- 🤫 Silence (39%, 1035 votes)
- 🎶 Music (60%, 1591 votes)
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Either I listen to music, or I work, poor single sided brained boy.
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yes. Sometimes it's quiet, sometimes with a soundtrack playlist, or Taylor Swift, or #KPopDemonHunters soundtrack.
All depends on the day.
If it’s not super-hard code, with perfect instrumental music I know well. Single bum note, or any singing, make it impossible. And music I don’t know inside out is too distracting too. And Barron is too all-consuming, even though it is perfect.
Is it’s really hard music, failing which, white noise, storms, sea or similar..
If I have trouble concentrating sufficiently, whether due to external disturbances, problem being difficult or whatever, music definitely.
For me, it has to be Swedish melodic death metal, the Gothenburg kind. And if that seems awfully specific, I would agree 😂 There *are* exceptions outside that subgenre that work for the purpose, but not many.
It's very effective, but it also gets tiresome in the long run (what with the genre limitations and all), so I tend to save it for the moments when most desperately needed. So most of my coding actually does happen in silence.
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Both, so didn't vote.
The only situation when it's always music is when there is noise around. Otherwise, it depends on my mood.
I was sitting as a guest in a research institute (own little office, so I'm not disturbing anybody) and was listening to idk Iron Maiden or something. A colleague comes in, hesitates, then remarks that me sitting there, coding, while listening to heavy metal quietly playing in the background was the most German thing she had seen in a while...
Usually in silence, but if I encounter some difficult problem or enter hyper-focus I tend to just listen to loud music to drown out my surroundings.
This is my go to for coding
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I don't know how anyone can think to code with music playing.
I need silence, white noise or very low talking radio i.e. bbc radio 4 comedies or dramas in the background. Can't stand people in the same room as me either even if they claim they aren't looking at me I can feel them staring
silence is best if you want to think, but my music is better than other people's noise.
I prefer classical orchestral work over anything with lyrics, as anything with recognisable words triggers my speech recognition centres which can be distracting.
I used to work in an open plan office which was hell on earth - would have much preferred a cube.
I code in gwbasic. I've never heard of any programming language or development environment called Silence.
And everybody knows that if you have to code music, you do that with Lilypond.
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Jyske Bank Wins Negative-Rates Case, Easing Danish Industry Risk
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"Word te obligará a guardar tus documentos en OneDrive"
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Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2025, protagonisti di oggi
Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, oggi l'anteprima della serie di Bellocchio e il Leone d'oro a Kim Novak.
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Na zdjęciu widzimy mężczyznę leżącego na brukowanej nawierzchni. Mężczyzna jest ubrany w pionowo prążkowaną koszulkę, dżinsowe spodnie i sportowe buty. Jego ręce i nogi są rozłożone w różnych kierunkach, co może sugerować, że leży nieświadomie lub zbyt wykończony, aby się poruszać. Na jego plecach widać wyraźnie jego tyłka. Na tle widoczne są fragmenty zieleni, co wskazuje na to, że zdjęcie zostało zrobione na zewnątrz. Na górze zdjęcia znajduje się tekst w języku polskim: "Kiedy jeszcze nie nabrączyś sił i wypadlesz z gniazda."
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From iPhone 17's groundbreaking Air variant to Samsung's S25 FE, September is packed with major smartphone launches 📱 The month brings ultra-slim designs, massive batteries, and next-gen chipsets across brands ⚡ Read the full roundup to plan your next upgrade.
#iPhone17 #SamsungS25FE #TechNews #Smartphones #MotorolaRazr60
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List of smartphones launching in September 2025
Well, a new month has mushroomed and we are back with our pick of list of smartphones launching in September 2025. Brace for impact though.Aadil Raval (TrueTech Technology Magazine)
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Cinque metri quadrati di fantasia: ecco la "Little Gallery" di Olbia
La più piccola galleria d'Italia, uno spazio culturale situato in Gallura, è uno dei luoghi più affascinanti e innovativi del panorama artistico della Sardegna con diciotto mostre in programma nel 2025redazione (Globalist.it)
Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister
The boss of the firm behind ChatGPT and the UK technology secretary discussed a multibillion-pound deal to give the entire country premium access to the AI tool, the Guardian has learned.
Sam Altman, a co-founder of OpenAI, talked to Peter Kyle about a potential agreement to give UK residents access to its advanced product.
According to two sources with direct knowledge of the meeting, the idea was floated as part of a broader discussion in San Francisco about opportunities for collaboration between OpenAI and the UK.
Those close to the discussion say Kyle never really took the idea seriously, not least because it could have cost as much as £2bn. But the talks show the enthusiasm with which the technology secretary has embraced the artificial intelligence sector, despite concerns over the accuracy of some chatbot responses and implications for privacy and copyright.
