Groom dies of injuries from celebratory gunfire after wedding in Turkey
Groom dies of injuries from celebratory gunfire after wedding in Turkey
State media report that Ali K, 23, was wounded by shots allegedly fired by a female relative of his wifeGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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In St. Louis, celebratory gunfire is common every New Years and 4th of July. So much that people die from falling bullets pretty much every time, and it also leads to a lot of property damage to roofs and whatnot.
Ive never heard it anywhere else personally, but I would imagine it happens to some extent in other large cities
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imagine shooting 100 arrows directly up in the air and just standing there
it's that level of stupid
South African influencer apologises over viral Russian job videos
South African influencer Cyan Boujee apologises over viral Russian job videos
There has been a backlash over the recruitment scheme and a government warning to young people.Khanyisile Ngcobo (BBC News)
A Western toilet for half and half.
I don't really think we have time for Starbucks
"Immediately when I saw the comments on my stories and on my videos… I knew that this is not something I stand with,"
Trash human.
I should be thankful that public shaming has worked, but imagine only changing your mind on human trafficking and sex slavery because your Insta audience started saying nasty things to you...
How western media helped turn Israel's genocide into 'fake news'
Israel justified its murder of Al Jazeera’s crew on the grounds that one among them, Anas al-Sharif, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, was secretly a “Hamas terrorist”.
Sharif, we are told, similarly found time between breaks from his 22-month, frantic reporting schedule - much of it on camera - to serve as a Hamas commander “directing rocket attacks on Israeli civilians”.
We now know exactly where this ridiculous story originated: from something Israel calls its “Legitimisation Cell”. The intelligence unit’s name, which was surely never supposed to come to light, is the give-away. Its job has been to legitimise Israel’s atrocities with stories vilifying its victims and thereby making the genocide more palatable to Israeli and western audiences.
The Israeli news website +972 exposed the cell within days of Sharif’s killing this month, reporting that it was formed after 7 October 2023 - the day Hamas and other groups broke out of their Gaza prison camp, spreading carnage, following 17 years of a brutal siege.
But while Israeli mendacity is entirely to be expected - after all, it is the whole purpose of its official hasbara industry - what astonishes most is the western media’s continuing connivance in promoting Israel’s litany of lies.
Germany’s most popular paper, Bild, published a front page that might as well have been written by the Israeli military: “Terrorist disguised as a journalist killed in Gaza.” No claim, no quote marks. Just a statement of fact.
The UK media was little better, with most outlets prominently featuring Israel’s unevidenced “legitimisation” smears of Sharif in headlines and coverage. Astonishingly, BBC coverage on its flagship News at Ten swallowed whole Israel’s framing of Sharif as a legitimate target - as well as uncritically peddling the presumption that Israel was targeting him and him alone.
The context that has been missing from western coverage is this: Israel has killed more than 240 Palestinian journalists in Gaza over the past two years - more than all the journalists killed in both World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the wars in the former Yugoslavia, and the Afghanistan War combined.
This is a pattern - a glaring one - but seemingly one to which western journalists are entirely blind, even as Israel continues to bar them from reporting in Gaza, nearly two years into its genocide.
How western media helped turn Israel's genocide into 'fake news'
Israel's intent to annihilate Gaza would have been clear much sooner had we listened to Palestinian journalists, rather than the evasions and equivocations of the BBCMiddle East Eye
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Yes yes, but what kind of framing is
the day Hamas and other groups broke out of their Gaza prison camp, spreading carnage, following 17 years of a brutal siege.
Sounds like an excuse to a terror attack with almost exclusively civilian targets. Why is it so hard for advocates of the Palestinian cause to condemn this attack??
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You mean> 90% military targets according to Western standards, of which more than 33% on active military duty?
Just look at the West Bank and find out what non violent resistance leads to.
You must not be used to being provided with the actual context of October 7. Very shocking to learn that Palestinians were actually in a concentration camp for 17 years and broke out. I wonder why that part of the both sides story never gets reported.
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Because the music festival was in between the path to a military base and should have already ended by that day.
Why did they attack more than 5 military bases around Gaza responsible for their concentration camp you ask? Or did the Western media not tell you about that?
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Israel shouldn't put a "music festival" next to a military base guarding a concentration camp. And especially not have armed active duty IDF soldiers using the festival as human shields.
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Regardless of the content of the article.
I want to remind people that the Middle East Eye is directly run by the Qatari Embassy in London:
theguardian.com/world/2017/jun…
When Saudi Arabia and the UAE blockaded Qatar, the Middle East Eye started hitting them 24/7.
Another thing suspicious is the absence of revenue.
Around the world, newspapers fund themselves in 3 different ways :
- Advertising
- Subscriptions
- Donations
The Middle East Eye has no advertising. It has no subscriptions. And they don't ask for donations.
I have never seen anything like this. How do they fund themselves...?!
Again, this is NOT an attack on the content. But people should simply know this is a state-run newspaper.
Qatar given 10 days to meet 13 sweeping demands by Saudi Arabia
Gulf dispute deepens as allies issue ultimatum for ending blockade that includes closing al-Jazeera and cutting back ties with IranPatrick Wintour (The Guardian)
Your article doesn't provide any evidence or your claim. Nor does it debunk the article itself.
It would be very cool if Qatar was the only country doing actual journalism about Gaza, but from my reading of MEE I severely doubt it's Qatar running the operation.
MEE writes plenty of critical reports about Qatar. They do almost always go very soft on one specific country though. And it's not the one you named.
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Are you going to remind us again when someone posts a BBC or PBS or NPR article?
No. Why would I do that?
They are very transparent about their ownership structure and sources of funding.
Actual journalists won't say someone is a murderer even if there's a video of the person shooting a guy pulling out their ID and showing it to the camera and say "my name is ___ and I murdered this person".
When the person is charged then they will be termed "alleged murderer". Before there's charges they're termed something like "shooter" not murderer. Only once someone is convicted of the crime will they be called "murderer".
Genocide is a much greater crime than murder. It's not responsible journalism to make accusations like this. If a body like the ICJ convicted Israel's leadership on charges, or maybe id the country the media organization is based in made a declaration, then a journalist will start using the word genocide.
"Alternative media" have no journalistic standards and will say such things to lead their audiences to conclusions. If you're reading articles that are telling you how to think about a story, it's not actually journalism. Real journalism is about telling people what's happening, not telling people how they're supposed to think about, and definitely not about making accusations in an effort support activist causes.
Egypt training thousands of Palestinians for postwar Gaza security force: 'Either Hamas or chaos'
Egypt training thousands of Palestinians for postwar Gaza security force: 'Either Ham
Egypt is training potential Palestinian recruits at military academies; most come from the Palestinian Authority’s security services, and some Fatah members, Hamas’ rival, join from Gaza as wellYnet (ynetglobal)
US envoy sparks uproar after telling Lebanese journalists to ‘act civilised’
US envoy sparks uproar after telling Lebanese journalists to ‘act civilised’
Reporters demand apology from Tom Barrack, US special envoy to Syria, after his remarks at Beirut press conferenceGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Javier Milei embroiled in corruption scandal tying his sister to alleged bribes
Javier Milei embroiled in corruption scandal tying his sister to alleged bribes
Leaked audio links Karina Milei, sister of Argentina’s president, to alleged bribes involving drug contracts for medicines for disabled peopleTiago Rogero (The Guardian)
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What's the opposition look like in Argentina?
