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I've been feeling considerably more disgusted and annoyed since I talked to someone who actually bought the "but the children" excuse for mass surveillance, /regardless/ of the authoritarian slide it provides.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
Even if there were to be /some/ harm in some content being available & sought out (which I'm skeptical about, the literature chooses to pathologize a lot of things I consider very debatable), this is /not/ the way to go about addressing it and it is /much/ more harmful to grow up surrounded by authoritarianism than any amount of infohazards.
The current conservative moral panic around Internet porn only leads to less speech and more authoritarianism. If parents are concerned about porn, they can block it in the house. Some might say, "Well the kids will get to it anyway."
"So what?!" .. Parents can instill values, maybe even a sense of guilt. But in the end, kid is going to have to make their own moral decisions eventually. If a parent looks at porn but wants it blocked, on the State level, because it's bad for kids: the parent is a damn hypocrite and is also unable to parent without State intervention. Everyone suffers as a result of the moral panic.
@cjd @djsumdog I think this can also lend itself to abusive micromanaging & disregard for privacy.
Early on perhaps, but more importantly would be education and being a resource that is actually trusted to be sought out without acting unreasonable & disincentivizing further trust & requests.
I'm working off a mix of readings, comparison with my own experience (granted I have to extrapolate some because the Internet became meaningfully available fairly late here) and just how hostile familial relationships would've turned with some differences.
Frequently I hear of experiences online of others' childhoods that make me think it is no wonder just how common familial estrangement is, as I would also have cut contact as soon as possible with the treatment I hear of.
I had my own issues, but fortunately most of them were outside of the home environment (instead many of them in school environments using outdated practices known (at the time to anyone actually keeping up with research) to be harmful or ineffective).
All to say that I can't give concrete "do this thing" or "I do XYZ" recommendations or annecdotes, I can mostly say "don't do XYZ".
I acknowledge that child abuse is a real thing that sometimes does happen. But I generally never tell another parent how to raise their children, and this is for the same reason I never tell a person how to invest their money.
If they take my advice and I turn out to be wrong, then it's their money that gets lost; or in the case of child-rearing, it's their bloodline that ends.
Most of the people that say there's a right and wrong way to raise a family wouldn't dare breath a word against Muslims or Orthodox Jews.
And what's more, these groups seem to have their houses in order much better than the average westerner who might have things to say about them.
The most opinionated investment advisor always seems to be the person with the worst finances of their own.
@cjd I wish there was a good way to limit some computers on the network to 56k modem speeds. I feel like much of the trouble kids get into on the web is because of download speeds being so high.
The internet is a lot less exciting when you have to wait 5-10 seconds for each webpage to load.
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A alguien le funciona la web o la aplicación de pedir Cita Previa en atención Primaria en Madrid?
Llevo varios días sin ser capaz de acceder a la web, ni para pedir cita o ver las que tengo. En el centro de salud me sugirieron probar la app y me funcionó... Un día, pero no sé si soy yo el único con problemas.
But for the majority of things AI hasn't lived up to the hype. And, honestly, Apple has already achieved all the low-hanging fruit in AI. There's really only two main uses of AI: summarizing things and explaining things.
All is said in this article. Trump knows NATO has lost. EU will foot the humongous bill and collapse under its weight; Ukraine will be pillaged and a cesspool of corruption and crime, but that's too a EU problem; finally the US will make some agreements with Russia on the back of the EU. Russia wins, US wins, EU loses everything, and Ukraine disappears and dies.
Though this week’s White House meeting between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky and a bunch of European leaders yielded no tangible outcomes, it nonetheless marked an important step towards peace in Ukraine. For the first time, the Ukrainian leader and his counterparts in Europe agreed to discuss the war on the basis of realities on the ground, rather than wishful thinking. Up until just a few months ago, Kyiv’s accession to Nato was regarded as non-negotiable by European diplomacy and Nato. Now, not only does that prospect appear to have been definitively set aside, but for the first time the discussion has shifted from Ukraine’s “territorial integrity” to potential “territorial concessions”.
Monday’s summit earned Trump praise even from usually critical mainstream outlets. “It was the best day Ukraine has had in a very long time… President Donald Trump offered tantalizing glimpses of how he could approach presidential greatness by saving Ukraine, securing Europe and genuinely deserving the Nobel Peace Prize,” CNN enthused. Yet the meeting would not have occurred had it not been for Trump’s summit with Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, just two days earlier — which instead drew near unanimous criticism from Ukraine supporters for “legitimizing” Putin. But this carefully staged “de-demonization” of Putin injected a much-needed dose of realism and pragmatism into the discussion.
