Agencies prepare to bring aid to starving people in Gaza as ceasefire appears to hold
Aid agencies are preparing to bring large amounts of vital aid to starving people in Gaza this weekend, as a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas appeared to be holding.
“We have received signals that tomorrow will be the day that the scale-up [in aid deliveries] begins in earnest under the ceasefire,” said Tess Ingram, a spokesperson for the UN agency for children, Unicef.
"The stakes are really high,” said Ingram, speaking by phone from Gaza. “Even though we have a ceasefire – which means the bombardment stops – the humanitarian crisis continues. We still have a famine to fight and diseases are spreading, so we really need that scale-up to happen quickly and efficiently.”
Ingram said Unicef was calling for all crossings from Israel into Gaza to be reopened, so that trucks were able to move through quickly “without delays or impediments”.
Another UN aid agency, Unrwa, said it had enough stored food to feed every Palestinian in Gaza for three months. Its communications director, Juliette Touma, said on Saturday that the distribution of aid was “absolutely critical in controlling the spread of famine”.
Agencies prepare to bring aid to starving people in Gaza as ceasefire appears to hold
Unicef says ‘humanitarian crisis continues’ and expects to scale up aid deliveries on SundayOliver Holmes (The Guardian)
Mexico Doubles Down on Militarization With National Guard Reform
Mexico Doubles Down on Militarization With National Guard Reform
InSight Crime spoke with an expert on civil-military relations about the implications of Mexico's National Guard reform for public security.Victoria Dittmar (InSight Crime)
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Donald Trump and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to chair Gaza peace summit on Monday
Donald Trump and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, are due to chair a Gaza peace summit with several world leaders in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday.
The meeting would take place on Monday afternoon in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh “with the participation of leaders from more than 20 countries”, the Egyptian presidency said.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said he would attend, as will Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, and Pedro Sánchez of Spain. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has also confirmed his attendance.
There was no immediate word about whether Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu would be in Sharm el-Sheikh. Hamas has said it will not take part.
Donald Trump and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to chair Gaza peace summit on Monday
Meeting will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh and include leaders of the UK, Italy, Spain and FranceDaniel Lavelle (The Guardian)
The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds
Microplastics have been found almost everywhere: in blood, placentas, lungs – even the human brain. One study estimated our cerebral organs alone may contain 5g of the stuff, or roughly a teaspoon. If true, plastic isn’t just wrapped around our food or woven into our clothes: it is lodged deep inside us.
Microplastics are shed from packaging, clothes, paints, cosmetics, car tyres and other items. Some are tiny enough to slip through the linings of our lungs and guts into our blood and internal organs – even into our cells. What happens next is still largely unknown.
"Designing a definitive experiment is hard, because we’re constantly being exposed to these particles,” says Dr Jaime Ross, a neuroscientist at the University of Rhode Island in the US. “But we know microplastics are in almost every tissue that has been looked at, and recent studies suggest we’re accumulating far more plastic now than 20 years ago.”
The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds
The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they doLinda Geddes (The Guardian)
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US loves to generate alarmist second rate science. Humans evolved breathing and eating all kinds of foreign dust, plant fibers, etc. This is why we have mucous linings and a lymphatic system.
No one has a mechanism for plastics toxicity (we have been making plastic implants for over 60 years). The best we get is people jamming stupid amounts into a poor mouse model for a disease.
Plastic polymers are inert.
This is just another version of the BPA scare that again was never a threat and just people doing bad science in rodents.
Largely agreed. We've been cranking out plastics for a long time now. Shouldn't we have noted effects by now? Everyone assumes microplastics are bad for us, but I haven't read any possible mechanisms for damage.
Whenever I read something even slightly questionable I think, "How would that work?" Not seeing the mechanism(s). Anyone simply assumes this is bad. But tell me how these particles affect us, or how they could affect us. I'll hear about any educated guesses.
Higher exposure to these microplastics, which can be inadvertently consumed or inhaled, is associated with a heightened prevalence of chronic noncommunicable diseases, according to new research being presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session (ACC.25).
I just started watching Crimes Of The Future by David Fincher. It's about human evolution and how we as a species are adapting to the world we're making.
::: spoiler spoiler
SPOILER: there's a secret subset of people who are in hiding because they eat plastic, and the governments of the world want to suppress them because they're the next stage of human evolution
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Because it's ultimately a Pascal's Wager due to it being unknown.
You can assume they're not bad and go all in on plastics. But if you're wrong, you'll pay for it worse than if you probably tried avoiding further intake as much as possible.
I think you might mean that PTFE/Teflon plastics are inert (at least unless burned).
PFAS chemicals used to emulsify or coat things with it are what gets into the water supply and causes problems.
PTFE and some others are considered chemically inert. Other PFAS are mostly chemically inert.
Carbon-fluorine bonds are extremely strong. If these weren't mostly chemically inert, they wouldn't be "forever" chemicals. They would readily degrade and it wouldn't be an issue.
as a cell biologist this confuses me.
usually we find the symptoms and discover the cause afterwards.
however, with micro plastics, we discovered the "cause" but somehow, haven't really found any symptoms.
I'm assuming that having then is bad, yet it's surprisingly inert.
I'm sure in 10 years we will find a massive horror that they cause when it's too late.
Good point, and another reason why it's difficult,
however, you don't always need a control, look ar Rachel Carson's Silent spring.
which documented how having DDT everywhere in the world polluting all the waters leads to a decrease in Bird population without a DDT free planet to compare with besides the past.
Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch
Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch
The alternative app marketplace AltStore has raised $6 million and launched a Mastodon server.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
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no offense to sane Americans
I don't think any reasonable american would take offense. I would prefer it wasn't either.
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Now, alongside the additional funding, AltStore is launching its own Mastodon server, running on the ActivityPub protocol, where users will be able to view app updates and new information from the sources they follow. Developers can opt in to have their app updates published to the new server.
AltStore is for iOS.
Edit: And hopefully F-Droid will be able to continue as an option, considering the new requirements Google is putting into place.
AltStore is for iOS.
Yes, another reason to stick with FDroid.
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You're 100% correct. I spent too long looking for the same info.
Just the term "app store" with no caps can mean any application repository - Shopify has an app store, FB has one, Blackberry used to have one, Apple technically has 2, etc. There's even a wiki entry for the term without caps.
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Yes, you can install the PAL version, however it’s not the same. Pal barely has any apps and Apple doesn’t “notarize” shit, so you’re still stuck with altstore/sidestore for any meaningful apps like youtube sponsorblock .
Apple found a way to circumvent the EU directive with this “notarized apps” shit. They are despicable.
This is awesome but AltStore has been seriously missing several important features for years - most notably, PRs have been submitted to add support for organization dev accounts (as opposed to individual accounts), and they never get merged. In general, I haven’t seen AltStore get a meaningful update in well over a year or two.
There’s enough missing that has been in dire need of adding that it got forked into SideStore, which has that feature and tons of other missing ones, including the ability to sign apps on device which is hella convenient.
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I suppose you can enforce additional politics into your store. Like forcing all apps being open source (like f-droid).
But everything will keep to be apple/google approved, at least until linux phone becomes more mainstream.
Until then I'm moving away from native app development, and focusing more on webapps and progressive apps.
Vladimir Putin is fearful the return of his convict army could destabilise Russian society, sources say
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ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Lewis Wiseman (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Smart
Not the adjective I would choose. He has good reason to be fearful - both personally and for his country, which makes it personal again. That has nothing to do with intelligence, it's a lizard brain thing.
It also isn't like he had a wise premonition here; many convicts already returned and they are already "destabilising society".
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PTSD
Pre war or post war? Probably both.
At least Ukraine can show that some positives have come out of the war for them, too. Their bonds with Europe have strengthened, their national identity has been forged in fire. I'm not saying it wouldn't have been awesome if the war had never happened, or that it was a net benefit, but at least they are coming out of this with some real tangible benefits in addition to the tragic losses.
Russia gets nothing and loses everything.
identity forged in fire
Ukraine is a strong runner up for hating russia. Poles can almost see them over the horizon behind them.
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242 killed by returning soldiersThe six-month battlefield stint didn't diminish Azamat Iskaliyev's appetite for violent revenge against women.
The 37-year-old was sentenced to nine-years in jail after he killed his wife by stabbing her in his car in the summer of 2021 because she wanted a divorce.
Soon after returning to civilian life, he knifed an ex-girlfriend more than 60 times in the shop where she worked in October 2024 after she rejected his advances.
For that crime, he was jailed for more than 19 years, according to court records in the city of Saratov.
This case is one shocking example of the social problems that could await Russia as thousands of prisoners turned soldiers return home following an eventual end to the war.
Verstka, an independent Russian media outlet, reported that by October 2024 almost 500 civilians had become victims of soldiers returning from fighting in Ukraine.
The report said at least 242 people had been killed, and a further 227 were gravely injured, citing data from Russian court records.
Russia about to perform the miracle of becoming an even shittier place.
It's like their thing.
It's actually kind of mind boggling. Lenin knew this was a thing and took all sorts of steps to correct it, but his mistake was demanding it to improve by force. "We're making your lives better now, or else."
I mean, shit, a big ass group of armed dudes on horses show up in my cold ass disconnected village and they say we need to do x, y, and z to improve our lives or else? Yeah that's sus.
