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djr

@djr@union.place

Resident Putney - economist, trade unionist, internationalist/traveller. former activist

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sundogplanets, (edited ) to random
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I just had to update my numbers for a lecture, so here's your periodic reminder: Starlink is now 55% of ALL active satellites in orbit.

And given the recent news about that awful billionaire unilaterally deciding to cut of Starlink internet access to parts of the world whenever he wants to, this is extra important to share. Why did our governments effectively gift Low Earth Orbit to one awful dude? This is so bad.

djr,
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@sundogplanets
What about the Sherman Act which was used to break up Standard Oil? Nearly as old as the amendment but presumably still usable?

wjmaggos, to random
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So now that we've got good excess death numbers, it turns out they were higher than we thought. That we were actually undercounting deaths, not overcounting them to get the medical industry better paid etc like the anti COVID vax people were saying. And the excess deaths are lower where vaccination was higher, exactly the opposite you'd expect if it was the vax causing the deaths, another claim of the anti COVID vax crowd. but they seem to be right re lockdown policy being a net negative.

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@wjmaggos

There is a similar pattern with regard to and deaths in the - according to "more or less" on last Wednesday.

georgetakei, to random

So let me get this straight. Mark Meadows testified that he got involved in the fake electors scheme because (checks notes) he would be afraid Trump would yell at him if he didn’t? That’s his defense? Trump is mean and I was scared of him?

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@georgetakei

Surely this is just a basis for a plea in mitigation!

georgetakei, to random

People said we were being alarmist when we said extremist Christian nationalists would use the abortion laws to target women trying to escape Texas to receive an abortion.

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@georgetakei

Surely your has a responsibility and right to ensure that people can use interstate highways freely?

GottaLaff, (edited ) to Georgia
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What’s that phrase again? Oh yeah:

Womp womp.

‘ isn’t funding any of us’: Co-defendants in case are struggling with mounting legal bills

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/politics/cash-crunch-trump-georgia-co-defendants-legal-bills

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@GottaLaff

Which of course gives them an incentive to have a speedy trial if at all possible!

wjmaggos, to random
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Maybe if I was a Republican and used to using poorly drawn electoral maps to claim most of America supported my presidential candidate in every election, I'd claim that this meant sours (the only beer I like) were the most popular style of beer in central Europe. but that would be ridiculous.

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@wjmaggos

An entertaining and instructive map. Please note that on the eastern side of the Atlantic ocean what you call "Sour" beer is referred to as "bitter". A bit of a translation/usage issue!

Deglassco, (edited ) to history

In WW2, the movement of millions of American troops to Britain, known as the “friendly invasion,” brought to light stark differences concerning racial segregation. Many Britons struggled to understand or accept the institutionalized discrimination that Black soldiers faced in White America, leading to tensions between the two allied nations on the matter of civil rights.

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@Deglassco @blackmastodon @BlackMastodon

The classic case of this was that several public houses in reacted to attempts to import segregation by putting up signs that they would serve black G.I.s only!

djr,
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@Deglassco

This pragmatic approach masked a substantial difference of opinion at level with favouring full compliance with segregation but encountering strong opposition from most of his colleagues.

theasianfeminist, to random

Growing Segregation by Sex in Israel Raises Fears for Women’s Rights

Ultra-Orthodox members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition want to expand the powers of all-male rabbinical courts, and to bar women and men from mixing in many public arenas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/world/middleeast/israel-women-rights.html

Archive 🔗 : https://archive.is/znHE2

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@theasianfeminist

Which may help to explain emigration to countries such as !

gutenberg_org, to books
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Florence Nightingale died in 1910.

She was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing. Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. She significantly reduced death rates by improving hygiene and living standards. via @wikipedia

Books by Florence Nightingale at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/4370

Title page of Subsidiary Notes as to the Introduction of Female Nursing into Military which is available at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52877

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@gutenberg_org @wikipedia

She was also one of the earliest women members of the Royal Statistical Society.

jdmccafferty, to random
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Benedetto Odescalchi who as Pope Innocent XI, supported William of Orange in the War of the Two Kings

Became Pope 21 Sept 1676, d. 12 Aug 1689

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@jdmccafferty


A very important bit of history to remember - particularly because it is deeply embarrassing and troubling to all those who hold to conventional but factually incorrect versions of seventeenth century history and draw unwarranted conclusions from them which as we know can cost lives even now!

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    @LauraKT
    And they have just had to evacuate it following tests of its water system by the the local department which found bacteria there!

    shoq, to random
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    We always win when we actually show up. You’d think we’d have showed up a bit more reliably before things got this bad. Now we have to show up like this. A lot. Because this ain’t over. It’s barely begun.