In the US, our president is putting to the test how corrupt you can be when you don't face a credible opposition. As awful as corruption is, getting caught stealing from your citizens doesn't threaten one's power unless there's an appealing political alternative.
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A smear is normally "hey this guy looks shady and HATES children", not "we evidence of your sister (the secretary general) on tape routinely accepting kickbacks for government contracts".
FYI his sister is a government official because Milei specifically removed a law that barred family members from being appointed to such positions.
Frustrated Russians grapple with fuel crisis as Ukraine attacks oil refineries
Frustrated Russians grapple with fuel crisis as Ukraine attacks oil refineries
Motorists queue, petrol stations run dry and prices surge in country that is one of the world’s top energy exportersPjotr Sauer (The Guardian)
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Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
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"This historic settlement will benefit all class members," Nelson said. "We look forward to announcing details of the settlement in the coming weeks."
The details aren't known yet but it sounds like maybe AI companies may stop training by illegally downloading books
$5 says they're allowed to keep whatever they already have.
And they've already downloaded basically all the available media currently in existence.
There are websites where you can sign up for class actions (a lot of them require no proof) and people make like a hundred or hundreds each year.
I would lose the checks before I cashed them probably, but if you have a lot of free time and are organized you can make a little money.
Very true, the websites are usually pretty good about detailing what level of information is needed.
The no proof ones are usually like 5-$25, but if adds up. I just point it out because most people don't realize that there is always a couple class actions that they can add their name to for payouts.
If every author in the class filed a claim, industry advocates warned, it would "financially ruin" the entire AI industry.
Journalists need to stop this shit. Yes, it would financially ruin them. It'd ruin them the same way drug dealers would be financially ruined if you confiscated their drugs.
Israel Urges Washington to Allow a Preemptive Attack on Iran
Israeli Colonel Jacques Neriah, a former intelligence official and a special analyst for the Middle East, warned on Sunday of an impending “second round” of war against Iran as Tehran weighs a revenge attack on Tel Aviv.“There is a sense that a war is coming, that Iranian revenge is in the works. The Iranians will not be able to live with this humiliation for long,” Neriah told Udi Segal and Anat Davidov on 103FM.
“Israel must launch a preemptive strike against Iran in its present state, as a large part of its military capabilities is paralyzed,” he added.
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Then we need to stop antagonizing them and giving them a reason to get nukes. At this point they have enough institutional knowledge and resources to make one so them not doing it is more them not wanting to, ie. The ayatollahs fatwa against them.
If Israel and the US keep bombing them though and make them think the only path to safety is through nukes then maybe that fatwa goes away.
France returns human skulls to Madagascar, 128 years after French massacre
Six Syrian troops killed in latest Israeli strikes near Damascus
Six Syrian troops killed in latest Israeli strikes near Damascus
Israeli drone strikes have killed at least six Syrian soldiers in the Damascus countryside, Syrian state TV reported early on Wednesday.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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I’m sure this has changed a bit since the old (very popular) king died
Sort of a chicken-egg situation. Is the king so popular that nobody bothers to criticize him? Or is the king's light touch less likely to stir the pot and provoke criticism that results in prosecution?
you would probably rather go to prison than face the angry mob
This sounds like using a Jim Crow era lynch mob to explain the popularity of a Segregationist governor.
Why the US government is not the savior Intel needs | TechCrunch
Why the US government is not the savior Intel needs | TechCrunch
Intel doesn't need cash. Instead, the struggling semiconductor giant needs to figure out how to drum up interest for its foundry business.Rebecca Szkutak (TechCrunch)
Thousands of Protesters Block Roads Across Israel During Nationwide “Day of Disruption”
In Israel, thousands of protesters have blocked roads around the country, including a major highway in Tel Aviv, burning tires, calling for the return of the hostages still held in Gaza and an end to Israel’s war on the besieged strip. The protests were led by families of hostages, and part of a nationwide “Day of Disruption.”
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"Meanwhile, Israel’s military chief clashed with far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir about Israel’s Gaza City operation, with Smotrich reportedly saying, “Whoever doesn’t evacuate, don’t let them. No water, no electricity, they can die of hunger or surrender.”
I bet those 2 pieces of shit still act offended if you call this genocide genocide
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The hostages are dead.
Imagine getting kidnapped and then your country bombs you for 2 years with white phosphorus lmao
Trump imposes 50% tariff on India as punishment for buying Russian oil
Donald Trump imposed 50% tariffs on most US imports from India, making good on a threat to punish one of the world’s largest economies over its purchases of discounted Russian oil.
The tariffs, which came into effect just after midnight on Wednesday in Washington, risk inflicting significant damage on the Indian economy and further disrupting global supply chains.
US tariffs of 25% on Indian goods went into force earlier this month, but Trump announced plans to double the rate, citing New Delhi’s purchases of Russian oil, which the White House has argued is indirectly funding Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Trump imposes 50% tariff on India as punishment for buying Russian oil
US president has argued New Delhi indirectly helping fund Ukraine war as experts say move is ‘own goal’ against allyCallum Jones (The Guardian)
S Jaishankar, the external affairs minister, called Washington’s demand that New Delhi stop buying Russian crude “unjustified and unreasonable” and accused the west of hypocrisy, noting that Europe trades far more with Russia. To avoid the extra US tariff, India would have to replace about 42% of its oil imports.
The 42% figure needs some contextualisation. I believe the figure was significantly less (single digits?) before the beginning of the full scale invasion.
I made a jank chicken feeder auger.
Just scrolling through random photos. Old hi-bay light reflector, a cheap metal screw auger, some old pipe and a random drill I had. ESP controlled with some customised firmware. Silly chickens also have an automated door, heater, light... hooked into home assistant.
They're not even my chickens, they just rocked up one day and started trying to sleep on my hot water cylinder... nekkminnit I've been tricked into building them a house!
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Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward
Your Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward - gHacks Tech News
Microsoft Word documents will by default be saved to cloud storage going forward, and not to the local system.Martin Brinkmann (Ghacks Technology News)
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Is this on Macs too?!?
Not mine, then again I use nothing Microsoft on my Mac.
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Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.www.libreoffice.org
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This here.
I wish Only Office got as much fanfare as LibreOffice. The UI is much closer to Microsoft Office and it tends to have better compatibility.
I have both installed though and use them both lol.
Libreoffice their latest blogpost is from the 20th of August 2025. There have been a few releases in the past few months as well.
Openoffice their latest ( Apache Openoffice 4.1.15 ) was released almost 2 years ago ( December 2023 ).
Libreoffice seems like a more recent, better supported tool over Openoffice which hasn't seen any updates since 2023 according to their own website.
I'm on my phone, so I didn't search extensively. But I think that also plays a role in why there's a much larger fanbase for libreoffice rather than Openoffice.
I've no recent experience with either so I can't comment on how well either works.
