The Commission president’s comment follows an assertion by U.S. President Donald Trump that NATO countries should shoot down Russian jets that violate their airspace.
Yes, multiple declarations and menaces made on Russian Public channels by Russian Public servants. It's important to know that the Russian state has power over the editorial choices of those channels.
See Vladimir Soloviev (journalist, presenter on the public funded Rossiya 1 channel), Dmitri Medvedev ( current vice president of the Russian federation security council), Margarita Simonian (public servant at Russia Segodnia).
OK and former Fox News presenter and now Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave a beligerent speech where he effectively declared that war would be coming to America's enemies. Can we now accept that America is hellbent on escalating tensions?
Ha whatever the sabotage status, you will be dependent on rockets delivery for sure. Just like Ukraine is. Anyway, I'm rooting for you when those wars come 😵💫
This has been brewing all along, since the days of the colonies warring against each-other, the British-loyal colonies vs the United-States colonies..
When somebody pointed-out here in c/world , the other day, that Trump appears to be hoping that Europe will strike Russia so that he can then openly side with Russia, against Europe, .. damn, I wish I'd seen/understood that machiavellianism..
I don't remember what video he was linking-to ( as I didn't watch it ) that convinced him that this was going-on, but it was an understanding pushed by evidence, not just some narcissist-conspiricism, it seemed to me.
Also, it got the natures/motivations/behaviors in a better-fit than my previous understanding did, so I accept it as operationally-true.
I've been telling people for .. perhaps a decade, now, that Trump will ditch NATO, join Russia ( as the now-disappeared-from-the-internet "Kremlin Papers" journalism identified: his original backer ), & help Russia destroy the hated woke countries, especially the EU.
I hadn't forseen his declaring war against Canada, so as to possess the entire-continent, until recently ( past year or so? ).
It's inevitable, now.
The reason he wants Greenland is so that between Alaska, mainland US, Greenland, & Trump's former-Pentagon/now-Department-Of-War, his airforce & his navy, he can SNUFF Canada's trade, & thereby break Canada's life more-efficiently.
There IS unconscious-strategy going-on, in him.
His SurfaceMind's a chaotic mess, but his unconscious-mind is strategic, & lethal, as Project-2025's successful implimentation proves..
There is ZERO point in pretending that Trump will allow any election to unseat him: Civil War Part2 will happen, when he doesn't permit whichever election it is that he feels fundamentally-threatened by. Maybe 2026 he'll just "deregister" all Democrats, so they can't vote, or maybe he'll just "denaturalize" them, so they don't even have citizenship in any country, anymore, & ICE can deport them all legally.
The US of A's finished as a real country with civil-rights & constitutional-rule-of-law.
The longer the rest of the world pretends otherwise, the farther along the path of self-destruction humankind puts itself, & therefore the smaller the fraction of POSSIBLE survivors of this-century's Great Filter.
It's the species-equivalent to puberty: you can't believe-your-way-past-it, it is an all-consuming-tranformation that eats your unconscious-mind's nature, & FORCES one's life into embodying it.
All world-species who gain world-shattering technology, WITHOUT their unconscious-mind/nature growing-up, break their world's ecology, & then shred themselves in wars as the food-chain, the climate, enforced-migrations, political/ideological rabies, etc, all COMBINE at once..
It is inevitable.
Surviving it isn't inevitable, but is an opportunity, IF earned.
We're .. not earning that, presently, but instead going in a distinctly-different direction.
shrug
Universe couldn't care: species-extinction is every bit as socially "valid" as is species-growing-up, right?
WASHINGTON – As NATO concludes another ineffective summit, U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Not A Trusted Organization (NATO) Act today to withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Europe on Thursday to take coordinated action against Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, and follow his country’s lead in detaining vessels used to bust western sanctions and fuel Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
I wrote a rather lenghty to reply to some guy's toot asking about if he should block mostr.pub. I thought it might be appreciated here.
Getting some reports about #mostr accounts that seem to just spew word soup, maybe to spam hashtags and links but after reading through a few profiles, I'm unsure what the deal there is. Am I right in assuming that nostr is by design more or less unmoderateable? Is that reason enough to block the bridge? #FediAdmin
NOSTR is a protocol just like ActivityPub is. Neither protocol in-and-of-itself is moderated but supports the ability to be moderated. ActivityPub does it via instances and sometimes is baked right into the platform. (I recall at one time Lemmy automatically blocked any posts that contained reactionary language unless the admin edited the source code and re-compiled it themselves). Similarly, NOSTR relays chose how to handle the reports much the same way AP servers set their own standards.
If I understand correctly, a report goes to whichever relays mostr.pub is connected to, and it's up to each relay how to handle it. Some tag you as a whinny little bitch, others take that note out immediately, others ignore, and I think some actually have a dude look at its content and make decisions whether to remove the nevent (post) or actually block the npub (user).
Same as if you were using a NOSTR "account" yourself, except you don't have control over which relays your account connects to as natives do, by specifically connecting, or specifically blocking in your client. Instead, I think, it is solely determined by which nostr users connect their client to wss://realy.mostr.pub and which other relays those same users are connected to. I believe a given nostr relay can choose to block any user that connects to a particular other relay.
I don't expect @alexto be making any such blocks from the mostr relay. My understanding is that one of the reasons he's shifted his focus for Soapbox from a Pleroma focused solution to a NOSTR one is one thing that always bothered him about the AP powered 'verse is some random dude can cut off communication between you and your friend unless at least one of the two of you administers your own instance or you create a new account on a different instance.
