It shouldn't be. Folks need to keep in mind that these kind of corporatist scum will quite literally kill however many people they need as long as they'd get away with it, all in the name of profit.
The reason they don't do that is because they're afraid of getting caught.
if the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor
The Estonian Tennis Association (Eesti Tennise Liit) has adopted new restrictions which will bar funding support to players, coaches and others who play alongside or have any other cooperation with sports personnel from the Russian Federation.
Intel will spend more than 30 billion euros ($33 billion) to develop two chip-making plants in Magdeburg as part of its expansion push in Europe, a deal Chancellor Olaf Scholz hailed on Monday as Germany's biggest ever foreign investment.
Btw the reason most of these news companies use quotation marks for things like "traitor", "sexual assault" is not to show that they disagree with a particular stance.
They do it to show that they themselves aren't calling someone a traitor, instead they are quoting someone else who calls that person a traitor. So that way they are not implicating themselves in case problems arise.
Otherwise they can have legal consequences if the things that they say about a certain person lead to that person suing them. This way they can easily say "hold on, we didn't call you a traitor, it was those people, we were just quoting them"
Or at least that's how it is to my knowledge. (aka covering my ass in case I'm wrong :)) )
Constitutional Court judges have declared unconstitutional the "Șor" Party. The High Court granted the Government's request to ban the activity of the party led by Ilan Șor. The decision was announced by Constitutional Court President Nicolae Rosca after more than three hours of deliberations. According to the ruling, "Șor"...
Some car in #Simferopol, the occupied capital of Crimea in #Ukraine, decided to spontaneously explode. Collaborator Vladimir Epifanov, Russian-appointed “deputy prime minister” of occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast, has been severely wounded. 🚭
Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
A lot of us come from reddit, so we're naturally inclined to want a reddit-like platform. However, it occurred to me that the reddit format makes little sense for the fediverse....
The ideal format for a fediverse reddit-like would be a cross between twitter and reddit: a website where if you want to post about a cat, you make your post and tag it with the appropriate tags. This could include "cats," "aww," and "cute." This post is automatically aggregated into instantly-generated "cats," "aww," and "cute" communities.
Absolutely not.
I don't know why people are obsessed with recreating reddit, but I think it sucked and it's not a good thing to have this kind of massive, centralized communities, where all posts in the X category go there.
On the contrary I think smaller communities are just as dope as the big ones. Not everyone wants to participate in a big community with threads filled with tens of thousands of comments, some very much enjoy smaller ones where they actually get to interact and bond with a smaller amount of people.
Besides those kind of massive communities recreate one of the biggest problems that reddit had and still has: power-hungry, power-tripping mods. No, thank you. I don't want tankies to usurp leftist communities again, leaving those who oppose them with little to no alternatives.
It really depends on the type of community and the subject that its centered upon. Topics that are more ... ugh, "brainless" so to speak? The kind that don't really need community cohesion, interaction, but just operate on a simple factor - like cute cats, femboys, funny memes, are fine and can work quite well when they're very big.
But if you have communities whose main purpose is to interact/discuss with others, I think small or medium sized groups are better because that allows you to actually get to know people and discuss topics that interest you.
I'm pretty convinced that as time goes on some communities will grow larger, others will split on ideological grounds, and overall I think that's a very cool thing.
When i set lemmy to all and new it scrolls constantly and i cant really keep up as it keeps moving. How do i stop the scrolling and just see all the new post until i refresh again?
Twelve police were wounded on Saturday (17 June) in clashes with demonstrators in France's Savoie department where a protest against a high speed rail project in the Alps turned violent, authorities said.
Didn't I answer to your comment here? I swear I remember writing a long-ass comment, I've no idea why its not showing up.
Did you receive a reply, btw?
btw I think I also lost a post in a different thread a few hours ago.
Yeah, I posted another response. Something is definitely up with the instance, but that's to be expected given the situation.
Slightly annoying but not a huge problem at the end of the day, I'm sure it'll get fixed.
Lemme try and recall what I responded.
What is the demand to move from Paris to Turin? Tell me, and tell me it's worth spending 30 billions of € of public money and decades of workforce to dig the largest tunnel in Europe. We have other priorities now.
It's not just a high speed rail between two small random cities. It connects the two biggest countries in all of Europe, and not only that but it acts as a bridge that unites and will unite a high speed rail coming from western to eastern Europe, or rather south-western and south-eastern.
Take a look at the map of high speed rail, where else would you connect Italy and France better than here? There's no other better suited place for it. This is the bridge that connects Spain, France through Italy to Austria, Slovenia, Czechia, Hungary, Romania and the rest of the Balkans.
I don't know about your political views but I personally hold this to be a very large priority for the continent. We can't fight against climate change and reduce our reliance on planes, trucks and cars without high speed train infrastructure.
We are not talking about a bike lane which "is here or is not here", we are talking about a track at 20% usage for 30 years. If the industry was asking for more railway then the usage would be at least 70%. Now it's 20%, the demand is fulfilled.