Edit: I looked up the wrong one. My statement remains correct w.r.t. Openoffice, but they mentioned Onlyoffice which is a different product.
Apache OpenOffice
The official developer website of the Apache OpenOffice open source project, home of OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base.openoffice.apache.org
I believe Open Office and Only Office are different products.
Only Office had a major release in June, 2025.
And you are correct that Open Office last update was back in December 2023.
openoffice is an apache project, created when oracle gave them the code and rights to the openoffice project. ibm later donated symphony to them. anyone familiar with apache knows they do things their own way, and usually slowly.
libreoffice originated from a fork when openoffice's status under oracle was in doubt. it progresses faster than apache, as most developers also switched.
onlyoffice is an entirely different application. decent enough, but with its own quirks. it can also be slow on lower-spec systems due to the heavy reliance on js. originally a latvian-russian project, it was reorganized (via new corporate entities in uk and sg) to hide the russian ties for 'reasons'.
OnlyOffice is Russian-owned, via a holding company in Singapore. When Russia invaded Ukraine and sanctions threatened the business, they obfuscated this, but it's still Lev Bannov's product.
The importance you attach to this is up to you, but they try quite hard to hide it.
not a single security researcher has found it
They do find it regularly. Its not even a secret, they are openly advertising it as a feature.
AND ALEXA IS LISTENING TO ME 24X365 DAYS A YEAR!
It is... thats its purpose...
I think you are in the wrong place on lemmy if you are so willingly blind to the realities of tech companies.
You can't opt out, most healthcate providers use windows.
Mental health awareness? No thanks, I rather just write in a journal and talk to myself in the mirror as therapy.
until your computer force reboots itself in the middle of the day to do updates it didn't tell you about, and you log back in and later that night find it uploaded all your shit to the cloud and just for good measure deleted some of it too as a fuck you
it's the Microsoft way
tip: Only write about the revolution, short stories about your hatred of capitalism, your suicide plans, your teenage angst, and erotic anthropomorphic horse fan fiction.
For everything else, use LibreOffice.
Let's say this huge breach of security and privacy is okay.
How are Microsoft ensuring these sensitive documents are not being transferred via or stored on servers located in hostile countries with lax data laws (such as foreign nations like the USA?).
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Microsoft has already said it doesn't matter where your data is stored, it isn't safe from the United States.
But you can change this behaviour in settings, it's just the default for now.
So, if you don't trust Microsoft to handle your documents, but still somehow use MS Word and OneDrive, for the moment you can still stop it from saving your Word documents to their servers.
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No for most it's customers and an option for them all. MS is very clear in its policies. Any AI services you use, isn't sent back for training. The policy is very clearly explained and one of the clearer ones.
Business or enterprise users data isn't trained and individuals data can opt out
I remember when facebook had a policy to require users to opt-in to having third parties scrape users data, but then it turned out a "bug" caused FB to sell everyones data anyway and they made billions more money than they would have.
I have no doubt a similar "bug" will make its way to the MS servers if one hasnt already.
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I actually appreciate this. The only place I use Word is at work, and nothing I create in Word at work is 'mine'. I do not care at all about the security of things I do at work (that's for our IT Security team to care about), and all this means is that if I accidentally screw up, or if my computer just up and dies on me... all of my work files should be 'safe'.
My employer has been going very hard towards ensuring that our work computers can ONLY be used for work purposes. Once I accepted this and embraced it I found that I'm now 100% free of Microsoft for anything personal, and it is amazing.
there is a reaching hand that goes further than just using it for work.
lets say you open libreoffice writer and write a party invite. you send this party invite to a friend - they are invited to your party.
your friend opens it in MSWord, its uploaded to the cloud and scraped for all of your personal data to train their AI and to be sold to the lowest bidder.
you had and want nothing to do with microsoft, but they are still harvesting your data.
Export to a .pdf, automatically opens by default in user browser via local storage as a reader, bypasses MS
This is still problematic shit though, on the same level as enabling Recall by default and encrypting W11 storage devices by default.
i have been trying to understand what information i send to people and how i send it in an attempt to try and get as lottle data into msrecall as possible.
im not quite there yet (and probably wont be before the oct cutoff) because my mother still uses windows & emails me sometimes, and a few of my friends on discord use windows. its really difficult because i have no control over my data being scraped by products i do not use and have never accepted a eula for. its...... aggravating 🙁
The unfortunate fact is if a user who views what you post is using a windows machine, the likelihood of the information on their screen being captured by Microsoft is overwhelmingly high.
I guess you may have to approach the issue how you would the public-facing internet at large: if you cannot verify who and how people are viewing your material, do not post any material that can be accessed by windows. If you must, post it through a trusted circle of users who also understand the issue.
I mean, I'm in the same boat. This doesn't effect me except for work stuff. But here's the thing, all of my documents are already backed up to the cloud via OneDrive settings. So this is redundant at best.
At the end of the day, one of the reasons I hate the MS experience is because they push things on you. Its not your PC, its theirs.
Hey, you want to use OneDrive? No? Are you sure? No? Are you really sure? No? Why don't I just turn it on for you so you can see how great it is. You must have turned it off by accident, let me turn it back on. OK, OK I get it you really don't want to use onedrive. Oh, I forgot that fact once our annual update came out and undid that setting. You straight out uninstalled onedirve and altered your registry? Ok, how about we just upload Word documents for you.
Munoz backs up the decision with half a dozen advantages for saving documents to the cloud. From never losing progress and access anywhere to easy collaboration and increased security and compliance.
Munoz kept out the little details where nobody wants this and this is only a good thing for Microsoft
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Office is the product that helped keep Microsoft ticking over. The world is too dependant on Office and people won’t abandon it just because of this.
My fat fingers keep trying to type Microsoft Orifice.
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Silence! The great Microsoft has decreed that from this day forward your documents belong to them! No dissension!
Proceed to the payment portal to pay your offerings immediately. Only those worthy enough to pay for the Extra^TM^ and Premium^TM^ tiers will be allowed to use the File menu.
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tell your friends.
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I think it they are based in Latvia now which is in Europe. They did originally start in Russia and still supply the Russian government. Though it is free and open source. So where it is based does not really matter.
OnlyOffice is one of the few open source applications which actually puts effort into its UI. LibreOffice looks straight from 1990. I really would not recommend LibreOffice to anyone who is not technical, whereas OnlyOffice provides a great UI experience.
With the entire West supporting a livestreamed genocide the whole moral highground schtick does not really land for me anymore either.
Most customers don't want their users saving locally anyway for data protection and not having to do extra compliance and workstation management.
Of course folks here are acting like setting a default they don't like is insane chaos.
sounds like a 'service problem' someone once spoke about...
acquire your ms office 'elsewhere' and never link it to a ms account. same with windows. no msa, no 'cloud' to save to.
and there is a service problem here.
Switched to linux. No regrets so far.
Of the installs I've done in the past year, none were absolutely flawless. One had an error that I just hit "retry" and it worked. One required some serious googling but I found the fix on reddit (rip). One didn't work at all, and I switched to a different distro that did work.
