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Obama acquiesce as in agreed $38 Billion for Isr over 10 yeard, Biden and Trump carried on the deal. Yeah Obama thought it was for a tree-planting campaign in Jenin.
Iranian Women's Liberation Movement: Year Zero (1979) Radfem Archive youtu.be/r4aEqqMz38o
"In 1979, Iranian Women invite the American feminist Kate Millett to celebrate March 8, the International Womenโs Day, in Tehran. On March 7, the religious leaders announce that women have to wear the Islamic veil. From March 8 to March 13, women and liberals demonstrate in the streets against the veil. A crew of four French feminists filmed these historical events before being expelled by the mullahs. "
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"all of these countries have fertility rates below the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman"
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โ I rarely post anymore. Most definitely donโt hate you. ๐
Though I went through a period a long while back where I muted a handful of people who were dominating my timeline with content I really didnโt enjoy. Iโd intended to unmute you after awhile to see if whatever phase had passed, but forgot until just recently. Seems it has, though I donโt remember now what it was. ๐ฌ๐
I am careful though not to click on most of the videos you post. Just not my cup of tea. ๐
Actually, I am surprised. Totally assumed they would just stick with flat-out lying about it. (Which is, of course, tRumpโs go-to move in, wellโฆ everything.)
They also shrunk the screen size, so they probably had to move to a different supplier. The model on Amazon that appeared to be the previously-advertised prototype, sold for less than half the Trump version's price!
Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani shocked the Democratic Party establishment by defeating former Governor Andrew Cuomo in a New York City Democratic mayoral primary that often focused on Mamdaniโs support for Palestinian rights and the BDS movement.
Ramallah, Jun 25 (Prensa Latina) The Palestinian National Council (PNC) denounced on Wednesday the crimes conducted by Israeli security forces and settlers in the occupied East Jerusalem, which it described as a colonial strategy.
The popsicle man has been taken. On June 23, 2025, just before 1 pm, Ambrocio โEnriqueโ Lozano, was taken by a masked man and put in a white van at Center and Culver Boulevard, in frontโฆ
Mini-podcast about an event on this day in working class history.
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The popsicle man has been taken. On June 23, 2025, just before 1 pm, Ambrocio โEnriqueโ Lozano, was taken by a masked man and put in a white van at Center and Culver Boulevard, in frontโฆ
The shit is hitting the fan, so now the jew wants to be a NatSoc.๐ Keep this kike away from our women. I will be muting him now, rude bastard who keeps talking to me, after I told him to hush.
I checked up on the jew, he's contacted one other person here, a woman with a cat avi. He's specifically approaching women. @matty jews shouldn't be talking to White women.
The shit is hitting the fan, so now the jew wants to be a NatSoc.๐ Keep this kike away from our women. I will be muting him now, rude bastard who keeps talking to me, after I told him to hush.
Well then... He's not on my instance and not doing anything illegal so I have no reason to defederate him. I have noticed that people bitch when they have no one to flame so I leave most of the decisions up to the individual user to curate their feed however they wish.
I have no reason to defederate them, so I won't.
I would also caution against implying other women are not as bright as you for figuring out how to use a mute button. I accept only the best girls here, therefore they are all smart enough to use the features plainly available to them, just as they are on virtually every other social media site. โโโโโ
Okay girls: Apparently you are the best girls, so you should know how to mute a jew: Tell him "hush" and that he shouldn't be talking to White women, then mute or block. I was hoping the guys would take the lead, but they expect us to deal with muting the jews.
Well then... He's not on my instance and not doing anything illegal so I have no reason to defederate him. I have noticed that people bitch when they have no one to flame so I leave most of the decisions up to the individual user to curate their feed however they wish.
I have no reason to defederate them, so I won't.
I would also caution against implying other women are not as bright as you for figuring out how to use a mute button. I accept only the best girls here, therefore they are all smart enough to use the features plainly available to them, just as they are on virtually every other social media site. โโโโโ
Listen lady I appreciate you taking the time away from shilling competitor platforms โon my website but if you're going to demand I mute someone for the entire website, and expect me to be your daddy, you could at least have the decency to call โme daddy first. Sheesh.
Yes, that is the problem with most monetization on the platforms is that the jews are still clipping coins, taking their share. That's why I have a preference for one particular platform where the streamers get their donos. Sadly, we're still stuck with a credit card system that takes 3%, but it's still miles ahead of all other platforms in that regard.
