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Japan PM to nominate Trump for Nobel Prize, White House says

Since his return to power in January, Trump has been increasingly focused on the Nobel Peace Prize. He has claimed to have ended several conflicts around the world.

Experts, however, contest his claims.

Many world leaders and lawmakers are adopting a new tactic to stay in Trump's good graces — praising his peace efforts and nominating him for the Peace Prize.

Japan's Takaichi, Trump sign rare earths and missiles deals

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi welcomed US President Donald Trump on Tuesday when the two signed important agreements on rare earths as well as missiles for Japan's F-35 fighter jets.

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New category on bullshit?

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Ah, so that wasn't brown lipstick she was wearing in that photo.

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Big Oil’s Three-Decade Plot to Kill America’s Clean Energy Revolution

In 1988, the U.S. was in prime position to dominate the industry for decades to come. But thanks to fossil fuel giants, China is instead the world’s superpower in renewables.

Archived copies of the article:
* archive.today
* web.archive.org

Big Oil’s Three-Decade Plot to Kill America’s Clean Energy Revolution

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It is so ironic and sad that 1977 to '81, America had a president which happened to be a nuclear safety expert, managed the crisis of the Three Mile Island reactor, and ended up mounting solar panels to the White House. And now we are standing in front of jammed gates to our future.

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ChicoSuave

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Blame the guy before him and after him for why we are here. The moment business became the focus of the country instead of the people, it all started to break apart.

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‘China is watching’: Finland warns defeating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine key to stability in Indo-Pacific, says Australia has 'tremendous' role in supporting Kyiv

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44795915

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Defeating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is critical to restraining China in the Indo-Pacific, Finland’s defence minister has said, warning Europe and democratic partners, including Australia, face a fight of global consequences.
Antti Häkkänen praised Donald Trump’s decision to impose sanctions on two Russian oil companies last week, calling the move a major sign of resolve by the US president against Vladimir Putin’s three-year long war.
In an interview with Guardian Australia at the ministry of defence in Helsinki, Häkkänen said the West’s willingness to stay the course in opposing Russia’s aggression would be closely scrutinised.
“China is watching. Does the West have a muscle and resilience, when the autocrats and dictators think they can wage war for another year, and the democratic countries will become fed up?
“No. We have to show that we are even more putting stronger support against violence. It’s not only on Ukraine. It’s against violence, against war, and that’s a signal also for China and the Indo-Pacific area.”
Ending the Ukraine conflict required a three-pillar approach, he said:
- tougher sanctions on the Russian economy and energy exports;
- stronger military assistance to Ukraine;
- and the use of long-range weapons to destroy factories for drones and missiles.
[...]
Häkkänen said any weakness in resolve would embolden China.
“If there will be some kind of military conflict in the Indo-Pacific area, caused by China, Russia will be somehow involved, through supporting China or something like that,” he said.
“We see now that Russia, by their own resources, cannot continue this kind of warfare, but China is helping them a great deal. They are giving a lot of money to support their economy, from energy exports, and giving them a lot of military components and industrial cooperation.”
[...]
China considers Taiwan part of its territory and foreign policy experts believe Beijing is aiming to be capable of making a military move against its independence as early as 2027, amid increased military activity in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea.
While criticising countries not pulling their weight with Ukraine, Häkkänen said he was optimistic about possible peace.
“European countries have in the last month or so chosen really good steps in supporting Ukraine, investing heavily in our own defence.”
[...]
Häkkänen, who has met the [Australian] defence minister, Richard Marles, said Australia had played a “tremendous” role as one of the biggest non-Nato contributors supporting Ukraine.
“It’s a big political message here in Europe, that Australia has been a part of the support,” he said. “That will send the signal that if Australia has some challenges in security or defence, Europe knows that we have to be in the same family.”

‘China is watching’: Finland warns defeating Russia’s invasion of Ukraine key to stability in Indo-Pacific

Defence minister says Xi Jinping should note resolve to stay the course by global democratic alliance, including Australia

^{Tom McIlroy (The Guardian)}

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Häkkänen is a lizard but there's some truth there included

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Russia’s shortage of workers is so severe that it is luring foreigners into sweatshops

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Russia’s economy has proven remarkably resilient, despite years of sanctions and economic statecraft. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t deep cracks in Russia’s unstable economic foundation, with only a thin veneer masking increasingly severe shortages — especially of workers.

Russia is in a desperate labor bind. The country has a shrinking, aging population — a fact it ignores as it sends its young men into the meatgrinder of the war in Ukraine. To generate military manpower, Russia has gotten creative, recruiting criminals out of prisons, North Koreans, and mental health patients. Regardless, the endless need for fresh troops on the front line has taken bodies away from industry just as Russia’s military-industrial needs are expanding rapidly.

Russia now desperately needs to fill jobs on assembly lines that make war materiel, but it has a plan: exploiting the Global South, including its so-called friends.

BRICS members India, Brazil, and South Africa have all been recruitment targets for what appears to be forced labor. Russia issues to their citizens a siren song against which many young women are unable to steel themselves, with devastating results.

For at least two years, Russian company Alabuga Special Economic Zone has been luring young women from developing countries with the promise of good jobs and educational opportunities. When they arrive, they are pressed into drone production. They are made to work with corrosive chemicals for long hours, with restricted communications and few or no rights. The women have faced sexual harassment and seen “deductions” taken from their already meager pay for things like rent.

[...]

Educational institutions in Uganda and Burkina Faso have hosted Alabuga recruitment drives; economy-focused civil society organizations in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, and Madagascar have met with Alabuga officials; and diplomats from African and Latin American states have visited and some have promoted Alabuga sites.

Alabuga SEZ has targeted 84 countries, prioritizing recruitment in Africa and Latin America. Although some countries have called out Russian labor fraud, it has been too little, too late. South Africa’s warning and investigation, which began in August, does little to help women already taken to these sweatshops.

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https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5558495-russias-shortage-of-workers-is-so-severe-that-it-is-luring-foreigners-into-sweatshops

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Tattorack

in reply to Hotznplotzn • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

See, the problem with all the "Russia will fall" rhetoric over the years is that the expectation is on a far too short time frame.

No, Russia will not fall tomorrow, or next month, or next year. And probably not even for the entire duration of this war. Hell, they might even get a chunk of Ukraine at the end of it.

But I doubt Russia will financially bounce back from this. Their "fall" is, in my eyes, going to be a slow and painful attempt to still have an economy as they realise winning isn't really winning if you've spent everything on it.

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Hotznplotzn

in reply to Tattorack • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Well, I don't think that Russia would have a chunk of Ukraine, as this will encourage the Kremlin to go for the next country. Another question is what happens with Russia after Putin?

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TranscendentalEmpire

in reply to Hotznplotzn • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Realistically Russia has put itself into an economic situation where it cannot pull out of the war unless they gain control over economic resources that allow it to transition from a war time economy.

There's a reason most countries do everything they can to avoid having to go into a wartime economy. The immediate benefits are great, but it quickly becomes a sunk cost fallacy due to the guns vs butter model of opportunity detriment.

Military spending just has terrible opportunity cost ratios, and can only really be recouped as an investment if you are actively conquering new territory rich in resources. Even then, the cost eventually becomes greater than the opportunity it affords, eventually no matter how much you spend you aren't able to control what you take over.

The only way the US was able to transition from the war time economy from WW2 without imploding was because it became the new banking capital of the world, and it got to keep it's production capacity while their allies did not. This is almost a direct inverse of Russia's current scenario.

In short, Russia will most likely have to extend its war against Ukraine, or start a new conflict as soon as it makes peace with Ukraine just in the hopes that they can maintain their current economic situation.

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MrMakabar

in reply to TranscendentalEmpire • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Russia has some massive advantages ones they have peace. One is the assets they have in the West. We are talking billions and they could be sold to help out the local economy. The other one is lifting of sanctions. They sell a lot less gas and oil under market prices. So having those lifted would help the economy a lot.

It then is a matter of giving everybody who looses their jobs in the military sector a new one. That can be done with infrastructure spending or something similar.

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Pringles

in reply to MrMakabar • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Infrastructure spending? This is Russia we are talking about. From every ruble spent by the government, at least 75% disappears if not more. The systemic corruption in Russia will obliterate any supposed advantage they have by ending the war.

And those foreign assets are only partially government assets. These include investment accounts of normal Russians, payment to companies that have been held back, etc... We are talking billions but Russia is bleeding billions every month now, and the release of those assets will only partially mitigate the unfolding souffle like collapse of the Russian economy. It's not a sudden crash, just a general return to poverty.

A return of fossil fuel sales to prewar income would help, but I don't see that happening as long as they occupy the Donbas and Crimea. Some sanctions will be lifted in case of a peace agreement but not even regime change will roll back all of the sanctions.

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MrMakabar

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We are talking about $200B of Russian government assets in the EU. That is enough to pay the soldiers and workers in the military industry for some time until the economy can recover. Even if a lot is lost and lets be real that is happening with military spending as well.

Right now Russia has massive fuel shortages all over the country, the coal industry is collapsing, there are rolling black outs in some regions and high inflation. The base for recovery is pretty low. Add fossil fuel exports to the West at global higher prices and it goes a long way. Nothing some good propaganda can not handle.

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Pringles

in reply to MrMakabar • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

I think you vastly underestimate the catch-22 Putin has steered Russia in. They're not recovering from this economic disaster this century. They're damned if they do (continue the war) and damned if they don't. That's also why NATO considers Russia a significant threat to regional stability even if the war were to end where they get everything they wanted. It's a lose-lose situation for Russia, but continued aggression to keep the war economy going is currently the path of least resistance.

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in reply to MrMakabar • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

It's estimated russia spent $145 billion for the military in 2024, and the budget for 2026 is about the same - 2025 was around that as well.
So that 200 billion pays for roughly 16 months of the currently 44 month war.

Russian defense spending overtakes Europe, study finds

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sent its defense spending skyrocketing, and is raising fears it will attack NATO next.

^{Lucia Mackenzie (POLITICO)}

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MrMakabar

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Exactly enough money to bridge the period between ending the war and having created enough jobs in the civilian economy. Right now unemployment is basically zero and given all the dead Russian soldiers that is going to be rather possible.

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Tattorack

in reply to MrMakabar • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

You mean the assets the EU has seized and has started selling off?

Really, the only thing Russia has to rely on is China. They'll get themselves so in-debt trying to rebuild their economy and China will have them by the balls (like they have with so many countries already).

But selling and loaning is only a temporary thing. None of that means a damned thing if it doesn't result in something physical and real-world. But a lot of the population needed to make that possible is now lying face-down in Ukraine.

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Tattorack

in reply to TranscendentalEmpire • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

It became the new banking capital of the world because Europe was utterly devastated, needed to rebuild, but none of the currencies were worth shit.

It's literally that which caused the United States to enter this wonderful golden age of capitalism.

I really hate it when American politician talk about this era as if America did something so right all by themselves. No, Europe was just destroyed. It made them money. You're welcome.

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Tattorack

in reply to Hotznplotzn • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

To the next country... With what resources? They're spending all their resources just to gain a few metres of territory over the course of an entire year.

All those young, able bodied working people dying to a drone attack after just two weeks of training.

Russia shouldn't get a chunk of Ukraine as that will encourage them to invade other countries... If they'd have anything left to invade with.

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A_norny_mousse

in reply to Tattorack • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Came here to say pretty much this.

Russia’s economy has proven remarkably resilient

That statement is not thought through. I mean, the same could be said about North Korea or any number of countries, even the USA.

I also would not want one of the biggest countries on the planet + 100 million people to fall into chaos and despair; I truly hope there's a better way of dealing with it, though I don't see how if the Kremlin doesn't participate.

Historically Russia has always tried to prop up its own failing economy by exploiting neighboring countries, even integrating them into their own. Expansionism, Imperialism. A bad choice, long term. For that to work they would need to go (even further) back to feudalism (an almost infinite number of warm bodies to use), and the countries around them would have to stay weak.

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Yes. As Natalia Zubarevich, professor of the Department of Economic And Social Geography of Russia of the Moscow State University, predicted in June 2023 about the Russian economy: ‘There Will Be no Collapses, but Rather a Viscous, Slow Sinking into Backwardness’

I liked her statements back then and have been remembering them whenever I read reports like this one on the Russian economy. The interview is more than 2 years old, and with hindsight we now must say that Professor Zubarevich seems to have foreseen everything. I never heard of her before but she must be a very good economist.

‘There Will Be no Collapses, but Rather a Viscous, Slow Sinking into Backwardness’

Natalia Zubarevich talks about the labor shortage in Russia, the trends in labor migration within the country, how resource exports are being redirected to China, how compensation from the state is helping to get men to sign up, and how Russians, una…

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Relevant:
themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/27/…
lemmy.sdf.org/post/44791056

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2025-10-28 06:24:24

Ukraine War: Kenyans Being Tricked Into Fighting for Russia – Foreign Ministry

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44791055
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Kenyans have been "lured" by recruiters into fighting for Russia in Ukraine, the Kenyan Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday.
Many have ended up detained in military camps across Russia, said the statement signed by Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi.
It did not give any numbers for the recruits, nor how many had been detained or hurt.
The Foreign Ministry said it held a "crucial meeting" last month with Russian officials to help secure their release and repatriation.
Kenyans are being "lured by... corrupt and ruthless agents to travel to Russia and unknowingly find themselves in the Russian military operation," Kenya's Foreign Ministry said.
[...]

Kenyans Being Tricked Into Fighting for Russia – Foreign Ministry
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lol russia.

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Two men arrested after Louvre jewel heist

French police arrest two men over €88m Louvre jewel heist

One man arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport and another just outside Paris, officials confirm

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well you have to be a moron to rob one of the most high profile museums in the world so....

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Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UK

Bacon and ham sold in the UK should carry cigarette-style labels warning that chemicals in them cause bowel cancer, scientists say.

Their demand comes as they criticise successive British governments for doing “virtually nothing” to reduce the risk from nitrites in the decade since they were found to definitely cause cancer.

Saturday marks a decade since the World Health Organization in October 2015 declared processed meat declared processed meat to be carcinogenic to humans, putting it in the same category as tobacco and asbestos.

Scientists demand cancer warnings on bacon and ham sold in UK

Successive governments criticised for doing ‘virtually nothing’ to reduce risk in the decade since cancer link found

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kreskin

in reply to HellsBelle • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Well I just looked it up. Looks like nitrites are in salad. So its official, salad causes cancer. I fucking knew it. So we are going to put cigarrette style warnings on salad now, right?

Foods High in Nitrates

Nitrates are naturally occurring compounds found in various foods, particularly vegetables. They can also be added to certain processed foods. Here’s a breakdown of foods that contain nitrates:

Natural Sources of Nitrates

The majority of dietary nitrates come from vegetables. Here are some key examples:

VEGETABLE NITRATE CONTENT (PER 100G)

Spinach ~741 mg

Lettuce Varies, generally high

Beets Varies, generally high

Celery Varies, generally high

Carrots Varies, generally high

Cabbage Varies, generally high

Radishes Varies, generally high

Processed Foods with Added Nitrates

Certain processed meats have nitrates added for preservation and flavor. Common examples include:

Bacon

Hot dogs

Salami

Sausages

Deli meats (e.g., ham, bologna)

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devnev

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First search result on Nitrates:

Studies show that eating vegetables rich in natural nitrates can help reduce your risk of getting some chronic health conditions, whereas eating foods high in added nitrates can cause health risks. Why is that?
Experts think that the antioxidants (such as vitamin C) in vegetables with high nitrates help prevent their breakdown into nitrosamines.

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SaveTheTuaHawk

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The problem here is the general term "nitrates".

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devnev

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Interesting, how so?

