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in reply to 200ok

I'm pretty cool with being forgotten most of the time, especially in general "stir the pot to make people fight over stupid shit instead of building guillotines for the real problem" kinds of stuff.

But yes, I drank (and do sometimes drink) from garden hoses. It's just tap water delivered with more volume and outdoors.

in reply to azimir

Please don't drink from a garden hose, the health risks are pretty real, especially if it's been in the sun a while.
in reply to an_onanist

Not just garden hose, public lawn sprinklers were also free and available hydrating source. Even when off you could always find some water if you sucked hard enough. Tasted a bit rusty.\
This is before purified wastewater / greywater used for irrigation.


Washington’s Crypto Pivot Isn’t About Silicon Valley. It’s About Treasuries


Pyramids all the way down.



LEAKED: Israel Is Considered a "Genocidal, Apartheid Country" Abroad, According to Israel’s Own Research


Israel has a long way to go, however, as the research found Europeans in particular “agree with the language of Israel being a genocidal, apartheid country even though it contradicts their opposition to Hamas and Iran.”

Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism,” which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to “destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,” Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country. “Especially once the situation in Gaza is resolved, the room for growth in all countries is very significant,” the report concludes.



Middle click mouse to open new window


This was my SO's fav feature in windows, but in mint it closes all windows. Is there any fix? I've looked all over and cant find it. They'd really appreciate this feature as theyre apprehensive about linux already!

Edit: SOLVED. Very easy. Right click on yhe app in the taskbar and select configure. Then you can adjust the middle click function.

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in reply to bridgeenjoyer

Right-click on the applet (where you want to middle-click), select 'Applet preferences' -> 'Configure'. Change the 'Middle click action'.
in reply to DiamondOrthodox

I don't think there is an option for open new window here - i thought id found this solution too 🙁

Edit - I think they must have added this recently!! open new instance is available! solved 😀 thanks!

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in reply to bridgeenjoyer

GNOME does this by default, so if it's not working for your SO, they probably have installed some extension that modifies that behavior. I've never used Mint, but I think it's pretty heavily modified from base GNOME, so maybe it has that feature disabled with whatever their suite of modifications does. I'd poke around in the panel settings if those are exposed to you in Mint.
in reply to Luke

Mint's desktop environment, Cinnamon, is technically based on GNOME Shell (i.e. a fork of it), but we're not just talking "pretty heavily modified". In many ways, it's its own thing now and you can't really assume things to work similarly.


LEAKED: Israel Is Considered a "Genocidal, Apartheid Country" Abroad, According to Israel’s Own Research


Israel has a long way to go, however, as the research found Europeans in particular “agree with the language of Israel being a genocidal, apartheid country even though it contradicts their opposition to Hamas and Iran.”

Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism,” which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to “destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,” Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country. “Especially once the situation in Gaza is resolved, the room for growth in all countries is very significant,” the report concludes.

#USA
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LEAKED: Israel Is Considered a "Genocidal, Apartheid Country" Abroad, According to Israel’s Own Research


Israel has a long way to go, however, as the research found Europeans in particular “agree with the language of Israel being a genocidal, apartheid country even though it contradicts their opposition to Hamas and Iran.”

Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of “Radical Islam” and “Jihadism,” which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to “destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,” Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country. “Especially once the situation in Gaza is resolved, the room for growth in all countries is very significant,” the report concludes.

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in reply to bubblybubbles

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Objectively false information


“Objectively.”



Israel’s Destructive Quest In Gaza




in reply to n3m37h

NATO bombs. NATO planes. NATO bullets.
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in reply to IndustryStandard

IDF is the ones performing the actions not NATO. Yes NATO countries shouldnt be arming them but if they dont they will just get it from China, NK, Russia.

Iregardless of where the weapons come from those countries are not the ones doing the bombing/killing it is Bennies Regime doing it. They are a symptom of the current status quo of making as much money as possible because mostly crazies are in power across the world.

in reply to n3m37h

"If NATO does not commit genocide then their opponents will!!".

"If Hitler did not kill the Jews the Soviets would!!" This is you.

in reply to IndustryStandard

Except Isreal is a friend of NATO???

WOW your train of though is messed, did you eat paint chips or lick windows??





Lammy to be new deputy PM with Cooper as foreign secretary and Mahmood at Home Office


The cabinet of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer experienced a major reshuffle on Friday after Angela Rayner resigned as UK deputy prime minister.