No, I understand that. But what is the processing service? Last I knew it was something like Odysee or GTV had. Sorry, I haven't been paying attention to your site, so you may have made some changes that I don't know about.
I don't personally stream, I only help 5py Hun73r with content. But when I hear streamers talk about the platforms they choose, the monetization is the big issue. The 2nd would be audience size, because streaming on multiple sites costs them extra. So my ability to judge is based on what they tell me, nothing personal against you.
I don't have an issue with any of those people. I just see your entire thing is posting AI pictures with quotes and other platforms. Then you said people don't use my service because it's not monetized. You were proven wrong and shifted the goal posts. It's okay to be wrong but please, just be real nigga. That's all I ask. โโโโโ
No. I made some jokes about muting jews, then you cried like a little bitch about me "promoting competitors." Obviously you have a problem with someone. I understand trying to run a platform is both tedious and stressful. But I'm not out to hurt anyone, I just do my AI thing, post the links of my friends, post pictures of some stuff I'm making, and occasionally have conversations. And, your "girls" are dumb, more interested in picking cat fights than doing anything useful. Put down the green beer bitches, and pick up a crochet hook, useless twats.
The people your posting links to don't have a presence on the fediverse anymore because they were ruthlessly mocked for grifting and shekel-farming. It wasn't that long ago.
They were taking shekels from a jew and telling people to stop noticing. Doesn't really matter which grifter pointed out the other grifters. Is there more you'd like to add?
You mean D-Bot? Who they didn't know was part jew until later, and ALL of the same accusers also took money from D-Bot, after they knew he was a jew? D-Bot is long gone. White guys creating content and getting donos for their work are not grifters. You're insane if you think we will ever compete with jew media without professionalization. A Puerto Rican, calling himself White Tuber, getting Whites to donate to him under the pretense of being White is a grifter.
They knew what was going on well before it was exposed and they continued to take the shekels while at the same time telling people to lay off on whipping their pay-pig.
Look, they're no longer here because they were exposed and mocked... then they decided to leave. It's that simple. Their links used to get posted on the fedi, but that doesn't happen much anymore because too many people know about what happened.
Why do you continue to act like you have no idea what's going on?
@Huntress @Matty If someone could go back and time and given Nathan Rothchild a condom, the world would be a much more peaceful and prosperous place today.
I want to know where is the generation of super children? You know the kids who have reaped all of the benefits of child psychology and developmental science.
Where are these improved humans who are achieving above and beyond all those who came before proper parenting theory?
Where are all the great things they have done, and made, to take humanity to the next level?
Because, it seems to me, that all we have to show for it is grown people who throw temper tantrums in public.
How do kids lose their virginity and become gay, I ask rhetorically. Post an article about rabbi's raping small children in accordance with the talmudic law (under 9 and it's no problem).
Google translate: Do not believe any news or statements about "negotiations" or "ceasefire"... until you feel the calm with your own hands and live it without shelling, blood, or fear. Everyone is buying time at the expense of our blood, distracting us with anesthetic needles and statements... while we die with every day that passes.
Google translate: The daily massacres in Gaza are no longer breaking news, but have become a terrifying routine in the life of a besieged people. Children are killed, women are buried under rubble, and the world is silent.
"Rather than refuting any of our reporting, he instead explains that as a result of it, Flock has decided to perform numerous internal audits about how police are using the network that exactly aligns with 404 Mediaโs reporting"
Following 404 Mediaโs reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.
L.A. residents are finding creative (and simple) ways to disable disruptive Waymo robotaxis (as I predicted long ago would come to pass with autonomous vehicles).
So why can't these charging lots be somewhere outside the city? Or at the top of a mall's parking structure, which is presumably empty at night? Electric robot taxis are a potentially green alternative to LA's parking nightmare, but they need to not be a nuisance or people are going to mess with them.
@mike805 They are no better a solution than human-driven taxis, which would at least provide work for the drivers and be far better suited to deal with exceptional situations. And not further enrich fascist Big Tech.
Human-driven taxis are never going to replace private cars, unless you bring in a servile class to drive them.
Robot taxis could eventually be the primary mode of transport in cities. You could then have smaller parking lots, and charge people to park.