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Any experience of Diode?

I stumbled across Diode whilst looking for ways to do secure off-site backups (to my own equipment at another house) and it feels like a paid-for TOR (Ok, there is a free option)

I'm looking for any real experience as the site has too much marketing lingo in it:

Every Client is secured with a public/private key self-custody identity

And this doesn't seem very dynamic if I want to change something:

Diode’s Blockchain Name System can be used for Client friendly names

And somewhere on the site it infers unlimited storage...!

So, is the free option worth me looking into, or is it a waste of time?

Privacy-first Collaboration & Remote Access

Diode enables digital sovereignty in everyday interactions.

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It sounds to me that for your specific use case, the tailscale free option would be a better match. You can self host it if you would like, using headscale (involves a little more work though). It's basically like an orchestrator for wireguard tunnels.

I'm running tailscale on quite a few of my systems. I've configured the Grants (like advanced ACL's) to allow for only specific services available from certain hosts while other hosts can act as exit nodes like a VPN egress. I've found it very useful for connecting families networks up so that I can assist with remote troubleshooting help and I've used it to reach back into my own network while traveling.

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Hmm, ok, I'd not thought of the remote troubleshooting part.

The NAS is at a family member's home, so the troubleshooting might come up in the future.

Thanks

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Sudan's cultural heritage becomes a casualty in its civil war

Sudan’s civil war has become a humanitarian catastrophe of staggering scale, marked by famine, ethnic cleansing and sexual violence. Over three years, an estimated 150,000 people have been killed, and nearly 13 million have been forced from their homes. But the destruction of Sudan’s cultural heritage has drawn far less attention. Jeffrey Brown reports for our art and culture series, CANVAS.

Sudan’s cultural heritage becomes a casualty in its civil war

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A_norny_mousse

in reply to gedaliyah • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

I hate that the words "casual" and "casualty" are almost the same yet so different in meaning.

"During this war civilians and historical buildings were casually destroyed."

Maybe it does make sense.

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Bill Gates Says China Is Outspending the World on Nuclear Power

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Their fusion and fission work is very impressive,” the Microsoft Corp. co-founder said of China’s nuclear innovation efforts. The country is investing more in fusion “than the rest of the world put together, times two

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/bill-gates-says-china-is-outspending-the-world-on-nuclear-power

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Bill upset that he can't embrace, extend, and extinguish China.

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Ukraine War: Kenyans Being Tricked Into Fighting for Russia – Foreign Ministry

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/44791055

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Kenyans have been "lured" by recruiters into fighting for Russia in Ukraine, the Kenyan Foreign Ministry said in a statement Monday.
Many have ended up detained in military camps across Russia, said the statement signed by Foreign Minister Musalia Mudavadi.
It did not give any numbers for the recruits, nor how many had been detained or hurt.
The Foreign Ministry said it held a "crucial meeting" last month with Russian officials to help secure their release and repatriation.
Kenyans are being "lured by... corrupt and ruthless agents to travel to Russia and unknowingly find themselves in the Russian military operation," Kenya's Foreign Ministry said.
[...]

Kenyans Being Tricked Into Fighting for Russia – Foreign Ministry

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Endymion_Mallorn

in reply to Hotznplotzn • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

First the Norks, now the Kenyans. This is getting interesting.

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A_norny_mousse

in reply to Hotznplotzn • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Just like North Korea hacking bitcoin to prop itself up; but Russia does it with people. Well, with everything really. Any cheap way to exploit and expand its influence, legality notwithstanding. No ethics.

Russia has been repeatedly accused of deceiving citizens from poor countries into signing contracts with its military, written in Russian, which they do not understand.
There is widespread poverty in Kenya and minimal job opportunities.
Local media have reported on Russian recruitment networks targeting poor young men, with many claiming they were tricked or pressured into fighting once they arrived.

Thing I don't understand: they cannot be good fighters if they're doing it against their will? But I'm sure the military has tricks to keep the pressure on.

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RRF Caserta. Kaos. Il Dio Share, Belve e l'ipocrisia

RRF Caserta. Kaos. Il Dio Share, Belve e l'ipocrisia . L'attuale stato della televisione e la sua crescente dipendenza dai social media e dagli influencer per aumentare gli ascolti, lo share radioritornofuturo.podbean.com…

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Melissa now a Category 5 hurricane as it approaches Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa intensified to Category 5 strength on Monday as it neared Jamaica, with up to 76 centimetres (30 in) of rain and a life-threatening storm surge.

Melissa is forecast to make landfall on the island on Tuesday, and cross Cuba and the Bahamas through Wednesday.

Melissa was centred about 230 kilometres southwest of Kingston, the capital, and about 530 km southwest of Guantánamo, Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said in its 11 a.m. ET update.

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I'll share my two favorite sources for hurricane info.

Tropical Tidbits for excellent parsing of meteorological data and models without much editorializing and essentially no fear mongering. Excellent videos and website tools for nerding out about the weather side of things.

tropicaltidbits.com/

And NOAA's National Hurricane Center for up to date guidance on rain, flooding, and wind probabilities and warnings. This coupled with a local emergency services communications is what most people should be using to track what impacts they should expect for upcoming storms.

nhc.noaa.gov/ click on the storm in the map graphic to view detailed warnings and info.

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Thanks for that, I appreciate it.

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Venezuela Says CIA-Linked Mercenaries Caught During 'False-Flag Attack'

"This is a colonial operation of military aggression that seeks to turn the Caribbean into a space for lethal violence and US imperial domination."

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YappyMonotheist

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He's using America's playbook, lol. Sure, 9/11 is still recent enough for its nature as a false flag attack (avoidable but allowed at least, cause the Middle East excursions needed justification) to be debatable but what about Operation Northwoods? Operation Gladio?

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Mîm

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At first I thought you were going to the CIA backed coup and the following murders and dictatorship in Chile, speaking of South America and 9/11.

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Internal domain and reverse proxy

I'm going round in circles on this one.

What I want to do is:

serve up my self-hosted apps with https (to local clients only - nothing over the open web)
address them as 'app.server.lan' or 'sever.lan/app'
preferably host whatever is needed in docker

I think this is achievable with a reverse proxy, some kind of DNS server and self-signed certs. I'm not a complete noob but my knowledge in this area is lacking. I've done a fair bit of research but I'm probably not using the right terminology or whatever.

Would anyone have a link to a good guide that covers this?

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irmadlad

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I'm not sure if this is a complete fit for you, and some people have animosity towards Cloudflare, however check out Cloudflare tunnels. To use Cloudflare tunnels tho, you need a proper domain name. Get one from NamesCheap and switch the NameServers to the ones assigned to you when you sign up for a Cloudflare tunnel account. I bought one for $1.75 USD.

The beauty of using Cloudflare is that you don't have to 'punch holes' in your network defenses. You don't have to worry about opening ports or having to secure them. You can create subdomains, and Cloudflare handles the certs. For instance, you could have:

app1.mycoolserver.com ---which points to--->http://localhost:45684/
app2.mycoolserver.com ---which points to--->http://localhost:59487/

When you get everything set up, overlay Tailscale on the server, Jack's a doughnut, Bob's your uncle. The free tier Cloudflare Tunnel package is quite generous and has all manner of bells and whistles, most of which I didn't need, but are there if you do.

I've used Caddy before and still do on a couple of test VPS, and derivatives like Pangolin. They are great and do the job quite well. It is a case of 6 of this and half dozen of the other. It seemed to me, tho Cloudflare had a bit of a learning curve, once set in place, it's a little easier than Caddy. They're all pretty decent packages.

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They're looking for local access network access only

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philpo

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It is absolutly possible, but oersonally I would highly recommend getting yourself a proper public domain for that,even if you won't use it otherwise (it's even somewhat saver if you use a designated one for it).

To make it really easy get the domain with someome who also provides DNS with it (Hetzner is a solid choice, so are others, has to have an API). (E.g. "mydomain.casa".)

Now get an internal DNS server that can handle it's own zones. I always recommend technitium, but there are other choices. Pihole is not a good choice here.

Next thing is a reverse proxy,as you mentioned.
If you want it easy, NginxProxyManager is a good choice, but limits what one can do later. But it kind of works out of the box.
Traefik and caddy are both often named,but I found none of them as "fire and forget" as NPM is - and caddy can't do a lot of things either.
Traefik is what I currently use,but even using Manatrae or similar GUIs it's sometimes a pain. But it's absolutely powerful especially when you run a lot of docker container on the same host.
Tbh, if I had not some special requirements I would still use NPM.

Now, what to do? (Not a full manual, more like a ovrview that it's not that complicated)
1. Install all of the above on docker.
2. Setup NPM with a wildcard certificate, register with zerossl.com (has advantages over LetsEncrypt), add them as a provider and get a wildcard(!) certificate. (*.yourdomain.casa).
3. Setup a proxy host. You simply add the domainname (nextcloud.mydomain.casa),point it to the actual container ("192.168.1.10:3000) and choose the wildcard certificate as a SSL and switch on "force SSL".
4. Go to the DNS server, create a DNS zone "mydomain.casa" and then simply add "nextcloud.mydomain.casa" and point it to the Reverse proxy IP.
Done.

For good practice I would recommend to also keep a zone that links directly to the services so you can use that whenever necessary. (mydomain.internal)

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hietsu

in reply to philpo • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Umm, wildcard certs from ZeroSSL seem to run at $52.99 per month, billed yearly. Free plan does not have those, neither does Basic.

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TimeWalker

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As I understood, the one that you see on the page is something distinct. They have a different service on their ACME page. If you're using a script like acme.sh or using the ACMEIssuer in Caddy, then you can get a free wildcard certificate over that. But I assume it's losing the advantages that have been mentioned like the web dashboard, etc.

Automate SSL Certificates with ACME Protocol | ZeroSSL

Automate 90-day SSL certificate renewal using the ZeroSSL Bot or third-party ACME clients, such as Acme.sh, NGINX Proxy, Caddy Server, and others.

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hietsu

in reply to TimeWalker • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Good to know!
*-cert is definitely something I’d need to setup in my self host setup, though a little complex as my (free) domain provider does not let me edit TXT records for DNS-01.

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Vietnam Buys 40 Russian Su-35 Fighters in Covert $8 Billion Weapons Pact—With Oil Payments to Dodge Sanctions

In mid-2025, military sources in Vietnam began circulating unconfirmed rumors that new multi-billion-dollar contracts with Russia were imminent.
Documents from Rostec identify Vietnam under the discreet label “Customer 704.” According to the sources and those documents, one deal could be worth ~$8 billion and include up to 40 new fighter jets.

Vietnam Buys 40 Russian Su-35 Fighters in Covert $8 Billion Weapons Pact—With Oil Payments to Dodge Sanctions

Vietnam has ramped up military acquisitions from Russia through covert financial channels, as highlighted in a New York Times investigation.

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Dr. Moose

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I wonder how Vietnamese feel about their government basically giving 8 billion USD (2% of GDP) to Russia for something they will might not even get and if they do it'll be inferrior tech to anything else. Su-35 has been a real failure in Ukraine war and widely considered to be objecftively worse than F-16V and Rafale fighters and China's J-16s which Vietnamese SU-35s would be likely engaging and training for.

I did a bit of research of what are Vietnams fighter options for new class fighters:
- US F-16V - Vietnam already has deals for these and generally agreed that it's the best option for them aside from unstable US needing to diversify here
- France's Rafale - Vietnam and France already signed large defence deals and it's a very good option here too.
- China - no deal at all given that China is the most likely future combatant here for these weapons.

So this seems like a blatant, inexcusable payment to the ruzzies which is such a shame to see. I hope they never see the planes and if they do they fall apart immediately together with the current ruzzi empire.

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commander

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They likely don't mind. Historically Soviet Union and successor Russia for arms industry has been Vietnams primary arms supplier. It's not like France ever tried to make serious amends with any of their former colonies and the hundreds of thousands to millions killed in the process. It's just business with France as if nothing ever happened. Same with the US. The same thing is happening currently across Africa. Russia is a less opinionated arms supplier and don't have the baggage that France and the US have in the regions

War with China is unlikely anytime soon. Vietnams focus is primarily on its economy and building it's own defense industry for both domestic and export. So all they need is modern enough with preference for cost. Russian fighter jets are cheap. Sure they'd be better off with a J-10c or J-35 but Sukhoi jets are diplomacy too and affordable and capable enough for peacetime. Turkey and India buy S400's and India buys Sukhoi. With historic weapons purchased from Russia, integration and local parts and mechanics are probably more abundant.

They're also fairly non-aligned so they import from Russia, China, and the US and in regards to the US, after the Vietnam war they were under sanctions for decades with US arms being made available I think in the last decade. Vietnam

Vietnams primary trade partner is China and once you hit the 90s as Vietnam would be under major sanctions for much of that decade, China was Vietnams market to export to. And it took until the past decade for exports to the US to really pickup. Then Trump 2 happens and they were initially slapped with one of the highest tariff from the US in the world.

Vietnam buying arms from Russia is reflected in historical relations that have been dependable and what has seemed to me rapid improvements in relations with China, the US and Europe themselves dropped the ball with Vietnam. First France and the US by not recognizing Vietnamese independence leading Ho Chi Minh to ally with the communist. Then the decades of sanctions. Then the tariffs

So Vietnams relationship with China have improved a ton since Trump 1. Stuff that didn't happen before like Chinese military marching at independence parades in Vietnam with notable performance like learning the Vietnamese victory or maybe anthem (I don't know which) and singing it well. Increasingly war with China is becoming unlikely as Vietnam focuses on its economy and increases trade with China and military sales from China increases.

Rafales are very expensive and US weapons imports come with very stringent rules for usage and limits on what a country can purchase. Turkey and India buy S400, no F-35. Maybe you get limited on ammunition too after sanctions from the US. Also US jets are expensive too along with lifetime upkeep costs.

Plus the case of war with China, of China stopped building fighter jets for the next 10 years and France sent all the Rafales they could build in ten years to Vietnam, in war with China, those Rafales would be demolished. Same with F-16's, Eurofighters, Gripens, Su-35, probably Su-57, probably the future Su-75. Why spend so much money on aircraft in defense against China when China's surface to air missiles would demolish them before even needing to send out J-10c, J-16, J-20, J-35 fighters. F-16, Gripens, Rafale, Eurofighter - those are obsolete in a war with China especially when sharing a border. Really the jets are for posturing among other southeast asian countries

Re-emphasize that France and the US have not been friendly with Vietnam for all that long and far from enough to be well built trusting relationships

So ya, Russia are bastards for invading Ukraine. Doesn't make Su-35's a bad purchase for Vietnam. Russia has been delivering aircraft to Algeria and Iran and Vietnam is likely not under urgent need for fighters like Iran. Vietnam right now doesn't seem like war is anytime near. Better off with cheap Russian equipment and continue improving relations with China and someday maybe purchase J-35's. Maybe some frigates

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Dr. Moose

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what a big wall of absolute nonsense.

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commander

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Respond to my points. Vietnam isn't close to war with China. Russia is their primary arms supplier and has been for decades. China arms exports to Vietnam are be becoming more frequent. Military drills and attendance of military parades are occuring now that did not happen just 10 years ago. China is Vietnams largest source for imports and growing for exports.