The Alaska meeting formally reestablished direct dialogue between the world’s two largest military and nuclear powers. It marked the first face-to-face meeting between a US and Russian president since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, and the first such encounter on American soil in nearly two decades. It also marked a turning point in US-Russia relations which, since 2022, had reached levels of hostility not seen since the Cold War.
The symbolism was carefully staged: from the red-carpet reception and the ceremonial ride in the American presidential limousine to Trump’s informal reference to “Vladimir”. It was all intended to signal a new chapter in US-Russia relations. But for Moscow, it meant even more. The summit was a political victory. The sight of Trump hosting Putin exposed the failure of the Western strategy of “isolating Russia” and “crippling its economy”. Far from being marginalized, Russia has emerged stronger: it has deepened its strategic relationship with China, expanded its influence among Global South states, and weathered the sanctions regime that was supposed to destroy its economy. Simply by shaking Putin’s hand, Trump acknowledged that Russia remains a power to be reckoned with, not a pariah state.
More importantly, the summit amounted to an indirect acknowledgment that the West has effectively lost this war. Ukrainian forces cannot retake the territories annexed by Russia. On the contrary, Moscow continues to make incremental advances on the battlefield. This reality makes a negotiated settlement the only possible exit from the conflict — one that would necessarily involve territorial concessions: Crimea, plus the four annexed eastern and southern oblasts.
This perhaps explains why Trump quietly backtracked on the various threats he has leveraged at Russia over the past weeks. In July, he announced a 50-day deadline for Russia to halt the war or face “severe economic consequences”. Putin ignored it. Trump shortened the deadline to 12 days. Putin did not respond. Even on the eve of the Alaskan summit, Trump was still insisting on a ceasefire as a minimum outcome. Yet Putin had been clear: Russia has no interest in a ceasefire that would allow Ukraine to rearm and bolster its defenses with Western support.
Moreover, Moscow’s demands have always extended well beyond the question of territorial recognition, seeking a comprehensive settlement that addresses the “primary roots of the conflict”, as he repeated in Anchorage: that Ukraine will never join Nato, that the West will not transform it into a de facto military outpost on Russia’s border, and that a broader “balance of security in Europe” be restored. As even the hawkish New York Times recently acknowledged: “The Russian leader’s overarching goal is primarily to secure a peace deal that achieves his geopolitical aims — and not necessarily to conquer a certain amount of territory on the battlefield.”
In an effort to strong-arm Putin, Trump also threatened to impose secondary sanctions on purchasers of Russian oil — including China and India. Yet both countries swiftly dismissed the threat, making it clear such measures would be ineffective. Far from isolating Moscow, the sanctions would only have pushed Beijing and New Delhi even closer to Russia.
After Anchorage, Trump abandoned both of his original positions. He said that a peace deal was preferable to a ceasefire, and that secondary sanctions were off the table. For Putin, this was a major win. For the US, it was an implicit admission that Washington lacks the leverage to impose terms. In Trump’s words, it simply “doesn’t have the cards”. This was a blunt recognition of the diminished military and economic clout of the United States and the collective West.
”For the US, it was an implicit admission that Washington lacks the leverage to impose terms.”
A comprehensive peace deal, however, remains elusive. No terms were agreed in Alaska, largely because Europe — and Zelensky himself — remain opposed to any settlement on Russian terms. European leaders are so heavily invested in the narrative of “victory” that conceding even part of Russia’s demands would be suicidal. Having spent two years assuring their citizens that Ukraine was winning the war, they cannot suddenly pivot without facing public outrage — especially given the dramatic economic repercussion of the war on European economies.
But the deeper issue is structural: European leaders have come to rely on the specter of a permanent Russian threat to justify their ongoing erosion of democracy — from expanding online censorship to persecuting dissenting voices, and even canceling elections, all under the pretext of combating “Russian interference”. Zelensky, too, has reasons to resist peace. Ending the war would mean lifting martial law in Ukraine, exposing his government to pent-up discontent over corruption, repression and the catastrophic handling of the war. Indeed, a recent poll revealed that Ukrainians themselves increasingly favor negotiations over endless fighting. No wonder the Alaska summit triggered panic in European capitals as well as in Kyiv.