Deal to get ChatGPT Plus for whole of UK discussed by Open AI boss and minister
Exclusive: Deal that could have cost £2bn was floated at meeting between technology secretary Peter Kyle and Sam AltmanEleni Courea (The Guardian)
Those close to the discussion say Kyle never really took the idea seriously, not least because it could have cost as much as £2bn
It's a non story. Sounds like someone from openai proposed it in a more broad conversation, the minister asked how much and that was it.
Those close to the discussion say Kyle never really took the idea seriously, not least because it could have cost as much as £2bn
Discussion
OpenAI: We could give everyone in the UK premium access for 2 billion a year.
Minister: Lol fuck off.
end discussion
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Look how the government is discussing wasting money on this they'll do cuts and raise taxes.
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Das Wochenende gleitet mir aufgrund viel zu vieler sozialer Ereignisse durch die Finger. Manchmal muss man dieses seltsam reale Leben halt auch pflegen. Jetz...Torsten Hartmann
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US Open : un millionnaire polonais provoque un tollé en volant à un enfant une casquette offerte par Kamil Majchrzak
Jeudi soir dans les gradins de l’US Open, un homme a subtilisé à un enfant la casquette signée que venait de lui offrir le Polonais Kamil Majchrzak. Le joueur de tennis a finalement retrouvé samedi 30 août le jeune garçon lésé.Charles Delouche-Bertolasi (Libération)
Four Private Members' Bills being heard this week which have strong Govt support - therefore a high likelihood of becoming law:
Absent Voting (Elections in Scotland and Wales) Bill - enables voters there (as in England) to apply online for proxy votes for local/devolved elections
Animal Welfare (Import of Dogs, Cats & Ferrets) Bill - Tackles puppy smuggling via 3 key protections: banning imports of puppies/kittens under 6 months, heavily pregnant animals over 42 days, & mutilated animals (1/3)
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North Korea’s APT37 deploys RokRAT in new phishing campaign against academics
ScarCruft (APT37) launches Operation HanKook Phantom, a phishing campaign using RokRAT to target academics, ex-officials, and researchers.Pierluigi Paganini (Security Affairs)
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Storm forces flotilla back to Barcelona port, delaying its journey to Gaza
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Scuolina Raggi di Sole da spettacolo: una festa per salutare l’Estate a Colori
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Tax Worries Test European Banks’ Best Stock Rally Since 2009
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4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC
A lawyer representing the online message board 4chan says it won't pay a proposed fine by the UK's media regulator as it enforces the Online Safety Act.
According to Preston Byrne, managing partner of law firm Byrne & Storm, Ofcom has provisionally decided to impose a £20,000 fine "with daily penalties thereafter" for as long as the site fails to comply with its request.
"Ofcom's notices create no legal obligations in the United States," he told the BBC, adding he believed the regulator's investigation was part of an "illegal campaign of harassment" against US tech firms.
Ofcom has declined to comment while its investigation continues.
"4chan has broken no laws in the United States - my client will not pay any penalty," Mr Byrne said.
Ofcom began investigating 4chan over whether it was complying with its obligations under the UK's Online Safety Act.
Then in August, it said it had issued 4chan with "a provisional notice of contravention" for failing to comply with two requests for information.
Ofcom said its investigation would examine whether the message board was complying with the act, including requirements to protect its users from illegal content.
4chan has often been at the heart of online controversies in its 22 years, including misogynistic campaigns and conspiracy theories.
Users are anonymous, which can often lead to extreme content being posted.
4chan will refuse to pay daily UK fines, its lawyer tells BBC
The online message board's lawyers say UK safety laws shouldn't apply to a business based in the US.Chris Vallance (BBC News)
I’ve been thinking about the idea that it should be on the government to implement any restrictions it might want to place, so than it’s not an undue burden to the site owner. That way if the UK wants age verification, it should implement it and then it can add whatever site it deems without impacting someone in another jurisdiction.
The downside is it means inserting the government into the network with each country (and state in the US) having its own firewall, so I don’t know if that’s any better. But somewhere along the way the government said that they want to control it, so it should be their problem to solve.
Again, it depends. If a site is using SNI, the host header is outside the encrypted payload. That can be scanned without breaking https. You can redirect like a proxy, verify the age and then let the original traffic through.
For old style SSL sites you could evaluate by IP and do the same though it would be a broader stroke.
The worst one would be if they forced a national proxy with their own trusted root certificate, but I don’t even want to get into that one.
I feel like that's the ultimate goal: simply not having "unmoral" content on the internet.
I used to think that when sites like Pornhub started geoblocking regions with those stupid laws, it was a sort of win for the open internet, some sort of fight back. Now I think that was the original goal of the fascist to begin with.
Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.” (Mandate for Leadership 2025, Page 5)
One of the authors of P2025 celebrates when Pornhub geoblocks, I think I saw him speaking in a video, I've never been able to find the quote in written form.
I unfortunately know someone who isn't very smart that thinks China is the greatest country on earth thanks to propaganda.
She's the kind of person that subscribes to youtube videos whenever the notification comes up.
Good.
