Tragedia di Crans-Montana, il capo della polizia: "Decine i morti e cento feriti. Siamo sconvolti"
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Rare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked online
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Rare footage of a People’s Liberation Army (PLA) general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student protesters has been leaked online, offering a highly unusual glimpse into the upper echelons of the military at one of the most fraught moments in modern Chinese history.
General Xu Qinxian’s refusal to take his troops from the PLA’s prestigious 38th Group Army, a unit based on the outskirts of Beijing, into the capital has been the stuff of Tiananmen lore for decades.
The six-hour video recording of Gen Xu’s court martial hearing the next year sheds light on the rare act of defiance. In the video, Xu said he refused because he did not want to become “a sinner in history”.
La magia dei droni nel cielo di Sanermo
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La magia dei droni nel cielo di Sanermo
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Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in UK animal cruelty crackdown
Boiling lobsters while they are alive and conscious will be banned as part of a government strategy to improve animal welfare in England.
Government ministers say that “live boiling is not an acceptable killing method” for crustaceans and alternative guidance will be published.
The practice is already illegal in Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand. Animal welfare charities say that stunning lobsters with an electric gun or chilling them in cold air or ice before boiling them is more humane.
Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in England amid animal cruelty crackdown
Move is part of a long-awaited Labour strategy including outlawing hen cages and ending puppy farmingEleni Courea (The Guardian)
I mean…this should be framed as an attempt at fixing an urban myth: that lobster tastes best when cooked alive.
I worked in restaurants for years and we always killed them quickly and humanely before we boiled them.
To me this is just low hanging fruit.
It's why you want a good, clean kill when hunting. If it's panicked and dies slowly all that acid builds up. But the biology of arthropods is really different.
All I know is that happy animals taste better, and I've been switched off before - touched my head to an electric fence, woke up some time later in the mud - and if that's what cutting their brains apart does then it's a good way to go
In theory the water is so hot they die instantly.
…in practice sometimes it isn’t, or the pot is too small and the lobsters drop the temperature. That actually happened to me with a pot of Dungeness crabs (years before I was a cook). It was pretty horrible.
My thinking is that this is just an issue for amateurs at home. Seems like public education would work better than a law…but I’m not in the UK. Maybe restaurants in the UK boil them alive more often or something.
Do plants feel pain the way a lobster would? I genuinely don’t know.
I do know that making an animal suffer rather than giving it a quick death is wrong.
Do plants feel pain?
From what I've read so far, unfortunately, it seems like they might. Plants can communicate with each other and form underground resource networks with other plants, fungi, and microorganisms. Including for illness, boring bugs and pain responses. The smell of fresh cut grass is one of those warning/pain responses.
I've wanted to do some bonsai succulents, but the process towards any living thing seems cruel and painful.
We cannot measure pain for neither plants nor animals. You presuppose the feelings of the animal while at the same time rejecting it for the plant when we really do not know.
Do they require a nervous system? Maybe. To what extent? We do not know.
No, I'm simply going by my best guess, informed by what I know about the current state of research. That's not conclusive evidence, but it is morally incredibly hard to argue against it.
After all, I cannot measure pain for humans besides myself. You may just be a philosophical zombie. When I'm treating you like you can experience pain, I'm presupposing your feelings. What if you're programmed to act scared of pain & secretly wish to experience it?
I do not know. Does that mean you may have a lesser pain experience than plants? How should that affect my decision making?
No, you are at best basing your opinion on measured pain response in order to determine the level of pain experienced. Many animals have a measured pain reaction. You also know of your own experienced pain and assume it in other people and animals while excluding plants.
The first part is scientific and the second is not. The problem is that you are acting like your belief about how animals feel pain is qualitatively different from the above regarding plants.
We both know why you get agressive about it: You want to some extent anthropomorphize animals because you care about them, which is ok, but not scientific.
No, it fucking ain't.
And it's also not a funny joke.
Curious response.
Indifferent, dismissive, in denial, about the suffering of plants? Speciesist? Just never been introduced to plants, be it with plant medicine, or scientific studies? Plants feel. Just because it's not expressed in familiar mammalian ways, does not mean they're not living feeling beings. Seeing chopping down plants and eating them as barbaric is a valid perspective to take. I wonder if you have anything above contradiction on Graham's Hierarchy of Disagreement to make your argument have any compelling substance...? Or if this will just remain as a limbic reflex to preserve self image, without entertaining the idea in curiosity. Come, get curious, not furious. 😀
[Edit: Oh wow. Just saw the up/down votes ratio on that "Chopping down plants & eating them is also barbaric." comment. At time of writing, up 8, down 55! Wow. Presumably a lot of other people also kicking off all reflexive in defence of their magnanimous morally-superior identification/self-image (presumably) being vegetarian or whatever. Face the horror, folks. 'Ain't the angels promoted to be in that moral relativism and speciesistical ignorance. LOL. (Cue all the more down votes on this comment, due to this edit clashing with those who'll still double down in wilful ignorance refusing to look into this. Hehehehehe).]
You'll avoid eating carrion and probiotics and fallen fruit and seeds and nuts? Did you simply overlook other possibilities than harming living things?
I'm daunted by the possibility some may fall for that false dichotomy, and not mean it in jest.
Don't have to be a failed breatharian.
Can be fruitarian.
Seeds and nuts are offspring. Carrion/Roadkill is caused by unsafe/Subaru infrastructure standards and not practical as a law dir everyone without killing a lot of people. Fruit are somewhat fair game, but could also be eaten by wild animals and are unnatural cruel breeds.
Avoiding all suffering is embracing death for all. Existing is suffering by necessity.
Some seeds (~ and some nuts?) require/want(?) to be imbibed and crapped out, to spread the offspring further, strip the germination inhibiting layer, and provide fertiliser for.
Avoiding all suffering is embracing death for all. Existing is suffering by necessity.
Though be careful with that, otherwise suffering can be made a fetish.
hence the "(?)" on that linguistic quirk.
though, some evolutionary biologists and others still would use that expression, that shorthand, without flinching.
It frightens me that we can't 100% agree that boiling a living thing that feels pain, is bad.
Humans are the worst.
Let's suppose that you actually genuinely care about reducing the amount of plant suffering in the world. If this is the case, surely you would be vegan, because 3/4 of our total agricultural land is used to grow plants to support animal agriculture. (Since grass feels pain just like soybeans do, this includes pasture land.) So far fewer plants would be killed if everyone was vegan.
Of course, you don't actually live your life in a manner consistent with believing plants feel pain. I don't think anyone would think twice about swerving into some flowers to avoid a dog in the street for fear of causing suffering to the flowers.
While this likely pans out with historical methods of meat production, alongside historical quantities of meat consumption, it breaks down when scaled up.
This would signal towards a reduced meat consumption across a population. On an individual level, removing meat from the diet would be beneficial to offset those who aren't reducing.
On an individual level, removing meat from the diet would be beneficial to offset those who aren't reducing.
maybe it would be if the industry changed it's production based on consumption. I don't think that happens though
If people are buying less, they're going to produce less
that has never happened and there is no reason to believe it would
Yes, because demand is increasing.
If demand were decreasing, then the chart would look different.
Do you have any idea how many animals and bugs suffer at the hands of your monocultures in to produce soybeans and tofu? They destroy the habitat, poison the ground and the water, and make it impossible for most things to live on vast tracks of land. They interrupt migration patterns of larger animals.
You guys must all be small scale organic farmers like me! Surely if you cared about all life so much, you would be doing more of your personal space to accommodate? Shall we analyze your diet Friend? Let us discuss what you were eating and how you are acquiring it.
Drivers of Deforestation
The world loses 5 million hectares of forest each year. What activities are driving this?Hannah Ritchie (Our World in Data)
United States Department of Agriculture. PSD Online. Available at: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/app/index.html#/app/advQuery.{/ref}The majority (77%) of the world’s soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. 7% is fed directly to animals as soybeans, but the remainder is first processed into soybean ‘cake’.{ref}Soybean cake (sometimes referred to as soybean meal) is a high-protein feed made from the pressurization, heat treatment, and extraction processing of soybeans. The oil is extracted from the soybeans to leave a protein-rich product.