Perhaps this explains why Monday’s discussion carefully sidestepped the most sensitive question — territorial concessions — with Zelensky and the Europeans instead pressing for “Article 5-style” security guarantees for Ukraine, effectively treating Ukraine as a Nato member even if it is not formally one. While Russia has signaled general openness to the concept of Western security guarantees, the devil lies in the details. European leaders demanded legally binding US participation and backing — something neither Moscow nor Washington is likely to provide, given the risk of being drawn into direct confrontation with each other. Even less acceptable to Russia is any arrangement involving a Nato military presence in Ukraine, as floated by Britain and France. It seems European leaders have adopted a strategy of expressing openness to a settlement while ensuring, through their conditions, that no such agreement can realistically materialize.
More fundamentally, though, it’s unlikely that Trump himself is prepared to concede to Putin’s demand for a wholesale reconfiguration of the global security order — one that would reduce Nato’s role, end US supremacy, and acknowledge a multipolar world in which other powers can rise without Western interference. For all his rhetoric about ending “forever wars”, Trump continues to embrace a fundamentally supremacist vision of America’s role in the world — albeit a more pragmatic one than that of the liberal-imperialist establishment. His administration continues to support Nato rearmament and even the redeployment of US nuclear weapons along multiple fronts, from the UK to the Pacific. Trump’s policies toward China, Iran and the broader Middle East confirm that Washington still sees itself as an empire whose global dominance must be preserved at all costs — not only through economic pressure, but also through military confrontation when deemed necessary.
Within this framework, Russia remains a central challenge. As a pivotal ally of both China and Iran, it is embedded in the architecture of the emerging multipolar order that threatens US hegemony. For Washington, Moscow is not simply a regional actor but a key node in a broader strategic realignment.
Trump, however, appears willing — at least temporarily — to put the “Russia problem” on hold, focusing instead on the larger confrontation with China. But this indicates a shift in priorities rather than principles: the logic of American supremacy ensures that Russia will remain on the list of adversaries, even if the spotlight briefly shifts elsewhere.
In this sense, Trump would probably be content with a scenario in which the US extricates itself from the Ukrainian debacle while leaving Europe to shoulder the burden a while longer — possibly until conditions on the ground deteriorate so severely that a settlement on Russian terms becomes unavoidable. Indeed, JD Vance and Pete Hegseth said as much, arguing that the US will stop funding the war, but Europe can continue if it wishes — buying American weapons in the process. This “division of labor” would allow Washington to reallocate resources to the coming confrontation with China, while leaving Europeans stuck in an unwinnable war.
The Russians are well aware of all this. They likely harbor no illusions about the real objectives of the US imperial establishment. And they know full well that any deal struck with Trump could be overturned at any moment. However, Putin’s short-term goals align with Trump’s. one could say that Russia and the United States are strategic adversaries whose leaders nonetheless share a tactical interest in cooperation.
Seen in this light, one might postulate that the purpose of the Alaska summit was never to secure a final peace agreement. Both Trump and Putin doubtless understand that such a deal is currently impossible. Rather, the meeting was about allowing the US to step back from Ukraine without admitting defeat, while Russia continues to advance. For Washington, this creates political cover: Trump can claim he tried diplomacy, while offloading the burden of war onto Europe. For Moscow, the advantage lies in Ukraine’s gradual weakening as US logistical support fades. Indeed, in order to encourage an American exit, Russia might even agree to a temporary ceasefire and possibly also to vague US “security guarantees” — with Russia and the US presenting these as significant concessions and victories, respectively — though such a truce is unlikely to hold.
The most likely outcome will be a temporary thaw in US-Russia relations, though the broader geopolitical struggle will go on. And the real losers will be Ukraine and Europe. Ukrainians will continue dying in a war they cannot win, while Europeans will continue to foot the bill. Eventually, they too will be forced to accept a deal on Russian terms — but only after further suffering. Even then, Europe will remain trapped in a hostile and militarized relationship with Russia, with the potential for renewed conflict at any time. At best, the Alaska summit and its aftermath signals a temporary relaxation in an ongoing confrontation between the West and the emerging multipolar order. At worst, it ensures that Europe and Ukraine continue to pay the price for a war that the US has already chosen to leave behind.
"Le gouvernement fasciste israélien affiche de plus en plus clairement son objectif d'élimination totale de la Palestine et de son peuple. L’article Des nouvelles du génocide en cours en Palestine est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque."
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My message to the youngsters receiving their exam results today? Please remember that more school and then university is not your only option. It will no doubt get rammed down your throat, but spending three years studying some bullshit degree at a nonsense university will not serve you well. It may seem appealing now, but for many - it is simply not the way.
The alternative? Learn a trade. Plumbing, electrics, engineering, construction, carpentry. So much more...
This is the way to learn a real skill that will serve you for your entire life.