This concerted effort of censorship needs to end.
If UK [REDACTED] want their internet cut up like China, that's up to their rulers.
McLaren F1 Team Valued at More Than £3 Billion in Stake Sale
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#WritersCoffeeClub 1Sep–What's the most number of revisions you've gone through for a work?
I aim to write once then sell. Also, I usually start a day of writing by revising the previous day, so there's no such thing as a first draft. But in extreme cases, a novel gets revised—or re-written—entirely. My current problem child WIP (in abeyance while I write an attack novel) is on its second complete re-write (third draft) over a ten year period. The attack novel is 80% done and should sell as-is.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Footnote to revisions question: I write for a living. I do not view multiple revisions as a badge of honour; they're a sign that I fucked up the previous draft. They represent an opportunity cost—labour that would have better been spent writing another book if I did the job right first time round.
My writing aim is to emit a publication-grade draft with the first attempt. (I sometimes even manage it!)
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Understandable.
In my case, my works are close enough to textbooks and my background is so strongly academic that I am trying something approaching a peer review for my books.
that's … very different from what you hear from most pro writers. of course, lots of writers don't talk about their process, but even so. very interesting.
i certainly can't write that way, but then, I haven't been practising every day for 30+ years…
@fishidwardrobe Oh, the other way of looking at it is that wasted effort doesn't pay the bills, BUT my specific angle (in fiction) is exploring ideas in SF that nobody I'm aware of did before, which in turn means exploration, which sometimes goes into dead ends. Irritating when I can't make it work, though.
Writing to a formula is much easier, if you've worked out how all the bits fit together, but is less rewarding (and challenging).
No surprise:
"Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform"
"A study examining 2.6m #Bluesky posts referencing more than 500,000 scholarly articles over the past two and a half years found they demonstrated “substantially higher levels of interaction” – likes, reposts, replies and quotes – and greater “textual originality” than previously reported for #x formerly Twitter."
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How Sanctions Destroyed Tourism in Cuba
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* Venezuela increases oil exports to Cuba
* A Russian Silicon Valley in Cuba?
* Cubans flock to cinemas this summer
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How Sanctions Destroyed Tourism in Cuba
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from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the Belly Of The Beast news/video collective]Other items
* Rubio goes after Brazil, Africa, Grenada over Cuban medical missions
* Title III saga continues: American Airlines in the crosshairs
* Cuba releases Salvadoran terrorist behind hotel bombing
* Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese donate money to help Cuba
* Cuban-born billionaire targets Florida politicians
* Venezuela increases oil exports to Cuba
* A Russian Silicon Valley in Cuba?
* Cubans flock to cinemas this summer
* U.S. warships head for the Caribbean
How Sanctions Destroyed Tourism in Cuba
from Cuba In Context - weekly newsletter of the Belly Of The Beast news/video collective]Other items
* Rubio goes after Brazil, Africa, Grenada over Cuban medical missions
* Title III saga continues: American Airlines in the crosshairs
* Cuba releases Salvadoran terrorist behind hotel bombing
* Hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese donate money to help Cuba
* Cuban-born billionaire targets Florida politicians
* Venezuela increases oil exports to Cuba
* A Russian Silicon Valley in Cuba?
* Cubans flock to cinemas this summer
* U.S. warships head for the Caribbean
Android is cooked. this is a very worrying trend. #Android #Technology #DigitalLiberty
Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'".
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OK, humans that are against human rights: how about human rights only for those that aren't against human rights?
Everyone would be happy then, right? 🤔
How can leaving the ECHR be an election promise?
WTF is wrong with people. It truly boggles the mind.
What's next? "We promise free floggings for everyone?"
Biden official: Netanyahu sabotaged deals but calling him out would have helped Hamas
Matthew Miller tells Israeli TV show US wanted to declare publicly that Netanyahu was ‘completely intransigent,’ but saw Sinwar pull back from talks when detecting US-Israel strain
The Biden administration on several occasions wanted to publicly declare that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was hampering efforts to secure a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release agreement, but refrained from doing so upon understanding it would lead Hamas to harden its negotiating positions, a former senior US official revealed in an exposé that aired on Thursday.
“There were times that we very much wanted to go public and make clear that we thought the prime minister was being completely intransigent and making it tougher to get a deal,” former State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller, who was a close aide to former secretary of state Antony Blinken, told Channel 13’s “Hamakor” (“The Source”) TV program.
“But we discussed it amongst ourselves, and we made the decision that it wouldn’t accomplish anything, [because] we had seen it in a number of cases: [Former Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar pulled back from negotiations when he thought there was division between the United States and Israel,” Miller continued. “We wanted to speak very toughly to the government of Israel behind closed doors, but ultimately not do anything that we thought would make it harder to get to a deal.”
Netanyahu has long been accused by critics within Israel and abroad of dragging out hostage negotiations since the early months of the war. But he has rejected those arguments by noting that US officials have repeatedly said publicly that Hamas was the main obstacle preventing deals from being reached.
