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in reply to Davriellelouna

So when something is created in China, then the Chinese government cares about fakes. Got it.


in reply to Davriellelouna

They really need to stop the passivity in headlines related to these atrocities. "Murdered" is the word, not the passive "killed" which could imply a lack of intent.
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in reply to Davriellelouna

A few months back a Palestinian who filmed a documentary and her entire family was murder something like a day before staging it in Cannes.

*there may be impressions on this comment cause my memory is not that good

Edit: Link

It was a photojournalist and 9 family members died on the same air strike.

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I’m thinking of building a comparison tool based on AI... you find this useful?


Heya 👋

I’m thinking of building a simple, unbiased comparison platform for products, services, tools — even technical stuff like frameworks, APIs, and AI tools — to help you decide faster with clear side-by-side insights.

Personally, I often find myself deep in Amazon reviews, YouTube videos, and scattered blog posts when trying to choose something new. While some comparison sites exist, I’ve never found a complete or truly comprehensive solution. The same goes for developers — when exploring new frameworks or libraries with similar alternatives, a quick, focused comparison could really help clarify things.

Before going further, I’d love to hear from you: Would you find this useful? Your feedback will help shaping what I build next.

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China offers parents $1,500 in bid to boost births


Parents in China are being offered 3,600 yuan (£375; $500) a year for each of their children under the age of three in the government's first nationwide subsidy aimed at boosting birth rates.

The country's birth rate has been falling, even after the ruling Communist Party abolished its controversial one-child policy almost a decade ago.

in reply to NatakuNox

In US I assume. How much does childcare cost in China?
in reply to NatakuNox

This article talks about cost "relative to its GDP per capita." In the proposal they give flat sum of money. So we are comparing Apple to oranges. Not saying you're wrong, but I still would like to know how much is daycare per month in China. I know in us I pay 2k per month. I doubt it's the same there.
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in reply to Peck

Women generally see a reduction of 2,106 working hours when looking after children aged 0-4 and face an estimated wage loss of 63,000 yuan ($8,700) in the period, the report said, using an hourly wage gauge of 30 yuan per hour.
Having a child will also lead to a 12-17% drop in women's wages, the report said.Leisure time will be reduced by 12.6 hours for mothers with one child aged 0-6 and 14 hours for two children.T
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in reply to MicroWave

"China attempts to trick the poor and uneducated into reproducing"


The Netherlands to impose travel ban on Israeli ministers over Gaza


cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/33638062
in reply to FelixCress

I react to people wearing those dumb little hats the same way I react to people wearing swastika armbands.
in reply to Ann Archy

Be careful, sister. While Smotrich and Ben-Gvir are certainly genocidal and guilty of war crimes, let's not resort to antisemitic attacks. Don't forget, the Israeli government doesn't represent all jews and there are Israeli human rights organisations, newspapers, and genocide scholars calling it out for what it is.
in reply to Ann Archy

Someone wearing a kippah does not mean they support the actions of Israel
in reply to FelixCress

Why not grant them the visa and arrest them when their foot touches dutch soil? It would also stoke fear of travel in general from Israel. Seems like the ministers did Israel a favor with this move.


Beijing floods: 30 killed as China sees summer of extreme weather


At least 30 people have died in Beijing and more than 80,000 were evacuated to safety, Chinese authorities said, as heavy rains and floods ravage roads and houses in northern China.

Eight other people died after a landslide on Monday in Chengde city, about three hours northeast of Beijing.

China is dealing with a summer of extreme weather. Record heatwaves hit the country's eastern region earlier this month while floods swept the country's southwest.



China pushes back at US demands to stop buying Russian and Iranian oil




I’m thinking of building a comparison tool... would you find this useful?


Heya 👋
I’m thinking of building a simple, unbiased comparison platform for products, services, tools — even technical stuff like frameworks, APIs, and AI tools — to help you decide faster with clear side-by-side insights.

Personally, I often find myself deep in Amazon reviews, YouTube videos, and scattered blog posts when trying to choose something new. While some comparison sites exist, I’ve never found a complete or truly comprehensive solution. T
he same goes for developers — when exploring new frameworks or libraries with similar alternatives, a quick, focused comparison could really help clarify things.

Before going further, I’d love to hear from you: Would you find this useful? Your feedback will help shaping what I build next.



in reply to QuantumSpecter

Does Spotify really have "fans"? Or maybe just users?
And what user spends time "threatening" piracy, if they know how to do it?