I'm uncertain if momostr.pink or the other nostr bridge, whose name I can't remember currently, have similar lax policies that mostr.pub does or not. Regardless if you want direct control over anything more than blocking particular users, you are going to have to block any of these bridges.
In my personal experience I've been on NOSTR for over a year now, but Frienidca remains my primary social media. In that time I can say I've seen way more Bitcoin propaganda than even I am interested in, but certainly a lot less fascist, TERF, and racist nonsense than I have in some corners of the AP based 'verse. But bitcoin bois can get awful annoying. In general hosting a mastodon (or other platform) instance can be a dicey legal situation because you have little control on whether someone's [potentially illegal] porn ends up being stored on your hardware . This doesn't significantly change if you choose to connect your server to a nostr bridge or not.
BTW Soapbox, including mostr, doesn't connect to lemmy. I don't know if that was a purposeful design decision or just no one has bothered to make it work. There is at least one lemmy-like NOSTR client, Zapddit if it could connect to lemmy it might make me shift from Friendica to NOSTR as my primary social media.
I think people get the wrong idea about Nostr. To be honest I’ve seen a lot worse and illegal content on the Fediverse. Depending on the client and relay there’s a ton that can be filtered & muted.
My only disagreement here is that NOSTR isn't already part of the fediverse. Just like GNU is the system and Linux is one of its kernels, the Fediverse is the network and ActivityPub is one of its protocols.
That’s your opinion there’s people that believe it is. There’s people that don’t believe anything that isn’t ActivityPub is a part of the Fediverse which is strange because the term was used well before ActivityPub. But I get what you’re saying from a protocol perspective I can more so agree from your angle
if I understand the ActivityPub specification like i think I do, I doubt either is actually out of spec, but both sides could probably improve robustness such that it is more likely that the post looks as expected.
@jonathan I'll write an issue in the Friendica GitHub if you promise to similarly submit a bug to Summit. There are only 3 issue here, so I'm not suer if this is their perferred bug tracking location or not. github.com/idunnololz/summit-f…
Another 294 people were injured, the agency said in a report on Thursday. The latest death toll was an increase of three from Wednesday and all fatalities were recorded in the central Visayas region.
The Cebu quake was the country's deadliest since at least 2013, when a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the neighbouring island of Bohol, killing 222 people.
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 — China and Malaysia are in early talks for a project to process rare earths, with sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional likely to partner with a Chinese...
The S&P Global Russia Manufacturing PMI fell to 48.2 in September 2025 from August’s 3-month high of 48.7, signaling a fourth straight month of contraction.
Output declined at the sharpest rate in over three years, while new orders shrank more steeply.
Foreign demand also slumped, posting the largest drop since November 2022 amid weak export markets.
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Purchasing activity shrank again, though more moderately, while supplier performance deteriorated the most in six months due to logistics bottlenecks and shortages.
On inflation, operating costs rose at the fastest pace in four months but remained below the long-run average, and firms raised output prices only fractionally.
U.S. President Donald Trump has authorized American intelligence agencies to provide Ukraine with targeting data for strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, including oil refineries, pipelines and power plants, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous American officials.
The order, which directs the Pentagon and intelligence services to supply the information, came shortly before Trump said that he believed Ukraine could win the war and reclaim all of its territory from Russia, the report said.
Trump has voiced increasing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin as his efforts to mediate an end to the war have flatlined, and the intelligence-sharing is the latest signal that he is now deepening his support for Kyiv.
Washington has also asked NATO allies to provide Kyiv with similar support, according to the sources.
Yaroslav Belousov, head of international transport operations at FM Logistic in Russia, attributed the delays to intensified border checks, as both countries step up efforts to identify “dishonest shippers and carriers.” He added that many crossings are overwhelmed, with trucks filling nearby parking lots and lining the shoulders of approach roads.
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[Deputy head of logistics at the transport company SLK Maim] Yemelin said that the delays could indicate a shift in Kazakhstan’s stance on sanctions enforcement. “It’s safe to say this isn’t a temporary glitch, but more likely a new reality — tighter controls and greater compliance with Western sanctions.”
Long lines of trucks carrying goods from China have built up at the Russia–Kazakhstan border as authorities on both sides ramp up inspections, Kommersant reports.
Sounds like they want a better deal either from PRC/RU or from the EU. It looks like 30% of their exports are going to PRC/RU and a bit over 30% to the EU.
Call me crazy, but I a) think the fediverse probably doesn't have more 'toxic content', harmful and violent content, and child sexual abuse material then other platforms like X, Facebook, Meta, YouTube etc, and b) actively like the fediverse because of that.
But after a few hours carefully drafting and sourcing an edit to make it clear that no, the fediverse isn't unusual in social media circles for having a lot of toxic content, I realised that the entire 'fediverse bad' section was added by 1 editor in 2 days. And the editor has made an awful lot of edits on pages all themed around porn (hundreds of edits on the pages of porn stars), suicide, mass killings, mass shootings, Jews, torture techniques, conspiracy theories, child abuse, various forms of sexual and other exploitation, 'zoosadism', and then pages with titles like 'bad monkey' that seemed reasonably innocent until I actually clicked on them to see what they were and, well.
I decided to stop using the internet for a while.
I've learned my lesson trying to change Wikipedia edits written by people like that - they tend to have a tight social circle of people who can make the internet a very unpleasant place for anyone suggesting maybe claims like 'an opinion poll indicated that most people in Britain would prefer to live next to a sewage plant than a Muslim' should maybe not on Wikipedia on the thin evidence of paywalled link from a Geocities page written by, apparently, a putrid cesspit personified.
