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Jamais un président français n’a été autant humilié par des puissances étrangères. Trump le méprise, Netanyahu l’écrase, mais Macron continue de soutenir sans condition 🇮🇱🇺🇸.
Où est l’honneur de la France ? Jusqu’à quand cette soumission ?!
Europe must be ready to defend what it stands for: Our people. Our values.
We are proposing to support EU countries to invest €800 billion over the next four years by cutting red tape, including:
📄 Less paperwork, thus faster new defence technologies. 🛒 Faster and easier for countries to buy and share defence equipment. ⚡ Quicker permits for important defence projects 💶 Simpler rules to get more companies to invest in defence
Today, the European Commission proposes measures to speed up defence investments and production to make the EU more responsive to today\'s security challenges, as outlined in the Commission\'s White Paper for European Defence-Readiness 2030.
🔴🔴🇲🇾🇵🇸🛳️ [ FLASH INFO ] Avec la participation de 1000 navires, des organisations malaisiennes prévoient de lancer la plus grande flottille maritime jamais organisée pour briser le blocus de Gaza.
🔴 inhabituel **Le soit disant dirigeant que l’Occident prépare pour l’Iran, il tombe dans le piège. Animatrice de la BBC ? Stupéfaite et incrédule, elle demande à Reza Pahlavi : « Êtes-vous vraiment en train de dire que le fait qu'Israël bombarde votre pays et tue des civils est une chose positive ? » **
Socialist dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being “the Hitler of the 21st Century” in response to Israel’s airstrikes on Friday against Iran, a key ally of his authoritarian regime.
also... Claims He Is a ‘Real Jew,’ Unlike Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu
Considering putting out some #FediHire feelers. My current company seems to be turning more and more towards AI and my concerns are that this will be at the expense of stuff I want to focus on, like optimization, architecture and system work. I'd rather take this moment to grow my career towards what I originally imagined, biotechology, but honestly I'm open to any role that seems interesting and does good work.
I'm an excellent dev in Java, with significant experience in Go, Python and HTML5, and a degree in Bioinformatics from the medical research center at the local university hospital. Moreover, I'm really, really good at working in a team, especially asynchronously. I'm also looking to pivot from the role of a general lead developer into focussing more on backend, devops and security work
I'm at the GMT-0 to GMT+4 band and I'm looking for remote work! And I'm in South Africa, so if you're from the northern hemisphere you'll get to vicariously enjoy my summers while your fingers freeze off 😎
Any boosts or leads would be rad! But also making this post is me keeping myself honest too.
So UK sending war planes to middle east. Now imagine IF tomorrow something happens in England. Would it be a war act? Not terrorism? Is this what they are looking for? Pd: and by "something" I mean moSSad doing what they do and blame "someone"else.
It’s all about regime change in Iran & the event that triggers a “reluctant” US to pile in on Israel’s behalf is called a “false flag” as I’m sure you know!
This ⤵️ is interesting/ scary in that respect:
“A Major False Flag on US Soil and Average Joe Will March to Kill 'Them Eye-rainians!'”
Twenty Months of idly standing by has proven one truth: The world remains blind to imperial depravity. They have no conception of what's coming, and no framework to comprehend it when it arrives.
Europe must be ready to defend what it stands for: Our people. Our values.
We are proposing to support EU countries to invest €800 billion over the next four years by cutting red tape, including:
📄 Less paperwork, thus faster new defence technologies. 🛒 Faster and easier for countries to buy and share defence equipment. ⚡ Quicker permits for important defence projects 💶 Simpler rules to get more companies to invest in defence
Today, the European Commission proposes measures to speed up defence investments and production to make the EU more responsive to today\'s security challenges, as outlined in the Commission\'s White Paper for European Defence-Readiness 2030.
Gen Z faces a challenging job market with disappearing entry-level jobs and uncertain career paths. Many graduates struggle to find work despite impressive academic records and internships. The economic slowdown, federal policy uncertainty, and emerging technologies are contributing to this trend. The unemployment rate for recent graduates is higher than the overall unemployment rate, and some sectors, like public service, are experiencing significant cuts. businessinsider.com/gen-z-unem…
Es curioso como las cadenas de radio mencionan al político corrupto,en este caso del #psoed PERO se olvidan mencionar a las empresas que sobornaban para ganar concursos. Luego escuchas la publicidad en sus emisoras y voila! Ahí están. 😁
Our children are just as precious as yours. They dream. They laugh. They cry when they’re hungry. They hide when bombs fall. And they deserve to live, too My family donations link:↘️ only link ↘️chuffed.org/project/mona...#Gaza #StopTheGenocide #SaveTheChildren
I am Mona Hijazi, a Palestinian mother of three children. From the depths of Gaza, from the depths of darkness, despair, hunger, fear and weakness, I tell you my story.
