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"Somalia, DR Congo and Yemen among states forced to sign deals and barter their minerals for aid or military support"
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Also Regenbogen 🌈 im Abgeordnetenbüro ist verboten. Ein Bild von Marx oder Bismarck an der Wand ist ebenfalls ein politisches Statement oder nur ein Bild. Dabei gehen uns aus Unkenntnis einige Symbole durch die Lappen wie die blaue Kornblume: taz.de/Rechte-Vereinnahmung-de…
Ein Strauß mit blauen Kornblumen auf dem Schreibtisch ist also schon ein Symbol. Es wurden auch schon Abgeordnete mit einer Anstecknadel gesehen, die eine blaue Kornblume zeigte.
Aber davon hat Frau Klöckner keine Ahnung. Sie fokussiert sich auf den Regenbogen, der ursprünglich für Frieden steht und gegen Frieden haben nur böse Menschen etwas.
Wie so häufig in der Geschichte werden vermeintlich linke Symbole verboten und auf dem rechten Auge ist man blind.
Neutralität ist was anderes!
#politik #Bundestag #Neutralität #Problem #Klöckner #niewiedercdu #niemehrcdu #union #Demokratie #Verarschung #zukunft #noafd #nonazis #Deutschland #Solidarität #kornblume #symbol
Am Revers von so manchem Rechten steckt die blaue Kornblume. Doch das Blümchen ist zu hübsch für diese politische Instrumentalisierung.Maike Brülls (taz)
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Senior Public Policy Analyst at the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI)
While Quebec represents only 22% of Canada’s population, its citizens have been the target of about 90% of the work stoppages in the country over the past three years. Almost all of these stoppages were strikes.
Citation de Gabriel Giguère
Analyste senior en politiques publiques à l’Institut économique de Montréal (IEDM)
Alors que le Québec ne représente que 22 % de la population canadienne, ses citoyens et ses citoyennes ont été la cible d’environ 90 % des arrêts de travail au pays au cours des trois dernières années. La quasi-totalité de ces arrêts a été des grèves.
Citation de Gabriel Giguère
Analyste senior en politiques publiques à l’Institut économique de Montréal (IEDM)
Si vous avez l’impression que les grèves sont de plus en plus courantes ces dernières années, vous n’avez pas la berlue.
En 2023, le Québec a enregistré un record de 691 arrêts de travail, dont la quasi-totalité a pris la forme de grèves, fracassant ainsi le record précédent de 384 arrêts de travail établi en 1974 à l’époque de la commission Cliche.
En 2024, le record a été battu de nouveau, avec 759 arrêts de travail recensés dans la province. Et pour les deux premiers mois de 2025 seulement, les Québécois et les Québécoises en ont déjà subi 378.
English golfer Charley Hull withdraws from Evian Championship with illness after collapsing
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Looking forward to speaking at Defuse – Design for Use in Dublin on November 10th about breaking the rules and doing things differently (and yes, the Small Web).
Mark it on your calendars and come along if you’re free.
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Liberians confused and angry after Trump's 'condescending' praise for their leader's English
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PSA:
The Afghan background of the 11yo prodigy in Germany is false information according to social media statements by someone who knows the family personally.
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UK and France agree to send some migrants arriving in Britain by boat back to France
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We don't need better tech billionaires.
We need to not have any tech billionaires.
(Or any other kind of billionaire, for that matter.)
@m could you please elaborate and be concrete?
This sounds pretty much vague, generic, without clear problem statement.
(sincerely asking out of curiosity)
@kravemir @m It's a glib social media toot, so there's that.
I think the biggest problems currently facing humans (specifically in the general region I call home; there are others elsewhere) are hollowing of democratic society, and the climate disaster. In any society where money can be used to buy influence (which is effectively any society that has money at all - the buying of influence can range from running influence campaigns, to outright trying to buy an election, to buying a major medium like eg. what Musk did with Twitter), billionaires are almost definitionally an anti-democratic force: They have enormously more power than any other individual, but they have no democratic mandate behind that power. They can (and often do) make decisions that have huge impacts on many other people's lives, with the affected people having zero influence - this is *the opposite* of democratic governance, and people subjected to seemingly random whims of billionaires understandably become disillusioned in democratic norms. (This is one, but not the only, cause of the rise of modern fascism.)