Tell me why is war with China going to happen when China is focused on Taiwan and Vietnam is in the process of an economic boom where China is a major market with a trade route that can't be interrupted? They share a border

France and the US literally killed millions of Vietnamese and then proceeded to sanction the crap out of them to sub-Saharan Africa levels of poverty. Vietnam had to build trade relations outside of the NATO world. The US literally threatened a 48% tariff on Vietnam half a year ago. Tariffed Vietnam back during Trump admin #1 as well

Your posts makes it very clear you're new to international arms sales happenings. You just need to study arms sales history and equipment capabilities. Tell me why dozens of Rafale, F-16, Gripens, Eurofighters, or Sukhois would be a problem for China's surface to air defenses let alone hundreds of J-20 and J-35s before the 1000+ J-11, J-15, J-16 and J-10's. The cheapest is the best choice because the most expensive won't be any more useful. Are Vietnam buying AWACs and large radar systems too? If not, these 4th gen jet fighters are even more useless against China

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Dr. Moose

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Tell me why is war with China going to happen

Are you living under a rock or something? Vietnam's number 1 security issue is China and nobody else.

I go to Vietnam at least once a year and Vietnam hates China as it's really the only security challenge in the region. Cambodia and Laos are buffer zones that will never evolve into anything serious ever and other neighbours are an ocean away. To add, there's a big cultural clash between Vietnamese and Chinese that is out of scope of this thread.

South-China Sea conflict is literally the biggest brewing issue in the region and you'd be an idiot to say otherwise.

Also bringing in WW2 and Vietnam-US war is so incredibly out of touch. Most Vietnamese have long forgotten the french and the americans and if anything got significantly closer to both than to China.

The jets there are 100% for south-china sea conflict hot or posturing. You think they will send them to fight US tarrifs? What are you even talking about. Again, a huge wall of utter rubbish.

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commander

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Congrats you're a tourist to Vietnam. The US wasn't elevated to a similar diplomatic level as China until 2023. 2 years of solid diplomatic relations compared to at least 15 years with China. 2 years until the Trump tariffs. The war with the US may have ended in the 70s but the bulk of sanctions didn't end until towards the end of the 90s and US arms sales being made available the last decade have not even been close enough of high volume to displace Russian equipment in the Vietnamese military.

Factions within the party that either favor the US, Russia, China or neutrality. According to your article they just purchased Russian fighter jets. They've been buying Russian military equipment damn near every year for a long time. Vietnam and China have been signing new trade deals just this year. They held their first joint army drills together just this year.

Geographic neighbors are your worst risk for war but the ones that also end up your primary trade partner and the power imbalance so very much favors China that being a China hawk in Vietnam may as well be suicide. Right now Vietnam is progressing towards a Mexico relationship with China but a lot more prosperous and safe than Mexico

The tension in the South China Sea is far more tense with the Philippines. If any war is happening in the next 20 years it's with them and I doubt that happening too. Past 20 years and at that point any 4th gen fighter is even more outdated than today.

The US didn't even attend the most recent independence parade in Vietnam, China did with their military in the parade for the first time this year. Vietnam participated in victory day parades this year in China and Russia. Those were likely planned before Trump 48% tariff threat.

It seems to me you're more outdated in your views. The current 4th gen fighters are not going to be useful in the South China Sea. Not this decade or the next. The military gap between Vietnam and China is growing rather than closing and it'll be a long time until that changes. So right now it makes sense that Vietnam continues to increase trade, tourism, military cooperation with China while balancing with Russia and the US. Vietnam isn't close to war with China. Vietnam is shaping up to be neutral between whatever conflicts China may be in the next couple decades

Your a tourist to Vietnam. You probably want war between the two countries so whatever your country is has the opportunity to have better relations with Vietnam or for China to be preoccupied with them in war rather than your country. But for Vietnamese people in Vietnam, I highly doubt they're as jingoistic for war with China like people that don't live in Vietnam. They're the ones that would die. Vietnam balances relations with China, the US, and Russia and the US is late to the modern Vietnamese diplomatic party compared to China and especially compared to Russia. That's the prevailing foreign policy of Vietnam and this year has been a year of China and Russia gaining in Vietnam, not the US.

Things change. Just this year. Like read the latest RAND Corp policy opinion report on China-Taiwan. Crazy shift in strategy opinion for a historically influential think thank in the US. Countries you see as potentially strong counterbalances to China aren't going to be so hawkish with China when the US and EU are getting skittish. The South China Sea conflict will continue but Vietnam won't have much ability there for decades and economic growth will prioritize over military so continued improving trade relations with China will be priority over very small islands in the South China Sea. A compromise that they'd rather be more in their favor but can't be for economic and military reasons

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Dr. Moose

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Man you're talking out of your ass. I've been visiting Vietnam for over 10 years now, I live in SEA and have many Vietnamese friends with whom we discuss world politics and here you are saying that Vietnam and China has no tensions in the South China Sea when that's by far the #1 geopolitical issue in the region.

Not even going to entertain your walls of nonsense anymore as you're just building strawmen and attacking me. Get lost troll.

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commander

in reply to Dr. Moose • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

You've been attacking me. I'm not saying there's not tensions. I'm saying the tensions are cooling. Probably heat up again in the future but it's not 2015. A lot has changed just this year in terms of governmental agreements between the two countries

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MehBlah

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Just curious. Where do you live that your information is somehow better than OP?

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commander

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trade.gov/country-commercial-g…

Data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) shows that from 1995 to 2022, Vietnam’s arms imports totaled USD9.162 billion, in which Russia accounted for USD7.471 billion (81.5%).

news.tuoitre.vn/video/chinese-…

e.vnexpress.net/news/news/chin…

vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/1…

atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econ…

diplomacy.edu/blog/the-art-of-…

theguardian.com/world/2016/may…

nytimes.com/1994/02/04/world/o…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehe…

reuters.com/world/chinas-xi-vi…

vietnamnews.vn/economy/1728310…

en.nhandan.vn/viet-nam-china-s…

e.vnexpress.net/news/news/viet…

I will not answer what country I'm from. Same way I don't expect most Americans to understand their country's foreign policy, I don't expect that of pretty much any country's people. This person has given me no reason to believe they have much knowledge of Vietnamese politics let alone historical if they think friendly relations between Vietnam and Russia and Russian arm sales to Vietnam is going to cause some social unrest in Vietnam.

I don't rely on my friends in France to tell me the foreign policy leanings of France. Not Germany, not Spain, not Australia. People generally don't follow politics beyond their bubble of information. It's not their job. The guys whole arguments are just he travels to a country and get's the feels from his friends.

If I based my whole understanding of nations on the people I'm friends with, every country in the world would be composed of leftist and filled with scientist and filmmakers. National Rally wouldn't be rising in France. AFD wouldn't be rising in Germany. The UK wouldn't have anti-immigration rallies attended by over 100k people. Turkey and India wouldn't have purchased S400 systems. Egypt wouldn't have HQ-9B. Decades of diplomacy and outside of India and Pakistan people keep being surprised by the warmer relations that the US has with Pakistan over India. Friends are an ignorant way to determine the operations of a country. My friends are a bubble

China sells military jets to Bangladesh, Myanmar, Indonesia. They've sold naval vessels to Thailand. China's navy appears to have a significant presence in Cambodia with frequent extended dockings. It's a rapidly changing region of the world for foreign policy currently.

I didn't push on what the cultural differences between Vietnam and China are that make relations difficult anymore than like the Phillipines which is what I would guess is the person being from stemming from their interest in the disputed South China Sea. Tensions in the South China Sea exist but from my view, that takes a backseat to economic oppurtunity. It'll take a backseat to global warming and issues with their coastlines and weather patterns. Money and industrial capabilities is going to be incredibly important to deal with global warming in that region and that will factor into what Vietnam or the Phillipines can afford to do in the future for the disputed islands. I'll even avoid the linguistic approach as I know depending on the political leaning of a Viet person you are talking to, it can be a touchy subject in regards to nationalism and pedagogical policy.

The history of China and Vietnam is very long. There's a famous historical Chinese general thousands of years ago that also happens to be a famous northern Vietnamese general. It's a very long history. Many wars. About a millennium in total of the northern part of Vietnam being a part of China though not continuous. Many successful independence wars. Historic vietnam and historic china relations stretches back to the neolithic age. There's syncretism that stretches back thousands of years before even getting to modern governmental structure, holidays, traditions, religions, music/instruments, film, clothing, cuisine, ... etc. It's not so simple as "Vietnamese people hate Chinese people." A lot more nuanced than that and a lot of migration over the millenniums though even limited to the last century that make the claims I hear of that a bit ridiculous. For the handful that actually have strong broad opinions on Chinese people from Vietnamese people, there's a solid chance they may have a differing opinion on Chinese from the north vs the south of the country. Same with the simple takes I hear in regards to China, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan relations and what they will all certainly do to each other in the future

Non-alignment is difficult to comprehend when living in countries fully embracing of the diplomatic polar world but for Vietnam there's a famous song from the unification war era. This is the rendition I'm familiar with. All that matters is independence. Vietnam is not only an ally of any or combination of the US, China, or Russia.

Vietnam's non-alignment is possibly more impressive than Pakistans since Vietnams economy has come out as a lot more robust while playing every major side. While it's in a period of industrialization making parts of the country having poor air quality to support manufacturing for export to countries like the US, the cities are very clean as compared to like Bengaluru, city in another non-aligned country, India.

On the point of US-China-Taiwan and RAND Corp

rand.org/pubs/research_reports…

It's a very interesting progression of RAND Corp's suggestions compared to their history of opinions. If you're unaware of RAND Corp

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND_Cor…

One interesting field to study is trying to understand the whys for the difference between Vietnam's international relations compared to Japan, Taiwan, and Korean peninsula. They all share so much cultural traditions. China has more history of control over Vietnam than Taiwan so why far far more tension there than Vietnam. Far more history with Vietnam in general. A much longer history with Vietnam than with Japan but internationally people don't think of relations of Vietnam with China like they think of Japan and China. And even that Japan/China relation is a lot more nuanced than most of my friends anywhere in the world would believe. Even the Taiwan/China discussion is a lot more nuanced in Taiwan than outside. It should be. In the event of war, they're the ones that would suffer the most casualties and loss of infrastructure and potentially water import issues

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Lembot_0005

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Sounds strange.

Is Russia even capable of providing 40 jets in current circumstances?

Oil payments? Russia will import 8 billion worth of oil from Vietnam?

Very-very strange. Bullshitty, I would say. But this world is strange and bullshitty, so who knows...

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Dr. Moose

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You could read the article and yes that's the whole point that Vietnam will likely never receive the jets it's just a way to take take Vietnamese tax payer's money and use it to sponsor ruzis.

Vietnam owes Russia 8B for the deal -> instead of paying which would void sanctions, they join with ruzis to help them launder oil and gas -> ruzis launder 8B oil/gas profits through Vietnam -> Vietnam maybe gets the jets in several decades if ruzia doesn't collapse.

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whiwake

in reply to Dr. Moose • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Is it just me or I’m a misunderstanding the word covert

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Lembot_0005

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It's like covfefe but more erty. Ast Trump for details.

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Alexstarfire

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No thanks. I prefer the truth.

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Wow-wow, you're a picky one. Good luck finding the truth nowadays...

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Endymion_Mallorn

in reply to Dr. Moose • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Wait, didn't an association between 'Nam and Russia cause a pretty huge problem for the US a generation or two ago?

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ILikeBoobies

in reply to Dr. Moose • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Odd for a US ally.

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BarneyPiccolo

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North Vietnam was 100% a Russian proxy in the Vietnam War, and they won, so despite any convenient economic alliance with America, they will always have a friendly relationship with Russia.

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geneva_convenience

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Why are you talking like the US didn't invade and firebomb Vietnam to ashes and the Vietcong liberated them from oppression with help of the Soviets?

The north was the proxy, not the US backed puppet in the south???

Holy American Superiority complex.

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BarneyPiccolo

in reply to geneva_convenience • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

I'm not forgetting any of that, I was just pointing out a fact about the relationship and history between Vietnam and Russia. It was a phantom war between Russia and the US, with both North and South Vietnam being proxies, and the North prevailed.

The point being that Vietnam has understandable reasons to cooperate with Russia, and there's not a whole lot we can say about it.

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Trump humiliated by fact-check after claiming Canada used AI for 'cheat' Reagan ad

President Donald Trump was once again fact-checked following an embarrassing tantrum over a Canadian advertisement.

The ad quoted former U.S. President Ronald Reagan from 38 years ago criticizing tariffs -- a policy tool Trump frequently employs. The commercial includes audio clips from an April 25, 1987 radio address where Reagan stated: "Over the long run such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.''

Trump humiliated by fact-check after claiming Canada used AI for 'cheat' Reagan ad

The fact-check features a link to a transcript of Reagan's address from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as well as full audio

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But_my_mom_says_im_cool

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As a Canadian I am utterly disgusted and livid that a Canadian ad running in Canada was removed, because Americas pedophile rapist president didnt like it. Keep that fascist shit on your side of the border

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sik0fewl

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It was running in the US. The target demographic does not live in Canada.

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Peter Link via Palestine

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In Shift in Relationship With Netanyahu, Trump Says ‘I Will Decide’ What Is Right for Israel

Since an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal came into effect, the U.S. effort to sustain it appears to have constrained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
Oct. 27, 2025 Updated 12:10 p.m. ET

archive.ph/iI38P

After Israel’s botched airstrike on Hamas negotiators in Qatar last month, Mr. Trump, meeting with Mr. Netanyahu in the Oval Office, forced him to call the Qatari prime minister and apologize.
Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, elaborated in a “60 Minutes” interview on Oct. 20.
“I think he felt like the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing,” he said, “and that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”
It was an extraordinary revelation by Mr. Kushner, who indicated that Mr. Trump believed he was acting in Israel’s interests and that Mr. Netanyahu was not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/middleeast/trump-netanyahu-relationship.html

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Peter Link via World News

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In Shift in Relationship With Netanyahu, Trump Says ‘I Will Decide’ What Is Right for Israel

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/38158481

Since an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal came into effect, the U.S. effort to sustain it appears to have constrained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
Oct. 27, 2025 Updated 12:10 p.m. ET
archive.ph/iI38P

After Israel’s botched airstrike on Hamas negotiators in Qatar last month, Mr. Trump, meeting with Mr. Netanyahu in the Oval Office, forced him to call the Qatari prime minister and apologize.
Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, elaborated in a “60 Minutes” interview on Oct. 20.
“I think he felt like the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing,” he said, “and that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”
It was an extraordinary revelation by Mr. Kushner, who indicated that Mr. Trump believed he was acting in Israel’s interests and that Mr. Netanyahu was not.

Peter Link

2025-10-28 01:32:10

In Shift in Relationship With Netanyahu, Trump Says ‘I Will Decide’ What Is Right for Israel

Since an Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal came into effect, the U.S. effort to sustain it appears to have constrained Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
[Bias alert - #NYT usually favors Israel]
Oct. 27, 2025 Updated 12:10 p.m. ET
archive.ph/iI38P
After Israel’s botched airstrike on Hamas negotiators in Qatar last month, Mr. Trump, meeting with Mr. Netanyahu in the Oval Office, forced him to call the Qatari prime minister and apologize.
Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, elaborated in a “60 Minutes” interview on Oct. 20.
“I think he felt like the Israelis were getting a little bit out of control in what they were doing,” he said, “and that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”
It was an extraordinary revelation by Mr. Kushner, who indicated that Mr. Trump believed he was acting in Israel’s interests and that Mr. Netanyahu was not.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/world/middleeast/trump-netanyahu-relationship.html

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QuantumTickle

in reply to Peter Link • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Remember when Trump declared himself "King of the Jews"?

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Youtube AI filter making it dangerous to watch for people with Epilepsy due to a bug

There is a bug in Youtube's AI filter that is causing some videos to flicker. The content creator have no idea that is happening and no way to opt out. If you have Epilepsy it is recommended that you watch out for these situations

Also as content creators dont know this may be happening, if you find these issues you should try to contact the respective content creator and let them know this is happening on your specific device. Again, its so random it may only happen on some devices

- YouTube

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webghost0101

in reply to cy_narrator • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

If you have epilepsy, watch out so you don’t randomly see something that could potentially kill you.

