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I came across this old thread on . The question brings out the core Conservative belief that some people are lazy or "worthless" and "why should I pay for lazy people" or "why should I have to work for someone else to live off my labor?"
Many, many people on this thread say outright that people who they deem "lazy" don't deserve food or shelter or anything a human needs to live.
Is there a good counter to this talking point? It's pretty disgusting TBH being confronted with this. I know it's what they really believe but it still stings to read it out over and over again.
I don't understand how some people can think humans don't have an inherent right to exist. Not very "pro-life" of these people.
"Lazy" is an opinion and our society is built to treat people who aren't helping a Capitalist make profit or become a Capitalist themselves like they're burdens on society.
Life isn't fair, it never has and it never will be. Maybe some of your money goes to help a person who doesn't "work as hard as you"? There's also people who are born millionaires, people who have investments paying them for no work, people who win lotteries and jackpots or marry into wealth and never have to lift a finger again.
Forcing people to work in order to live doesn't sound fair to me. It sounds like slavery with extra steps. What kind of freedom do we truly have if we can't choose to withold our labor or check out of the system altogether?
I'm struggling a little mentally with feeling guilt around my failing job search. Technically I'm working on building three income streams, maybe four, but it feels like "failure" because I'm not making enough just yet to cover all bills. It's not for a lack of trying but there's ti.es where I have no energy to do much and it makes me feel terrible. This part of Conservatism always drove me up a wall. Hopefully some of you have good ways to fight against it.
Your money is already going going to assholes who don't need to do shit because they just happen to own the company you work at. Why be mad if that money was spread around to people who actually need it instead of just going to a few billionaires? You hate people you consider "lazy" enough that you think they should starve and that it's not worth helping anyone else if it means helping ONE "lazy" person?
That argument always gives me vibes of "but I've had to go through corporeal punishment when I was a kid, it's not fair that children now should have it easier".
"Things were bad for me and I still made it, I don't want it to be easier for other people or it makes all I've gone through feel worthless"
The Trump regime just censors scientific information it does not like, even though the American taxpayers paid for it. Any info that reveals the consequences of the fossil fuel business model is suppressed. They prefer a population of ignorant sheep.
The Trump administration shut down a website with national reports on climate change. Scientists decry the move, saying it robs the public of vital information.
Japanโs Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the worldโs largest pension fund, reported a significant $61.1 billion loss in the first quarter of 2025 (JanuaryโMarch), marking its first across-the-board quarterly loss since mid-2022.
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1. Regularly flags payments to subscription services as potential fraud even though I've used them for years, paying with the same debit card, and in spite of the fact that I've indicated many times that I trust these services; and 2. Has never identified a real instance of fraud
Whatever they're doing to detect potential fraud, it has a large false positive rate and does not seem adaptive (at least in my case). It's especially odd to me that this bank asks if I've authorized transactions it flagged as potentially fraudulent, I indicate no, this is not fraud, and yet the system continues to flag transactions with the same vendor as potentially fraudulent. I'm giving it a reinforcement signal that couldn't be more clear!
Edit: this post is not a request for banking or financial advice, nor an invitation to critique my choices. I'm venting about what seems to be a poor algorithm and if you have any comments or insights into that particular topic I'm happy to hear them.
Stop using your debit card for purchases. Debit is for bank drafts only. If a fraudulent charge is issued, it might take your bank the full two-weeks grace period to restore your funds and you might miss an important payment.
Use credit cards for all payments always. If a fraudulent charge is issued on your credit card, it is the bank's money, not yours, that is stolen. They've got a fraud department to protect their assets and aid in prosecuting fraud. During that time your credited money for that fraudulent charge is restored.
I only ever use my debit card at the bank for cash withdrawals.
Edit: I have several cards that I pick through based on the purchase. Costco for fuel, a travel card for all restaurants and travel, and a cash back card for online shit. And I use cash for local businesses now because their cc fees are high and I appreciate having a local economy that isn't just national chains.
Why do you think you're entitled to dictate to me how I live my life? You know nothing about me nor how I make my choices. This is an astonishingly inapt thing to post.
I don't know where you live, but in the US the relevant consumer protection laws for credit vs debit vary pretty dramatically. You're far more protected using a credit card than a debit card for purchases. With debit card fraud, they can drain your account of money you actually have; with credit, they're just borrowing money in your name - you haven't lost anything until you actually make a credit card payment. Furthermore, the maximum liability for credit fraud is $50; the maximum for debit fraud can be the total amount stolen, depending on when you report it.
I suspect your bank has their fraud settings tuned so high because debit card fraud can be catastrophic. If someone fraudulently uses your debit card fraudulently and drains your account, you may start bouncing checks, lose your ability to buy food or pay rent/mortgage, etc. Those things carry fees, fines, and long-lasting consequences that, even after the fraudulent money is returned (which can take a long time), you'll still have to deal with. It's especially risky for people who have limited funds - a few bounced check or late fees can be the difference between staying afloat and sinking into an inescapable debt cycle.