It’s almost like all authoritarian government is actually a bad thing
Looking at you, China, USA
Not really. Actual democracies have incentives to make things better for the majority of people. And the easiest way to do that is to break up monopolies (especially in media), tax the rich, and then invest heavily in education.
Coincidentally, the way to kill a democracy is to do the exact opposite.
Show me a state that has done any of this to great sucess? Even democracies don't seem to have much stay past two hundred and fifty years.
A state always ends as authoritarian tool used against the people it persecutes the most. Very snow ball effect like.
So your example is coalation of 50 tripes with council who decites major decitions? Wow. That really sound ground breaking and unique way to govern people.
Didint their end beging when they could not agree how to respond to British Crown request of aid during the American Revolution?
No. I asked you to prove your point and like i tought you just wanted to bash common modern ways of ruling without offering any concrete alternative.
The only example you produced was failed coalation of tribes, that was not unique in the eyes of history or especially well functioning alternative to modern goverments.
You just earlier argued that in any state where somebody has power they will use it wrong. How their system was immune to that?
while the Grand Council served an important ceremonial role, it was not a government in the sense that Morgan thought.[40][41][42] According to this view, Iroquois political and diplomatic decisions are made on the local level and are based on assessments of community consensus. A central government that develops policy and implements it for the people at large is not the Iroquois model of government.
Per your source. Also important to note that those that were allowed to sit on the "grand council" were determined through hereditary succession. So if this government had power it would be essentially a confederacy ruled by nobles.
I won't disagree that a nice decentralized democratic society would be pretty awesome, but it's also a lot harder to do with 7 billion people.
In your example each clan would have been no larger than a small town. Less than 1,000 people. Of course, there were towns that used to exist in the Americas that were much larger, but for many we don't know how those were governed. Particularly those in North America. By thr time Europeans began asking the large cities had collapsed due to disease
That's the background for the story: Russia sent their convicts to war in trade of a "get out of jail"-card.
The guy was in jail for killing his wife. He took the deal and was sent to war. He got shot, got sent home as a free man, and immediately started killing people again.
It's not a single case. It's likely that convicts are taking the deal, not just to get out of jail, but also so they can go back and get revenge over those that put them in jail in the first place.
Broskys about to stroke out from the stress. His own body will kill him if not someone else. When you're responsible for a cumulative 1.5-2.5 million deaths, you're not a person people are sad to let go.
Economy tanking, losing the battle, 1.5 million dead Russians, he's not the mafia-fluencer he was in his youth. Lavrov is a fat slob, dude can't even stop his own drooling.
Modern warfare is entirely non beneficial to huge land masses. Try playing air defense swap-a-roo when the next missile or drone is 1k km away.
Also if Europe decides to ram his ass, they will, that will be his excuse to wind down the war, but to get to that tipping point, is so stress inducing, no amount of drugs will help. The drugs induce a spiral.
Europe's producing more rounds and providing more artillery than Murica. When the Yanks provide some old junk they appraise it at 50X the value then bemoan doing god's work while leaking Intel.
Europe and Ukraine are flexing. They've decimated Russia's military without any European boots on the ground (although they should be in the fight imo, it devalues Ukrainians to let them be the only one taking casualties for defending Europe). Then again, in 20 years, Ukraine will be telling Europe where and how to manage their militaries.
Ukraine was the powerhouse for arms manufacturing during the Soviet Era and they're quickly retaking this position.
I thought the point was to get them killed as fodder before they could return home.
They maybe get a few Ukrainian kills in, and no longer have to pay to incarcerate a person.
They can't even get that right?
The have casualties in the tens of thounds per month
It's been a joke for years now that if Ukrainian kill counts were accurate, they'd have decimated the entire Russian army multiple times by now. Russian media has made similar claims of Ukrainian armed forces.
Both national media are doing the Vietnam Kill Count rhetoric to say they're winning a fully Pyrrich War.
The cost of war:
10X-15X the battlefield deaths occur after the war is over. When the well cared for soldiers come home in a proper mental state. 10 times! Sustainable?
A Surplus of Men, A Deficit of Peace: Security and Sex Ratios in Asia's Largest States
The authors trace the rise in offspring sex selection in China and India that has resulted in a "surplus" of young men.Andrea Den Boer (The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs)
Hudson and Den Boer trace the rise in offspring sex selection in China and India that has resulted in a "surplus" of young men. They argue that such surpluses of men increase the potential for internal and external violence, while diminishing the prospects for democracy. This phenomenon could destabilize the two countries, the region, and beyond.
This was written in 2002. Seems like the pretictive power of the theory isn't too strong.
The only thing that he's actually good at is having powerful propaganda machinery that would have left Brezhnev deeply envious of.
Otherwise and outwardly, he looks unfazed at some military setbacks, but he still have legions of Black Hundred fanatics having bought the concept of Russia as the center of the world.
China blamed for flood of ‘dirt cheap’ products as exports move from US to EU, UK amid Trump tariffs
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ArchivedCompanies across Europe and the United Kingdom are complaining that there has been a “flood” of Chinese products into the market, as the country seeks to redirect goods meant for the United States, according to a Nikkei report.
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UK-based chemical giant Ineos [announced] this week, which said it is lowering production and cutting jobs due to the demand slowdown. The company said it is cutting 20 per cent of the workforce at its Acetyls plant in Hull, England, and is closing two production units in Rheinberg, Germany.
The announcement from Ineos blamed "dirt-cheap carbon-heavy" Chinese products that have been redirected from the US due to high tariffs but face no trade barriers in the EU or UK.
Stephen Dossett, CEO of Ineos Inovyn in the statement added, “Europe is committing industrial suicide. While competitors in the US and China benefit from cheap energy, European producers are being priced out by our own policies and absence of tariff protection.”[...]
German Chemical Industry Association (VCI) said it could not confirm a widespread increase in Chinese chemical imports after Trump's tariffs came in May, but noted increased price competitiveness as China's products continue despite domestic demand slowdown.
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For the steel sector, over supply from China has caused disruption, with the UK and EU considering 50 per cent tariffs on excess products. If the plan is approved by the European Parliament and the European Council, the measures will take effect mid-2026.
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EU textile body Euratex said Chinese exports have surged by 20 per cent in H1 2025 YoY. both in value and volume in the first half of 2025, compared with last year, according to the Financial Times.
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What are rare earths? Why are they so important? Why is Trump sparring with China over them? All FAQs answered | Mint
Rare earths are a set of 17 lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metallic elements in the periodic table, made up of scandium, yttrium and the lanthanides. They areSwastika Das Sharma (mint)
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Probably. But tariffs are also valid in one market or another, if you make them while thinking. They are way to manipulate the comparative advantages.
(And no, international trade is not a competition. It's not "competitive advantages" that you are looking for. It's much more complicated and much less threatening than that.)
I just wanna say, as a kid who grew up in the 80's and 90's when everything that wasn't nailed down was moving to China, we saw this day coming.
I told you so.
China played the world like a fiddle.
China played the world like a fiddle.
More like companies chasing the short term profits and damn the consequences
if your people were not buying them, they would not be selling them...
that sounds like a culture problem...
the capitalist culture.
Madagascar's president says 'attempt to seize power illegally' is underway
Madagascar's president says 'attempt to seize power illegally' is underway
Andry Rajoelina's comments come a day after a contingent of soldiers joined thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital of Antananarivo.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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2025: year of the fascist 😑
Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina on Sunday, October 12, said an "attempt to seize power illegally and by force" was underway, a day after a contingent of soldiers joined thousands of anti-government protesters in the capital. Soldiers based in the outskirts of Antananarivo on Saturday morning called on security units to "join forces" and to "refuse orders to shoot," repudiating the violent crackdown on youth-led protests that have rocked the Indian Ocean island for more than two weeks.
Nice to see the troops taking the side of the anti-fascist youth out there, good on them ♥️
Cameroon’s 92-year-old president set for another term as country goes to polls
Cameroon’s 92-year-old president set for another term as country goes to polls
Paul Biya, in power since 1982, has brushed off calls to retire but is rarely seen in publicEromo Egbejule (The Guardian)
Dictator bad, but:
12 years older and he looks better than Trump.
South Africa debates changing name of world-famous Kruger park
Kruger National Park: South Africa debates changing name of world-famous reserve
Some question whether the 19th Century Afrikaner leader should still be memorialised.Khanyisile Ngcobo (BBC News)
Indian student captured by Ukraine joined Russian army to avoid drug charges, says mother
Indian student allegedly fighting for Russia captured by Ukrainian forces
Gujarat’s Sahil Majothi joined the Russian army to avoid jail over alleged drug charges.Gopal Kateshiya (BBC News)
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supporting himself part-time as a kitchenware courier
is that even a real thing?
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He says he underwent 15 days of training in September 2024 and was sent to the battlefield a year later, on 30 September.The next day, on 1 October, Mr Majothi said he had an altercation with his commander, after which he separated from Russian soldiers. That was when he came across a Ukrainian dugout and asked them for help, he added.
The BBC cannot independently verify the date or location of the video in which he makes these claims.
It's just that easy? "Fuck you guys, I'm out, where are the Ukrainians?"