Also, I realized only last month that my younger brother doesn't know how to use torrents. Shame on me for having left home too early!


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

It would have never happened if they were using any chinese alternatives like Deepseek or Qwen. but here we are in the dystopian world ruled by westerners 🙁
in reply to china🇨🇳

Only because Google doesn't index Chinese sites =P Deepseek had an access control bug when it first launched and Qwen is owned by Jack Ma.

in reply to zero

Shaolin, and buddhist tradition could be something for the Chinese to really be proud of. It's a shame they haven't managed to protect their heritage from greed and abuse in the modern times.
in reply to lerba

Some how I'm not surprised at this, he sounds like a commercial minded person.
in reply to lerba

Corruption is ubiquitous with everything. It's a shame any of us didn't do better. We can start here, now.
in reply to zero

“Celebrity CEO Monk” is a real sign of the times


Palestinian activist who worked on Oscar-winning film 'No Other Land' killed in occupied West Bank


in reply to Saleh

'Israeli settler' aka Zionist
in reply to Luouth

"Israeli Settler" who is plainly on the video shooting at a crowd, named, internationally sanctioned and fully identified. But let's just call him "Israeli settler" for the headline...
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in reply to NoForwardslashS

"State sanctioned terrorist" might hurt the feefees of the terrorist sympathizers, though...
in reply to NoForwardslashS

Israeli settlers financed by the state of israel, yet country refuse to impise russian and iranian levels of sanctions to israel
in reply to Saleh

A statement released by the Mount Hebron Regional Council reads: "We will be there to support him and to call on the IDF and the government to demonstrate sovereignty—arrest the attackers, not the victims. Yinon stands on the front lines for us; we will stand there for him."


They are clling the murderer a victim.

israelnationalnews.com/news/41…



Buying Private tracker invites


Are any of these services trusted? Would a private tracker lock your account as soon as they figure out you bought your way in?

And can anybody vouch for or against [redacted]?

Edit: pretty sure the site I asked about is a scammer so I removed it so nobody goes there. I had completely misspelled the tracker name when contacting them and they didn't correct me.

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in reply to brownmustardminion

Its really easy to get into MaM and TL, from MaM you can get invites to quality mid tier trackers such as BHD, Orpheus, Seedpool, Aither, ANT, and LST. For the vast majority of users that is going to cover all their needs.

Its just not worth spending money to buy invites.

You basically need a seedbox on the higher tier trackers and at that point debrid services are a better value.

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in reply to upstroke4448

Those debrid services cause no seeders on the file you are trying to acquire.
Congratulations, you played yourself.
in reply to Appoxo

It does not "cause no seeders". It just doesn't typically seed (although some do offer seedbox options). Its a leecher, like the millions of users who torrent without port forwarding or stop seeding after the file is complete.

For debrid users it doesn't matter. The PT try hards do all the seeding and the media itself is typically already cached on the debrid services servers.

My point being if your going to pay to access pirated content, buying a debrid service is a much better value then a PT invite or a standalone seedbox.

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in reply to upstroke4448

Welp...I better stop seeding public tracker content on nyaa for a ratio of 6:1 and just bail now.
Remember: If nobody seeds anymore, where will you get it by torrenting? At that point it's useless and you'll need to use either the interwebz or usenet.
in reply to Appoxo

Its like your only reading half the comment before you need to regurgitate random points about the importance of seeding, which is not at all the point. This should be obvious as I clearly stated the point.
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in reply to upstroke4448

It does not "cause no seeders". It just doesn't typically seed


You're (and the service) are a leech*
^* With an option to be only a semi-leech.

For debrid users it doesn't matter. The PT try hards do all the seeding and the media itself is typically already cached on the debrid services servers.


You leech from PT and then the media is cached (read: temporary. So how long? 2 weeks if it isnt popular?). So where are you getting the file from if not from me and other seeders keeping the torrent afloat?

My point being if your going to pay to access pirated content, buying a debrid service is a much better value then a PT invite or a standalone seedbox.