AI will never install pipes, fix a boiler, wire a kitchen. But you can. And that’s a skill that will stay with you forever - opening up so many opportunities that a degree in gender studies can never provide. Not forgetting, avoiding the ludicrous mountain of debt that will likely never get repaid - adding a graduate tax to every monthly salary. Is that what you want? What’s the point? To get drunk at university for a few years? It will end, quickly, and then you’re stuffed.
This is for boys and girls. Learning a trade may be seen as a male route, but an increasing number of young women are making the same choice. It is a wise one.
Through my companies, we’ve developed hundreds of apprentices. I take such huge delight in seeing young men and women learn a trade, develop as people and build a rewarding career. As a country, this is what we need to encourage - or we will simply run out of these skills. It is already happening...
So, to anyone feeling the pressure today - don’t let yourself be pushed into a path that doesn’t suit you. University is right for some, yes, but for many, the smarter choice is to pick up a trade, learn on the job, earn while you learn.
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"Stacje radiolokacyjne oraz inne urządzenia nie wykryły go i nie zareagowały. Misja tego urządzenia prawdopodobnie miała właśnie taki cel. Boję się, czy nie będziemy teraz mieli większej serii tego typu 'pomyłkowych' wlotów".
Yet a comprehensive political settlement to the Ukraine war continues to remain elusive. Not only because Europe and Zelensky remain opposed to any deal on Russian terms — the only possibile terms, given that Russia is winning the war — for reasons that I explain in the article. But more fundamentally because achieving lasting peace is about much more than just recognising Russia’s control over Crimea and the four annexed oblasts; it’s about addressing the “primary roots of the conflict”, as Putin repeated in Anchorage: that Ukraine will never join NATO, that the West will not transform it into a de facto military outpost on Russia’s border and that a broader “balance of security in Europe” be restored. This effectively amounts to a wholesale reconfiguration of the global security order — one that would reduce NATO’s role, end US supremacy and acknowledge a multipolar world in which other powers can rise without Western interference.
Though Putin and Trump share a tactical interest in cooperation, Russia remains a strategic adversary for the US imperial state, and Russia knows it, which is why true peace remains out of reach
Dear friends, Two of the founders of Led By Donkeys were in court today, having been charged after hanging this huge banner opposite the Labour Party HQ in London. We pleaded not guilty to disobeying a police order. The judge set a trial date in January.
Whatever happens then, it’s clear to anyone with a conscience that protesting the ongoing genocide in Gaza is not terrorism. We’ll keep you posted … LBDx
Bieżące wydarzenia i publikacje z Białorusi, Litwy, Ukrainy, Rosji i innych krajów byłego ZSRR. Historia i kultura dawnych Polskich Kresów. Życie Polaków na Wschodzie dawniej i dziś. Szukanie swoich korzeni na Kresach.
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I haven't seen those videos, and I'm quite confident the fediverse doesn't censor practically anything - so is it just that the people I follow don't care?
Have you not noticed the enormous list of euphemisms people have been using in videos for several years now? That's because TikTok squelches anything that uses certain words.
Also the thing's Chinese, so good luck bringing up, oh, say, Tiananmen Square etc.
ALL of the big platforms squelch anything they don't like. All of them.
Officier de réserve de l’armée de terre, ancien analyste au ministère de la défense, Benoît Paré a une très longue expérience des missions internationales en zone de conflit, plus particulièrement au sein de l’Organisation pour la sécurité et la coopération en Europe (OSCE), pour le compte de laquelle il a participé au monitoring du cessez-le-feu dans le Donbass de 2014 à mars 2022. Il consigne ce qu’il a vu ces huit années durant dans un livre dont nous vous conseillons fortement la lecture.
Un accord de paix russo-ukrainien ne marquera peut-être pas pour autant la fin des hostilités, prévient un ancien analyste au ministère de la défense, envoyé dans le Donbass de 2014 à 2022.
Estoy a favor del boicot a empresas pro-israelís pero lamentablemente, objetivamente, el boicot a dichas empresas, evidentemente no está suponiendo un daño significativo a la capacidad económica o militar del estado genocida de Israel. Sigue llevando a cabo su limpieza étnica y ocupación de Gaza y Cisjordania.
Idem para la iniciativa que se ha marcado para hoy de "no comprar nada". Abogan a la responsabilidad individual y además aunque baje hoy un poco el valor en bolsa de algunas empresas, mañana seguirá la rueda girando.
Creo que se deberían ir creando las condiciones para una huelga general indefinida por Palestina. Eso, en mi opinión sería bastante más paralizante que "no comprar" o "no cargar el coche eléctrico" (quien coño tiene coches eléctricos? el grueso de la sociedad apenas tiene coche).