Additionally, if you fail to notice a fraudulent transaction for more than 60 days on a debit card, you lose any legal protection; that money is gone unless your bank decides out of the goodness of its heart to reimburse you. I don't know any banks that would do that.
I highly doubt they have per-customer tuning of their system-wide fraud monitoring software. Furthermore, the new hotness (as of a few years ago anyway) in scams is subscription services, where you make a purchase but the vendor signs you up for recurring subscription, and makes impossible to cancel. I don't pretend to know the inner workings of fraud detection algorithms, but it seems reasonable that recurring subscriptions to niche things could trigger this. Without knowing your details, it's hard to guess why they're flagging, and it'd all be speculation anyway, but it's possible that the vendor you're subscribing to has been flagged as fraudulent by other customers - maybe they used dark patterns and tricked people into subscriptions, like many US Republican organizations were doing in the run-up to the 2024 elections. Maybe they make it difficult to unsubscribe, so customers report it as fraud to get the charges to stop. Maybe the payment processor has actually been fraudulently charging customers (it's not uncommon for small businesses to get compromised and have their systems used for fraud-adjacent activities like validating stolen card numbers).
At the end of the day it seems like being moderately annoyed by false positives is a better outcome than being financially ruined by a false negative; your bank is probably tuning their software with that in mind. Even if you're in a financial situation where fraud won't affect you, they likely have customers who aren't so lucky.
If it's a source of that much frustration for you, you always have the option of switching banks, or switching your subscriptions to a different payment method. I highly doubt you'll have much luck getting them to re-tune their entire system just to avoid the inconvenience of a fraud alert, especially in the context of debit card transactions.
You are now the second person who has 'splained at me how banking and credit works, without knowing a single thing about my circumstances or the nature of the account I'm using. You didn't ask any clarifying questions, nor inquire into whether I was seeking advice (which I'm not), before writing all that--including a suggestion to switch banks, which is absurd. What is going on out there that people think this is a good thing to do at someone on the internet?
I was commenting on the lousy nature of their fraud detection algorithm and how it fails to respond appropriately to clear feedback. Regardless of the level of risk involved, a vendor that the customer has stated is safe over a dozen times should not be flagged as potentially fraudulent. Doing so is wasting everyone's time, attention, and resources, and detracts from the purpose of a fraud alert. Alerts don't tend to function when there are too many false positives. If you work at a bank and have insights into why this algorithm might exhibit such poor behavior, I'm all ears. If you want to vent along with me, great. Otherwise what are you doing?
That's not cat abuse! Those fuckers try to kill you by tripping you. I talked to a client whose cat brought baby socks to the dog. Kitty hopped the baby gate that kept sock eating dog outta laundry room. Dog had $3000 ER bill! Cats are devious.
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#Multipolarity is not a choice but an objective reality. It is replacing the outdated #neoliberal model which was essentially built on #neocolonial practises
"โUndocumented immigrants, Muslims, pregnant people, journalists, really anyone who doesn't support himโ need to reconsider their personal privacy safeguards, says Runa Sandvik,"
I have no idea. Probably not much. And that's probably because it makes no sense whatsoever when you have the population density of the US and you can just hop on a plane
The rail systems in China and Western Europe rely on high population densities but simply don't exist throughout most of the United States. In order to justify such rail systems in the United states, the population density of the country would have to rise by a factor of nearly 10. Actually doing that would bring about a huge ecological disaster, because much of the north American continent is already straining in a number of different critical resources such as water, and the amount of food production we could expect to see from the United States would drop catastrophically which would be a humanitarian disaster for huge swaths of the world.
When Europeans criticize Americans, they're continuing their long and storied history of trying to export their bad ideas mindlessly and end up killing a bunch of people in other continents. In the few cases that they were successful, they apologize for it later but obviously they don't feel sorry enough to stop trying to do it.
Es ist einfach nur bitter, wie Jahrzehnte der Annรคherung & die Errungenschaften von Schengen fรผr eine Handvoll Populismus & Symbolpolitik aufgegeben werden. Ich habe in meiner Kindheit Stundenlang an dieser Grenze gestanden. Was fรผr ein Rรผckschritt. ๐ข
Gestern, again: Halbe Stunde sinnloser Stau, nur um an zwei mรครig motiviert aussehenden Beamten vorbeizufahren. So viel Verschwendung von Lebenszeit. รber die wirtschaftlichen Folgen wird kaum gesprochen. Ebensowenig รผber das Trauma der von Racial Profiling Betroffenen.
Korrektur: Alle Kontrollen zusammengerechnet รผber die Jahre habe ich sicher Tage- oder sogar Wochenlang mit meiner Familie dort im Stau gestanden. Ein paar mal mรผssten wir sogar rechts ranfahren & den Kofferraum รถffnen. Wahrscheinlich, weil mein Vater irgendwie โverdรคchtigโ aussah. Ich bin wรผtend.