The components of a story are still: Who. What. Where. When. Why. How. As far as the Indian and foreigner problem, we have been shown the first 4 and the How but what is missing in the discussion is the Why part. Does anyone really think that Indians and foreigners are invading America on their own. They are being used as pawns for a bigger Who that needs a Why understanding. I believe that a common thread is the lack of a heritage European and Christian culture ethos which is despised and to be actively eliminated\eradicated. I heartily recommend reading or listening to the following 80 minute podcast reading to understand. It is in their own words. It will be the most enlightening hour that one spends this week. Without this knowledge, one has a huge blind spot through which anything can be and has been made to happen. Take it from the conspirators themselves to acquire Better Judgement. podchaser.com/podcasts/the-pet…
I believe that the reading was for subscribers but a second release came today which I have not heard so cannot comment. It is hard for people to believe that an oath to a position above family and everything else really occurs. In the Mafia it is called Omerta and they are serious. So was Skull and Bones and the other secret societies. No one can serve two masters which is why dual citizenship is a joke. podchaser.com/podcasts/the-pet…
I have a feeling that the Mafia were always zionist aligned.
That first reading was impressive enough for another listen. So many things just magically connected into place and none of it was complicated at all. Suddenly the entire backstory behind Israel became clear as day which for me is a first as trying to figure it out from other sources somehow always had me going around in circles.
so Starmer, Macron and Von Der Leyen defending the use of car bombs in crowded cities is a new development. Terrorism for Israel is not terrorism for humanity. #politics #spectacle …
He compartido esto en #Instagram (sí, sigo teniendo una cuenta ahí, la vida es complicada...) con algo de éxito, así que lo pongo por aquí por si a alguien le es útil. #Signal #WhatsApp #Meta #technofascism #fuckZuckerberg
Por qué dejar de usar WhatsApp y cuál es la alternativa
Meta ha anunciado que va a empezar a incluir anuncios en WhatsApp. Estarán personalizados con los datos que extraen de Instagram y Facebook. Por ahora, la publicidad aparecerá en los «estados» (esa especie de stories que no todo el mundo usa) y en los canales.
Solo un día después, algunes usuaries han recibido un mensaje dentro de la propia app que les pide su correo electrónico «para mayor seguridad». No hace falta ser muy lince para entender que ese interés repentino por tu seguridad tiene que ver con otra cosa: si les das tu email, les será más fácil saber quién eres en Instagram y/o Facebook (asumiendo que uses la misma dirección para loguearte allí) y podrán «personalizar» tus anuncios con toda la información que tienen de ti.
No es el primer movimiento desagradable de Meta para WhatsApp este año: hace poco agregaron un agente de IA (que se puede ocultar, pero no desactivar del todo). Esta función nos resta privacidad: si bien los mensajes que intercambias con otras personas en WhatsApp están cifrados de extremo a extremo (lo que significa que solo pueden leerlos las personas que conversan, para Meta son ilegibles), lo que le digas a la IA podrá ser analizado por Meta. Lo utilizan para entrenar esa IA y, en el futuro, probablemente, servirá para personalizar la publicidad que te muestran.
No es tampoco el segundo: Meta estrenó 2025 anunciando que dejaría de controlar las noticias falsas y los contenidos de odio, como expliqué en detalle, en un claro alineamiento con Trump.
La alternativa es fácil: vámonos a Signal
Signal es una aplicación de mensajería con funcionalidades muy similares a WhatsApp. Pero mejor: es respetuosa con la privacidad, es software libre, sus desarrolladores no tienen ánimo de lucro y prometen que no van a introducir IA ni anuncios. Cualquiera puede bajársela de su app store favorita y usarla con facilidad.
Yo entiendo que nos atrapen plataformas sociales tóxicas (como Instagram) porque en ellas está nuestra gente, o la información a la que queremos acceder… Pero en este caso la migración debería ser más factible porque tenemos un buen reemplazo. Te animo a hablar con les amigues con quienes tengas más contacto (quizá pasarles este texto ayude, para eso lo he escrito) para proponerles la mudanza. Probablemente no consigas convencer al 100%, pero todo lo que le arranquemos a Meta es positivo.
