in reply to Miroslav Kravec

@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.

in reply to datarama

@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.

in reply to Miroslav Kravec

@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.

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in reply to datarama

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.

#statist #vs #plebs

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.

#etatiste #vs #gueux

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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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.

Tengo 12 años de experiencia reparando PCs y 2 como oficinista (recepcionista/logística/atención al cliente/compras).

#empleo #buscotrabajo

Gesucht: eine Plattform, wo ich eingeben kann, wann ich fertig war, mit Schule, und mir dann – sinnvollerweise sortiert nach Themenbereichen – gezeigt wird, welche Sachen, die ich damals als Stand der Wissenschaft gelernt habe, längst überholt sind. Und mir dann die Gelegenheit gibt zu lernen, was heute der wissenschaftliche Konsens dazu ist
Wie ich darauf komme? Die Große macht nächstes Jahr Abi, und es gibt Fächer wie Bio, wo das, was ich gelernt habe, mittlerweile völlig überholt ist.
in reply to Lutz Helm

@rostbot @_tillwe_ @leisefuxx Kann mir auch nicht wirklich vorstellen, dass Wakefield je so etabliert war, dass das auch nur in die Nähe von Schulstoff gekommen wäre (was “since graduation” im Seiten-Titel ja irgendwie nahelegt). Wahrscheinlich einfach nur ein *so* prominentes Beispiel von einer zerstörerischen Widerlegung, dass sie es unbedingt drin haben wollten.
in reply to Benjamin Braatz

@HeptaSean @rostbot @_tillwe_ @leisefuxx

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.

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.

in reply to Regular 🇩🇪

Yes, the German BND trains their agents too.

1) Not standing at a red light like an idiot when the street is empty

2) Opening windows in winter because fresh air is important

3) Being obsessively punctual

4) Calendar-planning everything weeks in advance

5) Worrying about drafts (Zugluft) like they’re life-threatening

6) Clapping in sync at performances, like trained seals

7) Claiming your lounger at 6 a.m. with a towel

And the total giveaway...

8) Men sitting down to pee

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.

#justicia #economía #noticias

elpais.com/economia/2025-07-10…

#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.

Making #vegan sausages myself again!
Should do that more often given how much better this is on various levels compared to processed stuff from the stores. And a rather easy recipe: itdoesnttastelikechicken.com/v…

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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.

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in reply to ins0mniak

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.

in reply to Mitch Conner

@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.

in reply to ins0mniak

Yep, also has support for rootless Wayland apps, native Qt and Gtk support, and a modern QtWebEngine based browser, Falkon. It's getting damn viable. discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-n…
in reply to Mitch Conner

I think it's commendable/absolutely amazing that they stuck to their goal of reproducing BeOS piece by piece. They took no short cuts. The 32bit version is fully binary compatible with BeOS r5 to this day! The only original piece that they had to start with was OpenTracker, the file manager/desktop shell. Be couldn't open source much else due to patent encumberment. Some insane genius wrote the AppServer (graphics system) in a weekend, as the legend goes. Similar vibe to the Rebble Aliance​ bringing back Pebble Web Services
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#humor #statist

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.

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in reply to cionarmi

A great feature of Universitas Lampung is the blend of traditional values and modern education systems. Universitas Lampung

#humour #etatiste

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.

#humor #sarcasm #quebec #montreal #mayor

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.

#humour #sarcasm #quebec

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

haaretz.com/opinion/2025-07-09…

#stats #china #car

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.

#stat #chine #auto

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.

#auto #chine

Citation : Mario Dumont

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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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.


nouvelobs.com/justice/20250710…

#macron #macronie #brigitte #jean-michel #trogneux

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#humour

Le Canada, après des vagues de vols de voitures dignes d’un salon de l’auto gratuit qui ont nécessité une mobilisation pancanadienne… voilà maintenant que ce sont les cas d’extorsion – surtout chez les restaurateurs et les p’tits vieux – qui font la une. À ce rythme-là, on va finir par installer un guichet automatique directement dans les poches des gens… et les crosseurs, ça ira plus vite.

in reply to äymm

@aymm How do you know they're only doing it on device?

I revealed that even though "Gobbler" was an app on employees phones, that Apple tried to say was opt-in and on device, uploaded a ton of information itself, but also all information via iCloud backups including pics, GPS, biometrics, etc. Apple also used the employee app to get pics & biometrics of non-employees, and said employees can't tell anyone its happening.

So, I'd like more details about this "feature" & how they're developing it

in reply to äymm

@aymm Agreed, while I personally trust (and I say that word begrudgingly with big tech) Apple to care more about doing these sorts of things correctly and truly privately compared to the others, I can only extend that trust to the length of my throw remembering what they tried / have done in the past.

We are mostly hinging on the claim until private research or a scandal breaks out, which is very unfortunate.

in reply to machete_Badger

@machetebadger To that point, I feel like it should be a much bigger scandal that Apple's openly applying and enforcing NDA provisions against employees who could expose this stuff. To me, that's Apple admitting its actually engaged in misconduct, and openly admitting it thinks any evidence of it violating people's privacy is confidential, and it will enforce that as much as it can. Its the complete opposite of openness & privacy by design. It's the illusion of privacy by NDA.

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