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Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.

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Jinjirrie, to Israel
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"Ironclad" - for '’s habit of massacring Palestinians will always be defended over the right of Palestinians to not be massacred.' https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/9/give-or-take-a-few-bombs-us-complicity-in-genocide-remains-ironclad

zleap,
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@Jinjirrie

As it seems the US will defend the 2nd Amendment over the rights of mass shooting victims NOT to be victims of mass shootings.

SecularJeffrey, to random
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Part of my Acme delivery came. Still waiting for the rocket skates, tunnel painting kit and 1000 lbs of bird seed

zleap,
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@SecularJeffrey

Beep, beep,

gwynnion, to random
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"But did you know Hamas is bad?"

WOW. REALLY. NO FUCKING SHIT. NO WAY. THAT'S NEVER COME UP BEFORE.

zleap,
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@gwynnion

They can only do this with the western weapons we gave them, while there are 'concerns' we seem to be ignoring the fact the countries that supply weapons are accountable.

br00t4c, to random
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Sydney council's ban on same-sex parenting books in local libraries causes uproar

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/sydney-council-ban-same-sex-parenting-books-b2541308.html

zleap,
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@br00t4c

When it comes to same sex parents, I remember the film 3 men and a baby, I can't remember that film causing any sort of majour contraversy, This was the 80's, attitudes to being gay were much different to today. The 3 characters in the film were not gay, but they were still same sex parents and did a good job, just lived to gether to raise the child.

This is 2024. Are they going to ban this film too.?

fixiemama, to random
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I’m heartsick knowing what’s going on in Rafah right now.

zleap,
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@fixiemama

Just watching @aljazeera

Just watching @aljazeera a good point made that Netanyahu wants to keep this going, if it were to stop he would have to face up to what has happened both at home but also at the hands of the ICC. He knows he is finished

nixCraft, to random
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Everyone should immediately stop contributing to the stack overflow and its network. The human touch is what made it unique. Delete your profile from SO AND all your answers. Freeloaders are making money out of human contributions.

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@Pajo_16 @nixCraft

If people find them, perhaps post links here.

starshine, to random
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they should make a mobile operating system that’s good

zleap,
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@starshine

It would perhaps be good if the various free software projects to do this worked together a little more to produce one GOOD solution, once we have that we can coordinate efforts to make other solutions that will interoperate.

Small teams can only do so much, several small teams combined in to one bigger team with the same focus surely could work better.

w7voa, to random
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Evacuation of Rafah neighborhoods underway as Israel signals impending offensive following the collapse of the hostage deal negotiations and the demand by Hamas to end the war in Gaza.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/s1bijjug0

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@w7voa

Time for talking is over. The world knows what is going on.

zleap,
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@w7voa

I think that needs to say WILL LEAD and yes put in caps for empasis. .

DrALJONES, (edited ) to Israel
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Report

Netanyahu supported Hamas in order to split the Palestinian leadership & prevent a Palestinian state.

"Before Oct 7, Netanyahu..encouraged Qatar to fund Hamas, seeing Hamas's existence as a way to split Palestinian leadership & avoid pressure on Israel to enter negotiations about a Palestinian state. Utter cynicism." (@ KenRoth)

"Netanyahu..avoided talking publicly about the funds.. secured from Qatar for Gaza over the past decade."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/documents-show-israel-sought-valued-qatari-aid-for-gaza-in-years-leading-to-oct-7/

..

zleap,
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@DrALJONES

Meanwhile, we are fed the same old narrative that IRAN being super evil of course funds Hamas.

zleap, to random
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Great first day of LibrePlanet 2024 yesterday. More talks and activities today.

https://libreplanet.org/2024/

@fsf

Miro_Collas, to Palestine
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Full-blown famine' in north Gaza: UN thousands of Palestinians are starving - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3qUkRHyxKE


@palestine

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@Miro_Collas @snack @palestine

Netehyahu is hell-bent on invading Rafah, when that happens and the body count skyrockets there are going to be a LOT of people with questions to answer, the protesting students will say "told you so" as with many others.

ChrisMayLA6, to journalism
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Something to ponder on Saturday afternoon.

here's the ever interesting David Allen Green on why regulating the press/media may be easy to demand but is (now) much more difficult to achieve.

For this of us who see the control of the media & what its owners do with that control as a key problem for the UK's democracy, this is what one can call a 'sobering read'!

@davidallengreen

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/on-how-regulating-the-media-is-hard

zleap,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @davidallengreen

Netanyahus government just shut down the @aljazeera office in Israel, I guess that is one way of controlling the media and ensuring only certain stories get out.

As a few seem to have pointed out, in clear violation of international law, the fact western governments do not seem to have condemned this, is rather worrying.