Keine Kindheitserfahrungen mit DE/PL, aber dafรผr reichlich mit DE/DK. Rรผckstau vor Puttgarden war Standardprogramm, auch auf dem Landweg (A7) hat man im Hochsommer gern mal ein Weilchen gestanden. Will man nicht zurรผckhaben.
Das ist eben die Politik, die Menschen machen, die gerade mal von 12:00 Uhr bis Mittag denken. Und diese Menschen wurden von denen gewรคhlt, deren (Denk)horizont an der eigenen Nasenspitze endet.
Dank unserer "Regierung" steuern wir auf einen Haufen Kleinstaaten mit Feudalsystem zu. Zusรคtzlich wird die Industrie so lange gepampert, bis auch der letzte Zug Richtung Innovationen abgedampft ist. (todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/1โฆ)
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Reiche will Konzernen die Stromrechnung bezahlen
Schwerindustrie und Rechenzentren kรถnnen Milliardensubventionen fรผr den Strompreis erwarten. Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Reiche liefert abโฆโฆ
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Es schmerzt jedes Mal, wenn ich รผber die Grenze nach Dรคnemark fahre und dort die Kontrolleure sehe - und jetzt auch noch in der Gegenrichtung, wegen Faeser damals noch - es ist eine Schande!
jupp... ich finde nur seltsam, dass hier der default-Reflex "Denkt denn niemand an die Wirtschaft?" gezogen wird.... wahrscheinlich liegts daran, dass das nix mit Klimaschutz zu tun hat, dann is Wirtschaft auch egal.
Mich macht das auch wirklich wรผtend. In den Nachrichten wird das noch als Erfolg vermerkt. Dank der Grenzkontrollen habe es in den letzten Wochen weniger Geflรผchtete gegeben ๐ก Die Einheit Europas ist fรผr mich von so einem hohen Wert, ich kรถnnte wirklich heulen, was die Populisten daraus machen.
Gleiche Erfahrung neulich bei der Heimfahrt aus dem Frankreich-Urlaub. Nach Mulhouse 30 min Stau, deutsche Polizisten an der Grenze, und rausgezogen wurde ein Auto mit bulgarischem Kennzeichen (wussten die Sheriffs nicht, dass Bulgarien EU-Mitglied ist?). Absolut bescheuerter Flashback in die 80er Jahre.
ja, die Grenzkontrollen damals waren so รคtzend. Aus einer eigentlich kurzen Fahrt, schnell rรผber zur Groรtante, wurden mehrere Stunden verschwendete Lebenszeit.
Weiร echt nicht, warum das irgendwer zurรผck wollte.
@Katharina Nocun und dobrindt und merz sei dank, brauchen sich die polen noch nciht mal irgendwie zu rechtfertigen. sie kรถnnen einfach auf den erfinder der auslรคndermaut zeigen ... und der sitzt grinsend bei netanjahu und schmiedet neue plรคne ...
Davon Mal abgesehen Schaden sie dem Einzelhandel und den Tankstellen in Polen massiv. Das alles ist total absurd. Frankfurt Oder und Slubice sind quasi eine Stadt. Das zerstรถrt das alles.
from #972Magazine Sunday Recap newsletter [published in Israel] 07/06/2025
**Other articles** * #Gazaโs Al-Baqa Cafe was a sanctuary amid the genocide. Now it lies in ruins * The #Knesset vs #AymanOdeh *The #UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants * โIt comes with the territoryโ: How #Israelโs archaeologists legitimize annexation
Why are local energy consumers subsidizing data centers?
Answer: Because Big Tech are corporate welfare scammers
"The truth is, these data centers will create very few permanent jobs, but will create staggering costs for electricity ratepayers and everyone else across our state."
In Stuttgart erschoss ein Polizist einen 29-jรคhrigen Algerier. Offenbar war der Mann auf der Flucht โ ein Szenario, in dem der Schusswaffengebrauch unzulรคssig wรคre. nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192413.โฆ
Extract of Letter from US Rep Anna V. Eskamani, PhD (FLA-47), Jul 7, 2025
๏ปฟโLast week, four of my fellow state lawmakers and I traveled deep into the Everglades to visit Floridaโs newest immigrant detention camp, a remote, mosquito-infested facility now being called by the State of Florida โAlligator Alcatrazโ.
โDespite our statutory authority and duty to conduct oversight visits of state detention centers, we were denied access. 1/4
Extract of Letter from US Rep Anna V. Eskamani, PhD (FLA-47), Jul 7, 2025
[#Florida : Call to Action] โWe are demanding answers, filing records requests, and sounding the alarm. But we need your voice, too.