Robot taxis could either seat four with hard partitions between them so people would feel safe sharing, or they could be half-wide and share the lanes.
They can form convoys when they are all going to the same area, reducing traffic.
@mike805 #Robotaxi is not a solution to a city transit problem. It's a solution to a #crapitalism problem. *ANY* portion of profits diminished by labor is unacceptable to capitalists.
@n_dimension Specifically thinking of LA area here. It is obvious that the people who run this city are not capable of fixing the transit in any reasonable time. Yes there is some, and people who happen to live and work around it use it, but otherwise it's faster to drive despite the traffic.
Robotaxis can be deployed quickly without any infrastructure building. Technologies like that usually win out, whether they are a utopian ideal or not.
@mike805 @n_dimension I've lived in L.A. my whole life, in various sections of the city. I've watched the changes good and bad, increases in traffic, everything. And I'll say this. WE DON'T NEED OR WANT GODDAMNED ROBOTAXIS. Period. Full Stop. And attempts to force them down our throats by Big Tech will be regretted by those increasingly fascist firms. Anyone who knows me knows how painful it is for me to say this.
I've been working on the Net since early ARPANET days at the first ARPANET site at UCLA. I've worked inside Google. I still have many friends at Google -- that is, the ones who haven't already resigned or been fired.
Robotaxis are a means toward total control and surveillance of populations by authorities. Not so much in and of themselves, but as part of the fascist dream of eliminating human drivers entirely.
Things have changed. The factors that used to apply no longer can be taken at face value. If I sound fed up with the direction tech is taking now, you're damned right I am.
The big payout the VC/finance crowd is chasing isn't about taxis or passenger cars, but automation of delivery driving at every level. This is one of the biggest employment sectors in the country & therefore one of the biggest "efficiency" (layoff cost reduction) opportunities in the adjacent possible. I've seen estimates (that finance people seem to believe) that there's around a trillion dollars to be made by capturing and automating that business.
@mrcompletely @mike805 @n_dimension Those estimates like all the estimates surrounding fanciful applications for deliveries by robocar or drone at scale, are likely vastly overstated. The delivery case has an obvious flaw. Not only do you have to be able to drive to a location and find a place to stop and/or park, but get the package out and to the location for final delivery. Humanoid robots? Good luck. Strange little devices trying to navigate dirty stairs and elevators? Good luck again. Demand that people come out to get the packages from the cars at the street? Have fun with that one. It's all almost entirely VC wet dreams at the expense of everyone else.
@mike805 @n_dimension oh I know. I'm not saying I believe it'll actually work. I'm saying it's plausible that this is what Elon, Andreesen et al believe and that it's one of their goals. Like most Elon schemes it ignores a lot of steps in the critical path. It's worth talking about bc of the damage the attempt could cause along the way. The likelihood of it working is perhaps greater than the Mars plan, that's about all I can say for it ๐
@mrcompletely @n_dimension These things exist in Hollywood, I've seem them. They are a box on wheels. It stops, you get a message, you go out and unlock with your phone and grab your food. Generation 1 is going to be exactly that. You go fetch from the curb.
Walking robots that can drop a package on the porch will be generation 2.
As for Tesla, they were basically a carbon credit laundering scheme. They managed to make Teslas a status symbol for a while, until they weren't.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension Never gonna scale. These are all essentially big demos to try gather more investments. If the physical layout is exactly right you can have those silly little boxes trundle along, but most areas (especially residential) aren't like that. Nor can they deal with a typical load of, say, Amazon boxes. And what of people who don't have or routinely use smartphones? More of them than you probably think and the number is increasing. But this is academic. Most of this stuff is billionaire fever dreams, and as someone who at one time studied urban geography and planning, you can rest assured this stuff will remain niche for the foreseeable future.
@mrcompletely @n_dimension Okay how's this for a plausible alternative. It looks like an Amazon truck, but the side looks like an Amazon Locker. I.e. it has a bunch of pockets that can individually unlock. That rolls up to wherever you are, you get a notice, and you go get your stuff. Has the advantage that your package can come to you at work if you want it to.