Great job google.

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CatAssTrophy

in reply to webghost0101 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

FWIW, photosensitive epilepsy is typically only triggered at flash rates between 3-30 hertz. The rate of flashing shown is extremely unlikely to cause seizures even in generally susceptible individuals.

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webghost0101

in reply to CatAssTrophy • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

I don't know the type of flashes causes by this glitch but the post specifically warns for epilepsy.

That part of the post might be wrong, that’s completely fair and i trust you have less to gain from lying versus a post craving clicks.

Though my point is, if it is dangerous. What are they supposed to look out for? The “recommendation” should be google stop doing this shit that puts people at random risk.

If it’s just annoying, then its just a glitch, the same for other photosensitive but not suffering epilepsy people.

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CatAssTrophy

in reply to webghost0101 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

The danger is honestly pretty minimal for people who are aware they have photosensitive epilepsy; those who are prone to it but unaware of it are not likely to heed warnings even where they exist since they won't typically perceive the risk until after experiencing it.

It takes several minutes from triggering exposure to actual seizure onset, so those who know of their susceptibility have time to stop exposure and make sure they're in a safe position if a seizure does come. There are many ways of mitigating the seizure risk by stopping exposure, closing one eye and facing away from the light source, keeping screen brightness at the lowest level you can still easily read, etc.

That's not to say I think warnings aren't useful, but the intensity of many of the warnings people use is disproportionate to the actual risk and can cause people to be much more worried than necessary IMO. Google et al really need to stop messing with videos and such via AI without any sort of notice or warning for a whole host of reasons, including broader non-epileptic photosensitive since becoming intensely nauseous or getting a migraine over it is still pretty annoying.

tl;dr I think the warnings are a good idea, but maybe a little broader and less "OMG the epileptics are gonna all die". And fuck companies silently manipulating content they didn't even produce with AI in general.

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webghost0101

in reply to CatAssTrophy • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Well said.

Did they ever give any reason why they even consider it an acceptable thing to do?

Imagine making an art piece to be displayed in a museum only to find they allowed an interim with next to zero experience to paint over it.

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CatAssTrophy

in reply to webghost0101 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Not that I'm aware of, unfortunately. They seem to be trying to pretend they aren't even doing it, so telling us why they obviously are modifying content doesn't seem likely until they're backed in to a corner by popular outrage.

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ftmpch

in reply to cy_narrator • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Why are no other YouTubers experiencing the same problem?

schizoidman via World News

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EXCLUSIVE: EU mulls copying US with end to aid for global health funds | Euractiv

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51825816

https://www.euractiv.com/news/exclusive-eu-mulls-copying-us-with-end-to-aid-for-global-health-funds/

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Miles O'Brien

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"EU considers following modern Nazi policy"

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AA5B

in reply to Miles O'Brien • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

In this case, not really Nazi, more sociopath, lack of empathy, narcissistic

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kelpie_returns

in reply to AA5B • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

So...nazi-wannabes then? Still seems to be leading toward the same end goal, either way

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ZILtoid1991

in reply to schizoidman • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Yeah, let Russia and China (and christian fundamentalist missionaires) fill the void, what could possibly go wrong?

ReedReads via Selfhosted

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Looking for opinions on Trilium Notes

I’m a long time user of Joplin but now looking for a newer solution. I was looking at Trilum notes for the tight OIDC integration with Authelia.
Has anyone here tried Trilium notes? What are your opinions on it?

#selfhosted

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homegrowntechie

in reply to Zelaf • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Trilium Next has 2fa, note encryption and oidc support AFAIK, so the authentication should not be a concern. Every instance retains its own copy of the data and syncs with the server (if you have one) backups are made daily in the back end iirc. Exporting the data is trivial too in both HTML and markdown.

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Zelaf

in reply to homegrowntechie • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

I see. I must've missed that while doing my skimming a bit too hastily. Good thing it has, I was worried it would be limited to securing it through a VPN.

I'm glad it exists and hope of develops further. It has gotten some well deserved growth and exposure in general.

geneva_convenience via World News

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US Colonel Who Probed Shireen Abu Akleh's Killing Says Biden Admin Lied About His Findings to Appease Israel

Retired US Col. Steve Gabavics went public Monday with an account he had previously only spoken about anonymously—the story of his investigation into an Israeli soldier’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022 and the unsuccessful attempts he made to ensure the US State Department would accurately report his findings: that Abu Akleh was intentionally shot.

Gabavics previously discussed his experience investigating Abu Akleh’s killing just days after it happened in a documentary produced by Zeteo News, but he wasn’t named in the film.

On Monday, he came forward publicly for the first time in an interview with the New York Times to discuss the case he said has “bothered [him] the most” of any he investigated during his 30-year military career.

US Colonel Who Probed Shireen Abu Akleh's Killing Says Biden Admin Lied About His Findings to Appease Israel

A top Muslim civil rights group applauded retired Colonel Steve Gabavics for "bravely coming forward and confirming what was obvious to everyone: An Israeli sniper deliberately murdered an American journalist."

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radiofreebc

in reply to geneva_convenience • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Wait until people learn about what really happened on 9/11.

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Doomsider

in reply to radiofreebc • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Naw, it was the War on Drugs. There isn't enough money in the entire world to make reparations for what the US government did to its own people.

All in order to keep minorities down. One in three people have lost someone to overdose. 99% were preventable with harm reduction.

schizoidman via World News

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Takaichi plans to nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize as talks start on for trade, security

Trump praises Japan's 'great' female leader in talks on trade, critical minerals

U.S. President Donald Trump lavished praise on Japan's first female leader Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday, welcoming her pledge to accelerate a military buildup and signing deals on trade and critical minerals.

^{Japan Today}

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Red_October

in reply to schizoidman • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Obviously being nominated doesn't mean shit, the committee has already declined to give the warmonger an award once, and he's only increased MAGAstappo violence since then.

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xyzzy

in reply to schizoidman • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

The new Japanese PM is an ultraconservative nationalist who is cozying up to Japan's version of MAGA. It's like Javier Milei in Argentina nominating him. They're on the same page.

schizoidman via World News

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Seoul cafe ignites backlash over ‘No Chinese customers’ policy - The Korea Times

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51891628

Seoul cafe ignites backlash over ‘No Chinese customers’ policy

A cafe near Seoul Forest has come under fire after posting a “No Chinese customers” notice on its Instagram page, sparking accusations of racial di...

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ms.lane

in reply to schizoidman • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

I'm sure China will close the 'no laowai' restaurants now too.

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TheLunatickle

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Hate the government not the people. No one chooses to be born.

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schizoidman via World News

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Dutch government took control of Nexperia over fears it was being gutted - sources

cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/51884177

The company's Chinese arm has taken steps toward independence and has resumed selling products to domestic Chinese customers.
The sources said the Dutch government believes it can negotiate a resolution with China that will restore the company to a unified Dutch-Chinese structure.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/dutch-government-took-control-nexperia-over-fears-it-was-being-gutted-sources-2025-10-27/

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infinitesunrise

in reply to schizoidman • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

A monthlong standoff between China and the Netherlands over Nexperia has prompted carmakers in Europe, the U.S. and Japan to warn of possible production problems due to chip shortages. Although the chips Nexperia makes are very basic, they are used in large numbers in the electronic systems of cars.

Man I dunno maybe stop turning cars into computers?

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TheLunatickle

in reply to infinitesunrise • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Do you want smog? Do you like every road smelling like burning gasoline? Then cars need these chips to run their catalytic converters.

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infinitesunrise

in reply to TheLunatickle • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

I feel like that's sort of dodging the spirit of the question in favor of discouraging a common layman complaint? A modern car has hundreds if not thousands of ICs beyond the 2 or 3 required to run a cat so "You'll die of asthma without a catalytic converter" isn't really a terribly applicable response to the "Why is my VW a tangled mess of parallel plugs, sensors, and shockingly often general purpose CPUs?" that was the energy of my [I thought rhetorical] question.

I do cede, we need at least some of them to keep these clunkers from immediately obliterating our environments and themselves. It's just that almost all of them need not be more complex than "24 transistors in a plastic shell" that almost any nation has the capability to fab. I guess a rephrasing of my gist is "We shouldn't rely world elite microscopic lithography facilities to make an automobile".

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tuff_wizard

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I wonder what the relationship between chip size and other costs is. You’d think a tiny scale chip like a modern cpu is more expensive to produce than larger, less fine controllers like the kind used in basic electronics but with smaller sizes comes less raw materials, lower shipping costs and you can cram more functions on the one chip. Once you have set up the manufacturing process perhaps there is an economic reason for using the fancy stuff beyond just wanting to cram the worlds worst example of a computer into the car dashboard

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TheLunatickle

in reply to infinitesunrise • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

That's a valid take and ai apologise for my snippy response, I was carrying personal baggage into the argument.

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infinitesunrise

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Heh no worries I think I did that in a lot of my comments on here today too!

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jacksilver

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That's fair, but expect to see even more of this in the future.

China historically has done a lot to protect their domestic industries (blocking access to the country, currency manipulation to keep prices cheap, required state involvement, etc.). That's not to say other countries haven't (US with Bailouts and Itar, etc.).

However, I would expect to see more of this across the world as globalization takes a bit of a hit. Both from rising tensions, but also from some of the fragility in supply chains exposed due to the pandemic.

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sprack

in reply to YappyMonotheist • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Like they effectively did with ARM?

schizoidman via World News

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China and ASEAN, hit by U.S. tariffs, sign upgraded free trade pact

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-asean-sign-upgraded-free-trade-pact-2025-10-28/

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Trump, Hegseth step up military murders in Latin America

US military forces struck two small boats off the Pacific coast of Colombia Wednesday, killing at least five people. The strikes were the eighth and ninth since President Trump issued orders September 2 for a campaign of military violence against alleged drug traffickers that is both illegal and unconstitutional.
While Trump claims that the strikes are justified because the United States is at war with drug cartels based in Latin America, the White House has not sought a declaration of war from Congress, or even a congressional resolution authorizing military operations, as in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The strikes are in flagrant violation of international law. The US government has offered no evidence against the people it is annihilating, and even their names are unknown. And the military assaults are taking place in international waters, where ships of any nationality supposedly have “freedom of navigation,” a right that Washington claims to be defending in the South China Sea...

Trump, Hegseth step up military murders in Latin America

As US missiles killed five more fishermen off the coast of Colombia, the gangster-president boasted, “We’re going to kill them, you know, they’re going to be like dead, OK?”

^{World Socialist Web Site}

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altkey (he\him)

in reply to technocrit • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Trump this, Trump that.

Who executed these orders? Who in the chain of command was happy to bomb these people? What names and ranks are there in the report?

There shouldn't be people who, without a shadow of a doubt, would press the red button on an incorrect order. It seems, there are a lot of them there right now. All that stops us from having the US from starting a nuclear war is an assumption, that there would be someone knowing better in place, and this international bombing spree tells us it's not a safe bet at all.

Imagine Donald wanting to nuke South America or Canada - would there be anyone to refuse?

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FreshParsnip

in reply to altkey (he\him) • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

I just started watching Boots. If that show is at all accurate, then the military has some of the worst people. In the show, the military treats new recruits like shit fir no fucking reason. It's like they're in the military to bully people.

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Ithral

in reply to FreshParsnip • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

It's semi-accurate, it's based on a memoir but heavily modified. That said, boot camp is supposed to break someone down, get them to think like a soldier, Airman, sailor, or marine depending on branch. The Navy for example puts a lot more emphasis on critical decision making than the Marines, the Marines emphasize martial prowess, the Army is somewhere between, and the Air Force is kinda just a souped up summer camp.

No one becomes a drill instructor to bully people, they do it because it's all but required for advancement at a certain point in jobs that have a low promotion rate. There is some bullying in a sense but at least Navy side it's fairly minimal and the experience is mostly focused on learning things then making sure you can perform your now learned duties under duress.

The Marines boot camp (what's in the show) is focused on making sure that when a lot of people are screaming different things you can still execute the task at hand, effectively making sure you can be effective and task focused even in chaotic situations. At least that's what I hear from Marines, I also hear they do in fact do some shit like stealing toilet paper and stuff, the Marines don't care if your smart, or make good decisions, just that you can execute tasks in chaos.

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diablexical

in reply to altkey (he\him) • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

You have a good point but may not have an appreciation for what that means for the individual soldiers. I recommend this legal eagle vid. Even if they were clearly in the right in refusing the order (which they obviously are in this case) - do you think there is any chance they would get a fair trial with this regime in power?

Imo the check on this is impeachment and prosecution of the president and officials.

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icelimit

in reply to diablexical • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

It's either they get court martialed now for disobeying "lawful" orders or court martialed later for following clearly illegal orders later?

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diablexical

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Thats the thing, do you really think anyone will be prosecuted for carrying out the orders? Its 99.9% for disobeying orders vs maybe 0.1% for carrying them out.

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Machinist

in reply to technocrit • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Any reliable reporting coming out on all these boats and crews that are being blown up?

(The 'Drug War' has been blatantly evil for decades. We know there's a good chance the official narrative is bullshit, and there certainly is no nuance.)

Are they fishing, smuggling, or both?

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‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head

Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

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filister

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Our kids will be really ashamed of us.

Short term profits are way more important than the future of our kids I guess.

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StinkyFingerItchyBum

in reply to filister • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

I'm already ashamed of us. I have a hard time walking the fine line between preparing my children for a difficult future and raising kids who know happiness.

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WhatAmLemmy

in reply to StinkyFingerItchyBum • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

I just chose to never have kids because there was never any possibility that humanity would overcome our narcissistic greed prior to ecological collapse.

That was 20 years ago. The last decade has only solidified the certainty of collapse in my mind.

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NewSocialWhoDis

in reply to StinkyFingerItchyBum • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

As a parent: happiness is about expectations. The exhuberance of youth can carry them as long as we aren't preparing them for the halcyon, easy days of the 1990s. Life will be hard, it always has been, but there can still be fun and rewarding experiences. They need to know resilience, independence, and be quick on their feet both mentally and physically.

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Marshezezz

in reply to filister • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

America voted for a child rapist, no one postering actually cares about kids

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lolola

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it seemed like my kids probably wouldn't have a good future, so i didn't have any

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This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥

in reply to lolola • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Based

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Tehbaz

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Even if it wasn't already too late, the oligarchs profiting from the demise of the planet are in full control of information sources and politicians worldwide. The only way the planet survives is if humanity is wiped out through a global incurable plague at this point.

We have nobody but ourselves to blame for the reckoning that is coming after decades of voting against our own interests and choosing convenience of fossil fuels over the environment.

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Allero

in reply to Tehbaz • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

It's no use going for collective blame and doomerism.

"We have nobody but ourselves to blame..." yeah, except that guy over there burning coal and guzzling fuel like there's no tomorrow.
"The only way is to wipe humanity" ...or do something about it for once.

As long as we're here, no matter how bad it is, we have to step against it in the ways we can. It's not us who makes it so. We don't want that. And it's essential to make it a very clear and loud statement one can not turn away from.

Look up your local climate activist groups. See what can be done. Participate in protests. Do it.

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TipsyMcGee

in reply to Allero • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

It’s no use going for collective blame and doomerism

Honestly, I think we could have done with a lot more doomerism. thisisfine.jpg-ism is the biggest reason why a political solution is impossible.

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HugeNerd

in reply to Allero • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

yeah, except that guy over there burning coal and guzzling fuel like there’s no tomorrow

You mean the thing that allowed us to reach 8 billion and growing? There's no way you're getting from the 19th century to today without fossil fuels. You are here because of them. It's got nothing to do with "that guy" over there.