โConsider signing this petition demanding that the Florida Department of Emergency Management focus on hurricane response, not detaining immigrants in harsh conditions and with no due process.โ
[Extract of Letter from US Rep Anna V. Eskamani, PhD (FLA-47), Jul 7, 2025]
โWe donโt even know who is paying for this facility โ the state or the feds โbut we do know that itโs expected to cost the public more than $450 million. And the contracts? Awarded in the dark, with no transparency, to DeSantis-connected donors.โฆ 3/4 #Florida #AlligatorAlcatraz #ICE #DeSantis #Gop #Trump
From packing an emergency kit to navigating FEMA aid to finding legal services and mental health resources, this is a comprehensive guide to surviving and coping with natural disasters.
A pediatrician has been fired over a vile post suggesting that the more than 80 killed in the horrific Texas floods โ including dozens of kids โ were Trump supporters who got โwhat they voted for.โ
Dr. Christina B. Propst drew widespread scorn following the disparaging, since-deleted post under her old Facebook username, Chris Tina, according to Mediaite.
โMay all visitors, children, non-MAGA voters and pets be safe and dry,โ Probst wrote in the now-viral post.
Heard chanting and marching while doing yardwork, zipped over to check it out, andโฆ
โฆlo and behold! an emergency protest in favor of immigrants rights, organized by miracmn.com in response to the SCOTUS threatening birthright citizenship.
Despite the apparent short notice, folks brought their game. Got a couple of photos (with permission). The guillotine actually moves up and down while the rider pedals!
Now Iโm on MIRACโs mailing list, so hopefully I donโt miss the next one.
Also, thoughโฆit is just deeply heartening to randomly encounter a protest: not a thing that I already knew about, but a thing that just โขshowed upโข in my neighborhood. It makes me feel like the circle of resistance is much bigger than my own little circle. And it is.
Thatโs the feeling I want us to create: โWow, these protests are everywhere.โ
Things like this are not just a symbolic expression of discontent.
Fascism depends to a โขveryโข large extent on anticipatory compliance. It needs people to feel like things are going that way, itโs already a done deal, better to just go along with it.
Every time dissent is visible, every way dissent feels ubiquitous, every time somebody feels like theyโre not alone in opposition, every time somebody whoโs tempted to comply fears there might be hell to pay if they do โ that directly, concretely damages the fascistsโ power.
I hear you! I also want to help these small protests find each other, merge, and grow stronger in numbers. People need to be see themselves, understand how many of us there are. We need millions in the streets, we need momentum, we need everyone to understand that the large majority of the country is disgusted by this unamerican bullshit.
Maya Khadra: Liban: Sรฉrie de bombardements israรฉliens touchant le sud et la vallรฉe de la Bรฉkaa. Lโintensitรฉ des frappes dโaujourdโhui รฉgale la force des bombardements pendant la guerre. Cโest une rรฉponse ร lโentรชtement du Hezbollah qui refuse le dรฉsarmement et qui risque dโentraรฎner le Liban encore une fois dans une guerre que les Libanais nโont pas choisie. En effet, la proposition de lโenvoyรฉ US spรฉcial Tom Barrack de dรฉsarmer le Hezb nโa pas eu de rรฉponse officielle libanaise. La milice, quant ร elle, a refusรฉ catรฉgoriquement le dรฉsarmement. Encore un รฉchec pour le Prรฉsident de la Rรฉpublique et le Premier ministre. x.com/mayakhadra/status/194196โฆ
sure. These two people with piles of money nobody can explain set up a sex island with children on it for the rich and powerful out of the โgoodness of their heartsโ.
#Haaretz is adding that #IDF arrested this morning (Monday) the chief editor of the Palestinian news agency Ma'an. Al-Laham is also the manager of the West Bank offices of the Lebanese channel Al-Mayadeen, which is affiliated with Hezbollah. According to Maan, last night IDF forces arrested him at his home in the village of al-Doha in the Bethlehem area, and during the arrest the forces caused destruction in his house. It was also reported that al-Laham is expected to be brought to the Ofer court this coming Thursday for a hearing on extending his detention. The IDF has not yet provided a response on the matter.
One of the reporters of this item is Jack Khoury. AFAIK, he was one of the first Israeli journalists working in mainstream media to publish evidence of the genocide in Gaza on his social media account.
[December 2023] "The video now circulating from northern Gaza. Journalist Anas Sharif is releasing documentation from the Jabalia refugee camp. In the background, a boy can be seen carrying out the body of a girl in pouring rain. In Jabalia, they report finding 15 bodies in a state of decay inside a school. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the death toll has risen to 18,608 killed and more than 50,000 wounded since the start of the war."
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A new report by Allianz Research warns that this summerโs extreme heat could cut Europeโs GDP by up to 0.5 percentage points in 2025, likening a single day over 32ยฐC to "half a day of national strikes."
Heatwaves and climate change are projected to inflict severe damage on both global and national economies, with Germany facing potential losses of up to โฌ1 trillion by 2050.
The economic toll is uneven across regions. Spain is expected to suffer the most, with projected losses reaching 1.4%, while Germanyโs economy may shrink by just 0.1%. Italy, Greece, France, and China could each face declines nearing 1%. In the United States, heat waves are projected to reduce economic output by 0.6%.
