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UN inability and unwillingness to prevent genocide bordering criminal. The Gen Secretary should be tried for war crimes against humanity for his reluctance to intervene
@fasnix Thank you, Florian. It was the right thing to do but it doesnât make it easier. We didnât want him to suffer or to be afraid. He was at home, calm, not in any pain, and in our arms. I miss his little puppy face though.
@fasnix May you have many happy years. Youâll know when itâs time if thatâs how it goes. We did and Iâm glad we didnât selfishly hold on any longer. It wouldnât have been fair to him. But it is hard. *hugs*
I'm so sorry for your loss. He had a very happy live with you. Unfortunately, their lives are too short... If I may, an hug đ« from me and Estrela đ¶ for you and Laura.
what an absolutely beautiful boy. I'm so sorry. My lad is getting on now, and I'm dreading the day when I have to make the hard decision. Tons of love. â„ïžâ„ïžâ„ïž
aah I have early signs of arthritis myself in my right hand from a boxerâs fracture when I was an amateur fighter. Iâm not too familiar with the shinai but as I understand it the recommended hand protection is called a âkoteâ but I think any lobster mitten style glove would work.
I donât recommend using any 5 finger style gloves but if it comes down to affordability its better than nothing. Trust me though, spending $100+ on hand protection is worth the investment to protect your hands if you want to spar with any amount of force.
MSNBC Legal Analyst Melissa Murray/Image: MSNBC video screenshot. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down several decisions affirming President Trumpâs agenda, leaving MSNBCâs Nicole Wallace trapt doom spiraling.
No, mainly because they do not care. Like a religion, their philosophy is based around moral right not outcomes in reality. Understanding is irrelevant.
if it's an aluminum ladder, I would think it would be melting into the puddle as well. and it would soon break the connection (if it hadn't tripped the breaker already).
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The losers in all this unseemly business are the European public. They are being screwed by U.S.-led militarism and European elites who are pimping theirâŠ
I think it's excellent that we have a new bogeyman to take over from Lennart Poettering, Hans Reiser (before the murder) and everyone that came before them. To be honest, the Pottering thing was getting old.
Plus ça change.
Is there an audition process or do people just make themselves available via secret Santa or that game when your role is given to you (and everyone else) in an envelope at a party?
The world sadly needs some of the stuff only antisocial nutters can provide. If the said nutter's gift to the world is good enough, the drama and discord that the nutter bequeaths will be forgotten and they will be given a free pass.
I highly disagree with the attitude of this comment (after all Linus allowed BCacheFS in and now complains about it) but necessary evil in itself is a valid thing for most people unfortunately.
look at these numbers from EuroMed Monitor and tell me with a straight face that this was to target hamas only. Its ridiculous, they destroyed 266 schools. Half the houses in Gaza city are gone. This is what genocide looks like, if we let #ApartheidIsrael continue, they will destroy a People with the world watching and the US cheering it on euromedmonitor.org/en there is another story on the site abt how israel steals dead bodies just to torture families, holding them for years #freepalestine
it is a routine practice of #ApartheidIsrael to hold dead bodies after they kill ppl in prisons to serve out their sentence even after death. sometimes they hold them just to torture the family, this is all upheld under 'law' in israels highest courts euromedmonitor.org/en #freepalestine
Annalena Baerbock Elected UN General Assembly President Amid Outcry Over Support for Israelâs Genocide in Gaza qudsnen.co/annalena-baerbock-eâŠ
Former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber sharply criticized Baerbockâs election. He wrote: âThe United Nations was born in opposition to German war criminals. Today, it has elected a German war criminal to oversee its accelerating decline. Eighty years later, the Reich takes its revenge with Annalena Baerbock as UNGA President, in the midst of a genocide that she has enthusiastically abetted.â
đ đ đ đ #Germany. You have send the right person to the right position to make the world an abattoir. Ps. You asked for jungle, you'll have a jungle.
