MetaPhrastes

@MetaPhrastes@lemmy.world

FOSS enthusiast and software developer

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MetaPhrastes,

Not French here, but it’s a common tendency across many western countries. Public education means higher expenditure and some countries are choking with debt so they have to brutally cut funds (education and healthcare are the preferred target, with education being at the first place because consequences are not immediately visible). The problem is not the elites anyway, it’s the rest of people letting them do it and justifying it. If their children will become cheap workforce, their parents will be to blame too.

UN expert condemns UK crackdown on environmental protest (www.theguardian.com)

He said the prosecution of peaceful protesters under “regressive” new public nuisance laws in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, which carried a 10-year sentence, and the use of the Public Order Act 2023 was criminalising peaceful demonstrations....

MetaPhrastes,

There are other countries following the same path, enforcing draconian punishment towards environmental activists (labelled by the press as “ecological terrorists”).

MetaPhrastes,

You don’t like a product? You don’t buy it for you or for your kids as long as you materially provide for them. The company which sells it goes bankrupt and that’s it. No need for prosecuting / banning by law the ideologies you don’t like. As simple as that. Otherwise you are implicitly admitting you are wrong.

MetaPhrastes,

I was wondering how much time would have passed before anything like this happened. The history of that part of Europe is so blood-soaked that one just has to scratch the surface a little bit to find ethnic cleansing crimes. Profiting of it for political propaganda is terrible, though.

MetaPhrastes,

The decision has been taken by a college of judges of the court (which is even worse than a single person).

MetaPhrastes,

As an Italian, I feel truly ashamed. There is another case on the news in these days concerning the reduction of the sentence for a man who killed and torn to pieces his ex girlfriend due to “his being very affectionate but her being too libertine”. What has gone wrong with this country?

MetaPhrastes, (edited )

The one about the “10-seconds rule” for sexual harassment generated a flood of ironic videos on TikTok and was in general received very badly by younger generations because the girl was “one of them” and they could relate. The other one is received with total indifference. Plus there’s another: the son of the president of the Senate has been accused of rape and his father publicly declared that she was on drug/she waited 40 days to “remember” and sue the complaint so she is unreliable. All in a very short amount of time. To me it’s a generational clash, unfortunately the younger don’t have right to vote (and if they do they don’t go voting) and the ones who rule are white/male chauvinists.

MetaPhrastes,

news.italy24.press/local/625075.html

MetaPhrastes,

let’s try a different one

MetaPhrastes,

As an Italian, that was indeed a good one! 😅😅😅 Sad but true, maybe people think to solve the problem like that here.

MetaPhrastes,

Totally agree. It’s a tendency in all European countries: national healthcare is seen as public expenditure negatively affecting national balance, and private clinics are on the rise. Let’s hope, at least, that taxes will be cut as well, otherwise we’ll end up with a system that has the worst of the European model combined with the worst of the American one.

MetaPhrastes,

How strange, who would have guessed it… The timing is far from “perfect” though, national elections were last year. Maybe in next year’s European elections some change will be visible.

MetaPhrastes,

Something had to be done and something is better than nothing, ignoring all red flags and continuing as if everything were fine (leaving problems to successors) is not an option any more.

MetaPhrastes,

Am I the only one old enough to remember the 2006 deal between Microsoft and Novell? Now Red Hat is on the hot seat with everyone blaming and hating, I remember when Novell was in similar position in terms of community feeling betrayed.

MetaPhrastes,

Same here in Italy. We are ahead of the rest of Europe this time, due to having voted earlier last year. A word of warning: no matter how radical and extremist their claims are, once they take the seats in parliament they don’t change anything. Here they came to the paradox of abrogating some laws of the previous government and reintroduce the very same measure with a different name. Only rhetorics will change (and not entirely for the good, unfortunately).

Musk claims Meta hired dozens of Twitter employees to build Threads. (www.law360.com)

A top lawyer for Twitter owner Elon Musk says the platform has “serious concerns” that Facebook parent Meta hired “dozens of former Twitter employees” in order to build its new “copycat” Threads app — accusations that Meta denies....

MetaPhrastes,

Maybe he feels like some of those ancient Pharaohs who had the architects building their pyramids killed afterwards in order not to reveal anyone the inner secret passages.

MetaPhrastes,

I am completely ignorant about Polish politics and honestly I didn’t know about the “Poland A” / “Poland B” distinction. This meme made me learn something so thank you 🙏

MetaPhrastes,

Thank you for the clarification… Yes, it’s the same in my country too. “Grip” is not the word I would use for the situation here, the Church does not enslave anyone nor it demand tithes on the harvest as in the Middle Ages any more, they too evolved! 😅

Not storing my account or keeping me logged in?

The app on android was fine for a while, but the past few days it keeps logging me out and then my account is no longer saved. If I enter my account info it appear to have me logged in for a refresh or two, but then I can’t get to my profile and then I show up as Anonymous again....

MetaPhrastes, (edited )

It’s on the instance, it happened to me too some hours ago and all of a sudden all clients stopped working (complaining about me not being logged in). One of the workarounds for the hack was actually invalidating all sessions, so maybe we were all logged off. Source: lemmy.ml/post/1953164

MetaPhrastes,

Rather than “bored” I’d say “more concerned with other issues”. To some extent it’s already happening: war is no more a trendy news and inflation/unemployment/recession/climate are gaining importance. Unless you live in my country where… uh… trials involving ministers and public officers take half of the screen time on the news. 🇮🇹🤌🍕 (All forms of “mass distraction”)

MetaPhrastes,

Thank you I feel less alone! Not sure whether it’s a good thing, anyway. In Italy the government is playing the victim and boiling it all down to the plain old argument of “political interferences in judicial councils”. They are working on a judicial reform which looks much a retaliation, though, which is a little worrying.

MetaPhrastes,

In Italy the name Mirko, imported from Slavic neighbouring countries, is quite diffused but it’s not uncommon to ask «Do you spell it with a c or with a k?» because the k letter is not normally used in Italian spelling. To which the answer is often (joking) «Obviously with a k otherwise it would be a circus» due to the fact that Mirko and circo sound very similar in our language.

MetaPhrastes,

It was very popular in the 80s and 90s, indeed. With the new millennium it became slightly less “trendy” in favour of other “foreign-sounding” names. Trust me, Italians really like loans from foreign languages, even for peoples’ given names. This often create a comic contrast with very Italian family names e.g. “Jennifer Fumagalli” or “Thomas Bongiovanni” which sound a little kitsch but it’s also adorable.

MetaPhrastes,

It was worth it. It must remain for the memory of the posterity.

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