Preguntas frecuentes
¿De quién es Signal y por qué es seguro? Signal está promovido por una fundación cuyo cometido es proteger la libertad de expresión mediante comunicaciones seguras. Sobrevive gracias a donaciones y su presidenta es Meredith Whittaker, una activista contra el capitalismo de vigilancia que mola mucho. Es software libre, aka open source, que es ese tipo de software cuyo código se publica para que cualquiera pueda examinarlo y, por ejemplo, asegurar que no contiene funcionalidades ocultas para espiarnos. También se puede copiar y modificar para hacer otras versiones, con lo cual contribuyendo a Signal puedes estar contribuyendo a otras apps futuras que sean todavía mejores.
Pero Signal es una aplicación minoritaria. Bueno, no es la más usada, pero sí la recomendada por la Comisión Europea para todo su personal, y la que usa la CIA por considerarla especialmente segura. No estamos hablando de un proyecto underground para hackers, sino de una alternativa muy consolidada que tiene todas las papeletas para crecer mucho con cada medida impopular de WhatsApp.
¿Telegram no sería también una alternativa? Telegram es menos segura que WhatsApp y que Signal porque los mensajes no están encriptados por defecto. Pertenece a Pavel Durov, un CEO con todos los tics de tech bro y un historial dudoso. Durante un tiempo fue recomendada en entornos activistas porque, al estar fuera de la influencia de la UE (es rusa), no suele colaborar con la Policía. Esto también significa que aloja contenidos que podemos considerar, además de ilegales, muy poco éticos (porno infantil, nazismo, etc). Está introduciendo la publicidad e impulsando versiones de pago con funcionalidades extra (lo cual suele ser una camino para empeorar la experiencia de quienes no pagan). Por si fuera poco: a partir del 30 de junio, introducirán Grok, la IA de Elon Musk. A cambio de 300 millones de dólares, permitirán que esta IA pueda entrenarse con las interacciones de quienes la usan en Telegram.
En resumen: quizá quieras estar en Telegram por funcionalidades o usuaries que te interesan, pero que no sea por motivos éticos o políticos porque bajo esos criterios es basura.
Pero hay alternativas mejores que Signal… Depende lo que tengas en cuenta: si quieres una opción descentralizada/federada, sí, lashay (la descentralización es una gran ventaja técnica: en Signal no dejamos de depender de una sola entidad, por mucho que nos caigan súper bien y nos fiemos a tope, si nos lanzamos a la descentralización tenemos que molestarnos en establecer y configurar dónde se archivan nuestros datos, pero por supuesto tendremos mucho más control). Si lo que buscas es una app fácil de instalar y usar, para convencer a tus amigues no techies ni especialmente militantes de la seguridad informática de que den el salto, la mejor opción es Signal. Sin duda.
¿Pero esto es legal en la UE? Probablemente no: según la Ley de Mercados Digitales y el RGPD, no se pueden compartir datos entre aplicaciones aunque pertenezcan a una misma empresa. Aunque también es cierto que Meta está crecidita bajo el paraguas de Trump, que presiona a la UE para que no controle a las big tech (es uno de los argumentos de su guerra arancelaria), y que las represalias europeas siempre llegan tarde y en una magnitud mucho menor que los beneficios de este tipo de empresas. La organización de derechos digitales NOYB ya está quejándose. Veremos cómo evoluciona.
Si no comparto mi email, o si estoy en la UE y se hace cumplir la ley, ¿ya me libro de publicidad? No, porque, a menos que cambien de idea, la publicidad te la van a poner, otra cosa es que no vaya tan «personalizada». En todo caso, ten en cuenta que si ya le diste tu teléfono a Instagram o Facebook, ya pueden cruzarte con tu cuenta de WhatsApp, sin necesidad de email. Y además es probable que encuentren otras maneras de identificarte, como tu IP u otra información extraída de tu teléfono, porque tienen mucha creatividad para encontrar maneras de rastrearte, sean o no legales.
¿Más preguntas? ¿Ideas para convencer a gente o facilitar la migración? Por favor, deja un comentario o escríbeme (tienes mi contacto aquí) si te haces más preguntas, o si quieres compartir tu experiencia llevando a gente a Signal u otras alternativas.
A todo esto, si con el fin del soporte de windows 10 vais a tirar ordenadores viejos… acordaos de los pobres (o sea, de mí), que seguramente mi ordenador sea bastante más viejo. 😬
Donde yo trabajo hay un proyecto para "reutilizar y recuperar" todo tipo de electrodomésticos,incluyendo ordenadores. Informaos en vuestros "puntos verdes" más cercanos. De hecho se tendría que aplicar una normativa europea sobre "reutilizacion" (Llei 7/2022 de 8 d'abril de residuos sóls contaminants per una economía circular /Promover les actividades de reparacio I PxR personas apararells)
An armed man arrested Saturday during Nashville’s “No Kings” protest has a long history of fascination with Nazis and mass murderers, NewsChannel 5 Investiga...