I thought I'd learned my lesson about trusting Wikipedia.
It just makes me so angry that most people's main source of information on the fediverse contains a massive chunk written solely by a guy who spends most of his time making minor grammar edits to pages about school shootings, collections of pages about black people who were sexually assaulted and murdered, etc, and that these people control the narrative on Wikipedia by means of ensuring any polite critics' are overcome with the urge to spend the rest of the day showering and disinfecting everything.
You got banned for specifically using "Zio" -- A term coined by David Duke. I asked you to use a different phrase instead, such as zionist, zionazi or anything else, but you insisted on using Zio.
Your ban has expired by now anyway, I don't dish out perm-bans unless it's absolutely neccessary
yeah that's usually how extremists manage to crawl their way into movements. They hijack the movement and use specific dog whistles to identify each other while normalising extremism. It's why communities gotta be vigilant when these dog-whistles, such as zio, pop up.
You can't buy respect or admiration... Well he did for like 10-15 years, then he got high on his own narcissism and dropped the filter; plus a team of marketers manufacturing his image and curating his social media posts.
For some weird reason it hasn't affected the Tesla stock much? FSD is now a proven fiasco, together with obvious declining sales. But now people are buying the next big thing which is supposed to be his amateur robots and AI. Both areas where Tesla is even further behind than they are on FSD. But some people still refuse to believe Tesla is behind on FSD, despite the evidence is clear that they are. It's all build on a scam, and a lot of people are still buying it. Elon Musk is not a genius at technology or business, he is just a genius scammer.
People are buying only because it's a growth stock. Eventually enough people will get nervous and cause a stampede. Lots of owners are going to left holding the bag, an empty bag.
I've maintained that the stock market divorced itself from reality a long time ago. As of making this comment by market cap Toyota, BYD, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, GM, Volkswagen, Ford, and Porsche COMBINED are worth $100 billion less than HALF of Tesla. Is there anyone out there that would choose a minority stake in Tesla vs owning 9 of the biggest auto manufacturers on the planet outright?
Point being I don't see stock valuation as a measure of how successful companies are. How high were stocks in the dot com boom? In 2008?
Stocks are basically the same as crypto at this point. There is no benefit or utility at owning some, the only value is the idea of selling for more at some point.
They could fix this by requiring stocks pay a dividend as a minimum percentage of profit, and prohibiting the sale of a stock until a year after purchase.
The majority of investors now are "retail investors". Just regular people on apps like Robinhood. These people are investing in memes or making political statements.
I'm not trying to start a fight with you on this but by what metric do you measure that? To my knowledge institutional trading outpaces retail in terms of total dollars invested, number of trades, and total valuation (as in the total market value of the retail traders is more than the net worth of retail investors)
I can't find the source. I'm recalling a recent episode of TBOY podcast that talked about this. They cite their sources, but I'm not sure which episode it was. So, yeah without actual sources feel free to ignore what I said.
Shockingly, boycotts don't work if the actual customers don't take part in them. Companies don't care about your feelings, they care about money, and "I'm never buying a thing because of reasons!" doesn't matter if you weren't about to buy one in the first place.
Correct. That's why successful boycotts usually only happen because the company was already in decline. I would argue that the Disney/ABC situation was that.
TSLA is heavily manipulated. Insiders have liquidated something like 100M in stock this year. They're dead it just takes time, they don't have a market for any vehicles anymore, the CT was a boondoggle, they have no new tech and are behind in every category now.
Nissan is still operating, give it some time, people will continue to dump TSLA and Elon can't liquidate more than a couple billion in a year without tanking the price.
the system is worse than broken, it's working exactly as intended. the best solution? get out and meet your neighbors. talk to them about how they hate their bosses. tell them about things people are doing to undo this rigged game. don't at any point claim yourself to be a leftist. just offer to help them out of their nightmarish material conditions
He's not. This article is bullshit by a poor person. Elon, unlike someone like Bill Gates, still has most of his "worth" in TSLA. TSLA is held up purely by hype and the sunken cost fallacy. The hype is gone and now investor with brains are liquidating but Elon can't, he'd crash the stock selling more than a couple billion. So we get to watch the market desperately try to keep TSLA( that people put pension money in) afloat as the market burns around them and Elon's imaginary money dwindles. In reality he has something like 10B liquid and probably something similar in assets that aren't a dead car company.
Thank you! Someone around here gets it. Look at these comments. People seem to think he's actually holding that much cash.
People are only buying Tesla stock because it keeps going up, nothing to do with their perceived value of future earnings. It's fucking insane, reminds me of Wall Street, 1929. Fittingly enough, the world is making the same mistakes of 100 years ago because all the people who learned from those mistakes are dead.
If you took Musky’s ~~wrath~~ wealth as the GDP of a country. Musky would be ~~in~~ 33rd ~~higher~~ ranked country in the World, higher than the Philippines.
Imagine if 99% of his net worth were redistributed to the people who need it most and reivested in the economy. And even then, that asshole would still have $5 billion left over.
Almost all of that money is imaginary. Look at Tesla's $1.5T "worth". If you liquidated the company down to the staplers and pens, you're probably only going to get a few billion.
If we're saying that $1.5T represents current assets and future growth, yikes. Tesla ain't doing so hot and I hardly expect them to turn it around with this genius at the top. The stock price merely reflects people buying because people are buying. Nothing attracts a crowd like a crowd! Someday that stock is going to crater.