Hay que boicotear siempre, si. Pero estos días ayudan a traer gente "a la causa" y a lo mejor empiezan a entender que esta pasando. Yo hace años que no compro nada asociado a Israel. Ni consumo pagando a plataformas ni apps asociadas a Israel. Ok. Pero gracias al boycott y a la información voy consiguiendo que gente (sobretodo familia) que antes no se planteaba nada de esto empiecen a cambiar tipos de consumo,etc... Obviamente lo ideal sería ir directo al sistema capitalista, neocon y demás. Y creo que lo que está pasando en Palestina ha abierto muchas mentes. #gazagenocide #fuckisrael #bdsisrael
La verdad es que he podido dar a entender que apoyo la iniciativa de "no comprar nada" por Palestina, pero la realidad es que rechazo la idea completamente. Perfectamente podría haber sido propuesta por partidos asquerosos como el PNV o EH Bildu, donde para ellos, cambiar las cosas empiezan por cambiar hábitos de consumo. Basura reformista y de clase media.
Es un acto simbólico, no genera un daño significativo al tejido económico de Israel, que es apoyado incondicionalmente por la UE y la OTAN.
@disisdeguey es decir, un ejemplo claro y crudo es que mucha gente ahora apoya a Palestina cuando ven vídeos de niños desnutridos y personas muriendo en corredores en busca de alimentos. Es decir, les apoyan por pena. Cuando les bombardeaban, esa misma gente no sentía la misma pena, y eso que -en mi opinión- bombardear población civil es igualmente crimen de guerra grave que matar a la población de hambre.
@disisdeguey Les apoyan por pena, porque muchos no apoyan a la resistencia (principalmente Hamás, pero también otros grupos como el FPLP...). Y otra base política indiscutible es que se debe apoyar a la resistencia armada, porque es la única que lucha directamente contra el ocupante Israelí. No apoyarlo lleva a apoyos tibios a Palestina. Apoyos que luego se materializan en falsas "soluciones " como la de los "dos estados". "Soluciones" que apoyan partidos asquerosos como EH Bildu.
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Soit Israël revient enfin à des frontières acceptables et reconnues, soit les condamnations s'étendront jusqu'à inclure tous les Israéliens dans le camp des criminels, sans exception.
This originally appeared at Consortium News. I shall not make the de-rigueur disclaimer lest anyone infer that I think President Donald Trump is Snow White. Nor do I feel a need to assure readers that I am not “in Putin’s pocket.
Donald Trump doesn’t really deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Not after his unprovoked bombing of a country (Iran) that is no military threat whatsoever to the American Homeland.
'Vital conversations about violence against women and girls are being hijacked by an anti-migrant agenda.
Spreading an inaccurate picture of VAWG in the UK allows the people - overwhelmingly men, from all walks of life - who harm women and girls to hide behind racial stereotypes & scapegoating.
The government has pledged to halve VAWG.
But it cannot be done while lies about its causes are endorsed by those in positions of power'.
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: President Trump's foreign policy is turning out to be just as militaristic and interventionist as his predecessors.
PlayStation 5 prices are going up, too, just like Xbox
The moment many feared would come following Xbox’s recent, wide-ranging price hikes of its consoles and games has arrived - Sony has officially announced that it's raising the price of the PlayStation 5 console in the US. Read more
Control + z then typing fg; shutdown, shuts the PC down after the job is done, like after a long update process maybe. I just learned that from a YouTube comment
"How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly," novelist and writer Ernest Hemingway wrote in The Sun Also Rises. People keep saying a collapse is coming. It's not. It's already here. You're living in it. So am I. Collapse is not an apocalyptic event. It's what happens when the rules change. It's the slow hustle with nothing to show for it. It's rising rent. It's the consistent rise of your grocery bill. And rising rent.
Collapse is all the little cuts you do to make ends meet. Maybe you've cut subscriptions. Delayed repairs. Or skipped a doctor's visit to avoid the bill. Collapse is when your parents can't retire and your friends can't afford kids. People are falling behind on retirement savings at an alarming rate. For many, retirement isn't a goal. It's a fantasy. Collapse is terrible political decisions. It's tariffs gone wrong. And economic dysfunction we can't control.
The world is not ending.
It's just becoming unrecognisable.
You're not being priced out of life by accident. This is the system working exactly as designed. Extracting every ounce of value from you until there's nothing left. Corporate profits are hitting record highs while wages stagnate. "Home prices have jumped 118% since 1965, while income has only increased by 15%, according to Clever Real Estate. Pew reports that across the years 1958 to 2015, public trust in government at large plunged from 72 to just 19 percent. Most people don't trust their governments to solve anything for them.