Seedbox? Maybe not $/h or GB. But entry to higher entry trackers (if that's what you are after.
If you are after small encodes or 720p YIFY encodes this aint it. At this point you might as well just stream from pirate websites because the quality is the same.
Nothing like a ctrlHD, FLUX, NTb encode but rather just, well, meh and blocky output.
PT invites? Agreed. The user will be banned either because they couldnt keep quiet or someone up the chain caught wind and banned the invite tree)

Sufficiently read your comment now?

in reply to upstroke4448

I'm struggling with this part -- new to MAM, but not seeing chats in irc or in forums directing people to music trackers.
in reply to mountaincalledmonkey

With MAM you basically want to grab a ton of freeleech torrents so that you can max your BP out. For example I seed about 350 torrents for 550bp/hr which means every 3ish days I have max points.

You spend all that on upload credit. Once you have 1tb upload credit you can access the invites section of the forum.

From there you can get an invite to Orpheus, which is a very strong music tracker. There also some other good mid tier trackers.

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in reply to brownmustardminion

No, yes, no.

There are exceptions. You’ll run into people saying that they bought an account into some tracker years ago and that was their doorway in to everything. Maybe some of those people are telling the truth.

Just get in the normal way.



Trump announces 35% tariffs on Canada starting Aug. 1


Donald Trump on Thursday announced a 35% tariff on Canadian imports, starting Aug. 1, citing that Ottawa had retaliated with tariffs against Washington.

“Instead of working with the United States, Canada retaliated with its own Tariffs,” Trump said in his letter to Mark Carney, prime minister of Canada, posted on Truth Social.

in reply to babysandpiper

Trump is named in the Epstein files.

Trump cut NOAA and FEMA funding before flash flooding killed over 200 people in Texas including two dozen Christian girls.




A rare, direct warning from Japan signals a shift in the fight against child sex tourism in Asia


Japan’s embassy in Laos and its Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a rare and unusually direct advisory, warning Japanese men against “buying sex from children” in Laos.

The move was sparked by Ayako Iwatake, a restaurant owner in Vientiane, who allegedly saw social media posts of Japanese men bragging about child prostitution. In response, she launched a petition calling for government action.

The Japanese-language bulletin makes clear such conduct is prosecutable under both Laotian law and Japan’s child prostitution and pornography law, which applies extraterritorially.

This diplomatic statement was not only a legal warning. It was a rare public acknowledgement of Japanese men’s alleged entanglement in transnational child sex tourism, particularly in Southeast Asia.

It’s also a moment that demands we look beyond individual criminal acts or any one nation and consider the historical, racial and structural inequalities that make such mobility and exploitation possible.

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in reply to Pro

Japan’s official warning wasn’t triggered by a government audit or diplomatic scandal. It came because Ayako Iwatake saw social media posts of Japanese men boasting about buying sex from children and refused to look away.


Ayako Iwatake the real hero.




As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution


I'm sure I'd be preaching to the choir if I told you that it's time for us to immigrate from übercorp owned social media and services. All of you have done so, so that's not the point of this post. Even though we are on these new platforms, the fediverse is still sensitive to requests from governmental bodies and organizations. Lemmy.zip has already blocked UK users and Lemmy.world will almost certainly do the same. Due to the size of Matrix's biggest homeserver matrix.org, the admins of said homeserver are beginning to follow the OSA and have already raised their minimum age to 18+. And instances who don't follow the Act could be subjected to insurmountable paperwork and even blocked from the UK, Australia and other countries enacting these outrageous laws soon.

Blocking UK users to avoid this is almost a necessity, and as Labour is attempting to get lawmakers to outlaw VPNs, we could be seeing the equivalent of the UK Great Firewall soon. However, it will take significant amounts of time, money and paperwork to outlaw VPNs and to get ISPs to block sites and protocols. This is where federated and open source platforms have an advantage, without being shackled by bureaucracy they are able to quickly adapt. But this is not sustainable, and eventually the UK will become even more overreaching in order to gain more control over people's Internet usage.

Darknets such as Tor, I2P and Yggdrasil are a potential solution, however they have multiple issues. Tor is slow and has a reputation of being used by pedophiles and drug traffickers. I2P is scattered in implementation and cannot handle high load. ~~Yggdrasil is alpha software and requires IPv6, which in many countries is simply not possible to use~~. Whilst these darknets are extremely resistant to censorship from other countries, with the only way to fully dismantle them would be to shutoff all access to the Internet, they still are not capable of handling modern Internet usage.

We might need new completely independent mediums seperate from the Internet to avoid this. Physical bluetooth mesh networks or other technology is an example. Maybe even a new version of dial-up. All I know is that governments will not stop here. I might seem like I'm overreacting here, but we need to be prepared for what is coming.