There is a solution here, just as there was for sea transport, but it requires a full rethink of how things currently work.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension So the truck just sits there waiting for you because you happen to be taking a shower. Or it waits there for you to come down from upstairs apartment when the elevator is busy. Or it waits there for you because you had no way to know it was there because you don't have a smartphone sitting there turned on all the time. Or it waits there for you ... most people aren't going to want to have to go out to the street and carry packages back up to their house or apartment. Many CAN'T. Sorry, except in limited circumstances, this doesn't work.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension And of course, I didn't mention the most obvious case, when you're simply not home at the time of delivery. Obviously there are some areas where leaving packages in such situations can be problematic, but there are many areas where it's not a problem. Also, many people use systems that electronically allow delivery persons to leave packages inside the house or garage. Others use lock boxes on their porch. The whole point of deliveries in the general case is that they're not dependent on your being immediately available at the time of delivery. That's important both for the person receiving the delivery and for the delivery service that doesn't want undelivered packages piling up on their trucks.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension@infosec.exchange The whole thing is edge cases. Finding a solution that works for say the 80% (if it even is that high) obvious cases is nice and all, but the tech industry has a habit of forgetting the other 20%, or expecting them to just adapt to whatever scheme they've cooked up. Reality doesn't work like that. There will always be edge cases and they tend to be people far removed from the techbro world, like the elderly who often can't easily adapt.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension delivery lock boxes would probably become a thing. Iโve contemplated building my own, but thereโs a small market for premade ones (heavy steel, pretty wooden huts) that can be purchased. Amazon did it for awhile (still do? Dunno) where you could install an amazon lock or garage door opener, and they would leave the package inside your domicile (no thanks!) solving the trapped child or โsurpriseโ left for you half of the problem. Thereโs always a fix.
@mrcompletely @n_dimension There are already too many large boxy vehicles driving around, and stopping in the street. The California Vehicle Code actually permits that. Delivery drivers can stop in places where the ordinary citizen would be towed immediately. So UPS, Fedex, DHL, Amazon, etc. doesn't scale either.
It was once predicted that everyone would be either a telephone operator or a telegram messenger the way things were going. Communication was automated. Transport needs to be.
@mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension Theyโve already demoโed several hybrid โalmost walkingโ bots. Legs with wheels can work perfectly well for porch package delivery. A company also showed a โtaxiโ which essentially was an extendable cargo box that could extend up and out for level boarding from your front door. That one looks less plausible (cantilevered weight, compressible soils) but when does reality get in the way of a solution searching for a problem?
@trouble @mike805 @mrcompletely @n_dimension And none of them can possibly compare with a human who just sprints up stone steps covered with branches and leaves with several boxes in their arms, avoids debris in their way, and is back in their truck 10 seconds later. The thing about robodrive vehicles is that when anything unusual happens they just STOP or pull over to the side to wait for some human in a control center to get around to them and figure out what to do. A human driver is infinitely more flexible in dealing with exception conditions. But as I said earlier, the pushback is going to be enormous, and since these vehicles are helpless if they can't reach their control centers, jamming (which can be done with a $50 device -- probably less) is going to become a very popular methodology used by individuals and groups doing the pushing.
@mrcompletely @mike805 @n_dimension It's not about getting rid of the huma. to the door, it's about de-skilling and de-regulating the driver/deliverer to just a delovwrer. Drivers require a deiving license and are regulated to how many hours a day they can work. Deliverers less so.
@mike805 @n_dimension imo this is the reason Tesla became an increasingly crappy wrapper around a self driving tech company. Not for the passenger cars (not that great a feature), not for robotaxis (prob not great margins really) but building up the tech to jump from those vehicles to delivery trucks. Now under Trump they'll be able to make that leap no matter how crap the driving automation is, unless it has some kind of disaster (very possible)
@mrcompletely @n_dimension Around here, Amazon vehicles seem to be immune to traffic laws. They just stop in the middle of the road and deliver stuff. And they are gas powered. USPS vehicles are also very un-green.
If delivery could be automated end to end, that would eliminate a whole lot of car trips, and all the vehicles could be electric. You could UBI anyone whose job is eliminated and still come out ahead.
Hollywood has little electric robo delivery vehicles on the sidewalks.
@mike805 @n_dimension Calling a cab in L.A takes ages. Using the practically non-existent public transport with a minuscule subway/tramsystem is not an alternative.
And forget trains with a max speed of 65 mph on wobbly track.