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The UN General Assemblyâs new President is a German politician who justified the Gaza genocide as âself defenseâ
Annalena Baerbock spread debunked Oct 7 atrocity propaganda & claimed that civilian areas in warâŠ
I haven't had a proper game console since the PS3.
I would like to get one, mostly to play with my family (wife, 7yo kid). I had been waiting for the Switch 2 for a while now (I really resisted the urge to get a Switch OLED back when it was released...).
On the plus side:
it's really geared towards family/party gaming
it's Nintendo, so you get the whole usual games (Mario Kart, Zelda, etc.)
like most consoles, it's plug and play and can be enjoyed in the living room (I kind of gave up trying to set up a proper gaming experience with my Linux PCs, given that I don't have the hardware for it)
On the minus side:
the battery life is not great to say the least (2.5 hours takes me back of the Game Gear in early 90s!)
the screen seems to be pretty bad too (at least it's a step back from the OLED one of the Switch)
the joycons are still not using a Hall effect sensor, meaning they might still be prone to drifting
most of the games will not be sold as proper cartridges but as download codes
the whole thing (console, additional gamepads, games) is quite pricey
it's Nintendo, famous for their anti-everything (anti-homebrew, anti-emulation, anti-piracy)
Should IâŻstill go with it, or is there a better option? (I hope the better option is not to wait 4 more years for Nintendo to release a newer Switch 2 that would fix the shitty hardware).
I personally don't recommend anyone get the Switch 2. The new price points are frankly ridiculous, and I'd hate to see that shit get justified by sales.
Personally, I'd recommend looking into handheld PCs. I haven't looked into them much myself due to lack of money, but they're generally much more worth the cost from what I've heard.
All that said, I missed that you were looking for something to play with your 7 year old child. Switch might be better, but any handheld would be... notably destructible, so that's a factor to keep in mind.
Yeah, Mastodon's Unlisted is such a misnomer. My biggest gripe with it is that it mainly means "unsearchable".
And you can't really change that on a server, since that would mean that people who did mean "unsearchable" when they chose "unlisted", suddenly find their posts showing up in searches without their consent...
Friendica meanwhile shows threads as threads, but without the collapsing which would be very useful.
That's an urban legend, alas. While that *would* be a great way to make "unlisted" work, that's absolutely, positively, 100% *not* how "unlisted" works.
More here, including how to manage threads in your timeline:
love to see bob vylan gaining much-merited attention. their show in glasgow last october was one of the most spine-tingling i've ever witnessed. may they long have the courage of their convictions. #bobVylan #palestine #freePalestine #music #musique
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đš #BREAKING: President Trump says the administration will now run FULL STEAM AHEAD to fully ban birthright citizenship following the SCOTUS ruling
"That was meant for the babies of slaves, not meant for people trying to SCAM the system and come into the country on vacation." đ„
"Hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship and it wasn't meant for that reason. It was meant for babies of SLAVES." x.com/nicksortor/status/193862âŠ
#Kneecap news: according to the band themselves, they've been told that their set will not be streamed live but will be available on demand (presumably with some politically inappropriate words cut out) this evening.
I don't know what time this evening, and finding recorded sets on the iplayer during the festival is a challenge at the best of times.
But everyone, do please watch it when you can. I know that most of the people posting about Kneecap here will have no interest in enjoying the actual music, it's just a political point to make.
However, the only reason their political stances have made any headlines at all is because they're popular. And the only reason they're popular is that they are very good at what they do. It would be a great shame if everyone just focused on using them as a political football without paying attention to the tremendously entertaining music that Kneecap make.
Anyway, in about a quarter of an hour, BBC will be streaming Bob Vylan from the West Holts stage without controversy, and they're very good too, so watch that.
Every time I've seen BV live they've had some choice things to say about the royal family. I'm guessing Bobbi won't accuse them of killing Diana, or call Prince Andrew a nonce on the BBC.