Philippines says Chinese ship ‘deliberately rammed’ government boat in South China Sea
Philippines says Chinese ship ‘deliberately rammed’ government boat in South China Sea
Beijing blames Manila for the collision, saying the ship ‘ignored repeated stern warnings from the Chinese side’Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
So is China doing the same Russia is doing in EU airspace?
Is this happening more now or are the media just sensitized, report more on such incidences?
Are both China and Russia taking advantage of a weakening USA, slowly escalating or at least testing the waters more?
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ignored repeated stern warnings
I hate it when I run through a crowd with my fist leading the way, shouting "Don't get punched, don't get punched, don't get punched!" and then they think it's my fault when somebody hits my fist with their face. Can't they see I'm the victim here?
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Heavy clashes erupt along Pakistan-Afghanistan border
Heavy clashes erupt along Pakistan-Afghanistan border
Escalation comes after Pakistani airstrike in Kabul, with Taliban launching reprisals against military postsHaroon Janjua (The Guardian)
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(Windows) Warning about desktop app not being able to download update - Mullvad VPN
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If you are stuck in the BSOD/boot loop, you can fix it by starting the computer in safe mode and uninstall the Mullvad VPN app and reboot. You can then install version 2025.9 and continue using Mullvad without problem!
Sorry for the trouble! We will get right to finding out why this happened! We have not touched the crashing driver in a very long time 🤔 It would be very helpful if people with this issue could report whether or not they run some anti-virus or other security related software that could be fighting against our app.
Windows 2025.10-beta1 mullvad-split-tunnel.sys invisible BSOD causing boot loops on login
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Taliban, Pakistani forces trade heavy fire along Afghanistan border
Pakistan and Afghanistan have traded claims of seizing each other’s border posts, as border clashes between their militaries intensify following an air strike on Kabul earlier this week.
The Taliban on Sunday said it had captured three Pakistani border posts during its retaliatory attacks at seven points along the border.
Pakistan, Afghanistan claim dozens of casualties in border clashes
Pakistan says it killed 200 Afghan fighters as Taliban claims killing 58 Pakistani soldiers in overnight operations.Faisal Ali (Al Jazeera)
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The AI Bubble, The Coming Crisis & What The Left Must Do
The AI Bubble, The Coming Crisis & What The Left Must Do
This will be yet another crisis the Left will squander if we do not begin to make serious calculations and moves.Islamic.Socialist (ML) (Islamic.Socialist Analysis)
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That would be something like:
Xi vows to stand firm in pissing match with Trump.
I don't think that's realistic.
China is really really tired of USA now, normally they would be way more diplomatic in their communications, this kind of strong language would previously be completely unheard of in a situation where there are negotiations taking place.
And this is not just Trump, Biden continued most of Trump's policies against China when he was president, and USA has been trying to control China's access to global markets for more than half a century, at times forcing even non American companies to sanction China, to prevent them from competing on equal terms.
Trump is making it worse of course, and he is probably the reason China now has had enough. But the fundamental problem is half a century old.
I guess the party is about to be over for USA, they can no longer bully the rest of the world into compliance that benefit only USA.
China and everyone else I think knows that this is just another round of market manipulation. He will back down since 130 percent tariffs are effectively a trade embargo and the US is still not positioned to be able to do that without economic calamity.
So the question is when he will back down and how. I think the same trick will work. He will implement it, do a whole song and dance about how he super duper means it this time, do a few other things to tank the stock market, and then he and his insiders will make big buys before backing down on everything.
Most likely he will back down, but it's false to claim everybody "knows".
Because there is a level of uncertainty, and even if he does, it shows negotiations are not going smoothly.
Trump is creating disruptions in the American market, and disruptions are harmful, especially they are extremely harmful to investments.
So whether he TACO out or not doesn't really matter for the harm he is doing in the meantime.
~~just another round of market manipulation.~~
FTFY:
another round of market disruption.
So whether he TACO out or not doesn't really matter for the harm he is doing in the meantime.
The disruptions and chaos are the only the worst part of this because everyone knows he will back down. Otherwise Chinese trade embargo itself would be far worse. If he actually did this the stock market would crash instead of just a hiccup, and the entire economy wouldn't be far behind. So it absolutely matters whether he chickens out or not.
Japan diaper firms step up recycling as waste set to grow in ageing society
Japan diaper firms step up recycling as waste set to grow in ageing society
Diapers are made from materials such as high-quality pulp, resins and absorbent agents. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Those fuckers love platiscs. Everything is individually wrapped and public trashcans are pretty much unheard of. Wanna throw out your trash? Wait until the day that specific kind of trash is picked up, from the net/cage outside. Hope the birds don't get to it first through or there'll be trash all over the fucking street. I swear for every fucking brilliant amazing thing you see in Japan, you can round a corner and find the dumbest, least thought through shit you've ever seen.
EDIT: Granted I haven't been there for almost 6 years so things could have changed of course.
Hey USA - this is how you push your allies into your adversaries hands.
Art of the fucking deal! Even Trump can’t explain why he put 39% tariffs on Swiss goods.
“We Were in Slaughterhouse”: What Freed Palestinian Detainees Are Saying After Release From Israeli Prisons
“We were in a slaughterhouse, not a prison. Unfortunately, we were in a slaughterhouse called the Ofer prison. Many young men are still there. The situation in the Israeli prisons is very difficult. There are no mattresses. They always take the mattresses away. The food situation is difficult. Things are difficult there,” he said.
“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.
“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.”
“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”
“He’s been locked up for 24 years,” said a relative of Saber Masalma, who was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison. “He looks like a dead body. But we will bring him back to life,” he said.
“We Were in Slaughterhouse”: What Freed Palestinian Detainees Are Saying After Release From Israeli Prisons
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Palestinian detainees freed from Israeli jails on Monday under the Gaza ceasefire agreement once again showed signs of torture and starvation. Israel released 1,968 PalestiniEditing Team (Quds News Network)
I've recently turned into a blocker.
I always felt like it was wrong to block an account unless it was smth absolutely insane. Nazis etc.
But now I'm blocking people who's tone I dont like, or who are baiting or actingnin bad faith.
I know I can't do it as a mod. But i can certainly do it as an individual now. Judgy comment? Blocked. Unnecessarily confrontational? Blocked.
This is new to me, literally 3 days. Wonder how this affects my feed. Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can't see it. I wish they couldn't see anything I posted either.
What are your blocking habits? If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?
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Or even more granular. There's folks that make a large number of posts that I do like in some comms, and a large number of ones I don't care about in other comms.
If they're the main one making low effort posts in the Weevil community or whatever, but everyone else is great, it would be preferable to prune the community for myself instead of blocking it or them.
I still think they're a net positive for Lemmy and want to interact with them, just we may not like all the same things in the exact same way.
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I tend to ask questions about their opinion until they stop responding.
I like to pretend they’ve realised the absurdity of their own stance.
In reality I’m just easily amused.
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More people need to make use of the curation tools available to them in my opinion. Too often I see people browsing /all and then complain about seeing tons of stuff that they don't like. There are tools that are available to them to help them create a more pleasant experience that they just aren't using. The fediverse doesn't have some algorithm that learns the type of content that you most often engage with and feed it to you, you have to more proactively do the curation yourself.
Just as an example, I was in a conversation with one of the lemmy.world admins a while back. We were talking about instance blocks and how infrequently users actually use them. Across all of the users on lemmy.world, only about 700 of them actually created an instance block for the most-blocked instance (lemmynsfw). Only two instances had more than 500 users block it.
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Curation tools is brilliant. Thats what it should be seen as.
Very well put. Also the important point of the lack of learning algorithm.
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I blocked like that on reddit but here there's fewer users so I have a higher block threshold.
Plus I want to give people credit for choosing to be on the fediverse - that earns almost everyone a "well maybe you just had a bad day".
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"No. { Several paragraphs of argument that's not mutually exclusive }"
Arghh hate that shit. I don't know why online argumenters love to start with "No and." I don't block because of it but man, nobody learns how to have a constructive debate anymore.
Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can't see it. I wish they couldn't see anything I posted either.
I've seen this view in discussions of blocking before and it really bugs me. You're desiring to unilaterally control what I can see and do on the Fediverse.
This is how it works on Reddit and it's a terrible mechanism. It means you can preemptively ensure that anyone who might refute misinformation will be excluded from your threads before you post them. It means you can step into a conversation I'm having with someone, derail it, and then prevent me from responding to your derail. Over on Reddit by far the most common use I see of the block tool is to get the "last word" in on whatever argument is going on, posting some sort of seemingly clever comeback and then instantly blocking me before I can point out the flaws.
For anyone wondering how the blocking feature has been weaponized to spread misinformation, in 2022 a redditor did an experiment: reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/co…
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I don't understand this view either. What's it to ya? You cant see what the person does anyway. There doesn't seem to be a point behind it besides control.
Also, it simply is difficult to implement. You have to tell every server "do not show my posts and comments to these accounts". Other servers can just choose to ignore that. It's centralized thinking to believe the "feature" will work all the time.
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I hardly ever block individual posters, but communities, I've blocked 936 of them at the time of making this post. Sports, porn, anime, or furry shit are all block on sight. Plus a handful of randoms that I'm just not interested in.