@Aldo2 I haven't seen him calling to throw pedos into a woodchiper, but yeah yeah I get the point, lot of people who share his opinions would throw him into a woodchipper.
@Aldo2 maybe, but I mainly see the woodchipper posts from various trad or selfie in a truck accounts. I think it primarily reeks of low IQ, because they're rarely about actual pedophiles.
@Aldo2 Oh, I remember now. Fuentes did indeed say it's trad to marry children. Yeah, any groomer or woodchipper talk is projection from him/his simps.
MAP is a really retarded term and I think it is pushed with ulterior motives, because it's both a rebranding and it lumps together hebephilia and pedophilia, which are different degrees of bad.
There's obviously something wrong about being a rw schizo nutjob, but bad behaviors and traits tend to cluster ie it's not really shock that the schizo nutjob who tries getting into a "self defense" situation also likes kids.
@Aldo2 I vaguely remember that survey, but I don't remember if they asked aoa. Like I said there's a difference between being attracted to prepubescent and pubescent features. While hebephilia seems to be to some extent a part of male sexuality, I see no reason why sexual attraction to someone unable to reproduce should be considered normal.
@Aldo2 I wanted to make a point but fell asleep midway lol. The point I wanted to make is that even though a large amount of people drive over the legal speed limit and that the speed limit and enforcement of it is to some extent arbitrary, it doesn't negate that driving at higher speeds is more dangerous.
I agree that Americans are retarded on sex (and other things) and push that retardation onto other places, but not everything they push is retarded. I don't know the history of AoC but I do know that around the 70s pedophilia was a social justice cause so how was it before that? and I also know that in the past in Europe, while you could marry children, that was primarily done by nobles for power reasons and the average age for marriage was early 20s.
>"relationship doesn't equal reproduction" No, but a sexual relationship does. Arousal is a feeling that we have to motivate reproduction. Being aroused by something/someone that can't reproduce isn't normal behavior.
Did the survey ask if the attraction is exclusive?
To answer your previous question about institutionalizing 20% of the population, no, just the ones who act. Men have quite a strong propensity towards violence and often have violent fantasies, but we only lock up those who act on it in (usually harmful) ways.
Had quite a few blackouts and brownouts here in #ABQ over the past couple days. It's only going to get worse for the next few months I'm afraid.
On Saturday we peaked at 106° where I'm at. Yesterday we peaked at 102°. Today is supposed to be a little cooler fortunately.
And people wonder why I've got so many UPSes!
(1) 20A for my desktop/ workstation (1) 15A for both of my NASes (1) 15A for my networking gear
I've got an automatic shut-off for my RV. When the voltage drops too low or gets too high it automatically kills power so some of these blackouts might be self-inflicted. Still, I'd much rather have no power than bad power.
Attending my first conference in a while, I’m tempted to do a quick presentation. Title: “Offsetting the societal and environmental costs of ChatGPT so that you can use it responsibly to power your next startup.” The slide: “You can’t.” Thank you for coming to my lightning talk.
For nvidia "data center brought in 14x as much revenue as the gaming segment last quarter": tomshardware.com/pc-components… 14-fucking-x. And I don't have hard data on this but I would bet that the GPUs in data centers spend much more time actually working, so the difference in energy use is much higher than that. It was not home gaming that made Google revert its sustainability goals: fortune.com/2024/07/10/ai-has-… Or undermine Microsoft's: sustainabilitymag.com/articles…
But hey, we're betting on AGI to jump out any day now to solve the climate crisis for us, right? Right after it answers Altman's question on how to make his company profitable: youtube.com/watch?v=gjQUCpeJG1… I don't know if this is the stupidest bubble ever, but it can't be far from the top.
What folks don’t get is that he said exactly what the VCs want to hear. If he’d said they had a revenue plan or — heaven forbid — a plan to become cashflow positive and/or profitable; they would all have pulled out immediately. That’s just not how things work in the Silicon Valley model. You grow. You dominate. You monopolise. Then you monetise. It’s a zero-sum game.
Even in SV most companies must present some semblance of a plan, at least by analogy to an already known model. But this is the moonshot of all moonshots so the normal rules don’t apply. And he said exactly what *he* needed to not be responsible for the losses when the bubble collapses.
