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livus, 2 months ago

Their futures hold ongoing surgery by the sounds of it:

The number of child amputees carries long-term implications, Abu-Sittah told me, listing his concerns. Israeli forces destroyed Gaza’s only facility for manufacturing prosthetics and rehabilitation, the Hamad hospital, which was inaugurated in 2019 and funded by Qatar. The leading manufacturer of child prosthetics, the German company Ottobock, is working to supply the necessary components to children up to the age of sixteen, with donors in place to fund the project through its foundation. Procuring prosthetics, however, is only the first step. “Child amputees need medical care every six months as they grow,” Abu-Sittah said. Because bone grows faster than soft tissue and severed nerves often reattach painfully to skin, child amputees require ongoing surgical interventions. In his experience, each limb requires eight to twelve more surgeries. To track this cohort, Abu-Sittah is consulting with the Centre for Blast Injury Studies at Imperial College London and the Global Health Institute at the American University of Beirut; their goal is to create a cloud-based database of medical records that can follow these kids wherever they go. For the rest of their lives, these amputees will need answers regarding their medical history. Abu-Sittah knows how this works: for years, as a pediatric trauma surgeon, he’s fielded calls from his former patients.

livus, 2 months ago

A bunch of the classic French New Wave, Kurusawa, "New Hollywood" etc.

If you watch Psycho (1960) and then watch Midnight Cowboy (1969) that gives you a good idea of what happened to American cinema in the 1960s.

livus, 2 months ago

I wish the US had been able to vote in these two instead of what it got.

livus, 2 months ago

@silence7 what would be really good would be if the US could have proportional representation.

And if I could win the lottery and cure cancer and...

livus, 2 months ago

No, but it would mean that people wouldn't have to choose Biden type candidates or worry about splitting the vote.

Proportional representation means parties can't govern alone just because they have a plurality.

I also think you'd find some Republicans split into smaller rightwing parties.

livus, 2 months ago

Quite like to send the Complete Works of William Shakespeare back to the guy himself. Seeing he's already written it that would free him up to write a whole bunch more.

Would be cool to do the same thing with certain scientists.

livus, 2 months ago

@ICastFist that would be cool.

Or instructions on seafaring boat building to a non seafaring but numerous population.

livus, 2 months ago

Send it to Tesla himself, then he can use it as a starting point not an end point.

livus, 2 months ago

It's like if someone is in the act of robbing my house and they scream "you can't call this a robbery because I haven't stolen much stuff".

livus, 2 months ago

This from 10 days ago is probably the reference.

It's just doublespeak, they have been saying it for a while. While continuing to block the food aid agencies are trying to bring in.

livus, 2 months ago

From the article:

Fernando Cardoso asserted that Islamist terrorist groups in Africa are becoming increasingly interconnected, making it easier for them to respond to advances by security forces.

Particularly vulnerable areas such as northern Mozambique are left defenseless against heavily armed jihadists, he said.

This thesis is shared by Mozambican security expert Egna Sidumo, who researches conflict resolution for Cabo Delgado at the University of Bergen in Norway. "More and more fighters of different nationalities — mainly Congolese, Ugandans, and Tanzanians, but also Kenyans and South Africans — are streaming into Cabo Delgado," Sidumo told DW....

"When pressured, Islamist fighters withdraw with their weapons from Congo to neighboring Tanzania," Sidumo said. "And from there, it's not far to Mozambique."...

..."I can confirm that jihadists from eastern Congo are present in large numbers in Mozambique," said Fiston Mahamba, a Congolese investigative journalist and researcher at Sorbonne University in Paris. 

"Fighters from eastern Congo have been arrested in Mozambique"

Who's bankrolling the insurgency?

"They mainly finance themselves through smuggling of drugs and weapons, but also through kidnappings," Mahamba said. 

"In eastern Congo, they regularly raid villages and loot the crops of cocoa farmers, for example. But there are also money transfers from abroad, for example, from organizations connected to IS: Regularly, emissaries from the Middle East arrive with suitcases full of money, from Syria or Iraq."

This system is now gradually being transferred to neighboring countries in the region, especially to northern Mozambique, according to Mahamba.

"The influence of Islamist terrorist organizations in eastern Congo on the Mozambican 'Shabaabs' is unmistakable," Mahamba added.

The investigative journalist cited an example: "Most propaganda videos released by the 'Shabaabs' in Cabo Delgado are written and spoken in Swahili, a style that is familiar mainly in Uganda and eastern Congo, but also in Tanzania," Mahamba told DW.

livus, 2 months ago

It's a way to make money, they are traditionally coloured green.

livus, 2 months ago

Federation seems to be much better for me now!

livus, 2 months ago

Hahaha I got like 10! I am but a grasshopper.

But yeah we seem to be able to converse in near real time again! Hoping this sticks.

livus, 2 months ago

@kratoz29 I partly meant the way they think the top 10-15 are US.

But yeah some films I'd include are Clockwork Orange, Alphaville, Mad Max, Brain Dead, The Quiet Earth, Okja, Brazil, Run Lola Run, Attack The Block, Threads, Accion Mutante, Videodrome.

livus, 2 months ago

@maynarkh no, you're thinking of the Horn of Africa, which has been in drought for years and had bought grain from Ukraine that it then couldn't access.

The Sudan crisis right now is mostly civil war, which has decimated agricultural production and cost millions of jobs:

Tens of thousands of people have been killed since war broke out last April between the General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan-led Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of General Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo.

Some 8.3 million people have been displaced from the country, many forced into neighbouring Chad and South Sudan.

Millions in need of aid cannot access it as the warring factions “deliberately” deny access to supplies, the UN has warned earlier and said this could amount to a war crime.

livus, 2 months ago

@maynarkh yeah I think it's not logistics so much as geopolitical inequalities.

Some populations are much more vulnerable to powwr-hungry assholes than others. Sudan's current conflict isn't being funded by the Sudanese.

livus, 2 months ago

Yeah I agree with you.

I hate it when I see things like, Westerners earnestly collecting funding to "build a well for a village in Africa".

People always knew know how to build wells and situate villages near water. That's really not the problem. Put that do-good energy into stopping Nestle from stealing all the aquifer water or stopping Exxon from polluting it or supporting political candidates who will reign in these companies' rapacious behaviour.