I don't.
They won't.
The systemic failure we are experiencing is out of control. 63% of Americans have been living from paycheck to paycheck since September 2022. People are anxious about their futures. Depression is rising. That's collapse. It's systemic. It's uneven. But it's real. We keep waiting for some sort of big systemic collapse. A "before" and "after." But we are already living in it. It's just unevenly distributed.
10 septembre : Que faire, face au plan Bayrou de démolition sociale généralisée ?
Depuis plusieurs semaines, des appels circulent sur Internet, pour faire, du 10 septembre, une journée interprofessionnelle de lutte, ouvrant sur un grand « Tous ensemble en même temps » dans le pays. Cette date n’est pas le produit d’un mot d’ordre centralisé des confédérations syndicales nationales, ni d’organisations politiques d’envergure, mais a surgi de la base — de collectifs de Gilets jaunes, de syndicats locaux, de citoyens et de militants, qui refusent que ce que d’aucuns appellent « la rentrée sociale », se réduise à des journées dispersées et sans lendemain, par avance, totalement insuffisantes, pour stopper le rouleau compresseur de l’économie de guerre, de la dette usurière et de la méga-austérité.
Face à cela, les directions politiques et syndicales, euro-formatées, y compris dans des secteurs cruciaux, comme la Santé, renvoient à un 9 octobre… lointain, tardif et, surtout, dépourvu de toute combativité réelle. Derrière cette inertie, se cache une orientation politique claire : ces états-majors, qu’ils soient syndicaux ou politiques, continuent d’accompagner, par la gauche, la « construction européenne », refusent de contester la légitimité de Macron et s’enferment, par la même logique, dans un « dialogue social » bidon, imposant, par avance, derrière un vernis pseudo-démocratique, les reculs sociaux, démocratiques et patriotiques, souhaités par le patronat, le gouvernement et la Commission européenne.
Alors que le plan Bayrou comporte la plus grande offensive antisociale, depuis 90 ans et que les 40 milliards à prélever sur notre peuple sont le pendant quasi exact des 40 milliards dévolus par Macron aux industries de guerre et de mort, cette ligne honteuse d’accompagnement, de résignation et de défaite programmée (on l’a vu les résultats lamentables à propos de la retraite à 64 ans), se heurte à la volonté d’une grande partie du peuple travailleur, classe ouvrière en tête, qui revendique :
L’augmentation sensible des salaires et des pensions, la reconstitution des acquis sociaux, le retour de la retraite à 60 ans, la sauvegarde du produire en France industriel et agricole, la relance du progrès social face à l’austérité et à la vie chère ; La défense des libertés démocratiques face à la fascisation et aux lois de plus en plus liberticides ; La paix face aux aventures militaires de l’OTAN et de la future « armée européenne » pour lesquelles nos salaires et nos services publics sont sacrifiés ; L’indépendance nationale face aux diktats de l’Union européenne.
Et, pour ces objectifs, les travailleurs savent — mieux que bien des directions syndicales — qu’il faut parfois bloquer les profits capitalistes, par la grève, sans crainte d’aller au blocage national, durable, de l’économie, comme ce fut le cas, notamment, en 1936, en 1968 et en décembre 1995.
Pour autant, il ne s’agit pas, pour le PRCF, de “décréter” que le 10 septembre doit être la date du Grand soir. Parce que nous ne savons pas encore si cette journée prendra un caractère massif et national, si l’ensemble du peuple s’en saisira, comme il s’est saisi du 17 novembre 2018.
Mais, il est clair que cette date pourrait devenir un point d’appui décisif, si les syndicalistes et les militants de terrain s’en saisissaient, pour ouvrir, partout, le débat, dans les ateliers et les services, pour, le cas échéant, l’imposer aux directions politiques et syndicales, à commencer par celles de la confédération CGT et, pour en faire la véritable date de rentrée sociale, consacrant, autant que faire ce peut, l’union du drapeau rouge, des luttes sociales et du drapeau tricolore, de l’indépendance nationale et le refus du faux choix Macron / Le Pen, pour une France libérée de la fascisante prison euro-atlantique et du capitalisme.