Miller’s comments to Channel 13 offered some context for why that was the case, and the former Biden official recalled several instances when the US came close to calling out Netanyahu for allegedly torpedoing negotiations.
Imagine the worlds strongest military nation, with a budget larger than the next 5 countries, with bases around the globe, the largest economy in the world, spanning over a continent with access to two oceans, hundreds of millions of people...
Is pathetically enslaved to a small state of a few million violent extremists who humiliate the US in every possible way at every possible turn. And the US willfully lets itself be humiliated in the face of the world over and over and over again. No matter the administration in the US or in Israel, no matter the claims of "MAGA". When the Israelis government unzips its pants and starts peeing, the US government is rushing on its knees to let the pee go in their face.
Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"
Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"
Instagram users are baffled after an innocuous illustration of the words "immigrants make the country great" was flagged by the platform.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
100 percent true. After many long years of observation and philosophical debates with myself, this was the logical conclusion I came to.
Most of those who visit th se "holy places" do so for the community and rarely for any actual religious reason.
It won't work. Everything gets monetized and marketed till it's soulless and drug-like.
Everything...
Why is the leftist approach is to platform the opposition while the rights approach is to overwhelm the space until it does what they want?
Which approach do you think is working and which one do you think is failing?
Neither.
Both sides have money. In fact the left has much more money than the right.
We're not even talking about big money here. The average right leaning person will give a dollar to any thing they agree with. The left mull over the morality and ethics of a thing until it passes then they say "well I would punch a Nazi if I ever needed to" but they can't even muster the energy to read a comment they disagree with.
Look at the donations given to random assholes who said something anti vaccination. Millions of donating poured in. Look at that women that yelled racial slurs at kids in a park. Millions.
I saw Jon Stewart posted here the other day and the comments were calling him a fascist.
We're fucking done.
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There ARE alternatives already and lots of great people are working on these platforms - but as long as everyone stays there „just because of…“, things won‘t change even with these options.
If great things are cloaked under a warning or a NSFW-label for no real reason, it‘s of course up to everyone to choose a different path - but this means losing followers etc. pp. - and embarking on a new platform.
So yes, we can overwhelm this platform - but do people really want this? I‘m not sure. 🤷🏼♂️
So how do you promote the new platforms if we all left?
Nobody on the right stops to ask if people want them. I mean Reddit was pretty left leaning. Now it isn't. So what does it matter if they want you there.
It takes 10% of a group to change the views of 100% of the group. The right knew this and strategically targeted smaller sub Reddit's before moving to bigger ones. I called this out in 2015. You could see smaller local subs shift. Then those fed into the larger city ones and then eventually the larger ones like r/Canada saw big shifts. They did this everywhere. The left has never understood this tactic I don't know why. It was so obvious from the start.
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Fascist techbros were already somewhere between wealthy and ultra wealthy.
There are plenty of non-fascist tech-savvy Americans, they just don't control Scrooge McDuck amounts of money.
Breaking things online isn’t expensive. The asymmetry is the point. In the digital arena, knowledge scales faster than money.
Organize. Identify fascist sympathizing corporations, organizations, churches, NPOs- infrastructure disruption, financial sabotage, data exposure..
Even for those who aren’t “hackers,” why is there not a massive indimidation campaign against MAGA trash? Catfish, get receipts, out cheaters, perverts, and pedos to their families and communities. Find the “apolitical” folks who LARP like Nazis on Twitter. Share their Nazi shit with their employers.
The left had so many things they hated that the right manipulated them into cancelling every single celebrity with a skeleton in their closet. This made all of the terrified. At the same time the right showed they will defend and enrich anyone who even looks their way. The left alienated everyone they could, the right embraced them and offered a safe space. This isn't complicated. It isn't Atlas Shrugged. It's basic human nature and social awareness. The left bought right into so many poisoned apples.
I read through the comments. Literally someone below is even saying "Tech bros are all fascist sympathizers". I like tech. Do I now say fuck the left because that's me I like tech and therefore I am a fascist sympathizer? Like its unreal how the left labels things and then has no awareness why they have lost people who traditionally would have been leaning left. I don't think there ever will be any self awareness on this either.
I can't imagine the mentality of walking around and saying everything and everyone is a piece of shit and then at the end of the day going "why is nobody supporting me". People are not fascist or Nazis or whatever because they are helping Trump. They just hate all of you. A lot of the world does.
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I have asked her to get off of Facebook for awhile, but she is reluctant because her whole family uses it as their primary form of communication.
I ditched Facebook finally during COVID. I had already known it was a garbage platform, but I was feeling similarly because a lot of people I knew used it. The same thing happened to my feed though and I started getting a ton of anti-vax content.
What was worse is because I am pro-health and medical technology I advocated for people to be safe. I started getting death threats by friends of friends. I was flabbergasted and decided to delete my account then and there. If Facebook could turn people anti-vax and pro-murder I had to leave.
