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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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Somerset at the end of Se7en:

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel (www.washingtonpost.com)

The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians....

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For reference the US only dropped one 2,000 pound bomb on Isis in Raqqa. and analysts are saying no one has been bombed this hard since Vietnam.

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It's apparently a lot more than a Western nation would drop on a built up area.

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Poorly worded comment from you here, or at least I hope it's poorly worded.

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Removed for breaking Rule 3.

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Removed for breaking Rule 3. @watyuhhgg thank you for contributing, but please read the community rules.

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Pretty difficult to document anything while it is having 2,000 pound bombs dropped on it.

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Someone please tag me if they post the chickens!

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Thanks also to Cicero for his great acting in Skyrim.

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Agreed. I would like to see countries like the US move past the 19th century concept "race" and into a bit more of a nuanced understanding of ethnicity, though.

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The meaning of life is to create surplus value to bestow on cats.

Capitalists getting it too is just a side effect.

Think about it, historically speaking, capitalism basically rose alongside granaries and the ability to store grain. This is also when cats domesticated us.

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@ivanafterall something like this?

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Pretty sure scammers pay for twitter blue.

'Oppenheimer' director Christopher Nolan to be given knighthood (www.reuters.com)

British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan, fresh from his Oscar victory for historical drama "Oppenheimer", will receive a knighthood from Britain for services to film. His wife and film producer Emma Thomas will receive a damehood, the female equivalent of a knighthood, the British government said on Thursday in a list of...

Koala lover here with posts that has been removed and was not notified as to the reason of it.

Hi, I don’t understand what is going on and I’m not if I’m going to have to create my own community. I had made posts which are related to koalas in communities where they are on-topic and were removed with no reason given to me. I’m now more frustrated that another one got removed from an Australian with no reason...

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@KonalaKoala mander.xyz has a lot of science-based communities you might enjoy.

You also might like to create your own community around koalas. It's starting at the beginning but you could post in newcommunity groups etc to find like-minded people.

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From the article:

Efforts to bring the children to Jamaica were being made for months but despite authorization by the Jamaican Government and from Mustard Seed, they were awaiting permission from the Haitian Government to leave Haiti.

Arielle Jeanty Villedrouin, head of Haiti’s Child Welfare Agency, pushed back at the effort saying that transferring an orphanage from one country to another, was “inconceivable and legally inadmissible.”

Reluctance was also fueled by Haiti’s history of children being taken from the country during crises and never seen or heard from again.

Nine children died during the wait for approval from the Haitian Government; it has been 14-months of hellish conditions due to the gang activity also blamed for intercepting aid and food for vulnerable people in Haiti.

Susie Krabacher is the Co-founder of the HaitiChildren Charity and in speaking to the Miami Herald shared much of the harrowing predicament.

Paul Marie, one of the children who was supposed to be in Jamaica with the others, died on Christmas night at an understaffed and ill-equipped hospital, after being taken to three different health facilities, none of which were equipped to take care of him.

After all that, thanks to the now former Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry, they were able to legally make the trip to Jamaica, as he signed the required agreement before he stepped down on March 12, says Krabacher.

Considering that, the issue wasn’t coming to Jamaica, it was leaving Haiti, as pointed out by Krabacher, Co-founder of HaitiChildren, in reports on RJR News....

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Bird flu might collude instead.

‘Get on a plane’: Danish minister urged to meet Greenland coil scandal women (www.theguardian.com)

The Danish health minister should “get on a plane and visit” some of the thousands of women thought to be living with the consequences of being forcibly fitted with the contraceptive coil as children, Greenland’s gender equality minister has said....

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This is such a horrible case and it's disgusting that Greenland have had to open their own investigation of it while Denmark keeps ignoring it.

Large pieces of copper were forced into the bodies of children as young as 12 during "routine" medical exams at school. With disastrous effects.

For several decades, Lyberth repressed her trauma. “I think I was so ashamed that I didn’t want to remember or talk about it,” she says. But the consequences for her body soon became apparent – and lasting.

IUDs are normally effective for a period of up to ten years, after which they can cause complications such as infections and infertility. The ones forced upon young girls in Greenland were larger than modern devices.

“I had intense period pains, with enormous bleeding that forced me to stay at home,” she explains. It was only when she reached menopause, at around 50, that she realised the cause of her suffering.

“I started having circulation problems and ovarian cysts. I was in so much pain that the doctors were considering removing my uterus,” she says. “That’s when it all came back to me.” 

From this article from a few months back.

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Pretty ironic though. That comment was in the context of talking about how easy it is for people to dismiss the abuse these Indigenous women went through.

Cue, an entire comment section that is mostly focussed on discussing whether white people feel attacked, than the decades of hell these women endured.

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I think you're right, but I think that undermining mostly happens because of skewed priorities.

Reddit stock is falling back to Earth because the short-sellers have arrived (qz.com)

Some 7% of Reddit’s free share float (or more) has been sold short so far, according to an estimate from the analytics company Ortex cited by Reuters. That’s something the social platform was worried would happen, noting in its prospectus that retail traders in its subreddits (and particularly on r/WallStreetBets) could...

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@altima_neo they definitely mention that though?

Reddit’s share price in the low $50 range is still well above its IPO price of $34, and even above its impressive first-day closing price of $48, which had investors chattering about the company’s impressive gains.

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Yeah I've already seen an article talking about squeezing it if it gets too much short action.

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Not by itself. But a lot of short interest can indicate that analysts think a stock is overvalued and that does tend to lower the price.

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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I think the class would demand their money back if I tried to tell them The Matrix was contemporary. A lot has changed in the industry since 1999.

I like your classifications though.

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