Les militants du PRCF seront sur le pont, partout où cela sera possible, auprès des collectifs et autres comités physiques et/ou numériques, qui appelleront à faire de cette date, ou de toute autre date prochaine, décidée par les travailleurs eux-mêmes, le coup d’envoi d’un automne social « à la française », pour apporter, en toute honnêteté et dans un esprit réellement démocratique, leur pierre à l’édifice, leur expérience et leur mot à dire, en tant que citoyens et travailleurs, sur ce qu’il convient de faire, ou non, pour que notre pays se libère de l’étreinte mortelle du grand capital, qui nous broie.
Le 10 septembre n’est pas encore écrit. Mais, d’une part, nous refusons que des dirigeants syndicaux nationaux, qui n’ont, à leur palmarès, que des défaites, refusent, par avance, tout dialogue avec les collectifs, qui ont mis cette idée dans le débat, y compris d’ex-Gilets jaunes, attachés à la paix et au progrès social. Et, d’autre part, cette date ou toute autre date prochaine, prenant corps dans les discussions, à la base, pourrait être le signal qu’attendent des millions de travailleurs : celui que le peuple reprenne résolument l’initiative, sur la scène sociale et politique, avec, sans ou contre les états-majors résignés et qu’un automne social, patriotique et populaire s’ouvre enfin, pour rendre élan et confiance à notre France, celle des travailleurs, des démocrates, de la jeunesse populaire et des amis de la paix.
Depuis plusieurs semaines, des appels circulent sur Internet pour faire du 10 septembre une journée interprofessionnelle de lutte ouvrant sur un grand « Tous ensemble en même temps » dans le pays.
I have installed wero-wallet.eu and connected it with my bank account. I hope that #Liberapay can add support for #Wero so that we have a #Paypal like solution for Europe without Paypal 😀 An alternative to Apple Pay and Google Pay. To Master and Visa. Wero is located and licensed in Belgium and is proud to be bound by the GDPR and other EU regulations that protect us EU citizens.
Currently banks in Belgium, France, Germany have joined. More to come. It'll take time.
They have a Vulnerabity Disclosure Policy that even goes this far: "If a third party sues you, but you've followed this disclosure, we'll support your compliance."
(and as always, the first set of replies is negative. I was prepared for that. This is the Fediverse after all. Where positivity is a sin and must be drowned in "Yes, but" ;)
The Wero app seems to crash on ios26beta (10s yellow blank screen, then crash back to springboard). I tried to contact the development team via the e-mail address in the Appstore entry:
appstore@wero-wallet.
I really want them to succeed, and the fact that they have been integrated into more bank apps (ING is rolling them out today, I think) is very promising.
Thanks for the reminder, I wanted to do that for a whiel. Annoying that I have to install the ad-infested Sparkassen-App for that, but I'm willing to try it 😀
I have been thinking on joining Wero. But first I wanted to clearly understand what it is and if I will really need it. So far I try to avoid Paypal but sometimes it's very hard. Will look into the details now that you have brought it up.
The wero-wallet seems to be doing similar stuff to what Portugal Spanish and Italy are already doing : fintechfutures.com/instant-rea…
As a sidenote Revolut can also apply to join wero-wallet. And it already has access to the Spanish Bizum and will soon have access to sibs when their permission to be portuguese bank is fully granted.
We also have Blik in Poland which is competing with cash. I do hope banks in different countries decide to cooperate and build a compatibility layer instead of adding more division based on country of residence.
At the same time, I enjoy always having cash as an option.
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The US/EU/UK & Isr. cartel have difficulty in penetrating and controlling markets (consumption & production) of #Iran, #Russia, #NKorea, #Cuba, #Venezuela, and #China and they can not possibly admit to this obstacle to their totalitarianism.
So they must paint a picture of villains to those that resist them so they can justify the financial and social expenditures of imperialist wars against them, to their respective obedient terrorized populations.
#Israel is securing the east bank of the oil route to the Med. (#Egypt - #Turkey )
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Signal is convenient and no doubt more secure than most conventional messaging apps. And it's kind of nice to see so many activists have made it their home, leaving WhatsApp or Instagram groups behind.
Yay 😺
But #Signal is not a #federated system. It's centralised with its base in the fascist states of America. That should set your alarm bell going.
Not so much because of the nagging feeling that there must be a catch. (Did someone leave a backdoor open?) 🙀
No, more because of control and #collapse. If a single company controls all our private communication, this means it takes only a single blow to wipe our networks. If Signal's services collapse, due to some natural or artificial catastrophe, we'd be nowhere and scrambling to find our bearings.
So, although I'm not suggesting people abandon Signal en masse, I do think it's wise for people to start exploring and experimenting with federated alternatives.