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins have expressed interest in letting H5N1 outbreaks spread unchecked through U.S. poultry farms. Health experts warn it could lead to a new pandemic.
Massive volumes of gold are being moved from Western countries, to vaults outside the SWIFT system and Western regulation.Even for the world's top gold minin...
Crazy how the Democrats, who โare the sameโ as Republicans, all voted against gutting healthcare and creating a police state, while all but 3 Republicans voted for it. One of these things is not like the other.
The biggest problem with the Democratic establishment is while they will block the most insane shit possible. They also enable the most insane shit possible.
People are done and tired of centrism, which normalizes economic policies that damage Americans. Embrace of neoliberalism by democratic centric is their chief problem.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai @mcnado recently saw this stated as "they think their job is to meditate between the oppressors and the oppressed"
I think that hits the nail on the head, and certainly explains all the half measures.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell really it doesnโt begin to explain who this โestablishmentโ is. And the typo is just plain distracting. Pointing an accusing finger at โthemโ doesnโt provide any way to measure or act on the outrage you profess.
@aardvark I donโt know how old you are, but if youโve been around for a couple of decades, youโll notice that the political leadership which sticks around for an extraordinary long time our individuals that sit a top a donation network as well as a patronage network. The patronage network consist of businesses who work in politics with consultants that then the other thing..
@aardvark And occasionally, youโll be privy to news which reveals that these businesses and individuals who work and politics are under a very tight leash. If they cross somebody like a Pelosi or the equivalent on the Republican side and choose you know first amendment choose to support a progressive, and Nancy doesnโt like it, they wonโt have any work anymore.
And the leadership of why the party just happens to have a remarkable amount of investment in the stock market.
@aardvark This generally means that their investment interest now align with business. And while the Democrats can also be very pro-labor, they walk fairly thin line and largely on the side of business rather than unabashedly working for the interest of the the public in general, especially people who work for wages.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @aardvark The characterization of those saying they are the same is misleading and falls into the trap of one side good, one bad, when they're both shit but to different degrees. Harris wouldn't have fucked things up so badly for sure but it is ALSO clear that Dems have failed SO horribly in being responsive to people and planet that they lose to a nazi asshole like Trump. WE NEED BETTER--but at this point?
Itโs amazing how this thread filled up with โbut Democrats wonโt immediately give me <insert policy here> and I want it now!โ
To those critics, I offer another thought: if you sit on the sidelines, never voting until a candidate offers you everything on your wishlist, you will never get closer to your ideals. Because you knew that Trump would actually move us AWAY FROM whatever it is you wanted.
At least we donโt have anybody here pretending Harris would have been doing the same things Trump is doing. Because I have LITERALLY seen that nonsense on Fedi. Iโm not sure how detached from reality one must be to not see the differences between a year ago and today.
@mls14 But she still LOST to that felon nazi...THAT requires serious consideration. The fact the DNC has also viciously gone after actual progressive candidates to primary shits like Cuellars, etc. underscores the failure of the corporate, neoliberal philosophy of the Dem party.
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Ein Zeitraffervideo aus Texas schockiert: Innerhalb von nur zehn Minuten zeigt es das fatale Tempo der Sturzflut, die รผber 80 Menschen das Leben kostete โ darunter viele Kinder. Naturgewalt in voller Wucht. ๐๐ข #Texas #Flut #Naturkatastrophe #newz
Dutzende Menschen kommen am Wochenende ums Leben, als in Texas binnen kรผrzester Zeit riesige Mengen Regen niedergehen und eine Sturzflut auslรถsen. Ein neu verรถffentlichtes Zeitraffervideo macht das beรคngstigend rasante Tempo der Flut deutlich.
Die Gohrischheide brennt seit Tagen: รber 2.100 Hektar Wald sind zerstรถrt โ mehr als im ganzen Jahr sonst in Deutschland. Einsatzkrรคfte kรคmpfen unter extremen Bedingungen mit gepanzerter Technik, Lรถschrobotern & Hubschraubern gegen die Flammen auf ehemaligem Truppenรผbungsplatz. #Gohrischheide #Waldbrand #Feuerwehr ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ Mehr Infos: n-tv.de/mediathek/videos/panorโฆ #newz
Nach den anhaltenden und schwer einzudรคmmenden Waldbrรคnden ist die sรคchsische Gohrischheide nahezu vollstรคndig abgebrannt. Selbst die Bundeswehr hilft bei der Bekรคmpfung des Feuers. Auch in Thรผringen kann noch keine Entwarnung gegeben werden.
Free societies survive on the level of integrity in the dissent. Not dissent for dissents sake along a party politic but rather dissent thought through and given in good faith.
hey, if you're an American living in the USA, one little thing you can do is help make it absolutely socially unacceptable to work for ICE. what does this look like? say it to your friends and family. bring it up casually. post about it. make it an issue in your neighborhood if one of your neighbors gets a job with ICE or DHS. ostracize and exclude. you don't have to be rude, just make sure people know it's an ethical/moral choice you don't accept.