Unless you are in a log cabin you hewed yourself by hand, raise chickens with no feedstock that came from fossil-fuel powered agriculture, wear nothing but natural fibers and leather you tanned yourself with oak tannins, etc

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AA5B

in reply to HugeNerd • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

That’s a great response for the 1970s but since then we’ve been developing awareness of the magnitude of the crisis and developing solutions. It’s been time to move on from the nineteenth century

We all should have been making better choices for half a century now. If you’re not at least making better choices today, you can’t blame lack of knowledge or lack of technology

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HugeNerd

in reply to AA5B • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

You forget to mention the flipside: we can't sustain 8, let alone 10, billion with sustainable energy. The carrying capacity of the planet with sustainable energy is called the 18th century.

Sure, we can do it, who is ready for the consequences?

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bluemoon

in reply to HugeNerd • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

literaly ceasing to throw 1/3rd of all food into dumpsters and shutting off data centers for AI enables all that budget

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Allero

in reply to HugeNerd • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

In the 18th century, we had the technology of 18th century. We did not have photovoltaics, electrical wind and hydro, batteries. We do have them now, and as things stand, renewables are already cheaper than the alternatives.

Energy-wise, we can sustain much, much more people.

And even agriculture can accomodate for more people than we have now. With modern green agricultural technologies improving the efficiency of green farming, as well as wider accomodation of vegetarian diets and alternative protein sources, we can provide food for much more people with much less fossils.

Besides, better logistics and organizational measures can lead to less food perishing before it reaches the consumer, and less of the perfectly good food being thrown away.

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HugeNerd

in reply to Allero • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Yes, and without the discovery of cubic miles of oil, we wouldn't have had the energy and power to get to the point we are now.

You are looking only at electrical energy, and we certainly DO NOT have the capacity to keep our little planetary civilization going without fossil fuels.

Think of it like this: Even if you could travel back in time to 1850 with the knowledge of GaNFETs, 30%+ efficient solar panels, and lithium batteries, how would you be able to do anything about it?

How would you mine the enormous amounts of copper and other materials needed with the infrastructure of 1850: wooden carts, horses, and a few steam shovels as advanced and precious as a modern-day aircraft carrier?

How would you feed the people that are now no longer working in the agricultural domain without inputs of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides?

The reason is that knowledge without energy is an abstract idea.

So, yes, short term, all the rich parts of world will be able to pat themselves on the back about solar energy, but as your everyday household appliances degrade, where and how will you get the materials and resources to say, make a new washing machine?

Please don't tell me you think we got to 8 billion people because of vaccines? Or that we shouldn't worry and just keep adding endless mouths on this planet?

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Allero

in reply to HugeNerd • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

The thing is, there's no need to rebuild the world from the 1850s.

We already have the required machinery and energy. We can make use of what we have, even fossil-powered, to speed up the green transition. Our only goal is to keep it going at a growing pace.

As per agriculture, there are sustainable solutions that I addressed in my other response to you. There are green fertilizers, and there are also genetically modified plants able to produce their own pesticides. There are also innovations in logistics and food sharing initiatives to make less food rot without use.

We have the knowledge, we have the energy. What we lack is the political will to shut down those standing in the way for their own gain over our collective future.

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bluemoon

in reply to HugeNerd • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

"pay respect to your abusive overlord, serf! you were bred in that pigsty and you would be nothing without it! do not try to change the world for others that would be born in pigstys..."

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Allero

in reply to HugeNerd • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Except we live in 2025, and we have modern green technology enabling us to do a lot of things differently.

We can get our power from renewables, and newest sodium battery/pumped hydro/thermal storage techniques are brilliant and more eco-friendly than ever.
We now have modern green fabrics, hydrogen steel, etc. etc.
We now have greener agriculture technologies, as well as efficient biogas collection and utilization. You can even make some polymers, like polyethylene, out of that alone!

We have what it takes to reverse course. But following that path means upsetting fossil giants, while also investing heavily into the infractructure. And right now, it is easier for politicians to ignore the passive crowd than it is to ignore their sponsors. We need to tilt that balance.

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HugeNerd

in reply to Allero • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Technology without energy is a sculpture.

Long term, 50 years, we are looking at a terminal decline in what humanity will be able to do as a species. Going from kites to Apollo 11 in 50 years, for example, will never, ever happen again. And it wasn't the guidance computer that got you to the Moon, it was 1000 tons of kerosene in a tube that did it.

You, like many, simply look at electrical power and think everything's solved.

We certainly can run our affairs on renewable (sun, wind, water, maybe geothermal, tidal) sources, but that society will look nothing at all like ours. Think wooden windmills, not skyscrapers.

Probably for the best too, but the assumptions built-in to the necessary changes simply mean endless strife and pain in the meantime.

What do you mean I can't have a car? What do you mean I can only travel on a jet 4 times in my entire lifetime? What do you mean we have far fewer citrus fruits in the grocery store in winter? Doesn't food, like, grow all the time, like in the dirt? What do you mean we need fossil fertilizers and synthetic pesticides and endless machinery and irrigation to get me my smokehouse almonds? What do you mean I have to repair and keep my 10 year old washing machine for 20 more years? What do you mean I have to wear the same clothes? What do you mean I have to live in a box when my parents had a home with a front and backyard?

It's going to get ugly, and the fact that the richest few, and I don't mean Elon, I mean you and me chatting on a workday afternoon, have shiny toys means all that much.

Electricity runs the appliances that fossil fuels allow us to build.

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Allero

in reply to HugeNerd • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Electrical power + water = rocket fuel. You don't have to use kerosene to launch to space - not that it's the highest priority anyway.

Why do you equate renewables with primitivism? What exactly stops you from building a skyscraper in a renewable-powered world? We do have green steel, concrete and glass. Besides, most use cases do not require skyscrapers in the first place, and they are seen as undesirable by many urbanists.

Now, yes, switching to sustainable lifestyles is not without compromise here and there, especially on the first stages of green transition. We have to put our effort into this, and there's no way around this. But with rational organizing, we can end up making something so much better!

Properly developed public transportation minimizes time and comfort losses associated with this mode of commuting, while making streets and air cleaner, freeing up plenty of space for pedestrians and buildings.
Comfortable high-speed rail minimizes the need for planes, enabling high-speed travel without all the airport controls and inconveniences and with plenty of amazing vistas.
Locally sourced seasonal varieties bring back the sense of excitement and allow you to explore so much more than just apples and oranges - there's a trove of underdeveloped cultivars waiting for their time to shine!
Plenty of said cultivars are not particularly demanding; also, green fertilizers (for example, microbiological ones, alongside good old manure and compost) are available and can be produced at any scale you need without the need for fossils.
Easily repairable (user-repairable wherever possible) tech removes financial and organizational anxieties about breaking your devices. Something broke? Just...take spare parts and an hour, and it's good as new.
Clothing can always be torn and reassembled in new creative ways! This opens up endless possibilities for creativity, and if you personally don't like it, I'm pretty sure a local atelier will be happy to help you.
Community is key to urban living! With more interaction between you and your neighbors and the culture of common responsibility over shared resources, you can turn any "box" into a sprawling place people love to live in. We need to combat the individualist culture to make it work, though.

In this age of sustainability, there's no issue in having a smartphone, or laptop, or whatever you write this on. In fact, right now there are tech brands oriented at sustainability, long-term support, user repairability and more. Fairphone, Framework, you name it!

We can build our tools, appliances and toys in a post-fossil fuel world. And we can make use of the materials we've already extracted to make it even greener.

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Tryenjer

in reply to Tehbaz • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

The planet will survive just fine, it has been through worse cataclysmic events, but humans may not be able to keep up with climate change and disappear along with other contemporary species.

The problem is that humanity can be wiped by the actions of a handful of individuals with the connivance of a majority. What you are proposing makes no sense at all.

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HugeNerd

in reply to Tryenjer • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

but humans may not be able to keep up with climate change and disappear along with other contemporary species.

Finally something cheerful.

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JoshuaFalken

in reply to Tehbaz • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Gail Berman is to blame. She cancelled Firefly and doomed humanity in the process.

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frunch

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

I've really been feeling vindicated for my choice not to have children lately

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arin

in reply to frunch • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

More food and resources for the conservatives to multiply. Great choice in resigning the once great humanity to corrupt sociopaths 🙄

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ExLisper

in reply to arin • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

You're right. I will have kids so that children of conservatives don't just get to run around the wasteland unchallenged but have to fight my kids for food and water. This will make me feel so much better.

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Whats_your_reasoning

in reply to arin • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Such a silly argument. Contributing genetics isn't the only way to influence future generations. I may not be a parent, but I (and many more people) educate others' children every day.

Just because someone doesn't bring a kid into the world doesn't mean they're giving up on the future. Individualist cultures may have people thinking that nuclear families are the end-all, be-all of child-rearing, but it still "takes a village."

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frunch

in reply to arin • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Let them raise their children in the hellscape they created. Let them explain to their children why things are so awful. I won't be around nor will my children have to suffer for the choices all those conservatives demanded.

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Bunbury

in reply to frunch • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Yep, same. I love my non-existent children too much to bring them into a world which I only really see getting worse in their hypothetical lifetime. Also helps me have a bit more resources to support the little ones of friends and family to hopefully help their lives suck less despite what they were born into.

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floofloof

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Only when we can step away from capitalism can we change course. Until then, the system locks everyone in and we're just tinkering with detail. And that step will be a rough one, but it is necessary.

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arin

in reply to floofloof • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Modern society is locked into reliance on capitalism systems. Nearly impossible to go off grid completely without insane risk of health and survivability for 99.99% of modern urban people.

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JoshuaFalken

in reply to arin • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

urban people

Funny how I don't remember the last hospital I saw in the middle of a corn field.

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arin

in reply to JoshuaFalken • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Hospital is less important if you starve. We're dependent on Capitalistic farmers and grocery markets. The farmers are dependent on the seed industries for most mass produced crops with higher yields.

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JoshuaFalken

in reply to arin • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Farmers are also dependant on soil quality, temperature, sunshine, equipment that largely relies on fuel, and distribution for the crops they grow.

Not being an oracle myself, I'll take an educated guess that when the temperature keeps climbing, the conditions that allow for outdoor food production will also change. Likely, the hardiness zones will shift to places with no farmland, and the current hardiness zones will be subject to flooding or drought or both.

Might be tricky business if the best farmland is suddenly on the side of K2.

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StinkyFingerItchyBum

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

I've always liked Antonio Gutteres. While a politician, he has been the most honest of them when it comes to climate change.

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ms.lane

in reply to StinkyFingerItchyBum • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

eh, covering up Covid for China for a solid 6 months wasn't great.

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Naich

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Wouldn't it be nice if we weren't ruled by psychopathic idiots, and this might have actually made a difference?

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arin

in reply to Naich • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Best hope rn is the solar panels from China that every country from African to Pakistan are able to install and use less fuel

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TipsyMcGee

in reply to arin • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

No, our best hope is that our best scientists learn magic and then rapidly enable wide scale adoption of fusion reactors that are efficient enough to generate free energy that we can use for a bunch of, yet to be invented, sci-fi technologies that deal with the huge pile of shitty challenges that are amassing at our doorstep.

The odds of short to mid term survival of civilization is statistically insignificant.

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Waraugh

in reply to TipsyMcGee • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

If our scientists learn magic why are they going through all that instead of just casting some spells to alter the atmosphere to optimal parameters for human life? They could even replenish oil wells so we can keep drilling perpetually. Maybe they should cast some spells for agricultural and fresh drinkable water production and such also. If scientists used their magic more efficiently we probably wouldn’t even have this issue to begin with.

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TipsyMcGee

in reply to Waraugh • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

I agree, inefficient magic use in the scientific community is to blame for this predicament.

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Vandals_handle

in reply to TipsyMcGee • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

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KokoSabreScruffy

in reply to TipsyMcGee • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

No, our best hope is aliens to come and fix it

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TipsyMcGee

in reply to KokoSabreScruffy • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Yeah, sure, about equal likelihood, to be fair

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SaveTheTuaHawk

in reply to TipsyMcGee • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

We already have solar panels to make free energy, but nah.

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TipsyMcGee

in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Well neither is "free" energy, but as opposed to solar and existing technologies, cold fusion is claimed to offer energy so abundant that it's basically free. Solar don't work on the scale required to solve the problems that climate change bring (carbon capture, water desalination, replacing every critical earth system we're breaking) AND maintaining the rising power requirements of modernity.

Solar and wind technologies would have been an excellent basis for building a different type of society, where we also vastly reduce our energy consumtion and rethink modern economy. That would be nice, but those discussions are simply off the table at the moment. People want cheeseburgers, Amazon Prime and pickup trucks. No such things in Solar Punk Utopia.

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thax

in reply to TipsyMcGee • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Exactly. I wager we're headed toward more of a steampunk dystopia, where the last remnants of civilization choke on our own detritus.

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Tryenjer

in reply to Naich • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

It could only effectively work with a world government.

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SaveTheTuaHawk

in reply to Naich • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Sure blame politicians for the fact that people are going into deeper and deeper debt to buy bigger and bigger trucks.

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JoshuaFalken

in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

If the politicians would have refused bribes,

the standards wouldn't have come into fruition that allowed the auto industry to decouple vehicle size and weight from energy efficiency;

the trams systems wouldn't have been bought up, shut down, and rails ripped from the ground to make room for more lanes;

the energy sector wouldn't have septupled down on an invisible gas that's 20x worse than burning coal;

the healthcare companies would be run by medical experts finding the best treatment instead of by money men denying care by default;

the technology we developed wouldn't be tracking every time we blink to create advertising opportunities;

the houses we build wouldn't sit vacant waiting for a tenant to pay half their income for the privilege of having no equity...

Greed is the problem.

It's understandable within capitalism why corporations would push boundaries to make money, but our politicians are supposed to be the force of opposition. Instead they look the other way while pocketing another cheque or airline ticket or deed to a brownstone.

I'm as pro active transportation as anyone I have ever met, but it's delusional to blame people for buying a large, expensive vehicle when the manufacturers keep discontinuing small, cheap cars because the return on investment isn't as high. The politicians could require them to make two compact cars for every pickup or SUV, but they don't because they're greedy just like the corporations.

There are no checks and balances anymore, and the politicians are to blame. Some blame in certain places should also land on the electorate, to be sure. But with every city, neighbourhood, and street gerrymandered to look like a hand drawn map by Michael J. Fox, it's mostly the politicians on the hook for all this.

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Part4

in reply to Naich • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

The global co-operation necessary to deal effectively with climate change is actively prevented by [fossil-fuel-powered-]capitalism's inherent competition.

We are going to evolve through crisis, not pro-active change. Let's be polite and call climate change a crisis multiplier.

These are the good old days so try and find a way to enjoy them.

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UltraGiGaGigantic

in reply to Naich • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Wouldn’t it be nice if we weren’t ruled by psychopathic idiots

HumanHistory_IRL

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HubertManne

in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Have you ever considered taxes to pay for collective goods and services, making peoples lives easier, them smarter, building trust in the idea that government can work and giving the government more teeth?

People will eat shit salads before they give up their F150s. We can’t just let people pay to avoid responsibility.

The F150 people were sold on the ridiculous trucks by the automotive industry. Theyre also much smaller as a part of the problem.

The people who make decisions we all feel forced to live with are the ones whose businesses choose the path of least resistance

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

F150s are a significant part of the entire emissions of the united states. Cars in general are one of the largest single categories.

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Credibly_Human

in reply to Fredthefishlord • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

How do you change that though? By beating down the people who have the least damage per person? Or by beating down the companies that push these products, and more importantly the ownership class that owns them and casually use private jets to chauffeur their poodles around?