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Correct.
In addition, illegal immigrants that spend their dollars on the local economy, pay taxes without taking from the social security pots and do low wage jobs locals don't want to do also make a country great.
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You mean the app that's run by a fascist and that promotes genocide? I'm shocked. SHOCKER!!! \s
(Seriously use Pixelfed instead, even if only partially for support.)
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"We use technology or a review team to identify content that should be covered," a notice obscuring the post reads. "This post doesn't go against our Community Standards, but may contain images that some people might find upsetting."
Yeah, I bet.
"What the f**k, Instagram?" a Bluesky user wrote.
k.
I got too far in the article to not hear about people possibly mass reporting the pic. I don't want to hear people on social media and how they think it's censorship, zuck sucking trump, whatever.
Oh fuck, I read the entire thing and it never even mentions it. Maybe I need to finish my coffee but it seems like kids just don't realize you can abuse automated systems, or if you can, that it's not automatically a deliberate attempt to censor their ideas. It's too hard to imagine with "but it's meta! Zuck bent the knee!" screaming in your mind's ear.
Something interesting to me is how the left takes these things on the chin. In these comments there are lots of comments like "yea well they all do this". Compare that to the right during covid who would take screenshots and make sure everybody knew this was happening and not only that it was happening but how this would lead to dystopian authoritarian rule that threaten each and every person. I see this over and over again with each and every opportunity to show people how bad things are getting. But instead we snuff out these things ourselves and just move along.
The left have no bite. They are all bark
Can we make this character be the face of leftists from now on. Because its most of you.
Compare that to the right during covid who would take screenshots
Be more specific. Do you mean how sites were taking down covid conspiracies that were getting people killed?
Also, these sites aren't free speech platforms. They're advertisement platforms. They should be burnt to the ground.
Yeah I'm the same (not really into that type of posting).
I basically want what Facebook once was, but with e2ee. Something like: you make a post, only people you've added can see it. They can comment, and if they choose, your friends can see that comment also.
Something to prevent mass scraping and data collection, while retaining the 'keeping up with old aquitances' vibe old Facebook used to have.
L'aereo su cui viaggiava Ursula von der Leyen è stato colpito da interferenze al GPS, di cui si sospetta la Russia - Il Post
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France’s Recognition of Palestine – Macron’s Rubicon
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Niente rinnovo con la Juve, va a Napoli: Manna soffia ai bianconeri Baridò, l'erede di Dybala
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Niente rinnovo con la Juve, va a Napoli: Manna soffia ai bianconeri Baridò, l'erede di Dybala
Il ds azzurro l'aveva portato dal Boca Juniors a Torino strappandolo al Barcellona, e ora se lo riprendeFabio Russo (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
Milan, colpo giovane in difesa: dal Wolfsburg arriva Odogu. Joe Gomez, si tratta a oltranza
https://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Calciomercato/Milan/01-09-2025/odogu-al-milan-dal-wolfsburg-arriva-il-difensore-e-per-joe-gomez.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Milan, colpo giovane in difesa: dal Wolfsburg arriva Odogu. Joe Gomez, si tratta a oltranza
I rossoneri hanno definito l'arrivo del centrale tedesco, classe 2006 ma già titolare in Bundesliga. Al Liverpool manca il sostituto dell'inglese, Tare alla finestraLuca Bianchin (La Gazzetta dello Sport)
"The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists"
"Western reporters are full partners in the genocide."
"They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted & killed by Israel."
"Palestinian reporters expose Israeli atrocities and implode Israeli lies. The rest of the press does not."
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the…
#GazaGenocide #WesternEnablement #USPol #EuroPol #Racism #DisplacementReplacement #Press #IsraeliCrimes #BDS @palestine .
The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists
Western reporters are full partners in the genocide. They amplify Israeli lies, which they know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted and killed by Israel.Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Von der Leyens Flugzeug wird Ziel von GPS-Störung ++
Das GPS-System eines Flugzeug mit EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen an Bord wurde absichtlich gestört - offenbar durch Russland. Die Ukraine vermutet, dass Russland an der Ermordung des Abgeordneten Parubij beteiligt war.
➡️ tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveb…
Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Spahn und Miersch zu Gesprächen in Ukraine ++
Die Vorsitzenden der beiden Koalitionsfraktionen, Spahn und Miersch, besuchen überraschend die Ukraine. Laut EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen arbeitet die EU an konkreten Plänen für die Entsendung multinationaler Truppen.tagesschau.de
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Some cat and otter sketches with my #fountainpen ! Love the fude nib for the juicy lines and variation!
#inkdrawing #cat #otter #art
Scientist makes horror prediction that the world will 'collapse in just 25 years
A scientist has made the shocking claim that there's a 49% chance the world will end in just 25 years. Jared Diamond, American scientist and historian, predicted civilisation could collapse by 2050. He told Intelligencer: "I would estimate the chances are about 49% that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050."Diamond explained that fisheries and farms across the globe are being "managed unsustainably", causing resources to be depleted at an alarming rate. He added: "At the rate we’re going now, resources that are essential for complex societies are being managed unsustainably. Fisheries around the world, most fisheries are being managed unsustainably, and they’re getting depleted.