Billionaires generally lead disproportionately energy- (and emissions-) intensive lives - by 2024, the emissions caused by a single billionaire in 90 minutes was about equal to the lifetime emissions of an average person (see oxfam.org/en/press-releases/bi…). Many of them have fortunes directly tied up in the fossil fuel economy (or in activities that are powered by fossil fuels) and actively resist legislative action that tries to curb emissions. Furthermore, the enormous fortunes commanded by billionaires will *only* be used to combat said problems if a billionaire chooses to - which they often won't, because both are directly against their current financial interest. If all those resources were directly available for eg. climate change mitigation, decarbonization and economic aid for the global south (rather than eg. funding private jets, recreational space tourism and renting an entire city centre for a wedding), we'd all be in a lot less dire situation than we are, I think.
@m thanks for the elaborate reply.
However, basically it boils to two core problems:
- power being in wrong hangs (who doesn't (need to) care),
- wealth and consumption unevenly distributed (to the point of wasteful vanity by very privileged people).
This is present in capitalism. However, I don't think, or at least not persuaded that any (sustainable) political system is immune to these issues.
I maybe reply more later. This is interesting topic, food for though.
@kravemir @m Those problems have been present in every political system ever practiced, and I'm not sure they can ever be *eliminated* - this is my main beef with "utopian" schools of left-wing politics, in fact. Even in an anarchist commune, you'd very likely see informal power (and luxury excess) accruing to the most charismatic anarchists. You have to build specific mechanisms to mitigate these problems, and pretending they don't exist is an effective way to make sure they don't get mitigated.
(I think anyone who has spent significant time in an actual anarchist activist community has probably seen a variation of this play out. I certainly have. "We don't have any leader, and we all agree exactly who our leader isn't!", to riff off Terry Pratchett.)
But I do think they can be substantially reduced (and yes, capitalism is an obstacle to that). At present, a lower-hanging fruit for doing this (lower-hanging than The Glorious Revolution That Fixes Everything, at least) would be some form of income or wealth cap that effectively makes it impossible for any individual to become a billionaire.
The level of wealth and income inequality in the United States today surpasses the then-absurd extremes of the Gilded Age of a century ago. Sure, unevan distribution happens, but this particular neoliberal political system effects a wealth pump upwards into the hands of a very few individuals at an unprecedented rate and scale that cannot be sustained. Billionaires are a visible symptom of the pathology. According to Peter Turchin, this wealth pump will almost surely result in a catastrophe of some kind that could end up being bloody; even if you don't believe Turchin's theories, it'll certainly result in unacceptable mass immiseration (and arguably already has). A smarter system would employ government power and resources to distribute wealth more evenly and fairly, something we used to do in the United States but stopped doing from the 1970s onward.
As for power being in the wrong hands, there are no right hands for power to be in. There are no special anointed ones who are immune to the corrupting influence of power. Power too should be distributed, to reduce this risk.
Our woke-lefty politicians, in their grand crusade against overtourism — oh that smells like some eco-friendly suit-and-tie spiel, all neat and tidy — are actually just throwing class contempt right in our faces.
Their dream? That Bob, Ginette, and Roger stay quietly in their living rooms watching slideshows like back in the ’70s, not a hair out of place, no wild adventures.
Planes? They should remain a private club: for those who know how to behave, who know how to spend taxpayers’ money without causing a fuss.
They don’t want to see those yokels in Crocs, those savages clapping like clowns when the plane lands in Tokyo or Mexico.
And above all, absolutely no ugly selfies in front of the Mona Lisa — it degrades art, it embarrasses the Louvre.
In short, the high society of political correctness wants to keep tourism for their well-born friends, while the rest… well, they can watch their slideshows and stay well-behaved.
Nos politicailleux woke-gauchistes, dans leur grande croisade contre le surtourisme — oh ça, ça sent le truc écolo en costard, bien propre sur lui — en réalité, ils nous balancent un mépris de classe à la face.
Leur rêve ? Que Bob, Ginette et Roger restent bien sagement dans leur salon à mater des diapos comme dans les années 70, pas un poil qui dépasse, pas une aventure qui dérape.
