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MisuseCase

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#infosec and #cybersecurity professional who preaches about stakeholder engagement and #usability. #poverty abolitionist. Does #knitting, loves #kdramas.

My political views do not reflect those of my employer, who I will not disclose.

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wdlindsy , (edited ) to random
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"Wikipedia’s editors declared that the Anti-Defamation League cannot be trusted to give reliable information on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and they overwhelmingly said the ADL is an unreliable source on antisemitism. It’s a stunning rebuke to one of the world’s preeminent authorities on anti-Jewish hate and a significant advocate for the rights and causes of American Jews."

~ David Goldman


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https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/media/wikipedia-adl/index.html

MisuseCase ,
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@wdlindsy @martinvermeer Speaking as an American Jew, I don’t feel like the ADL has advocated for me for years. They are pro-Israel first, and interested in the welfare of American Jews and other Diaspora Jews as a distant second, if that.

PerryM , to random
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Since Trump and McConnell conspired and installed political stooge justices into the Supreme Court, it was obvious what was going to happen. Biden was encouraged to re balance the Court by expanding the number of Justices to counter. He could have done so and pointedly refused.

It was another huge Biden error! Electing Trump is not an option but Biden is killing us ... literally!

MisuseCase ,
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@PerryM @otownKim So it’s Biden’s fault that Senators Manchin and Sinema wouldn’t vote for it?

MisuseCase ,
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@PerryM @otownKim >> “At the beginning of Biden's Presidency the Senate was controlled by the democrats as Sinema and Manchin were Democrats.”

Were you paying attention at the time? Do you know what they were/are like? Are you aware that members of the same party may not agree on the same things (it happens often)? Do you think Biden can control the whole party (he doesn’t)?

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@PerryM @otownKim Also if you aren’t sure that Biden pushing for it would have made it succeed, did you just want to hear him say the “right” things?

Is it possible that since chances of success were slim, antagonizing Manchin and Sinema when he needed their votes for other things may not have been worthwhile?

MisuseCase ,
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@otownKim @PerryM I remember people saying Biden should twist their arms or something at the time, but Biden didn’t have anything to twist their arms with. Manchin really didn’t want to seem like Biden could push him around or like he was too chummy with Biden, because of what his constituency is like.

LBJ was able to lean on Senate Democrats but he had a supermajority to work with.

Nazani , to random
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Enough already. If you think Biden is "pro-genocide" in spite of all the actions he's taken to try to rein in Israel since ~oct 12, GTFO. If your pwecious widdle conscience doesn't allow you to vote for him, you're effectively saying: Fuck women, anyone who isn't white or Xtian, the planet, & everyone else who doesn't have your privileged life. You're an ignoramus who doesn't understand the limitations of the executive branch & you're a child who thinks meals can be 100% candy.

MisuseCase ,
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@Nazani Lot of people complaining on here about your “belittling” as if they didn’t drop in on total strangers accusing them of being genocide supporters, calling them shitlibs, reflexively piling on with “the U.S. isn’t a democracy” when people expressed fear about losing their democracy.

Like, they said they weren’t going to vote, cussed you out if you tried to plead with them or whatever, and now are shocked, shocked, that you’re expressing ill feelings about it.

appassionato , to palestine group
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Israel “could have free all hostages, alive and intact, 8 months ago when the first ceasefire and hostage exchange was put on the table”.

“Israel refused in order to continue to destroy Gaza and the Palestinians as a people.”

“This genocidal intent turned into action.”

“Israel has used hostages to legitimise killing, injuring, maiming, starving and traumatising Palestinians in Gaza.”

Francesca Albanese

@palestine

MisuseCase ,
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@Ck @julian @appassionato @palestine Launching a ghetto cleansing of Gaza in reprisal for the victims of October 7th before their bodies were cold is gross. What you are doing here is gross. Nobody in Israel is made safer by this. Many people have been displaced from their homes and the economy is a shambles (I have actually talked to people from Israel, you see).

Even a lot of Israelis want the war to end.

MisuseCase ,
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@Ck @julian @appassionato @palestine Brother I have been following Israeli politics for a long time. Since I’m Jewish I did not have just the vague awareness of Israeli/Palestinian issues that a lot of the other leftists on here have. So I’m not stupid enough to side with Hamas or whatever. But you are ‘splaining things to me I already know, and knowing these things, I can say that the current course of action is not going to make Israel safer.