"Farms around the world, most farms are being managed unsustainably. Soil, topsoil around the world. Fresh water around the world is being managed unsustainably."
The Pulitzer Prize winning author warned that we must come up with more sustainable practices by 2050, "or it'll be too late".
Scientist makes horror prediction that the world will 'collapse' in just 25 years
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author warned that we must develop more sustainable practices by 2050, 'or it'll be too late.'Rebecca Robinson (Express.co.uk)
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Wow, Jared Diamond and a tabloid.
This seems no more or less likely than before.
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Was briefly concerned until I saw Jared Fucking Diamond's name.
Honestly is he a scientist? Does he do science,or just find shit that supports his idea.
Edit, I did a bit of googling and it does appear he is still publishing papers, but it feels like he has been beating the "we all gonna die" drum for a long time now.
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Problem:
What's sustainable for 7 billion people (now) isn't sustainable for the population in 2050.
un.org/en/desa/world-populatio…
"World population projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050, and 11.2 billion in 2100"
We need a plan to either sustainably feed 10 billion people or dramatically reduce the population.
Most of the northern hemisphere isn't even making 2 per couple. It is Africa which keeps churning out babies to be blunt
worldpopulationreview.com/coun…
What we have also seen is education and rising economies reduce the birth rate. If we want to actually curb things: the trend of reducing foreign aid is going to make things worse
Birth Rate by Country 2025
Discover population, economy, health, and more with the most comprehensive global statistics at your fingertips.World Population Review
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"Popsci author repeats claim he's been using for decades to sell books that most anthropologists question".
Man, sometimes I think newspapers and traditional media should be banned from reporting on science at all. I am very critical of social media and what Internet does to communication, but I'll admit that the extremely focused experts that communicate on a narrow field for a living do a much, much better job of parsing published claims than traditional generalist news ever did. I am exhausted of impossible galaxies, stars that "should not exist", healthy superfood, cures for cancer and world-ending events.
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All I have is what you can get by looking him up, and I am definitely not an expert. I'm saying that this one guy referencing his one model for his one theory of society-as-ecology deserves a more nuanced headline than "the world is ending in 25 years". If I can speak on anything here it's on the reporting.
He isn't even saying anything that controversial when you dig through to the actual statements, which is a constant of mainstream news reporting on science news. "With all these things, at the rate we’re going now, we can carry on with our present unsustainable use for a few decades, and by around 2050 we won’t be able to continue it any longer" is barely any more severe of a warning than any climate scientist or ecologist has been making about these things for the past four decades.
Hell, if anything he seems to be less concerned than the average Lemmy denizen:
He explained: "As for what we can do about it, whether to deal with it by individual action, or at a middle scale by corporate action, or at a top scale by government action - all three of those."Individually we can do things. We can buy different sorts of cars. We can do less driving. We can vote for public transport. That’s one thing.
"There are also corporate interests...I see that corporations, big corporations, while some of them do horrible things, some of them also are doing wonderful things which don’t make the front page."
Post that around these parts, you'll get people calling you a corporate shill for even entertaining that personal behaviour has an impact in this process or that any corporation is doing anything positive.
Don't hear the Express go "dude on the Internet thinks it's high time we ban cars before we all die", though.
I would estimate the chances are about 49% that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050.
Emphasis added. That's a pretty big bit of weasel-wording there, the world "as we know it" has changed drastically in the past 25 years. Things that we thought were indispensable to the proper functioning of the world order - such as, for example, the lack of a pudding-brained pedophillic fascist in the White House - are no longer operative. Yet we're muddling along well enough, all things considered.
Things are rapidly changing in so many ways right now. Projecting that far forward with any confidence is a bit of a fool's errand.
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That’s a pretty big bit of weasel-wording there
Absolutely, the world today is also not as we knew it in the 25 years ago, and it's very different compared to the 70's, where the future looked a bit more rosy.
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49% chance the world will end in just 25 years
Giant meteor coming to wipe out all of the world's life?
predicted civilisation could collapse by 2050
Oh, so just the collapse of current civilisation. That's happened many, many times already.
While not a good thing for those experiencing it, consider this. As we look back on previous civilisations, would we consider ours to generally be the best up to now? I'd say so. Perhaps what comes next will be even better.
The collapse of a particularly large civilisation is usually a slow affair that is difficult even to spot from the inside as it's happening (consider the slow crumbling of the USA currently for example).
So while it is a period of turmoil and not a small amount of suffering, it's not like everybody is going to die and humanity will go extinct, or anything.
Oh, so just the collapse of current civilisation. That’s happened many, many times already.