L’avion, ça doit rester un club privé : pour ceux qui savent se tenir, qui savent claquer le pognon du contribuable sans faire de vagues.
Faut pas voir ces bouseux en Crocs, ces sauvages qui applaudissent comme des clowns quand l’avion se pose à Tokyo ou Mexico.
Et surtout, surtout, pas question de selfies moches devant la Mona Lisa, ça dégrade l’art, ça fout la honte au Louvre.
Bref, la haute société du politiquement correct veut garder le tourisme pour ses copains bien nés, pendant que les autres, ben… qu’ils regardent leurs diapos et qu’ils restent bien sages.
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Differences:
Newfy takes longer to dry
Newfy has lots of branches, prickers, devils club, etc in the hair
Newfy drools
Newfy likes swimming
Lab likes jumping int he water, not swimming
Lab dries quickly
Niether has any idea of space
Neither has a governor
Both like belly rubs
Donald Trump, a guy with about as much culture as a pickle stuck in a jar, a dude who would make the president from the movie Idiocracy look good, has struck again.
He complimented Liberian President Joseph Boakai on his "excellent English"... without seeming to realize that English has been the official language of Liberia since its founding in 1847! It’s like me congratulating a goldfish for knowing how to swim.
Estoy hasta los cojones de mi trabajo.
¿Alguien necesita una técnica informática y/o oficinista estándar en Girona o provincia? Soy experta en hardware y Windows, domino Office; me defiendo en macOS y Linux y smartphones y en general soy lo mejor que le podrá pasar a un PC.
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Ich habe damals in UK studiert und schon die unmittelbare Berichterstattung über das 1998 Paper mitbekommen. In Wissenschaftskreisen war das vom Start weg eine Lachnummer und hat praktisch vom nächsten Tag an als Paradebeispiel für statistische Denkfehler gedient. Noch vor 2000 gab es dann schon eine ‘offizielle' Review von Dutzenden von Experten, die eine komplette Abwesenheit irgendeiner Evidenz für die Sache festgehalten hat. Also dass das Wakefield Paper keinerlei wissenschaftliche Qualität hat, war schon klar, lange, lange bevor dann rauskam, dass es sogar ein Fake war.
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You know I’m fucked already. But I heard from multiple people leaning on things is an American thing. Read somewhere that apparently intelligence agencies make spies unlearn leaning to not get exposed as American.
Multiple people also I heard say eating while walking is an American thing. Or at least not continental European.
I do both of those things almost daily.
As with anything I post the fake American thing is a bit but also it’s not.
#gaza #palestinian #children #palestine #civilians #siblings #parents #children #loss #suffering #pain #deaths #killings #endisraelswarcrimes #stopisrael #childmurder
Siwar, a little Palestinian girl who was #MurderedbyIsrael.
Never any money for Medicaid or Snap.
Always plenty of money for war and genocide.
Una empresa cumple la ley; la otra no. La empresa que cumple la ley denuncia a la que no lo cumple y el juez desestima la demanda porque la ley no le gusta.
En #España🇪🇸, quien determina lo que es la ley son las Cortes Generales. Un juez que no acepta ese principio tan básico (que está en el artículo primero del Código Civil) no puede ocupar su posición. Y quienes le permitan esta arbitrariedad no merecen la responsabilidad de vigilarle.
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Après avoir fait couler beaucoup d’encre sur la justesse ou non de son prix, le voilà enfin devenu disponible sur notre console hybride préférée. Red Deadznicoboc (Nintendo-Town)
#WildlifeServices an agency within the US Department of Agriculture (#USDA), kills over a million wild #animals each year, largely for the farmed #AnimalIndustry, by horrendous means such as #poisoning, #CyanideBombs, neck #snares and even being shot from an airplane.
In fact, a whopping 36.5% of the agency’s activities were done to “protect #agriculture including #livestock, row #crops, #aquaculture, and #timber “, and a large portion of their $286 million budget
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#Les #WildlifeServices, une agence du ministère américain de l'Agriculture(#USDA), tuent plus d'un million d'animaux sauvages chaque année, en grande partie pour l'industrie des #animaux d'élevage, par des moyens horribles tels que l'#empoisonnement, les #bombes au cyanure, les #snares au cou et même les tirs d'avion.
