Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon
Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon
Armed criminal groups tear down precious rainforest to capitalise on record gold prices, report findsLuke Taylor (The Guardian)
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Tesla's Full Self-Driving software under investigation after railroad incidents
Tesla Full Self-Driving under investigation after train incidents
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that it would investigate how Tesla’s semi-autonomous driving software handles railroad crossings.David Ingram (NBC News)
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German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email
German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email
Digital sovereignty isn't a phrase you often hear in the US, but it's a big deal in Europe. Here's why.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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Future headline:
Microsoft's Windows update will eliminate "side loading" unauthorized programs.
The Surreal and Sublime Photography of Graciela Iturbide
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/55463313
One of the best-known photographers in Mexico. Her work looks away from the sensational images of violence that have for years defined the nation, and instead looks inwards, to the traditions, faces, and unusual sights seen everyday.
Iturbide came to photography later in life. She was the eldest daughter of a wealthy, conservative couple. In 1962, she married the photographer Pedro Meyer and had three children. It was after the death of her daughter in 1970, aged just 6, that Iturbide turned to photography.
The 5th image is perhaps her best-known photograph. Nuestra Señora de Las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas), it was originally published as part of her photo essay Juchitán de las Mujeres (1979-86), a project which began with Iturbide's support of feminist causes.
Iturbide was also involved in documenting the indigenous cultures of Mexico. This image, Mujer Ángel, in which a woman carries a tape recorder on her journey to ancient cave paintings. was shot in 1979 in the Sonora desert, when Iturbide was living with the Seri Indians.
In many of her photographs there is a sense of playfulness and strangeness. These qualities are at odds with many people's expectations or experiences of Mexico. Iturbide has always strived to look beyond the lurid headlines, to the absurdity of life.
Folk stories and religious themes are common throughout her work. Particularly when the visual language of the catholic church meets ancient native traditions and the realities of contemporary life.
Iturbide started photographing landscapes and birds. She had heard the Seri Indians talk of the significance of birds, and she began to incorporate living and dead birds into her art; symbolic of strength and fragility, freedom and vulnerability.
In the mid-1980s she photographed Mexican-Americans in Eastside Los Angeles, many of whom were involved in street gangs. The cholos and cholas of the White Fence Gang would later feature in the anthology A Day in the Life of America (1987).
EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50562993
EU lawmakers voted on Wednesday to ban the use of the term "veggie-burger" and limit food descriptions such as steak, escalope and sausage to products containing meat, part of a proposed EU law to protect farmers.
https://www.reuters.com/business/eu-lawmakers-push-ban-term-veggie-burger-2025-10-08/
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What's next? Soon you won't be allowed to call it baby oil unless it's made from real babies.
On a more serious note, I did order a "flexi" burger at Max by mistake. I thought it was a gateway burger with one patty replaced by halloumi. All I got was veg.
Ukraine's parliament backs creation of cyber forces in first reading
Ukraine's parliament backs creation of cyber forces in first reading
The bill aims to establish the Cyber Forces as a military command body responsible for Ukraine's defense and security capabilities in cyberspace.Martin Fornusek (The Kyiv Independent)
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I'm more surprised they were every in any such alliance in the first place.
I mean eat stealing and baby killing just auto cancels anything good they may ever try to do it than maybe self destruction.