@katharina_buholzer @mike805 @n_dimension There is nothing that can be done with robocars that can't be done far more economically, safely, and flexibly with human driven vehicles in the context of urban and suburban transit.
@mike805 @n_dimension I am actually amazed that this contraption gets approval. Remeber Waymo a few years ago in Mesa (PHX Metro area) and a terrible accident.
My Alma Mater, which has done research and pilots for autonomous vehicles for years, has warned of assumptions made in the SW of those cars early on. And why.
What happened there and in subsequent accidents shows in the analyses exactly the CMU scenarios.
Specifically, bicyclists and pedestrians nearby puzzle the SW.
There is one scenario I see viable: Large Trucks on Interstates forming convois and drive like a virtual train. only the front truck needs a human driver.
@katharina_buholzer @mike805 @n_dimension I've often thought that I5 was an obvious target for something like that. But you need some humans along, or the theft potential goes through the roof.
@mike805 @n_dimension Afaik there are tests for a convoy system like that being done between LA and LV on the interstate. There is human presence (e.g the drivers, when the truck moves in assisted convoy mode, they can count that time as rest time).
But I think the system works only well outside the metro convolution of intertwined Interstates.
Palm Springs to PHX would be another candidate.
But consensus here is: Robocars are a pipe dream contraption.
@mike805 @n_dimension The other one: Small Buses on call for neighborhoods with little traffic or spread out. They travel fixed routes and stops a bus, but automated. Much easier to do SW-wise than a full autonomous car in especially LA style traffic. Has been piloted in Switzerland in 3 Towns. Each pilot withdrawn and I do not know current status (I assume shelved). The reason: At some point the SW got 'puzzled' and could not resolve and decide. Stopped and alerted the control center.
@n_dimension So what is a solution to a city transit problem? Even cities with conventional mass transit have a lot of traffic. Robotaxis solve the end to end problem without having 90% of the cars idle and hogging space at any given time.
Yes you will still want a metro to take people from residential areas to work and back. Robotaxis are a better solution than private cars for everything else.
Robot buses would be useful for taking people to concerts and the like.
@mike805 What is the solution to a city transit problem?
Plentiful and affordable city public transportation.
I have lived in 4 large European cities and many smaller cities. The best (Vienna, Stockholm) are such that unless you have a special need (heavy delivery business, travel out of town), public transport is not just adequate. It's SUPERIOR to owning a car. I lived in Vienna for 6 months and in that time I have never once regretted not having a car, even travelling to the outer suburbs.
An old friend of mine lives in a Dutch small city where there are no cars. It's all bikes. You can still own a car, but it's parked at the outer rim.
Remember that the US reliance on cars is ๐ARTIFICIAL๐ It's a result of a concentrated effort by the oil industry to actively DESTROY Municipal transport. They bought many trams, light rail and rail systems only to shut them down.
@n_dimension The best public transport system is the Swiss. Fully integrated and interval schedules nationwide. With guaranteed departure every 30 mins and change of line, mode (e.g. train to bus etc) with a guaranteed connection from your departure point to destination.
@n_dimension No. LA Metro 10 Million, Switzerland 9.
The system moves over 10 million passengers a day. the area of Switzerland is larger than LA Metro. If you combine LA Metro, Orange County and SD , you have ca the size of Switzerland.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension L.A. Metro area was about 14 million almost 2 years ago. Agreed that the exact definition of that area is not precise. In any case, mass transit is of limited use here and never will get beyond that, given a range of factors. I used to study urban planning, and little has changed in this respect for decades in terms of solutions that would serve more than a tiny percentage of the population. The billions spent on the subway were a spectacular waste of money. Even for the few people relatively that ride it, it's not even safe.
@n_dimension The root issue with LA: There was once a rather good Tramway system. Disappeared for various reasons. The city, being young, was built around cars. And the urban topology therefore also around cars, whereas Switzerland has an urban topology around nodes as hubs and spokes of traffic between.
So having grown like that over centuries, it is easier to upgrade the traffic spokes to the integrated and intervalled schedules.