So touching--the 6 Supine Court bigots preserve parents' "right" to deny their children a full education in order to misinform and lie to them. So respectable.
Ways I know gas is too cheap: parked between two vehicles sitting there idling, one with a driver (with the AC on and the windows open(!)), one without.
Went into the store, came out, both still idling.
This is one of those things that electric cars would really help with.
It is worth noting that this is technically illegal in Massachusetts, but basically never enforced. (You get five minutes of idling, less if you're a big truck or someone complains or you're near an air intake.)
When I lived in the Boston area I felt like it was extremely common to see people parked on the road idling with the AC or heat on. I always assumed these were people like real estate agents who were waiting on someone. Still, lots of needless waste that might not be happening if people were more attentive.
A new series of studies finds that people who doubt they're respected or admired by others are less likely to acknowledge other people's contributions. But sharing credit actually tends to boost one's status, which means these people's competitiveness just makes their status insecurity worse: business.columbia.edu/researchโฆ
Haaretz recounts what Prof Jean-Pierre Filiu found when he got into Gaza and why Israel wonโt allow western journalists in Israeli newspaper Haaretz has carried testimony from a French historโฆ
Hรถcke liest Sellner: โHarmloserโ als Merz journalistenwatch.com/2025/07/โฆ Ich spreche mit jedem und hรถre mir alle Argumente an. Das gilt besonders, wenn ein Begriff die รถffentliche Debatte so maรgeblich bestimmt hat, wie aktuell der Titel dieses Buches: ยปRemigrationยซ. Von Bjรถrn Hรถcke auf Telegram Die Idee steht im Raum โ und ist so wichtig, daร bei der Urteilsbegrรผndung zur Aufhebung des Compact-Verbots ausdrรผcklich darauf [โฆ] #news #press
"Jurnalul de realitate" poate fi un instrument puternic รฎn procesul de refacere a percepศiei dupฤ o experienศฤ cu un narcisist. ๐โจ
Dupฤ ce ai trecut prin manipulare narcisistฤ, mintea poate fi plinฤ de confuzie ศi รฎndoieli despre ce este real ศi ce nu. Scrisul รฎntr-un jurnal te ajutฤ sฤ-ศi ancorezi gรขndurile รฎn realitate, sฤ-ศi observi sentimentele ศi sฤ discerni รฎntre faptele obiective ศi distorsiunile create de abuz.
Acest proces sprijinฤ consolidarea propriei identitฤศi ศi recapฤtฤ รฎncrederea รฎn propria judecatฤ. Este un spaศiu sigur unde รฎศi poศi procesa experienศele fฤrฤ teama de a fi criticat sau invalidat.
Dacฤ te lupศi cu efectele unui narcisist, รฎncearcฤ sฤ ศii un "jurnal de realitate" zilnic โ noteazฤ ce s-a รฎntรขmplat, cum te-ai simศit ศi ce รฎnveศi despre tine รฎn fiecare zi. Pas cu pas, รฎศi vei recฤpฤta perspectiva. ๐ช๐ฑ #NarcissisticAbuseRecovery #MentalHealth #SelfCare
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#Palestine / DellaPergola, leading Israeli demographer, questions Gaza death toll study methodology
Prof. Sergio DellaPergola, a renowned demographer at Hebrew University and international authority on Jewish population statistics, critiques a study by Prof. Michael Spagat estimating around 91,400 deaths in Gaza.
[...] Regrettably, it is clear that the number of deaths in Gaza grows daily, and the results reported in the Spagat et. al survey, and in critiques of the survey, require revision. Nonetheless, it would have been better if, before publishing the figure of 100,000 deaths in Gaza, Haaretz had checked the facts, or at least added a question mark to the rounded figure.
DellaPergola, who is a specialist in demographic research, argues the research has significant methodological flaws despite being rejected by a medical journal but published independently.
Key concerns include non-random sampling, potential duplicate counting due to displaced families, and statistical inconsistencies. When the study's prisoner count estimates are compared to known figures, DellaPergola suggests the death toll may be closer to 34,000 - aligning with other systematic checks.
DellaPergola calls for more rigorous fact-checking before publishing casualty figures.
The article published by Haaretz on June 26, regarding Palestinian deaths in Gaza, reports on a pre-print study that had yet to be peer reviewed. Here are the issues with its methodology and how it can be revised
In summary: DellaPergola utterly embarrasses himself with this clown-level "critique" of the Gaza Mortality Survey. The arguments presented are without exception mumbo-jumbo, scientifically speaking. In essence, apart from a number of points where he is just flat out methodologically incorrect and fails to spot high school-level errors in his argument (such as plain failing to understand what the Guillot et al. study he tries to cite in his support actually did), he just points to potential sources of *uncertainty* and then assumes, with absolute zero evidence or compelling argument whatsoever, pulling numbers straight out of his arse, that all of these uncertainties must necessarily work in the direction of an overestimate of deaths, while systematically neglecting to discuss any of the sources of sampling bias that do, in fact, *necessarily* contribute to an *under*estimation (chiefly that completely destroyed households can no longer be sampled).