James Comey pleads not guilty to criminal charges sought by Trump
James Comey trial set for Jan. 5 on charges sought by Trump
"My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump," former FBI Director James Comey said after being indicted.Dan Mangan (CNBC)
How Israel and its 'digital army' work to silence the truth about Gaza
How Israel and its 'digital army' work to silence the truth about Gaza - Ricochet
In Canada, groups weaponizing claims of media bias are being used to intimidate journalists and reshape coverage of Israel and Palestine under the quiet complicity of Canadian newsroomsZahra Khozema (Ricochet)
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Paraglider bomb attack by Myanmar military kills at least 20 at protest
Paraglider bomb attack by Myanmar military kills at least 20 at protest
Dozens more injured by night strike on anti-government demonstration held during national holidayCarmela Fonbuena (The Guardian)
'Unprecedented dieback': Alarming report warns Earth reached 'point of no return'
'Unprecedented dieback': Alarming report warns Earth reached 'point of no return'
Less than two years after researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom warned that the world was nearing numerous climate tipping points, a report out Monday warns that one such “point of no return” has already been reached, with war…Julia Conley, Common Dreams (Raw Story)
The only way I can survive all the news about Gaza is to read it as "Gazza"
Optus: Telecoms company sent emails to wrong addresses during deadly outage
Optus: Telecoms company sent emails to wrong addresses during deadly outage
The outage in Australia has been linked to four deaths as people could not reach emergency services.Kelly Ng (BBC News)
German industrial output falls to 2005 levels as auto sector craters
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/50548487
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German industrial production fell back to 2005 levels in August as output in the country’s all-important car industry cratered by 18.5 per cent compared with the previous monthOverall, industrial production fell 4.3 per cent in August compared with the previous month, seasonally adjusted data showed on Wednesday. Economists had predicted a smaller drop of 1 per cent in a Reuters poll.
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This.
Why would I buy a computer on wheels that I really don't seen to own even though I paid for it?
I'd rather buy a pre-2020 Toyota and drive it to the oblivion.
Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation
I think QoL tools for moderators need to become more of a Fediverse priority. This burns people out. Key moderators of communities quit and communities become abandoned.
Ideas :
- Automatic removal option to remove posts and/or comments for specific keywords. This would be most useful for automatically removing posts and comments when people slur. Piefed already has a keyword filter for visibility. This could be expanded to community settings. Have it also fire-off a report to the moderators when someone triggers it.
- Automatic URL removal. Allow communities to blacklist specific urls. Useful for politics or news communities that want to negate sources known for misinformation.
- Automatic removal for repeat URL posting. Very useful for politics or news communities to prevent double-posting.
- Make it so a community can set itself up to only accept text posts, video posts, or image posts. This should prevent tedious janitorial cleanup for communities that only allow links, or text posts (the most common two).
- Post Delay Restrictions. Some communities, perhaps not many, might be interested in posting cooldowns for users. So you can only post 1 post every hour, or 2 posts every hour - or whatever the chosen limit is. This would help negate spammers and over-enthusiastic posters flooding a topical community.
- Post Formatting Requirements. This one could be trickier and more effort than most of the others, but setting conditions for the formatting of new posts would be useful.
Now, not all communities would make use or have any need to make use of all of these - but many would to varying degrees - and it would help them.
I think going down this road is important to prevent moderators burning out over the drudgery of moderating communities.
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True. I am just mostly trying to make a record of this stuff for the future. Obviously in the event of these tools existing, mods wouldn't have to turn them on.
I definitely think there needs to be some rough guide on making your community federated and then advertising it effectively so communities can get that early kick.
there needs to be some rough guide on making your community federated and then advertising it effectively so communities can get that early kick.
We can draft something on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip
Return of Jared Kushner: Netanyahu's friend and Gulf business ally reappears for Gaza talks
Return of Jared Kushner: Netanyahu's friend and Gulf business ally reappears for Gaza talks
Among Hamas officials, Qatari and Egyptian diplomats, and a Turkish spy chief huddling for Gaza peace talks in Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh resort is a key American interlocutor: US President Donald Trump's son-in-law.Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
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We require the headline match the article, in this case "Return of Jared Kushner: Netanyahu's friend and Gulf business ally reappears for Gaza talks".
Please make it match or we'll have to remove it.
Now he is one of two US interlocutors tapped with ending Israel's genocide in Gaza
Yeah, pick someone pro-genocide to end the genocide. That'll work.
EU to double steel tariffs amid influx of Chinese imports
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They're just following the same market trend thats been happening since before the 90'. You cant buy the steel from a mill cheaper than you buy the finished product from China. American manufacturing has been dead for half a century. Itll prolly happen in Europe too. So here's your get rich EU scheme: start fuckin fabricating. You buy the manufactured parts from China because the quality is really hard to fuck up when it comes to machined steel parts that ship with MTRs. You take those parts and weld them into your finished product that you sell for 100x's the actual cost to make.
All the more reason slapping tariffs on imported goods was and will go down in history as one of the fuckin dumbest economic decisions every made by any controlling power.