Anyway, same goes for Musk. He can turn but a fraction of that net worth into cash. Imagine if he started selling Tesla stock. First off, the market would panic seeing the CEO dumping his own stock, the price would plummet, instantly. Even if word didn't get out, the market would still be flooded, driving the price into the ground.
CAVEAT: None of this considers the value of SpaceX. 🤷🏻
$1.5t is the market cap which is simply stock price x # of shares. It has no direct correlation to the assets of the company or the amount of profit it makes. People misunderstand market cap and what it means all the time.
Yeah but it’s not like he just has that money, guys! It’s wealth not actual money! God everyone who doesn’t get all their information about the economy from Ben Shapiros podcast just doesn’t understand how the economy works!
My math may be off, but, I’m good at my job and I make 1.78E-7 less money than this douche nozzle, who is terrible at everything, and slowly destroys all his companies.
Hm? Not sure if you're referring to me or what you might be (possibly legitimately) thinking, throwing me into a pot of 'these comments'. Which are? I am intrigued anyhow.
I was just thinking for me, he's not worth anything. He's a burden on humanity. But here we go, we make up financials and he's the top dog.
With what money? The vast majority of his "wealth" is imaginary. When Tesla investors, who know damned well they're riding a bubble, finally decide they've made enough money, risked it long enough and it's time to bail, the bubble pops.
Not saying that because the man is a raging douche nozzle, it's simply reality.
But he continues paying random women to have his kids because they all start hating him after a while, and apparently 13 tries hasn't been enough for him to notice the one thing in common with all of them.
It has started to make me question my sanity. Every week there is a headline like “Tesla sales collapse in Europe and Asia” or “Huge class action suit filed against Tesla” and the result is always the same: TSLA stock goes up.
Once his current-incarnation/life terminates, & all his unconscious ignoring/denying releases , .. firing his continuum/soul away from what he had been "possessing",
then his continuum's/soul's "reaping of what it had sown" will make his continuum's/soul's future-someones be having hell-lives after hell-lives after hell-lives, for all the exploitation/abuse his privilege stood-on, this-time-'round.. ..until it balances-out, grinding-through soul-unconsciousness, resulting in soul-gnosis/understanding.
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His continuum/soul will learn: that's the whole point of OceanOfAllPhenomena.
That original-awarenesses ( continuums/souls, not mere incarnation/life minds, let-alone the mere-hours-duration SurfaceMinds we narcissistically call "consciousness" )
.. get to have THEIR OWN experiencings, no matter how many lives+deaths that takes for a given continuum/soul, every single one gets to choose its own path, & is forced into experiencing ALL consequences of its indulgings/committings..
( technically, it's much less "personal"/sociopolitical:
a continuum/soul emits meaning into OceanOfAllPhenomena/Universe,
then it is trapped in OceanOfAllPhenomena BY that emitted-meaning, UNTIL it has reabsorbed ALL of the emitted-meanings, & ONLY THEN can it dissolve-out-from soul-containment/recycling/reincarnation. ( yes, universe recycles ALL energies contained within it, including meaning-energy, in spite of the Physicalist-dogma that meaning "isn't real" and "doesn't exist" )
This is why AwakeSoulism, aka "Buddhism", tells us straight-up that replacing lead-chains ( bad-karma ) with gold-chains ( good-karma ) isn't itself enough to free our continuum, one has to have NO karma, in order to become free-from-entrapment/imprisonment/containment.
The only way to have NO karma, is to have no involvement-attachment when committing circumstantial-action: to let go of everything, letting it all be, in equinimity, while committing only right-action, dismantling one's existing emitted-meaning-balance-sheet/karma, see?
Contrast that paradigm/principle, with what Musk, a former Vajrayana ( he counted Tenzin Gyatso, the "Dalai Lama"/Ocean-Guru, as his teacher, years ago ), is enforcing into his own continuum's/soul's Eternity..
The reason I'm explaining this perspective-difference, is simple:
The root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, told people that the 2nd Great Law was "love others as one's own brother", right?
The problem is that that was a dumbed-down version of LivingSpirit's instruction, appropriate to the Animals-&-Tribes-Time men he was talking to..
The CORRECT rendition of LivingSpirit's meaning is:
"love all SOULS as one's own soul's brother, but dispute the children-of-souls/lives/incarnations which are committing wrong-meaning",
which is entirely-more-complex than what would have stuck in the minds of benJoseph's followers ( he railed against their stone-heartedness, repeatedly, in their bible, try reading biblegateway's CJB book of Luke, for examples of that, if you want.. ).
So, considering the 2 perspectives, lives vs souls, simultaneously..
Musk is digging a grave & throwing his own future-someones into that grave, & tamping it down solidly, for sake of his personal dominion, only this time 'round.
Our regimes' accommodating of this behavior proves our regimes are narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy instead-of ForTheBenefitOfAll/ForTheBenefitOfLivingWorld, as they ought be..
But .. he CANNOT escape reaping what he has sown: none can..
Essentially, he's a toddler "eating candy instead of real-food, who doesn't understand that there WON'T BE ANY real-food, in his future", & has sold-out his own future-viability, for sake of momentary-supremacism, now..
This means that I don't need to have much/any emotional ( social/political ) involvement/entanglement with him: he's dug his own Eternity's grave, & G-D's LivingLAW, aka Karma, CAN process/deal-with his continuum/soul..
..but his distorting of our world, for narcissistic-machiavellian highjacking needs effective countering..
Limiting one's commitment to what is effective reduces burnout, right?
Someday a portion of humankind may find the spine to enforce-correctness into our economy..