This piece is science-free, embarrassingly illiterate (both statistically and literally in terms of reading comprehension applied to other studies) piece of garbage. DellaPergola outs himself as someone utterly incapable of letting facts get in the way of his racist biases.
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โThe first and most self-evident way to estimate the number of dead is by counting the bodies that arrive at morgues or are buried. Astoundingly, according to Gazan sources, this simple action was never performed.โ
FALSE. In the beginning, those were the ONLY deaths that were counted.
"Granted, some of the bodies are still buried under destroyed buildings. But even in the most horrific sanitary conditions, it's inconceivable that there are still tens of thousands of buried bodies 21 months after the fighting began."
FALSE. This ignores that Israel has systematically destroyed the heavy machinery necessary to recover them. The passing of time (under bombardment) does not help shifting tons of concrete by hand.
"And at least according to the IDF, residents were warned to evacuate their homes before heavy bombs were launched.โ
FFS. This is 100% propaganda. Israel randomly does this sometimes to provide its idiot apologists with the licence to claim this, but it is completely untrue that this is in any way consistently applied.
"The respondents (one person in each family) were asked about what has happened to their relatives since the war began.โ
FALSE. They were asked not about their "relatives", but about the members of their own pre-Oct 7 HOUSEHOLD. For someone attempting a critique of the study's methodology, it is beyond embarrassing to not even bother to represent it correctly. There is indeed an auxiliary question about deaths in the wider family, but that's not what the study's published results are based on.
"The relative completing the survey could report the deceased adult because he or she will think of the original family composition."
FALSE. Again, DellaPergola embarrassingly doesn't even understand how the study proceeded. Respondents were in fact *required* to respond in terms of their original household composition, rendering his whole line of critique moot.
Claim: A stopping rule of 10 households in each sampling unit creates a distortion.
FALSE. Stopping after a given number of interviews WITHIN in a random sampling unit does not by itself undermine โthe principle of randomness" at all, nor does selecting an arbitrary adult household member, *because any one of them would be responding with respect to the same household*. DellaPergola does not seem to understand how survey sampling works. The claim that households more likely to have been present and willing to respond are more likely to have experienced a violent death is pulled completely out of thin air, without even pretending to offer an empirical or a priori argument. One could just as easily argue that households with fewer adults (because some have been killed) are more likely to have the surviving adults away from home at a given time.
"A comparison of this sort (see the article by Michel Guillot and colleagues that was published in the Lancet in January 2025) identified 34,344 people who were killed (21,974 men and 12,370 women) between October 7, 2023 and August 31, 2024, based on detailed checks by the Health Ministry.โ
FALSE. DellaPergola is illiterate, or perhaps more likely, didn't bother to even read as much as the *abstract* of the Guillot et al. paper. What they actually said is that of the 45,936 reported total number of fatalities at the time, they found 64.4% on the refugee register, which, given that the share of refugees in the total population is 65.7%, CONFIRMS THE 45,936 as the refugee+non-refugee total. DellaPergola tries to claim that Guillot reduced the estimate down to the number of fatalities who were *also* refugees. This is a horrendously embarrassing mistake on his part.
"Of these, 75,200 were killed directly by wartime operations, while between 8,000 and 9,000 died from circumstances that aren't directly connected to the army's operations (and all this is on top of the 6,000 to 7,000 who die in an ordinary year)."
FALSE. The 8k-9k are about deaths not from fighting, but from not receiving medical aid for disease etc. The notion that such deaths e.g., from starvation, or because Israel systematically destroyed dialysis centres, โaren't directly connected to the [Israeli] army's operations" is obvious nonsense.
"In other words, the division and redefinition of households as a result of the state of emergency in Gaza may cause the same death to be reported two or three times.โ
FALSE. This is *at best* sloppy wording. For the same death to ACTUALLY be double-counted, two people from the same pre-Oct 7 household would have to be among the survey respondents in different households in the current sample. What he probably *meant* was that those deaths have a higher probability of being reported in the sample. This requires a lot of assumptions, such as that households with a death are more likely to have been split apart. Which under normal circumstances might sound like commonsense, because conditional on a violent death in the household, it was certainly exposed to violence that may have caused a split. But since in Gaza *all* households have been displaced, that argument doesn't work very well. Also, all else being equal, having lost an adult household member reduces the remaining size of the household and therefore the possibility for it to split.
The vastly more obvious source of NEGATIVE bias stemming from household structure is that the large number of households where *all* adult members have been killed are systematically excluded from the sample. But of course, DellaPergola doesn't want to talk about *that*.
