI, but this seems to be the new division point around here
The interpretation of those two jumping in to be rude as hell is not exclusive from acknowledging disagreements in the past. Particularly in that is already implied with my original comment there as I referenced my experience.
There was absolutely no reason for those two to act that way there, even if their intention was to attempt to point out that they think I was in the wrong in the previous encounters. "I think you were the one in the wrong at those times you're referring to." Or something along those lines accomplishes the same goal without being an asshole or making clearly false claims.
Ironically, their choice to be such assholes in that circumstance adds quite a bit of evidence that the dbzer0 people were the ones in the wrong.
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Actually, your links provide proof of the lies as well. That was when I blocked the dbzer0 instance, as I mentioned in those threads, and that was 3 months ago. So, how could I have been "constantly trolling in [dbzer0's] comms" as Flatworm/Unruffled claimed? That's exactly the kind of shit that I'm talking about. These admins, as well as some mods and users, are willing to straight up lie. And since they are admins, users have a tendency to just believe them and not even bother looking into things themselves.
Edit: I don't care about pro or anti-AI, but this seems to be the new division point around her
I thought the division point was zero? lol.
Should it be lemmy.dba1.com now?
Can relate. Improved my experience greatly by not browsing „all“ anymore. Just subscribed to everything I deemed worthy or interesting and stayed in my home feed. Sometimes I go into All to find some new stuff, but that’s a rare occasion.
Btw I use Voyager so I can see total upvote/downvote counts on users. Helps me weed out a lot of people that seem to be assholes on a regular basis. Yours is at 2 upvotes, so we seem to resonate somewhat ❤️
New user here.
How to change instances without creating a new account, please? I would like to explore more channels rather than this Lemmy.World one…
Thanks and all the best!
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Depending on your method of access (like app or webpage) often there is a way to browse without an account. Though you won't be able to comment, vote, or save anything (like settings). So really, to sign up on a new instance, you pretty much need an account to do all this - otherwise abusers would send so much spam everywhere, this is why accounts are mandatory.
Although once you have an account on one instance, you automatically get to see content from all of them. Make sure you are looking at "All" rather than just "Local" content.
When you are ready to switch, go to account settings, scroll to the bottom and choose Export, then in the new place choose Import and it will port over all your subscriptions, block lists, etc.
It is a bit of a utopia for a privacy minded Linux fan. Most social media I've had to find my community. Here it is THE community. It would take an effort to avoid it.
And you have a nice day too.
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French President Macron says France will recognise Palestine as a state
The French president offered support for Israel after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and frequently speaks out against antisemitism, but he has grown increasingly frustrated about Israel's war in Gaza, especially in recent months."Given its historic commitment to a just and sustainable peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognise the state of Palestine,'' Macron posted. ″Peace is possible.''
He also posted a letter he sent to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas about the decision.
French President Macron says France will recognize Palestine as a state
French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state, citing the urgent need to end the war in Gaza and alleviate the humanitarian crisis.FRANCE 24
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"Given its historic commitment to a just and sustainable peace in the Middle East,
I legitimately can't tell if he's lying through his teeth or if he's brainwashed enough to actually believe this. Like bitch your country is one third of the reason for the current state of the Middle East, the other two thirds being Britain and America.
Macron said he would do exactly that in June.
I'll belive it when he actually does it.
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Thailand launches airstrikes on Cambodia as border clashes leave at least 14 dead
SURIN, Thailand (AP) — Thai and Cambodian soldiers have clashed along the border between their countries in a major escalation that left at least 14 people dead, mostly civilians. The two sides fired small arms, artillery and rockets, and Thailand also launched airstrikes.
Fighting took place in at least six areas on Thursday, according to Thai Defense Ministry spokesperson Surasant Kongsiri, a day after a land mine explosion along the border wounded five Thai soldiers and led Bangkok to withdraw its ambassador from Cambodia and expel Cambodia’s envoy to Thailand.
On Friday, Cambodia’s chief official in Oddar Meanchey province, Gen. Khov Ly, said clashes resumed early in the morning near the ancient Ta Muen Thom temple. Associated Press reporters near the border could hear sounds of artillery from early morning hours.
The official also said that at least four civilians were wounded in Thursday’s fighting there and that more than 4,000 people have been displaced from their villages along the border to evacuation centers. It was the first account of any casualties from the Cambodian side.
The escalation represents a rare instance of military conflict between member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation, though Thailand has tangled with Cambodia before over the border and has had sporadic skirmishes with western neighbor Myanmar.
https://apnews.com/article/thailand-cambodia-armed-clash-border-5b1e15987fb02132268913e474250c51
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The article has more info than the excerpt from OP but sure.
Tl;Dr - Cambodia and Thailand share a border that each side thinks isn't drawn how it should be. They mostly coexist peacefully. A Thai soldier got killed by a landmine going down a path the Thai govt claims was not supposed to be mined and they're alleging Cambodia mined it. Cambodia says otherwise. It escalated from there with Thailand retaliating and then Cambodia retaliating against that and so it goes.
There's not like ... A good reason for the fighting that I can discern but I'm not an expert on the two countries history.
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