This past here was the most interesting though because I went and search for how many Romanians travel by train just out of curiosity. And what do you know, 19.6% of Romanians "choose" to go by train, while 74.5 "prefer" to go by car, basically the same numbers as in the Lyon-Turin case.
And I hear the exact same arguments against upgrading our train infrastructure: nobody uses it, there's no demand.
Who in their right mind would choose to pay more, suffer in sweaty, nasty conditions and then take much longer when you can have a more comfortable, faster and often cheaper ride via car or a bus?
Let's take a more concrete example: Romanian tourists going to Greece. That's our favorite destination, we're basically Greece's no.1 tourists, it's a love-love situation.
By train: 30 hours to get there
By car on the other hand its only 14 hours, less than half
The fact that you'll rarely find Romanians taking the train to Greece does not mean and cannot mean that there's no demand for it, that is simply illogical and not how humans work. The demand is simply seen in the number of cars on the road.
You cannot compare it to a bike lane or a bus lane.
And that's explicitly the reason why I compared it to the demand for a bike or a bus lane, because you don't see the demand in the number of people using bikes when there's no bike lanes or the number of people using shitty, awful bus services, instead you see in the number of people who use cars to do pretty much everything.
The reason is simple: they have no other sensible, reasonable choice.
Build it and they will come.
Same thing happened with our trams. Our old trams were awful, noisy, slow and smelly. Not popular at all. None of them were crowded, there was "no demand" to get the way more expensive, fancy, good looking ones. Yet when they did buy them, they instantly became a favorite for people.
That's not behind the tractor, that's in front of the tractor. Basically an improvised de-miner, some Ukrainian farmer put some tires on a metal frame and he's pushing that thing all over his fields
Here's the original video: https://www.tiktok.com/@gwaramedia/video/7225650366782852358
Aeronautics: Indian airline IndiGo orders a record 500 Airbus A320s (www.francetvinfo.fr) French
This firm order, with a theoretical catalog price of 50.4 billion euros, was revealed on the first day of the Paris Air Show....
California restaurant had fake priest hear workers’ confessions, Labor Department says (www.catholicnewsagency.com)
a Not the Onion moment for sure:...
Estonian tennis body bans funding for athletes playing alongside Russians (news.err.ee)
The Estonian Tennis Association (Eesti Tennise Liit) has adopted new restrictions which will bar funding support to players, coaches and others who play alongside or have any other cooperation with sports personnel from the Russian Federation.
French government unveils plan to combat 'overtourism' (www.francetvinfo.fr)
A digital platform will be launched to collect data on tourist flows, as well as a national observatory of major tourist sites....
Intel will spend more than 30 billion euros to develop two chip-making plants in Magdeburg, Germany (www.reuters.com)
Intel will spend more than 30 billion euros ($33 billion) to develop two chip-making plants in Magdeburg as part of its expansion push in Europe, a deal Chancellor Olaf Scholz hailed on Monday as Germany's biggest ever foreign investment.
Swiss voters back net-zero emissions climate bill as glaciers melt (www.france24.com)
The Swiss on Sunday backed a new climate bill aimed at steering their country of melting glaciers towards carbon neutrality by 2050.
EU member states are urged to restrict without delay 5G equipment from risky suppliers (securityaffairs.com)
EU Commission urges member states to limit without delay equipment from Chinese suppliers from their 5G networks, specifically Huawei & ZTE.
The name of the 'traitor' who sold Australia's secrets to the Russians revealed (www.abc.net.au)
The untold spy story of a mole in ASIO's ranks who sold the Soviets highly classified intelligence and got away with it.
Moldova: the "Șor" party was declared unconstitutional (radiomoldova.md)
Constitutional Court judges have declared unconstitutional the "Șor" Party. The High Court granted the Government's request to ban the activity of the party led by Ilan Șor. The decision was announced by Constitutional Court President Nicolae Rosca after more than three hours of deliberations. According to the ruling, "Șor"...
How do we feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?
Personally, I want nothing to do with them and I'm not willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. I moved to the Fediverse to get away from all these corpos.
[Discussion] I don't think this format makes a lot of sense for the fediverse
A lot of us come from reddit, so we're naturally inclined to want a reddit-like platform. However, it occurred to me that the reddit format makes little sense for the fediverse....
Lemmy.world officially has 33k users! 3000 users away from becoming the #1 lemmy instance. (lemmy.world)
The user count at the moment of this post stands at 33279 and continues to grow!...
What is the most useful website you know?
I'm always eager to find new amazing sites i've never heard of, which ones would you recommend?
How to stop constant scrolling on lemmy?
When i set lemmy to all and new it scrolls constantly and i cant really keep up as it keeps moving. How do i stop the scrolling and just see all the new post until i refresh again?
Uruguay won’t melt huge bronze Nazi eagle into a dove, president says (www.politico.eu)
A dozen French police wounded in clashes with protesters opposing high speed rail project (www.eureporter.co)
Twelve police were wounded on Saturday (17 June) in clashes with demonstrators in France's Savoie department where a protest against a high speed rail project in the Alps turned violent, authorities said.
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