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Europeans will welcome back an independent Scotland in to the EU
An independent Scotland asking to rejoin the EU would be welcomed by most Europeans. The latest YouGov EuroTrack survey asked people in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and Spain about this, and between 63 and 75% say they will support an independent Scotland joining the EU.
In all of those countries, very few people, only about one in ten, said they would be opposed to Scotland rejoining.
“People die daily from malnutrition,” says Dr. Atef al-Ghoul, Director of Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis. “If we speak in the language of numbers, the numbers speak for themselves — hundreds of people have died in the past two months trying to get food for their families, only to return to their starving families in body bags.”
Children in Gaza have begun to die of severe malnutrition in increasing numbers as Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza. Infants are the most severely affected, as hunger devours their bodies until they reach “a point of no return.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the WSJ had been excluded from Donald Trump's upcoming Scotland trip for its "fake and defamatory conduct."
“If the universities – or in this case a university press – are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?” – Thea Abu El-Haj
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
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Whenever I post on Facebook I include the phrase "mass detention ends in mass death" because I don't want any of the "conservatives" I know who are justifying this bullshit to say they didn't know where it was going.
One thing I've learned from Facebook: the people from my previous life that I trust and respect & the people I don't.
Because the people I trust & respect say something about atrocities, & those who don't apparently either are happy about it or don't want to lose face among conservatives.
Facebook posts don't do much, but at least it's a chance to tell people that truth exists and that it fucking matters, & I appreciate that my parents and a few others of their generation are not silent.
I know vocalizing protest alone does not itself address the issues, but if we are going to address the issues, we need to protest loudly, so it is part of it.
And aside from anything practical, aside from convincing anyone or changing anything, it is simply *human* to express outrage & grief at atrocities.
I think that is the hardest thing about seeing all the people with nothing to say.
Like, news out of Gaza doesn't make you want to scream in unspeakable sorrow & anger?
Learning of ICE kidnappings & torture doesn't compel you to speak out?
If you're not boiling over with *something* to say about all the cruelty, violence, & death...how? What is wrong with you? Where tf is your humanity? Have you forgotten it? Lost it? Where is your compassion? Your sense of justice?
Aside: I just realized that nearly every person that I'm thinking of who is saying something is neurodivergent (ADHD &/or autistic), which I guess isn't surprising. We are known for having a rigid sense of justice & being non-conformist.
I'm starting to wonder if those "disorders" are an evolutionary feature that ensures *some* percentage of a population is harder to manipulate with social conditioning.
(obviously, you can also be neurotypical & resist conditioning—a lot of factors contribute)
I think the explanation for the latter is that most neurotypicality *is* just successful conditioning (dependent on innate capability and willingness to do so) to perform it.
Many of the same traits and behaviors that overlap with "neurotypicality" also lie on the vast spectrum of neurodiversity, and are not the product of conditioning. But most instances are probably the result of conditioning, to the degree that "neurotypicality" would not be a majority/default if you only included people who just happened to be that way without conditioning.
@dalias I like that perspective. I frequently feel really, really cynical about humanity right now, but I am trying to hold that in balance with the fact that people are so manipulated, controlled, conditioned, indoctrinated, and misinformed.
It can feel like a lot of people choose that or are naturally that way, but that's frustration with how hard it is to deprogram people from something built into the social constructs we inhabit.
@dalias And yeah, sometimes I get the sort of "are the straights ok?" feeling about "neurotypicality".
Example: when I talk to a "neurotypical" person I often get a strong sense they have buried their personality to conform with the group, and it's like... it's not that you don't HAVE unique interests or a desire to be yourself, you just don't seem to know that you can simply embrace those things.
Hiding who you are and what you like out of a desire to be perceived as "normal" is not innate.
I also have spooky moments where I ponder how effective all these tyrannical regimes have (or have not) actually been at stamping the capacity for resistance out of populations-- from a cultural standpoint AND, spookier, from a eugenics standpoint. It would probably take thousands of generations to physically breed out independent minds and reduce default human behavior to placid submissiveness, if such a thing is even possible but lord knows they've been wanting to try and EW.
I mean, some of the neurodivergent 'moral rigidity' is really just because of a greater need for consistency. And a lot of instances of injustice have components of inconsistent applications of rules (not necessarily the whole of it though, and not necessarily all instances of injustice).
I don't really know enough to theorize on why there's a shared need for consistency - just some vague thoughts on consistency helping with cognitive processing efficiency - but it seems to be a shared feature across ADHD and autism.
@dartigen I wonder if there is a socialization component for this need for consistency.
Something ADHD and autistic folks have in common is being frequently misunderstood as children & being punished/corrected for things that don't make sense & aren't clear to them.
