"I'm so over people complaining about racism," says wealthy white supremacist guy. More news at 11.
He has $270.3 billion dollars, which at $50K per year would take almost 3.5 million years to earn, and he's preaching to us about cutting back. What a guy.
The main ingredients of conservatism are greed, hatred and ignorance. Coincidentally these are also the things the Buddha identified as the sources of all human suffering.
Say "Flock forks Flutter" ten times fast.
I think the point is that some capitalists, both in business and in politics, encourage us to put our faith in future carbon capture so they can keep profiting off their polluting activities for now without having to invest in carbon emissions reduction. This is unrealistic and just an excuse not to tackle the difficult task of reducing emissions. We can't afford to let the problem become that much worse before we attempt to mitigate it by sucking carbon out of the atmosphere, if there's ever a technology that can do that effectively (which right now doesn't look likely). We need to focus most of our efforts on reducing emissions.
That has to make him look even more of an asshole to the real journalists.
"I was just joking" is every fascist's go-to line when they realize their hatred is not accepted by present company. Walking that line between serious hate speech/incitement and "only joking" is absolutely characteristic of fascism.
Microsoft profits off genocide and intends to keep doing so.
This is a very conservative estimate. Other studies estimate that the total dead is more than 200,000 by now, or 10% of Gaza's population. And we should not forget the many, many people who are living with serious injuries from Israel's attacks, or all the people slowly starving.
A statement from the community in support of the Open Source Definition (OSD) version 1.9
cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/11985244
> # Declaration > > We, the undersigned members of the Open Source community, assert that Open Source is defined solely by the Open Source Definition (OSD) version 1.9. > > Any amendments or new definitions shall only be recognized if declared by clear community consensus through a transparent process to be determined.
A statement from the community in support of the Open Source Definition (OSD) version 1.9
cross-posted from: https://feddit.it/post/11985139
> # Declaration > > We, the undersigned members of the Open Source community, assert that Open Source is defined solely by the Open Source Definition (OSD) version 1.9. > > Any amendments or new definitions shall only be recognized if declared by clear community consensus through a transparent process to be determined.
Yes, she looks very bad there. She tries to evade the question several times over, and refuses to say anything positive about trans rights at all, even when the interviewer gives her several chances to do so. I still believe the Republicans would be worse, since they are the party that has been hurrying to introduce as many very trans-hostile laws as possible around the country. Democrats will fail to defend rights; Republicans will make sure rights are taken away, while inciting hatred and actively persecuting trans people. So as with many things, the Democrats may be bad on this, but Republicans are significantly worse.
I understand people not wanting to give the Democrats the sense that they have a mandate they don't have, but right now it's also necessary to keep Trump out. It sucks, but real progress will not come through the ballot box alone and must be fought for alongside electoral politics.
I'm sure the attention will boost his career, even if it's negative. I've never heard of him before this.
It was the rescuer of 12 kids trapped in a cave in Thailand that Musk called a "pedo guy". Unless he did it more than once, which is quite possible.
Unless it's monitoring which bathroom trans kids are using. Then it's freedom.
One difficulty with that is that the way we organize economies currently depends on having a working-age population that is large enough to support the non-working population. When you have far fewer workers than retired people you start having problems. I don't know what the answer to that is, but it's another instance of how any plan to seriously address climate change tends to require deep changes to how we run society. The current systems can't simply be tweaked to make the problem go away.
The word is "communist", which is absurd when applied to this center-right politician. Unfortunately many people are so ignorant and have ingested enough anti-communist propaganda that they will believe it.
I have seen so many articles about Donald Trump in the last week, and I'm not sure I have even seen one about Kamala Harris. Unfortunately, the media and the online public are both very easy to bait into giving Trump free publicity.
These people seem to think if they don't vote, the Democrats will face some kind of reckoning because the voters are not "endorsing" them. I'm not sure how that's supposed to work or what anyone is then supposed to do about it under a fascist dictatorship. In fact, it's so obviously nonsense that you have to wonder whether these people have other motives that they're not stating.
Why are all the photos from this event in black and white?
Another night at the Garden.
From that page:
This quotation is often incorrectly attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit:
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.[10]
However, it was actually a 2018 blog response by 59-year-old Ohio composer Frank Wilhoit, years after Francis Wilhoit's death.[11]
A new poll run by Data For Progress found that voters are more likely to support candidates who support trans rights. People also believe political attack ads have gotten out of hand.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/17945663
> > Link to poll: https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/10/23/voters-prefer-candidates-who-are-supportive-of-transgender-rights-think-recent-political-ads-have-gotten-mean-spirited-and-out-of-hand > > > When voters are asked whether they are more inclined to support a candidate who backs transgender rights or one who opposes them, voters overwhelmingly choose the candidate in favor of transgender rights, by a margin of 21 points. This trend holds true among Independents, with a 19-point preference. Even 22% of Republicans indicate they are more likely to support a candidate who favors trans rights—a significantly higher percentage than the share of Democrats who would back a candidate opposing them. > > > Furthermore, voters showed frustration with the wave of anti-trans advertisements. When asked if they thought political attack ads against the transgender community have gotten mean spirited and out of hand, far more voters agree than disagree (+28 points). This finding holds true for independents (+23 points) as well, with even 31% of Republicans finding that there were too many political attack ads.