(I say 'everyone' - I should have limited that to only those who have access to the BBC's Glastonbury coverage, which is very much not everyone. Apologies.)
They make great music. I will listen - as per usual, I will go through the sounds offerings after the festival, and after seeing what they are broadcasting.
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« Quâest-ce quâune croyance limitante ?Une croyance limitante est une croyance que nous entretenons Ă notre sujet et qui, comme son nom lâindique, nous limite, nous contraint dans nos actions. Voici des exemples de croyances limitantes
The UKâs designation of Hamas, and possibly Palestine Action, as âterroristâ organizations shows that the proscription regime is not about preventing terrorism but silencing political views and free expression.
Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait pick up Richard Medhurst from Beirut airport as he takes a break from political persecution in Austria and the UK, and immediately take him to the borders of South Lebanon and Occupied Palestine to witness the largest funerâŠ
We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished sentences, mimics emotions, expresses curiosity, claims to feel compassion, even dabbles in what it calls creativity.
But what we call AI today is nothing more than a statistical machine: a digital parrot regurgitating patterns mined from oceans of human data (the situation hasnât changed much since it was discussed here five years ago). When it writes an answer to a question, it literally just guesses which letter and word will come next in a sequence â based on the data itâs been trained on.
This means AI has no understanding. No consciousness. No knowledge in any real, human sense. Just pure probability-driven, engineered brilliance â nothing more, and nothing less.
So why is a real âthinkingâ AI likely impossible? Because itâs bodiless. It has no senses, no flesh, no nerves, no pain, no pleasure. It doesnât hunger, desire or fear. And because there is no cognition â not a shred â thereâs a fundamental gap between the data it consumes (data born out of human feelings and experience) and what it can do with them.
Philosopher David Chalmers calls the mysterious mechanism underlying the relationship between our physical body and consciousness the âhard problem of consciousnessâ. Eminent scientists have recently hypothesised that consciousness actually emerges from the integration of internal, mental states with sensory representations (such as changes in heart rate, sweating and much more).
Given the paramount importance of the human senses and emotion for consciousness to âhappenâ, there is a profound and probably irreconcilable disconnect between general AI, the machine, and consciousness, a human phenomenon.
Below is my column in the New York Post on the controversial dissenting opinion of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson in the injunction ruling in Trump v. CASA on Friday. The opinion seemed to fan the fâŠ
NATO's decision to increase military spending to 5% of nations' GDP by 2035 is an obscene betrayal of global needs. This goal is a result of US pressure and will impoverish societies while enriching weapons contractors.
Protests are spreading against NATO along with calls for redirecting resources to climate justice, healthcare, and peace.
Medea Benjamin argues that real security doesnât come from tanks and missiles â it comes from strong communities, global cooperation, and urgent action on our shared crises.
@Beeks the obvious alternative is to use diplomacy to normalize relations with Russia.
The idea that Russia is going to invade Europe militarily is an absurdity. However, the austerity that such drastic increase in military spending will necessitate will absolutely create political discontent that Russia will be able to exploit.
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This week, Democracy for Sale revealed how a secretive police unit is instructing forces across England to withhold information about their contracts with Palantir, the shadowy US firm founded by Trump donor Peter Thiel.
@Emmanuel Florac I think we got a preview of that when Hollywood owned the state for close to a century. It may have seemed like a lifetime but look where Hollywood is now. Silicon Valley is riding high today, but their fate is on the same path as with all of us.
UNRWAâs Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini:
âïž The new aid distribution system has become a killing field. Over 400 starving people reported killed since it started operating just a month ago.
âïž Instead of "orderly food distributionâ, this system brings dehumanization, chaos and death. This cannot become the new norm. This abomination must end through a return to humanitarian deliveries from the #UN including #UNRWA.
UNRWAâs Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini:
âïž The new aid distribution system has become a killing field. Over 400 starving people reported killed since it started operating just a month ago.
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