Aral, the reports from that region are relentlessly sickening. Why do you suppose there isn't universal condemnation from the rest of the world? Is it all just due to racism?
@Professor_Stevens Sure, racism is a huge factor. But, also, in the words of the leader of the UK opposition, Kemi Badenoch: “Israel is fighting a proxy war on behalf of the UK.”
(This was not a criticism but a statement of fact and a defence for the UK’s ongoing support for israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.)
Here I confess my American ignorance of world affairs (we do have a lot to worry about locally, but still...). What's the UK's reason for supporting the destruction of Palestine?
That would explain the reaction to the Israeli attack on Iran. But am I to understand that the atrocities going on in Gaza are being tolerated (if that's the right word) by the UK (and the US) just because they are a kind of "foot in the door" for action against the larger countries to the east?
Las detenciones se producen en Berriozar y el Casco Viejo de Iruñea, relacionadas con manifestaciones contra la presencia del partido de extrema derecha.
Israel ha industrializado el terrorismo de Estado - mpr21
"Irán ya no es víctima de las incursiones israelíes, sino que se ha convertido en el trágico e implacable espejo de su política exterior. Es una consecuencia lógica y directa de décadas de provocaciones no autorizadas"
Se os acabo el monopolio de la violencia en oriente medio putos mierda sionistas, bienvenidos a la realidad cabrones, arde telaviv, haifa es un puto cráter y suma y sigue.
Hubo una época, no hace mucho, en que Israel reivindicaba el monopolio de la violencia en Oriente Medio, exhibiendo su poderío tras su Cúpula de Hierro, sus armas estadounidenses y sus armas nucleares no declaradas, dictando su voluntad a los medios …
Israel ha invocado tanto el infierno que arde en él.
Sin olvidar las perlas como:
Irán ya no se conformará con ser la víctima silenciosa de provocaciones y ataques ilegales [...] sino el brutal regreso de la justicia histórica. [...] Israel está siendo devuelto al lugar que le corresponde, no por la diplomacia ni los tribunales internacionales, sino por la fuerza implacable de un Estado que se niega a permitir que lo humillen y aniquilen [...]
@disisdeguey @xesfur De acuerdo, pero las armas nucleares tienen dos nombres, uno que utilizan de cara a la sociedad y otro que responde a su propósito real.
El primero ws "armas de disuasión" y el real es "armas de venganza" ya que en realidad se diseñaron para que en caso de que alguien las use el otro bando también y se provoque una destrucción mutua.
@disisdeguey Ya, pero en cambio los países árabes en general, están dando un espectáculo lamentable. Ni están, ni se les espera. Se ve que quedaron muy tocados desde la Guerra de los Seis Días, y además muchos países laicos donde el panarabismo de los 70 era importante, han ido cayendo por el camino.
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Israel kills 56 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them desperately seeking aid | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/16/h…
Remember when people were trying to say people being shot in bread lines was from warning shots and now those same people just ignore dozens of people a day being shot in bread lines?
this is just /one/ of a multitude of atrocities that are being ignored & that israel used to try to justify, but now realise they don't even need to do so. i genuinely feel as though i'm losing my mind.
If I was a kid and I found out my parents intentionally infected me with COVID multiple times I would make sure my parents suffered horribly during their twilight years. Nothing illegal. But definitely enough to make them regret their life choices.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al 1) The #Fediverse is not #Mastodon. It is vast, and it is wide. Mastodon may be the most *popular* platform that is part of the Fediverse, but that is only because of Marketing. Think Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux vs. FreeBSD vs. every other operating system on the planet. Windows is #1 due to marketing only. Doesn't mean it's the best. 2) Even among Mastodon servers only the flagship server is in Germany. Anyone is free to run a Mastodon server and a lot of them are located outside of Germany. 3) Equating the Fediverse with Mastodon and a Zionist developer in Germany completely ignores the vibrant tapestry that is the Fediverse. 4) Just avoid Mastodon. Seriously. Find a different server. Find a different platform. Mastodon sucks monkey balls but 99% of people never know this because they happy to bitch, moan, and complain about Mastodon sucking when 99% of other Fedi platforms and instances have already solved all the crap they're complaining about Mastodon doing.
Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the worst of the worst. Almost a century ago, you’re the kind of person who would have been cheering on Hitler. And yes, that’s also a valid comparison.
(Genocide-loving Germans on mastodon.social don’t @ me. My mentions are a genocide-apologist-free zone.)