While expensive for the EU, tariffs on Chinese products are probably sensible.
There are a few actual sane reasons for imposing tariffs, and one of them is protecting critical industries that you can't afford to lose because doing so would expose you to greater risks. Steel, due to its impact on downstream sectors, can reasonably be taken to be one of those. Look at the pain on relying on Russia for energy and how much weaker it made the response to their invasion of Ukraine. Losing critical industries to China makes it harder to exert pressure on China in the future, and easier for them to exert it on the EU.
Germany's AfD seeks closer ties with the MAGA movement
Germany's AfD seeks closer ties to Trump and MAGA movement
Far-right Alternative for Germany's Beatrix von Storch and other party leaders seek to strengthen ties to the Trump administration with Washington visits.Hans Pfeifer (Deutsche Welle)
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Yeah they like it, they're a bit late to the party though. Even maga is waking up, the issue is that they have nowhere else to go, for a decade they were told that democrats are literal demons. So we need to come together and drop partisanship if we want to survive.
Look, I love Germany, I love Germans, a few of my ex girlfriends were German, my best friends are German, I used to live in Germany. But they truly, on a viscerally deep level, do not understand Americans. They don't understand our values, they don't understand our humor, they tiptoe very carefully around race-issues, but they don't understand how we can actually integrate and mix rather than maintaining strict racial neighborhoods organically, (aside from a few places, like Berlin but that's a special place) they don't understand what makes us do crazy things or why we help people we don't know, why we start conversations with strangers if we don't have some goal in talking to them. They don't understand us. And they want to use us. They see racism which basically aligns with theirs, and they hope to form an alliance, but it will never sway the American public at large. Talk all the shit you want about Americans being propagandized by FOX, it's true, but so is your country and everyone else's. Now they have to find out the hard way that deep down, and at a number much higher than any other demographic in the entire nation, we fucking hate Nazis and authoritarianism. Federal agents used to know better than to even walk into some states. That feeling never went away.
You have any guns in your house from the last time your relatives had to fight the government over authoritarian tendencies over there in Germany? I do, everyone I know does, and I'm just some dude from a small-town. We never stopped buying them, because we still remember. My grandfather REFUSED to buy a rifle if it had a registration. My grandfather on the other side was at the Ford strike where the government opened fire into the picket. He never put money into a bank even. He made sure I understood that the government is not there to help us, and he gave me his guns. My neighbor used to get drunk and let off his AK into some dead car in his back yard. There are millions of him. Millions. You'll find racists in the US, but 90% of us fucking hate them too. They're just the loudest whiniest little bitches that exist, doing their gay little color-coded marches because daddy never hugged them enough, and their crimes are heinous, so they occupy a far larger online footprint than they do in the real world. How many videos of Nazis getting rocked in the US can you find? How many videos of them backing down at the slightest resistance? How many videos of nazis rocking opponents in the US? Exactly. They are bitch-boy cosplayers who think that after their shitty homoerotic fascist state is implemented, that they can just go and take women like in caveman days. They can't get laid not because they suck, but because society precludes the natural way of doing it. (I've heard these freaks talk like that) Thing is, there's at least a 50% chance it would be a girl that smoked them in this situation. more like 80%. Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth. And I've seen girls fuck up guys who look like your average y'all-queada marcher. These guys haven't been punched in the mouth enough yet. They think they want it, because any pussy can hold a gun and they assume that they are the only ones who have them, but they really, really don't. The poor fuckers need love, but they've spent their lives creating the most unlovable persona possible. So in short, they need to grow the fuck up and stop being such whiny bitches. Nobody's gonna do it for ya, not even that cool older dude at the paintball place with a lil ss sticker on his gun who invites your teenage friends to his place for practice. Ya know, the neo-n*zi militia recruiter. We know, and if we know, you better get smart before it's too late.
There might have been a time, a few years back, where they could have jumped on the train and taken advantage of the confusion, but now it's too late. Their open nazis are getting ousted and facing real legal consequences and they know they can't hold on for too much longer. Nobody gives af about Czech president, the tide has turned fully against Putin and Trumpsim, now the only issue is watching which sandcastles last the longest against the inevitable eroding flow of the social pendulum.