The book "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann ( kobo.com/us/en/ebook/screwed-4… ) is strongly recommended, for understanding the REAL economic-rules that evidence showed to be true, historically.
I've only read the beginning of it, but the economic disinformation which has been well-established by "economists" got cleared from my view in seeing the truth in what he was saying..
Combine that excellently-clarifying ebook with fooledbyrandomness.com/tenprin… by Taleb ( who wrote the book "Anti-Fragile" ), & THEN one has PROPER economic competence's foundations in one's mind!
All this to say, correct-framing reduces emotional-burnout, our having economic-spine would prune-down oligarchy, effective-competence ( the book & the PDF I've linked-to ) would MASSIVELY empower our populations, all this is preventable, AND there are inevitable-consequences of doing as Musk & Bezos are doing, for their souls' future-someones, that Eternity-scale SANE people wouldn't ever want to be Eternity-scale imprisonned in.
May equinimity release all our lives from economic-oppression's grip, as that psychologist/psychoanalyst who was in a nazi concentration-camp realized: the guards had liberty, but they were not free, because they were entirely-entrained-within ideology..
He had no liberty, but he did have freedom, because he wasn't entrained-in-ideological-meaning..
( sorry I can't remember the man's name: a big name in psychology, Jewish, obviously .. dug his name up!
We need to learn the same lesson ( without the concentration-camp induction, obviously ), to make our creating-our-world become more effective, is all..
That effectiveness of more-universal-framing, is what I'm pushing..
Transport systems, hospitals and schools hit, as workers say laws kill hopes of work-life balance
A general strike has paralysed Greece as unions step up industrial action against labour laws introducing a 13-hour work day in a country that already puts in some of the longest hours in Europe.
The 24-hour strike brought mass disruption to services across the country on Wednesday as thousands of workers in the public and private sector stopped work and took to the streets.
In both Athens and Thessaloniki, the country’s second biggest city, transport systems were halted, while hospital staff, teachers and other civil servants stopped working. The seas around the Greek capital were vessel-free as crews, heeding union calls, kept ferries in ports.
I have previously worked a job where the work week alternated between three and four 12 hour shifts (that is, I'd work 36 hours this week, then 48 the next, then 36, etc.). It took me an embarrassingly long time to realize those numbers didn't add up; I don't recall how that was reconciled. The shifts were long, but so were the weekends. There were many problems with that job, but I do miss the schedule.
I work a 4x10 now. I'd never voluntarily go back to a 5x8, but it's surprisingly challenging to find employers who are okay with my preferred schedule, not that I've looked in a while (I like my current job for the most part).
Ya but Greece is wanting 13 hours, 5 days a week, forever. Not the same thing. Even more so when Greece wealth inequality is just as bad as anywhere else.
Optional... When profit is the main goal of society, is it really a option for those without gross amounts capital? Greece is suffering from a huge labor shortage, so this 13 hours bull will seep into every job eventually. Some wealthy person on high crunched the numbers and realized that the imaginary line on the graph won't keep going up if everyday people don't break their backs so those in power can have 7 homes and perverted sex island. The global economy is collapsing and all we can think of is to poor more gas in the fire.
But no, this wouldn't mandate everyone to work 13 hours or even mean it's likely. Even in the wasteland that is the US, where 13 hour days are (frequently) allowed, it isn't common.
But yes, someone would be motivated to screw someone else here for the reasons you're saying.
It's just like all the other garbage 'leadership' decisions based on how it's always been done, rather than focusing on actual outcomes.
Sadly it's way easier for underperforming management to say "ass in chair m-f 9-5" as a productivity improvement than to try and quantify reduced turnover as how it relates to output or wasted man hours from training up new people.
Many moons ago I was in charge of scheduling for all the guards at a security post for several months. Got everyone together and talked to them, and we all agreed to try out 3x12 instead of 5x8. It'd cut a couple people's hours, but a few others would get some more. Iirc, a few people only had 2x12, but it was a long time ago.
We all fucking loved it. 4 hours shy of 40 didn't make a huge difference in pay, but working fewer days than you were off (on for 3, off for 4, every week) more than made up for it. We stopped getting call ours, people showed up on time. It was awesome.
As soon as I stopped making the schedule they changed us back, and we went right back to all the old problems
so wait. you were doing the 12 hour thing and you weren't hourly??? its supposed to be every other week you get 8 hours overtime so 12 hours pay. So basically its supposed to be a bonus days pay every two weeks.
That's a standard shift for the majority of nurses and doctors. Which is (should) then be compensated by working only three days a week. For some jobs and people it works wonderfully - you have less commute time and four entirely free days every week.
The extreme case are firefighters, one 24 hour shift every four days. Unless shit hits the fan and then all bets are off - you don't exactly walk away from a forest fire because your shift ended a minute ago.
But Greece wants to allow up to 13 hours 5 days a week, which if actually done would burn people up ridiculously fast.
I tried working a 10x4 work week for a few weeks, my experience was I really only had two days free, as Friday was basically spent recovering from the week.
Friday is a workday, saturday morning is spent recovering, and sunday you have to plan so that you can go back to work on monday morning. You get your one free 24 hours split between saturday and sunday. Yay...
Technically it would, as the law change is to allow 13 hour days, not to force them. Same as the previous one that allowed six-day work weeks.
I'm assuming it's similar to how it's here in Finland, where the law generally limits work days to 8 hours and a maximum of 40 hours a week. Changing those legal limits wouldn't directly cause anyone to have to do more work, but it would now be legal - Finland has a few exceptions to it as well, some jobs have the limit be 80 hours per two weeks for example to allow longer/more days crunched together.