En fait, 36,5 % des activités de l'agence visent à "protéger l'#agriculture, y compris le #bétail, les #cultures en rangs, l'#aquaculture et le #bois ", et une grande partie de son budget de 286 millions de dollars est consacrée à la protection de l'environnement.
Homemade vegan baloney is easy to make and tastes better than store-bought! Make this bologna ahead of time and enjoy as a snack, fried, or in sandwiches!Sam Turnbull @ It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken (It Doesn't Taste Like Chicken)
Again, the answer is always YES!
That headline should be less "clickbait-y" EFF, it should read:
"Your Private Health Data IS at Risk Under yadayadayada..."
The bloom is fading. We had a toad strangler blow in yesterday evening and I moved it to the downwind side of the house. It might just be running its course. It's been a fun watch.
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Woohoo! Sold the first copy of the God's Disdain Supporter Pack on Itch.io! It's still on sale by the way, 29% off on both Steam and Itch.io 😀 if you've already played the game and you like it well enough to send over a fiver that would be sick! If you haven't played it yet and want to try out a 2D, non-linear JRPG that I worked NEARLY TEN YEARS on, that would be pretty sick too 😀 it's free!
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Explore a vast, rich world in the fight to end a plague in this non-linear JRPG!itch.io
How do I block one specific meme and never see it again?
Asking for a freind.
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Elmo was a true team effort fix and it was worth it for the huge smile on his owner!
Kev C started work on him at our June repair cafe. Kev H took him home to work on the wiring. And then Ann sewed him up good as new at our July cafe before he went home.
We're at Barry Library on the first Saturday of every month fixing your much loved items for free. Tell your friends!
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If hell had its own browser, this would be it
Why isn't there a trump branded browser yet LOL
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@mitchconner @dsm Noice man.
I hate what a pain in the ass they make everything. Its a normie safe you know?
Kinda miss the days of just plugging a cable into the damn phone line
One weekend on dial-up, I spent all Saturday waiting for the XWing bs Tie Fighter demo to download. 6 of 6.1mb, almost done. Then my sister picked up the phone...
@dsm @mitchconner That always did it...
I had these old school speakers connected to my soundcard...you know the magnetic ones?
My mom once went into my room and started cleaning all OCD, fucking stacked all my 3.5 disks on top of the damn speaker...straight wiped them
@dsm @mitchconner I keep watching these interrogation videos and people just.....unlock their iphones for the cops first time the get asked...like ffs.
If anything its a legal strategy to take the at least 30% chance that those idiots will lose/break/steal your device long before they figure out how to get into it.
It's just gone. Walk away from $150,000 or they will find a reason civil forfeiture applies.
@dsm @mitchconner Oh yeah those idiots....you're just out the money.
I always laugh....they're lke "we have some really qualified guys in IT....they'll get into that <encrypted device>
yeah break 512 AES fuck nugget....I dare you lol
@WilhelmIII @mitchconner @dsm Naw, not at all. They rely on third party security companies hoarding zero days. Licensing for that shit usually starts around $10k at least.
In most cases they have to physically bring the shit into the lab because said companies won't even trust any of that shit to not get out.
Its a major nightmare for them to get into phones.
The Provisional Wing of the Irish Republican Army used to use a drill to interrogate people assumed to be disloyal.
Drilling about 1/4 into the spot just below the patella is extremely effective at getting people to tell you what you want to know. And it's not permanently debilitating. You can walk out of the room afterward.
If the cops REALLY want into your phone, you will give them access.
"The police" becomes "a story i heard about the IRA." Fucking retard.
Retard, I speak from experience. Try shutting up once in a while, ya dumb bitch.
@dsm @mitchconner @WilhelmIII Its always a real shame when you drop those keyfiles somewhere......darn it where did those go??
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@mitchconner @dsm @WilhelmIII Its not the way people think it is.
Like I was saying earlier they rely on douche security outfits to use exploits and zero days to get into them. Its costly and difficult process...mainly with newer phones still receiving security updates.