"They also provide a contradictory figure from another source regarding the number of Gazan prisoners captured by Israel โ 3,436.โ
This represents the number of prisoners from Gaza at a single point in time (Source: jpost.com/israel-news/article-โฆ). DellaPergola seems to miss that what is at stake for comparison with the survey finding is the number imprisoned *at any time* during the survey fieldwork period. Moreover, the number he quotes refers only to โunlawful combatants' not *all* prisoners from Gaza, or detainees from Gaza who are held in military camps under conditions of enforced disappearance - unlike the survey question.
" Since the same ratio must also apply to the survey's estimate of deaths, the latter number should fall from 91,400 to 34,380."
FALSE. There is absolute no reason why the factor by which the number of prisoners is misestimated - never mind that he is completely wrong in quantifying that factor, see above - โmust' be the same as for deaths. For someone criticising the rigour of another study's methodology, โI'm going to take one of their numbers and multiply it with a fudge factor" is one hell of a suggestion for how to "improve" the studyโฆ
PCATI's criticism suggested that shutting down IDF detention facilities may have been temporary and they may have returned to heavy use once the military started a new campaign in Gaza in October.
To put the point about the Guillot paper in plain language:
DellaPergola central argument is: The one study (Guillot et al. 2025) that checked the Ministry of Health list of 46k fatalities (at the time) name by name could only confirm 34k of them, so I want to use that number as an anchor for the 'true' number that Spagat et al. failed to correctly replicate.
What Guillot et al. ACTUALLY found was: Roughly two-thirds of Gazans are UNRWA-registered refugees, and we could find around two-thirds of the official deaths, namely 34k, on the refugee register, which matches the population total and confirms that the total number of 46k is approximately correct.
Note that this is not buried deep inside the Guillot et al. paper. It's right there literally in the abstract, proving that DellaPergola is either blinded by bias, incompetent, or wilfully misrepresenting that study.
I saw that but to be fair DellaPegola sort of indicates it's a number verified against UNRWA's data ("including lists of refugees entitled to UN assistance"). This also BTW seem to support Hamas' own data..., contracting his claims their numbers can't be trusted.
But regardless, it's clear that DellaPergola doesn't engage with evidence in the Lancet studies documenting systematic under-reporting.
He draws the exact opposite conclusion from what Guillot et al. actually said, so we don't really have to be "fair" and give points for vaguely mentioning UNRWA data in an act of obfuscation.
@bifouba I would also comment on his reliance on #IDF evacuation warnings as a factor in reducing casualties (FFS, this is pure propaganda at this stage) is contradicted by the fact that we saw time and again that evacuated concentrated populations moved to targeted areas created higher casualty rates rather than lower ones, even before the GHF aid distribution death traps.
[...] They don't really talk to you about civilians that may come to your place. Like I was in the Netzarim road and they say, "If someone comes to here, it means that he knows he shouldn't be there and if he still comes, it means he's a terrorist." But I don't ... this is like what they tell you, but I don't really think it's true. They might be shot, they might be captured. really depends on like the day the mood of the commander...
Professor Michael Spagat responds to criticism of the Gaza Mortality Survey that estimated around 100,000 deaths. He addresses multiple errors in critic Sergio DellaPergolaโs analysis, clarifying that Gazaโs Health Ministry primarily uses hospital morgue data, not just family reports. Independent researchers have verified the ministryโs detailed casualty lists as reliable. Spagat explains the surveyโs systematic sampling methodology and notes that DellaPergola contradicted himself by first dismissing then later citing the same Health Ministry data. The survey found evidence of significant undercounting, with many deaths unrecorded due to strict documentation requirements and logistical challenges.
[โฆ] DellaPergola continues to critique our sampling procedures, which are described briefly in the body of the article and in more detail in its appendix. He writes that we explained that โonce a certain geographic counting cell reached ten households that agreed to participate, the count there was considered complete.โ But in practice the survey was conducted as follows: letโs assume that a randomly selected sampling point includes 100 households in tents. The tents are numbered from 1 to 100, and a random number is chosen from them, between 1 and 10. If the number chosen is 4, the interviewers will approach households 4, 14, 24, and so on until 94. If all tent residents agree to be interviewed, that sampling point is finished. If there are refusals โ which were rare โ the interviewing team will start over from a different random starting point. This is as random as it can be, and willingness to participate in the survey was not a significant factor in it.โโโโโโโโโโโโโโโโ
DellaPergola's criticism was such worthless garbage with literally zero scientific merit that I'm surprised Spagat bothered responding. DellaPergola is scientifically incompetent and a fraud.
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in reply to MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them] • • •phantomwise
in reply to MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them] • • •That argument always gives me vibes of "but I've had to go through corporeal punishment when I was a kid, it's not fair that children now should have it easier".
"Things were bad for me and I still made it, I don't want it to be easier for other people or it makes all I've gone through feel worthless"