Top priority is always going to be things closer to home like housing and economic security, climate action, etc. The conservative state media machine and foreign “troll” farms they (along with Putin, Israel, etc) finance never stopped after winning 2016. Cambridge Analytica just evolved into multiple, more advanced, spin-offs.
My theory is that the younger gens are completely and entirely disenfranchised. Regardless of Trump being logically, objectively, worse… They see the non-stop corruption and collusion between politicians, corporations, and the judicial system; the enshittification and monopolization of everything. They don’t care about “the economy” when they have little hope of housing or economic security regardless. They don’t care about “the most significant climate action ever” when it’s decades too late, and they’re still likely to experience climate and ecological collapse.
Everyone has a limit. There’s only so many times you’ll go through chemo before you tell the doctors to get fucked and let the cancer run its course.
While power-sector emissions stabilised, the largest source of reductions in emissions in March was the continued decline in demand for steel and cement from the construction sector…
China’s economy is not doing well, especially construction and real estate. It’s not “happening” until there’s a continuous drop in Co2, across many months, and while the economy is stable or expanding.
Most of the switching posts are from frustrated windows users making the jump. I’m already a Linux user on my server (Ubuntu for now, going Debian at some point) and a 2014 iMac for tinkering/testing (KDE Neon), and a couple of raspberry pis (raspberry pi os headless) but our main household computer is an M1 Mac mini that my...
Only 7 formerly government-owned properties. It sounds more like temporary/halfway accomodation, like there is for female domestic violence victims (not for male victims though, lol), than a solution to systemic trans discrimination and housing unaffordability.
Absolutely! The problem is that the title is clickbait and misleading, as it implies a targeted and discriminatory solution to general housing affordability for trans women, which the program is not, and implying such is bad journalism — ragebait for bigots and disenfranchised Australians suffering from decades of conservative/neoliberal social and economic mismanagement.
The reality is that this program is a run of the mill, bare-minimum, bandaid measure (i.e. does nothing to fix systemic housing affordability). The newsworthy part is that this one specifically caters to the needs of the trans women population (what about trans men!?!) already suffering housing insecurity and insufficient support under the existing bandaids — which is a good thing — though a competent government would implement general housing reforms that address the systemic failures, which would help everyone suffering housing insecurity, including LGBTQ+ and all most at-risk groups (and is what should be demanded by voters, rather than more of the same bandaid non-solutions).
The start of the Palestinian “ethnic cleansing” and genocide, immediately following the creation of Israel by the League of Nations (led by colonial empires) — when zionists/IDF terrorised and murdered enough Palestinians that 750k fled and arabs became the minority.
If Trump actually gave a shit he’d end the war on drugs. Instead he’s making the most blatant virtue signal ever by saying he’ll free ONE white dude… that he probably won’t even free anyway because he’s a narcissistic compulsive liar.
No Republican has the balls to end the war on drugs, because they created “tough on crime” retribution. Rehabilitation and second chances are anti-conservative.
Clarence Thomas isn’t blind. He’s a house negro — a full blown race (and justice) traitor. He knows he’s a corrupt piece of shit sociopath and he revels in it.
The ridiculous part is that Americans still consider this court legitimate, when it is ruled by treasonous domestic terrorists.
Calling these things Artificial Intelligence should be a crime. It’s false advertising! Intelligence requires critical thought. They possess zero critical thought. They’re stochastic parrots, whose only skill is mimicking human language, and they can only mimic convincingly when fed billions of examples.
They don’t need a “gene drive”. Planting their GMO seeds in one field is guaranteed to contaminate the neighbouring fields. Then they can sue the neighbouring farmers, and steal both their crops and land.
They’ve been using this tactic in hostile takeovers of farmland since the 90’s.
You’re thinking of conservatives. The cruelty isn’t the point with the chamber of commerce. Profits are the point. Anything that benefits the worker reduces profits for the capitalist.
I find it hilarious that people still believe there’s a rule of law while the US is a full blown corporatocracy masquarading as a democracy. Trump will never see the inside of a jail cell, or face any justice beyond financial (yet never enough to lose a life of luxury). Laws are for the commoners.
Republicans Conservatives masturbate to the idea of elderly people others being denied the basic necessities in life because they were unable to earn enough for a retirement due to the uncontrollable greed of the ultra wealthy Conservatives.
The ultra wealthy wouldn’t make enough money from this to give a shit. This type of petty, ideological driven cruelty is a hallmark of conservatism (see school lunch cuts). Keep in mind, most Democrats trend to the right of center (aka “conservative”) compared to the rest of the developed world.
Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage… All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page…...
I was thinking about this and imagined the federated servers handling the index db, search algorithms, and search requests, but instead leverage each users browser/compute to do the actual web crawling/scraping/indexing; the server simply performing CRUD operations on the processed data from clients to index db. This approach would target the core reason why search engines fail (cost of scraping and processing billions of sites), reduce the costs to host a search server, and spread the expense across the user base.
It also may have the added benefit of hindering surveillance capitalism due to a sea of junk queries from every client, especially if it were making crawler requests from the same browser (obviously needs to be isolated from the users own data, extensions, queries, etc). The federated servers would also probably need to operate as lighthouses that orchestrate the domains and IP ranges to crawl, and efficiently distribute the workload to client machines.