I've finally got All where it's pleasant to browse. Takes some doing, but worth the effort if you want to customize your feed reductively vs actively seeking out and subscribing to communities.
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How about language issues? I dont browse all bc half the time I dont get the languages. Changing the language is apparently buggy on Lemmy.
Also blocking instances doesn't cut it.
That accounts for a good chunk of the blocks as well.
This is one of those one-bite-at-a-time projects - just hit a few on each visit, it adds up.
Hexbear is fine? I don't get why everyone dislikes hexbear. Most smart conversations I've had involve a hex user.
I'd rather block more .world users
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The electronic machine you’re operating, and the electrons flowing through it that illuminate the screen constitute a highly ordered abstraction that your human brain interprets to have meaning. The software implementing that abstraction has been structured with paradigms developed over decades with functionality specifically created for you to manage the information displayed to you. Such is the power of these technologies that they are widely regarded to have culminated in a digital information age of revolution. One of the defining moments of that age is the point at which the software, which previously was designed to implement the will and preferences of the user, began changing to instead serve the developer. It could be said that the fundamental philosophy of social media software has become to optimize it such that the user continues to use it while still freely feeding it information and being subject to manipulation.
The abstraction has become hostile, and the tools to manage the information displayed are quickly disappearing as the implementation is abstracted away. The ability to block mimetically harmful information is being designed out of software - exposure to advertising, propaganda, violent or disturbing content, and even the addictive abstractions themselves, have become requirements for use. The filtering and management of information through the hardware and software that you OWN is not just a feature, it is a RIGHT that must be intrinsic to its design.
In my view, the use of blocking technology should not be considered a human social action with emotional weight, but rather a mechanical one like switching off a light or moving an object out of the way. They are information management tools built to serve YOU, the user. If the technology you are using does not serve you, then who are you serving?
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What are your blocking habits?
I made it through nearly two years and eventually caved after I made the mistake of arguing in favor of the truth, supported by video evidence and a fact check from an internationally recognized fact-checking organization only to be told to "fuck off", a second user said that they enjoyed pissing on my shoe(s) in their personal fight against truth, and some other catastrophically braindead takes. I generally don't like the blocking approach for opinions I don't agree with because everyone has differing views and also people have bad days and that's just life. However, being actively hostile to the truth and being extremely confrontational about it was a bridge too far for me and it was either blocking a few mouldy potatoes in an attempt to keep things tolerable or getting off the threadi/fediverse so I decided to give the former a whirl.
If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?
Thankfully haven't felt the need to block many, so the only thing I've really noticed is that occasionally one of the blocked users comments in the thread for something I've submitted (which I don't get a notification for and can't see) - but then someone unrelated replies to them and then I get a notification for a comment chain which I can't actually load. It took me a while to even figure out why I was getting these "ghost" notifications.
Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can't see it. I wish they couldn't see anything I posted either.
I understand. Lemmy users are divided on that issue because not only can these people see, comment and downvote your post, they can manipulate the situation to their advantage (feel free to use your imagination or search posts about blocking).
FWIW, I hear you loud and clear. Please understand that there are plenty of people in this world who are angry, unfulfilled and can’t/won’t touch grass whose only gratification is to try to make other people miserable. This mental instability coupled with current events is unfortunately unleashed here in Lemmy and you.
Block away and save your sanity. I’m here for the jokes and your memes. If I want to argue, I’ll go to work and get paid. Sadly, you are a volunteer and many people don’t realize that — they seem to think that it’s your job to take their crap.
For that, I am truly sorry.
Two of my friends recently blocked .world and had good experiences with users from other instances. Recently, there was negativity in Uplifting News that had to be addressed; a .world mod left because they were burned
out; some more drama recurring also at .world instance.
Please take good care of yourself and don’t take !+ from any of us!
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First of all, thank you. Secondly, when did you change instances?
Also. Modding is easy in my comms. The biggest is !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz at 3k subscribers.
Lol, I’ve been lurking since June but couldn’t decide which instance to sign up with; my friends are scattered all over the fediverse.
Yes, I’m one of the idiots who picked an instance because I like the name. That’s my major decision for the year.
I just subscribed. That community looks good, thanks!
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Drama, angry people and excessive crossposting and reposting.
It’s a big instance which means a lot more people, so you will always run into a .world user and/or .world community — some are awesome and others are not so great. It was easier for them to block an instance after blocking 50+ communities and people. There’s also this:
Uplifting News
lemmy.coffee/post/429320
Cooking
lemmy.coffee/post/478931
There’s also drama at other communities like YPTB but it was really hard for me to follow; I saw it because my feed was set to ALL. Some of us come here for the news, memes and the occasional recipe but not to be verbally abused or bear witness to one.
In addition to the controversies, the amount of news articles being crossposted to four other news communities by the same user (user # 1) was just overwhelming. Then, another user (user # 2) will do the same exact thing, unbeknownst to them that the same articles were already posted since the time gap was usually about 5 minutes or less.
What do you do? Start blocking.
Just when you think you have it all figured out, user # 1 creates an alt account and wipes the smile off your face. As you start blocking, user # 1 creates another alt account… and another. Holy cow!
Lucky for us, the weather is nice so to the great outdoors we go. TBH, I’ll probably be very annoyed if this is happening in the middle of a blizzard, lol.
Nice to meet you, FishFace. I like your name!
I'm more on mastodon and their filter system is so nice
I made a filter for "idiot did a thing" and every time the news has another article about how some idiot whose name is on my list did something again, as they do, because that's all they've been doing for 20 years, I no longer have to read it.
But I still get the little "something was blocked, click here to read it" thing, so it's very satisfying.
I don't block often, but I would expect it's a similar upgrade.
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I guess I just read /all, or whatever it's called here, and find it super annoying when the feed is filled with 2-3-4-5 copies of the same post from one person, with separate conversations going on.
How do you read here, do you just subscribe to a few communities that don't overlap with frequent reposters?
Been doing this with a warning system. I tag shitty people and block them if I see a person who is tagged acting shitty.
2 years in, no regrets.
I do wish Lemmy would fix the blocking system though. If someone who I've blocked responds to me, I don't see it. Fair enough, but I also don't see what people who respond to that say. I feel like it should just show the username as [blocked] and the content as [hidden] with an option for me to show that content/username, while keeping the rest of the child content fully visible.
Show it.
Take for example the case where person A has blocked person B.
Person C comments. Person B responds.
New thread, same post, person C comments about how some people think like person B, and quote them.
As is the current case, person A can see this quoted material. It's just text. It's not in any programmatic way tied to the person B account.
We don't need to change this just because it's a child comment of person B.
It's great for your mental state.
Just be aware of any filter bubble you might create. If you block every person that has an opposite perspective, you'll fall into your own echo chamber.
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They would be annoyed at this comment if they could see it ^/s^
This is the biggest reason why I only block sparingly. If you aren't regularly challenged in a way that forces you to assess and explain your world view and why it makes sense to you, then you risk becoming detached from reality in the same way that so many people have these days. It's easy to fall into the idea that your way of thinking is inherently correct, especially when you only interact with people who agree with you.
It's tough to interact with someone who disagrees with you, especially on the internet where people can be unnecessarily harsh, but it's also good to do for your own understanding of the world. I think of it like a workout for my moral compass - if I can't fully explain why my viewpoint is more accurate than someone else's, then there's something I'm missing, and I know where I need to spend more time reassessing my beliefs.
Just be aware of any filter bubble you might create.
That's a great point. I block pretty easily, but for rudeness, not for disagreement.
I've blocked some assholes that I wholeheartedly agree with, but I just don't want to read them abrasively support things I believe in.
I recommend a client that allows tags instead. I only block really toxic accounts.
trolls just get a label and they're usually at the bottom of most threads anyway.
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Kidding. I block BS and mean ness. If someone can express their point and let me express mine, I'm good. It's when people start insulting others to get their point out I just don't resonate with them and don't see a point of ever talking to them again.
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People over use blocking like crazy.
I constantly see people blocking others just for making a point they disagree with. Rather than actually think through the logic and reasoning of what the other person is saying they go 'oh I have no counter point to that, that must mean that you're arguing in bad faith, blocked'.
The internet is already an inherent filter bubble, you don't need to accelerate that. Most people would benefit from spending more time deeply considering that they might be wrong in ways they can't fully comprehend, then they would blocking people who fervently disagree with them.
Keep it up. Don't let FOMO loosen your standards. If people acted like this to you in person, you would avoid them. Do it online as well.
Sadly we interact so much online that the bad behavior of social media is now informing people how to behave IRL.
I only block communities for now. And my instance blocks a lot of ... debate heavy instances.
Regarding blocking of individuals: feel free to do that, if it helps you having a better time, that is perfectly fine.
But I started tagging strange people if I think that something they said is not correct. Then later I randomly see them somewhere else behaving normally. So my current plan is tag them first to see if I find this one person repulsive again and if so then block them. This way it is less carpet bombing and I accept that everybody can have a bad day where they lash out.
I block communities and bots and obvious trolls.
My feed is perfectly fine without them. And the communities I block are the ones that I don't want to see or know anything about like fucking politics and news.
You’ve no obligation to socialize with everyone in real life, why should online be any different?
If someone is consistently annoying, rude or spouting noxious stuff, you’re perfectly reasonable in blocking them.