Rayner stepped down after an independent inquiry found she fell short of the standards expected of government ministers over a tax error on a recent house purchase.

As part of the overhaul, Yvette Cooper was named foreign minister, replacing David Lammy, who will become deputy prime minister and justice minister, Starmer's office said in a statement.

Shabana Mahmood, currently the justice minister, will replace Cooper at the home office — or interior ministry — taking on the role which includes dealing with illegal migration.



Tesla offers Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package


Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire if he hits targets set by Tesla, under a scheme disclosed by the electric car company he runs and in which he is the largest shareholder.

Tesla outlined the terms of the incentive package, unprecedented in corporate history, in a section of its latest stock market update that began: “Yes, you read that correctly.”

Musk, the company said, will have to increase the value of Tesla from just over $1tn now to $8.5tn over 10 years.

If he presides over growth on that scale, the 54-year-old will receive new shares that would push his stake in the company from nearly 16% to well beyond 25%, increasing the fortunes of the world’s richest man to more than $2tn.



Tesla offers Elon Musk a trillion-dollar pay package


Elon Musk could become the world’s first trillionaire if he hits targets set by Tesla, under a scheme disclosed by the electric car company he runs and in which he is the largest shareholder.

Tesla outlined the terms of the incentive package, unprecedented in corporate history, in a section of its latest stock market update that began: “Yes, you read that correctly.”

Musk, the company said, will have to increase the value of Tesla from just over $1tn now to $8.5tn over 10 years.

If he presides over growth on that scale, the 54-year-old will receive new shares that would push his stake in the company from nearly 16% to well beyond 25%, increasing the fortunes of the world’s richest man to more than $2tn.

#USA


At least 475 workers detained in major Ice raid at US Hyundai factory


Hundreds of workers at a factory being built in Georgia to make car batteries for Hyundai and Kia electric vehicles were detained in a huge raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on Thursday that stopped construction.

The facility is part of what would be the biggest industrial investment in the state’s history and had been hailed as a huge boost for the economy by Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp.

About 475 workers were arrested, according to US immigration officials on Friday, the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was created in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the US in New York and Washington DC.



At least 475 workers detained in major Ice raid at US Hyundai factory


Hundreds of workers at a factory being built in Georgia to make car batteries for Hyundai and Kia electric vehicles were detained in a huge raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) on Thursday that stopped construction.

The facility is part of what would be the biggest industrial investment in the state’s history and had been hailed as a huge boost for the economy by Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp.

About 475 workers were arrested, according to US immigration officials on Friday, the largest single-site enforcement operation in the history of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was created in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the US in New York and Washington DC.

#USA


700 days of Israeli genocide in Gaza a stain on humanity: Hamas


The Palestinian resistance group Hamas marked 700 days of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza on Friday, calling it a “stain on humanity” and urging the international community to take decisive action against the ongoing atrocities.

In a statement, Hamas highlighted its efforts to reach a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange agreement, stressing that it had “shown significant flexibility” in negotiations.

The movement blamed the repeated failure of mediators on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and called him “a war criminal committed to undermining diplomatic initiatives, pursuing indefinite plans of extermination and displacement, and placing the lives of captives at risk to serve his government’s agenda.”

Hamas renewed its call to the international community, including Arab and Islamic countries, the UN, and its organs, particularly the UN Security Council, to “fulfill their responsibilities toward the Palestinian people and intervene to halt the crimes of the fascist occupation government.”

The movement emphasized the need for “punitive measures against Israel,” warning that “mere condemnations are insufficient” and that, without substantial consequences, Israel would “continue its crimes without regard for international protests or positions.”

Hamas also praised global grassroots solidarity with the Palestinian people and welcomed the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, an initiative to break the blockade on Gaza.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250905-700-days-of-israeli-genocide-in-gaza-a-stain-on-humanity-hamas/



Dissenting civil servants are silenced, says UK diplomat who quit over Gaza


He said he was repeatedly warned by colleagues against documenting his concerns in writing, as he worked on a report assessing whether the government is legally compliant in exporting arms to certain countries.

“I was routinely asked to go to senior directors’ offices and told to, quote, ‘make the situation look less bad,” said Smith, who was a diplomat and policy adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. “Sections that I’ve written which talked about civilian casualties, for example, I was asked to kind of play them down, make them smaller.”