They spent decades stacking the courts to dictate the rule of law and make any of their actions nice and legal.
They spent decades establishing a propaganda machine so support wouldn’t wain as they upgrade the dog whistles to dog sirens and implement a Christian Fascism dictatorship.
Why anyone is surprised by this is the deeply troubling part.
The hilarious part is that the rule of law doesn’t apply to most high level “intelligence” and “national security” operations, and even if moves are made to apply it they just pass a new bill to make the historic crimes retroactively legal, so all of this is just showboating and won’t actually prevent superpowers from doing it anyway — there have never been any consequences remotely adequate to fit the crimes.
In Europe, long a vital source of support for Israel, the political center of gravity is moving away from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government....
You could also argue that Israel itself is an example of terrorisms success, as Jewish militias terrorised and ethnically cleansed the land of most Arabs/Palestianians, starting at the creation of Israel.
During the Nakba in 1948, approximately half of Palestine’s predominantly Arab population, or around 750,000 people, were expelled from their homes or made to flee, at first by Zionist paramilitaries through various violent means, and after the establishment of the State of Israel, by the Israel Defense Forces. This occurred in the wake of dozens of massacres targeting Palestinian Arabs and the depopulation of 500 Arab-majority towns and villages, with many of these being either completely destroyed or repopulated by Jews and given new Hebrew names. By the end of the war, 78% of the total land area of the former Mandatory Palestine was controlled by Israel and at least 15,000 Palestinian Arabs had been killed.
In a collaborative effort, Apple and Google have developed an industry-standard detection feature called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” (DULT) for Bluetooth trackers. This standard allows users on iOS and Android devices to be alerted if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is monitoring their location.
I was held for two hours. The first round of questions was about my views on Hamas. Then the agents wished to know whether I thought Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide and what I think of the slogan “Palestine should be free from the river to the sea”. I said yes, I do think Israel is committing...
One explanation for the 2024 election’s biggest mystery, a theory for why Biden is struggling with young and nonwhite voters (www.vox.com)
Trump makes sweeping promises to donors on audacious fundraising tour |By tying donation requests to pledges of tax cuts and other policies, Trump is testing the boundaries of federal campaign finance (wapo.st)
It’s called soliciting bribes. And really really damaging to have our government run in this kind of transactional impact.
Ant smell (mander.xyz)
Monthly drop hints that China’s CO2 emissions may have peaked in 2023 (www.carbonbrief.org)
Kicked macOS to the Curb and Installed Asahi Fedora Gnome
Most of the switching posts are from frustrated windows users making the jump. I’m already a Linux user on my server (Ubuntu for now, going Debian at some point) and a 2014 iMac for tinkering/testing (KDE Neon), and a couple of raspberry pis (raspberry pi os headless) but our main household computer is an M1 Mac mini that my...
Australia will create affordable housing for trans women in first-of-its-kind initiative (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Western Zionists vs. Israeli Zionists (lemmy.ml)
18+ (NSFW) Israel releases film of women soldiers being taken by Hamas on Oct. 7 (www.reuters.com)
The footage shows the young women, all of them stunned and some bloodied, being bound and bundled into a jeep....
Trump Pledges to Free Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht If Re-Elected (www.msn.com)
Clarence Thomas Just Set Civil Rights Back 70 Years (www.theroot.com)
Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (www.theverge.com)
‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice (www.theguardian.com)
Thousands of children could die after court backs campaign group over GM crop in Philippines, scientists warn...
‘New Territory’ for Americans: Deadly Heat in the Workplace | Deaths are rising sharply, and the Biden administration is trying to respond. Its plan faces big hurdles. (www.nytimes.com)
This is why a number of Republican-controlled states have banned municipal governments from imposing workplace rules to limit heat exposure.
Biden campaign plans to get more aggressive once Trump trial ends (www.nbcnews.com)
What Radicalized You? (lemmy.world)
Kabosu, the Dog Behind the ‘Doge’ Meme, Has Died (www.ign.com)
Not sure if this counts as “world news”, but RIP Doge :(...
Search engines down? (discuss.tchncs.de)
Is it just me or are many independent search engines down? Duckduckgo, my go to engine, qwant, ecosia, startpage… All down? The only hint I got was on the qwant page…...
Second flag carried by Jan. 6 rioters displayed outside house owned by Justice Alito, report says (apnews.com)
UN Security Council rejects Russia-backed resolution on banning weapons in space (apnews.com)
US threatens ICC, warning 'If they [prosecute] Israel, we're next!' (youtu.be)
The War Is Shifting Europe’s Politics Away From Israel (www.nytimes.com)
In Europe, long a vital source of support for Israel, the political center of gravity is moving away from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government....
Colorado GOP calls for all children to be pulled from public schools (www.9news.com)
iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers' (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
In a collaborative effort, Apple and Google have developed an industry-standard detection feature called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” (DULT) for Bluetooth trackers. This standard allows users on iOS and Android devices to be alerted if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is monitoring their location.
I was detained at a US airport and asked about Israel and Gaza for 2 hours. Why? | Ilan Pappé (www.theguardian.com)
I was held for two hours. The first round of questions was about my views on Hamas. Then the agents wished to know whether I thought Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide and what I think of the slogan “Palestine should be free from the river to the sea”. I said yes, I do think Israel is committing...