If in every community or #activist network there are a few people who know how to use alternative and decentralised messaging software, and willing to share that knowledge, set up some kind of fall-back, then when things get prickly there will at least be a known path forward for you and your comrades 😼
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Podréis ser personas de mierda, pero nunca llegaréis al nivel del director cultural de La Vanguardia usando la #IA para inventarse una entrevista ficticia con Sharon Tate para hacer chascarrillos sobre su brutal asesinato.
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The #Hamas has been attacking Chan Yunis on August, 20 in the south of #Gaza. An ongoing war led by #Israel against the armed is to be expected although there been demonstrations against it. The Strip is in fact a prison in which the Ḥarakat al-muqāwama al-islāmiyya (Islamic Resistance) rules people. There is an urban warfare going on and no genocide. The genocide accusation is discussed for being a narrative by arab sides but is the modern form of creating a scapegoat.
They probably think that we are stupid. And we are not watching what #USrael is doing in Palestine. They copy some names from Wikipedia and think that cheap #hasbara will work. Like it worked for years. But not anymore. They are desperate. I just block them and move on. #FreePalestine
ooooh wooow, what an eye opener, how blessed we are with such insightful people in our midst. All the time I thought it was Israel who had dropped all those bombs... but it's all a cover-up. I see. So it's actually an internal Arab conflict. I see.
(okay on a more serious note, I think people who are so obviously denying a genocide can be reported to moderators?)
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LisPi
in reply to LisPi • • •It's not some corposcum where there are obvious options.
The problem is far more diffuse and so are the logistics underpinning it.
LisPi
in reply to LisPi • • •I've been feeling considerably more disgusted and annoyed since I talked to someone who actually bought the "but the children" excuse for mass surveillance, /regardless/ of the authoritarian slide it provides.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
Even if there were to be /some/ harm in some content being available & sought out (which I'm skeptical about, the literature chooses to pathologize a lot of things I consider very debatable), this is /not/ the way to go about addressing it and it is /much/ more harmful to grow up surrounded by authoritarianism than any amount of infohazards.
djsumdog
in reply to LisPi • • •The current conservative moral panic around Internet porn only leads to less speech and more authoritarianism. If parents are concerned about porn, they can block it in the house. Some might say, "Well the kids will get to it anyway."
"So what?!" .. Parents can instill values, maybe even a sense of guilt. But in the end, kid is going to have to make their own moral decisions eventually. If a parent looks at porn but wants it blocked, on the State level, because it's bad for kids: the parent is a damn hypocrite and is also unable to parent without State intervention. Everyone suffers as a result of the moral panic.
Caleb James DeLisle
in reply to djsumdog • • •LisPi
in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd @djsumdog I think this can also lend itself to abusive micromanaging & disregard for privacy.
Early on perhaps, but more importantly would be education and being a resource that is actually trusted to be sought out without acting unreasonable & disincentivizing further trust & requests.
Caleb James DeLisle
in reply to LisPi • • •LisPi
in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd @djsumdog I don't have kids.
I'm working off a mix of readings, comparison with my own experience (granted I have to extrapolate some because the Internet became meaningfully available fairly late here) and just how hostile familial relationships would've turned with some differences.
Frequently I hear of experiences online of others' childhoods that make me think it is no wonder just how common familial estrangement is, as I would also have cut contact as soon as possible with the treatment I hear of.
I had my own issues, but fortunately most of them were outside of the home environment (instead many of them in school environments using outdated practices known (at the time to anyone actually keeping up with research) to be harmful or ineffective).
All to say that I can't give concrete "do this thing" or "I do XYZ" recommendations or annecdotes, I can mostly say "don't do XYZ".
Caleb James DeLisle
in reply to LisPi • • •I acknowledge that child abuse is a real thing that sometimes does happen. But I generally never tell another parent how to raise their children, and this is for the same reason I never tell a person how to invest their money.
If they take my advice and I turn out to be wrong, then it's their money that gets lost; or in the case of child-rearing, it's their bloodline that ends.
Most of the people that say there's a right and wrong way to raise a family wouldn't dare breath a word against Muslims or Orthodox Jews.
And what's more, these groups seem to have their houses in order much better than the average westerner who might have things to say about them.
The most opinionated investment advisor always seems to be the person with the worst finances of their own.
Mike Rockwell
in reply to Caleb James DeLisle • • •@cjd I wish there was a good way to limit some computers on the network to 56k modem speeds. I feel like much of the trouble kids get into on the web is because of download speeds being so high.
The internet is a lot less exciting when you have to wait 5-10 seconds for each webpage to load.
Caleb James DeLisle
in reply to Mike Rockwell • • •