EDIT: Sorry, these guys rile me up. No bad vibes intended.
Missouri attorney general demands Planned Parenthood hand over abortion patient records
Missouri attorney general demands Planned Parenthood hand over abortion patient records
The office of Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway is subpoenaing patient medical records, incident reports, “adverse event documentation” and more from Planned Parenthood.Anna Spoerre (KCUR)
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Anti-immigration politics contribute to racism in Germany
Far-right gains, economic stagnation and increased political focus on migration can be major drivers of racial discrimination in European countries such as Germany.
The ongoing political focus on migration in Germany could have spillover effects. Decades of progress in making the country more inclusive of Black people could be rolled back, Tahir Della, of the rights organization Initiative of Black People in Germany, told DW.
"We already notice that, especially when there are debates related to migration, the presence of Black people and people of African descent in Germany is called into question," Della said.
Germany, the European Union's most-populous country, has had the bloc's biggest reported increase in anti-Black racial discrimination, according to the 2023 "Being Black in the EU" report by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights.
How Black Germans fight for recognition of Nazi-era crimes
The Nazis targeted Black people living in Germany, excluding them from society through forced sterilization and denial of citizenship. Activists and historians still strive for recognition of these injustices.Okeri Ngutjinazo (Deutsche Welle)
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I was about to say that they have the causality backwards but then I thought about it and realized that it's both ways:
Racist demagogues complain about immigrants, which makes people more racist, which makes people more anti immigrant, which makes people more racist etc until everything is so fucked that fascists take over.
The only way to stop the process is to have highly influential politicians and journalists who are both ethically principled and at least as skilled at effective rhetoric as the fascist demagogues and their astroturfed echo chamber.
Which means that the US, Germany, the UK, India, Russia, Israel, and several other influential countries are COMPLETELY fucked right now.
FIX THE AI CHAT
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UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows
UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows
Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’Karen McVeigh (The Guardian)
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead
Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensiveGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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install issues?
Hey there! Loaded POP OS to replace Windows on my daily driver:
Dell G15 5530 (I7 - NVIDIA Geforce RTX - 64GB RAM)
and it seems to brick itself? If I refresh OS everything seems to work fine. But as soon as I update UEFI firmware 480 - 20241101 it will not only not find nor update firmware, but I'm having to frequently hard reboot my machine. It might work. It then becomes unresponsive (won't load past disk encryption password, mouse stops working) until I get to the point of refreshing the OS. Rinse and repeat.
Am I doing something wrong? Is it my machine? Anyone else run into this
Ecuador arrests five for alleged presidential assassination attempt
Ecuador arrests five for alleged presidential assassination attempt
A large group of people threw rocks at Daniel Noboa's car, which bears "signs of bullet damage", an official says.Ione Wells (BBC News)
Chad cuts ties with wildlife charity linked to Prince Harry
Chad cuts ties with wildlife charity linked to Prince Harry
The government says the charity African Parks displayed an arrogant and disrespectful attitude.Mayeni Jones (BBC News)
King Vegeta: "Chad as in the country, the organization or the person?"
Nappa: "Yes."
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World's first resort hospital opens in gambling hub Macau
Gambling hub Macau bets on healthcare tourism
Beijing has been pushing for Macau to diversify its economy away from gaming to healthcare tourism.Osmond Chia (BBC News)
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At least 24 killed as paraglider drops bombs at Myanmar Buddhist festival
Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival
Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.BBC Burmese (BBC News)
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I fly a paraglider. I was paranoid about getting shot before the Hamas attack on October 7. This just worries me more.
It's all so sad.
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Not trying to put myself or my own worries above the obvious travesty and senseless murder.
I'm just sharing my perspective and not making any political points.
I posted this story from Irrawady yesterday: lemmy.ca/post/52965387. The numbers are much higher.