I think it makes sense to develop a need for consistency in that context. If people want us to abide by their rules, we would argue they had better spell them out and then abide by all the logical consequences of those rules.
@dartigen We also are forced to explain our actions and justify our choices significantly more often than others, so we probably are more likely to approach a question like "what should I do about x thing?" from the existing mental framework that we use to try to convince others to treat us fairly & with consistency.
I think about how I would justify my actions to others to the point it is unhealthy, but I have always had to explain my choices to people who misinterpreted or misunderstood them
I was thinking more along the lines of how moral rules, like lots of other rules and rule-like frameworks, help to provide a cognitive shortcut. If it's always right to refill the coffee pot if you used the last of it, for example, you don't have to waste any cognitive energy considering if it's good in this instance to refill the coffee pot - it's always good, therefore refill coffee pot. Or if you always eat soup for lunch on Wednesday, you can cut down on the cognitive energy needed to decide on what to eat for lunch on Wednesday - you can bypass all other food categories and jump straight to deciding what kind of soup, instead of having to start from 'all possible lunch foods' and drill down to 'all possible types of soup'.
I feel like some of it may also run into empathy as well though - or maybe we all take the 'imagine yourself in this person's situation' description of empathy way too literally, and actually do that, and figure that we'd find that situation upsetting or infuriating and would probably react similarly, or we can at least understand how that person came to that reaction.
A lot of organized religions really lean on this "we did the heavy thinking so you don't have to / because you can't be trusted to" thing where they hand down dogma you're just supposed to default to without actually analyzing it in depth or even questioning it at all.
I was always an instinctive questioner (me at like 6 in Sunday school: "the Lord is my shepherd?? Shepherds EAT sheep!") so it's hard for me to wrap my head around the way so many people are much more comfortable following rules and really really don't WANT to look deeper because it genuinely freaks them out.
So I'm reading Skunk Works by Ben R. Rich, it's a book about the formation of the first stealth bomber program and the trials and tribulations associated with getting the first stealth bomber off the ground and all the headaches it entails.
About fifty or so odd pages in and the author talks about working on this program while under many various government laws such as the EEOC, affirmative action, having to employ a certain amount of X or Y kinds of people.
So even back then you had these laws severely limiting and threatening the very existence of a technology which changed the aerospace industry forever.
That's exactly where in time this book is written from the perspective of. I am thoroughly enjoying this autobiographical tale from the father of stealth flight. Were it not for one particular genius who sidestepped the limitations of computers back then, the stealth bomber as we know it would not have ever taken theoretical shape or even move into being a physical thing. So many hurdles to get us this design. It's a shame that this plane and its legacy have been relegated to being a training plane in the current day.
Is it the 117? Thats the 1st one i know of. Skunk works used to be able to do some incredible shit but largess has fucked it up as its become more privatized
It's something truly alien. Only a human with an alien mindset and men grasping his ideas and letting them take shape could ever make that happen. Unconventional thinking leads to unconventional progress. I love it.
oh i guess it didn't post the text bit about delta wings being developed in multiple countries and their resurgence being mostly due to fly-by-wire controls v cool pleromer
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Fiji music. I feel transported. Looks a bit like the guy in the middle prepares kava (yaqona). But make it in a plastic bowl seems very modern. 🤨 youtube.com/watch?v=yQ77hkfbDW…
Olkhon Island is the sacred centre of Lake Baikal. Sean Thomas travels to the world’s deepest lake to learn more about the history and traditions of this mysterious place.
Whenever I remember that the most prominent player of Battle Garegga, a game known to require you to kill yourself in order to maintain rank within human capabilities, is a transvestite the anglonet insists on referring to with female pronouns.
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Greetings earthlings, this is your new ruler. I am called by many names in outer space, but you may call me Salamander Newpimp. My first task is the raise the collective IQ of your simian species. Await further instructions.
@matana thanks, i knew it looked familiar. oh, i see now why i couldn't find it "All Hiragana characters end with one of these vowels, with the exception of (n)."
Hey, German-speakers! Through a very weird set of circumstances, I ended up owning the rights to the German audiobook of my bestselling 2022 cryptocurrency heist technothriller *Red Team Blues* and now I'm selling DRM-free audio and ebooks, along with the paperback (all in German and English) on a Kickstarter that runs until August 11:
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The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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They waited for him to go on vacation to do it behind his back... I'm not sure what they thought was going to happen. RFK's main fight is with the DOJ still.
