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i think we should just phase out all forms of welfare but still maintain some kind of homeless shelters where people can get help, sleep in a bed and get clean from drugs, and eat a nutritious meal
the public school system is mixed bag. some kids have really poor quality of life at home and so you can make a case for a public school system. there are good arguments for and against it
same with public hospitals. the government should operate networks of free clinics where people can get basic medical care like STD testing, antibiotics, wound care and so forth. it's important to control the spread of infectious disease, if nothing else, and prevent complications and reduce the burden on the private medical system
i can't fully get behind the total libertarian model where it's just every man for himself, because i have compassion for disadvantaged people. but we have to acknowledge that often people are poor because they make poor choices. simply giving them cash to spend and paying for all their needs is insane and unsustainable
@nerthos so if some poor person who is behind on their taxes brings a kid in to the public ER with a broken bone, what are you going to do? turn them away?
Yes. It sounds awful but it's often necessary. If you just take everyone in it'll be massively overused by people who don't contribute and the people who do contribute will still pay off their ass for private because public is overcrowded and run down. This is what happened in Argentina, and we're now fixing by simply turning people who abused the system away.
At least at the start, if it stabilizes to the point resources and manpower are abundant for it without being a HUGE money drain, you can extend it. This is mostly a cultural thing though.
You can also just have a "this is the amount it costs, no charges past the real cost of the procedure" credit system like with foreigners, which would also solve this situation. If you're not qualified for the "free" treatment you can pay for it and use it.
@nerthos you didn't answer my question. i'm not talking about "people who abuse the system" i'm talking about a kid with a broken bone. an emergency. you're going to send a kid with a compound fracture away from your public clinic because his parents are behind on their taxes? that is barbaric and uncivilized.
TBH the conditions for qualifying for access can be defined along with the program.
I don't think it's reasonable to deny someone who's behind because of a bad year. I do think it's reasonable to deny someone who has never made any significant contribution their whole life.
@nerthos you can draw these lines in different ways and debate what sort of basic level of care should be available and to who, but anyway my original point was just that there are benefits to society to provide some basline level of care, like infection control and trauma care. just basic compassion that doesn't have to cost a lot of money but improves society overall.
whether an alcoholic bum on the street deserves a liver transplant, whether someone who is 90 years old should have a million dollars worth of heroic cancer treatment, whether a morbidly obese person should have a heart transplant, free diabetes treatment etc, those are debates i'm willing to have
I like this in theory. In practice, the private sector won't always pick up the slack (as I believe it should in these scenarios), or might have trouble reaching the people they'd like to help.
I hated school, my maths teacher told me I was a retard. 12 years later I'm pricing synthetic derivatives for JP Morgan. I pay for my kids education now.
But the cost of private education has nearly doubled in the UK over the last few years. I give it 2 to 3 years before AI schools are springing up offering dedicated 1 to 1 tuition.
@realcaseyrollins @diego i mean that with the information available online and now with AI language models it seems that we could rethink how people learn. more applicable to some professions than others
She recalled that the two countries have set up a working group comprised of representatives from the Mexican economy, foreign, energy, and finance ministries and members of the US government to address this issue
Ok #mastodon has started doing the javascript-refresh-that-vanishes-what-you-started-reading trick that twitter and facebook do and it is NOT OK. #UXfail
'We're Not the Same People Anymore': IDF Soldiers Reveal What No Israeli Wants to Hear About Months of Fighting in Gaza
Sent into #Gaza straight from high school, five young #Israel conscripts describe the brutal, exhausting reality of the war with #Hamas โ a world of despair, rage and crippling fear, with no end in sight
"Soldiers interviewed are handpicked by commanders and #IDF spokespersons and thoroughly briefed on what they can and cannot say. And so, reporters return with the same clichรฉs: "This is a generation of lions," they declare. "Morale is sky-high."
But active-duty army soldiers who spoke to Haaretz in recent months paint a very different picture...
They describe mounting exhaustion, severe physical and psychological strain, and a constant fear that they'll be the next to have their names released as fallen."