One thing apple and google do is spend a fuck ton on money on security features.
There are evidence rooms just packed with people's devices they can't get into.
> carrying a "smart" cellphone
I used a Verizon business LTE to LAN connection and my laptop.
Not according to mpv users cough cough @coolboymew
I actually had to install libdecss for my Mom recently on her Zorin OS laptop but it was in the repos.
VLC was a BeOS app originally and that makes me very happy. Same with Handbrake. It's even preinstalled on corporate desktops in many cases
@mitchconner @dsm @Vo @coolboymew Does it really? That's pretty badass.
I haven't messed with Haiku in a while, Might be fun to try running it again.
As many people already knows, Nvidia published their kernel driver under MIT license: GitHub - NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source (I will call it NVRM).Haiku Community
@mitchconner @dsm @Vo @coolboymew Hells yeah.
Given the state of Linux these days, that's a fun thing.
Haiku-os ControlLook & Decorator for darkFlat, moonFlat and lightFlat UI mode. - unarix/haiku_darkstyleGitHub
BeOS R5 Professional Edition included some sample multimedia files, including two songs composed by Be staff ("5038" and "virtual (void)") as well as a video...YouTube
@mitchconner @dsm @Vo @coolboymew
Member that Disc that let you install it alongside win95? I got it in a PC magazine once
Getting the new wing commander 4 demo (full game copy with a key generator to restrict to 3 levels only) and then spending weeks cracking it with a keycode generator.
I miss those days
@coolboymew @mitchconner @dsm @Evil_Bender @Vo
Lucky you. My first was a Macintosh Performance 6200CD
1 GB HD
75mhz I think
8mb ram
According to our dear bobo-leftist-woke politicians, we’re supposed to weep for the “good old days” when only the rich could afford to travel and broaden their horizons. Oh yes, it was so much better back then… for the rich, of course!
Because honestly, it’s unbearable to find yourself stuck right in the middle of a herd of tourists in Florence, between selfie-stick mania and croissants sold on the sly.
When offering a strong foundation for your youngster’s education, selecting the ideal playschool is an vital primary step. In Bali, parents have a wide array of options to choose from, with countless playschools offering varied programs designed to address the early educational needs of little ones. This article will assist you through the considerations to take into account when picking a playschool in Bali and how this choice is important for your kid’s development.
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Bali is the location of several highly regarded playschools that accommodate both indigenous and expat families. Moreover, some playschools embrace green and sustainable practices, reflecting Bali’s green values.
Picking the right playschool in Bali is a choice that can meaningfully shape your little one’s growth. By evaluating factors such as syllabus, position, teacher qualifications, and group size, you can ensure your kid begins their academic journey in an space that promotes growth and imagination. Bali’s exceptional blend of culture and international education guidelines makes it an excellent place to offer your youngster with a well-rounded and rewarding early learning adventure.
Malajah Playschool offers a play-based early learning programfor children aged 18 months through to 6 years old.Playschool at Parklife Bali
Belajar Dimulai Dari Diri Sendiri Sumber Daya Manusia ( SDM ) yang bermutu sangatlah penting untuk kelangsungan hidup bersosial dan bernegara sehingga untuk mendapatkan SDM yang berkwlitas harusnya kita sadar untuk selalu terus mengembangangkan diri …unlamp.ac.id
Selon nos chers politiciens bobo-gauchistes-woke, il faudrait qu’on pleure sur le « bon vieux temps » où seuls les riches pouvaient se payer le droit de voir du pays et d’élargir leurs horizons. Ah oui, c’était tellement mieux avant… pour les riches, bien sûr !
Parce que, franchement, c’est insupportable de se retrouver au beau milieu d’un troupeau de touristes à Florence, entre la selfie-stick mania et les croissants à la sauvette.
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Mayor Plante, aka Madam Disaster of Montreal. On the big day of the housing crisis, she’s back in town, filming herself handing out Timbits to new tenants all smiles like it’s a kids’ party.
In the middle of a housing crisis? No, no, it’s more like a scene from a bad sci-fi movie where the mayor thinks a few donuts will fix the city’s roof problems.
Surreal, pathetic, and above all, completely out of touch with the real life of Montrealers.