If it's combined with a limit, like "The law now allows up to 13 hour days or six hour work weeks as long as it's under 40 hours a week", then in theory it's a good thing - being able to choose anything between 13h x 3d and 7h x 6d depending on what works best for the job would be useful. The problem obviously is "Hey, you are fine with 13 hour days six days a week right? Oh you aren't? Well there's the door we'll find someone desperate and stupid enough to replace you."
It's odd that they consider the really specific case of a teen that works two jobs to make ends meet, and decide to make national sweeping changes to accommodate that. No, no way could it have any negative effect on anyone else. And they definitely shouldn't try to address the problem of one job for that teen not being enough to support themselves.
THIS is what a union helps you do. To stop shit like this. This is an unthinkable possibility in the US because there's no unions in any effective capacity.
and at least you have 3 days to recover. there is also a 3.5 day (it actually alternates 3 and 4) 12 hour shift schedules but again you get long periods to recover.
Details are continuing to emerge of a major incident at a synagogue in Manchester - here's what we know so far:
Police responded at 09:31 to reports of a car driving towards members of the public, and a man being stabbed, at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue
A major incident was declared by Greater Manchester Police, with firearms officers being deployed to the area
When paramedics arrived to the scene, they found four people injured - police say the injuries were a result of the both the vehicle and stab wounds
One man has been shot - police say he's believed to be the offender
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says "it is believed" the offender's dead, but tells BBC Radio Manchester this information hasn't yet been confirmed
He also says he's been told that "the immediate danger appears to be over"
Despite this, members of the public are being warned to avoid the area while police deal with the incident
Thursday's incident came as the community observed Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar
Police said they had shot a man suspected in a stabbing and car-ramming that injured four people at a synagogue Thursday in the northern English city of Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Greater Manchester Police said in a series of posts on X that a major incident was declared after a member of the public reported that they had "witnessed a car being driven toward members of the public" and that one "man had been stabbed" near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, an area known for its large Jewish community.
Police declared a terrorist incident after two people were killed and three others were seriously injured when a man rammed a car into a crowd and stabbed people at an Orthodox synagogue.
I'm going to need to know the synagogues position on Zionism and genocide before I deign to give a shit.
And for the downvotes that are about to come, I know how awful that is. I feel gross even saying it.
But, it just shows you how effective the Israelis have been with their multi-billion dollar propaganda and lobbying efforts to conflate Zionism and Judaism.
They got me, now they are the same to me, until proven otherwise, and on a case-by-case basis.
Do you think this attack will help end the genocide? Or help the flotilla? Or help Palestine Action? It won't, adventurism doesn't work.
Synagogue attacks directly benefit Israel. It makes Jews afraid to live outside of Israel and encourages them to become settlers, it's used by Zionist-aligned governments to crack down on all opposition to Israel, and it creates martyrs when people get killed.
Once again, I never said that I supported violence, or endorsed this attack.
Because yes, I agree that this will result in a counterproductive backlash to my own desire to see the end of the genocide in Gaza.
But because of that genocide, and Israel's 's full-throated efforts to remove any separation between Zionism and Judaism, I find myself with a lack of emotional energy available to care about the in-group perpetrating that genocide.
That is very different from celebrating this attack.
I am very aware of how this will be leveraged to attack the people and groups who are opposed to genocide.
I was very specific about who my apathy was for.
Additionally, after a mod removed my first post, I revise and resubmitted it. This time doing a cursory glance at the the people who run that synagogue.
To the surprise of no one, they're pro-genocide, anti-Palestinian self-determination, and outspoken Zionist political activists.
And for 26th time, I am anti-violence and do not condone, support, or sanctify this attack. Furthermore, their beliefs do not justify violence, and if one's goals are to end the genocide, this type of violence makes that harder.
So far we don't have any information on the attacker's motive. Right-wing antisemitism is more commonly violent and isn't going to be impacted by a change of leadership in Israel.
Which is not necessarily related to this crime. Antisemitism is not a unified ideology where decreasing the prevalence of one form will impact the safety of Jewish people from another.
Mods removed my comment for saying I don't have the emotional energy left to care about attacks on pro-genocide groups.
Not that I supported killing them, or that I endorsed this attack, but that it's hard for me expend emotional energy caring about an in-group actively engaged in a genocide.
I also went out of my way to explain how Israel's role in conflating Judaism with Zionism is a key reason why I feel that way.
And let me be clear: this attack was wrong and it is 100% counterproductive to bringing an end to the genocide.
I do not support or condone this violence, but I will not be guilted into having a different emotional response just because others find it more acceptable
And while I strongly feel that my own background should have no bearing on the conversation, I will point out that I was raised in a Jewish Zionist household. So please don't tell me how I'm a self-hating Jew, anti-semitic, or otherwise racially prejudiced against myself.
With all of that out of the way, let's take a closer look at the target of this attack:
He has previously held a number of rabbinic and educational positions in Israel and the UK.
Rabbi Walker was educated at Manchester Jewish Grammar School and went on to study in yeshivas in the USA and Israel, where he received his ordination in 2003.
As an organisation, we are appalled by the motion passed by Labour delegates on the Middle East conflict. To agree to the text without referencing the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7th October 2023 when 1,200 innocent people were murdered or the fact they continue to hold 48 hostages means they have no credibility to comment on what is an extremely complex issue.