I'm not going to lie and sugarcoat it, but once I got past the install everything has been fine. Hopefully things will continue to improve
Isn't this already the default?
I have to change it on every single fuckin document already. Have done so for years now at work.
// I don't use Word outside of work...
I have a Word document saved into my ‘personal account vault’ which is for personal thoughts (like a diary). Does this mean, they’ll automatically upload this too into their cloud?
If that’s the case, not sure what to do. Tempted to go back to old school diary but risk the chance of my family finding it.
Thanks, I’ll look into Markdown!
Or is it about saving notes to cloud?
No, that’s not it. I just want a Word-alike thing that allows me to put a password on it and use it as a ‘modern diary’ (like how you can make chapters and such in Word).
Not sure if I explained it well, English isn’t my native language. So wasn’t sure how to explain it
Time to learn another language then mix them
Siu Mit USA De Fa Si Si Zu Yi
The Only Good Fa Xi Si Zu Yi Ze Hai Sei Zo Ge
(Destroy fascism in the USA
The only good fascist is a dead one)
Now just need to transpose that and replace some characters. Of course, making it offline would greatly reduce government/corporate surveillance threats. As long as your family aren't cryptographers, they won't be able to decrypt it.
(Its Tri-Lingual. Cantonese Jyutping, Mandarin Pinyin, and English of course. Romanization of characters makes it harder to guess words especially when it gets transposed with a bunch of others.)
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That's because we are not "customers"
People can't seem to figure out that they are the mark at the poker table
This is certainly about making sure your files are safe and definitely not about stealing your data for training AI. /s
Don't let Murdersoft steal your data. Don't contribute to their corruption or genocide assistance.
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Step 2: libreoffice.org/
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My only problem is how Libre Office handles their style system. It's forced use for things like Footers, and very hard to manipulate and turn off unlike Word.
My own way to bypass it was to replace a new document text into an old converted word text that had the correct footer pages from Word.
I really hate page and Style guides because they always want to propagate everything through entire documents, instead of only changing things on a page by page basis. Adding things to previous pages when you change something isn't helpful.
No. That's the point. LibreOffice does not send your data to Microsoft.
LibreOffice is what Microsoft Office WAS without the bugs. If Word and Excel worked for you before the cloud, Libre is golden.
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Microsoft cutting crucial link to Gaza, Palestinians say
More than 20 Palestinians say they have been kicked off Skype, a popular tool for contacting relatives.Mohamed Shalaby and Joe Tidy (BBC News)
LOL, Excel doesn't mangle shit. It's best-in-class spreadsheet software for a dozen reasons. #1 being that it never changes. It's solid, no other software like it. Business won't risk fucking around with anything else.
SOURCE: Sysadmin for several companies, and one that mainly used Google for Business. Accounting still had to have Excel.
SOURCE: Sysadmin for several companies,
So, not actually an Excel power user then.
How many individuals care about what businesses do though? Usually they provide the hardware too, so it's whatever when it comes to what the company chooses to use.
These are more individual concerns for personal hardware. So long live LibreOffice.
Not really. What software and hardware a corporation chooses to use for their workforce is something that employees will not have much control over if they aren't in a high enough position.
Anything provided by a company is company property anyways. What matters more to me is what is used for personal use than a work computer or work phone or work etc.
So discussion wasn't off track. You were seeing things from the company perspective assuming the person was seeing it from a corporate position. I'm seeing it from a personal usage perspective and not corporate, which most employees have little control over and it's not their devices anyways.
LibreOffice does everything I need except that their version of Power Point (forgot the name lol) is a mess to work with in terms of making the slide deck visual appealing. Automatic guide lines, snapping and smartart, to name a few.
Thinking about onlyoffice but I'm not sure if I can trust them since I read about then trying to hide their ties to Russia.
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This feature doesn't even work.
So many times I'll save a word doc, attach it to outlook, and it'll silently attach an older version of the word doc.
Word says its up to date, one drive says its up to date, but outlook still gets an old version.
It takes hours to resolve. Everything Microsoft wastes so much of my time.
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"Fuck you, Microsoft." -Everyone, at all times
Even if you're not ready to come to Linux, you're definitely ready to switch to LibreOffice. I dare you to try it.
Writer and Impress should cover Word and Powerpoint perfectly. Even if your colleagues use Windows, you can still open them just fine.
Excel though is troublesome, especially those with coded VBA or some plugins from companies. But for basic Excel? Calc can do the job ok too.
It's still being kept barely alive for whatever reason. But it hasn't gotten any reasonable updates (I think not even including security updates as of recently, see libreoffice.org/discover/libre… ).
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Open Letter to Apache OpenOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
Today marks 20 years since the source code to OpenOffice was released. And today we say: LibreOffice is the future of OpenOffice. Let’s all get behind it! It’s great to have a rich and diverse set of free and open source software projects.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
ONLYOFFICE - Secure Online Office
ONLYOFFICE offers a secure online office suite highly compatible with MS Office formats. Connect it to your web platform for document editing and collaboration or use as a part of ONLYOFFICE Workspace.ONLYOFFICE - Online Office Applications for business
which I genuinely thought was retired, didn’t realize it was still a thing
It's not gone. It's still around. Libre is forked from OpenOffice. When Libre was forked, everyone moved to Libre because Open has a lot of issues, which is why Libre was forked.
“Fuck you, Microsoft.” -Everyone, at all times
Eh, that game where you had two gorillas standing on buildings lobbing exploding bananas at each other was pretty cool.
Office 365 requires an account to validate the license. Potentially it might work differently for the long term licensed versions (which features released to O365 now wouldn't reach until the next LTSC release), but I've not performed the initial install and licensing of those for clients yet
Or for home users who aren't already invested in a Microsoft ecosystem your best bet is to just use Libre Office
Edit: I accidentally made Office exclusive to leap years!
Thank you to the skilled developers who bailed on OpenOffice when the shit stain company Oracle bought Sun, and formed LibreOffice.
I can only hope there will always be digital freedom fighters on the side of good.
I've donated to LibreOffice, and you should too, if you use their suite.
This here. Not fully featured but a decent reader and editor which we hope will improve with time. Good effort on the devs!
LibreOffice & Open Office Document Reader | ODF
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Document reader & file editor for Libreoffice & OpenOffice | ODF: ODT, ODS +moref-droid.org
Also LaTeX is way simpler than plain TeX.
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No excuses. No distractions. Just write.ghostwriter - No excuses. No distractions. Just write.
I used nano for over 10y, I'm a nvimer now.
I just can't ever go back to office UI stuff. For my designs I still have Krita and Inkscape.
I don't think that's necessarily a bad idea. Too many people are still not backing up their data, and the article says "...automatically save to OneDrive or your preferred cloud destination".
As long as they really give users full freedom to choose any cloud service, I consider that a win.
"If you don't have another cloud destination, don't worry... we'll automatically save it to your OneDrive account we FORCED you to get when you activated your operating system. Why no! You CAN'T turn it off! Also, we won't let you edit your files without internet connectivity. You can never be too safe!"
Literally the ONLY thing stopping this from happening is they don't think they can get away with it yet. I'm NOT going to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I don't think that's necessarily a bad idea.