Interaction in written text online is still a fairly unnatural way for humans to communicate. It’s missing the depth that physical and aural clues provide.
Add to that the evidence that humans can’t really manage more than about 50 relationships makes these global forums too much for a person to really handle.
Block away. Trim your interactions to a manageable level.
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why should online be any different?
I know I am taking the wrong message from this, but online is different in basically every way. You cannot block someone in real life. You can try to avoid them, but they can still talk to you. You can put in ear buds, but that doesn't make them not there.
Really, the solution is to spend less time on technology and more time communicating IRL. Even if it is uncomfy
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I am fast and loose with blocking on all platforms. No regrets.
It's often not even personal. Sometimes someone expresses a mild dislike of cats and I'm like "don't need your noise".
Repost a hilarious meme that I whole heatedly agree with, but with the word "fuck" poorly crossed out? "Algo-speak promoting motherfuckers", roll of the dice on my mood, probably blocked.
My Guild Wars 2 ignore list is full of people labeled "says boiz too much", "annoying fashion", "made bad joke about bees".
There are so many people on the Internet, it's fine. I've taken this approach since MUDs were in fashion and I am pretty confident that it's only served to improve my online experiences.
Unfortunately we won't be there to see you post it
(I know people can still view posts from people who block them, but the joke only works if we forget that OK)
I block people who are dishonest or abrasive. I'm here for entertainment, not for any higher purpose. I'm not obligated to give those people any attention and I have nothing to gain by it.
I'm blocking maybe a dozen across all of Lemmy. Things are much more pleasant.
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Yes. I block at the drop of a hat, but I'm still really not blocking all that many total users. Most folks here are very considerate.
It is funny though, I'll often see half a conversation with an asshole - and I won't know if it's because the community is well moderated or because I just previously blocked the asshole.
More rarely, I'll see half of an interesting good faoth conversation, and I'll revisit and unblock someone.
I have gone through phases of blocking very vocal idiots, but then as you said I feel at an informational disadvantage.
I've gotten recently into tagging people with descriptions of repeated behavior. That way I still know what's going on, but I know what to expect from them.
It's better to hurt old people's feelings than allow them to continue to debase themselves with the false belief that they're competent.
It's possible to have a readily applicable standard for polite interactions when we're not divided by fascist rhetoric.
The way feminists relate to men's issues is often founded in a universalizing noxious ideology of feminism. Men shouldn't be feminists, they should be allies.
What I'm trying to say is: blocking isn't the reason that our politics have entered into toxic polarization, fascism is the reason for that. There's nothing really wrong with blocking.
I don't block unless it's excessive spam. Informational disadvantage, yadda yadda.
I just exercise the same muscle I use to restrain myself from responding to bait on modern day Reddit, since my account there is still active but not posting (yes, even lurking is technically contribution, but there's too much useful information there for me to justify completely cutting it out).
And for the record, I disagree with block features removing posts from the user on the other end. Public information -> only I get to decide what I do and don't see. Private information -> only I get to decide what I do and don't share. A bit idealistic, but we're talking about a web forum here.
I find it so weird to see how people "debate" these days instead of conversing, it's somehow more about winning than finding the truth of a matter.
Watch for example how political discourse has changed over the last few decades, compare discussions from the 70s like Chomsky vs Foucault to the circus of today.
People are already largely separated in different platforms, blocking only exacerbates the bubble effect. That being said, to each their own and I hope your life is better for it.
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I'm using Boost, so I've been using tagging a lot. It's useful to remind yourself whether someone routinely behaves in a way that you don't want to interact with.
I've probably untagged more people than I've blocked at this point. People are complicated, moods change with the weather.
Also helped me to correlate that the majority of my tags were on ml users. I've filtered that instance and, can't lie, using Lemmy is much nicer now.
Blocking people is good mental health practice.
Every month or so I go through and lurge my blocklist of all bht the most aggregious posters.
My blocked list on nextdoor is starting to max out. Have to block all the nazi's that live around me as they are a lost cause and just repeat constant propaganda.
My lemmy block list is zero and hope it will remain that way for a while. It's fairly tame discussions here and no real issues so far.
I haven't blocked anyone here, but on Tumblr I started unfollowing folks who posted about doom and gloom all the time. That site's more conducive to memes and TV show discussions than it is discussion about news/politics, and I don't like scrolling through a bunch of superhero memes and then getting hit with a post about the latest atrocity in the world. That stuffs important, but it's not healthy to fixate on it all the time.
It's important to curate what you're doing so that you dont fall into a doomscrolling trap or get ragebaited into arguments that go nowhere.
I block individuals pretty freely, and it generally improves my experience online.
The reason I block is because I've lived through bullies and a shitty family, and I am familiar with the techniques bad people use to eat up my time/overwhelm me.
These days, I am also secure in myself and my emotional responses in such a way that I no longer feel bad or guilty (as I was conditioned to growing up) when I remove these people from my life. They are not owed my time or eyeballs.
I figure that if they behave in such a way that other people (such as me) decide it's better to remove them from their life and block them--that's their fault, not mine.
I also know my intellect well enough to understand that I'm not losing something irreplaceable intellectually if I block. I actually am better at learning and improving myself in a form that is NOT debate, or live, or putting pressure on me in the moment, because stepping away from the immediacy of something gives me the tools and breathing room to actually think.
So folks yapping and fretting about echo chambers forming if you block and curate your experience is weird to me...even pre-internet I went out of my way to learn new things. If you're in an echo chamber, you chose to be there, it doesn't happen on its own. And blocking asshats won't magically put you in an echo chamber unless you've chosen to be in one already.
Live debate with unpleasant people who often in this day and age have ulterior motives, including a desire to provoke an emotional response that will hinder one's thinking ability, is a technique used to manipulate others. By blocking and opting out of such things online, I can keep my temper more easily and use my brain instead.
So yeah. I block freely, whenever I feel like, and I've stopped feeling bad about it because I have quite a bit of experience on the internet now, and have seen the patterns in which people engage, and a handy block button is basically the only effective tool to manage it with.
I also block communities, but that's mostly just so I can browse Lemmy in public without looking like a degenerate with all the porn subs hanging out in the open.
I've become massively hardened to online discourse. I don't need to block users when I can just ignore and not need to get the last word in. I know this is an incredibly rare ability, but I just wanted to entertain the idea here that there are alternatives.
The exception could be for discoverability. If garbage trolling spam overwhelms your front page, then it'll be too time consuming to wade through it.. So blocking entire communities makes a lot of sense in this case.
I block only when I see a user who is unhinged enough and is obviously not getting banned by moderators. Usually theses people can be baited into making terrible arguments terrible opinions backed by either terrible ideology or lies, and mods can deal with them.
I think reporting users is more effective to not let the whole site become completely unusable by attracting shitheads/trolls/agitators who even if blocked keep posting garbage because that might be seen by new users.
Also responding to them is taxing on some people's mental health, so this isint for everyone and I get why people might opt for it. I prefer arguing since there is a chance that they might be misinformed or hot headed (me included).
Honestly it depends on how you want to engage with a platform.
In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views
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They misunderstood the term "stupid money" to mean "court stupid people for their money".
Glad I never bought anything from them.
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Framework purchased a biotech company specialized in growing human analog homunculus for organ transplant, but the tech is based on Nazi experiments from WW2, so it's kind of unethical.
People are mad about it, understandably. It's all in the article.
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There’s also a psychological trap. It doesn’t make falling for it acceptable, but it does make it more understandable.
Humans naturally seek belonging, and almost any group can fulfill that need. Many such groups also use "us vs. them" rhetoric, which can make you feel more special than you actually are. Feeling special is another human need that groups often fulfill. Humans crave direction and purpose, and most groups provide both.
Just look at religious groups, environmentalists, political ideologies, conspiracy nuts and racist to see what I mean.
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Pretty sure there is a pretty generous window where you can just return the thing for a refund no questions asked. It might be worth looking into.
Depending on the wording of the return policy, you might even be able to request one and tell them the reason is "The far right has taken over the world's biggest government and they're snatching people in the streets. The time to hide support for them behind 'everyone's welcome to their opinion' is over. If at this moment in history you're not willing to exclude far-right people from your circle, then go fuck yourself, fuck your hardware, give me my money back, in hindsight people should have done this to BMW and IG Farben both before and after the war. I hope you wake the fuck up. You will not be safe indefinitely from them coming for you, unless people braver than yourself stop them before they reach you."
Usually I am against bullying people into saying the political views or taking the political decisions you want them to take. You can think they're wrong about this (as obviously do I, for the reasons stated above) and say so without needing to try to strong-arm them. But, in this case, fuck 'em, for the reasons stated above. Read the return policy first of course to make sure you're on solid ground, I don't really know what it is.
I heard about this a few nights ago and learned via the rabbit hole that Rails went rogue last month too.
Fucking wild times out there.
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Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.joel.drapper.me
idk, because I don't use Rails, but I scrolled past a post on Mastodon that was saying whatever it was they did was "basically union busting for OSS".
sounds serious.
The article doesn't say exactly what was said it only gives an interpretation.