Myanmar Junta Strike Kills at Least 32 on Buddhist Festival of Light
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/52965336Several children were among at least 32 people killed and over 50 injured on Monday night when junta paragliders bombed a peaceful candlelight vigil in Sagaing Region’s Chaung-U Township.
irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanm…
So, 32-min dead, 5 from the people who'd been providing protection, some from the non-violent group & some from the junta-resistance group,
& the rest were all just candlelight-vigil Buddhists, participating in a normal periodic festival,
AND the junta also returned to bomb again,
AND the junta also bombed other 2 other regions in the Northern Shan State, according to that story..
Given today's "journalism", I don't expect this to even exist according to the West's reporting.
For context, for people who don't follow the violences in Buddhist regions of the world, in this case I'm defaulting to siding with the Buddhists, but .. please keep in mind that the Buddhists in Sri Lanka apparently have been good a genociding Tamils, & the "Buddhists" of Pol Pot's regime certainly made effective/murderous communists, or whatever they were "identifying" as ( that country was as Buddhist as any country could be, until then, ttbomk ) .. so, same as with Africa, the only default-position that automatically is going to be right, is that line from the youtuber of Africa who tries explaining African politics/wars/genocides for the outside-world.. "it's complicated".
< digging >
brookings.edu/articles/myanmar…
Right.
So, the junta's dismantling gov't-by-the-people-for-the-people.
Their action demonstrates that they're the bad-guys, then.
That article, however, caused me to see that IF a government isn't ruling entire-regions of a country, THEN .. it shouldn't be recognized as government of those regions, should it?
Shouldn't locally-legitimate government be a global civil-right, at some point/degree of dispute?
Making international-law so the rabies that Assad was enforcing in Syria, automatically can't be treated-as "legitimate" by world governments?
( he was ethnic-minority, genociding Syria's majority, because as soon as he caved, then the ethnic-majority would be retaliating against his ethnic-minority again..
which means that the country has, objectively, to be carved into ethnic-regions, & deemed to be distinct countries, instead-of kept in its if-this-side-is-ruling-they-are-genociding-the-other/if-the-other-side-is-ruling-they-are-genociding-the-1st-side political-rabies.
Obviously, this also indicates that enforcing non-partisan gov't, UN-neutral, would be also strategic & wise, & could even prevent carving-up-countries, if held long-enough, but .. it costs outside-countries, so they aren't likely to be investing in that, are they?
but since when has either world-strategic or wisdom had ANY say in human geopolitics??
Bah and Humbug, on all this ego-driven butchery-addiction! )
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Myanmar’s junta doesn’t have to ‘win,’ it just has to wait
While control of many areas in Myanmar are contested, the ruling military junta does not need to control the entire country to “win”.Brookings
the “Buddhists” of Pol Pot’s regime certainly made effective/murderous communists
Your post shows a lot of errors and erroneous logic. Pol Pot wasn't "Buddhist" Pol Pot was a communist. Conflating conflicts in Sri Lanka to the conflict in Myanmar into a "violence in Buddhist regions around the world" is a logical fallacy, and intellectually stupid as can be. A brief look at your post history shows your interest in colouring every conflict into a religious one is rather disturbing.
The culture that Pol Pot was of, was Buddhist.
The country was Buddhist.
The regime took people from Buddhist culture & created that.
Cultural-roots do count.
Ideological-roots do count.
That is exactly why Trump is succeeding in his religion's possessing of the US of A: cultural-roots are leverage.
To me, the "Christians" of Trump's regime, the "Buddhists" of Pol Pot's regime ( was the country culturally communist-party, before his regime, for the 3-4 generations required, to define the culture? No? then there had to be many still "Buddhist" people in that regime ), the "Jews" of Netanyahu's regime, etc, are all playing the same game:
they are having motivation opposite-to what they are purporting to be.
That is significant, in my view.
Historically significant, & significant in whether our-kind survives this century, or not, too.
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I realized that my incompetence-in-communicating probably added this mis-communication:
The inquisitors were Christian, right?
The fact that what they were doing went against everything their root-guru's religion was made-of, doesn't have any bearing, to them.
Nazism is Christian, in identity.
The KKK is Christian, in identity.
Identity has deep roots.
Cambodia's Buddhist.
Has been for centuries.
Yes, I know that Pol Pot was Communist, but when you raise communism in a country as deeply Buddhist as Cambodia, .. you end-up with many of the people in the ruling-regime having "Buddhist" identity, fundamentally in them.
