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livus, 10 months ago

Now you've got me wondering what Linus Torvalds thinks. The only opinion of his I know is that https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linus-linux.ogg that used to do the rounds "Hello this is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux".

livus, 10 months ago

Might have worked. They created one for my country, and also we could filter out politics on the main sub, but some people still just bring it up in other threads.

livus, 10 months ago

It's to get around thresholds.

The bot accounts were mostly about to be sold on third party websites or used for scams.

livus, 10 months ago

A few times I had people make a negative comment about my comment karma showing I was online too much.

Which was true but it did make me selfconscious and switch to an alt half the time.

livus, 10 months ago

Worth noting the US had other sanctions against Ethiopia in place but is easing some non-food restrictions.

livus, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

The answer to your question is in the second paragraph of the article:

The U.N. and the U.S. first suspended food aid to Tigray in March after the discovery of a scheme to steal donated wheat intended for needy people. They extended the pause to the rest of Ethiopia in early June, affecting 20 million people in need, or about one-sixth of the country’s population.

livus, 10 months ago

It's been very hard in the Tigray situation because the national government isn't all that invested in aid to Tigray and at one point Ethiopian and Eritrean forces were actively stopping it.

livus, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

No, you're barking up the wrong tree here. Tigray normally grows diverse crops of sorghum, maize, teff, barley etc, fruits such as oranges.

The famine in Tigray is entirely man-made. It's caused by widespread crop destruction, blockades of farming necessities, deliberate destruction of water infrastructure, farm implements etc.

If you want to know more about agriculture in Tigray and the effects the war had on it, here's a really in-depth article.

livus, 10 months ago

Interesting!

It doesn't really matter what you are growing if government armies from two nations are deliberately laying waste to your crops and destroying your water infrastructure.

livus, 10 months ago

In this case it's a fairly intractable problem. The famine itself was caused by war between the Ethiopian Government and the province of Tigray. Deliberate crop destruction and aid blockades were features of that war.

It seems senior Government officials are involved in diverting and selling grain in peacetime. It doesn't seem the government is all that invested in seeing that aid go to Tigray.

But now the aid is being paused for the rest of Ethiopia as well, and we are seeing more deaths.

livus, 10 months ago

Really? I never realised that. According to the article on agriculture I posted, there was some very innovative farming in Tigray before the war, so if they ever get back on their feet perhaps they will see if they can war-proof crops.

Unfortunately though there was evidence during the war that the creation of famine was deliberate and systematic, so it's unlikely that any farming method would be affective against that in modern times.

livus, 10 months ago

If you're talking about a boots on the ground peacekeeping intervention in the Ethiopian war and its aftermath, I agree with you but I don't think the UN would get much support for that even now.

The US has been sanctioning the Ethiopian government over its human rights abuses in Tigray.

Halting food aid to the rest of Ethiopia has been one of the measures taken in response to aid being diverted, and as we can see it seems to have increased deaths.

livus, 10 months ago

The Matrix as well.

livus, 10 months ago

Yeah and adjacent to that: anything where I know the top voted comments are going to be about forearms, yoga pants, or how men love compliments.

livus, 10 months ago

How could I forget. Sundresses, messy buns, being polite to wait staff.

livus, 10 months ago

Well, it's on the frontpage for me now on both "hot" and "active".

Thanks for posting it by the way, we need more human interest stories from around the globe in m/worldnews

livus, 10 months ago

From the article:

Rwandan government critic Paul Rusesabagina, who gained recognition after the 2004 US movie "Hotel Rwanda" depicted the role he played in saving lives during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, described his months long imprisonment as "hell."

In a Youtube video released Saturday to mark Rwanda's 61st anniversary of independence, Rusesabagina stressed the people of Rwanda were "prisoners in their own country."

"Rwanda is an authoritarian government that has no rights for its citizens and doesn't tolerate dissent for its citizens," Rusesabagina said.

He was released on March 24, following months in prison after the Rwandan government slammed him with a 25-year sentence on terrorism charges in September 2021. Rusesabagina spoke about his time in prison. He said he was "tortured, imprisoned and faced false charges that had nothing to do with me."

The Rwandan dissident, speaking from his home in San Antonio, Texas, thanked several players for advocating for his release. He named the European Union, NGOs, human rights groups and the press for keeping "my story alive."

But Rusesabagina particularly singled out the US, for the role it played in securing his early release from prison."This is what made the difference. When the US government said that this cannot continue, Rwanda was forced to be realistic," Rusesabagina said.

The government critic was arrested in August 2020, when a plane carrying him to Burundi was diverted to Rwanda. The US said he was "wrongfully detained," while Rusesabagina spoke of his arrest in the Saturday video as a kidnapping.

livus, 10 months ago

From the article:

The Thai royal family gave the elephant as a gift in 2001 to Sri Lanka’s government, which in turn gifted it to the temple where it was named Muthu Raja and given honored roles in religious processions.