Per the source above, although it's fair if you missed it because it's in the footnotes
Yes.
Start with prohibiting animal farming, then ban animal murder alltogether.
It is the only solution, it is not actually that difficult, and it is an inevitable outcome of human development.
In a few centuries, humans will look at today's animal explotation the same way we look at cannibalism and slavery.
Im always supriced how many people think huntings only reason is to kill the animalls and eat the carcasses.
There are many places where humans have killed the natural predators for some animals and in those places animal population is in danger to grow uncontrollably spreading disaeses and dangering natures balance even further. Herbivores without carnivores can and will destroy the forest floors and growth if let unchecked, wich can cascade to further destroy enviroment for different species like small mammals, bugs and birds.
Most obvious fix (and best for enviroment) would be introducing the big predators back in the area, wich is very easy to say when you live in a big city and your, children, pets or livelyhood is safe and sound. People dont want wolfs on their backyards any more than people want lions on the streets of NY. Also i dont see much difference for the animal if they get shot by a rifle or tearn down by a pack of predators.
Other solution for protecting the animals would be capturing and shipping hunted animals to wildlive reservois where they could live with the predators without any interactions with humans, but that would again leave the nature where they were transported from in a unbalanced state where for example plants like vines could spread suffocating other plants.
Then there are exotic animal trophy hunting that many people seem to hate. Most places that offer that have chosen the hunted animal preforehand. Like old male lion that are not fertile anymore, but still tries to kill other lions cubs, or elephant that has started to showing extreme aggression. With that money source safaries can fight against illegal poachers and protect endangered animals like black rhinos, while they keep the other animal population healthy. Those animals would need to be killed anyway and if somebody is willing to pay for doing it I dont see how that is bad.
I personally live in rural area. This year wolfs have killed few dogs and livestock like chickens from the yards of my neighbors. Do i wish all the wolfs to be killed? No. Do i wish childrens could walk or bike to school without fear of being attacked. Yes. I have also lost family in accident where moose ran in front of their car. I definedly dont wish for uncontrolled moose population making accidents like that more common.
But i agree with your sentiment that we need to move away from animal farming. Not because reason i personally find naive and childish like "cows are friends" but because its bad for enviroment and we as a humankind are eating meat in our meals more than we need.
Start with prohibiting animal farming, then ban animal murder alltogether.
That certainly would be an interesting civil war.
It doesn't even require a war.
Meat is heavily subsidized and benefits from economies of scale. Once enough people stop eating meat on their own, more people will follow suit because it will be too expensive.
It's one of the big reasons why there's such a huge cultural resistance to veganism. Meat abstinence will make meat more expensive for the ones who keep eating it, and of course cut into the profits of the shitty companies making it.
It doesn’t even require a war.
Try banning it (or pricing it out of existence) and you will get one.
Start with prohibiting animal farming, then ban animal murder alltogether
What do you do with livestock animals that make up 62% of all mammals on Earth?
We've created way too many animals
Thats not the animals fault though. Why should they pay the price for our mistake?
Sterilization is the least inhumane way out of this mess.
You're bascially suggesting that we wipe out entire species of livestock because humans deem their existance is no longer necessary.
Ecosystems can't accomadate them in the wild yes, but without farming neither can the human economy.
So the only option left is extinction via sterilization.
And that just sounds like animal murder with extra steps.
So, what is your proposal? This is not a rhetorical question, I've thought and read about it for a while and it seems to me like the least bad practical option, because the others are:
- Kill them directly (way more suffering, seems worse)
- Release them into the wild, ensuring most die from hunger or predators and destroy entire ecosystems (seems worse to me as well)
- Keep them in the same hellhole farms where they already are, but stop insemination and ensure sex separation (seems the same as sterilization but with another way to remove autonomy)
- Magically build shelters for them and let them reproduce freely while providing them with food. This is (1) pretty much impossible economically, (2) clearly not sustainable because it will just result in an explosion in their numbers, without a clear plan to provide food for them long-term.
Increase the price of animal products so that farm animals live in better conditions and not in torture camps.
Coincidentally, Kurzgesagt have a video that perfectly explains what I mean:
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but doesn't solve the fundamental issue with murdering animals.
Neither does yours. Your solution is essentially murder all the animals until there are none left to murder.
At least this way the animals wouldn't be wiped off the face of the Earth.
My solution involves murdering exactly 0 animals.
Letting animals live out their lives until peaceful death is the opposite of murder.
Your solution involves a continuous cycle of exploitation and murder with no feasible end in sight.
No, it literally isn't?
Murder is the process of intentionally killing a living being.
The entire species is not a living being. Extinction of a species can come from murder of all its individuals, but it doesn't have to. I'm literally proposing a solution under which there is no murder happening at all, and all individuals live out their lives happily until peaceful death, more or less.
Extinction of a species is not a problem by itself, especially when the members of that species don't have the necessary mental abilities to understand the concepts of species or extinction. It can be a problem if it causes ecosystem failure, which then results in unnecessary suffering and death. But it's not a problem by itself.
What you are proposing (keeping the animal farming industry going) will involve a lot of murder of animals, whichever way you structure it, or however many "animal welfare" stickers you put on the end products.
Murder is the process of intentionally killing a living being.
It literally isnt.
The definition of murder is when one human being kills another human being. It has nothing to do with animals.
So if you're going to make up your own meaning for it and apply the term loosely to make your argument sound more dramatic then I can too.
We've done a lot of other awful things since forever: forced child "marriages" (or just sexual abuse before then), child exploitation, some form of slavery, have all been a thing for millenia. And yet many societies now frown upon those, punish the perpetrators and help the victims.
What makes you think this (or other awful shit we still do) will be any different?
All those actions are no more or less "in our DNA" then meat consumption.
And, well, vegans have convinced some non-trivial amount of people, as you can deduce by the fact that many companies put "vegan" stickers on their products, because they think it will increase their profits.
example, violence for entertainment. yes we've majorly turned against that which is good. child marriage, also good we got rid of that.
meat for food though, that is in our biology. our bodies need the nutrients that come from meat. we are biologically omnivores. yeah we can try to supplant that, but it's through an artificial means.
I'm all for it, but i don't think it's going to be frowned upon in the future and i don't think all humans can switch over to a plant based diet tomorrow. vegans are too much caught up in themselves to think of the practicality.
our bodies need the nutrients that come from meat.
This is definitely false. You can live as a vegetarian (i.e. stop eating meat) without any supplemental nutrients.
If you wanna go vegan, you will need to supplement your diet with B12. That's the only nutrient that can't be found naturally in plant-based sources. TBH practically speaking, if you're in the west, you'll probably be fine nowadays, because most prefab vegan foods (incl. vegan milks) are enriched with B12.
I'm vegan, all I do is take a B12 pills weekly, and all my vitamin levels were fine last time I got a check. I could probably skip the pill if I went out to eat more, or bought more prefab food, but I mostly cook for myself and so don't get many B12-enriched foods.
Most humans live in cities nowadays, and all of those humans can easily switch to a plant-based diet within a couple of years (which would mostly be redirecting the supply chains for plant proteins from animal agriculture to humans directly). There are some edge-cases where people really do depend on animals (subsistence farming, hunter-gatherer societies, etc). We can deal with those later.
supplement your diet with B12. That's the only nutrient that can't be found naturally in plant-based sources
that's not true
I'm asserting it because it's true. I'm vegan for over 7 years now, the only supplements I take is B12 (and occasionally D), I'm in good health. I'm friends with a vegan of 20 years, the only supplements she takes is B12 and iron, and she's in good health. The science backs it up as well, plants contain almost everything we need to exist.
In order to be healthy, you have to make sure your diet is varied and contains the sources for all necessary nutrients, but then it's exactly the same for omnivores.
Ok, name me a nutrient and I'll give you either a plant-based source of it or evidence that your body or gut biome produces it itself
And yeah, I agree, if you want to have a healthy diet you need to read up on dietology and/or visit a dietologist. But this has nothing to do with veganism, omnivores need to do it too.