No, this is a bad idea. It's a terrible idea.
What you said is like saying "well, I need surgery, having the monkey from the forest come at me with a knife is better than nothing."
Microsoft has proven themselves over and over to be the last company you should trust with your data. Even recently they've been responsible for losing a life's worth of data because of OneDrive
They're already uploading people's data off of their computers to OneDrive without consent, then deleting the local copies.
Plus their tech work culture is lacking. When they screwed something up with Office 365 and Outlook wasn't available for over 18 hours (for basically the whole world), their response was a tweet that it's fixed.
Whereas CloudFlare messed up something for only an hour, they released a comprehensive breakdown on their blog of what happened, what the root cause was, and what they're going to do to prevent it from happening again.
Which company seems reliable to you?
Auto save on cloud sucks. At least you can turn it off! For now.
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Which does not mean I defend Windows telemetry but it's quite different
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Evergrande: Chinese property giant delisted after spectacular fall
Chinese property giant Evergrande's shares were taken off the Hong Kong stock market on Monday after more than a decade and a half of trading.
It marks a grim milestone for what was once China's biggest real estate firm, with a stock market valuation of more than $50bn (£37.1bn). That was before its spectacular collapse under the weight of the huge debts that had powered its meteoric rise.
Experts say the delisting was both inevitable and final.
Evergrande: Chinese property giant delisted after spectacular fall
The embattled property giant's shares were taken off the Hong Kong stock market on Monday.Peter Hoskins (BBC News)
This should be huge news, but I expect you'll barely see a ripple. A company with $45b in debt is being foreclosed on. This should have all kinds of knock on effects.
- Banks in severe trouble because they won't get their loans repaid.
- Property development industry slowdown.
- A significant hole in China's GDP.
However I fully expect it to just disappear.
I'm not sure I follow what you're saying, but it sounds like...
The CCP plan was:
- Drive growth of megacorporation through massive loans
- Megacorporation builds properties
- Megacorporation has massive losses and defaults on loans
- profit???
„Die Affäre Cum-Ex“ (Serie, 2025)
Seit das ZDF und ARTE vor acht Jahren mit der legendären Serie „Bad Banks“ europäische Maßstäbe gesetzt haben und, in zwei Staffeln, einen mit Preisen überhäuften und internationalen Erfolg feiern konnten, habe ich mich gefragt, ob, und wenn, dann wann und wie, so ein TV-Ereignis wohl zu wiederholen sein würde. Für all diese Fragen steht die Antwort auf dem brandneuen „ZDF-Portal“. Bei der Ausstrahlung im TV war das kein Quotenhit, dabei ist diese Serie aber ein öffentlich-rechtlicher Hammer! (ZDF)
"Die Affäre Cum-Ex" (Serie, 2025)
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France to sue video platform Kick for 'negligence' after user's death
France to sue video platform Kick for 'negligence' after streamer's death
Paris is suing the Australian platform for alleged negligence following the death of streamer Raphaël Graven, also known as Jean Pormanove, while on air.Kieran Guilbert (Euronews.com)
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The capitalist system promotes greed to an extreme extent.
People aren't greedy by nature. It's the circumstances that are the problem.
Elites invented capitalism. Those who already controlled most resources.
Greed develops if individuals and groups get the possibility to capture way too many resources without any limits or consequences.
People let those other people control resources
Who would be able to take it away from them? They'll do everything possible to keep them. Move it, buy politicians, etc.
could it be because they shared the greed and thought they would benefit more from it by letting that happen?
You mean trickle down and that bs?
Who would be able to take it away from them? They’ll do everything possible to keep them. Move it, buy politicians, etc.
A sufficient amount of people, it has happened a couple of time in history.
You mean trickle down and that bs?
Yes the belief in such thing. If we go back to early society, it could be agreeing to follow a leader because you believe you'll get more resources from working for his group than by yourself.
According to anthropologists, for the vast majority of human history, humans operated based on gift economies. Money is a much more recent invention. Capitalism is an even more recent invention.
Humans existed for around 200,000 years.
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The stupids are the ones having kids.
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Denmark demands US answers to new Greenland allegations
Denmark Demands US Answers to New Greenland Allegations
President Donald Trump has said previously that he is seeking U.S. ownership of Greenland, a Danish territory.Robert Birsel (Newsweek)
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to their credit, infiltratiing a population of 57000 people which are 90% Inuit isn't that easy, anyone new stands out like a sore thumb, and there aren't so many ways to get there either; i'd say the covert approach isn't gonna fly.
Especially finding allies in the population is pretty senseless. Whoever lives there does so because it's his home and he loves it as it is, i'd wager that there aren't so many people who WANT to live in Greenland when you aren't born there.
Here’s your answer: trump is a vile traitor cunt who’s putting on a show to satisfy his unbounded narcissism. Americans don’t want Greenland. We have enough land.
It is astounding how much Putin was able to damage this country by exploiting the vile republican filth.
USA is not an ally to anyone, just look at how they've behaved against Canada, a country that is generally considered USA's closest ally for decades.
Denmark too has been one of the closest allies to USA for half a century. And USA could easily make defense agreements regarding Greenland with Greenland and Denmark. Yet they choose to behave like an enemy!!!
USA is behaving like an enemy, and behaving like an enemy, actually makes you one.
For Christ sake, stop the purchase from Denmark of F35!! What the fuck is our government thinking continuing that moronic program?
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Yes yes yes I get it, I was wrong about Canada supporting USA in the revolution. I'd have preferred not to change the text so many people have already responded to, but I keep getting the same message over and over again.
They did invade us in 1812 though.
Fun fact, the US barely teaches anyone about the war of 1812 🙃 It's usually like, a page in a textbook for most people. It's rare for anyone in the US to actually know any details about it, or even what it was about.
I look forward to the reenactment of the big fire
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At the outset of the American Revolutionary War, the American revolutionaries hoped the French Canadians in Quebec and the Colonists in Nova Scotia would join their rebellion. They were pre-approved for joining the United States in the Articles of Confederation. When northeastern Quebec was invaded, thousands joined the American cause
in-roads with China is far and away a more realistic scenario than the other two.
So long as Russia is involved, Europe and Russia are de-facto at war. and are mutually incompatible with each other.
China has no allies. They do not cooperate militarily with anybody to the degree the EU or the US does.
Don’t conflate trade relations with alliances.
Canada, a country that supported the US fight for independence, and has been their #1 ally ever since.
Uh... No it didn't, and no it wasn't.
Maybe starting like 50 years after that...
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At the outset of the American Revolutionary War, the American revolutionaries hoped the French Canadians in Quebec and the Colonists in Nova Scotia would join their rebellion. They were pre-approved for joining the United States in the Articles of Confederation. When northeastern Quebec was invaded, thousands joined the American cause
Anyways up until recently Canada was generally thought (AFAIK) to be USA's closest ally.
They basically ran up and said "Hey we are liberating ourselves from the British. How about we help you do the same and with the French too and then we can all be one happy family. The Canadians did a "nah, that's all right, thanks" and walked away.
Honestly I believe that the US would have been in a better place if we remained like Canada or Australia. We could have avoided hundreds of years of bullshit.