Sent into Gaza straight from high school, five young Israeli conscripts describe the brutal, exhausting reality of the war with Hamas โ a world of despair, rage and crippling fear, with no end in sight
The event showed working class solidarityโbut also the rising tensions in a Reform-supporting County ~ Tom Brown ~ It was an early start for Durham Minersโ Gala, these islandsโ largest gathering of the working class.
HรZรNLร BฤฐR AลK HฤฐKAYESฤฐ ; GAM ZEDEYฤฐM DEVA BULMAM... Tรผm ลarkฤฑlarฤฑn bir hikayesi vardฤฑr... "Gamzedeโyim Deva Bulmam." ลarkฤฑsฤฑ da bu tรผr ลarkฤฑlardan biridir... Hemen belirtelim, Gam-zede, รผzรผntรผ sebebiyle kรถtรผ duruma dรผลmรผล anlamฤฑndadฤฑr. Hikayenin kahramanฤฑ Kemani Tatyos Efendiโnin kendi cemaatinden รงocukluk aลkฤฑ bir sevdiฤi varmฤฑล. Aile o tarihlerde Erivanโa gรถรง ettiฤinden evlenememiลler. Aradan uzun seneler geรงmiล Tatyos efendi evlenmiล รงocuklarฤฑ olmuล ancak kadฤฑn hiรง evlenmemiล ve bir gรผn ฤฐstanbulโa dรถnmรผล. Bunu รถฤrenen Tatyos Efendi sรถzlerini de yazarak bir eser bestelemiล... Kฤฑsa zaman sonra Beyoฤluโnda bir meyhanede gece nihayete ererken birkaรง mรผลteri ve sandalyeleri toplayฤฑp yerleri sรผpรผren birkaรง รงocuktan baลka kimse kalmamฤฑลken birlikte oturduklarฤฑ Vasili ve Ahmet Rasim Bey de tam gitmeye hazฤฑrlanฤฑrken Tatyos Efendi kemana uzanmฤฑล sanki saatlerdir iรงen ve รงalan o deฤilmiล gibi kemanฤฑ omuzuna yerleลtirip, hafifรงe baลฤฑnฤฑ kemana eฤerek, dudaklarฤฑnda acฤฑ bir tebessรผmle o ana kadar duyulmamฤฑล o uลลak ลarkฤฑyฤฑ ilk defa sรถylemiล...
Gamzedeโyim deva bulmam, Garibim bir yuva kurmam, Kaderimdir hep รงektiren, ฤฐnlerim hiรง reha bulmam. Elem beni terketmiyor, Hiรง de fasฤฑla vermiyor, Nihayetsiz bu takibe, Doฤrusu ta'kรขt yetmiyor. Ehl-i dilin yoktur kadri, Uฤraลma gel Tatyos gayri, Eserin รงok kฤฑymetin yok, Git talihine kรผs bari...
Tatyos kemanฤฑ omuzundan indirdiฤinde hiรง kimsenin tek bir kelime edecek hali yoktur... Vasili hฤฑรงkฤฑra hฤฑรงkฤฑra aฤlฤฑyor meyhane de kalanlar da gรถz yaลlarฤฑnฤฑ birbirlerine sezdirmeden silmeye รงalฤฑลฤฑyorlar... Birkaรง hafta iรงinde ฤฐstanbulโda bu ลarkฤฑyฤฑ ezberlemeyen ne hรขnende ne sรขzende kalฤฑyor... ลarkฤฑyฤฑ besteledikten bir ay sonra Tatyos Efendi vefat ediyor naaลฤฑ kilisede iken otuz yฤฑl รถnceki รงocukluk aลkฤฑ olan kadฤฑn Ahmet Rasimโin yanฤฑna รผzerinde "Tatyos ile birlikte defnedilecektir..." yazฤฑlฤฑ bir zarf bฤฑrakฤฑyor... Yarฤฑm saat sonra Tatyosโun naaลฤฑ ile birlikte topraฤa verilecek zarfฤฑn iรงinde ลu dizeler yazฤฑlฤฑdฤฑr;*
"Not then, not now, never again fascism Never forget Srebrenica genocide"
Mural in Amsterdam of Potoฤari cemetery featuring the names of different Bosnian towns and cities with the corresponding estimated amount of victims.