Retinol, DHA/EPA, heme iron, creatine, carsonine, and carnitine all must be synthesized, and the precursors are not nearly as bioavailable animal based sources of the real deal
of course this conversation started with a statement that every nutrient is available from plant sources, which you've already moved the goal posts on. you're not here in good faith, you're here to be right.
and even "plant based" b12 from spirulina is biologically inactive in humans.
Does this include if you chill them first, or is that no longer a recommended choice?
Also, is this specifically lobster or other crustaceans
Apparently it's not easy to kill lobsters. They don't have a single brain that you can drive a nail through like mammals, AFAIK.
One of the researchers who showed that lobsters feel pain recommended freezing them as the best available method, but maybe it's better to just stop eating them?
Edit: the article says that electrical stunning works.
Electrical stunning isn't an option for home chefs. I have heard of chilling but not sure if that is also being banned in the UK or not, given that they would still be alive. And yeah, no idea how reliable someone is going to be in actually killing it and not just rendering it unable to move but still feeling everything.
Even if a perfect knife cut works, how precise do you need to be? The best method would be the one which is pretty easy to do successfully. Also what about other crustaceans?
Yeah that is how I understand it too. Could freeze them to death I presume, not sure how easy it is to kill them by freezing and not turn them into a solid block, or if you did freeze them solid how different it is to cook from frozen.
I can get free crab if I catch them myself, usually small ones but I have seen spider crabs at the shore. But prawns are tiny, even a shore crab has more meat than a prawn. Then use left overs for stock?
It's a fucking bug! Boil it and eat the shit already.
I worked at Red Lobster for a number of years as a young'un. A large part of my work in the prep kitchen initially (after I graduated from the dish ring) was to slice live Maine lobs in half to make "princess lobsters" (half a lobster with body cavity stuffed with yummy). These stupid bugs are no more sentient than a cockroach that you smash with a shoe.
Why would anyone spend even a second considering the feelings of a fucking bug?!
The science would tend to disagree with you.
All the evidence points to the fact that lobsters do feel pain in the same way humans do. As they're being boiled alive they release significant amounts of cortisol, the same as us.
Bug or not, it is sentient. If we are going to insist on eating them then we have a moral responsibility to minimise their suffering before we do.
Humans and other mammals release cortisol as part of the pain response.
So do lobsters.
They feel pain when they are boiled alive.
That alone should be enough information for a sane person to think "huh, if they feel pain maybe I should put in a small amount of effort to make sure they don't suffer when I kill them" instead of trying to justify why it's ok and use thinly veiled insults aimed at those of us who don't think animals suffering from avoidable pain is acceptable.
Disregarding the pain of something just because it doesnt have a cute face or fur is far more evidence of mental illness tbh.
I suppose I didn't really express my point. Is it just not better to err on the side of caution? I'm not saying to not eat lobster, people dictating what others should and shouldn't eat is a massive pet-peeve of mine, but it's not hard to find alternative prep suggestions that don't really add much in the way of effort, that's thought to be more humane.
Personally, I don't think lobsters experience the world the same way we do. The notion is ridiculous from a physiological standpoint. But it's equally ridiculous, and reeks of a more or less biblical human exceptionalist perspective, to assume that humans alone possess various traits that are evolutionarily advantageous, like for example the sensation of pain.
And if we're down to splitting hairs about "well the way other animals feel pain is different" then we're in purely philosophical territory. Rather akin to "how do I know that the colour I view as green is the same thing you view as green?"
Ah. Well there’s our core difference then. I view suffering as an inevitability that we should do our best to minimise wherever possible. You clearly don’t.
Interesting.
Instead of boiling them alive, yes.
Lobsters are the one you are going to see alive most, though, as their meat breaks down very quickly after they die. That isn't true of most other crustaceans, at least not to the same degree
I've seen crabs boiled alive, and shellfish like clams and oysters are steamed alive.
With the crabs you can snip them between the eyes for a quick death but I'm not sure what to do for a clam
I could be wrong, but I don't believe that crabs flesh contains the enzymes that break it down the way lobsters do. I do believe you can buy fresh, dead crab at some markets.
But you should definitely kill any living ones before boiling
Lobsters eat each other.
What's more cruel?
Boiled for 35-45 seconds before death?
Or
Being crushed and dismembered bit by bit, being gnawed on, for many minutes, and possibly even being left in parts, to suffer on for longer yet, after the other lobster had its fill?
When I eat prawns, I often think of this, often putting it context how I'm not doing anything they don't do to each other, simply meaning they know how tasty they are, and eat each other... but seeing this, makes me realise how much less cruel what I'm doing to them is, than they do to each other.
I'm open to even more humane ways to dispatch them, of course, not resting on any "lesser evil" fallacy, but also, lets not remove this context entirely.
Also, while we're talking context...
The government in the UK, last decade, committed assault and fraud, dereliction of duty of care, torturing and starving and denying medication, transport, and nearly every human right, to the disabled poor, propagandising against them to drum up hate with more fraud, to cull over 130,000 people in a very slow cruel way. So it's a little rich to think these tories (no matter if blue, yellow, or red), now "care". Those who were Killing people over durations often into the months and years of suffering, are now concerned for lobsters suffering for seconds?
Lobsters (probably) don't understand the concept of other animals feeling pain but we can. Lobsters don't have any other more merciful methods/tools in their disposal for survival whereas humans do this entirely because "it is more delicious that way". This is the right context.
Even the comparison "lesser of two evils" is not in the right context because it becomes more evil to the degree that you understand the other side's suffering.
Good reply.
Though...
whereas humans do this entirely because “it is more delicious that way”. This is the right context.
is that the reason given? That it's more delicious to boil them alive rather than kill them at their head? If so, what's the reasoning behind that reasoning? Like... do some more of the tasty juices remain in the lobster if not peircing/smashing their head first? I had imagined it was done that way simply because it was easier (/ safer, like if the claws were not adequately banded shut before taking the knife towards their heads).
Even the comparison “lesser of two evils” is not in the right context because it becomes more evil to the degree that you understand the other side’s suffering.
Agree. To an extent. (At least one) Exception warrants caution, in so far as induced ignorance is used to excuse atrocities. Though then the active point of contention's merely around the word "evil", and the many reams that can be written exploring and critiquing it, with or without missing the harms beyond that.
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Japan raises its UN presence to counter China's influence
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A record number of Japanese nationals are working for United Nations agencies around the world.This growth is the outcome of a five-year plan to install experts in key positions in the sprawling international organization and to counter what Tokyo perceives as China using the UN to exert greater influence over other nations.
While the experts, analysts and bureaucrats who work for the UN are meant to be non-partisan in their decision-making, Japan is among the nations that have become concerned that instead of remaining neutral, China is utilizing the UN to further its own geopolitical aims.
Some Japanese observers say that while Beijing uses vast amounts of aid to woo developing nations and is rapidly expanding its military capabilities, diplomacy through a multilateral organization such as the UN gives it another tool with which to sway other nations.
[...]
Japan raises its UN presence to counter China's influence
Japan is taking a greater interest in the United Nations as fears grow that rival nations, including China, are using the organization for their own ends.Julian Ryall (Deutsche Welle)
In July 2024, a report issued by the UN Watch NGO claimed "the UN is broken" after another review of its human rights record.
Well yeah, unwatch is just there to be angry with the UN when it points out Isreali law breaking or human rights abuses
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So all three major religions want to make the lives of women more difficult.
Who'd have thought.
You’re not calling Judaism a major religion are you?
Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, have billions of followers each. Judaism has a few million.
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Most Jews in Israel are Atheists.
That's not even close to correct.
Most surveys suggest that roughly 15-25% of Jewish Israelis do not believe in God or describe themselves as atheists or convinced non‑believers, depending on wording and methodology.
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Zionism is the abandonment of the Torah by saying the Messiah will lead the Jews to the promises land and instead doing it themselves.
"God" for Israelis means "Jewish people". They are their own God.
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In terms of numbers then yes.
But in terms of disproportionate influence then no.
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I mean I get that's bad, and it's definitely a sign of civilization regressing, and with each step backwards, we continue to inch towards the day where we finally topple any evidence of progress that has been built, and we're lucky if we can even hold it together enough to emerge from the ashes of modern society as feral bands of mud people with some chance of perhaps one day making it back to this same point in another 2000 years or so.