I absolutely understand why USA didn't want to be a colony under a king. Where all the profits go to the king, and Americans had zero influence.
The idea of making a democracy is obviously better than a dictatorship.
But unfortunately they designed a very flawed democracy, in an attempt to maintain efficiency in governance.
I understand they didn't know better at the time. But why didn't USA reform their democracy already back in the 70's?
Of course it's because it worked reasonably well back then, and it was impossible to predict the rapid decline that started with Reagan.
The flawed democracy only worked as long as both sides respected and protected it, but Republicans began clearly disrespecting it already with Reagan, and it's only gotten worse since.
So now USA is in a situation where they are very near to require a new revolution to become a functional democracy.
The funny part is that there was a lot of propaganda. Example: no taxation without representation was actually false. The population in the UK was much higher than in the colonies, and since the colonies had members in parliament, they actually had a higher level of representation than other citizens.
But even back then, the UK was a democracy. The US took a look back at ancient Greece and combined that with a lot of 18th century philosophy to make the government we see today.
Canada was still Loyalist British territory. Canada would have been on the opposite side of US and France.
Canada was also not a sovereign nation at that point, It was still multiple colonial territories. What became of Canada was essentially the territory that remained loyalist during the revolution, or territory the rebels americans failed to take.
so in other words, Canada didnt exist back then, it was just Loyalist Colonials and the British vs Rebel Colonials and the French. amongst other minor participants german mercenaries, dutch, natives etc
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At the outset of the American Revolutionary War, the American revolutionaries hoped the French Canadians in Quebec and the Colonists in Nova Scotia would join their rebellion. They were pre-approved for joining the United States in the Articles of Confederation. When northeastern Quebec was invaded, thousands joined the American cause
Canadian here.
your statement is categorically false.
America was our enemy up until around the 1900s. the colonies that became Canada were loyalist, IE, opposed to the secessionist revolution. And we were also invaded by America in 1812. There may have also been plans for a second invasion in the 1860/1870 after the Civil War.
It wasn't until about the first world war that we were even remotely allied. and even then, Canada went to war first in both world wars. only to be joined by America 2-3 years later. We were not formal allies until we founded NATO together.
"We can ascertain that there are continuously foreign actors showing interest in Greenland and its current position within the kingdom. Therefore, it should not come as a surprise if, in the near future, we see foreign attempts to influence the kingdom's future," >
"Any attempt at interference in the internal affairs of the kingdom will, of course, be unacceptable," he said.DR had reported that at least three Americans with close connections to Trump were involved in the influencing operations, citing eight anonymous sources in both Denmark and the U.S., including government officials.
Polling of Greenlanders indicates little appetite on the island for being absorbed into the U.S.
At least Australia has currency sovereignity.
The historical crime of colonialism isn't that complex, we just don't want to talk about it.
I mean, it's not. Greenland has self-rule and parliamentary representation, and a generous bag of cash for running an arctic society delivered every year.
What they don't get a lot of is respect, which is unfortunate.
Do they have their own currency?
No?
Then they're about as sovereign as a US state.
Denmark has absolutely done many awful things in Greenland, and I am the first to argue for actual equality and reparations for transgressions.
But they are not, politically, a colony at all. And reducing the question to be about a currency unit (which is pegged to the euro btw), is simplistic and disrespectful to everyone involved.
It's still stolen land dawg
And, no, the Euro is a tool of financial imperialism that allows the metropoles to dominate the rest of the Eurozone and prevent the spread of communism. That's it, that's what it's for. There is no sovereignty without currency sovereignity.
Again, about as sovereign as a US state.
This is so stupid.
And you all know why the government wants Greenland, right? What US industry stands to benefit?
Oil.
It’s so shallow and obvious, it’s unreal.
Greenland is getting a lot of international attention for its mineral resources – but what is hiding under the ice?
The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to access, and will climate change make any difference?Sarah Derouin (BBC)
Deport all of them immediately
But not after keeping them in some detention camp for a few months without any reason
No mercy for these lying fascists
German court convicts teen for supporting plot to attack Taylor Swift's fans at Vienna concerts
German court convicts teen for supporting plot to attack Taylor Swift's fans at Vienna concerts
A German court on Tuesday convicted a 16-year-old boy of supporting a foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift concerts in Austria last year.CBS News
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2 men publicly caned for hugging and kissing in Indonesia
2 men publicly caned for hugging and kissing in Indonesia
Sharia law in Indonesia's Aceh province allows up to 100 public lashes for morality offenses including gay sex and sex between unmarried people.CBS News
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Yes - much better for the populace to be seeing beatings than... ew ...LOVE?!?
WTF? Is the country run by incels?
EDIT: oh, I see - homophobic incels.
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Arabia hasn't been closely involved for a long time. Actually, I don't know if it ever was or the someone like the Mughals were an intermediary, off the top of my head. It's far away from the Middle East.
Religious conservatives gonna religious conservative. If you go back to ancient history sometimes they were fine with homosexuality, or even expected some amount, but that died out along the way. Because of the European empires, but only because they were more successful, so I wouldn't blame Europe either.
Yes, it was the US who worked to isolate the democratically elected leftist government, while supplying arms, intelligence, and diplomatic support to the coup who overthrew the leftist government then murdered anyone insufficiently religious, rightwing, and conservative.
If the book on how this incident was a template for future US policy was too much reading, here's a wikipedia article.
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The really successful religions and eventually empires just happened to be homophobic, so anyone conservative globally is likely to be homophobic.
It's actually a pretty LGBT friendly region anyway, it's legal in most of Indonesia, even, but they border Malaysia where gay stuff gets hard prison time.
Edit: As in, SE Asia is a relatively gay-friendly region, for whatever reason. It's not because social conservatism is out of style.
Indonesia itself is meh. Better than Malaysia, worse than Thailand. And the Muslim part will cane you for it, per the article.
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Seriously though, any religious fundamentalist of any flavor is what makes humans look bad.
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How DARE you be in love and show your happiness towards another person that loves you too! That's a TERRIBLE thing, didn't you know???
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Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation
Greenland: US tells Denmark to 'calm down' over alleged influence operation
The aim was reportedly to infiltrate Greenland's society and promote its secession from Denmark.Paul Kirby (BBC News)
USA is not an ally to anyone, just look at how they've behaved against Canada, a country that supported the US fight for independence, and has been their #1 ally ever since.
Denmark too has been one of the closest allies to USA for half a century. And USA could easily make defense agreements regarding Greenland with Greenland and Denmark. Yet they choose to behave like an enemy!!!
USA is behaving like an enemy, and behaving like an enemy, actually makes you one.
For Christ sake, stop the purchase from Denmark of F35!! What the fuck is our government thinking continuing that moronic program?
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Canada, a country that supported the US fight for independence
I do have to question this idea, because the defining feature that kept Canada as Canada, rather than yet another part of the US, is that the Canadian colonies famously did not support independence.
The US even tried to "liberate" Quebec during the war, and the locals were very much not fans of that idea.