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

You cannot do one or the other to stop climate change. You have to do both. Again, cars are one of the single largest polluters in the world, and especially in the usa. The working class will need to make changes in their life styles as well. The problem is not solveable just by having companies change, consumers also need to be willing to accept changes in purchasing habits

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Credibly_Human

in reply to Fredthefishlord • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

I feel you misunderstand my point.

I'm saying consumers are way less responsible for their purchasing decisions than many people think.

Car centricity is a societal problem. The big trucks are a car company propoganda problem.

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Consumers are not babies. Most are not children. They can take full responsibility for their own choices and failure to research when it's available. There is a reasonable extent that can be forgiven from lack of information. But most is still their fault. See people drinking bottles water when they have perfect access to safe drinking water. See people driving to work when they're easily within public transit areas. See people buying slave labor made trinkets off temu, shein, amazon, AliExpress, and many more, or buying constant new shitly made polyester clothes because "fashion".

Society is created by those who participate. Hand waving "it's a society problem" denies the individual responsibility of everyone to guide society.

All the information is easily accessible and clear to everyone. They are making a conscious decision to pollute more for their own convenience. This is not saying companies are not also responsible for massive amounts of waste. Do not take it like that. But people need to also understand lifestyles cannot stay the same and still fight climate change. People need to give up their trinkets, fast fashion, cars, etc, if they want to actually fight climate change and pollution

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Credibly_Human

in reply to Fredthefishlord • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Consumers are not babies. Most are not children. They can take full responsibility for their own choices and failure to research when it’s available.

This is an attitude that seeks to attribute blame rather than practically solve the problem.

This is evidenced by you continuing to say:

There is a reasonable extent that can be forgiven from lack of information.

Which only deals with this from thinking about this as a "who do I blame" rather than a "How can society solve this problem".

We've seen that consumers for instance, don't choose excess packaging, companies do.

In that same way, with things like the CAFE standards, Chicken tax and other ways that trucks are incentivised not to mention propagandized, its easy to see how this consumer "switch in preference" was manufactured, in the same way that the consumer switch to eating 4 times the amount of cheese within a few decades was a manufactured choice by teams of lobbyists.

We could all simply choose to consumer less animal product, be healthier and leave the environment in a much better position, but yet schools are still forced to feed kids milk with every meal due to lobbying.

Basically always, the root cause lies somewhere with some lobbyist group pushing their interests over that of the consumer.

You can handwave that away and choose to focus on personal choice, but to do that is to ignore the fact that for every issue you care about a whole lot, many people have issues they care about more, even if you're just talking about fellow climate appreciating folks. What I'm saying is people can't put all of their energy into every issue all at once. No human can. They'd burn out and be unable to move. That's why these things matter and can only really be solved at the policy level.

See people driving to work when they’re easily within public transit areas.

You ever stop to think of the long history of car companies actively and successfully lobbying to ruin public transits image and efficiency in the US?

This didn't just put up over night. People didnt just magically have these conclusions.

See people buying slave labor made trinkets off temu, shein, amazon, AliExpress, and many more, or buying constant new shitly made polyester clothes because “fashion”.

I guarantee you there are areas of life you are blind to as well, where someone equally as idealistic to you and equally looking for someone to blame rather than solving the problem, is screaming at the top of their lungs angry you don't do something about it thinking the same as you "the information is all there!!!"

All the information is easily accessible and clear to everyone. They are making a conscious decision to pollute more for their own convenience. This is not saying companies are not also responsible for massive amounts of waste. Do not take it like that. But people need to also understand lifestyles cannot stay the same and still fight climate change. People need to give up their trinkets, fast fashion, cars, etc, if they want to actually fight climate change and pollution

Yada yada yada, but they won't, and until you get the reasons why they won't, and how humans have finite focus, and do burnout, or become apathetic, often due to literal people whose jobs it is to get them to, you won't be trying to solve the problem, but instead you'll be trying to pin the blame to the least powerful people in the scenario.

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

This is an attitude that seeks to attribute blame rather than practically solve the problem.

Attribute responsibility. People need to take responsibility for their own decisions, and change them.

You can handwave that away and choose to focus on personal choice

I'm not. I mention it in response to people's attempts to claim it's never their fault. It's always someone else's fault. That there's nothing they can do, it's always everyone else.

We could all simply choose to consumer less animal product, be healthier and leave the environment in a much better position, but yet schools are still forced to feed kids milk with every meal due to lobbying.

And society would be better off for that change anyways.

You ever stop to think of the long history of car companies actively and successfully lobbying to ruin public transits image and efficiency in the US?

People who are in areas with public transit and refuse to use it because it's a minor inconvenience are specifically who I'm talking about that with. And yes, people's votes helped cause that change.

What I'm saying is people can't put all of their energy into every issue all at once. No human can

They don't need to. They can make multiple small choices and lifestyle changes to great benefit. A literal world ending threat should be the most important issue.

I guarantee you there are areas of life you are blind to as well

I'm sure there are. I know there are. Every year I strive to improve. To consume less. To eat less meat. To bike and rid myself of the car I drove for far too long. Improvement takes time. It's not a one second thing, it takes decades of effort. But it makes a difference, one little step, one person at a time, makes a difference. However, I can be sure I'm actually trying.

you won't be trying to solve the problem, but instead you'll be trying to pin the blame to the least powerful people in the scenario.

No rain drop thinks it caused the flood. Every, single, bit matters. A response needs to come from all sides. From the top down, regulating companies to use electric, tax heavily on plastic waste. From the bottom up, encouraging people to take public transit and bike, partly through public awareness campaigns and partly through increased bike and train infrastructure. You can't solve it by only focusing on companies. You HAVE to get the consumers to be willing to change their habits as well. People need to be aware that they DO have an impact, and their individual changes will make a difference.

A lot of people's apathy is driven by the false perception that they cannot make a difference with their own power. That their vote doesn't matter. These false perceptions are what need to be changes so that society can move forward, and push the companies, through laws, punishments, and boycotts, into being environmentally sound.

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Credibly_Human

in reply to Fredthefishlord • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Attribute responsibility. People need to take responsibility for their own decisions, and change them.

You're just playing word salad here.

It's still about attributing blame because you refuse to account for how people operate and how effective lobbying/propaganda groups are on regular people who aren't as aware on any given topic as you are.

I’m not. I mention it in response to people’s attempts to claim it’s never their fault. It’s always someone else’s fault. That there’s nothing they can do, it’s always everyone else.

This is a made up strawman. No one is saying that here, and people aren't typically saying that without a large amount of nuance and less absoluteness on this topic.

And society would be better off for that change anyways.

You say this like you're making a point when instead you make it clear you udderly missed my point. The point was that its "technically" peoples choice, but it clearly isn't with how heavy the lobbying is.

The hope was that this would moove your opinion and help you culture an appreciation for the extremely strong effects of propaganda and lobbying such that something people think is choice, is far less choice than they think.

Perhaps I'm milking this point now, but I really thought it persuede you to think more about how people who aren't in your specific bubble think and are affected.

People who are in areas with public transit and refuse to use it because it’s a minor inconvenience are specifically who I’m talking about that with. And yes, people’s votes helped cause that change.

People's votes after what though? People didn't just randomly form these opinions.

People in Europe have completely different opinions in general, and you know what the major factor is? A lack of the massive inertial propaganda that the US has had. Did you check out my link? I encourage you to watch it.

It's just not as simple as you make it out to be.

I’m sure there are. I know there are. Every year I strive to improve. To consume less. To eat less meat. To bike and rid myself of the car I drove for far too long. Improvement takes time. It’s not a one second thing, it takes decades of effort. But it makes a difference, one little step, one person at a time, makes a difference. However, I can be sure I’m actually trying.

It sure does, now how can you say all that, but miss my point entirely that there could be someone putting the exact same amount of effort into being a better person yet not have their issues align with yours on this at all?

Do you not see why policy is the major way to change their habits?

No rain drop thinks it caused the flood. Every, single, bit matters.

You aren't arguing against me. You just aren't reading my points at all.

A response needs to come from all sides

That is literally impossible for the very same reasons that you said "I’m sure there are. I know there are." above. If you can't, how the hell are you expecting other people to for the issues you find most important?

You can’t solve it by only focusing on companies.

Quite frankly, you absolutely could. If the propaganda influencing consumer choices was stopped, you'd have a good enough solution.

Manufacturers would be making smaller vehicles due to regulations, people couldn't choose monstrosities, roads would get slimmer in new development, public transportation would be built better.

Its completely possible from a top down approach, but utterly impossible when trying to focus from a bottom up approach.

A lot of people’s apathy is driven by the false perception that they cannot make a difference with their own power.

Partially because there are so many folks like you who without realizing they are doing so, expect everyone to understand and care about every topic, even while you yourself obviously could not live up to such an unrealistic standard.

But also partially because of propaganda.

Why do you think BP loves telling people to take personal responsibility over climate issues? They know its a dead end.

That their vote doesn’t matter.

This part I absolutely agree with and constantly argue with people on lemmy about. So many people believe the only way out is some whimsical fantastical revolution that will never come, or a third party that would actually secure a victory for the enemies.

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

care about every topic

I expect them to care about the potential mass death of most humans and environments that has been blasting on the news and taught to most for decades .. and I think that's reasonable.

The point was that its "technically" peoples choice, but it clearly isn't with how heavy the lobbying is.

If someone tells you to kill a guy and you do, does it make sense to exclusively blame the person who told you? No. They've been given the information and tools to find more information.

even while you yourself obviously could not live up to such an unrealistic standard.

The standard I want is "trying" to do better. I want people to actually try to reduce their impact. That's it. It's not a high standard.

And simply, if you think propaganda can influence everyone enough that it makes changing individuals impossible, why do you think that convincing them to vote differently is possible?

Manufacturers would be making smaller vehicles due to regulations, people couldn't choose monstrosities, roads would get slimmer in new development, public transportation would be built better

It is a tad ironic that you talk about the influence of propaganda and are still stuck on the idea that people need cars.

. If you can't, how the hell are you expecting other people to for the issues you find most important?

Climate change is the single most important issue, bar none. There's no reasonable argument that can be made that the vast majority of humanity dying is the worst possible outcome, unless you go for an anti human perspective. I don't expect people to be perfect. I expect them to try.

I did not watch your video as I'm already well aware of the history of car lobbying in America. How people allowed car companies to do away with public transit. How they allowed propaganda to perpetuate. I don't believe people blindly believing clearly false propaganda are faultless

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Credibly_Human

in reply to Fredthefishlord • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

I expect them to care about the potential mass death of most humans and environments that has been blasting on the news and taught to most for decades … and I think that’s reasonable.

I promise you there are topics more important to other people than that.

Many, reasonably, care about the wave of fascism poised to severely harm them, their families, their loved ones or their fellow countryman, a more immediate threat.

Many, reasonably, care about the insane unaffordability of housing due to corruption, corporate landlords, landlords in general, and houses being treated as investment vehicles.

Many, reasonably are worried about the massively accelerating wealth inequality and the disaster this spells for them and their future generations.

Many....

The point is, every single one of these points is more not less important than the point you care about primarily to many people. They aren't wrong or stupid for having different priorities to you.

I would even go so far as saying that I think it's foolish to value something so large scale and existential like global collapse over the next few hundred years due to climate change than a lot of the societal elements that contribute to it.

What does it matter what climate future humans live in if they're enslaved or being murdered by fascists?

What does it matter if your descendants don't exist because they can't afford to live.

If someone tells you to kill a guy and you do, does it make sense to exclusively blame the person who told you? No. They’ve been given the information and tools to find more information.

Again, many people think the same thing for you, and they're just as right, yet completely uselessly so as you are.

This is purely a self masturbatory blame assignment rather than a useful piece of information to accomplish goals.

Worse than that, it chooses to ignorantly fundamentally misunderstand how people work, yet expect to change what it doesn't understand.

The standard I want is “trying” to do better. I want people to actually try to reduce their impact. That’s it. It’s not a high standard.

There you are again, missing the point and it feels like it has to be purposeful at this point.

Many people try to do better but can't be as focused on this as you are because they're being better in areas you are not being better in.

And simply, if you think propaganda can influence everyone enough that it makes changing individuals impossible, why do you think that convincing them to vote differently is possible?

This is an obvious and silly strawman.

I literally list why directly convincing people on this topic is less important and likely to work than impacting political systems that are used to uphold the propaganda points that cause these problems in the first place.

You're slamming into a brick wall rather than trying to pick the lock on the door.

It is a tad ironic that you talk about the influence of propaganda and are still stuck on the idea that people need cars.

Its crazy to be this ignorant and with a bad faith point to boot.

Carcentricity has made it such that many people do in fact need cars.

This is not a problem. that can be solved quickly.

You pretending that acknowledging this reality means that I can't conceive of anything else despite that obviously not being the case is you being dishonest in discussion, which at that point, why are you arguing? Why bother?

Climate change is the single most important issue, bar none.

An extremely naive and privileged perspective.

You're worrying about the future of the species like that is an entity that can feel pain. No, it's an idea, a prediction. It's something that absolutely is not the top concern of the people struggling and facing real issues to their lives right now at this very moment. Just about the only people I can imagine could possibly hold this opinion are out of touch well to do people.

I did not watch your video as I’m already well aware

You are clearly missing a lot, so if you actually walked the walk, you'd watch it and see what you're missing, because in this conversation alone you've made it clear you don't understand how deep or effective it has been, what policies have been put in place due to it, etc.

North American roads are the way they are due to it.

I don’t believe people blindly believing clearly false propaganda are faultless

You are so impossibly stuck up your own ass, sniffing your own farts.

There are literally thousands if not millions of you people on every conceivable issue under the sun, and you'd all hate each other if you met, because you all are so lacking in empathy and perspective that you'd all be befuddled and enraged you didn't all center around the single issues you all think are most important bar none. You'd all be irrate that the others dare "blindly believe this" and "foolishly follow that".

Until you people realize what a problem this mentality is, you'll literally never make substantive change.

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

You're worrying about the future of the species like that is an entity that can feel pain. No, it's an idea, a prediction. It's something that absolutely is not the top concern of the people struggling and facing real issues to their lives right now at this very moment. Just about the only people I can imagine could possibly hold this opinion are out of touch well to do people.

Good to know you have no idea what you're talking about. Climate change is already causing serious deaths, now. It's not just some future issue. It's genuinely horrifying that you don't understand that. It isn't just Future generations. It isn't abstract concepts. It's my generation that will be dying because of this.

Many, reasonably are worried about the massively accelerating wealth inequality and the disaster this spells for them and their future generations.

Because climate change won't.... ??

Yes, fascism is important. But not nearly as important as fighting climate change. There isn't a future to fight for if climate change isn't blocked, you do understand that, right?

This is not a problem. that can be solved quickly.

It could be solved in under a decade if people cared.

You don't seem to actually understand how dangerous climate change is presently. You still see it as an abstract future rather than an awful and worsening present

You are clearly missing a lot, so if you actually walked the walk, you'd watch it and see what you're missing, because in this conversation alone you've made it clear you don't understand how deep or effective it has been, what policies have been put in place due to it, etc.

I see what happened when voters and people actually cared. The cities changed, improved. It proves that propaganda is not some magical convincing force that forces people to think one way, the way you pretend it is.

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Credibly_Human

in reply to Fredthefishlord • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Good to know you have no idea what you’re talking about. Climate change is already causing serious deaths, now.

Far less than the issues listed to the people affected.

Climate change deathes currently are largely avoidable and it comes up as a relatively small source of death.

You're nitpicking here to try to ignore the point.

It’s my generation that will be dying because of this.

Nope. No one alive today will witness any kind of apocalypse generation killing event.