Good summary. No idea what it has to do with my post, which doesn’t mention fediverse once, but still, appreciate the effort. Always good to reiterate the facts.
I was responding to your post about how Gargron (and mastodon.social) is anti-Palestine. Simply pointing out there are other alternatives out there, nothing more.
Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent.
Just encountered a water moccasin also known as a cottonmouth snake in the blackberries. I decided not to be so foolish as to stop and take a photo with my phone. Just imagine a very angry-looking, stocky, black snake displaying a triangular head and posturing as if it were giving me a few seconds head start.😅
I know. My analytical mind was like, "Hm. I wonder if regular non-venomous black snakes can mimic vipers." But luckily my amygdala was like, "Move it, sister!" LOL
Ah, yes, another person who can’t understand large numbers.
The combined net worth of all billionaires in the US is around $6T. That would only fund the federal government (not state and locals, just the federal government) for about 18 months. And you could only tax that once. And that’s just current spending, it doesn’t address the $37T debt.
it's a matter of having a fraudulent monetary system. many people make this sophomoric mistake of blaming "capitalism" (freedom and private property) for the fraudulent, private, fractional reserve central banking system we have that allows bankers to create virtually unlimited money and give it directly to themselves.
until the banking system is fixed and the systemic fraud is eliminated, wealth inequality won't change.
this applies to whatever political system is in place- if the currency is issued by fiat and the monetary system is fraudulent, it really makes no difference whether it's communist, fascist, or otherwise. wealth will be concentrated in the bank accounts of whoever issues the money by fiat
Fractional reserve is fine when properly managed. We can talk about how much reserves should be on hand but zero is incredibly inefficient.
As long as loans are actually paid back, it’s not inflatiionary over the long term since the dollars are returned (with interest) and that money is not chasing goods and services. Defaulted loans are different, so you need to have good risk management and keep those under control.
Wealth inequality is simply the result of freedom. People make choices, not all of those choices are good ones. If you started fresh and gave everyone the same amount of money, inequality will return as time goes on. It’s the natural order of things. Some people may not like it, but true equality == slavery. If you want a truly equal society, we have a place where everyone has the same housing, food, clothing, etc. We call that place prison because that’s what it takes to enforce that system.
@midway you're deeply misinformed. fractional reserve is not "fine" on any level, it's fraud. it's double-book accounting. it means the bank does not have your money. especially when combined with lending at interest, the bank creates money out of nothing, loans it out to people, then gets paid back plus interest, requiring perpetual, inflationary debt money creation that is mathematically impossible to ever repay. this is BY DEFINITION inflationary.
i don't expect everyone to be equal, or have equal outcome. i expect *** equal OPPORTUNITY*** meaning we don't have some rules for private bankers and others for private individuals, specifically that they control the creation of fake debt-money (counterfeit, essentially, with a power monopoly of the state, yet they're not answerable to the taxpayers) yet the rest of us can't create a competing currency.
what we have is socialized risk, and privatized profit. this level of wealth inequality isn't just a result of freedom, it's primarily a result of fraud, and lack of freedom
so i don't know what crack pot econ school you went to but you should ask for a refund
If a bank must keep all of your deposits on hand, it can’t loan money out and would therefore have to charge you fees to hold it. That is a very inefficient use of capital.
I never said that money should be loaned out that would be impossible to repay. That is the exact point I made…proper risk management is key. Some loans will default to be sure…it’s the real world. But money paid back isn’t inflation over the long term because you are taking money out of circulation by paying back a loan. That money is not chasing goods and services and acts as a demand suppressant to counteract the demand increase by the loan.
If you want to live in a world without a credit market, good luck to you. It is literally the basis of our entire modern society. Go live out in the woods and barter…there’s a ton of empty space out there.
This is, in no way, a defense of how every detail of our system today. But the underlying concepts are fine. It’s all in the risk management. I’m fine with there not being “too big to fail” banks…those are a bad idea. Reasonable regulation on what banks can do based on their balance sheet is important. Under that scheme, some banks can fail and their losses need not be socialized. This would change consumer as well as institutional behaviors that are the core issues with the system. Risk, like pain, can be a good thing…it helps prevent doing stupid things. There should be risk in the system. Trying to eliminate it is what leads to dumb policies.