But, is the "loss of women's rights" perhaps offset by the privilege of knowing that even if you lose your rights, you can still be shitty to people of a different ethnicity without concern of public judgment or accountability for your shitty behavior? And if so, isn't that what freedom is all about?
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I don't doubt that Israel is backsliding on women's rights, but this "Women, Peace and Security Index" has got to be bullshit.
They have a bunch of parameters that try to capture the situation of women, and I'm sure that can be useful to gauge which way the wind is blowing for a single country, but it gets kinda ridiculous when Saudi Arabia gets a much better score than Turkey, China, India, Brazil, Iran, and Mexico.
Just a reminder that women were not allowed to drive in Saudi Arabia until 2018.
First of all they use the same model for all countries, so it's not unexpected that it's not perfect. I'm sure they would be happy to explain this to you themselves if you asked them.
But just to be clear, if an expert explicitly claimed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is safer for women than Turkey, then they're drunk and need to go home.
63-million women genocided ( when newborn, all the way to husbands burning-to-death their wives, from what I'd read in other stuff, through past years ) proves that India isn't protecting women's lives..
warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economic…
There's another article here on lemmy.world/c/world that was posted recently, about how now women are allowed to drive, in Saudi Arabia, but the regime is exterminating criticism, through executions.
The truth is hidden-in-the-murk, unfortunately..
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Males bullying females is the "wedge" that they use to get far-right totalitarianism's basis in..
It's consistent, through different cultures, & it may be hardwired in our limbic system: bullying women is the basis for male-fascism-totalitarianism.
Counter it XOR fail the Great Filter, humankind..
Having-exterminated-ourselves is a "valid" choice, in Universe's Natural Selection's eyes..
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No you don't run-out:
Factionalism will always provide more "enemies" for that-Way.
"Corps Business: the 30 Management Principles of the US Marines" identified something in our nature, in 1 of the principles:
IF you just keep accumulating people, in say a village, or orgnaization, there is a point around 150-people, where factionalism sets-in.
Al Gore & Associates ( Goretex ) intentionally limits the parking-lot size, so that when it's visible that there are now enough people working at a site, that some are parking on the lawn, then they need another site.
Militaries all 'round the world have a 150-person "company" or equivalent, but not a 200-person one..
Even if some rabid ideology exterminates all "others", then it'll fractally divide-up & begin its civil-war, because factionalism is intrinsic to our unconscious-minds..
That'd be true for all except people who trained to dismantle unconscious-narcissism from their unconscious-mind's ruling-of-their-life..
& nobody I've encountered has earned that, except perhaps the Society of Believers ( the Shakers ) community it the US ( @ Sabbath Day Lake, iirc: Christians: they identify that THE primary cause of people not-staying is "too much community" ).
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The sky is blue, water makes things wet, blood is red.
Just saying things that are obvious, don't mind me.
I think, technically speaking due to Rayleigh Scattering and the nature of our sun, the sky wouldn't be blue if it weren't for the composition of our atmosphere — if I'm remembering correctly. So the sky could potentially be a different color with a different atmosphere, or at least we would perceive it that way (we are also sensitive to the color blue, so it is easier to see).
Idk, this has led to many more questions than I anticipated. I guess if you're very strict about the light not being a part of the atmosphere due to scattering then it is not blue. Other factors like clouds, fog, smog, obviously play a part.
I can't understand why Rayleigh Scattering is presumed to be the only reason our sky is blue.
Oxygen's blue!
Isn't there enough oxygen in our atmosphere to affect its apparent-color??
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Womencs rights will decline if it serves the ruling class.
When women were not in workforce, our rulers were pro-contraceptives and abortion. So women would enter workforce and which would increase worker competition and decrease wages. Today when people are not having kids, and its starting to threaten the ruler's workforce, they are now against abortions and contraceptives.
Roman Pagans were famously awful for women's rights. And the New Atheist movement is full of sex pests on both sides of the Atlantic.
Toxic Masculinity exists independently of religious doctrine
Israel is currently on an absolutely bloodthirsty genocide bender right about now. The fact that it doesn’t give two shits about women’s rights is quite a bit further down the priority list from where it doesn’t give two shits about life in general, and is violently unaliving most everyone not like them in the region
Pretty ironic, actually.
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Heritage Foundation openly calls for end of European Union
Article translation to English:
It is "in the interest of the United States and Europe" that the European Union be dissolved". That is what Nile Gardiner, director of the European branch of the Heritage Foundation, says to Nieuwsuur. That conservative think tank is known as the main shaper of the policies of US President Donald Trump's second term.
The Trump administration supports "movements and political leaders in Europe" who are "pro-American and believe that Europe should take a different direction," Gardiner says. This concerns leaders of Italy, Poland and Hungary, who see the conservative thinker as "important allies."
In February, Vice President J.D. Already sharply criticized Europe. This summer , further indications came to light that the U.S. is out on a change of power.
According to the new U.S. security strategy, which was published this month, Europe is in danger of "losing its civilization through immigration and the disappearance of national identities." The document praises nationalist parties "who want to preserve the individual character and history of European countries" and supports patriotic parties in their struggle to dismantle the EU from within.
In response, European Commissioner for Human Rights called on Michael O'Flaherty to take courage against US criticism of the EU. European heads of government reacted remarkably little. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was fierce and called the plan "unacceptable and unacceptable."
The chairman of the committee in the European Parliament that maintains contact with the US called the security strategy "a frontal attack on the EU." The words of the White House, according to him, amount to interference in European elections.
'Warning for Europe'
From right-wing parties, there is also a positive reaction to the American policy paper. Member of the European Parliament Mieke Andriese (PVV) calls it a "clear strategic warning for Europe" this week. "Mass immigration threatens our European identity."
Member of the European Parliament Sander Smit (BBB), a member of a committee for strengthening European democracy, can also agree with parts of the American criticism. "BBB does not support the abolition of the EU, but believes that the EU urgently needs internal reforms because of a democratic deficit, diminishing legitimacy and too much bureaucracy," he tells Nieuwsuur. Read his entire response here.
Nile Gardiner is now going a step further with his plea for the abolition of the EU. "I don't see any future scenario where Europe is better off with the survival of the European Union than without."
There are "deep-rooted concerns in the US capital Washington about what is seen as the suppression of freedom of expression within the European Union," says Gardiner. The EU would have too much power over the member states.
The conservative thinker points, among other things, to the fines that the European Commission handed out to the social medium X, owned by tech billionaire and ex-Trump adviser Elon Musk. The fines totalled 120 million euros and were imposed for violations of an internet law. With these types of "attacks on U.S. tech companies," the EU would undermine US security.
Moreover, the Union would not listen to the voice of the people and restrict the power of right-wing radical parties such as the AfD. And the EU would open the gates for mass migration. Gardiner fears the increasing influence of Islam. "All this makes the EU doomed."
'Europe reacts too weakly'
According to the leading Irish researcher Judy Dempsey (Carnegie Institute), the European Union is responding too weakly and too slowly to the Trump administration's lashing out. "The Europeans don't look at themselves, but just say: don't you dare criticize our democracy."
Dempsey, who is researching international relations, argues that the EU does not use its large internal market sufficiently as a geopolitical instrument. "The EU is not confident and knows how to sell itself poorly."
Trump is responding to this by politically influencing and dividing Europe, the researcher says. "The idea that a divided EU would be in US favour is at odds with the transatlantic view that has been in place since 1945."
"The weakness of Europeans is that they do not confront far-right populist parties, whether in France, the Netherlands, Germany or Italy."
According to Gardiner, the plan to turn the EU into a defense force clashes with US interests. "This undermines the NATO alliance, while it pulls military resources away," he says. "NATO will hopefully exist for centuries to come, but the EU will eventually disappear."
The U.S. under Trump supports right-wing nationalist parties in Europe that "insist on more sovereignty and self-determination," Gardiner says. He mentions, among others, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish President Karol Nawrocki and the party president of France's Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella. Gardiner emphasizes that it is about political support; there would be no question of financial aid.
Discussion within the Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is an independent right-wing conservative think tank in Washington. They developed 'Project 2025', policy proposals that the government is now implementing. Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, the European branch of The Heritage Foundation.