He described the office’s working culture as “very strange” and “different to anything I’ve ever experienced in the civil service”. “Everyone wanted to make it look as though we were on the right side of the law, and any kind of suggestion [otherwise] tended to be met with panic and a kind of extreme pressure, to not talk about that.”

He said it is “fully understood in the department” that conversations about the UK’s conduct and relationship with Israel should take place “in person and not in writing”. “The reason for that is that we didn’t want those conversations to be requested by a court,” he claimed.



Dissenting civil servants are silenced, says UK diplomat who quit over Gaza


He said he was repeatedly warned by colleagues against documenting his concerns in writing, as he worked on a report assessing whether the government is legally compliant in exporting arms to certain countries.

“I was routinely asked to go to senior directors’ offices and told to, quote, ‘make the situation look less bad,” said Smith, who was a diplomat and policy adviser at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. “Sections that I’ve written which talked about civilian casualties, for example, I was asked to kind of play them down, make them smaller.”

He described the office’s working culture as “very strange” and “different to anything I’ve ever experienced in the civil service”. “Everyone wanted to make it look as though we were on the right side of the law, and any kind of suggestion [otherwise] tended to be met with panic and a kind of extreme pressure, to not talk about that.”

He said it is “fully understood in the department” that conversations about the UK’s conduct and relationship with Israel should take place “in person and not in writing”. “The reason for that is that we didn’t want those conversations to be requested by a court,” he claimed.



In the West, it is a crime to deny one Holocaust and dangerous to name another


No self-respecting journalist considers Holocaust denial a legitimate point of view, and no serious media organisation argues that impartiality requires it to provide Holocaust denial with a platform in any serious discussion about Germany's extermination of Europe's Jews during World War Two - let alone equal time, or beginning and ending every such discussion with "Germany said".

Gaza Genocide denial, by contrast, is a well-organised and orchestrated global campaign sponsored, funded, and avidly promoted - without any hindrance whatsoever - by the regime perpetrating the genocide.

Serious media organisations not only consider it a journalistic requirement to give Gaza Genocide denial a platform and equal time, but they also routinely communicate Israel's talking points to their audiences. The BBC's compulsive resort to "Israel says" is a case in point.

The ICJ itself has already ruled, on multiple occasions, that Israel must implement a series of measures to ensure it is not violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention. Israel has dismissed these instructions out of hand and categorically refused to implement even one of them.

It is now widely considered a foregone conclusion that the ICJ will rule either that Israel's entire Gaza campaign constitutes genocide, or that specific acts and policies Israel has pursued in the context of its military campaign qualify as genocide under the Genocide Convention.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Two reasons:
1. Kicking Hitler's corpse is a cheap way to pretend to care for human life, without improving anything. But fighting a present genocide could actually prevent it. There might also be pushback. The adage: liberals oppose all wars, except the current war.
2. Europe and its successors (like US and Australia) genocided many red, brown, and yellow peoples. Hitler was meant to genocide slavs (not fully white) and especially communists, but escaped the leash and killed too many French, Jews and other whites.
in reply to geneva_convenience

Outlawing holocaust denial is dumb as fuck.

Japan was literally worse than the Nazis during World War 2, but we can think or say whatever we want about them.





Bolsonaro Coup Trial, Day 4 of 5: Supreme Court Majority Secures Conviction


The fourth day of Jair Bolsonaro’s Supreme Court trial brought a decisive turn. By Wednesday evening, four justices had voted to convict the former president and his seven allies for plotting to overturn the 2022 election, assuring a guilty verdict before the trial’s conclusion.

Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the rapporteur of the case, opened the session with a lengthy vote to convict on all charges, including coup plotting, criminal association, and violent attack on democratic order.

He described the scheme as an “unprecedented assault” on Brazil’s democracy, warning that past cycles of impunity for coups must not be repeated. Moraes proposed severe sentences that could exceed 30 years in prison for Bolsonaro.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Time to staff up whatever infirmary or hospital services the prison he's headed to. That man will introduce them to new illnesses they've likely never seen before.



in reply to Troy00

Ha ha! Yea according to....western ~~propaganda~~ "media"! So it must be true! They would never lie or anything!
in reply to bubblybubbles

I didn't say western media are no Propaganda, but RT clearly is. They just say what the Russan Regime tells them to.
in reply to Troy00

So if both are just saying what their leaders want them to say, what do people do who want to find the truth?
in reply to Sherad

Read both perspectives and make up your own mind. It is pretty easy to see who is more full of shit. RT may be biased but the Western MSM has completely left reality.
in reply to cfgaussian

For the record, I agree with you, lol.