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South Korea bans phones in school classrooms nationwide
South Korea bans phones in school classrooms nationwide
It is the latest country to restrict phone use among children and teens.Suhnwook Lee (BBC News)
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I remember reading a study not too long ago that said being excluded for not having a phone isn't really happening in schools that have already banned phones.
I'll link it here if I can find it.
I don't see how.
Most houses don't have home phones anymore so kids cannot just call up their friends. I think the over lap of people who don't allow kids' phones also don't allow social media is high.
Ah yes, if [unnamed vague concept] of German “educational” “experts” say so then it MUST both be an 1) honest report of findings, and 2) objectively correct facts. Opinion changed. Boom done.
Just kidding.
Thats stupid, and even if they are real and think so, I think they are stupid then lol.
Banning phones means banning phones. It’s hard for kids to sneak a brick of bright light when they’re in a classroom of their peers facing the teacher, so noone will be missing out on anything so long as the teachers properly enforce the new rule.
I think it likely that there will be more positive outcomes by forcing children to socialize face-to-face which is natural and especially important at that age.
Your comment essentially boils down to: Some people think we should just let kids do whatever they want and don’t worry about discipline, rules, or things needing a “right place and the right time.” You reek of “millennial/ipad-kid parent” lol.
Of course the mentioned experts (Deutsches Kinderhilfswerk, Zentrum für Digitalen Fortschritt, Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik, Bundeselternrat in an open letter to the government) based that on studies. Here is one of the meta studies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/…
The answer simply is not as simple as you may think. The judgmental nonsense in the last paragraph doesn’t change that of course.
Reconciliation of results was challenging, and findings should be treated with caution given differences in methods and measures, and discrepancies in operational definitions of the bans themselves. For example, the results of two studies supporting bans for improved academic outcomes were restricted to low-achieving students from low socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds… That is, they found that high-achieving and economically advantaged students were less likely to benefit academically from mobile phones use in class, as compared to their disadvantaged peersBeland and Murphy (2016) examined exam scores in secondary school students and found that in schools which imposed a mobile phone ban, exam scores improved by an average 0.07 standard deviation, pre- to post-ban. Importantly, this effect was driven by the finding that students in the lowest quintile of prior academic achievement made a gain of approximately 14.23% of a standard deviation in test scores, while for students in the top quintile, test scores were unrelated to the ban.
Despite the variability of findings, it seems that in some circumstances there are some negative, although small, impacts of mobile phone use on academic outcomes. This suggests that restrictions on mobile phones in schools might be beneficial for some students’ academic achievement but make no difference to others.
Considering the ban largely concerns itself with CLASSROOMS in South Korea — a place where students are SUPPOSED TO LEARN, y’know, where the principle concern is academics — I’d say that their findings support the ban more than anything else.
Furthermore, TWO studies showed increases in bullying/cyberbullying while the MAJORITY showed decreases in such harassment — but the study still postures itself in a way that hypothesizes why it increases and further hypothesizes that phones shouldn’t be banned to prevent that POSSIBILITY.
The answer is simple if you read your own linked study and actually use your brain while doing so. It’s clear the authors entered into this metastudy with preconceived biases from their “narrative” and highly suggestive “findings” which you cherry-picked your own conclusions from to support your odd, logically questionable comment. And again, you don’t need a study by some rando people to conclude that phones are just not needed and possibly harmful at school for children.
Again, put your iPad down dude, you probably got a kid to go parent. Otherwise, go touch grass 😀
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If there’s an earthquake — I hope people/children are more concerned about getting to safety rather than calling mommy and telling her that they are about to die because rather than get to safety they got distracted by their phone calling her.
After the earthquake, if it’s catastrophic, the parents know where the kids are. Hint: AT THE FUCKIN’ SCHOOL. And they will likely need to go pick them up anyways.
What kind of stupid thought process led you to believe you’re making some sort of intelligent point here? Get real, touch grass.
Like many other forms of addiction, the reflexive need to have a screen on hand can become its own font of excuses.
But a lot of these read like the anti-seatbelt and bike-helmet propaganda I used to see back in the 1980s. "No, there's a secret danger, you don't understand. I have a right to do what I want, you can't stop me. My obscure, thinly sourced anecdote says doing things doesn't work."
God I hate tiny screen. I truly find myself so much happier without tiny screen.
I grew up in the 00’s/10’s so I’m grateful to remember a time before the iPhone lol. Even the early iPhone/Androids were okay.
But now, it’d just an addiction propagating (gambling, gaming, porn, doomscrolling) and parasocial relationship creating metal+glass brick with the added bonus of corporate and government surveillance and a duty to respond to emails and work calls lol.
You make great points by the way. You comment on tiny screen addiction is what got me thinking about how much I hate smartphones these days.
I know they are AT THE FUCKING SCHOOL, but I don't know if they are alive and well and I don't need to worry much, or they are hurt and need medical attention or worse. A simple fucking SMS will alleviate any worries INSTEAD OF LEAVING WORK AND TRAVELING FOR 1.5 FUCKING HOURS TO GET TO THE SCHOOL to see for myself.
Which one is simpler, pray tell, Mr. Smartpants? Do you even have any kids or what? Because you don't really sound like a parent.
There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use or better mental wellbeing in adolescents. The findings do not provide evidence to support the use of school policies that prohibit phone use during the school day in their current form
Well that just seems like a bad study. If restricting phone use at school doesnt actually lower phone use at school then that just means the school didnt enforce the rules...
Thats whate they are saying with that first sentence right? Restrictive rules are not associated with phone use. Thats only possible if the rules arent being applied.
The Lancet is one of the most respected journals of them all - and this is the largest and most scientifically valid study done on mobile phone use in schools.
Try again?
Adolescents attending schools with restrictive, compared to permissive policies had lower phone (adjusted mean difference −0.67 h, 95% CI −0.92 to −0.43, p = 0.00024) and social media time (adjusted mean difference −0.54 h, 95% CI −0.74 to −0.36, p = 0.00018) during school time, but there was no evidence for differences when comparing usage time on weekdays or weekends.
There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use
That means they use the word "overall" to mean "out of school" in a study about school rules. Bravo.
The correct wording would be:
There is no evidence that restrictive school policies are associated with overall phone and social media use outside of school
They were allowing kids to use phones in classrooms up to that point...?
When I went to school, if you were seen with your phone out during class it was confiscated until the end of the day. And back then all you could use them for was texting anyway haha.
Anything that might distract from the lesson would be treated the same way, that's just basic sense for any teacher.
Why would teachers stop caring about phones in classrooms, especially given how famously addictive and problematic to attention etc we now know them to be?
Banning social media for people under 18 years old also offload parenting works to the government and corporations, this will impact everyone privacy and sincerely I'd rather keep my privacy even if I don't use corporate social media.
Your second suggestion is appealing, why we don't put cameras in people houses to see if they comply and if they don't straight to jail.
Also we make special routers that enforce parental control unless you provide an id or you are capable enough to allow specific devices to go on blacklisted websites, and you must have one if you have kids, at the store the guy at the counter will ask for your id and will have all of your relatives ages, the same will apply with ISP.