#humour #sarcasm #quebec #montreal #mairesse
La mairesse Plante, alias Madame Désastre de Montréal. Le jour J de la crise du logement, la voilà de retour en ville, se filmant en train de distribuer des Timbits à des nouveaux locataires tout sourire comme si c’était un party d’enfants.
En pleine crise du logement? Non, non, c’est plutôt la scène d’un mauvais film de science-fiction, où la maire croit que quelques beignets vont résoudre des problèmes de toit.
Surréaliste, pitoyable, et surtout, complètement déconnecté de la vraie vie des Montréalais.
Au Québec, on se demande bien sur quelle planète ou dans quel château en sucre vie France-Élaine Duranceau, cette ministre de l’Habitation qu’on se demande encore à quoi elle sert, tellement elle est inutile.
La reine du mépris envers les locataires, voilà son titre non officiel. En pleine pire crise du logement qu’on ait vue depuis que le Québec existe, elle a eu le génie – tenez-vous bien – de leur suggérer d’aller chercher du « coaching » pour se trouver un toit. Oui, du coaching! Comme si les locataires n’étaient pas déjà assez démunis, voilà qu’on leur conseille de prendre rendez-vous avec un gourou du logement, comme si ça allait arranger leurs affaires.
C’est pitoyable, c’est grotesque, et surtout, ça prouve qu’elle comprend autant à l’habitation que moi au concours de beauté.
Der Spiegel nennt es einen "radikalen Emigrationsplan", so viel zur journalistischen Lauterkeit und zum politischen Mut der Journalist:innen, die beim ehemaligen "Sturmgeschütz für die Demokratie" Lohnarbeit verrichten. Dabei könnten sie sich auf das Vorbild einer der wichtigsten Tageszeitungen Israels berufen, um zur Abwechslung Klartext zu schreiben.
In einem bitterböse Kommentar nimmt Zvi Bar'el in Haaretz das Wort "Konzentrationslager" in den Mund und fordert, dass es auch ein Lagerorchester gibt, das die internationalen Beobachter:innen unterhält, wenn sie den humanen Charakter des Lagers absegnen.
Gideon Levy spricht - ebenfalls in Haaretz (Opinion | The Jewish State Is Building a Ghetto) - von der "letzten Phase vor einem Genozid". Selbstverständlich werden derartige Worte in den Presseschauen deutscher Medien eher nicht erwähnt, sie könnten ja die Festungsmentalität der deutschen Staatsräson durchlöchern.
Vor einer Woche schrieb Levy in Haaretz:
»Gaza ist ein Paralleluniversum«, sagte ein Offizier gegenüber Haaretz. Das ist der Kern der Sache, die Frage des Völkermords. Gaza ist kein Paralleluniversum.
Gaza ist das Gesicht der IDF und des Staates Israel. Was in Gaza geschieht, wird nicht in Gaza bleiben, auch wenn die meisten israelischen Medien dies wünschen. Was in Gaza geschieht, definiert Israel in der Welt, und was in Gaza geschieht, wird die israelische Gesellschaft für viele Jahre prägen. Wenn Israel zum
Völkermordstaat erklärt wird, dann ist es Israel, das zu einem Paralleluniversum."
(Übersetzung junge Welt)
Wären deutsche Politiker:innen und Journalist:innen wirkliche Freund:innen Israels, wie sie ein ums andere Mal behaupten, dann würden sie dafür sorgen, dass es nicht so weit kommt. Statt dessen unterstützen sie den Prozess, der Israel zu einem Pariah in der Staatenwelt machen könnte. Auch eine Form des "israelbezogenen Antisemitismus" ...
#Gaza #Medien #Haaretz #Antisemitismus
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And the orchestra: there must be one to welcome Red Cross reps and other guests coming to marvel at Israel's one-of-a-kind 'humanitarian' project for all of Gaza, built on Rafah's ruinsZvi Bar'el (Haaretz)
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Day to day picture of our little animal shelter in CanadaSoshin / Dans l'esprit du débutant / In the beginner's mind ...
