WhatAmLemmy

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WhatAmLemmy,

Israeli gov PsyOps is about as subtle as Russia — as subtle as a punch in the face.

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.

WhatAmLemmy, (edited )

Quit reminding me that I purchased, and am reliant on, my own personal surveillance capitalism data-harvesting tracking-device.

WhatAmLemmy,

Specifically more beach front property!!

WhatAmLemmy,

Just add some brown people and throw a wedding. The factory will be leveled within hours.

WhatAmLemmy,

The EU should take Apple to court over this for violating the GDPR.

If they aren’t deleting user data the user has deleted, especially old data that should’ve been flushed from all redundancy and resiliency measures years ago (backups, indexes, caches, etc), then they should be fined billions.

WhatAmLemmy,

The “land of the free” has been committing crimes against humanity in the Philippines for over a century. Exerts from Wikipedia:

Tensions arose after the United States annexed the Philippines under the Treaty of Paris at the conclusion of the Spanish–American Warrather than acknowledging the Philippines’ declaration of independence.

The war resulted in at least 200,000 Filipino civilian deaths, mostly from famine and diseases such as cholera.[21][22][23] Some estimates for civilian dead reach up to a million.[8] Atrocities were committed during the conflict by both sides,[24] including torture, mutilation, and executions. In retaliation for Filipino guerrilla warfare tactics, the U.S. carried out reprisals and scorched earthcampaigns and forcibly relocated many civilians to concentration camps, where thousands died.

The U.S. annexation and war sparked political backlash from anti-imperialists in the U.S. Senate, who argued that the war was a definite example of U.S. imperialism, and that it was an inherent contradiction of the founding principles of the United States contained in the Declaration of Independence.

WhatAmLemmy, (edited )

“Palestinians are not people, therefore it’s not murder” - Bibi

WhatAmLemmy,

So far, scientists have found that we’re trending toward the high end of those predictions. … “Presently, sea level is tracking in the intermediate-high to high, the two fastest,” said Randall Parkinson, a coastal geologist with Florida International University. “The other three scenarios, you might not even think about because we’re already rising faster than that.”

Gonna be real funny when that 6 ft by 2100 drops to 2050 and most of Florida become the climate migrants nobody wants.

WhatAmLemmy,

Israel, he said, has a right to defend itself but not by “intentionally causing death, starvation, great suffering, and serious injury to body or health of the civilian population” which he said were criminal acts.

Which he said were criminal acts? Terrorising, torturing, starving, and bombing civilians are all war crimes. It’s pathetic how beholden mainstream media is to our economic and geopolitical interests.

‘Only Hamas can defend us’: Israeli raids and Fatah failures boost support in West Bank (www.theguardian.com)

Khalil, a shy 21-year-old whose name has been changed, was arrested in a pre-dawn raid last October for his allegiance to Hamas. But when Israeli forces smashed through the door of his family home, they didn’t tell him why they were detaining him. He was imprisoned for six months without charge, in conditions he described as...

WhatAmLemmy, (edited )

The Israeli government / far right / zionists WANT the Palestinian people as oppressed and radicalized as possible — to guarantee a future pipeline of terrorism so they can use it to gain global sympathy, support, and justification for killing 10-1000x and accelerating both their genocide and land reclamation.

The goal hasn’t changed in 80 years. The Nakba never ended, and will not end until the entire developed world codemns and sanctions Israel — especially in depriving them of all weaponry and military support.

WhatAmLemmy,

The problem has always been that Google doesn’t give a shit about user feedback, so it isn’t easy to report an error in Google maps. If you miss a turn, or get bogged down, it should ask for route feedback every time. Either way you should fuck Google and use OpenStreetMaps to evolve a better, non-proprietary, free, alternative.

In 2010 I punched in a waterfall and followed the route. The road was sealed and fine, but Google Maps sent me down the opposite side of a mountain range. When I arrived at the end of the road and it said to continue going straight down a driveway I stopped. Only took a minute for an old mate to show up and tell me that the waterfall was on the opposite side of the mountain and there’s no road to get there before sundown. It’s always done shit like this, and I don’t expect Google to ever care enough to stop shit like this from happening.

WhatAmLemmy,

The process fueling Capitalism is workers making money to pay for goods and services. Once you automate a certain unknown % of the work force, the engine shuts down; Capitalism will have destroyed itself via automation. Germany during the hyperinflation of the 20’s only reached 30-40% unemployment before fascist dictatorship. Fascism is currently rising around the world due to wealth inequality and Capitalism’s exploitation of people and the environment.