The extreme course that the Heritage Foundation has been pursuing since this year leads to ideological discussions within the institute: in recent weeks, some fifteen employees left the institute. Disagreements included stopping support for Ukraine and the controversial tariff policy that President Trump is pursuing. Heritage director Kevin Roberts also initially refused to condemn statements by the far-right, anti-Semitic influencer Nick Fuentes.
Discussions on Reddit about the Heritage Foundation with one saying that the think tank was founded by former Nazis or at least has remote connections to Nazis.
Trump-denktank pleit openlijk voor einde Europese Unie
"Ik zie geen enkel toekomstscenario waarin Europa beter af is mét het voortbestaan van de Europese Unie dan zonder", zegt Nile Gardiner, Europadirecteur van de Heritage Foundation.Saskia Dekkers (Nieuwsuur)
A new alliance is needed without the US. It should start with Europe (not just the EU, it should include the UK and non-EU countries) and it could then attract Canada, Australia, Japan, …
But that requires members to get their shit together and rebuild their respective armies. And all the countries that bought F35 just bound themselves to the US for decades again. So it looks really bad right now.
Show me on the doll where a US departure from NATO would require renegotiation between other multilateral parties:
WOW there's literally FIVE countries being attacked in the Middle East!
And your little skirmish in "Europe", would it be between two non-European countries that are both populated by exactly the same people?
I know I'm wasting my time, since you are clearly an undedicated moron, BUT, FYI, both Russia and Ukraine are in Europe.
BOTH countries also share a border with many EU and NATO members. Yet somehow it's not a threat??
Maybe go read about Russian history, just not from Russian books and you will learn what a twisted evil country that is and it absolutely CANNOT be trusted to not invade any other of its neighbours.
You clearly don't even know the difference between EU and Europe.
How is the fact that there are wars happening in Middle East makes what I said irrelevant or false? I'm not sure why you even said that. Like WOW there's literally wars happening in Asia - does not make wars in Middle East irrelevant.
Maybe the USA should be dissolved.
FWIW,
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I strongly oppose this and think it's a bad idea because then you'll be like Ukraine and your neighbors like Russia. Instead we must win big in all 50 states. Otherwise you'll screw over tens if not hundreds of millions of people who will be forced to live in a a far-right extremist country. Let's instead take back our country in all 50 states.
Another reason why this is a bad idea is because blue states send a lot of good Democrats to congress. Taking that away means certain Republican domination in congress.
I strongly oppose this and think it’s a bad idea because then you’ll be like Ukraine and your neighbors like Russia.
Maybe Ukraine was foolish enough to give up its nukes. Also California and other Pacific states might want to leave.
Instead we must win big in all 50 states.
I don't see the Democrats winning big—though we will know in 10¼ months.
Otherwise you’ll screw over tens if not hundreds of millions of people who will be forced to live in a a far-right extremist country.
It's apparently what many Americans want.
It's becoming an American tradition: bring in a shitty Republican about every 20 years. Today it's Trump. Before it was Dubya. Before him was Reagan, and before him was Nixon.
Another reason why this is a bad idea is because blue states send a lot of good Democrats to congress. Taking that away means certain Republican domination in congress.
wp:2024 United States House of Representatives elections#Per state
| state | total | Republican seats | Democratic seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 52 | 9 | 43 |
| Connecticut | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Maine | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Vermont | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| New England | 21 | 0 | 21 |
| New Jersey | 12 | 3 | 9 |
| New York | 26 | 7 | 19 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | 10 | 7 |
| these 3 states | 55 | 20 | 35 |
| Total | 435 | 220 | 215 |
wp:List of current United States senators#List of senators
New England has 12 senators. Only 1 is GOP (Cole), 2 are independent, including Bernie, and 9 are Democats including GOP bête noire Warren.
wp:List of current United States governors
While 2 of the 6 governors are GOP, the Vermont one said he voted for Biden and harris in 2020 and 2024.
The right continues to burn bridges and build barriers
While the left continues to checks notes boycott Harry Potter
Everything the heritage foundation wants will lead to war
Civil War in the US and World War everywhere else
The are the worst people that currently exist, and that list includes Vladimir Putin
They are worse
US has like 52.
Yeah, with vastly diverse cultures, just look at North and South Dakota.
And where'd you get 52 from?
Our imagination: a borderless world of small, self-governed regions which have no need for armies or national security because everyone depends on everyone else.
The reality: Roving warbands, a constantly shifting map as cities burn. Almost instantaneous reestablishment of large alliances for security.
I openly call for the end of the United States of America. It's been an evil empire pretty much since it's founding but ever since WWII ended, it went off a cliff
It's a dictatorship with nukes.
End it, end it now.
Long live the European Union!
The conservative thinker points, among other things, to the fines that the European Commission handed out to the social medium X, owned by tech billionaire and ex-Trump adviser Elon Musk. T
Ding ding ding
And here we have the real reason. The EU won't allow the US tech companies to fuck over its citizens for moneys
And we were all just discussing how those fines were an insignificant, barely noticable scratch upon their obscene wealth that doesn't go nearly far enough.
The threat of consequences by tiny little fines is enough to make a propaganda push to alter the world map and ignite chaos. Like imagine pushing a state to secede from the Union because you're feeling bitchy over paying a parking ticket.
These people have rejected their humanity and become raging sociopathic misanthropes that any civilized society would rightly banish into the cold of winter to face the wolves.
Haha.
Got any more lame jokes?
The fuckers simply can't stand that they can't bully Europe as much as they want to. Their only hope is to divide and conquer.
Fucking idiots. EVERYONE can see from miles away what they're trying to do and what their agenda is.
As an American:
Are GIGN or KSK or GROM exceedingly busy at the moment?
If not, I politely suggest that ya'll "politely suggest" that the Heritage Foundation should be abolished.
... and my politely suggested "polite suggestion" could help swing that balance back into sanity.
Assuming it is done "politely" enough.
better, more sensical translation, by DeepL.com, I'm doing it piece by piece, with a couple of comments thrown-in:
It is “in the interests of the United States and Europe” that the European Union be dissolved. That is what Nile Gardiner, director of the European branch of the Heritage Foundation, told Nieuwsuur. This conservative think tank is known as the main architect of US President Donald Trump's second-term policy.
( converting countries to oligarchy, then.. project2025.observer/en which may no-longer be getting updated, for whatever reason, & factcheck.org/2024/09/a-guide-… gives a little taste of the ideology-policy )
The Trump administration supports “movements and political leaders in Europe” who are “pro-American and believe that Europe must take a different direction,” Gardiner said. These include leaders from Italy, Poland, and Hungary, whom the conservative thinker sees as “important allies.”
In February, Vice President J.D. Vance already voiced sharp criticism of Europe. This summer, further indications emerged that the US is seeking a change of power.
( political-interference in national politics? isn't that illegal? )
I cannot see any future scenario in which Europe would be better off with the European Union than without it.
Nile Gardiner
According to the new US security strategy, published this month, Europe is in danger of “losing its civilization through immigration and the erosion of national identities.” The document praises nationalist parties “that seek to preserve the individual character and history of European countries” and supports patriotic parties in their struggle to dismantle the EU from within.
( notice that a strengthening EU-identity is unthinkable to these agents )
In response, European Commissioner for Human Rights Michael O'Flaherty called for courage in the face of US criticism of the EU. European government leaders responded with remarkable silence. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz was fierce, calling the plan “unacceptable and inadmissible.”
( silence is accommodation, among humankind.. dangerous method to use )
The chair of the European Parliament committee that maintains contact with the US called the security strategy “a frontal attack on the EU.” According to him, the White House's words amount to interference in European elections.
( THAT one gets it. )
'Warning for Europe'
Right-wing parties have also responded positively to the American policy document. MEP Mieke Andriese (PVV) called it a “clear strategic warning for Europe” this week. “Mass immigration threatens our European identity.”