Almost 30 years has passed since Europe was shaken by the genocide of more than 8000 muslim boys and men in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica, at the hands of Bosnian Serb troops during an operation of ethnic cleansing, witnessed by UN peacekeeping troops who failed resoundingly in their protection mission.
In the midst of the conflict in the Balkans during the 1990โs, the small city of Srebrenica, in Eastern Bosnia, was established as a โsafe areaโ by the UN for civilians fleeing fights between Bosnian government and separatist Serb forces, during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
On 11 July 1995, Serb forces attacked Srebrenica lead by Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladiฤ, conducting a ten-day operation to take over Srebrenica and subject it to ethnic cleansing. More than 8000 people were killed, mainly Bosnian muslim boys and men.
Turbo Macro Pro is a native assembler for the Commodore 64, which provides syntax highlighting and an advanced macro and include system, to make it easier to make complex programs sensibly. It even has the ability to embed external binary code (such as sprite data) in your executable.
Several people were hurt in a second night of anti-migrant unrest in the town of Torre Pacheco in south-east Spain after a pensioner was beaten up, authorities said.
Despite a major police presence, groups armed with batons roamed the streets looking for people with foreign origins, the regional newspaper La Opiniรณn de Murcia reported.
The regional government did not say how many people were injured but stated that at least one person had been arrested over the violence.
The unrest erupted after a 68-year-old man told Spanish media he was beaten up in the street on Wednesday by three young people of north African origin. The attack was filmed and put on social media.
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has called on the EU to โdefend European interests resolutelyโ after Donald Trump threatened to impose 30% tariffs on nearly all imports from the EU.
It came as the EU moved to de-escalate tensions after the blunt move by Trump on Saturday. The bloc declared a further pause on โฌ21bn of retaliatory tariffs until 1 August, dovetailing with the US presidentโs new deal deadline.
At the same time, the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, and the Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto, announced a โpolitical agreementโ on a free trade deal on Sunday, ending nine years of negotiations.
A familiar breed of British pundit has resurfaced - loud, self-declared feminists whose outrage is as selective as it is performative, and whose moral compass somehow always aligns with western state power.
They remain silent as Gaza burns, but are quick to find their voice to cheer on Israel and its allies as they threaten to flatten Iran - civilian casualties be damned.
During Israel's recent strikes on Iran, the radical feminist journalist and coโfounder of Justice for Women, Julie Bindel, branded leftist anti-war feminists "Team Iran" sympathisers. It was a disingenuous, grotesquely misleading and dangerously ideological accusation, but not a surprising one.
While women in Gaza bleed in silence, these pundits reserve their fury for pro-Palestine protesters - smearing them as extremists, branding solidarity as terrorism, twisting every act of dissent into an endorsement of "jihad" and weaponising antisemitism to crush critique.
The UK's most prominent 'feminists' ignore women in Gaza under bombs and siege, but speak up to manufacture consent for western wars or attack the anti-war left
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems used footage showing the killing of an unarmed Palestinian man in Gaza to market one of its combat drones. The vi
Programming in assembly for a C64 is excellent training for embedded coding. You're right close to the metal, you have to know the system inside and out -- and you're learning in an environment that encourages making fun things.
making a video game for the Colecovision in Z80 assembly language was the best lesson in I had in embedded programming...better than any formal course on the subject.
Its BIOS, called OS7, was pretty decent too so you could leverage it to do some of the minutiae and concentrate on the fun stuff. I suspect the same is true about the routines in the C64 KERNEL and BASIC ROMs.
I am regularly told that people stumbled on my work via my site's #i2p mirror. The 'regular web' may be dead, but I am convinced that darknets are alive and well with people actually browsing the web. This surprises me because I have no idea how they're finding my site via I2P...
Ji of Colonial Outcasts is joined by Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait of Free Palestine TV, on his journey back from LA to his home town Ainata in South Lebanon, t...
It's time for another 68k Mac repair. I thought it would be a quick and easy fix, but this turned out to be a but more mysterious. -- InfoMicrobug:DM (dump m...