Because climate change won’t… ??

You must worry about your house fire first before you fear the flood next month.

Yes, fascism is important. But not nearly as important as fighting climate change.

This is the type of "I'm a priveleged cisgendered straight white person so the marginalized people can be fed to the machine" ass comment I would expect from you.

They'll come for you eventually too bud.

There isn’t a future to fight for if climate change isn’t blocked, you do understand that, right?

Hysterics don't make you right. That is in more than 100 years when anyone talking right now is long dead.

Fascism could have you or I in a death camp within our lives, or trigger nuclear war, given it actually did the last time it flared up this seriously, except this time a shit ton of countries have nukes. Nukes? Talk about climate changing.

It could be solved in under a decade if people cared.

You continue to think from a perspective of blame rather than pragmatism.

People are the biggest hurdle for literally every major problem. Learning how the general public is propagandized too, what regulations reinforce and or strengthen the problem, how and which politicians are bought and paid off for to fight the problem and more.

The root cause and key is making the Overton window shift left. It is therefore the biggest problem, even to you, by being in the way for solving your problem as the actual biggest problem.

You don’t seem to actually understand how dangerous climate change is presently. You still see it as an abstract future rather than an awful and worsening present

I completely understand it. You clearly do not understand how bad the other problems I listed are.

You care far more about the rock we float on, than the people on said rock. Everything you say is in service of the rock rather than the people. What has more influence in peoples lives right now? All the things I mentioned.

Other people have good reason to be focused on those first.

I see what happened when voters and people actually cared. The cities changed, improved.

Oh which American cities are these? Are they per chance small mostly urban areas with progressive leaders?

I mean fuck it, I won't be coy, we all see Mamdani. Somehow you won't connect the dot's though.

It proves that propaganda is not some magical convincing force that forces people to think one way, the way you pretend it is.

This is once again you doing mental gymnastics to pretend that blaming people will solve the problem any at all. Blaming people does not work.

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Ah. So you don't actually understand the reality of extreme heat and cold events. That... That makes sense how you wouldn't care. You've failed to do basic research.

This is the type of "I'm a priveleged cisgendered straight white person so the marginalized people can be fed to the machine" ass comment I would expect from you.

If I meant it as "welcome fascism" , which I don't. Fascism should still be fought. You pulling out the "privileged" bullshit again is hilarious when you don't understand basic science

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Credibly_Human

in reply to Fredthefishlord • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

There was no substance in this reply. You haven't shown knowledge of anything, and havent addressed any criticisms levied.

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floquant

in reply to Credibly_Human • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Climate change deathes currently are largely avoidable and it comes up as a relatively small source of death.

I'd like to see you "avoid" a wet bulb event in a 3rd world country. These have started becoming an increasingly common occurrence in the last decade or so. Climate change also disproportionately affects poorer countries, the ones no one cares about. Entire archipelagos projected to disappear in decades. So fuck off with your "caring about climate change is for privileged people".

Nope. No one alive today will witness any kind of apocalypse generation killing event.
Hysterics don't make you right. That is in more than 100 years when anyone talking right now is long dead.

You do realize that there's people alive today that will live in 2100 right? And that they will be in their 80's (those who can talk today), not 100+. Have you seen any graphs on what the temperatures and water levels will be at the current pace? Even optimistic scenarios are hellish.

You are factually wrong, no matter how confidently you say it. I am not insulting your intelligence for your opinions like you seem to do in almost every comment, just informing that you do not understand climate change like you claim to "completely" do. I guess what you actually mean is that it will get bad after you are dead, so it doesn't really matter.

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Credibly_Human

in reply to floquant • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

We're clearly at a unproductive point in this conversation where you are slinging accusations and we clearly are at an impasse. I think your position ignores the valid perspective of others, you think it outweighs every other position even from people who try to do better just as you claim to.

That seems to be it. I can't convince you, and you certainly haven't convinced me.

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to SaveTheTuaHawk • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Bullshit. Costs absolutely influence shopping behavior. If you drive it out of an affordable range while providing viable, more environmentally friendly, alternatives. People will be forced to change

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floquant

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

We have to pick the least bad option and then try to make them better because that's just the way shit works

No we don't, and no it isn't. That's how the suppression of radical change works. I am not saying that anything short of utopia is not worth pursuing, just that I don't see why we shouldn't start from that and then work down to a realistic compromise, rather than starting from the bad options that are given to us. There are other choices, if you can look further than your nose.

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Credibly_Human

in reply to floquant • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

No we don’t, and no it isn’t. That’s how the suppression of radical change works.

You aren't doing jack shit of this radical change you spout on about. You don’t actually want to help, so you come up with excuses to do nothing while feeling better than those who do because your ideas all start with someone else moving first.

I am not saying that anything short of utopia is not worth pursuing, just that I don’t see why we shouldn’t start from that and then work down to a realistic compromise

Because you don't have the leverage or organization to start there. Instead you must start by slowly working to put out the fire and getting your fellow countryman to see the benefits of socialist policy.

rather than starting from the bad options that are given to us.

You exist in this system, not outside of it. You start here for that is reality, not fantasy. Id love to start from the position of being the rich using my wealth to sway policy. It's not reality though.

There are other choices, if you can look further than your nose.

List one that doesn't start with some fantastical revolution you aren't organizing and aren't willing to risk your life in as a first mover

If the answer is about forming a new party in a country that has winner takes all or first past the post, I fear you've not thought it through.

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floquant

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

You aren't doing jack shit of this radical change you spout on about. You don’t actually want to help, so you come up with excuses to do nothing while feeling better than those who do because your ideas all start with someone else moving first.

Uh, source? Do I know you?

Because you don't have the leverage or organization to start there. Instead you must start by slowly working to put out the fire and getting your fellow countryman to see the benefits of socialist policy.

The leverage is numbers. 8 billion humans against what, a stadium of people? And the organization at this point is just basic survival instinct?? We're on a burning planet and being told that yes we need change, but we also need to wageslave while doing it. I do agree on the "teaching" part btw.

You exist in this system, not outside of it. You start here for that is reality, not fantasy. Id love to start from the position of being the rich using my wealth to sway policy. It's not reality though.

The system is something that monkeys invented. I "exist in it" in the sense in the sense that I am contemporary to it, yes. I exist in what you could call the universe, nature, or reality.

List one that doesn't start with some fantastical revolution you aren't organizing and aren't willing to risk your life in as a first mover

Nice try glowie. I just know what has already happened in the past and can try to extrapolate. And again, I don't know what basis you have to speak of my character.

If the answer is about forming a new party in a country that has winner takes all or first past the post, I fear you've not thought it through.

Jesus christ, is that the most radical, outside-of-the system take you could think of for global policy change?

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Credibly_Human

in reply to floquant • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Uh, source? Do I know you?

You don't. That's why its up to you to make your point when making statements like this.

I've seen no such actions so without any particular claims, this is just fantasy posting.

The leverage is numbers.

I literally address the fact that you don't have said leverage and wont get it any time soon in the very thing that you quote.

No one is being convinced by your angsty, snarky, online leftist purity raging.

And the organization at this point is just basic survival instinct?

If you think basic survival instincts are in any way conducive to long term goals... I don't even have a clever retort. That's just an insane thing to think.

We’re on a burning planet and being told that yes we need change, but we also need to wageslave while doing it.

You aren't told, thats the reality.

People stop doing their jobs, without tremendous planning ahead, and they die.

That's reality.

You are nowhere near having the capacity for a general strike, and you're losing capacity as the tech feudal lords clamp down on the means of communication, and as people on decentralized platforms are notoriously completely impossible to deal with and hyper idealistic.

Nice try glowie.

See, it's childish bullshit like this which means we can't make progress.

My point is clearly that nothing remotely like these fantastical ideas of an underground revolution are actually happening. We've seen these grumblings online for fucking decades.

You'd think you'd have literally anything, like non personally, to show for it. Instead its nothing but talk.

Some random not hyper online dude shooting a healthcare ceo in the back because his back hurt and he was hard done by them is the closest you've come to that, and it wasn't you.

I just know what has already happened in the past and can try to extrapolate.

You are remembering selectively, and remembering out of context, because the US is not WW2 germany. They're WW2 germany with nukes and a military multiples of times more formidable than the next multiple combined.

There is no coalition of countries currently equipped to take them on.

More than that, those countries are all having similar problems with right wing groups flaring up.

More than that still, in recent history, when there have been revolts, they haven't switched to socialism, or even just more socialism than before in notable ways. They've mostly just switched to more capitalism, supported by the US.

And again, I don’t know what basis you have to speak of my character.

Because once again, the online fringe you represent simply has no track record to speak of. They simply have not done anything for decades, and if they had any teeth, there would be something, anything to show for it.

Jesus christ, is that the most radical, outside-of-the system take you could think of for global policy change?

No, it isn't the previous thing you absolutely do not have the guts or organization for is. This is the accomplishable thing that would not accomplish the final goals and instead would be handing right wing fascists the long term victory on a silver platter.

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to floquant • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

The leverage is numbers. 8 billion humans against what, a stadium of people?

The idea that 8 billion people would be on your side is the forefront of showing why what you're suggesting is closer to fantasy than reality. More people than you care to admit are straight up fascist

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floquant

in reply to Fredthefishlord • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

It is not a "my side" thing. I do believe that 8 billion humans have tackling climate change in their best interest, whether they know it or not.

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to floquant • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Of course they do. But what's in their best interest doesn't matter for leverage. For leverage, it matters how many truly believe that. And you'll find that the amount of people who truly understand how bad it's getting is vanishingly small. Even most liberals and hell, even leftists only care about it on a surface level. They're not willing to lose the benefits they get from not caring about the environment.

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FlyingCircus

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

We’re talking about a socialist revolution here. The electoral process of the capitalist rulers of the United States is hardly relevant.

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Credibly_Human

in reply to FlyingCircus • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Its completely relevant to anyone who isn't a child.

You can't magically have this whimsical revolution you dream of.

Its 100% a "you first" type of deal where you absolutely are not willing to be first, and don't realize you have a whole lot of the population you'd need to convince first, and until you do, you need to face the hard realities of the system you live in, and mitigate the damage.

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merdaverse

in reply to Credibly_Human • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

The "boring, unfun, hard things that actually make a difference" have already been tried in the last 50 years. It has not made a difference. The only thing that can make a difference, as history has shown us time and time and time again, is a revolution

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Credibly_Human

in reply to merdaverse • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

If you can't see the difference where we have gay marriage, for a while had notably less discrimination, a massive improvement in workers rights, improvements to social security nets etc, I don't know what to tell you.

More than that, this childish opinion misses that you haven't tried this.

You've constantly swapped between democrats and republicans, and purity tested so hard that democrats have basically stopped seeing you as a real force for change within their party.

You have only tore down your chances while actual progressives keep trying, only to be disappointed that you're there as a roadblock to your shared goals.

To top this all off, you clearly do not understand that you not only need 3 of 4 branches of government and definitely need a super majority senate (Which you haven't had usably in 25 years) but you also need enough progressives within the party to sway their goals away from just the wishes of their corporate donors.

You want to pretend that we have tried this, but we haven't tried jack shit, because of folks like you.

More than that, you haven't tried any other method either, so your comment ends up boiling down to "lets try nothing because I don't like, nor do I want to try the 'boring, unfun, hard things that actually make a difference'"

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DupaCycki

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Haven't we missed it like 10 years ago?

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Mediocre_Bard

in reply to DupaCycki • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Yes, but we're still missing now too.

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DupaCycki

in reply to Mediocre_Bard • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Ah, good point. Let's see if we unmiss it in 2035.

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explodicle

in reply to DupaCycki • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

At this point it's a matter of how bad.

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TipsyMcGee

in reply to explodicle • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Yes, but let's not forget that 1,5 degrees C was considered really bad to begin with.

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TipsyMcGee

in reply to DupaCycki • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

The target of staying under 1,5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average temperature within the century was set less than 10 years ago. It was considered ambitious but possible back then, and so many world leaders and governments agreeing to it in the Paris climate accord of 2015, was considered a major political achievement.

However, there have been uncountable political setbacks since. Aside from Donald Trump's two election wins and subsequent horror shows, we've gone through a pandemic that brought insane financial, monetary politics and crushing inflation, the Ukraine war and the advent of power hungry AI (that totally will be good for something and ain't no god dammed bubble, seriously stop calling it a bubble, bro, it's the future). All of which has reduced climate change to a niche topic that don't hold any sway over political elections in the rich countries responsible for the brunt of greenhouse gas emissions (directly or indirectly).

Less than 10 years ago we thought it would be possible to stay below that target over the coming 85 years. Less than 10 years later that target is declared dead by the secretary general of the UN.. Was it realistic then? Well, a lot of planning and climate policy has involved exceeding 1,5 degrees and then using massive deployments of imaginary future technologies to bring the climate back. Not exactly prudent reasoning.

Some countries are still sticking to their plans, kinda. Norway are making headways installing carbon capture technology on their off-shore oil rigs (!!!) so that they can keep drilling for fossil fuels with a smaller impact on their own reported national emissions.

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Vandals_handle

in reply to TipsyMcGee • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Not taking away from your larger point but mostly not inflation but profit taking. Early in COVID corporations holding functional monopolies learned demand was inelastic and commenced to price gouge.

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bluemoon

in reply to DupaCycki • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

no, rhetoric only meant to motivate by fear turnt around into demotivation: helplessness.

look up Climate Clock to see the exact year.

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MashedTech

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

bye bye world

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Mediocre_Bard

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Guys. Chill. The world will be fine. The planet will go on.

Humanity, on the other hand, is fucked.

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Jhex

in reply to Mediocre_Bard • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Humanity, on the other hand, is fucked.

We deserve it

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Sightline

in reply to Mediocre_Bard • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Obviously.

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UnfairUtan

in reply to Mediocre_Bard • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

That depends on how you define world. I would include all life on the planet to be part of the world. We are actively killing biodiversity, wiping species from the earth, all from our direct negative contributions to the world.

So yea, the planet and life overall will find a way, but not all life that happened to live in the same era (and after) as humans

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like this

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bluemoon

in reply to UnfairUtan • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

billions of years for microorganisms and lifeforms to make the big volcanic rock with acidic oceans turn pleasant and habitable. next civiliation occurs closer to the implosion of the sun and has material like plastic in theie periodic table...

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foenkyfjutschah

in reply to bluemoon • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

nope, even all plastic particles will have been cracked down at the point where they come up with funny diagrams.

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bluemoon

in reply to foenkyfjutschah • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

okey ❤

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JoshuaFalken

in reply to UnfairUtan • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Sorry, all life? Even the mosquitoes? Damn.

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UnfairUtan

in reply to JoshuaFalken • 6 giorni fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Fiiiiine, not mosquitoes..

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Lyra_Lycan

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Of course we did bro, AI (or at least, the current use of the term) is here and no multinational conglomerate gives a fuck about the environment any more

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explodicle

in reply to Lyra_Lycan • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Oh how I wish it really was.

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Strider

in reply to Lyra_Lycan • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

It's not even about AI. It's just the next growth bubble to milk, there will be the next after.

It never stops.

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NewSocialWhoDis

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

There are many Great Filters, but this one is mine (ours).

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hakunawazo

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Washedupcynic

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Over the course of the history of the planet, there have been several extinction events, and then over time, new life evolves from what remains creating new biodiversity. The only difference is that the mass extinction is being caused by an apex predator, (humans,) instead of a meteor, or volcano. The earth will incorporate plastic into the new ecology. It's already happening. We will go extinct by making the planet incompatible with human life; other life will exist and thrive.

Plastic-Eating Microbe

The escalating scale of plastic waste present on Earth is an urgent issue, with nearly 450 million tonnes of plastic waste produced annually, 80% of which is released into the environment.