CORRECTION: I was told by a peer that Yggdrasil peers must have IPv6, however one does not need an IPv6 enabled network to use it, they just need an IPv6 operating system/device, which virtually every modern operating system including Windows and Linux does. Yggdrasil is actually Beta software.

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in reply to Spectre

I have a ton of respect for Cuba. They're remarkably plucky, given that the US has spent decades trying to strangle them to death.
in reply to prole

Yeah, they've also seemed to follow Fidel's model of willingness to reflect and grow. Early Cuba was brutal, before and after their revolution. Fidel did and ordered horrible things, but he changed and showed remorse as he aged. That trait made him stick out to me among world leaders as someone who genuinely wanted what was best for his people and country. He also seemed to try to not rob the country blind as so many in positions like his do.

I wish nothing but the best for my neighbors in Cuba. I know they're going through more rough times, but they're tough as all get out and I suspect that they're far more likely to eventually move to a stateless, moneyless, and free society than any other nominally communist nation at the moment. And to my trans siblings in Cuba, congrats

in reply to Spectre

Any room for English speaking teachers?

Will work for testestorone.


in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

The true one:

Here's a command line interface with vim open. Close it to disable the trap.


in reply to pelespirit

I love it when wild animals yell at me.

Whether it's that guy at the bus stop who blocks the traffic or the one with the bible and the speaker that renders his words into nonsense noise...

They're all a part of our ecosystem!



Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza


in reply to Kokesh

Btselm have a yourube channel with 18 years of israeli crimes

in reply to Domino

Fucking good. I hope this royally pisses off the shitty duopoly and we actually get a proper market again.



Brazil to double down on Brics in defiance of Donald Trump


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Celso Amorim, lead foreign affairs adviser to leftwing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, told the Financial Times those attacks “are reinforcing our relations with the Brics, because we want to have diversified relations and not depend on any one country”.
in reply to schizoidman

I believe in the BRICS proposal. For any of you who don't, if you lived in a third world country you would understand what the missed potential is all about. Latin America is somewhat integrated, but people from Brazil could do scientific exchange with Uzbekistan, or an Algerian could be a professor in Senegal. The human potential is so great, because there are a lot of people who are left out from the current state of things.

Everyone wants to go study or be a professional in Europe, but what about all the other countries? Doing the hard thing (working together to reach new heights) is difficult, but it is the only way forward. And that's what the BRICS propose.



Lula says the US has ignored Brazil’s attempts to negotiate Trump's announced tariff


Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Thursday that his government has not been successful in trying to negotiate the 50% tariff on Brazilian imports that Donald Trump has threatened to impose.

Washington has ignored Brazil’s attempts to negotiate ahead of the measure’s expected implementation on Aug. 1., the Brazilian leader said.

https://apnews.com/article/lula-brazil-trump-tariffs-bolsonaro-561abba98f3a66ef2bfc36c7cb2034a4

in reply to MicroWave

I hope the left wins in Brazil next year. The BRICS really needs all the traction it can get now. It's a make or die situation for multilateralism.


Our Genocide


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PDF:
- Full Report.
- Summary.


Since October 2023, Israel has shifted its policy toward the Palestinians. Its military onslaught on Gaza, underway for more than 21 months, has included mass killing, both directly and through creating unlivable conditions, serious bodily or mental harm to an entire population, decimation of basic infrastructure throughout the Strip, and forcible displacement on a huge scale, with ethnic cleansing added to the list of official war objectives.

This is compounded by mass arrests and abuse of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, which have effectively become torture camps, and tearing apart the social fabric of Gaza, including the destruction of Palestinian educational and cultural institutions. The campaign is also an assault on Palestinian identity itself, through the deliberate destruction of refugee camps and attempts to undermine the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).

An examination of Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated, deliberate action to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip. In other words: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. 

The term genocide refers to a socio-historical and political phenomenon involving acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. Both morally and legally, genocide cannot be justified under any circumstance, including as an act of self-defense. 

Genocide always occurs within a context: there are conditions that enable it, triggering events, and a guiding ideology. The current onslaught on the Palestinian people, including in the Gaza Strip, must be understood in the context of more than seventy years in which Israel has imposed a violent and discriminatory regime on the Palestinians, taking its most extreme form against those living in the Gaza Strip. Since the State of Israel was established, the apartheid and occupation regime has institutionalized and systematically employed mechanisms of violent control, demographic engineering, discrimination, and fragmentation of the Palestinian collective. These foundations laid by the regime are what made it possible to launch a genocidal attack on the Palestinians immediately after the Hamas-led attack on 7 October 2023.