THAT is what I meant:
it was the underlying Buddhist-identity, that I was attacking, and not, in any way, pretending that Pol Pot was claiming Buddhism ( which not-even an idiot would claim ).
You simply can't raise an institution in any culture, without having that-culture being the underlying identity in the people of that regime.
That is why Chinese Buddhism is to me partially an oxy-moron:
Confucianism ( form/tradition/authority/establishment ) is sooo much of the bedrock of the fundamental Chinese mind, and Buddhism is the opposite ( essence, instead-of form, centered ), that the 2 modes of mind are fundamentally mutually-exclusive.
( this doesn't mean that Chinese Chan Buddhism is somehow worthless: it's got some excellent insights for us!
However, if one is working at dissolving-beyond-form, then being fundamentally of the form-and-establishment-and-authority-are-LORD religion that Confucianism is, & I've linked on other sites to a pair of legal-cases which show Confucianism's bedrock instinct..
both in Japan & in China, both Confucian-culture ( Japan's fundamentally more Buddhist & also Shinto ), people have been convicted of murders that they confessed-to, .. and then the person they'd "murdered" returned to town, or was found alive.
In Confucian culture, authority is the LORD.
Authority beating people into confessing is "valid" ( and cost authority some "face" in those cases, when accountability came knocking ), for authority to do.
In OUR culture due-process is more real, in Confucian culture .. it inherently isn't.
Same with truly-Buddhist cultures, like Cambodia.
Any truly-Buddhist culture which is temporarily ( for a few generations ) highjacked by some physicalist/materialist ideology .. the underlying identites of the people staffing the regime is going to remain rooted in the underlying-culture, isn't it?
That goes all ways, not just to the traditional-religions, it goes to moneyarchy, it goes to legalism-archy, it goes to physicalism's religion, it goes to fundamentalist-atheism, it goes to all axiom-based, system-of-meaning that rejects falsification
( which is my definition of "religion" ).
You can't instantly get the underlying identity out, no matter how you change the apparent identity: it takes generations to do that.
( the Soviet Union lasted long-enough to change the fundamental-underlying-identity in people, not completely, but significantly )
So, you've proven I'm incompetent at communicating:
I meant underlying identity, underneath the party-affiliation or otherwise "flag carrying" "identity",
but I appeared to mean something fundamentally-different.
Typical..
My inability to think the way proper, acceptable, valid, western-minds think, keeps creating miscommunications & problems.
That isn't likely to cease, as long as I continue earning more-complete understanding, instead of remanufacturing me to make me be acceptably-conforming/"belonging"/etc.
That underlying-level & surface-level both affect outcomes, is to me sooo obvious as to be automatically-assumed.
Normals don't assume any such thing.
Incompetence-at-communicating can have many causes.
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Malaysia rejects Fifa accusations it forged players’ citizenship and says it will appeal sanctions
Malaysia rejects Fifa accusations it forged players’ citizenship and says it will appeal sanctions
Malaysia’s football association says it will appeal Fifa sanctions and fine after seven players on national team suspended for one yearIma Caldwell (The Guardian)
Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes
Burning down the house: Milei plays rock star as Argentina economy crashes
Facing protests and scandal, Argentina’s ‘rock star president’ performs in Buenos Aires, saying: ‘I’m human’Facundo Iglesia (The Guardian)
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There are 3 categories of game:
- Positive-Sum game: win-win alliance
- Zero-Sum game: competitive-narcissism
- Negative-Sum game: competitive-nihilism
Mass-shooters, Accelerationists, street-gangs butchering life for kicks, & dictators-committed-to-making-CERTAIN-that-nobody-amounts-to-anything-once-they're-gone: the entire country is their epitaph, .. these are playing negative-sum game.
Know it for what it is.
Competitive-nihilism is becoming more & more normal among world "leaders", while our whole judging-everything-paradigm is pretending that everyone is within the competitive-narcissism/zero-sum-game category.
Stampeding off a cliff, "to 'make our [ political/ideological ] statement', exterminating everyone in the world with us", kind of commitment..
Treat it as it actually is, not as the false-god "status quo" is committed to pretending that it is.