Edit: I've looked into it and turns out its just framework financially supporting open source projects that happen to have maintainers that have right wing ideology. Frameworks claims they support a large array of open source developers across the ecosystem as they want open source to win and they do this regardless of political alignment of the developers themselves.
source: community.frame.work/t/framewo…
Framework supporting far-right racists?
perhaps it is indeed best to let it rest for now. i’ll certainly sleep on it now! 🙂Framework Community
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LMG defended DBrand making racist jokes harder than DBrand did and multiple camera facing people have accusations of being a sex pest (one with audio evidence).
Worst case scenario? Scrapyard wars again
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You can’t verify it because they didn’t provide any sources. Probably because any source on this would quickly show what a massive overreach these claims are.
Framework supports a bunch of open source initiatives, and some of those initiatives have figureheads that suck. Framework has basically stated that they are supporting open source as a whole and are staying neutral about the people running them. That’s a choice people may not agree with, I have fairly strong opinions on this myself… but there’s a huge gap between Framework’s actual statements and the author’s claims.
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Bazzite - The next generation of Linux gaming
Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.bazzite.gg
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Is this where I brag about using Linux and therefor being superior?
Honestly, I never and still don't entirely understand people's clingy-ness to old OSs. I was happily using Windows 8.1, 10, 11 (less happily), (and now Kubuntu brag successful), while apparently many were clinging to Windows 7. Maybe it's because I try to be more open to change, or maybe it's because I just like new and shiny software, but rarely do I cling to old software. The newer versions of windows were the new shiny thing with additional features (some useful, and some annoying), and now Linux is that new shiny thing with a lot of useful features and some annoying things.
P.S. I'm not sure if peertube supports timestamped links (it probably does, it's friggin peertube), but this would've been a time to use that feature, as the relevant part to the title doesn't begin until 1:48.
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Isn't Windows like the king of backwards compatibility? I am of the opinion that it's more people that just like the OS because they're used to it, not that it'd actually break their workflows. They'd just have to learn a few new ways of doing things, and they don't want to.
In thinking about this, I have come up with a couple of reasons to not upgrade OSs:
- If the new OS costs money, like Windows used to, yeah I might not buy it if it isn't enough better. When my new laptop comes with it, I'm not going to go out of the way to downgrade it though.
- If the only OS maker in town was a monopoly (but then again, if there was a monopoly, they'd probably force you to upgrade to continue using your device, almost like what windows is doing, as they really do have a large monopoly on gaming and non-overpriced/somewhat-repairable machines)
Finally, in thinking about this, I'm just so glad Linux exists and is actually finally a usable alternative to Windows.
but can you easily run a Windows 7 app on Windows 10?
Yes? Pretty much anything made for XP and up will run on 11. Shit as long as the program is 32 bit it will probably run. Only exception is games, and that's more just because hardware has moved on.
Just let me know when I can install heavy Windows-only apps to Linux and I will make the switch in a second. A couple of examples: SOLIDWORKS CAD or PTC Creo (and related apps), Adobe CC (well for this there at least are foss alternatives but not fully compatible/comparable).
For a company, switching a CAD system for example would cost major $$$ and any automatic conversion is nowhere near complete, so you’d basically have to redraw everything relevant from scratch with the new system. Also there simply does not appear to be any major CAD system supporting Linux, NX used to but not anymore.
In the case of Windows, it is because MS has spent the past... 20 or so years slowly phasing out old functionality while not actually adding in new ones. So you get the mess of two (three?) different control panels which each one having capabilities the other doesn't and so forth.
I also personally hated when they got rid of the start menu but also acknowledge that for the past almost 15 years my workflow has been "winkey and then type what I want".
But mostly it is the MS mindset of completely changing the UX sometimes mid-generation and expecting people to figure it out. Which... I am not going to pretend that neurodivergence doesn't play a factor but I kind of fucking hate my machine rebooting and suddenly I have to figure out a new interface.
Also there is MS increasingly activating more and more monitoring and spyware (sometimes re-enabling silently) with every single update. Same with increasingly locking people into MS accounts and cloud shit.
And while I do think many of the Lemmy Linux Users are more obnoxious than Vegans What Do Crossfit... contrast that with Linux where you find a desktop environment you like and you are basically good for a decade... and then another eight years after that when everyone is "slowly migrating". And as long as you stay the fuck away from Gentoo and Arch, you have a pretty idiot proof setup for the vast majority of people.
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Episode 47 - Elena Rossini - Director & Fedi Advocate - Livestream 2025-10-10
Episode 47 - Elena Rossini - Director & Fedi Advocate - Livestream 2025-10-10
Benvenuti Fedi Friends all'episodio quarantasette di Fireside Fedi! Sono il votro presentatore ozoned. Fireside Fedi è un programma dedicato alle persone del Fediverso. Se stai vedendo questo, voi fai parte del Fediverso.Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 47 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
If you haven't guessed by now our guested today is an Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who ❤️ #FOSS
🎬 Director of: The Illusionists documentary + a Fediverse promotional video (https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/)Thank you to cptbichez for helping with the translation.
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theillusionists.org/The Illusionists: A Must See Documentary About Body Image
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The introvert with AI is using a whole lot of energy getting somewhere with no load. Essentially wasting resources while getting nothing done.
Even the lone introvert is carrying some weight no matter how long it takes.
KT, Palantir CEOs discuss further data platform collaboration - The Korea Times
The CEOs of KT and Palantir Technologies held their first meeting in Korea, Tuesday, to discuss ways to expand the use of Palantir’s platform across local industries.At the meeting, held at KT’s headquarters in Seoul, the company’s CEO Kim Young-shub and Palantir CEO Alex Karp reviewed the progress of the two companies’ joint initiatives to deploy Palantir’s data platforms and refined execution strategies to scale these solutions across Korean enterprises.
Palantir will open a pop-up store in Seongsu-dong on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of its brand engagement efforts. The two-day event will showcase limited-edition merchandise such as ontology-themed sweatshirts
KT, Palantir CEOs discuss further data platform collaboration
The CEOs of KT and Palantir Technologies held their first meeting in Korea, Tuesday, to discuss ways to expand the use of Palantir’s platform acros...Lee Gyu-lee (The Korea Times)
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China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador
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Canada has had 100 per cent tariffs on all EVs imported from China since last October
China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador
China will remove its tariffs on Canadian agriculture — including on canola products — if Canada scraps its levies on Chinese electric vehicles, that country’s ambassador says.Spencer Van Dyk (CTVNews)
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It might have been the only official justification. However I suspect that there’s unofficial ones, like “we are worried it’ll come with spyware that directly reports everything to China” or “if we do this we might becoming mainly dependent on Chinese cars, which then means China can pull them out from under us, maybe disable them remotely, etc”.
Depends on how much they thought this through and how much they trust China now and in the next few decades.
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‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test
Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.Mozilla Foundation
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threaten the US with loss of its market in canada to china and they will not think we are their only option. china is opening a huge car factory in mexico, get that for canada.
even just talking to china about it would give us leverage in talks to the USA
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Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.
The award was announced on October 9 in Oslo, Norway, a country whose wealth, strategic role in NATO, and large military investments position it as a bulwark for imperialist interests in Europe and beyond.
The award provides a glaring demonstration of the hypocrisy of capitalist public opinion as it is marshaled behind another catastrophic imperialist intervention in Latin America.
There is nothing unprecedented about bestowing the peace prize upon far-right or blood-drenched figures. If “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” as American songwriter, satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer quipped in 1973, the award to Machado hammers another nail into its coffin.
In the years in between, the prize went to mass murderers and war criminals such as Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, the former Irgun terrorist responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon, and Aung San Suu Kyi, whose government was responsible for genocidal violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. Barack Obama received the award in 2009, on the eve of launching a major military surge in Afghanistan and as his government was unleashing a wave of drone assassinations. Then as now, the prize served not as a reward to peacemakers, but as a tool for anointing those favored by imperialism and to legitimize war.
Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.World Socialist Web Site
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Watch carefully. You won't see civilization fall apart at this rate twice in a lifetime.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Then, I clicked through and realised it was editorialised by the source itself. This is not serious news. It is effectively opinion. It does not belong here. Read the rules again, OP.
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It’s pretty accurate tho
Opinions are not gauged for accuracy. They're just opinions.
OP posts articles from WSWS all the time. They all have a Marxist bent. They have to link every news story to how the workers of the world are getting screwed in some way.
There are a lot to choose from in this article, so I'll just include the one that indicates disdain for Stalin, as WSWS is very much in favor of Trotskyism. They don't like Chavez and Maduro, but for all the wrong reasons.
However, with the aid of their Stalinist, Social Democratic and Pabloite hangers-on, these governments have fostered illusions that sustainable social and democratic gains could be secured for workers and poor peasants and imperialist oppression opposed on the basis of a nationalist program, without overthrowing capitalism.
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You are a national extremist, using dehumanizing language (roaches, degenerates) against your politcal opponents. Things that fascists do. People should ignore you, Mods should ban you.
The claim, that socialist journalism supports "russian genocidal imperialism" is counterfactual, based on a deep misunderstanding what their analysis means and directed by your own ideological encrustation.
No, it is fair to call disgusting tankies roaches and degenerates.
There is no ideology involved. "North Korea is a great place to live and is a vanguard against imperialism" is not a serious statement.
We both know that the vast majority of tankies are bored teenagers and malicious demagogues. Don't play dumb with me.