@thendrix He fixed it. It's off the schedule for children. No more mandates and no more immunity for Big Pharma. 👍Oh, and now the organ harvesting thing!,🙀
@Peaceandprosperity @thendrix Off the schedule for all but like 1% of the population. This means it cannot be mandated by schools and there is no longer legal immunity for the covid vx manufactures.
Running DOJ is another animal. You need someone willing to do the job and be able to do it with most of the staff at your throat. Also these are the smartest snakes left behind to protect the DNC. Bondi let the bad actors stay in place and burned herself and Trump.
Ascending to 14,410 feet above sea level, Mount Rainier stands as an icon in the Washington landscape. An active volcano, Mount Rainier is the most glaciated peak in the contiguous U.S.A., spawning five major rivers.
The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…
This doesn't mean Fedora will not boot from DVDs anymore, it means any optical media bug won't stop new Fedora release, any related bug will be squashed like any other regular bug after release
Thanks for the reply, I was mainly joking. The burner will be used for purposes other than burning Fedora images, but I found it funny how it all came together yesterday.
Besides the corrections others have said, I really can’t think of any reason people would intentionally use legacy BIOS on a machine with UEFI for a new install.
Like, I could get doing it for an old install - I know someone who installed Windows 7 in 2015 on their then-new desktop build and later upgraded to 10 but is stuck on legacy BIOS for now with that machine because 7 only ran on that.
I could see something similarly jank happening to someone in the Linux world and then decide not to address it for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it reasons”, but certainly not for no reason.
Written by Lauren Edgar, Planetary Geologist at USGS Astrogeology Science Center Earth planning date: Friday, July 18, 2025 Curiosity has started to investigate the main exposure of the boxwork structures! What was once a distant target is now on our doorstep, and Curiosity is beginning to explore the ridges and hollows that make up this […]
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Connecticut Democratic Rep. Jim Himes gave Trump's Commerce Secretary the treatment he deserves when asked about Trump's continued threats to fire the Fed Chair, Jerome Powell.
"Israeli passengers on a [Israeli] cruise ship docked on the island of Syros in Greece were unable to disembark due to large pro-Palestinian protests at the dock on Tuesday" "Protesters near the Syros dock flew Palestinian flags, held banners reading slogans including “Stop the Genocide,” and “No AC (Air Conditioning) in Hell.”"
under normal circumstances I might say that you can’t blame the citizens for the actions of the government but they did elect that government and people all over the world are feeling completely impotent to do anything to stop the genocide, so I don’t think it’s unreasonable to respond in this way to the arrival of an Israeli ship. 🛳️
@peterbrown sir, the case for these tourists is that they are provocative -amid their support for the genocide. You can find their own videos where they shout their support for the genocidal state. Even if they don't support the genocide(which is not the case), their nationalist support make the antifascist blockade a necessity. mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApa… @NotImpressed @palestine
this thing is much deeper than I thought. but now the public will clamor for their release even more. I wonder if johson knew that would be the reaction
This week on 'Yeah Nah Pasaran!' on Melbourne/Naarm community radio 3CR, @sexenheimer & I talk to Nicola Guerra about the ‘Strategy of Tension’, ‘Years of Lead’, geopolitics, & hobbits.
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If you enjoy laughing at glue sniffing imperialists while they drag us all down into the abyss: The Hudson Institute published a plan (for lack of a better word) for how the U.S. should bring about regime change in... wait for it… China (!), a plan that involves a "military occupation”. Of China. By the US.
Less than you, it seems. I've only discovered him recently and hadn't picked up on China (or presumably specifically CCP?) propaganda. Not disputing your assessment at all, just to say I've only read a handful of things and this is the first one to even mention China as far as I remember, so I wouldn't know. Thanks for the warning.
I did follow his writings for a while, because indeed he writes well and seems thoughtful. I've wondered whether he's paid to do this propaganda or whether he just, as a French businessman in China, wanted to paint a more accurate picture of the country than the one that is portrayed in the general media. But I stumbled on a message that was more clearly propaganda (alas, can't remember what is was, so you'll have to take my word for it - or not, of course) so I unfollowed him.
Global Jews for Palestine event on Thursday sees anti-Zionist Jewish speakers from around the world come together against genocide and occupation “Silence is complicity!” says the Globa…
The massive buyouts of veterinary clinics in Canada by foreign interests and multinational corporations are leading to skyrocketing prices and a blatant decline in access to services. Everyone with animals is noticing it.
Palestinians in the West Bank are facing an unprecedented crisis in accessing enough water. But drying water resources isn’t the problem — it’s the fact that Israel extracts and controls all of the water from under their feet.
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On Tuesday, Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) said on X that Palestinians in Gaza should "starve away" while also claiming the reports of people dying of hunger due to the US-backed Israeli blockade are a "lie.
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