Collapse of local civilizations has happened a lot of times. Collapse of the global civilization has not happened yet. And previous collapses happened often improved the living conditions for big parts of the population, because they were farmers who no longer had to support the ruling classes after the collapse. Collapse of food production and distribution when e.g. only 1% of the population are professional farmers (in Germany) will be fundamentally different.
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That's WAY later than I thought!
This is cause for celebration! 🎉
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A scientist has made the shocking claim that there’s a 49% chance the world will end in just 25 years.
100% it will not, no scientist worth anything would ever make such a moronic claim.
A possibility could be that civilization will end, but that's not the same as the end of the world, it's just the end of civilization.
The earth may change in ways that make it uninhabitable for humans, but that's not the end of the world, "just" the end of humanity.
It's very hard to take people serious when they make such obviously erroneous (stupid) claims.
Most likely it's an American, and it's just USA that will end, because Americans tend to think USA = The World.
no scientist worth anything would ever make such a moronic claim.
He didn't. It would have taken you five seconds to read the excerpt OP posted and notice that the actual quote is "I would estimate the chances are about 49% that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050."
He didn't say the world will end. He didn't even say that civilisation will end. He said that the social order we enjoy today could collapse. But rather than take five seconds to notice that, you decided to yell about nothing because it was more important to voice your opinion than it was to check your facts.
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I would estimate the chances are about 49% that the world as we know it will collapse by about 2050.”
EXACTLY, so no scientist would make the previous stupid claim, just as I described, meaning it's probably poor journalism editorializing what the scientist really claimed.
Do you really think I should have made my post LONGER? Further describing how and why it's stupid, can you really not see it from the part I described?
Do you really think I should have made my post LONGER?
No but you could've made it much shorter by cutting out the commentary based only on the headline and didn't read the article.
I think you're being, not only pedantic, but also just wrong. "The world will end" is a perfectly apt description to just about anyone about what is going on. The world will be uninhabitable for A MAJORITY of life that currently exists.
Permian extinction: last time shit like this happened, temps rose 10°C over 10,000's of years. Still killed 90% of ALL LIFE. To be so arrogant as to presume that the USA collapsing would not have any knock on effects on the rest of the world. To presume that what kills of humans would do nothing to any other life. To presume that that scientist is a moron who just LOVES AMERICA so very much, because why else would he say things that make me feel bad?
I think you’re being, not only pedantic, but also just wrong.
What part of what I quoted can't you read? It's not being pedantic, it's a matter of facts. Calling it the end of the world is extremely poor semantics, and poor semantics lead to poor understanding.
The world will be uninhabitable
That's not the end of the world either. I described that VERY clearly.
Permian extinction:
Exactly, and that was not the end of the earth either, even the end of all life on earth is not the end of the earth.
You may call it merely semantics, I call it facts. Poor semantics result in poor understanding.
This is something historians struggle with, because "Collapse" has happened before, the most famous of which might be the Bronze Age Collapse, or the fall of the western Roman Empire in 473. Needless to say, those didn't result in human extinction, or even the extinction of human habitation in those locations (so Greece was inhabited before the Bronze age collapse, but that predates Classical Greece, which we think of as it's golden age, and one for humanity).
Specifically, it was (natural) climate change or political turmoil (those usually go hand in hand) making long established trade routes and subsistence patterns untenable, and with it, destroying the power of the people who controlled that trade. There was a reduction in trade, as the elites had the money to import, and the disposition to distinguish themselves from the lower classes. There was certainly some population reduction, because food was not moving as much, and populations were reduced to what the locality could support. I want to note that at this point, we see migrations (although we do see violence). I want to thank Patrick Wyman's podcast for teaching me this answer.
So I think, in this case, I think its likely we see this. The current power structure will probably not survive, although pockets of it may hold on in places, and maybe even survive into the next iteration (so think about the Catholic Church, an ancient roman institution survives to this day). Instead, I expect to see local polities spring up, holding on to or rejecting various aspects of the old world. A process of balkanization implies the rest of the world looks on in horror, but I expect to see some process of it happening everywhere. Immediately, these fragments will resemble the world we recognize, but in the centuries that follow, the world will become unrecognizable to us.
I think its also important to note that like, the destruction of the social order, which would suck for a lot of reasons (like the development of technology like vaccines), doesn't necessarily mean a "dark age." Some knowledge was lost (like Roman concrete in the fall of Rome) but I dont think the fall of the modern world precludes the loss of electricity, or motor vehicles, or even something like the telephone.
Well the purpose for asking what a world collapse looks like was to determine what life for a typical person would be and I consider myself to be a typical person (in the US). I kind of view it like the beginning of the movie Interstellar.
In that movie people still had houses but there were items that were in short supply. People had chronic illnesses and there wasn't much that could be done, so they would die prematurely. Crops were failing and it looked like the end of all, or virtually all, life was approaching. I wonder if that's what it looks like.
A lot of the answers were on a macro scale not a sort of day to day life scale. That's what I meant about what it would mean to me.