@midway yes, a bank should keep all your deposits on hand unless it's an investment account and you explicitly authorize them to invest it on your behalf. if that costs money then so be it, there's value there. you should pay for it.
the fractional reserve system we have is beyond fraudulent ,there's zero reserve ratio, they create the money for loans out of nothing, so it's not like they actually loan out "your" money they loan out fake money that they litereally punched up on a computer out of nothing (this is one of the primary ways money is created in the """federal""" """reserve""" bank system, through loan origination. so to be absolutely clear, that's so far from the function of a savings bank- it's something completely different. again, the system is fraudulent.
and the taxpayers are on the hook for endless bailouts. this is how we ended up with 25% of our federal budget being interest on the debt. the system needs to be burned to the ground and replaced with sound money, imo a combination of constitutional gold and silver money, and non-fiat crypto like btc, and allowing other competing currencies.
Feel free to bury metals in your backyard and barter. I’m good making interest from a bank on spare cash. Credit isn‘t a bad thing when used properly. It’s how we have grown and advanced over the last century. Is it perfect? No. Should people diversify? Yes. But full reserve banking makes no sense. If you want a bank that is more local and looks out for its customers more, credit unions are a thing. Different options for different people.
>It’s how we have grown and advanced over the last century giving a fraudulent private banking system credit for "how we've advanced" is idiotic. we've advanced IN SPITE OF the parasitic drain on society extracting such a massive amount of wealth out of the productive economy
Someone's taken feeding the birds in Kelvingrove Park to a whole new level! This was the set up I found on the parapet of the Prince of Wales Bridge when I visited it for this morning's dog walk.
The Israeli-Iranian conflict has lessons on market power and war. So does China's use of rare earth magnets. Plus Meta tries a big AI acquisition, and Warner-Discovery splits up after a dumb merger.
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Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the worst of the worst. Almost a century ago, you’re the kind of person who would have been cheering on Hitler. And yes, that’s also a valid comparison.
(Genocide-loving Germans on mastodon.social don’t @ me. My mentions are a genocide-apologist-free zone.)
i absolutely agree. thank you for this! I received this same message a few days back for responding with an image. And the image did not fall into any of the categories listed in this response from the admins!
stop calling every genocide a "holocaust", an holocaust is a sacrifice, an offering, it's the total opposite of a genocide
The jews were not genocided as a some sort of sacrificial ritual, and neither are the palestinians
That's why we call the genocide of the jews "Shoah" which means "disaster", and we should use the same vocabulary when speaking of the palestinian genocide, it's not a sacrifice, it's a genocide
Language essentialism is a big sign of Nazism/Fascism. As per Umberto Eco:
"Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak.[...] [E]lements of Ur-Fascism are common to different forms of dictatorship. All the Nazi or Fascist schoolbooks made use of an impoverished vocabulary, and an elementary syntax, in order to limit the instruments for complex and critical reasoning. But we must be ready to identify other kinds of Newspeak, even if they take the apparently innocent form of a popular talk show"
This is another of those scenarios @pluralistic is fond of reminding us of, where those responsible were warned, loudly, before the damage & forged ahead anyway.
It's bad enough that we, modern humanity, collectively, can't stop pissing where we sleep, but rewarding the biggest bed pissers with billionaire status might be just a little over the top in terms of bad idea'ness...
Es geht nicht um Atomwaffen. Es geht #Netanyahu um #RegimeChange - hin zu einer Art neuem #Iran als Vasallenstaat für #Israel und USA.
»Analysis | Netanyahu's True Goal in the War With Iran Is the One He Isn't Openly Admitting. Israeli PM Netanyahu often speaks of 'historical changes that will be talked about for generations' – and his real ambitions for this war against Iran certainly fit the description« haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2… (Paywall)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu often speaks of 'historical changes that will be talked about for generations' – and his real ambitions for this war against Iran certainly fit the description
Implicitly addressing #Israel, #EU says diplomacy is best method to address #Iran nuclear program
Foreign policy chief Kallas: "We all agreed the urgent need for de-escalation. Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, and diplomacy is the solution to prevent this, and EU will play its part"
Analyst in #Tehran: "For years, #Iran civil society had been fractured: student activists demanding freedoms, ethnic minorities decrying repression, women resisting the mandatory hijab and a middle class crushed by inflation. Yet #Israel aggression transformed dissent into solidarity"
Mes amis, maintenant que les sionistes ne sont plus en sécurité en Israël, est-ce qu’il va falloir leur trouver une nouvelle terre pour y fonder un autre État ? Parce que l’argument principal pour cet État paria, c’était que le peuple juif fuyait la persécution… et aujourd’hui, ils fuient la guerre, par bateau.