The fact a more moderate motion that did reference these key facts was defeated highlights how many seem unmotivated to work towards a peaceful solution to the conflict. The text is not binding and we will continue holding conversations with key stakeholders within government to advocate against taking divisive and deeply problematic positions.
During our time at Conference we have held a number of meetings with Ministers, MPs and the press focusing on our concerns around the record levels of antisemitic hate crime across society. We also reiterated our strong opposition to the unilateral recognition of Palestine, supported the Government’s position on proscribing Palestine Action, highlighted concerns around antisemitism in cultural spaces including the need to cancel events by those who incite hatred whilst emphasising the importance of holding the Iranian regime to account by enforcing snapback sanctions.
This is an Orthodox Zionist organization helmed by an yeshiva educated conservatives. They are explicitly against Palestinian self-determination and who don't express an ounce of sympathy or concern for the Palestinians being slaughtered.
For a final time, this attack was wrong. Violence is wrong. This should not be supported, celebrated, or sanctified.
But please don't censor people who are expressing valid feelings about how they emotionally process attacks against organizations of unashamedly racial supremacists, who are actively part of the in group currently perpetrating a genocide.
This is also relevant discussion to this topic because it speaks to a larger issue facing the Jewish community and public sentiment and opinions that are only getting worse, whether they express themselves through inexcusable violence like today, or by people having tragically apathetic emotional responses to violence.
For all I know a bunch of users reported my comment and a mod removed it accidentally because they're overworked or tired.
I'm not trying to denigrate the work they do, just highlighting a small issue that I personally had.
And to be fair, my original comment was less articulate and more to the point, so perhaps the fault was mine for not providing the proper disclaimers about my positions regarding the rejection of violence. I thought I had, but I can accept that others may have interpreted it in ways that I did not intend.
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Officials say 59 people, mostly young male students, remain trapped in collapsed school in Sidoarjo amid growing questions about the quality of its construction
The evacuation of the total 580 hikers who were stuck on Mount Everest's east side in Tibet is complete and the people have been taken to safety, reports the state Chinese media according to BBC.
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin has signed a decree for the 2025 autumn military draft, running from October 1 to December 31, according to a decree posted on the official Russian government legal portal on September 29.
The call-up will target 135,000 Russian citizens aged 18 to 30.
Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky, deputy head of Russia’s Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate, said draftees will serve only within Russia and will not participate in Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Previously, it was reported Russia is considering a major overhaul of its conscription system that would allow for continuous draft procedures year-round, as the country grapples with unprecedented military losses in Ukraine, according to the proposed legislative changes, introduced by the head of the Russian Parliament’s Defense Committee.
Last 1 MILLION, that's how much ruzies lost already (as casualties not deaths). Thats at least 5 times of what US lost during Vietnam war. Insanity and ruzi peasants sitting on their palms all subservient.
Austria's proposal to unfreeze €2bn of Russian assets has caused worry on creating a bad precedent, with Hungary and Slovakia also threatening to delay new EU sanctions.
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Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war
The document states that in the event of the external power lines to the plant being disconnected from Ukraine “a procedure for voltage transmission … from the unified power system of Russia” had “been developed”.
Considering that it's easier to find water on Mars than in Donetsk right now, and Pushilin's explanation as to why there's no water and sewage there was "Ukraine didn't repair the pipes" - I wouldn't really count on Russian infrastructural development to save the day, especially if that's not a propaganda project like Kerch bridge.
But he is extraordinarily smart. No doubt about it.
He called himself the Chief Engineer at Space X. In fact, he doesn't know shit about engineering. He has no engineering degree. He just hires young engineers, make them work like dogs, and constantly takes credit for anything they achieve. Once they burnout, he kicks them out and replaces them.
He uses his celebrity to attract more young engineers. He actually has an entire team that visits engineering schools and tells young graduates "You have the ability to work for a genius and go to Mars. Wanna join Elon ?". Again, he knows nothing about engineering. He has a financial degree from the Wharton School of Finance.
Elon Musk presents himself as the founder of Tesla. Tesla was actually created by Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard. He simply invested in their company, fired them both, and sued them both. Then, he called himself the original founder of the company.
In exchange of a confidential legal settlement ($$$), Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard must agree to stay silent. A lie repeated 50 times, 100 times, 1000 times, becomes reality. So, many outlets now call Musk the founder of Tesla. Perception shapes reality.
One of the reason he bought X is to shape the algorithm. He has urged millions of dumb people to buy Tesla stocks. And it's working. Dumb people regularly see random accounts on their X feed praising Elon Musk as a genius. And these dumb people actually believe it.
The same way, dumb americans on X constantly saw random accounts attacking Kamala Harris during the 2024 election campaign. At no point did they find it actually suspicious ("Why am I seeing this content ?"). And it played a key role in the election of Donald Trump.
Before the election, Musk was asked how much money DOGE might save. “We can do at least two trillion” he said. At the end of the day, he didn't save shit. But he successfully fired every regulator that was investigating SpaceX or Tesla. That was his real goal.
Reuters and the New York Times published two very good investigations about how Musk knowingly sold defective cars:
Look at his actual tangible successes and tell me how that could happen in a vacuum. Why no other person in history (at least recent history) has achieved these things.
He is a lying piece of shit. But I'm definitely not saying he is dumb.
I actually wrote "he is extraordinarily smart."
He is very good at hiring smart engineers and making them work like dogs.
He tells them BS about how sleeping at work will save the world and save humanity. He hires smart people then takes credit for whatever they produce.
A lot of these engineers are technically good but they have zero life experience. Musk love young people like this. It's exactly the kind of people he hired at DOGE.