( sigh half true: immigration isn't handled correctly: you have to have people sign their agreement that the country outranks their-religion, & that they're NOT going to try highjacking the country for their religion, something like that, & then you've got leverage to deport the country-highjackers )
MEP Sander Smit (BBB), member of a committee for strengthening European democracy ( I think that is this link: europarl.europa.eu/committees/… ), also agrees with parts of the American criticism. “BBB does not support abolishing the EU, but believes that the EU urgently needs internal reforms due to a democratic deficit, declining legitimacy, and excessive bureaucracy,” he told Nieuwsuur. Read his full response here.
bijlagen.nos.nl/artikel-242475…
Nile Gardiner is now going a step further with his plea for the abolition of the EU. “I cannot see any future scenario in which Europe would be better off with the European Union than without it.”
There are “deep-rooted concerns in the US capital Washington about what is seen as the suppression of freedom of expression within the European Union,” says Gardiner. The EU has too much power over its member states, he argues.
The conservative thinker points, among other things, to the fines imposed by the European Commission on social media platform X, owned by tech billionaire and former Trump advisor Elon Musk. The fines totaled €120 million and were imposed for violations of an internet law. With these kinds of “attacks on American tech companies,” the EU is undermining American security.
( so, it's actually EU-sovreignty-from-the-US that is offensive/intolerable to the US? .. Gaslighting, as usual )
Furthermore, the Union would not listen to the voice of the people and would limit the power of right-wing radical parties such as the AfD. And the EU would open its doors to mass migration. Gardiner fears that this would lead to the increasing influence of Islam. “All of this means that the EU is doomed.”
( LMAO: highjacking by far-right is obliged, but highjacking by Islam isn't?? Only others' highjacking, not their highjacking, that's problematic, then, I see! )
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'Europe's response is too weak'
According to leading Irish researcher Judy Dempsey (Carnegie Institute), the European Union's response to the Trump administration's attacks is too weak and too slow. “Europeans are not looking at themselves, but simply saying: don't you dare criticize our democracy.”
Dempsey, who researches international relations, argues that the EU is not making sufficient use of its large internal market as a geopolitical instrument. “The EU is not confident and does not know how to sell itself.”
Trump is capitalizing on this by influencing and dividing Europe politically, says the researcher. “The idea that a divided EU would be to the advantage of the US is at odds with the transatlantic vision that has prevailed since 1945.”
“The weakness of Europeans is that they do not confront far-right populist parties, whether in France, the Netherlands, Germany, or Italy.”
( spot-on, Dempsey! )
According to Gardiner, the plan to turn the EU into a defense force conflicts with American interests. “This undermines the NATO alliance while diverting military resources,” he says. “NATO will hopefully exist for centuries to come, but the EU will eventually disappear.”
( notice how this sets-up the destruction of the EU when Trump GUTS NATO: Russia will then have a more completely unprepared EU to butcher, as Trump wants..
Here is evidence that the Trump-regime's gutting/ditching NATO isn't just my belief, for the last decade or so: lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-intr… )
Under Trump, the US supports right-wing nationalist parties in Europe that “insist on more sovereignty and self-determination,” says Gardiner. He mentions, among others, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish President Karol Nawrocki, and the party chairman of France's Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella. Gardiner emphasizes that this is political support; there is no question of financial aid.
( interesting: I hadn't understood that the right had already-won in some countries )
some links from that last bit..
commission.europa.eu/document/…
nos.nl/artikel/2563896-meloni-…
nos.nl/artikel/2581156-nieuwe-…
nos.nl/collectie/13972/artikel…
( if anybody here can communicat in Dutch, please ask the site that this article is of, if they could please use DeepL to INCLUDE the entire English-speaking-world in their readership??
They're pointing-out important things, & it isn't only Science which is balkanized by language, it is civil-rights, too! )
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Discussion within the Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is an independent right-wing conservative think tank in Washington. They developed ‘Project 2025’, policy proposals that the government is now implementing. Nile Gardiner is the director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom, the European branch of The Heritage Foundation.
The extreme course that the Heritage Foundation has been pursuing since this year has led to ideological discussions within the institute: in recent weeks, some fifteen employees have left the institute. Differences of opinion included the cessation of support for Ukraine and President Trump's controversial tax policy. Heritage director Kevin Roberts also initially refused to condemn statements made by the far-right, anti-Semitic influencer Nick Fuentes.
This summer, Nieuwsuur investigated how the Trump administration was already actively interfering in the political future of the European Union:
( then there's a video )
I used deepl.com/en/translator to give me sensical English rendition of the article, because some Asian Redditor identified that it was the ONLY choice which worked for the languages that they knew, & I figured they'd be more competent to judge its effectiveness than I, an English-only person would..
Since then, years ago, it's helped clarify things that other translators botch, badly.
( Firefox's translation can be .. incompetent )
This all brings-up a point:
IF the EU isn't willing to oppose the far-right, THEN the EU's going to be ruled by far-right.
Same as 1930's Germany & 2024+ US..
in which case the population-reduction happening in The Great Filter, throughout the rest of this-century, is going to .. cut-down more Europeans .. than I'd assumed.
( you can't earn your viability/survival, when you're allowing narcissist-nihilists to rule )
That it was going to be cutting-down people among the Americas, among Asia, & among the Middle-East & Africa, was obvious.
But I'd wrongly presumed that the EU would be certain to stand for its life against narcissist-nihilism.
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Jordan Bardella is voor EU-verkiezingen nieuwe politieke ster in Frankrijk
Bardella, die aantreedt namens de RN van Marine Le Pen, is pas 28. Hij spreekt met zijn nieuwe stijl veel Franse kiezers aan. Maar er speelt meer.Frank Renout (NOS Nieuws)
If one side starts to be overtly hostile, then the other should reciprocate
DIY E-Reader Folds Open Like A Book (Diptyx)
Diptyx E-reader: A new DIY, book-shaped dual-screen device that's also DRM-free
A hardware developer has built the Diptyx E-reader - a unique, dual-screen, open-hardware e-reader with no DRM or cloud tie-ins. The main focus of this project is to bring book-like reading and full device ownership to digital readers.Anubhav Sharma (Notebookcheck)
pair of 648×480 e-paper displays
Um lol no. I could see using a pair of Inkplate 10's connected by (at least metaphorical)) duct tape. Doesn't seem worth mucking with special hardware.
Every affordable e-reader I know of is simply too small though. I mostly want to read stuff like ArXiV preprints (A4 sized pdf's) so would want at least a 13" screen. Someone a few days ago posted a link to a 14" Android tablet with a semi-reflective display at around $300. It seemed interesting but I'd rather degoogle.
There are some hinged Waveshare displays that look nice but they are regular TFT displays so wouldn't be great for a portable e-reader with long battery time:
This? pine64.org/devices/pinetab/
It's just 10" and looks like an old design. Micro USB, oops. The Inkplate is 10" ESP32 epaper so it uses very little power. Alternatively there are tablet-style x86 laptops and I almost bought one last year. Now the price is way up due to DRAM shortages and so on, oops. I have some scrounged HDMI monitors so I want to try using one in portrait mode with my raspberry pi 400. If that works I could see getting one of the Waveshare dual screen monitors and maybe a Pi 500+.
Hello there, just scrolling through and I saw your comment. You seem to know a bit about this topic.
I'm currently thinking of buying a reader as I lost mine some time ago. I used a kobo and a kindle in the past and didn't see much difference.
However, this thing about reading papers seems really cool. I have tried in the past reading PDFs on those readers without much success.
Do you think you have good options for reading articles/manuals?
Consider I end up printing about 50 pages a day in articles I read. If I can turn that into something digital that'd be cool.
If an 8-inch screen is enough for you, then I recommend either the Pocketbook Inkpad 4, or the Pocketbook Color 3 if you want color. They run Linux and have a very capable PDF Reader (especially compared to Kindles)
If you want an even bigger screen then sadly they start to get very expensive, and usually ship with an already outdated version of Android and an underpowered SOC. And they also have the terrible standby battery life you would expect from an Android device
I guess the size is good to me for reading. I guess the kindle and kobo I used to have were even smaller than that. For reading books that's quite good to me and I never felt I needed something larger.
However, when I tried to read PDFs I had lots of problems. The readers either would show the full A4 page in the screen, which would make it unreadable, or show just a piece of the page and it would then be difficult to pan.
I remember I had tried using some tools which would break up the PDF pages into pages which would be visualizable in such a screen, but that did not work too well especially when reading articles with two column layouts.