**Alors, on leur accorde quel pays cette fois ? L’Égypte, puisque les Hébreux y étaient esclaves et que Moïse a été élevé comme fils adoptif de Pharaon ? Ou peut-être Ur, dans l’Irak actuel, puisque Abraham était originaire de là-bas, selon les textes ? **
With the announcement from #Whatsapp injecting ads into their proprietary app, we cannot stress enough how important it is to keep our communications secure and private using open standards like #XMPP .
Please tell your friends and relatives to join XMPP. There are many servers out there open for registrations. I can even consider opening my personal XMPP server to new users if that helps.
Disclaimer I am not a lawyer or a cryptographer - the following article is based on my current, superficial knowledge in computer science, software licensing and a tiny bit of common sense.
Básicamente, porque el gobierno está intentando hacer la oposición más objetiva para que no entren hijos de jueces por favoritismo, sino porque aprueban.
¿Quién respalda esa huelga? La asociación conservadora de jueces y fiscales.
¿Cuántas huelgas ha habido estos años por la falta de recursos de los juzgados? ¿O por un Constitucional que no se renovaba, poniendo en tela de juicio todo el sistema judicial?
No hay más preguntas señoría. El ataque por tierra, mar y aire a este gobierno es apabullante... 😓
¿Os acordáis de que Trump prometió acabar con la guerra de Ucrania en 48 horas y aseguró que con él de presidente ningún país se atrevería a iniciar un conflicto bélico a gran escala? nytimes.com/live/2025/06/17/wo…
Trump surprised immigration hardliners last week when his administration announced it would pause some immigration raids that were hurting the agriculture and hospitality industries.
Then just as quickly, the MAGA pendulum swung back.
A new wave of raids would target immigrants in Democrat-run cities — and Monday there were signs that farms, hotels and restaurants again will be subject to raids #AureFreePress #News
From the Protestant church Sankt Peter und Paul in Görlitz, in the eastern German federal state of Saxony, one can easily see Poland. Next to the church, a
Como sé que Mastodon está lleno de gente lista y activista vengo con una petición de ayuda: si la empresa de aguas de tu municipio te cobra un gasto de agua desorbitado (estamos hablando de una salvajada cercana a los 1000 euros) y tú dices que es imposible que exista ese gasto por más que ellos digan, ¿hay alguna manera de demostrarlo? ¿de reclamar y que te den la razón?
Estamos alucinando con la factura y lo peor es que allí nos han dicho que la lectura del contador está bien, así que a lo mejor fue de una pérdida de agua ya arreglada porque este mes la lectura vuelve a estar en valores normales. Les hemos dicho que es imposible, que no ha habido ninguna pérdida, así que como no se arreglase por arte de magia, tiene que ser otra la razón. El fontanero nos ha confirmado que no hay pérdida. Ellos insisten en que la factura es correcta. Les hemos dicho que para ese gasto de agua tendríamos que tener una piscina olímpica en casa o algo así, que no hay forma posible, es que están de coña. ¿Opciones? 😖
Guys I trust you more than random search results. How do you deal with an avoidant woman? A woman who won't say yes or no even though there's chemistry and tension, how do you break through her shell ("break" shouldn't conjure images of force it's a gentle cracking of a suffocating dome, it's saving her) and make (again, so many people think this implies some sort of force, no no no, when you make someone get out of the way of a speeding bus at the last second is that bad??? No it's heroic!) her understand that the two of you have permission from the universe to be together and to enjoy your time together and to be devoted to each other???????? You bros seem to have it figured out I know at least some of you faggots are married and shit.
Any suggestions on how to get non-tech oriented people to switch from WhatsApp to Signal? I'm having trouble; political arguments and worries about encryption via incorporating AI don't seem to work for many people, who just go "I don't want to have to install a new app/check two different texting apps" and that's it. #technology #meta #signal #whatsapp
Well what I'm doing is offered myself to install Signal or Deltachat on their phones. Specially to people who are normal users (friends who don't care or don't know how to) and by now a few had say yes. Some just install these apps without a problem. Sometimes I just tell them:"you probably have a dozen apps that you don't use, so why not this one so we can message?" There's probably other options.
Excellent and informative presentation on how Arab states have been funding Israeli warcrimes, propping up their economy, selling out the Palestinians, while talking a big talk about solidarity.
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#Netanyahu en colère contre les Américains 🇺🇸 qui refusent de faire la guerre pour lui : « Aujourd'hui, c'est Tel-Aviv. Demain, ce sera New York. Écoutez, je comprends l'Amérique d'abord. Je ne comprends pas l'Amérique morte », a déclaré le 1er ministre israélien 🇮🇱 à #ABCNews.
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