I'm sorry you are overworked but I'm pretty sure that unless you have to search kids backpacks in your specific instance you can make it like my teachers and professors managed to do 15 years ago.
How does this work? Well you spot a cellphone and you get it from the kid, you don't spot one you go about with your lesson, you have shitty kids and you fear them and their parents? Let em use the phone and have them fail the year or I don't know maybe its not the job for you but its not like you have to do double work to confiscate a phone.
Also kids will have cellphones no matter what, they will have it to call home and for emergencies, so parents involved in what? A good parent dont want their kid to use it during the lesson, but they don't know better, many of them dont know how to set parental control or if it even exist.
Sorry if this come across as harsh, but I'm more tired then you to have my freedom stripped away for children and stupid teens.
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People under 18 shouldn't be on social media, at all. It's incredibly bad for them, as proven by many many studies. You don't need to lose your liberties for this, I guarantee you that google/apple know most people's age from their super vast data collection based on how much people overshare online. All it takes is to force these giant companies to actually enforce the use of their own technologies, and for governments to spread awareness on how and why to use them, passing a law making it mandatory and part of parental duties is just an icing on the cake that can be used by schools to demand that parents parent their kids.
As a teacher, I do mind taking a student's phone away, as I don't think the phone itself is the problem, but what they're doing with it. And the best approach is not to simply shun the device, but to learn and foster how to use such a powerful tool as a potentiator of education. Banning devices is stupid because it's the easy way out, the lazy choice. It has been done since I was a kid and all some of us had were brick phones that could call our parents and maybe play simple games. And It has never worked, I know because I often would play games under the desk and my classmates would also often use their phones for games or sms. And today, even if you force kids to hand their phones in at the entrance, or lock them away, they can easily have a backup old phone to hand in instead of their actual phones. And this all comes back to parents. Where are kids getting phones? Why are they being allowed to stay their whole day in them? Because parents don't want to parent, and governments don't want to do what's actually right but hard, so they all decided that it's easier to shift the responsibility for controlling device use onto teachers and schools and pretend the problem is solved. It's not.
Yeah I agree kids should not be on social media its bad for them, they get brainwashed and all I agree 100%.
What i dont agree on is giving apple and google more power I also think they shouldn't have the data you mention, they should be fined heavily and imprisoned for gathering anybody data for any reason, I dont trust any corporation or government with my data, if it was for me these corporation tech would be banned.
What you are asking is governments and corporation to use the Chinese model on us, we ain't far from that weather you are in Europe or in the USA, this is a privacy loss for adults too in the name of children again, if you enforce what you are talking about the very platform we are discussing on right now would stop existing, just look at what some admins say about the chat control law in the EU or how the UK are now banned from virtually all Lemmy instances for doing to exactly what you are talking about.
This will put on little websites and platform the weight of handling your personal real data, I would rather see a law that ban corporations complex algorithms on social media completely so at least kids won't be targeted by algorithms for their insecurities or be manipulated systematically.
And its not stupid for government to not act on this its just lazy to ask to enforce for digital IDs on each and every platform instead of seeing the big picture, which is all corporations social medial are cancer and shouldn't exists at all, American social media are made to sell you crap and make you insecure or angry, Chinese social media are brainwashing camps who also try to sell you crap, and yes there are valid creators on those platform that make educative or interesting content I could name you a lot of them but we both know they are not reaching kids.
In brief what should be targetes if anything is corporate social media algorithms, their ads and held accountable harmful creators for example the Tate brothers and other idiots, we should stop allowing data collection like its worth nothing and stop thinking that checking on everyone private data is OK in the name of the children.
And at last do you really think these parents won't load their own adult digital id on these brats phones ?
Protesters in Indonesia slam new US$3,000 monthly housing perk for MPs, who defend it as ‘carefully calculated’ - CNA
Protesters in Indonesia slam new US$3,000 monthly housing perk for MPs, who defend it as ‘carefully calculated’
The controversy comes just days after President Prabowo Subianto pledged further austerity measures to finance his government’s ambitious programmes.Nivell Rayda (Channel NewsAsia)
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Hundreds of Indonesians took to the streets on Monday (Aug 25) to protest perks such as new and increased monthly allowances for Members of Parliament (MPs) at a time of economic uncertainty and government austerity measures.
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i got ur point. but here in indonesia.. a lot of people wants to be MP, they're willing to sell all of their asstes to become one, idk why.. but i guess theres something's wrong here
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Attempt to partner African countries with Japanese cities triggers xenophobic backlash
Attempt to partner African countries with Japanese cities triggers xenophobic backlash
Cities in Japan have received thousands of complaints amid confusion over scheme that was intended to foster closer tiesJustin McCurry (The Guardian)
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Has any place in the world ever been actively “flooded” with migrants of a vastly different culture in recent history?
Any place that borders a very culturally different country that has a massive crisis. They usually get banned from working and shoved in refugee camps, though.
But anyway,
Why are humans like this?
Probably stuff that happened in prehistory, some quirk of evolution. It's definitely not rational.
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I think those "friendship city" stuff is dumb in basically all cases.
I have never seen anything happen or be done because of that friendship, it's all just declarations and signposts and BS job work for politicians.
I would be happy to be proven wrong though, if you have an example.
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Oh you’re telling me a nearly 100% culturally and ethnically homogenous country is gasp not meshing well with government sponsored immigration programs? Color me surprised.
Japan is notoriously “xenophobic” (I don’t necessarily think xenophobia is a bad thing but that’s a different discussion) towards even tourists sometimes despite their economy relying heavily, in part, on tourism.
I can’t imagine they already worked-to-the-bone crowded populations of Japanese cities would be too excited to have an influx of people willing to work for the cold, soulless corporations for less money.
Imo, slow trickle immigration is ideal, it lets immigrants assimilate/integrate into the culture/country they have decided to move to. Personally, I would never think about visiting a country, let alone immigrating, without becoming intimately familiar with cultural norms, their language, and the interests/hobbies/pasttimes of the “native population”.
Sounds like a mess.
Mexico's new Supreme Court takes the bench
Monday Sept. 1 is a landmark day in the history of Mexico's judiciary, as hundreds of judges elected in the nation's first ever judicial elections will commence their new roles.
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Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow
Under the proposal, the US would take control after "voluntary" relocation of Palestinians from the strip, where proposed projects include an Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone and Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands.
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Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow
Under the proposal, the US would take control after "voluntary" relocation of Palestinians from the strip, where proposed projects include an Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone and Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Mexico says works created by AI cannot be granted copyright
Mexico's Supreme Court said that the Federal Copyright Law (LFDA) reserves authorship to humans after a copyright applicant submitted an AI-created avatar.
Case file: scjn.gob.mx/sites/default/file… (Spanish)
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You can thank the European overlords pushing christianity everywhere during the colonial ages for shit like this.
Not that the islam is much better in other regions, but nigeria is christian afaik
Really what it comes down to is fear. Fear of something unknown (or even a fear of yourself - repressed homosexuality) breeds hatred. Violence is externalized hatred, which is the ego’s attempt at quelling the fear.
It sounds corny, but the moment folks stop allowing fear to govern their behavior and actions, is the moment when love (lack of fear) can start becoming the norm.
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