"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN โ Dans la province kurde de Diyarbakir (Amed), des femmes ont organisรฉ un sit-in pour interrompre les travaux dโun projet controversรฉ dโune mine de cuivre. Leur protestation vise ร dรฉnoncer un passรฉ de violences qui a dรฉjร dรฉvastรฉ leur village ร sept reprises. Dans le village de Mizak, dans le
By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST
"The attack began when a large group of settlers targeted dozens of #Palestinians attempting to access their land between the villages of Sinjil and al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.
Such assaults have become a regular occurrence, taking place almost every Friday, as part of efforts to intimidate villagers and drive them off land targeted for settlement."
"'Musalat owned a home in the area and died trying to defend it' - Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya municipality member"
Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian-American man to death and fatally shot another during a coordinated assault on villagers in the occupied West Bank on Friday.
By Fayha Shalash in Ramallah, occupied Palestine Published date: 12 July 2025 15:49 BST
"The attack began when a large group of settlers targeted dozens of #Palestinians attempting to access their land between the villages of Sinjil and al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya, east of Ramallah.
Such assaults have become a regular occurrence, taking place almost every Friday, as part of efforts to intimidate villagers and drive them off land targeted for settlement."
"'Musalat owned a home in the area and died trying to defend it' - Abdul Samad Abdul Aziz, al-Mazra'a al-Sharqiya municipality member"
Israeli settlers beat a Palestinian-American man to death and fatally shot another during a coordinated assault on villagers in the occupied West Bank on Friday.
There would never be a better time for Q to reappear than now, and talk about how Epstein was a distraction to get the real criminals, Obummer and the demonrats.
>You would have never believed the truth if I told it to you from the beginning anon. >You needed something you could relate to; pedophilia. >But now you need to let it go because the true crimes are SO much worse. >They've purposely kept the black men down after stealing their technology, 5000 years ago in Egypt...
Trumpโs 50% copper import tariff said to cover refined metal. This is important because copper is in practically everything, and it's a bellwether commodity for recession as well.
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BEIRUT โ In a post on X, US Special Envoy to Syria Thomas Barrack has claimed that his statements to The National were not intended to threaten Lebanon, but rather to praise the Syrian regime's โimpressive stridesโ.
More #Israeli #gaslighting and #propaganda. It has never been anti-semitic to criticize or "demonize" #Israel and anyone that tells you so is full of shit. Israel claiming something is "anti-semitic" when it clearly isn't is simply their way of manipulating opinions so they can't be held accountable for their actions. Well, enough is enough. ---
For people who want it to be, I'm sure it's a resounding YES. For actual medical Science and reasonings, no...there's nothing that's going to prolong your life in that way just by consuming it lolz.
it's incredible how the e-rightoids think they only have two options every single fucking time MUH TRANNIES try to appropriate anything: a) immediately give up the thing they loved up until 5 mins ago (and even go "well ackshully in retrospect that thing i loved was always tranny-coded so good riddance") b) bitch about it in their social media circles without ever actually doing anything (this eventually leads to option a every single time without failure) but option c (actively fighting against it/ignoring it altogether) is never ever on the table
learned helplessness is both terrifying and disgusting
@kvit gaylo decided to fight against option c and just ban anyone who even dares to talk about uma global because MUH TRANNIES MUH TOURISTS ETC ETC but some people (said e-rightoids) think he was completely justified in nuking half of varis' (the instance) regulars because like 10 trannies did the usual "omg this anime's girls are all trannies!!!" thing on twitter in other words, yet another perpetually ceding everything to the trannies with no resistance award ๐
@kvit i mean he was correct in every person on varis being tourist if they suddenly had interest in uma after the global release despite having two years of constant uma propoganda
If I could have just downloaded an apk and let it rip I would have played JP. Not wanting to jump through an insane amount of hoops to play a game in a language I can't read fluently where the story is incredibly important to the enjoyment of said game doesn't make me a tourist. He can go fuck himself.
And it's not just a translation problem. That's the easiest part. The nightmare is fooling the game into thinking you're in Japan because of their stupid region lock.