I was purposefully asking this person who seems to disagree. I wanted to know what they see in western media that seems more convincing, if anything.

in reply to Troy00

The Washington Post article is definitely propaganda. The others I feel are just unclear wording.


in reply to jackeroni

Never in my life did I ever expect to be seeing this much soviet propoganda.
in reply to ki9

It just feels that way when exposed to non-empire approved facts after a lifetime of pro-empire propaganda.






in reply to FurryMemesAccount

Start with the easy stuff. Get those around you off WhatsApp and Discord.
in reply to Autonomous User

tellling a normie to quit using spyware.... might as well call his mother a whore while at it.
in reply to sunzu2

Skill issue. If you can't fix this, how will you ever fix that?

See part 1: lemmy.world/post/35312231


Classic tech disinformation and my battle-tested counterattack cheat sheet (work in progress)


Privacy is multiplayer. So, we must spread it.

To do well, we must fight efficiently.

We cannot waste our lives writing a custom essay against every troll, disinformer and psyop agent.

Short, simple and focused response is vital.

Here is what works for me:


  1. > I do not care about privacy
  • Agreed. We do not control X, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
  • Agreed. X is not libre software, we do not control it, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
  • Agreed. X fails to include a libre software license text file, we do not control it, scam. Why should we let it abuse us?
  1. > Open source ...
  • 'Open source' misses the point of libre software, by design.
  • 'Open source' is a blatantly backdoored phrase, engineered to neutralise libre software.
  1. > Developers [owners] [of anti-libre software] need [to make money] to eat.
  • You are not entitled to infect our devices and hijack control over our computing.
  • Selling libre software is good.
  1. > You must read all its source code to guarantee it is safe.
  • Blatant lie, classic disinformation, who told you to read it alone? lmao
  • When it bans us from forking it, we do not control it, guaranteed. lmao
  1. > Crypto [currency] ...
  • Truth nuke, the biggest scam ever made is the $
  • Cash will never be more safe or private than 12 words in my head.


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in reply to Autonomous User

They have to come around it themselves.

I just plant seed, they come back once they are ready to have the adult discussion.

it took years to move my friends into privacy focused product. with each new fiasco one or two would reach out.

in reply to sunzu2

This is the way. Make a post. It would help a lot of people.
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in reply to Autonomous User

Do you really think it is feasible to convert people to less convenient alternative? What are you going to do, force them at a gunpoint?
in reply to someacnt

What are you going to do


I've already done it and I never needed force.

An app is never convenient when we do not control it.

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in reply to Autonomous User

Even if we get people to shift to privacy respecting or encrypted apps, the problem still stands. They could just ask you to give access to those services. If you don't, it would come with its own legal challenges.

Section 247(1)(ii)–(iii) mandates individuals and businesses to disclose passwords or encryption keys and permits officers to “override the access control” of any device or account. If you don’t hand over your phone passcode or email password on demand, officials can hack into the device. Any refusal is now explicitly punishable as non-compliance.

End-to-end encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp or Signal could be forced open during a tax raid.


Solving the issue would need to come from challenging the act itself.

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in reply to bergetfew

They won't know what we're using.

If you can't challenge a few apps, you'll never challenge that.

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in reply to bergetfew

If you scroll down the article you would see that the select committee is shutting down any requests for change with the same set of arguments. The recourse might be to challenge the act in court but that seems unlikely, The public wont really do anything about it, because in their view it doesn't affect them; they fail to see(and are veiled from seeing) the highly probable misuse angle of such far reaching legislation.

Bottom line: As long as you don't touch the street dogs you can get away with anything

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in reply to Artemis_Mystique

☹️

I hate that you are right. I really wanted to do something to make a difference, but it's saddening to see no one batting an eye to this.

in reply to bergetfew

But you can do something to make a difference, get others to care. How? See this:

lemmy.world/comment/19227806


Start with the easy stuff. Get those around you off WhatsApp and Discord.

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in reply to Autonomous User

You are right. This is the least I can do.

Thanks for the words of encouragement.



in reply to Arthur Besse

Now they don't have to use other methods of regurgitating garbage, they can now use LLMs to automatically regurgitate garbage FOR them.

It's almost like these rich people have some other idea of how the world works, and some seem to not notice it.