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@livus@kbin.social

If you like international and eclectic news, come and join me at @worldwithoutus (Link for Lemmy = worldwithoutus).

I've also started helping out at @worldnews, (Link for Lemmy = worldnews), @movies, (Lemmy = movies), and am a ghost at @13thfloor (Lemmy = 13th Floor).

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I don't agree. There's a point at which you have to step away from being a cog in a genocide.

She has already tried to effect change:

Across the federal government, employees like me have tried for months to influence policy, both internally and, when that failed, publicly. My colleagues and I watched in horror as this administration delivered thousands of precision-guided munitions, bombs, small arms and other lethal aid to Israel and authorized thousands more, even bypassing Congress to do so. We are appalled by the administration’s flagrant disregard for American laws that prohibit the US from providing assistance to foreign militaries that engage in gross human rights violations or that restrict the delivery of humanitarian aid.

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I look up to people like this. Thanks for posting.

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@FaceDeer

If it's a scam then at this point it's one of history's biggest and longest-running.

Kind of an overstatement. It hasn't even been 20 years. If it were a scam it'd be nowhere near the scale and timeframe of, say, Papal Indulgences.

This isn't anything to do with your wider argument btw, just me nitpicking. Didn't know you'd relocated to fedia.io, was that during the downtime?

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@solrize yeah it was really annoying, they've undone a decade of good work just because of tobacco lobbyists.

It wasn't a campaign issue, just an unpleasant surprise policy change.

Do you have some kind of subconscious awareness of interests you already have or know you eventually will take deep dives into at some point in life?

I mean like awareness that, just under the surface, there are deep explorations waiting for the right time and place to emerge; things you’ve set aside or placed on the back burner but will tackle eventually/many you already have tackled....

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Distro recs? I'm like @The_Picard_Maneuver insofar as it's something I think I'll get around to one day, but I'm not in IT and want something super stable.

At what number of grains of sand does a non-pile graduate into being a pile?

I’m of the view that this is a semantic question where we have a word, “pile”, that describes a general amount but doesn’t have a specified quantity to it, and so the only way we can determine the amount of units required to constitute a pile at the bare minimum, is through public consensus on the most commonly shared...

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I agree with @spittingimage. "Pile" implies height.

I would call it a pile as soon as it reaches pile-shape. Shape, not quantity, is the determining factor.

Bhutan and Bangladesh to strengthen cooperation across various sectors (asianews.network)

Bhutan and Bangladesh to strengthen cooperation across various sectors Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.

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From the article:

Media reports indicate that the Embassy of Bhutan in Bangladesh has sent a formal letter to the Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA), expressing interest in acquiring appropriate land for establishing an economic zone in the northern region of the country.

As per the media report, under the Memoranda of Understanding (MoU), Bangladesh has agreed to allocate 190 acres of land in Kurigram for the establishment of a special economic zone intended for Bhutanese investors.

Two more Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) were signed between Bhutan and Bangladesh. One focuses on cooperation for establishing a burn and plastic surgery unit in Thimphu, while the other pertains to health cooperation. Another MoU was inked between the Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority of Bhutan and the Directorate of National Consumers Rights Protection of Bangladesh.

Bhutan and Bangladesh renewed their agreement on cultural cooperation. The Joint statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and External Trade highlights several key areas of cooperation between Bhutan and Bangladesh. Firstly, both sides are pleased with the gradual increase in the annual intake of Bhutanese students admitted to MBBS programs in public medical colleges in Bangladesh.

South Sudan’s disrupted oil exports due to neighboring Sudan’s civil war could escalate insecurity (northafricapost.com)

The disruption of oil exports from South Sudan after one of its key oil pipelines to international markets was damaged in February could further escalate already acute level of violence and in security in the country, experts have warned....

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Thanks, that article looks interesting.

Yeah the demented British colonial plan of "let's split it into two areas, govern one in Arabic with Sharia law and the other one as a Christian nation, and then treat it as one country at Independence" was yet another example of the legacy of colonialism casting a long shadow.