The tankie source does support russian genocidal imperialism.
You don't even speak Ukrainian or russian and have never lived here. You're in no position to talk about "deep misunderstanding".
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Thanks for proving my point.
No, it is fair to call disgusting tankies roaches and degenerates.
There is no ideology involved.
Like, lol. But alright, let's go, I bite.
No sane person would confirm, that it's "fair" to use dehumanizing language. That statement only shows how far off the rails you are.
But alright, what's a tankie for you? I asked in the past, you didn't answer. Every russian? People that support a socialist agenda?
You use that as a blanket statement, as a degoratory generalisation against people that do not support your hate-fueled diarrhea. And the hate comes through in the form of dehumanising hate speech. Thanks for affirming that.
"North Korea is a great place to live and is a vanguard against imperialism" is not a serious statement.
Okay sure, so you do not think that North Korea does exist in a constant struggle against capitalist takeover? Sure, that's an acceptable take. But why do you have to make things up and generalise, again, to then throw that fantasy take as a blanket over every "tankie"? I'm sure, there might once has been some person that might have said that, but what does that prove about anyone else, other than that person? You do realise this is disingenuous and dumb, right?
We both know that the vast majority of tankies are bored teenagers and malicious demagogues. Don't play dumb with me.
I reject every part of that take - you seem to be living in oppositve-world. It's driven by your ideological hate towards leftist thought. Do you ever leave your flat? Why do you keep generalising towards your degoratory use of the word "tankie", only to excuse yourself to dehumanise people?
The tankie source does support russian genocidal imperialism.
Without yapping, prove their support for "russian genocidal imperialism", and while doing that, please also prove the "genocidal" part.
And I mean support, you know what the word means, right? Again, not just some kind of position that's not in line with your hope and dreams for your national purity.
"The pattern shows that accusations of supporting 'Russian genocidal imperialism' primarily come from centrist liberals, NATO supporters, and establishment political figures who use these extreme characterizations to delegitimize any leftist critique of Western foreign policy, regardless of whether those leftists actually support Russian actions or simply advocate for diplomatic solutions and criticism of all imperial powers." Some AI summary, because I can't be bothered to do more for you.
You don't even speak Ukrainian or russian and have never. You're in position talk about "deep misunderstanding"
*no position
You excluding my opinion based on nationality or language (without actually knowing which languages I speak) is an immature ad hominem, a clear sign of your nationalist character and also displays your lack of understanding socialist or communist thought.
Are you claiming, that "tankies" are always russian or that every socialist is a tankie? What you say doesnt even make any sense. What's with socialist Ukrainians, are they tankie cockroaches, too?
So, do I either have to be a tankie or an enemy of a tankie to actually understand either take and formulate an opinion on them?
You do have opinions on Palestine and Israel, I've seen. But you're neither. You see the problem?
You're full of shit and you are a hateful nationalist. Get fucked.
You know exactly what a tankie is, don't play dumb.
I will most definitely call out idiots who roleplay as communists online and don't speak any other languages. No one is buying your bullshit about "Ukrainian socialists". The communists party of Ukraine was a russian proxy force. Genuine Ukrainian socialists (or anyone for that matter) would want nothing to do with some online roleplayers who come up with degenerate statements such "North Korea is the vanguard against imperialism!" and support russian genocidal imperialism.
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I don't play.
And I will most definitely call out Nazis who roleplay as victims online and don't speak other languages.
I know what the term "tankie" actually means and also how right-wingers use it to discredit anything opposing their little völkisch fantasies. I asked you specifically, how you define it, because you throw it around everywhere and you make that outgroup (them, the others) out to be responsible for all the bad things in your world. So much so, that you end up yapping like a lunatic two seconds before stroking out.
Which you are, a little Ukrainian nationalist lunatic with a hate for everything slightly pointing towards anything associated with your Russian neighbour, ... like the endangerment of the Ukrainian national identity. But sadly, that's all you've got, it's everything that defines you as a person.
But the reality is, the Ukrainians are forced to kill their Russian brothers and sisters and the Russians are forced to kill their Ukrainian brothers and sisters. You are the same, working class people. You are not fighting for your country or your Ukrainian blood, you are being consumed by the capitalist, imperialist war machine. You fucking idiot, snap out of it, the enemy is not at the other end of the field.
You delegitimise leftist thought by claiming they'd only be roleplaying. Conveniently, when you do that, you have a basis to then go on to tell us, that they are just lying and are evil for deceiving us like that. And since they're evil, they're roaches and need to be exterminated. Convenient thought process. Interestingly, they're so clever to deceive us, but also so very deranged, huh.
You are a dumb Nazi, the sooner you realise that, the sooner you can heal.
Step 1: Don't be a Nazi.
Step 2: Punch up, not sideways or down.
Nice one, stalker. Please, show me the part where I do that and explain to me, how that's victim blaming.
Also, you are coming to the defense of the guy you reluctantly banned for, let me check, five whole days from your little nazi bar for repeately using dehumanizing hate speech, only after weeks during which you did not act on it, although you were confronted with it several times. You are the Bartender of a nazi bar, gj.
You failed to elaborate on the victim blaming thing you just mentioned.
Also, I only called Skiluros a nazi, do you have problems with reading comprehension? You are merely a bartender — but do you identify as a nazi?
Typical tankie world salad.
At least come with some new copytext! You think I haven't seen this gibberish before?
Everyone I don't like is a Nazi!
It is reasonable to call an individual who lectures Ukrainians (without knowing Ukrainian or ever having lived here) that "you are brothers with the russians" a degenerate roach.
Your attitude shows that you lack humanity.
Your attitude shows the lack of solidarity with your equals and the lack of actual humanity by consistently using dehumanizing language.
Everyone I don't like is a Nazi!
Nah man, not everyone, you specifically.
If you keep being confronted with these kinds of accusations, maybe stop and wonder:
Why does this keep happening?
And no, it’s not because the people that bring forth those accusations are degenerate roaches.
The real irony is we both know tankies regularly use the term roaches and call for death over the stupidest things (with fantasies about killing posters with ice picks).
Some degenerates claiming that "everything I don't like is a BIA conspiracy!!!" are not my (are anyone's) equals.
No, we do not both know that. I don’t even know why you yap about Serbia‘s security information agency. You‘re in fantasy land again.
Prove to me that this is what “tankies” say, like in a way that shows „that‘s representative of tankies“, because you are the one accusing a whole group, that you deem to be a roaches. You can’t, because you make this shit up. Liar.
But either way, that also would never excuse your own hate speech. You don’t even reject me labeling you a Nazi or fascist, because you’re proud of it, but you are also a freaking coward, without the courage to openly say it, because it would get you in trouble. Coward.
You also failed to prove that these journalists are “supporting Russian genocidal imperialism”, but you do repeatedly delegitimize and dehumanize journalists that don’t follow your narrative. You know who does that? Facsists do.
Ukrainian nationalist lunatic with a hate for everything slightly pointing towards anything associated with your Russian neighbour, … like the endangerment of the Ukrainian national identity.
Now... why would that be? :´)
Sure, he be mad. But his national identity is all he’s got, it’s how he defines himself, how he gets his self worth. Normal people don’t screech around the internet, how everyone are cockroaches and degenerates, if they only so much as try to formulate an opinion other than ‘Slava Ukraina’. That’s still hate speech.
We don’t tolerate this shit with Russians, nor Palestinians, sometimes we do with Israelis, but sane people don’t.
You don’t need to tolerate or excuse national extremism, to show support and solidarity with the people being forced to fight and die in a war.
If that would be the case, then I’d suggest to them to lay down the phone, go outside and touch some grass.
Their nationalism emerging through lemmy commentary is what I would call a hot take.
They’re not forced to engage in political discussion on the internet, that they have trouble to process emotionally and they are also not forced to participate in hate-based communities, neither are they forced to use hate speech in general.
This user is notoriously using hate speech and counterfactual fabrications. I appreciate you trying to explain their behavior in an effort to show solidarity with what the Ukrainian people are enduring, but I’d also caution you, not to find excuses for right-wing extremists.
Fuck tankies and their defenders.
Not reading mental spew from retards defending fascists.
Why hello, my confused, stereotypical American friend. I'm sure life's hard over there in the imperial core, so let me suggest some light reading to you, while you wait for the complete authoritarian take-over from the right, while you keep whining about the left:
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
An accessible exploration of the differences between fascism and communism, addressing why Western societies often conflate the two, and how capitalist interests have portrayed socialist movements as “red fascists.” Especially readable for American audiences looking for a critical but not apologetic take on “tankies” and authoritarianism.
The Authoritarian Specter by Bob Altemeyer
A highly readable introduction to the psychology of authoritarianism, focusing especially on how these tendencies can arise in ordinary Americans — not just extremists or “the other side.” Explains why people across the spectrum endorse authoritarian politics.
Or may I suggest a pretty good video, getting into the basics:
It's very hard to convince the American people, that they should send their sons, maybe who knows some day even their daugthers, to go fight and die in some jungle to make the world safe for United Fruit Companies or Chase Manhattan or Procter & Gamble or ITT.So you say: it's to stop the threat of that communist country.
It's very hard to convince the American people, that a tiny country like Nicaragua or Vietnam or El Salvador is a threat to US security.