MikeImBack, to politics
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"Israeli Minister Reportedly Asks IDF To Kill Palestinians Instead Of Arresting Them

“Why are there so many arrests?” Ben-Gvir allegedly asked. “Can’t you kill some? Do you want to tell me they all surrender? What are we to do with so many arrested? It’s dangerous for the soldiers.”"

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israeli-minister-itamar-ben-gvir-kill-palestinian-captives_n_66313a76e4b0c9bc87592bf5

zleap,
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@MikeImBack

Sounds like the sort of rhetoric we had from Nazis prior to and during WWII.

The result is well known, we are meant to learn from this, but we are not. or refuse to accept what is going on.l

penwing, to random
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It is really quite pathetic that both our main parties have so little vision, so little ambition, that they can only view working 'til we drop (dead, preferably) as a valid societal model & every "solution" they see is around preparing young people for this ("more resilient") or browbeating ill and disabled people until they have a damascene revelation about their difficulties and give up on sorting out their health or trying to have any quality of life

Where's my sci-fi future of leisure?

zleap,
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@penwing

There is also anxiety and social anxiety, I am sure the idea that work can help, but the wrong employer or a toxic environment can make matters far worse.

dyani, to accessibility
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Are Microsoft and Adobe really the only ones making software that can create tagged PDFs?

I would rather not use either of them!

Please boost this question 🔁

I can't find any alternatives :(

zleap,
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@dyani

Can @libreoffice do what is required here?

thomasfuchs, to random
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Truly spectacular how universities "couldn't do anything" about literal Nazis giving speeches [and leading to actual violence including shootings] but they're now banning students (including many Jewish students) from their grounds for being "antisemitic", and just casually ruin their lives.

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@tenlinesofcode @thomasfuchs

How is free speech you disagree with, different from research results you disagree with, take the Bohr orbintal model of atomic structure, this has been refined as people questioned that model and have made improvements to how we model electrons moving aroud a nucleus.

We need to ask questions and think critically about things and explore other ideas and explanations.

hanse_mina, to Ukraine
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French President Emmanuel said the American security umbrella is a thing of the past and that the continent needs to build its own credible defense strategy if it wants to survive.

Macron said the continent may need to produce its own anti-missile shield, long-range surface missiles and other items to sufficiently defend itself in the present geopolitical context.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-25/macron-says-eu-can-no-longer-rely-on-us-for-its-security

zleap,
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@hanse_mina

The UK needs this as does all of Europe to send a strong united message, So +1 to Macron on this. we may NOT like it, but it is reality.

zleap, to random
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STEM Group, 27th April 2024

The next Stem group event will take place on :

Date: Saturday, April 27th 2024
Time: 10:30am to 15:00
Location: Paignton Library and Information Centre
Room: 13 & IT Learning Centre

claireasher, to Fashion
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I did my PhD field work in Brazil's Cerrado, so this is especially heartbreaking to read.

Earthsight report links supply chains of fashion giants H&M and Zara to large-scale illegal deforestation, land-grabbing, violence and corruption in Brazil.

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/report-links-hm-and-zara-to-major-environmental-damage-in-biodiverse-cerrado/

zleap,
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@claireasher

now if we can just CANCEL H&M along with Zara it would be great.

zleap,
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@claireasher

Put them out of business by mass boycott.

hanse_mina, to america
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The Axis of Upheaval

How ’s Adversaries Are Uniting to Overturn the Global Order.

The support from , , and North Korea has strengthened ’s position on the battlefield, undermined Western attempts to isolate , and harmed .

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/axis-upheaval-russia-iran-north-korea-taylor-fontaine

zleap,
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@hanse_mina

Not to justify this, but how many times has western attempt to do something or change a country caused chaos and problems.?

trevorflowers, to random
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Friends, if Microsoft tries to squeeze you to buy a new computer to run version 11 when every new version of Windows gets worse and adds ads then please consider that more than 100 million people use Linux on their desktop computer, including people who make all sorts of projects with videos, illustrations, digital photographs, laser cuttings, animations, paper media, CAD, CAM, 3D printed stuff, circuit boards, etc.
Will it be exactly the same as Windows? No.
Can it be awesome? Yes.

zleap,
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@Jennifer @JoshuaACNewman @trevorflowers

I think the closest we have to video editing is Kedenlive, as for book design, I use |LaTeX for most of my documents. I do understand they are probably not the best solution here though.

zleap,
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@JoshuaACNewman @Jennifer @trevorflowers

Which is why I said it may not be suitable in this case.

mongabay, to news
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Scientists say that coral reefs are currently undergoing a global bleaching event, with more than 54% of the world’s coral reef areas in the territorial waters of over 50 countries experiencing heat stress. According to one scientist, the percentage of areas dealing with bleaching-level heat stress “has been increasing by roughly 1% per week.”

by Elizabeth Claire Alberts
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/global-coral-beaching-now-underway-looks-set-to-be-largest-on-record/

zleap,
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@mongabay

No problem,

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