“Climate change comes with irreversible consequences.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30367614
Jeff Bezos’s decision to pull a Washington Post endorsement of Harris is foreboding. But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
Jeff Bezos’s decision to pull a Washington Post endorsement of Harris is foreboding. But not necessarily for the reasons you think.
Long considered a satirical painting, new research shows Francis Williams was celebrating recording the arrival of Halley's comet in 1759.
Long considered a satirical painting, new research shows Francis Williams was celebrating recording the arrival of Halley's comet in 1759.
At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington and Mossberg, secretly handed over names, addresses and other data to lobbyists, who used the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/27097259
> Those operatives, in turn, secretly employed the details to rally firearm owners to elect pro-gun politicians running for Congress and the White House, a ProPublica investigation has found. > > The clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself on thwarting efforts to track who owns firearms in America. > > At least 10 gun industry businesses, including Glock, Smith & Wesson, Remington, Marlin and Mossberg, handed over names, addresses and other private data to the gun industry’s chief lobbying group, the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The NSSF then entered the gun owners’ details into what would become a massive database.
The latest generation, Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Scribe 2, Kindle Scribe 1, and Kindle and the upcoming Kindle Colorsoft, all have something in common. When you plug them into USB into your PC or MAC, they no longer appear as external drives. This prevents users from using file managers to back up t...
A review of the millions of registered voters in Georgia found just 20 noncitizens were registered to vote, Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Wednesday.
An analysis of the MoH methodology, the exacerbating challenges it faces as the war continues, and estimates from independent researchers and humanitarian organisations.
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/19216336
> > An analysis of the Gaza MoH methodology, the exacerbating challenges it faces as the war continues, and estimates from independent researchers and humanitarian organisations.
When Donald Trump got the bill for Vanessa Guillén’s funeral in 2020, he reportedly raged, “It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a f---ing Mexican!”
Sha'ban al-Dalou, 19, was a software engineering student who had survived an Israeli airstrike on a mosque that killed 20 people last week.
With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21419291
> With the full support of the Biden administration, Israel is waging a merciless war of extermination against the 400,000 Palestinians remaining in the northern Gaza Strip as the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering a plan to annex the territory. > > No food, water, or medicine have entered the north since October 1 as Israeli forces have conducted a campaign of intense airstrikes and ground forces have invaded and encircled much of the area. > > As it orders residents to flee the north, Israel has intensified its attacks on Deir Al-Balah, a city in central Gaza that has not suffered the vast scale of destruction unleashed by Israel in other parts of the Strip. > > Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled to the city in recent months. In the early morning hours of Monday, Israel bombed a crowded tent encampment for displaced people on the grounds of Al Aqsa hospital, engulfing civilians in a massive ring of fire. > > Video from the scene showed patients—some of whom appeared to be in beds attached to IV cords—being burned alive as others in the encampment tried desperately to extinguish the fires with small buckets of water.
The Dutch prison population has fallen by more than 40% – and awareness of the harms of harsh sentencing could explain why, says Dutch writer and journalist Renate van der Zee
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21381352
> The Dutch have seen their prison population decrease by more than 40% over the past 20 years. At the other end of the spectrum, Britain has the highest rate of incarceration in western Europe, and is struggling with an unprecedented prisons crisis. Britain’s minister of prisons, James Timpson, calls the Netherlands a source of inspiration. > > What could the Dutch system teach the rest of the world? First, the declining prison population is not actually the result of recent policies by visionary politicians. Much of it is due to changes in reported crime and the nature of crime. As in many other western countries, the number of violent crimes has significantly dropped in the Netherlands in recent decades. > > This does not necessarily mean that there is actually less crime overall, as Dutch criminologist Francis Pakes, professor at the University of Portsmouth, who has studied the reasons for the emptying Dutch prisons, told me: “There is less conventional, violent crime, like murder. On the other hand, a lot of conventional crime went online and is less visible. And it is quite possible that there is a kind of organised crime that we have little visibility on. But fewer serious cases are coming to the police and courts.” And so fewer people end up in jail. > > But while the Dutch don’t have a model policy the world can copy, the overall Dutch attitude towards imprisonment could be instructive. According to Pakes, the Dutch are much more aware that a stay in prison does more harm than good. Society may be rid of a criminal for a while, but in many cases, criminals simply resume their activities when they leave prison. They may become more ruthless, due to the violent prison climate in which they have had to survive. And perhaps they have a wider criminal network that they built up behind bars. > > This also applies to shorter sentences. Even these can completely turn an offender’s life upside down. You can lose your job, home and social network. And you rarely become a better person during a short stay in jail.
The group, proscribed as terrorists by the west, hands out food, cash and medicines to people displaced in the conflict
State-owned body writing off losses of £12m a year after stopping practice, inquiry told