@Goalkeeper @theorytoe @kvit no you just don't get it dude, you're a tourist!!!! you had horse girl propaganda shoved down your throat 24/7 and you still didn't jump through all the hoops? but you installed it NOW??!?!?! T O U R I S T!!!!!
still remember the gundam online multiplayer with 100 man servers that checked IP and system locale to try and weed out foreigners. and even if you got in each lobby seemingly had admins dedicated to sniffing out and banning the gaijin trespassing in their sacred mecha game
I'm a bit emotional right now. But in the bad way to be fair. I just got stung by a wasp without any reason, after having to take a extensive shower before because my body was totally itchy from all the mites and whatnot. UGH! ๐ซ
I've been pretty proud in the beginning of this experiment, because there were lots of wild bees, beetles and other cool critters around here. It's basically like being in nature.
But I forgot that nature sucks... ๐ฅฒ
For example, imagine laying in the grass and just chilling. Beautiful for the first 5 seconds, but then, you begin getting stung in the asscreek by a dozen ants and get everything ruined.
Nature is basically dead in my area, so only the asshole bugs survive here.
The whole balcony is swarmed by aphids/ mites as well as ant colonies that protect those suckers from ladybugs and other beneficial predatory insects.
The aphids droop honeydew everywhere, which attracts lots of yellow jacket wasps, which in return could kill my girlfriend in minutes because she's highly allergic. I didn't even realise that asshole (the wasp, lol) is there until I got stung just by existing.
I'm right about to pull the trigger and get my pesticides (neem oil/ pyrethrum extract) out.
Also, I began to hate soil even more than before. I have to hunt for slugs every evening, because they're everywhere, and I can barely stand a chance against them. There are gnats living in it too, as well as other unwanted guests.
The plants in soil are starting to spread diseases and pests to my otherwise healthy plants in hydroponics. I will for example harvest my weed soon, and there are bugs sticking in the buds like in a glue trap. I have no idea how I should get them out of them, it's just disgusting.
I also largely prefer hydro compared to soil, not only because there are less pests, but also because due to the much lower water demand and control it gives me. The soil is guzzling water like crazy and still the plants are looking way less healthy.
Spraying neem oil on my hydro plants and just not using soil anymore seems to be the way better choice right now.
but let's keep in mind that "nature" isn't sleeping beauty, it's animals and plants all trying to get one over on one another. They don't give a shit.
Second, like, agriculture isn't nature. It's highly managed systems out of any kind of ecological context. So mixing you pot in with nasturtium? Maybe get off of tiktok for gardening advice.
Pick: Do you want to grow plants for human products or do you want a slice of the natural world?
If you want to grow for production, out doors indoors doesn't matter. The name of the game is sanitation sanitation sanitation. And you can manage that in a mixed system.
Second, your "mites" aren't mites, they are aphids. I can't believe I have to explain this to a weed grower. Ants will move aphids around plants, effectively using them as their own form of animal agriculture. So relying on spraying doesn't solve the primary issue there. You will need to spray to get the superficial stuff under control if you want to, but getting the ants under control is the only real way to control the aphids. The ants are far better at spreading aphids than you are at managing them. Beat the ants and then beat the aphids.
As far as beating the ants. Figure out what species they are first. Plenty ants will die back a bit from a chemical spray, but then come back with a vengeance a few weeks later because stress causes them to make more queens.
What can you do? Take it all as a lesson, take some time to clear you mind about what you want to do, and give it another go after cleaning up the mess. The outdoor pot is prob unrecoverable and will be swaggy after anyways. And it's not clear why you are growing. Figure out what you want from growing and focus on doing that effectively.
If you want nature, that comes with slugs and wasps and ants. And mixed systems can be effective (my garden has probably a hundred different species). But it takes a long time and a lot of experience to have the knowledge to be able to identify issues early and respond appropriately for each plant in a mixed system.
Hey, buddy. Take the shade out of the comment and someone might be more willing to listen. You just j Sound like kind of a dick the way this is phrased.
Blocking #RobertReich. Dude doesn't say anything I don't already know and he's clearly a #BlueSky whore now that treats the #Fediverse like we're second-class citizens. Dude won't even set up his BlueSky #bridge as a gesture of #goodwill.
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