However, the activist group Rally for Animal Rights and Environment, or RARE, raised allegations it was being mistreated, including that it had a stiff leg from a long-neglected injury. It lobbied last year for the intervention of Thai officials, who asked Kande Viharaya temple officials to allow the animal’s return to Thailand for medical treatment.

The temple agreed to transfer the elephant last November to Sri Lanka’s National Zoological Garden, where it has been receiving treatment and preparation for the airlift to Thailand planned for Sunday.

Madusha Perera, a veterinary surgeon at the zoo, said two big abscesses the elephant was suffering from when it arrived have mostly healed. However, the zoo has not been able to fully treat the animal’s leg because of a lack of facilities, she said.

“Once he gets back to Thailand the experts there will attend to the conditions so that one day we will be able to see him walk the normal way,” Perera said.

Visit Arsaithamkul, a visiting Thai veterinarian, said the treatment in Thailand could include hydrotherapy, laser treatment and acupuncture.

At the zoo, Muthu Raja’s morning routine has included veterinarian check-ups, bathing in a small pond and practice getting into the container that will carry him on the nearly six-hour flight to Chiang Mai, Thailand...

Sri Lanka Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena told Parliament earlier this month that he expressed his regret to the Thai prime minister over the treatment of the elephant during trip to Thailand in May.

Panapitiya said her group also is pushing for the release of another elephant at the Kande Viharaya temple.

livus, 10 months ago

From the article:

The referendum, likely to be held between October and December, seeks to amend the constitution and establish an advisory body, called the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people a direct say in policies that impact them.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's centre-left Labor government backs the change, while the opposition Liberal-National conservatives urge a "No" vote.

On Sunday, an Australian Council of Social Service tweet showed Sydney rally attendees in T-shirts with the words "Vote Yes" and caps with the words "The Uluru Statement", referring to a key document that calls for an Indigenous Voice...

Yes23, the group behind more than 25 rallies nationwide, said the crowd in Sydney was around 3,000 and that it expected up to 25,000 people to participate in total.

The day of action comes after support for the referendum appeared to be ebbing, according to a poll last month, which showed "No" ahead for the first time, 51% to 49%.

livus, 10 months ago

From the article:

Chairman of the Guyana National Fisherfolk Organisation, Parmeshwar Jainarine complained about falling fish prices on Friday at a ceremony to mark National Fisherfolk Day 2023. “We have seen a sharp, sharp decline in the prices of our catch. Fish prices have gone down by more than 70 percent and the expenses have remained the same. Many of the boats in the Berbice area are not fishing because it cannot pay them to work,” he said.

Mr Jainarine told Demerara Waves Online News that there was a “glut in the market.” “The fish has been coming in a lot and we are hearing that the exporters cannot ship it fast enough,” he said. In clear reference to the scarcity of fish last year, he welcomed the fact that there was an increase in fish supply in 2023. “It’s a good thing for us that we have the catch this year but then the prices are going downwards,” he said. Ironically, he said Guyanese fisherfolk were this year hoping to catch huge profits but that has not been happening.

He said previously bangamary was fetching a price of GY$280 per pound but that was now downs to GY$100 per pound; snapper from over GY$600 to GY$450 per pound but trout remain stable because of limited availability.

Mr Mustapha told fisherfolk at the event held at the Lusignan Community Centre ground that government was trying to find lucrative markets for Guyana’s fish, the latest effort having been at the just-concluded meeting of Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) agriculture ministers in Georgetown....

But Mr Jainarine said the solution is for more fish processing plants to be established because Guyana has only two major processors. “if these two processors’ markets are filled then other persons would be able to purchase so that the price could remain stable so that we can make a money,” he said.

Guyana currently has more than 10,000 fisherfolk.
The fisheries sector accounts for 3 percent of Guyana’s agriculture Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and GY$11.9 billion worth of exports or about 6 percent of the country’s total exports. In 2022, Guyana produced more than 33,500 metric tonnes of seafood.

livus, 10 months ago

Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense.

I'm not a farmer either but it has changed a lot in my lifetime.

Tbh I think we've gone kind of crazy with the amount of nutrients we're putting in and the yields we expect from dairy. The environment can't sustain it forever and it's a strange thing to rely on for export given our location...

livus, 10 months ago

Anyone who can convert to dairy already probably has at this point. I guess pine is the next best thing.

livus, 10 months ago

That makes sense. Is it because of terrain?

livus, 10 months ago

We do appreciate it.

livus, 10 months ago

At the moment you just subscribe to any meme communities you like, across the federation, and you can see and comment in all of them. Sooner or later we're going to be able to group them like multireddits.

This is decentralised.

196 might be a good place for you to start, they are bringing the memes.