If you ever want a deep dive I'd recommend Sudan: Race Religion and Violence by Jok Madut Jok.

Lawmakers in Thailand overwhelmingly approve a bill to legalize same-sex marriage (apnews.com)

Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill hat would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender. The bill passed its final reading with the approval of 400 of the 415 members of the House of...

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From the article:

Danuphorn Punnakanta, a spokesperson of the governing Pheu Thai party and president of a committee overseeing the marriage equality bill, said in Parliament that the amendment is for “everyone in Thailand” regardless of their gender, and would not deprive heterosexual couples of any rights.

“For this law, we would like to return rights to the (LGBTQ+ group). We are not giving them rights. These are the fundamental rights that this group of people … has lost,” he said.

Lawmakers, however, did not approve inclusion of the word “parent” in addition to “father and mother” in the law, which activists said would limit the rights of some LGBTQ+ couples to form a family and raise children.

Thailand has a reputation for acceptance and inclusivity but has struggled for decades to pass a marriage equality law.The new government led by Pheu Thai, which took office last year, has made marriage equality one of its main goals.

Sign of the times in Japan as nappy company switches production to adult nappies (www.theguardian.com)

A nappy manufacturer in Japan is to stop making the products for babies and instead raise production of adult diapers, in a reflection of the country’s rapidly ageing society. Oji Holdings, which specialises in paper products, said it would stop making children’s nappies in September amid a sharp decline in demand. The firm...

Old film you should watch: Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (dir Gary Fleter, 1995) - SCENE (m.youtube.com)

Almost ignored when it came out, this underrated, strangely poignant but light hearted crime film has a great cast (Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, Treat Williams, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Lloyd, Fairuza Balk..) and some unforgettable lines....

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That's what I said...this comment had me so confused until I saw @matthewmercury's reply!

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Makes sense. Walken's not in the clip and your brain was expecting to see him.

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Yeah it's one of the fun things about this movie, the casting is unexpected. Christopher Lloyd's performance is solid, too.

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Extradite them.

Oh wait...

How Takashi Miike Shot His Latest Short Film on an iPhone 15 Pro (includes link to short film) (nofilmschool.com)

Watch how the Ichi the Killer director was able to use the iPhone 15 Pro to turn a manga into a 19-minute short film. An adaptation of a manga story by the popular Japanese manga artist Osamu Tezuka, "Midnight" tells a simple story really about a late-night taxi driver (played by Kento Kaku) who offers to help those who need a...

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@Sir_Kevin it looks great... on my cellphone. I should take a look at it on a much bigger screen.

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Removed, rule 6.

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@some_guy cheers, fair play to you!

Amnesty International urges review of Indonesian troops in West Papua after torture video (asiapacificreport.nz)

Amnesty International Indonesia is calling for an evaluation of the placement of TNI (Indonesian military) in Papua after a video of a Papuan man being tortured by several soldiers at the Gome Post in Puncak regency, Central Papua, went viral on social media. “This incident was a [case of] cruel and inhuman torture that really...

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Yeah, I hear you on that. As a New Zealander I am deeply ashamed of our government's stance on this as well.

There's also not a lot of awareness. I'd like to see it given more public discussion in our countries.

Portugal orders Worldcoin to stop collecting iris biometrics for 90 days (www.biometricupdate.com)

Portugal’s data regulator, the Comissão Nacional de Proteção de Dados (CNPD), has imposed a 90-day suspension on Worldcoin’s biometric data collection activities in the country, citing complaints about the unauthorized collection of data from minors, inadequate communications regarding their iris-scanning Orb program...

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Thanks, didn't see that about Kenya. That's pretty interesting. Their legislature's getting pretty robust these days; they're firm against the troops into Haiti thing as well.

I agree about Worldcoin. Dystopian is definitely the word for it.

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It's baffling to me that there's little public pushback on it but I can see that what it collects could be quite useful for surveillance capitalism and the military industrial complex.

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