Ideally articles would be available as ePub, but that's quite rare.
The main point would be: if I get one such tool to read articles I can dedicate it to just that. But, I need it to be easy for such purpose: I don't want to be panning up and down a page all the time.
I don't know whether that is possible and how that could work however, because indeed resizing is not one of the objectives of PDF.
Oh hmm, I just use my phone for that. It doesn't seem worth having an additional, limited purpose device. I assume a 7" e-reader is too big for a pocket.
The Inkplate 10 isn't pocketable but it's very light, easy to put in your backpack or whatever. I just wish they had a 13" version. The 13" Ipad Air is really very nice if you don't mind Apple products.
There are also some folding phones now with largish screens. A buddy of mine has one and it's nice. Too expensive for me though, and it's more Android.
Yeah most 7" readers have the page turning buttons on the side which usually makes the device too wide for pockets.
The 6" readers fit my pocket quite well... So a foldable dual screen 6" sound like a pretty nice upgrade.
Most of what I use my readers for are reflowable text like epubs... But I guess if you could show a single page from a PDF across both screens then it might actually be big enough to be able to read while still being pocketable... You would probably want to go with the high resolution e-ink screens, like the one in the Kobo Clara HD (1072 x 1448). A combined resolution of two of those would be 2144 x 1448,
Being able to fold down a larger "sheet" display so that it fit in a pocket would be pretty cool. Having extra room for reading things like maps and comic books is so much better than pinching and zooming on a pocket sized display. What you call limited purpose, I call functional design. I'm kind of over all-in-one devices. They've turned into Jack of all trades, but master of none.
Obviously that's not what this device is, but it got me thinking about why I'd want a device with multiple e-ink displays or a foldable display.
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a cover ... Which people fold behind the page. Like a book.
Ho ho hold the fuck up
I like the concept. I have a e-ink reader where I removed the hull because it's annoying, but at some point I must have damaged the display a bit and now it has a little black spot. With this the added bulk also doubles the area available for text. Maybe not that useful for novels that you read through linearly, but for non-fiction it would be nice to see other chapters, glossaries, etc. on one display while keeping the other at the page you were reading. Mainly a problem of software and enough buttons to be able to comfortably use that.
Though the low-res displays of this prototype look atrocious to me (pixelation and uneven blackness), maybe a later version will improve on that.
That's very smart!
I think I see a business opportunity here.
One could Design covers for each device so that you can identify them easily when they are standing next to each other. I bet these can be placed a lot a similar price as phone shells. If only we could find a solution to the charging problem.
The only reason I'd want 2 "pages" is so I could close it to protect the screen(s)... but that's exactly what covers are for.
Apart from the tiny minority of people who might prefer the form factor/"book feel", are there any actual advantages to having 2 screens for general reading?
Or use one screen for notes.
But I guess people that need to actually do productive research will use a desktop anyways.
I read for hours on my tablet just fine. I don't even see the need for e-ink displays, let alone this form factor. Also, I find the tablet easier to hold for hours, compared to a book.
In spite of all that, I kind of want one, I'll admit. I have a 3D printer, maybe I'll make one.
And by "tending to last longer" it is good to note that it almost always lasts 5x-10x longer, as in you only need to charge it once a month instead of every few days with medium reading, depending on backlight usage.
When I only read a few pages a day because of my schedule, my battery lasts over 6 months easily. Meanwhile my unused iPad has to be charged every week or so even if it is used 0 minutes.
I've tried. I really don't want to have another "gadget" in my carbon footprint, but can't avoid it. I've read in my tablet, it's just too heavy. So, it's gonna be a PC, a laptop, a tablet, a cellphone, and an eBook reader -_-
The only good side is I use them way more, I think, than your average person. The PC is almost ten years old, the laptop is like six yo, my cellphone is getting to 4 years of use, but the tablet is only a couple of years old and it was supposed to serve as a reader. Also, if I use my tablet just to read, it's a waste of energy; eink devices are typically very efficient.
I'm just here to point out that the fact you genuinely care about your carbon footprint probably puts you ahead of 80% of the population, and the fact that it has materially affected your device choices probably puts you ahead of 80% of the remainder.
There's definitely a unique satisfaction that comes from filling tech needs with hardware that already exists, and which does a great job at it too.
That goes across hobbies and mediums too. I just finished a big outdoor carpentry project where I was able to find perfect long-term uses for pieces of wood from The Initial Build in the construction of The New Hotness.
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BOOX Palma 2 Pro is a color mobile ePaper device featuring a Kaleido 3 screen, Android 15, octa-core CPU, BSR technology, 8GB + 128GB storage, a hybrid SIM slot, and supports InkSense Plus stylus. It's a mindful E Ink gadget to flow with you.The Official BOOX Store
I do like the old kobos. Fully hackable.
I like dedicated devices for things rather than all in ones. If you have the money of course.
I'll find it after Christmas. I got a fork a bit ago when looking at the code.
I think its based on github.com/atomic14/diy-esp32-…
Build logs: hackaday.io/project/204323-dip…
GitHub - atomic14/diy-esp32-epub-reader: An ESP32 e-reader
An ESP32 e-reader. Contribute to atomic14/diy-esp32-epub-reader development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Those aren't build logs. Those are "I took an open source software package and put commercial hardware around it."
Which is fine, since it's MIT software (and why I push for GPL, personally). What's not fine is a creator calling their commercial product "open" or "DIY" without a BOM or build log.
I would revise the post title regardless of what the author calls it, personally.
I posted this as a comment on the creator's post. Will have to see if they respond.
I see "open" in the title, but no git or Bill of Materials (BOM) links. Is this actually open? Or based on other's open efforts?
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这是一个（株）SM ENTERTAINMENT 的股票信息页面，展示日本的股价信息。左侧包含关键数据：
- 前日终值 (术语) 105 (12/29)
- 始值 (术语) 106 (12/30)
- 高值 (术语) 107 (12/30)
- 安值 (术语) 104 (12/30)
- 成值 (术语) 112,600股 (12/30)
- 交易金额 (术语) 11,844千円 (12/30)
- 涨幅限制 (术语) 55～155 (12/30)
右侧包含一个标题为“日本股价与股票信息”的折线图，显示从7/22到11/25的股价波动范围，包含99到135的区间，并带有“保存时间”按钮下方。
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L’autore, un 44enne svizzero della regione, era fuggito con la cassa dopo aver minacciato con un oggetto contundente la dipendente e un cliente
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'On the shack’s wooden walls hang a shovel, iron, agricultural shears and a wrench, but [Ian] Njenga is not there to buy equipment. He’s there to get a haircut.'
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OnePlus 16 potrebbe introdurre un display fino a 240Hz
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OnePlus 16 potrebbe introdurre un display fino a 240Hz
Le prime indiscrezioni sul flagship OnePlus 16 parlano di display oltre 200Hz, fotocamera principale da 200 MP e processore Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6.CeoTech
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Amazon ritira i suoi droni dall’Italia, le 5 lezioni da imparare
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In Italia una startup sceglie sempre una banca fintech (e ottiene più soldi)
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T00l_shed
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in reply to T00l_shed • • •Don't be shy. Name some names.
T00l_shed
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •Credibly_Human
in reply to T00l_shed • • •It is really crazy that this weird china apologism is so common here.
Its the type of shit you'd expect to see more on reddit, but instead its on lemmy way more.
Tja
in reply to T00l_shed • • •「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)
in reply to Tja • • •Imagine if 2020 had AI becoming this popular.
Pretty sure there would be conspiracy theories that accuse the George Floyd's murder video of being "AI"
The future is so cooked.
Credibly_Human
in reply to 「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma) • • •T00l_shed
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in reply to T00l_shed • • •wheezy
in reply to MicroWave • • •If you're seeing anti China stories about literally pre Bush times - asks yourself: why?
This is "World News?". Wtf? No, this is historical shit that belongs in a fucking museum. (Thank you Indiana).
Why are people commenting on China like the last 30+ years hasn't happened? Does it make us feel good when they are absolutely dunking on us as our incompetent form of governance sends us spiraling to another financial crisis? Seriously. How the fuck is this world news?!