The collapse of society "as we know it" where we as a species cannot survive by following the same.lifestyle we have depended on in the past.
Our company helps manage a significant percentage of a critical piece of nationwide infrastructure. With what I see everyday, my wife and I have decided to buy fertile land that can be farmed and has its own source of subterranean water so that we can grow enough food to survive (we already switched to plant based diets). We also are investing heavily so that our home can be "off-grid". Summer is covered, but we are still working on winter power generation.
We are not at "prepper" level, but if you're building a new home, why not try to build in some resiliency?
Yeah, we opted for the battery. It was tough because without the battery the solar definitely pays for itself and the cost wasn't too bad, but with it it isn't certain. When calculating that, the inputs rely on you to predict so many things in the future. So I went with my gut. I just feel like energy costs are going to go up much more than "they" are saying. With climate change, AI, greed and the fact that we are installing some things that will consume more energy. I hope I'm right.
How do you like yours?
Well I'm in crazy town Florida so snow won't be a problem. Strong storms ripping then off my roof could be. Guess I'll find out.
Do you have a power bill? If so, when and roughly how much, if you don't mind?
This argument frustrates me greatly. Humans are far more adaptable than most other species, and the damage we are already doing to less adaptable species and ecosystems is incalculable and irreversible. We will kill off much of Earth's life long before we manage to destroy ourselves.
Species are going extinct at a rate of 1,000 to 10,000 times faster than the normal "background rate" of extinction, driven by habitat loss, climate change, and pollution. Every species that we drive to extinction represents a multi-billion year legacy that will never return. Arguing that life will continue after the collapse of humanity is only partly true. There are a hell of a lot of species that will never continue, because our actions destroyed them.
We're also roughly at the halfway point of Earth's ability to support complex life, which emerged about a half billion years ago and has roughly another half billion years before the increased heat of the aging sun disrupts carbonate weathering to the extent that one of the main pathways of photosynthesis is no longer possible. Yes, during that 500 million years, in the absence of ongoing anthropogenic extinction, species will again diversify to fill the gaps. But there will be no tigers or elephants or rhinoceros after humanity, just as there were no non-avian dinosaurs after the asteroid.
I'm not making an argument. I'm learning to identify with a bigger picture for my sanity.
My heart weeps greatly for all of the species that are going extinct on this planet.
And I find some hope that life itself will continue here, even if it's not complex life. Life has survived extinction events before. Life is adaptable.
I'm trying to be less attached to the form life takes, because I can't stop climate change.
So it's something that gives me peace. It's not an argument that what is happening is right. Because it's not.
Vietnamese Are Helping Cuba With 38-Cent Donations. A Lot of Them.
Cuba sent doctors and food to Vietnam during the war. Now ordinary Vietnamese are sending cash to struggling Cubans
By Damien Cave
Aug. 19, 2025
[This article is mostly an attack on the Cuban government, but I found the parts about solidarity between #Cuba and #Vietnam inspiring.]
She watched videos and read about how Cuba supported Vietnam during the wars of the 1960s and ‘70s, building hospitals and sending doctors, sugar and cattle. Inspired, she donated 500,000 Vietnamese dong, about $19, from the modest income she earns at her family’s grocery store.A new crowdfunding campaign for Cuba led by the Vietnam Red Cross Society has raised more than $13 million in the first week...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/world/asia/vietnam-cuba-fundraising.html
Vietnamese Are Helping Cuba With 38-Cent Donations. A Lot of Them.
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35128365
Cuba sent doctors and food to Vietnam during the war. Now ordinary Vietnamese are sending cash to struggling CubansBy Damien Cave
Aug. 19, 2025[This article is mostly an attack on the Cuban government, but I found the parts about solidarity between #Cuba and #Vietnam inspiring.]
She watched videos and read about how Cuba supported Vietnam during the wars of the 1960s and ‘70s, building hospitals and sending doctors, sugar and cattle. Inspired, she donated 500,000 Vietnamese dong, about $19, from the modest income she earns at her family’s grocery store.A new crowdfunding campaign for Cuba led by the Vietnam Red Cross Society has raised more than $13 million in the first week...
Vietnamese Are Helping Cuba With 38-Cent Donations. A Lot of Them.
Cuba sent doctors and food to Vietnam during the war. Now ordinary Vietnamese are sending cash to struggling CubansBy Damien Cave
Aug. 19, 2025[This article is mostly an attack on the Cuban government, but I found the parts about solidarity between #Cuba and #Vietnam inspiring.]
She watched videos and read about how Cuba supported Vietnam during the wars of the 1960s and ‘70s, building hospitals and sending doctors, sugar and cattle. Inspired, she donated 500,000 Vietnamese dong, about $19, from the modest income she earns at her family’s grocery store.A new crowdfunding campaign for Cuba led by the Vietnam Red Cross Society has raised more than $13 million in the first week...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/world/asia/vietnam-cuba-fundraising.html
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