Then what's needed is to organize smart engineers. This doesn't need anyone like Musk. It can happen in a nationalized company connected to state-funded universities; tends to be easier to do when you don't have a whole political party dedicated to sabotaging any attempt at this and then claiming it can't work. All Musk does is extract value from the process for himself, and then make sure that political party stays at the top.
Half a trillion in equity is so unfathomable in my reality.
$500,000,000,000
Let’s say I ask him for 0.001% of his wealth… I would get $5,000,000.
Now let’s put this into perspective of my reality. If I had $1000 and someone asked me for the same 0.001% of my wealth, I would be handing over $0.01.
One cent.
I understand that this wouldn’t be sustainable if I give everyone one cent from my pot of a thousand… but still. Have a trillion dollars makes me sick.
Sure, I think their point was just that this is different than cash. If you start selling a bunch of stock to buy things, this would impact the value of your remaining stock negatively. How negatively is pretty hard to predict, but I imagine trying to liquidate that would net far less than half a trillion.
SpaceX lifts more raw tonnage into orbit than all other agencies and private organizations combined iirc, and directly controls an ever-increasing proportion of US government space-based assets, to say nothing of Starlink. Tesla, while sales have dropped, has not really seen a corresponding sustained drop in stock price (where most of his corresponding net worth from Tesla is actually located) in the meantime, though we will see if that can be sustained long term (I, for one, hope it falls off a goddamn cliff). As for your other point, Twitter (now X) and Grok by extension are, frankly, not a major factor in his worth, when assessed next to those other factors.
It is not about product sales or healthy conditions for employees or customer value. It's about using property to get more property. And about financial speculation.
He could literally be a legend who is remembered forever for his philanthropy, but he chose to buy a president and fuck up a whole ass country with his techbros.
I hate people who say that online, but this time it's me: this would need to be much bigger news. Much much bigger. But compared to genocide and Trump destroying his country it doesn't even blip I guess.
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The exact nature of the goods remains unclear. The ministry's response lists eight categories, including rockets, torpedoes, warships and naval equipment. But as the exports are not classified as weapons of war and the total value is relatively small, the shipments likely involve accessories or equipment.
I wouldn't call sending rockets and warships as "no weapons" just because the government says they're not.
And what rocket or torpedo would you get for 2.5 million? Deliberately using singular here, because that's about 5 IRIS-Ts or 2 Taurus missiles, which seems like a very unlikely order. Even more so when considering that the government went on record claiming that's not the case. Would you lie for such a tiny order?
If they did a delivery like that every week, I'd be suspicious
That's just it, I don't know. And the government is being deliberately vague instead of just saying what they are shipping to Israel, or sending auxiliary weapons that are still being used in direct combat.
I pulled that quote because I want to emphasize that it is not as transparent as your original comment is making it seem.
It is a “game-changer for Russia”, said one former Ukrainian official. With Kyiv also contending with slower deliveries of air defence interceptors from the US, the missile campaign has destroyed key military facilities and critical infrastructure ahead of winter.
Ukraine’s air force on Wednesday reported all four Iskander-M missiles fired overnight had eluded the country’s defences and hit their targets.
Israeli navy is moving to block a flotilla carrying aid toward Gaza. Activists onboard are demanding humanitarian access, calling the blockade illegal. Reports say the ships are being shadowed as they approach. Situation is still developing.
Is it just me, or are these ships pretty slow? There were around 100 nauts out this morning, so I've been following the story live all day, and now it's bedtime and they're still not there.
Besides being mostly sail boats and old yachts they can't sail at night because Israel has been drone attacking them at night; particularly trying to firebomb their sails.
Is it? Has this been confirmed? I see lots of western media claiming Russia but don’t see any objective evidence.
Edit: it’s quite surprising how even on Lemmy, how easy it is to push an unquestioned narrative. Not just me, but anyone even questioning from mainstream narrative gets downvoted to oblivion.
That's the point. They typically hire some useful idiot, either locally or in a neighbouring country. And after they've done their little act, they move back to another territory. But the Russians are never directly involved.
I would not be surprised to learn that Russia has plenty of sleeper agents with drones just waiting for a call from their handler to take it out and disrupt air traffic, or distract the security services while another operation takes place.
For Iran’s leadership, the West’s intransigence had given Israel the green light for another attack. But Pezeshkian noted that Iranian society was stronger following the 12-day war last June. “The last attack brought unity,” he insisted. “Iranians opposed regime change even if they disagreed with the revolution. Even people who criticize us, those people supported our military.”
Pointing to Israel’s brazen assault inside Qatar this September, where it tried and failed to assassinate the entire Hamas negotiating team, Pezeshkian predicted, “Cohesion will increase across the region because our neighbors recognize that nobody is safe now.”
During Israel’s assault on Iran, the president narrowly escaped an attempt on his life. “There are plans that if they take me out” when Israel attacks again, “we have prepared five to six steps down the line.
Despite incessant aggression from the Israeli occupation navy, 30 boats of the flotilla are still sailing strong, now just 46 nautical miles from Gaza.
DegenerationIP
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in reply to F_State • • •What evidence is there that Russia wants to invade NATO countries?
Edit: downvoted for asking a question. Interesting.
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in reply to Mrkawfee • • •See Vladimir Soloviev (journalist, presenter on the public funded Rossiya 1 channel), Dmitri Medvedev ( current vice president of the Russian federation security council), Margarita Simonian (public servant at Russia Segodnia).
Do your own research, it should be easy enough.
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