@n_dimension But they spent considerable money to do it. The Bahn2000 as the first portion cost 7 billion USD. The second portion ZEB 6.5, the NEAT 29 billion.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension Let's call that, uh, unlikely, given that there barely is enough funding for major street repairs, you can forget about sidewalk repairs, and the budget situation from the fires has only made it much worse.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension I'm old enough to just barely remember a bit of the streetcar system in L.A. (not the original one, but the one that looked like electric buses with tires on overhead power or buses on overhead power on rails. Just barely. But even then the system was collapsing as the suburbs had already grown way out into the Valley.
@n_dimension On Santa Monica Blvd, one can still see some of the tracks and I believe they kept one of the cars. Back then, that was current tech for streetcars.
But if nothing is maintained and expanded as the metro grows, it of course collapses.
It collapsesd when everyone thought private car is the only future. happened here too, but they reverted. maybe people saw: if we do that our cities will look like LA.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension There are some chunks of abandoned tracks still visible out here in the Valley in various places. The active tracks for current trains are toward the north end of the Valley. I think it was torn down relatively recently, but until then there was a hardware store in my area where to the side you could still see tracks and one of the doors (not in use) was original door used to access those tracks when that building was a working railroad station.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension At Pico and Sepulveda (yes, the song Dr. D. made famous!) there was for many years a diagonal track that crossed the intersection, and occasionally there'd be a boxcar off on a siding there. When I was a kid there was an active line just down the block from a house we rented, and I'd go down there to watch the freight trains rumble by. I think the tracks are gone now, but the right-of-way is still there and filled with plants and stuff I think much of the way down so it's obvious where the line was.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension By the way, how do you carry all those bags of groceries home on mass transit? Especially if you're older. Or infirm. Or ...
@n_dimension Infirm people: they can get groceries delivered to the door via outpatient service, which does medical care as well. Health insurance pays for that. (Not the groceries, but the service).
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension Well for most people that wouldn't be paid by insurance here, and lots of people who don't quality as "infirm" still wouldn't be able to manage the packages themselves or pay for delivery.
@n_dimension Insurance here is mandatory. And the Outpatient service is part of the insurance system. We open another topic here so I won't digress further.
@n_dimension And I am not suggesting that the entire US should or could use such a system. For that, your infrastructure is just way too inferior and outdated. Especially related to trains and tracks.
You can't even get a decent intercity express system going in California. A state that certainly should have the finances.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension I voted for the L.A. <-> S.F. train project. One of the votes I most regret in my life. Horrific mismanagement. I'm actually glad Trump is trying to cut off federal money for it. An utter waste the way it was handled.
The problem with that line was: Where the line was supposed to go through. eg in the middle of nowhere instead of like Sacramento proper. Afik not starting in LA main station. Whereto in SFO?
You do not have the technology for such trains. And your tracks are from the cowboy era.
The legal context in your country is unsuitable for such large infrastructure projects. How did you get the Interstate system done btw.
@n_dimension And yes, it is my opinion that the PM skill set is not there anymore for that type of project across several jurisdiction and local dons able to object to every step and mile of such a project. .
@n_dimension Having that said: The Neat project in CH: Part of that was the new Gotthard tunnel, going under the mountain base, no incline. Afaik there were only 10 Project managers and firms worldwide, who could do it.
The Interstate system was initiated by Pres. Eisenhower, sold as a system that could be used for military transport. In that post-WWII era, that argument won the day -- and the resources needed to do it properly.
@katharina_buholzer @n_dimension As a federal project designated military they were able to bypass a lot of red tape, and there was massive (historic) use of eminent domain to get the land.
@mike805 An efficient public transport system (buses, trams, where feasible underground rail) and a safe bike & walking infrastructure are the solution to city traffic. As has been proven in many cities. As is essentially self-evident, because anything that relies on cars requires too much space & energy to move a single person. @lauren
@lipow @mike805 In some cities for some people. In decentralized very large cities such as L.A. it has remained problematic, and many people are not physically able to deal with public transit, biking, or walking any distance, even assuming they're not carrying packages as well. Public transit in L.A. has always been a problem since the beginnings of the suburbs that quickly outgrew the original rail and streetcar networks, and only relatively high density areas are being considered for expanded public transit these days. The city is just so large and so decentralized that mass transit will always be of limited value here.
@mike805 Replacing a system that lets people drive where they like with an automated system that the government can completely control in every aspect, even taking you to destinations that you didn't plan? Robocars as the primary means of transportation are a wet dream of fascism.