Your apathy and mental phlegm makes me furious. We don't "go extinct", billions and billions of sentient beings will suffer greatly for centuries to come because of it. More so with every bit of warming we are adding or preventing. It's far from over, this is barely beginning. So stop this doomer bullshit and take responsibility for your life and your actions.

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answersplease77

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Oh, the UN. The international united-circus organization that no country gives a fuck about its laws or abide its rullings because the US government, represented by its pyscopathic oligarchs and paid politicians, can ~~veeto~~ shit on anything they want as long as more data centers, more fossil-fuelled wars, larger militry budget, ... make them a little richer.

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Fredthefishlord

in reply to answersplease77 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

The UN is a circus organization with no power by design. Because it's primary purpose is a keeping every country at the table no matter what for diplomacy, to reduce the odds of another world war

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Reginald_T_Biter

in reply to Fredthefishlord • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Always makes me laugh reading stuff like the comment you replied to. The UN isn't a stick to beat countries with, it's primarily a round table to get otherwise-adversaries to talk.

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flango

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

The good news is that it is still something we can deal with. I mean, to just give up is to let the current "owners of the world win" ( billionaires and gang).

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Phoenixz

in reply to flango • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

And how do we stop those billionaires?

The way that I see it, they won't stop by themselves. We either get politicians to finally stop them (highly doubtful) or the world citizens stop them by force.

What other solution is there?

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We have Greta Thunberg who addressed the world leaders and voiced our discontent at their lack of action. Her views are not unique and are a reflection of many but yet, despite laying the truth bare and shaming leaders for their inaction, power and influence labels her as whatever they want to discredit her words and influence.

So, if we want to reverse things and change, we need to target the rich and tax them, shame them, eat them... Whatever it takes and only then will we be able to do something net positive. Doing 'our part' is not enough when the top 1% literally offsets all of our efforts everyday.

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hotdogcharmer

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

It just seems crazy. Normal, sane, hardworking people of the world are begging for governments and corporations to stop killing us through pollution, but the rich don't give a fuck. There won't be consequences for them. There won't be a reckoning. It just feels like they'll stubbornly punish all of us for not being born wealthy like they were.

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kossa

in reply to hotdogcharmer • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

This is where I envy religious people: I would love to believe that proper justice will be served eventually. But I can't, I have to watch the injustices and cannot do anything about it.

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EndlessNightmare

in reply to hotdogcharmer • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

And the corpos and govs cry incessantly about not being given new victims to exploit and discard. The entitlement is disgusting.

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Seth Taylor

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Gonna need to get those Coke-drinking polar bears a fridge...

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bitjunkie

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

It's over. Even if every single person and corporation did an about-face on this right now, inertia alone would carry us into the consequences this was intended to avoid. Enjoy it while it lasts.

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JoshuaFalken

in reply to bitjunkie • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

If everyone got together and came to the decision to fix the planet, it would probably still be possible, even though it'll likely get to a point where going outside is a complication. Generations, to be sure.

Though of course, we're never all going to agree on how to go about it, so you might be right.

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PalmTreeIsBestTree

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

We all know we are fucked. I am living in the moment till it all ends and never having children. Humanity will destroy this planet long before it changes course.

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chiliedogg

in reply to PalmTreeIsBestTree • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Covid convinced me we're done.

We couldn't even get people to wear a fucking mask to protect themselves from a disease they saw killing their neighbors. Shit - we can't get them to allow other people to wear a mask.

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dejected_warp_core

in reply to chiliedogg • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

The part that absolutely kills me about this is that there were anti-maskers during the 1918 "spanish flu" pandemic. This suggest that with two valid examples that this is a bad idea, people still chose to not do it. It also suggests that we're still the same society that we were 100 years ago.

history.com/articles/1918-span…

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NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ

in reply to dejected_warp_core • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

We're still the same society we were 500 years ago, just with technology.

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EndlessNightmare

in reply to chiliedogg • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

COVID (or more specifically, the response to it) was the turning point for me as well. The realization that we would not work together to manage a crisis.

If people won't do the easy shit, they sure as hell won't do the more difficult things that are needed to address climate collapse.

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UltraGiGaGigantic

in reply to PalmTreeIsBestTree • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Planet will be fine. Humanity and many other lifeforms? Not so much.

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PalmTreeIsBestTree

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Mass extinction event is all ready happening so yeah

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DegenerationIP

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

The next topic under this Post is that Texas sues Tylenol because of autism claims.

We're fucking doomed. Thats what I personally think and I really Wish and Hope that I'm wrong.

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slaacaa

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell”

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CircaV

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

We are fucked.

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Bennyboybumberchums

in reply to CircaV • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Thats been humanities lower back tattoo for a while now.

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UltraGiGaGigantic

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Hot climate take: Having children is the most selfish thing possible.

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Gary Ghost

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

The problem is capitalism

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n0respect

in reply to Gary Ghost • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Consumer-capitalism. Neither is great, but their combination is truly horrifying.

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UnderpantsWeevil

in reply to Gary Ghost • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

The old Soviet Union's environmental record wasn't great. And environmentalism was very low on the Dengist priority list.

Capitalism incentivizes industrial growth. But it was the "free" real estate of the colonial era and the massive surpluses of the industrial era that incentivized capitalism and created the illusion of unlimited economic expansion.

The problem is one of economic planning. Can we, as an intelligent advanced civilization, collectively manage the scarce resources of our planet? Or will a handful of individuals continue to divide and conquer the proletariat mass? Simply going socialist isn't enough. Bookchin will tell you that. Hell, Kropotkin will tell you that.

It isn't enough to merely establish a central and democratically managed local economy. We need a world wide organization capable of balancing the current demands against future resource constraints on the scale of centuries. And we need it to be equitably operated by a planetary consortium of committed socialist ideologues, not a handful of post-war juntas that run one another into the ground in another Cold War.

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berno

in reply to Gary Ghost • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

-Sent from my iPhone

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JoshsJunkDrawer

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Whatever tiny hope of correcting this died when Trump was re-elected. It's been game over for a while now. That's not to say we shouldn't try to make a difference where we can, but it's too late for Earth.

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UnderpantsWeevil

in reply to JoshsJunkDrawer • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Whatever tiny hope of correcting this died when Trump was re-elected.

The bulk of greenhouse gas emissions are occurring outside the US. Americans have a far higher per-capita output but a relatively small gross population. Even then, the median American's emissions pale beside that of their billionaire neighbors.

If global change comes, it is going to have to come through the BRIICS, where the bulk of new industrial activity is taking place and the vast majority of emissions already occurs. Trump decoupling the US economy from the rest of the world and his inadvertent quest to tank the fuck out of the US consumer economy is (quixotically) working in favor of these ends.

It’s been game over for a while now.

The game isn't over, its simply changing. Areas of the world that were habitable will no longer be habitable. Mass migration began in earnest 20 years ago, at the outset of the Iraq War and near-total destabilization of the Middle East. Population growth globally has staled out due to exploding cost of living and economically engineered social isolation of the working class. Foodstuffs that we once considered staples - beef and almonds and oranges - are increasingly categorized as luxury goods.

But we've been in the Holocene Extinction Era for over 200 years. This is the sixth great extinction event in planetary history. And through it all, humans flourished. Hell, the advent of modern nitrogen fertilizers have made plant life flourish. The Earth isn't going anywhere. Humans aren't going anywhere (certainly not Mars, given how much more inhospitable it is than even the most nightmarish climate change scenarios). Life as we know it and human engineering as we've managed it are both far more stubborn and persistent than you're giving it credit for. We can endure at a much more efficient level of biome utility than we currently employ. We can persist at a scale of hundreds of millions rather than tens of billions.

But we're going to see sweeping changes. Really ugly ones. What we're seeing in Gaza today is the roadmap for the future of the Global South, unless they can organize and resist a modern western eugenics regime. There is going to be more war and more bombing and more industrial annihilation and more sophisticated efforts by one group of humans to massacre others.

That's probably good for the climate, long term. Not good for us or our kids or our grandkids, though.

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inclementimmigrant

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

The world is being run by conservatives and fascists.

The world will not change course, humanity is borked.

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HubertManne

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

weve known this for awhile and we know 2 is already unavoidable. We are going backwards when we have to be taking the most extreme actions we can to just slow it down.

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Tigeroovy

in reply to silence7 • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 1 giorno fa) • •

Yeah sure, tell that to the billionaires that are actively ruining the planet.

MicroWave via World News

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Quebec to ban religious symbols in daycare centres

The Quebec government says it will ban religious symbols in the province's daycare centres.

Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge says there is a "broad consensus" that Quebecers want secularism to be strengthened.

The announcement follows a recommendation made this summer by a committee tasked with advising the province on how to enhance secularism. The committee had called for the ban to be extended to daycares.

Quebec has already banned public sector workers in positions of authority, such as teachers and judges, from wearing religious symbols on the job.

#World

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Danquebec

in reply to MicroWave • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Québécois here. I'm surprised by the positive reception here.

First because normally, anything about Québec policies on reddit (unless it's on a Quebec-related sub) is received very negatively, and harshly so, while I may support, be neutral, or against but with understanding where it's coming from. But that may be a Reddit-Lemmy difference. And that's welcome. I don't expect people to agree with everything Quebec does, but I do value reason.

Second, because this time, I'm very much against. I'm an atheist, antitheist even. But what would banning headscarves in daycare centers even achieve? Do you think children growing up will be convinced to become Muslim because their educators were veiled? And for the negative impacts:
- From what I see as a parent in Montreal, nearly half educators in anything daycare in the city are veiled. If they decide to stop working, it will have terrible economic effects.
- Veiled women being made to feel unwelcome, antognized and ostracized.

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RustyEarthfire

in reply to Danquebec • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

People probably mistakenly assumed the law was in good faith and would do something like ban hanging crosses around the classroom, not ban covering up part of your body. Calling head coverings "religious symbols" is flatly dishonest. Next up anybody who doesn't eat bacon at every meal will be fired for forcing their religion on others.

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Danquebec

in reply to RustyEarthfire • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Oh. That government has been campaigning on this for years now. I didn't even realize it would mean something different to the wider world. Of course it does. My bad. Yeah. It's all about veiled women. It's all very xenophobic, islamophobic.

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Dr. Moose

in reply to Danquebec • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

But what would banning headscarves in daycare centers even achieve

it allows people to escape oppression? Religion has no place in day care centres, period.

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Dr. Moose

in reply to MicroWave • 1 settimana fa (Ricevuto 2 giorni fa) • •

Good, any religion for kids who don't even have the slightest concept of their own mortality or metaphysics is uenthical and immoral, period.

ChartDB via Selfhosted

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🧩 ChartDB v1.17 - Open-Source DB Diagram Tool | Arrays, Views, Canvas Editing, and More

Hi everyone! 👋

Back again with a fresh update on ChartDB - a self-hosted, open-source tool for visualizing and designing your database schemas.

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Tangent5280

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Looks great! I'll give it a try. Do you have a forum or discussions board?

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ChartDB

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Octt via Blogs

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youtubica stronzata porta gli innocenti alla fucilazione (YouTube ha bannato senza motivo il canale di Enderman)

Alphabet Inc., o meglio Google, o meglio YouTube, proprio ieri sera ha combinato un’ennesima delle sue stronzate colossali, totalmente a sorpresa… e non mi riferisco ai soliti insensati cambi di policy (che, per giunta, a volte sono fatti esplicitamente, altre volte in completo silenzio; lasciamo stare questo, che è tutto un altro gran casino). Hanno […]

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Alphabet Inc., o meglio Google, o meglio YouTube, proprio ieri sera ha combinato un'ennesima delle sue stronzate colossali, totalmente a sorpresa... e non mi ri

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TSE julga recurso que pede cassação de Cláudio Castro no RJ

Claúdio Castro é acusado pelo Ministério Público Eleitoral de obter vantagem eleitoral na contratação de servidores temporários sem amparo legal.

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Palantir Slides on AI Valuation Concerns, Burry Put Options

Burry's Scion Asset Management has bought put options covering 5 million shares of Palantir (PLTR), a trade valued at about $912 million, and puts for 1 million shares of Nvidia (NVDA), valued at about $187 million, a regulatory filing for the quarter ending Sept. 30 shows.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-03/palantir-reports-record-quarterly-revenue-hikes-forecasts

#technology

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XMPP service.. any details?

The main landing page mentions XMPP but gives no overview. Nor does the wiki. The sidebar for meta says:

Our XMPP support chat: Movim or XMPP client.

Is there a slrpnk.net xmpp server that our creds work on? Or is this just an XMPP channel for getting support?

At first I was imagining some slick gateway of sorts that would stream realtime Lemmy activity into an XMPP channel, but I think my instincts might be wrong on that.

#meta

MicroWave via politics

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House members release bipartisan 'principles' for extending Obamacare subsidies

It's the first public offering on health care policy since the government shutdown began.

A bipartisan quartet of House lawmakers released a “statement of principles” Monday for a potential compromise on an extension of Obamacare subsidies, which would include a two-year sunset and an income cap for eligibility.

The compromise framework from Republican Reps. Don Bacon of Nebraska and Jeff Hurd of Colorado, and Democratic Reps. Tom Suozzi of New York and Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, is the first public tangible offering on health care policy since the government shutdown began 33 days ago.

Democrats are continuing to insist that any deal to end the shutdown involve an agreement around extending expanded tax credits for Affordable Care Act subsidies that are due to expire at the end of the year. But GOP leaders and Donald Trump have refused to negotiate on health care until after the government is reopened.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/03/house-members-release-bipartisan-principles-for-extending-obamacare-subsidies-00634019?nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b4be0000&nname=inside-congress&nrid=0000014c-2416-d9dd-a5ec-34be99000002

#politics

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What Apple’s UK Strategic Market Status Designation means for Browsers and Web Apps

What Apple’s UK Strategic Market Status Designation means for Browsers and Web Apps - Open Web Advocacy

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#technology

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60 Minutes Obeys in Advance

When I read the full transcript of the interview, I realized there had been no pushback, no corrections, no challenging follow-ups. The entire interview had been an open-ended opportunity for Trump to tell rambling lies, only to have them cleaned up into a more polished product.

60 Minutes Obeys in Advance - Democracy Docket

I tuned in to watch Norah O’Donnell interview Donald Trump on “60 Minutes.” Over the span of 40 minutes, I sat in disbelief as Trump was asked a series of softball questions with little follow-up.

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60 Minutes Obeys in Advance

When I read the full transcript of the interview, I realized there had been no pushback, no corrections, no challenging follow-ups. The entire interview had been an open-ended opportunity for Trump to tell rambling lies, only to have them cleaned up into a more polished product.

60 Minutes Obeys in Advance - Democracy Docket

I tuned in to watch Norah O’Donnell interview Donald Trump on “60 Minutes.” Over the span of 40 minutes, I sat in disbelief as Trump was asked a series of softball questions with little follow-up.

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EU in last-minute talks to set new climate goal for COP30

EU climate ministers will make a last-ditch attempt to pass a new climate change target on Tuesday, in an effort to avoid going to the U.N. COP30 summit in Brazil empty-handed.
Countries including China, Britain and Australia have already submitted new climate targets ahead of COP30.
The draft compromise ministers will discuss, seen by Reuters, includes a clause demanded by France allowing a weakening of the 2040 goal in future, if it becomes clear EU forests are not absorbing enough CO2 to meet it.
Brussels has also vowed to change other measures to attempt to win buy-in for the climate goal. These include controlling prices in an upcoming carbon market and considering weakening its 2035 combustion engine ban as requested by Germany.

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/eu-last-minute-talks-set-new-climate-goal-cop30-2025-11-04/

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