Status-quo doesn't have a soul of its own: it can't die.
We can.
Break such highjackers-of-our-world from ruling-authority,
XOR Universe's NaturalSelection's going to be awarding us with our very-own entire species wide DarwinAward, later this century.
That's objectively humankind's choice.
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Macron under pressure to call snap parliamentary elections or resign
Macron under pressure to call snap parliamentary elections or resign
French president’s former allies join opponents in demanding he act to end a spiralling political crisisJon Henley (The Guardian)
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Alleged ‘kill team’ charged after arrest en route to hit near Sydney daycare
Alleged ‘kill team’ face court after arrest en route to hit near Sydney daycare
Police allege they identified the trio ‘mobilising’ to kill a man near a childcare centre in city’s south-westNick Visser (The Guardian)
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in reply to Mog Spawn • • •WHY THE FUCK ARE PEOPLE STILL EXPECTING THIS GARBAGE TO WORK? Tesla’s “full self driving” crashes have been widely covered. Is it simple ignorance? Are they not aware of the news? Is it stubbornness? Laziness? Thinking that “it won’t happen to me”? Do they sincerely believe Musk’s lies?
I know that victim blaming isn’t the answer, and that’s not what I’m doing. I just want to know what’s going on in their heads.
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in reply to magnetosphere • • •People don't know about the unreliability of such systems. They also don't know how simple Tesla's autopilot is compared to other systems.
As a person who has used OpenCV before, I would never trust a computer vision system. I maybe could trust LiDAR based systems as those can see 3 dimensionally but that's a big "maybe".
The weirdest part to me is that one apple engineer who died in a tesla crash. I have no idea how an engineer working in a software company could trust that thing
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in reply to yogurtwrong • • •Some of the stupidest people I've ever known were brilliant engineers.
Same could be said for many people with very specific doctorates.
As the popular band Smashmouth once sang: 'Your brain gets smart, but your head gets dumb'.
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in reply to yogurtwrong • • •Because many of us are fucking morons. I had one colleague who was writing the control software for a baseball-throwing machine. Despite being way past the deadline and way over budget, the client asked him to create a special version of the software so the machine could be used with Little League teams. He decided to do his first test of this version on a field with actual Little Leaguers on it, which resulted in a 125 mph knuckleball (no spin at all so incredibly erratic in flight) a foot above a 10-year-old kid's head. Which resulted in the only time in my programming career that I had to physically intervene to prevent a fistfight between two people (my boss and the client).
Echo Dot
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Alex
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in reply to Alex • • •That's like saying that they're going to cut the engine out of a car because it makes the car more expensive. Yeah but it also makes the car work.
Self-driving without lidar is never going to work, and it's likely to get them sued for releasing it like that.
Bronzebeard
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in reply to magnetosphere • • •Elon Musk is best friends with Tony Stark. He's a jeanius.
These people locked inside and burning to death are just crashing it wrong.
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Strider
in reply to magnetosphere • • •I still personally know multiple people who still think those are awesome cars.
They're otherwise educated, intelligent people!
I really don't comprehend.
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individual
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in reply to Mog Spawn • • •Tesla should be fined and forced to change when saying or responding with "despite its name self driving is not self driving". They continue to lie. With continued consequences. At the cost of others and the public.
Them responding as such is absurd. Them getting away with that even more so.
tb_
in reply to Kissaki • • •It's because during (boasting?) exaggerated claims are often made, so it's totally fiiiine and legal!
Consumer protection is such a sham.
FreedomAdvocate
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frog_meister
in reply to AngryCommieKender • • •Pretty sure he got public funding for that stunt, too.
Vegas people love getting conned.
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nialv7
in reply to dellish • • •We don't look at car features in isolation. e.g. seatbelt or airbag could cause injuries too in a crash, but we have them because it's better than not having them.
In the same token self driving doesn't have to be perfect, it just need to be better than humans. I don't know what Tesla's number looks like, just speaking generally.
RubberElectrons
in reply to nialv7 • • •As a motorcyclist and bicyclist, I am not afraid of getting hurt by failures of other people's seatbelts and airbags.
I know what you're getting at, but there's more at stake here.