Cities with public transit and limited parking are already inherently totalitarian. I'm really glad I didn't live in one when COVID hit, because there would have been no way to avoid every day exposure to it. No, an N95 will not guarantee your safety if you are in a bus or subway car full of sick people. Better than nothing but not safe.
You want freedom? Live outside the city! Yes you need a car. You can still go in to visit.
@mike805 A great number of people are not in a position to simply choose to live outside a city, unless perhaps you're planning to subsidize them. And many people are not physically able to ride bikes of any kind.
One of Australian Prime Ministers said that country living is a "lifestyle choice" unfortunately, he said it about first nation people living in literal stone age camps in the middle of the desert...
...it's not as if he was a racist and a bigot...he nominated himself as...
Judge rules Anthropic can use copyrighted books to train AI - The Washington Post archive.ph/ceOzS
"Anthropic didnโt break the law when it trained its chatbot with copyrighted books, a judge said, but it must go to trial for allegedly using pirated books."
There is a US and European backed Israeli genocide in Gaza. The US and Israel are waging an illegal war on Iran. Republicans are using dead women as incubators for the state. Transgender people are being systematically erased in the so called "liberal democracies".
But tell me again about how NATO and the Western countries are "civilized" and "pro LGBT".
The lie of "Western civilization" died in the Congo. It died in Nuremberg. And it died again in Gaza. It has experienced many deaths, overall. It is a zombie idea that will never go away, because the hubris and ignorance of the collective West will never end.
Western civilization as a concept is so throughly disproven that I cannot take it seriously at all.
Slavery, colonial extraction, and genocide are the foundational aspects of western geopolitics and economics as we know them. These things are barbaric to the strongest possible degree.
America and Israel are not enlightened cities in the uncivilized jungle. They are colonial outposts that are built on top of the skulls of millions of slaughtered people.
Africa, Palestine, and the indigenous peoples of North America were civilized. Many of these civilizations, in fact, had enormous complex systems of social organization and thousands of years of collective mathematical and scientific knowledge.
The Europeans came in, burned their archives, destroyed their architecture, and turned their people into slaves.
They successfully did to these peoples what the Nazis sought to do to the Ashkenazi Jews, Roma, and Slavic peoples.
The Nazis wanted to eradicate the works of non-"Aryan" artists, scientists, and mathematicians. They sought to destroy nearly all traces of Judaism from Europe. And they wanted to turn the Soviet republics into a giant resource mine.
All of this! Jacques Derrida observed that Western philosophy was the forest in which the mushroom of Nazism grew. The forest still supports the growth of that mushroom. Jean-Luc Nancy went further. He said that Beethovenโs music found its destiny when it was played in panzer factories. Romantic nationalism can have only one outcome; the murder of โOthersโ. We need a post-colonial world, which means disempowering the colonizers.
A) No they won't. It's expensive as shit to uproot your entire operation, rehire, retrain, and reorganize entire production lines from the ground up, not to mention a gigantic pain in the ass.
B) Even if they do, that will leave a hole in the economy which can be filled by small business and entrepreneurs.
C) Even if it doesn't, trickle down economics is a filthy lie sold to you to keep you complacent. You can do better than a below minimum wage gig economy sidehustle. Demand better from employers.
AIUI, Americans keep paying certain taxes even after they migrated. That could be a solution to copy, and otherwise: please pay at the border when migrating.
And the tax? Itโs often something like 4% on income earned over 1 million dollars (taking MAโs โwealth taxโ as an example). Itโs not like the government is coming to take their first-born child or something. IIRC, there was no exodus afterwards in MA. They can afford it and they know it.
we can't tax the rich because they are rich enough to split their empire in 1000 parts and impersonate a thousand self-employed peasants, and we don't want to tax those.
I don't really know if under capitalism we can really tax them in any meaningful way...
Another consideration: if they're not Sponsored By Daddy, rich people often become rich by taking big risks and getting lucky. It's not that they are uniquely talented. People already suggested an exit tax for any of them who decide to leave. There will always be risk takers. Of those, there will always be some that are lucky. They will fill the gap and "generate wealth" if that's what the capitalist angst is all about.
"But then they won't create jobs" - look, even assuming they do, which they often don't, either they'll leave but keep their businesses open, preserving those jobs, or they'll shut down, leaving a hole in the market for others to open businesses & hire people.