The only solution that could possibly make any sense while maintaining Capitalism is UBI. Could you provide any solution that doesn’t involve mass murder or starvation of the unemployable? I have yet to see any solution from anti-UBI commenters in almost 2 decades.

WhatAmLemmy,

Pretty sure it’s a far right false equivalence

WhatAmLemmy,

It’s the Schrodingers democracy of the shrodingers “free” world we live in — Politics is pay to play, corporations are people and both can donate unlimited money, wealth equality is worse than the guilded age, but we totally have “democracy” bro. Also you should shut up and support a genocide because we’re fighting to prevent the fascists from taking power, which will surely lead to genocide… Only worse!

This is the kind of discourse you get with a 2 party system ruled by a corporatocracy masquarading as a democracy — the propagandized neoliberal drones are most of the comments you read. Ultimately vote for Biden, because the alternative is literal Christian fascist dictatorship, but give Biden and neoliberals hell; make them believe they’re gonna lose all the way to voting day.

WhatAmLemmy,

Reminder that colonialism is still alive and well.

WhatAmLemmy,

The climate crisis has little to do with what is physically or technologically possible. It’s all about economics — what is feasible, and what is most profitable. In Capitalism cheap, dirty, and destructive will always win the race when the alternatives are less profitable.

The majority will not accept their 1k flight costing 5 or 10k. The human population simply will not accept a forceful phase-out of GHG’s without alternatives that are equal or cheaper. We’re greedy, and the greed is concentrated at the top.

WhatAmLemmy,

Yes and no. All externalities that impact others are non-consensual, but you could extend that logic to the consumption of any finite resource and even moreso for inefficiency — the current markets inefficient consumption of that finite resource means there is less for everyone, and increases the price and opportunities for everyone, with people born later at an inherent disadvantage. You could extend that logic further to any alteration of the environment or natural world whatsoever; to all human consumption. Using any resource creates an external degradation in the availability and opportunities of everyone else regarding that resource.

The free market doesn’t have a solution though — essentially zero capitalist orgs have chosen to voluntarily consume less or cease emissions. The ones that do are at a competitive disadvantage due to higher costs vs competitors — laws and regulations are required to level the playing field so the competition is fairer… A free market solution is an oxymoron. The free market created this crisis.

WhatAmLemmy,

Take Raleigh as an example. In 2012 … Raleigh’s coldest winter temperature was somewhere between 5 and 10 degrees Fahrenheit on average.

Now, the lowest winter temperature is between 10 and 15 degrees Fahrenheit on average.

That’s a huge shift for a decade. I wouldn’t really call it “super neat” when it’s a strong indicator that the imminent climate catastrophe will be much worse than expected.

WhatAmLemmy,

If Russia succeeds in Ukraine, China will have a roadmap on how to proceed with Taiwan. They’re in a much better position, considering the west spent the last 3 decades making itself dependent on Chinese manufacturing and industry.

WhatAmLemmy,

So, only a fraction of the trillion+ in subsidies that goes to fossil fuel corporations each year? Impossible!

Chinese police were allowed into Australia to speak with a woman. They breached protocol and escorted her back to China (www.abc.net.au)

Chinese police hunting international corruption targets were allowed into Australia by the federal police and subsequently escorted a woman back to China for trial, in a major breach of Chinese-Australian police protocols....

WhatAmLemmy,

Yeah, it’s not like western governments, “intelligence” agencies or police would ever beat protesters, persecute political dissidents, murder civilians, torture suspects in designated black sites, ally with dictatorships who torture and murder journalists with bone saws, overthrow democratically elected governments, or engage in any behavior that is horrifically anti-democratic or anti-human rights.

That time when the west was historically great was a lie. We were only better than fascism or communism, but our ruling class, the politicians they own, and their corporations have always engaged in horrific shit. Ours just hide behind the media and a liability shield of a dozen LLC’s, or do it hidden behind closed doors — unless you’re a palestinian, protester, communist, or a dozen other groups who are okay to oppress publicly at any given time.

WhatAmLemmy,

It would be Whataboutism if I defended the accusations against China or Russia. I explicitly said we were better — just only better than the bottom of the barrel — and the whole point of my comment was to refute the right-wing nationalist fantasy that we were historically “strong”, “great” or “righteous”; a time that never existed in reality.

I suggest you learn what maketh a logical fallacy.

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