    Source: @Karoli
    https://mastodon.social/@Karoli@crooklyn.social/110856731584545069

    djr,
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    @shoq @Karoli

    Only too true. It is a case of "use it (the vote) or lose it"!

    georgetakei, to random

    Many wonder how they’ll ever manage to put Trump in prison. What about his secret service? What about national security?

    Legal experts respond that they already have special facilities for criminals who either need lots of security or are a threat to others. ‘

    They’ll find a secure, isolated place for him. I’m sure they can work something out.

    djr,
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    @georgetakei

    The French managed it with after he was convicted of in 1945.

    TonyStark, to random
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    The Republicans in the Tennessee House clearly do not believe in democracy nor want to do their jobs. Instead they revealed themselves to be petty, racist tyrants.

    Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, however, understand that they were elected to represent their voters and protect them from gun violence. Glad to see them back.

    Tennessee Democrats expelled by GOP over protests win back their seats-
    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/tennessee-democrats-expelled-gop-protests-special-election-rcna97374

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    @TonyStark

    John Wilkes and later Charles Bradlaugh would salute them as colleagues!

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    Russian shelling caused a fire in St Catherines cathedral, Kherson, a church built by Prince Potemkin in the 18thc. When the Russians withdrew from Kherson last autumn, they took Potemkin's bones. Must mean they knew they were never coming back
    https://bird.makeup/users/united24media/statuses/1686999818193772544

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    @anneapplebaum

    I visited it in 2010. A very fine building.

    It must mean the end of any concept of reviving "novorossiya" as they called it.

    In which case what on earth are they still doing in ?

    vowe, to random
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    @vowe

    That is just wonderful!

    Reminds me of the story - perhaps apocryphal - of the candidate who tried to undermine his opponent in an election campaign by revealing that the opponent had admitted matriculating while at university.

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    If the Republican Party responds to the Trump indictment solely by attacking courts and judges, and if its leaders continue to work to de-legitimize the legal system, I am not sure how we recover.

    For a precedent, Americans don't even have to look beyond our hemisphere: Venezuela is an excellent example of state that slid into autocracy while an elected president repeatedly assaulted judges.

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    @anneapplebaum

    The risks to business of dealing with an unreliable and untrustworthy legal system will be factored into decisions about both investment and trade. The degrading of the credit rating of the is just the first sign of this. Late mediaeval and early modern history is littered with cases of autocrats who ran out of funds at critical times and lost control of the armies they had raised. Which is why both the Dutch and later the English survived as nations and then prospered !

    jdmccafferty, to ireland
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    2 Aug 1536: The of sits at till 19 Aug.

    This parliament was the one that legislated for Henry VIII’s break with .

    (NLI: late 17thC Limerick)

    djr,
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    @jdmccafferty

    And in consequence declared him in place of the previous title granted originally to the kings by .

    djr,
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    @jdmccafferty

    Thank you for putting me straight so fully and quickly. I had thought that the only period of legal uncertainty in the relationship had been between repudiation of the Treaty and establishment of the Republic of Ireland in the last
    century. Typically presumptuous Brit I suppose!

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    @jsrailton

    A remarkable family resemblance to various of the arguments presented in favour of and roughly three hundred and eighty years ago - in the 1640s . and the people took a different view - with very serious consequences!

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    On , we pay tribute to the 500,000 Roma murdered under the Nazi regime.

    Roma people still face racism and discrimination. This is why we continue working with the EU Countries on our Roma Strategic Framework for equality, inclusion and participation.

    As the number of survivors and witnesses of these horrors dwindles, it is our duty to continue their remembrance and pass on their testimonies.

    djr,
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    @EU_Commission

    This is entirely the right thing to do. There can be no hierarchy of victims of genocide.

    lowqualityfacts, to random
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    Trump is now facing so many indictments that I think we can throw some fun ones at him and he won't even notice:

    -conspiracy to date daughter

    -attempted literacy

    -illegally tiny hands

    -aggravated spray tan

    djr,
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    @lowqualityfacts

    Add plagiarising a mushroom!

    wjmaggos, to random
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    One shitty side effect of mass defederating is hard core people of both sides often can't see when you defend their speech to hard core people on the other side (and the shitty responses you endure for doing so). So to them, you look like somebody who only criticizes their side. Ugh.

    djr,
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    @wjmaggos

    It is all about suppressing critical and nuanced thought and promoting bigotry through groupthink on both sides. A dispiriting and thankless task to respond to it but not everyone on either side will be a provocateur or have an entirely closed mind.
    Or so one. has to hope. Do not give up.

    wjmaggos, to random
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    I kinda feel like responding to all MAGA/Q meme bs claims made without a source, with this bs pedo Epstein shit. See how they like it. But that would be wrong.

    djr,
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    @wjmaggos

    Slightly more plausible anyway than the story about having been fellated by a dead pig while at

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