Rich people are utterly expendable; we can absolutely do without them but they can't do without us. Anything else is a myth created by them & the people who want to be like them.
Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies, tell me where is sanity Tax the rich, feed the poor Till there are no rich no more? I'd love to change th...
And it's not even true that they just leave. First there could or should be an exit tax and second there is research that shows rich people leaving is not that common as to matter economically.
@skaphle @pluralistic Actually taxing having large amounts of property, like >10Mio in a country (leads to either falling prices, and/or taxes), and some minimum tax based on citizenship would have noticable impact. But that's why we don't get that
(To be fair, if people spend money here, other people get it, and pay taxes. VAT etc goes towards the Exchequer from what they spend it on, stamp duty if it is houses etc. Taxation is complicated)
In pricing strategy , there is the thought that if you arent turning away at least a few customers as a result of your price, then you are pricing your product too low.
I suspect that the only billionaires that are turned off from America are the corrupt grifters our law system discourages... but even that is changing....
I recall reading about the Michigan wealth tax. I can't seem to find a good source though, but I think it was around 4% and ended up being even more successful than expected. It now finds public education and as a result, more wealthy people are moving to Michigan because of the better schools, so the effect is compounding.
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A regular meeting of the Interstate Working Group on the creation of a unified system of technical support for the railways of the CSTO member states was held in Dushanbe en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odkโฆ
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
Exactly!! Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot were prolific killers and who gets all the attention? Hitler. Communism has killed more people than any ideology. Watch out for Islam too.
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Interesting to see Maersk's involvement in this situation. Makes you wonder about the complexities behind international shipping. On a lighter note, this reminds me of the strategic decisions you have to make in Pokerogue and Pokerogue Dex . Gotta carefully consider every move, almost like building your own unique Pokerogue Dex to counter unexpected challenges. Hope everyone's finding some balance amidst all the news.
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The delegation of the CSTO Joint Staff took part in commemorative events dedicated to the Day of National Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Patriotic War in the Republic of Belarus en.odkb-csto.org/news/news_odkโฆ
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
Hit 14.3 hits/second tonight, the majority of it Friendica traffic. This is the busiest I've ever seen it. The 458% CPU load is a bit misleading, as the CPU usage is calculated on a single core but this is an 18 core 36 thread machine, so that really means 4.58 of those 36 threads is fully occupied.
Apache Server Status for www.eskimo.com (via 204.122.16.7)
Server Version: Apache/2.4.63 (Unix) OpenSSL/3.0.13 Server MPM: event Server Built: Mar 28 2025 19:59:23
Current Time: Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 20:24:23 PDT Restart Time: Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 09:49:58 PDT Parent Server Config. Generation: 1 Parent Server MPM Generation: 0 Server uptime: 10 hours 34 minutes 24 seconds Server load: 48.47 58.12 55.57 Total accesses: 542709 - Total Traffic: 2.7 GB - Total Duration: 229103454 CPU Usage: u4.63 s4.71 cu120338 cs54098 - 458% CPU load 14.3 requests/sec - 75.5 kB/second - 5.3 kB/request - 422.148 ms/request 36 requests currently being processed, 0 workers gracefully restarting, 24 idle workers
What the FBI is suggesting in this article seems more geared at trying to keep Google's control over censorship than it is insuring a lack of malware. And their alleged concern, that this malware enables proxy services on the machine to be used for criminal activities seems weak at best since tor already services that purpose and is widely available. It's a good argument for good ingress and egress firewall rules but not much else.
Georg Restle โช@georgrestle.bsky.socialโฌ am 25. Juni 2025 um 12:39: Ein Ex-Gesundheitsminister der #CDU, dem schweres politisches Fehlverhalten nachgewiesen wurde + eine aktuelle CDU-Gesundheitsministerin, die sich schรผtzend vor ihn stellt + eine CDU-Bundestagsprรคsidentin, die kritische Nachfragen aus dem Parlament blockiert. Die Causa #Spahn ist lรคngst eine Causa CDU
OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger will visit the CSTO Secretariat and take part in the meeting of the Permanent Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization
NYC will finally get exactly what it deserves -- an Islamo-fascist Commie dictator who will who will whip them, shit on them and break them. They will worship him. Somewhere Bin Ladin is doing a victory dance.
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