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In 2024, 17 million electric vehicles were sold worldwide. Of those, 11 million came from the same country: China. The only serious non-Chinese competitor in electric cars is Tesla. Tesla’s sales have taken a big hit due to Elon Musk’s political ties with Trump. And now, the company risks suffering further from the political war between Musk and the not-so-democratic President Trump.
Il s’est vendu 17 millions de véhicules électriques dans le monde en 2024. De ce nombre, 11 millions provenaient du même pays: la Chine. Le seul concurrent sérieux non chinois dans l’électrique, c’est Tesla. Les ventes de Tesla ont grandement souffert de l’affiliation politique d’Elon Musk avec Trump. Et maintenant, la compagnie risque de souffrir de la guerre politique entre Musk et le peu démocratique président Trump.
Amanda Anisimova upsets No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka at Wimbledon to reach her first Grand Slam final
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La Chine domine sur à peu près tous les fronts. C’est tellement gros, nul besoin d’être un expert du Guide de l’auto pour constater l’évidence. Ils produisent des autos technologiquement avancées, avec des autonomies et des temps de recharge plus avantageux et, ma foi, un look séduisant dans plusieurs cas. Ils les mettent sur le marché pour 33% à 50% moins cher qu’un équivalent occidental.
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Pendant que Trump gueule “achetez américain !”, le boss de Ford, lui, ça fait des mois qu’il se promène peinard dans une bagnole électrique… chinoise. La semaine dernière, dans un balado, il a même avoué qu’il adore sa Xiaomi et qu’il voudrait plus la lâcher. Comme quoi, le patriotisme, c’est toujours pour les autres.
Nearly ten times as many entered the UK under under Brexiters' unvetted skilled worker visa scheme as arrived in small boatsDavid Hencke (Byline Times)
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Brigitte Macron déboutée en appel dans son procès en diffamation contre Natacha #Rey
Ce jeudi 10 juillet, la cour d’appel de Paris a relaxé Natacha Rey et Amandine #Roy, les deux femmes accusées de diffamation par Brigitte Macron. Une très mauvaise surprise pour l’Elysée.
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Ce jeudi 10 juillet, la cour d’appel de Paris a relaxé Natacha Rey et Amandine Roy, les deux femmes accusées de diffamation par Brigitte Macron. Une très mauvaise surprise pour l’Elysée.Emmanuelle Anizon (Le Nouvel Obs)
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"Two-thirds of those surveyed want Britain to have a closer relationship with the European Union. Crucially, this is a stance, which is popular, not only among all parties, but also among Leave voters"Peter Sagar (North East Bylines)
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in reply to Another Angry Woman • • •Questioned again about 10 years ago, because I kept having sex with gay men. Properly put the work in this time, cracked out the resources and workbooks, and concluded that yup, the doctor was right when she picked a gender for me.
As for the gay men thing, look, a hole is a hole and it turns out the twinks aren't fussy in the middle of a serious top drought.
Alexis Bushnell (she/her)
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in reply to Another Angry Woman • • •some timeline synchronicity, rolled in right under your toot
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beige.partyJD Roy
in reply to Another Angry Woman • • •As a dude from a small town, I have always hated mainstream male norms. No, I don't like sportsball. I am afraid of heights. I don't want to hunt, fish, fix things or get my hands dirty. Home improvement sounds like hell to me. I'm not trans, but women know how to live life well.
A little coffee, morning yoga, a stroll in the park, light reading, a few good shows, some household chores, and my day is pretty full. And why are women the only ones who get to carry purses? Pockets suck.
RolloTreadway
in reply to Another Angry Woman • • •There are so many people out there who never even considered questioning their gender, who accept that they must be cis because how they feel is the only definition of cis-ness they know, so logically they can only be cis.
And I know this because I was one of them up until about ten years ago or so.
J_Peregrine
in reply to Another Angry Woman • • •NotLarry
in reply to Another Angry Woman • • •I've just never thought about it. The few close male friends I've never felt a physical attraction to and I have had many female friends I did not feel attracted to.
I once had intimate relations with a friend because she expressed a desire to and I really didn't care one way or the other.
Having said all that that is unrelated, the aesthetic of either of those two genders is appealing, just not over stimulating.
Oh, and there is the whole in love with the same mate since 1985:)
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