The assault on Palestinians in Gaza cannot be separated from the escalating violence being inflicted, at varying levels and in different forms, on Palestinians living under Israeli rule in the West Bank and within Israel. The violence and destruction in these areas is intensifying over time, with no effective domestic or international mechanism acting to halt them. We warn of the clear and present danger that the genocide will not remain confined to the Gaza Strip, and that the actions and underlying mindset driving it may be extended to other areas as well. 

The recognition that the Israeli regime is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip, and the deep concern that it may expand to other areas where Palestinians live under Israeli rule, demand urgent and unequivocal action from both Israeli society and the international community, and use of every means available under international law to stop Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.

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The Fediverse is the Left Wing Circle Jerk


You could be forgiven for looking around Reddit and saying "this is the most Left wing place on the Internet".

But there is an even bigger Left wing bastion of insanity, Transgender orthodoxy, and unchecked out of control Moderation. And its called "the Fediverse"

Never in my life have I seen such a Hive containing the Damned and Reprobates of life.

A wise man once said "I may had voted for Obama.....but you people are insane".

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in reply to ToastedMuffinMan

I was about to agree with you based on the title, but the rest of your post makes that a downvote instead.

in reply to oakey66

Yeah they should just sit back and do nothing while their government finishes the job! /s

in reply to RandAlThor

All it took for the West to so much as begin turning on Israel was pictures of skeletonised children.

If America and Europe truly believed in "Never again!" we would have carrier groups running 24-hour sorties and bombing Tel Aviv into the stone age. Any other country (outside of Africa, ugh) pulling this shit would have been flattened and invaded by now.

Nope! Instead we paid for this genocide. Solid return on AIPAC's investment!

I'm fucking sick. We're seeing images out of WWII concentration camps on the 2025 news. Cut Israel out from the world of decent men. They've forfeited their right to exist. Sorry guys, used to root for you. Never again!

in reply to shalafi

I'm pretty sure Yemen is outside of Africa, yet America and Europe have not gone after Saudi Arabia and the UAE for their war crimes there.

What might be the connecting factor here?

in reply to shalafi

Any other country (outside of Africa, ugh) pulling this shit would have been flattened and invaded by now.


Are you not aware of many wars around the world like Myanmar (and rohingya genocide) and Ukraine? What about yazidi? You're straight up delusional if you truly think any country with sizeable power would get flattened, especially nuclear-power.

in reply to REDACTED

Israel only has power because America gives it to them. They would collapse overnight if we went rolled into the Mediterranean looking for a fight.

Hell, if America pulled our support, their neighbors would flatten them, Sampson Doctrine be damned.

in reply to shalafi

USA didn't give nukes to Israel and the neighbour thing you talk about was already tried in arab-israeli war.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/07/i…



Trump says he cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein because 'he stole people who worked for me'


Virginia Giuffre, who was sexually abused by Epstein, said British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her as a teenager to be exploited by Epstein when she worked at Mar-a-Lago.

in reply to zero

Ah, the infamous two weeks deadline. The same two weeks he would eradicate ISIS, fix American healthcare, create peace in the Middle East etc. etc.

Which means in two weeks he will never mention it again and act like he never said it.

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in reply to zero

This is 2 week deadline #4 or #5 for Russia to end the war now? I'm losing track.




Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups


Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it.

In reports published on Monday, the two groups said Israel had targeted civilians in Gaza only because of their identity as Palestinians over nearly two years of war, causing severe and in some cases irreparable damage to Palestinian society.

Multiple international and Palestinian groups have already described the war as genocidal, but reports from two of Israel-Palestine’s most respected human rights organisations, who have for decades documented systemic abuses, is likely to add to pressure for action.

in reply to greenfire

Two ~~leading human rights~~soon-to-be-terrorist organisations based in Israel


I guess this would be the important internal test for this society. Wether they'd snap out of it and face the crimes they committed and drastically change direction as a result. Or wherher they double down and increase domestic repression against dissenting voices who bring up those crimes. I bet on the latter since that's where many economic interests are vested and it would avoid instability at least for a while.

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