Like, would we be criticizing Germany today if some new photos of the concentration camps were found?
I'm sorry. The fact that we let this shit get posted in "world news" is just pandering to the right wings "war with China" narrative that is completely unjustifiable. Reddit levels of garbage mods.
despite_velasquez
in reply to wheezy • • •wheezy
in reply to despite_velasquez • • •Sure. But this is World News. And it's constantly filled with "remember when China was a shit hole and America was a superpower?!".
Do you think if new footage of the Romanian revolution was found it would be on the top of a World News sub? No. Because the West isn't trying to manufacture consent for a war with Romania.
That's my point. It's not that the footage isn't meaningful. It's WHAT the footage is being used for by it being covered by western media and the response (see the comments here) that it instills.
despite_velasquez
in reply to wheezy • • •Bro no one cares about Romania because we're not worthy of anyone's attention, genuinely, we're like a tiny speck of dust in the global economy or geopolitics, don't give me this "manufacture consent" talk.
I do think that China gets portrayed unfairly negatively in western media sometime, but look at our society that thinks Nazis were cool because the Hitler or Mussolini edit some 14 yo did on Tiktok. People need reminders of the horrors of the past, not just the rosey state approved calls to a "period of former glory"
wheezy
in reply to despite_velasquez • • •despite_velasquez
in reply to wheezy • • •wheezy
in reply to despite_velasquez • • •It's ok. Respect to anyone that knows more than one language. I just found your initial comment interesting.
I was trying to make the point that China is a focus of western media because they are a threat to the interest of the wealthy people that rule the US; or at the very least want them to be seen as a threat. So, any chance to talk about past events the western audience views as negative towards China, like Tiananman Square, makes world news.
In contrast to your comment about Romania. I agree. The west would not care. Not because it is not historically interesting or relevant, but because Romania is not a threat to western interests. So they don't jump on the opportunity to display them in a negative light. They largely ignore anything that happens there. Unless one of our sex offenders like Andrew Tate decides to make his home there. Sorry about that lol.
Not sure if that clarifies it. But I don't disagree with what you said about the west not caring about Romanian history. Our media decides to cover things that uphold the interest of our ruling wealthy class.
despite_velasquez
in reply to wheezy • • •Don't be sorry for Andrew Tate coming here, femicide and sex trafficking (often of minors, often by their own families) is a big issue and probably why Tate decided to come here.
Besides the point, I get your idea, and I think western media has a direct interest in painting China in a bad light, it's an ideology war: the post-Thatcher, post-Reagan small state, deregulation by all means, vs a state capitalist model that is starting to have big soft power around the world.
I do think China engages in the same kind of game, but because most of the world doesn't speak Mandarin yet, this isn't as broadly seen. I think of the yearly "Reports on Human Rights abuses in the US" by Xinhua, or the aunties going "美國完蛋了" endlessly on their Kuaishou pages lol
Full text: The Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024
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in reply to wheezy • • •just_an_average_joe
in reply to joostjakob • • •Disagree on the last part but rest is pretty good.
For context: AfD is the most popular party today in Germany. Their leader Alice weidel publicly praises the time of her grandfather while her grandfather was a member of NAZI party. Another high ranking member of AfD was recently caught doing a zeig heil in front of parliment building. In early 2023, they were caught attending a neo-nazi meetup.
And despite all that, they are today number 1 in polls. This doesn't look very "reflecting on past mistakes" tbh.
joostjakob
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in reply to joostjakob • • •wheezy
in reply to joostjakob • • •joostjakob
in reply to wheezy • • •wheezy
in reply to joostjakob • • •If you see history as a change in "ideas" and not in a change in the material conditions of a people well then, yeah, your incorrect perspective of progress is what you will end up with.
China has surpassed the west in all aspects of material improvement to their citizens. They are leading the world into a green energy revolution. They have built more solar energy production in the last year than the entire rest of world has built in all of history.
Acting like China is "the same" today as it was 30-40 years ago is just absolutely ignoring material reality.
It's hard to have this conversation with someone that views the world through the "idea" of having freedoms. Instead of looking at things being part of society that actually cause one to have freedom. Things like, healthcare, shelter, affordable food, transportation, education, etc.
If you judge China's freedom by ones access to basic fundamental parts of a society that actually allow one to BE free. They have significantly more freedom than the average American does today.
Do I agree with their crackdowns on speech? No, especially now that they have solidified their position as a world superpower. I think it's an unnecessary hold over from a time when they were in danger of outside influence meant to destroy their system of governance.
Having said that, they ARE heading in the right direction when it comes to free speech. The west is currently heading in the wrong direction with speech. America and Britain are especially moving in the wrong direction as they opress anyone that criticizes, not just the countries leaders, but even the leaders of a foreign country like Israel.
You saying China is "the same" as it was 30-40 years ago. Is just cope.
I really wish the people in the west would learn from China's success. Unite in improving the material conditions of both nations and all nations. But for some reason there is just blind hostility towards a country that has done nothing but trade peacefully with us for most of its history.
joostjakob
in reply to wheezy • • •Lifting, what, 800 million people out of poverty is an impressive feat, and certainly holds a few lessons for laissez faire capitalists. Then again, large part of that poverty were self inflicted wounds. And that growth shouldn't blind one for the immense cost at which it came, and the large challenges ahead to keep things afloat.
vga
in reply to wheezy • • •Yes, if it weren't for the blindingly obvious historical fact you're blatantly ignoring: Germany admitted to everything it had done and very publically repented for decades.
China has done the exact opposite of that, so until that changes, there should be constant pressure on them.
slowcakes
in reply to vga • • •Where do you get that germany has repented for everything bad that they have done?
I still read news where certain African countries are seeking reparations and damages for the genocides that Nazi Germany committed, but Germany doesn't accept that it was genocide, but according to experts it was genocide.
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in reply to vga • • •qaz
in reply to MicroWave • • •For anyone else that is interested in what came of him:
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in reply to Dr. Moose • • •Somebody did something to make thing better, we need to do it again
(Xinhai Revolution 2025 Edition)
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in reply to MicroWave • • •UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to AstaKask • • •He wasn't killed, he was court marshalled and released five years later. He died in '21 at the ripe old age of 85
angrystego
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to angrystego • • •Protestors burned alive in their APC by the nefarious CCP Street Clothes division
stickly
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •Lmfao it doesn't get more tankie than mourning the loss of a fucking tank.
Now let's all laugh about the pictures of actual crushed, shot and mutilated humans [NSFL]. Are these people plain clothes PLA killed by uh... students false flagging as tank drivers?
TAM Massacre Photo Series
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in reply to stickly • • •stickly
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •Nice deflection!
But I do agree, seems like you hit your own nerve reading these comments. Having trouble stomaching the fact that blind support for "AES" means cheering for the jack boots running over hunger striking students? Keep digging up conspiracies and excuses, you'll beat that cognitive dissonance eventually.
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in reply to Nurse_Robot • • •Yeah.
There’s lots of instances throughout history that prove that humans with power suck.
I like to think that it’s because nice people aren’t the type to accumulate power rather than power corrupts nice people who do get power.
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in reply to AstaKask • • •UnderpantsWeevil
in reply to YappyMonotheist • • •It doesn't matter. Folks see a foreign country doing foreign things foreign-ly, rather than toeing the NATO line, and they're evil incarnate.
Meanwhile, NATO allies - from the Brits to the Saudis to the insanely corrupt Philippian government - go fully under the radar of liberals.
China's biggest crime right now is their success. They aren't being crippled by sanctions like Cuba, gunned down like Venezuela, or systematically genocided like Palatine. So they must be doing the most nightmarish things imaginable to their people - and to the rest of the world - in order to no-sell American foreign policy.
Natanael
in reply to UnderpantsWeevil • • •Success?
dw.com/en/china-property-real-…
scmp.com/business/article/3334…
Peaceful?
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Not doing terrible things to their citizens?
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China seeks detention of foreigners in disputed South China Sea
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in reply to Natanael • • •Cheap Housing... Bad?
A South China Sea code of conduct has been under discussion for over two decades.
You broke a set of rules we haven't even defined yet!
Those monsters.
China, ASEAN ‘committed’ to having legally binding sea code by 2026: Manila
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