So you say: It's not Nicaragua. They are the puppets of the Cubans, who are the puppets of, bum bum bum bum, the big red bear in the Kremlin.
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Yes, you are correct in that Geopolitical economy is a contemporary Marxist approach to understanding the capitalist world historically. I don‘t see the problem. You scared of Marxism?
If billionaire owned western media does not provide factual reporting, you‘ll have to go elsewhere.
As I said, focus on the substance. Do you believe what is shown there is wrong? Like, the tweets of Machado or the quoted reporting from more mainstream outlets?
Listening to her interview on NPR was kind of wild
She had nothing but praise for Trump and defended the decision to bomb the boats in the Caribbean. Then she made a bunch of proclamations about accepting US intervention for enforcing regime change, and then advocated for doing the same in Cuba and Nicaragua
Once Maduro goes and we liberate our country, the Cuban regime will follow, the Nicaraguan regime will follow.And for the first time in history, for the first time in history, we will have the Americas free of communism and narco dictatorships
Ive heard a few people ask if she's a CIA asset, amd while I don't think it's appropriate to speculate, I can see why the question is asked. The American State Department has been trying to install western-backed regimes in central and south America since the cold war.
Part of the reason we even have narco states in the south is because of the decades long proxy battle happening there.
The Nobel prize has a weird amount of legitimacy for how often it backs western regime change
Cair calls on Nobel Prize winner to renounce support for far-right, racist and fascist parties
An American civil rights group on Friday called on the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner to renounce her support for Zionism and fascism, including over her links to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party and right-wing groups in Europe.Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) said that they “strongly disagree” with the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award the prize to Maria Corina Machado, who they said “delivered remarks at a conference of European fascists, including Geert Wilders and Marie Le Pen, which openly called for a new Reconquista, referencing the ethnic cleansing of Spanish Muslims and Jews in the 1500s”.
Cair calls on Nobel Prize winner to renounce support for far-right, racist and fascist parties
An American civil rights group on Friday called on the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner to renounce her support for Zionism and fascism, including over her links to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party and right-wing groups in Eur…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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And the Nobel committee is sanctifying her as a saint of peace and democracy and her positions as inherently moral.
It seems like a very classical liberal move to shy away from outright embracing the fascists, but thinking if they just support them where their interests converge they can guide them from the shadows to deal with their problems.
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She's a mouthpiece for the corrupt ollgarchy that ran Venezuela before Chavez took over. She's kissing Bolsonaro's and Trump's asses in hopes that they might help make her Venezuela's Pinochet.
And the Nobel Committee can do one.
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Does it matter anymore? Henry Kissinger won it, for fucks sake. This is the second time that I'm aware of someone winning the prize where it almost feels sarcastic. We live in opposite land.
The Nobel prize is meaningless.
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It's meta like everything else. Sure, there are relatively simple rules that ought to lead to obvious, inexorable outcomes. But people are in charge and they're thinking: But what would it mean?
Give the Peace Prize to Putin! Maybe it will slow him down.
Give the Peace Prize to Kissinger! Maybe our empathetic embrace will soften his demeanor.
Give the Peace Prize to a conservative nut job. Let's throw in some support for fostering democratic values.
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They literally don't have a "take;" the article is reporting on a statement made by another organization.
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Which wish does this go against, specifically? I'm uneducated in his wishes and wish to know more.
Edit: K? Down votes for wanting to know more? Neat.
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“The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: /- – -/ one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” (Excerpt from the will of Alfred Nobel)
Machado spends pretty much each breath calling for war.
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Thank you very much for the quote!
Yeah that does look very anti noble/Nobel, doesn't it. 😐
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On Friday, Machado dedicated the prize to US President Donald Trump and the people of Venezuela, saying, “I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause”.
Fucking disgusting. How the fuck did she win the fucking peace prize?
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founder of likud
Its always compelling to play "evil" bingo. And I always find myself guessing too tame compared to reality.
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Hamas is a fascist organization by every definition, so are you saying it's wrong to stop fighting until they're destroyed? That's the view of many in power in Israel.
I think many people are angry about the Nobel Peace Prize because they're actually against there being peace.
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As we saw on October 7, the capacity for Hamas to commit genocide wasn't limited by their intent, it's only limited by their capability. If there were 1400 people in the villages on that day, there would be 1400 dead instead of 1200. If they had the capability of killing a million Jews they would.
And you would make excuses for their actions because you're a genocide apologist. The whataboutism started the day after Hamas massacred villages, and it came from the actual genocide apologists who were conditioned for more than a decade to look the other way on any horrible action committed by Hamas.
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Netanyahu is an incompetent idiot and I hope he's removed from power in the next election.
Hamas are psychopaths that torture Palestinians for speaking out against them and prevent elections from happening. They're genocidal fascists and are the biggest obstacle preventing the Palestinian people from being free. And you're an apologist for them because you look the other way on their genocidal actions and look the other way on their oppression of Palestinians.
I'd say that killing is a form of oppression, and Israel has killed a couple of orders of magnitude more Palestinian civilians than Hamas ever has.
So sure, Hamas are murderous psychopaths, but what's that make Likud? And who's the apologist in that case?
I think that the #NobelPrize was probably irrpearably tarnished when they gave one to Henry Kissinger.
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Sudanese paramilitary attack kills at least 53 people in North Darfur, aid group says
A shelling and drone attack by the Sudanese paramilitary forces hit a shelter in a besieged city in the Darfur region, killing at least 53 people, a doctors’ group said Saturday. The onslaught was the latest in Sudan's more than two-year war.PBS News
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OCCRP || Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.
Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.
The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees.OCCRP
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I'd put substitute first, but yours sounds better 😀
(I'm a big Immich fan, and I'm taking and sharing photos more than ever before, in part because Immich is awesome, self hosted, and open source [the other part is that I have kids now so I'm taking way more photos that grandparents want to see].)
Fyi this community is full of those memes and if you criticize them you might get the mods on you ass.
That's the reason other meme communities are doing better.
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Yeah I've been hearing about .ml mods and admins being a bit of an issue.
Well it's a shame ive spent much effort posting on these comms.
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I've posted most on Lemmyshitpost on .world. Although I'm not very pro world either.
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Cuomo shills are getting desperate
It's okay to just let the leftists win an election, you know?
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Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune
Lay’s drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn’t know their chips were made out of potatoes
New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.Matty Merritt (Fortune)
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Bernie's ex foreign policy advisor. Explains a lot why Bernie consistently has such awful foreign policy takes. He surrounds himself with AIPAC warmongers.
Hasan Piker did an awful softball interview with him a while ago where Matt Duss flops out one Zionist talking point after another and Hasan doesn't call him out somehow youtu.be/Gfv2uzVb3Pw
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'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
So on the one hand, it's an amazing story of adaptability in the face of climate change:
"In 2015, the lions found the sea again and started hunting coastal prey on the beach, after a drought decimated their usual inland prey of ostriches, oryxes and springboks. "The seals were a blessing," says Van Malderen. "Climate change has pushed these desert lions to the edge, forcing them to adapt in extraordinary ways, to survive along the beaches of the Atlantic coast.""
OTOH - It's devastating for the seal population who likely had become accustomed to land being a safe haven from ocean predators.
"Van Malderen has watched Gamma grow up, first encountering the lioness when she was three months old. She is now three-and-a-half years, "almost an adult," she says, adding that the lioness has become a fearsome hunter capable of killing 40 seals in a single night."
'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.Isabelle Gerretsen (BBC)
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'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
What, a lesson to humans? To be able to go anywhere and eat anything? We're the global champions at that.
Humans are omnivorous, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material, and have used fire and other forms of heat to prepare and cook food since the time of Homo erectus.They are apex predators, being rarely preyed upon by other species.
By using advanced tools and clothing, humans have been able to extend their tolerance to a wide variety of temperatures, humidities, and altitudes.[131][138] As a result, humans are a cosmopolitan species found in almost all regions of the world, including tropical rainforest, arid desert, extremely cold arctic regions, and heavily polluted cities; in comparison, most other species are confined to a few geographical areas by their limited adaptability.
The combined biomass of the carbon of all the humans on Earth in 2018 was estimated at 60 million tons, about 10 times larger than that of all non-domesticated mammals.
Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister
Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister
The ex-PM confirms he met Epstein in 2002, six years before the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)
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New US TikTok owner funded Tony Blair and ensured Marco Rubio's loyalty to Israel: Report
New US TikTok owner funded Tony Blair and ensured Marco Rubio's loyalty to Israel: Report
One of the world's richest men and a staunch supporter of Israel has been revealed to have screened now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio for loyalty to Israel as far back as 2015, before Rubio launched his failed bid for president, according to a new r…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Lord Mandelson pushed for the meeting, telling Sir Tony's chief of staff Jonathan Powell that Epstein was "a friend of mine" who ex-US President Bill Clinton hoped to introduce to the PM.
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from accessing the torrent of secret information constantly raining from the sky. You would, to a surprising and troubling degree, be wrong.
Roughly half of geostationary satellite signals, many carrying sensitive consumer, corporate, and government communications, have been left entirely vulnerable to eavesdropping, a team of researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed today in a study that will likely resonate across the cybersecurity industry, telecom firms, and inside military and intelligence agencies worldwide.
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