MisuseCase ,
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@Ck @julian @appassionato @palestine There are lots. None of them are easy at this point. But you obviously don’t want to hear it and don’t have the imagination to figure it out for yourself, and my time is too precious to deal with that attitude.

MisuseCase ,
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@Ck @julian @appassionato @palestine Wondermark_sealion_comic dot GIF

MisuseCase ,
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@Ck @julian @appassionato @palestine I don’t have to, in fact.

appassionato , (edited ) to palestine group
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Israeli settlers cut down olive and citrus trees during their assault on the town of Qusra in the occupied West Bank.

@palestine

MisuseCase ,
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@vega @econads @appassionato @palestine @0tracas To clarify you can say “the trees were Hamas”

GottaLaff , to random
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America 2024.

“10-year-old brought a loaded handgun to Glassell Park Elementary school on Tues. No one was injured in the incident. …The weapon was a loaded .40-caliber Glock 22 that had been reported stolen. The gun recovery reflects an alarming increase of "weapons incidents" and fights at Los Angeles Unified schools amid demands from many parents for more police and security after the school board slashed the police budget four years ago.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-05/a-10-year-old-fourth-grader-brings-loaded-handgun-to-l-a-school

MisuseCase ,
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@GottaLaff Although knowing what the LAPD are like, I think they would not fix this problem, or they would create new problems.

We found in Montgomery County, MD that using restorative justice counselors (usually teachers with some extra training) were much better at defusing incidents and preventing repeat incidents than cops.

CelloMomOnCars , to random
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"[Governor] Moore tasked the Energy Administration with establishing a framework to achieve 100 percent by 2035 and directed the Maryland Department of Transportation to undertake several measures to promote .

“Today’s order calls on every single state agency to submit a Climate Implementation Plan (CIP),” Moore said"

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/05062024/moore-maryland-climate-executive-actions/

MisuseCase ,
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@CelloMomOnCars @wellingtonrock There was a bill in the Assembly for this or something like this in the most recent legislative session, but it got killed by fossil fuel lobbying. I wonder how much this order will do without the bill being passed into law.

futurebird , to random
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They don't have to nominate him.

They have a choice. There could be emergency meetings scrambling, an effort to save face.

This is a choice and it's a bad one except as a cynical and increasingly desperate play for power.

MisuseCase ,
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@futurebird Did you Toot it this way just as an experiment to see who people assumed you were talking about?

MisuseCase , to random
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Mainstream media outlets will publish all kinds of “just asking questions” crap about social transitioning, puberty blockers, people in sports, etc. But they don’t note it when the sitting President condemns trans healthcare bans in a address.

@e_urq covered it, fortunately.

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https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/biden-supports-trans-youth-healthcare

wdlindsy , to random
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Jacqui Lewis speaks of the carnage now occurring in Rafah:

"What if these were my children; how could I go on breathing? Then another thought comes quickly: All these children belong to all of us. As James Baldwin wrote 'The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.'”

#Israel #Palestinians #Rafah #Gaza
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https://jacquilewis.substack.com/p/enough-of-this-carnage

MisuseCase ,
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@wdlindsy @mastobit That person you are talking to doesn’t really respond to what anyone says, they just spam stuff in other people’s replies. I’d block them if I were you.

MisuseCase , to random
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Kudos to the people at who have drastically reduced the number of uncontested races downballot in Republican-dominated states.

They do good work getting lefty people on the ballot and winning victories. Give them your money!

https://runforsomething.net/

Moms for Liberty is investing in downballot races this year so it’s very important to support an organization that concentrates on city, county, and school board races.

kevinrns , to random
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In the near future a mass of people are going to die in a city from the heat, and the headlines will say that "it wouldn't have been so bad except the power went out"

Heat is going to take down power systems. The power systems that could protect us from an event, will be harmed by the event.

618 people in Canada, in the mountains, in the forest, died of a #climate heat event, on the floors of their homes, on their beds. No flames. Just a days heat.
The power stayed on, it would have been worse

MisuseCase ,
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@Nonya_Bidniss @kevinrns That’s kind of frustrating and disappointing. States kind of screwed up with applications and benefits for COVID relief (not all of them, but many of them). It would be much better to have the Feds administer it

MisuseCase ,
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@Nonya_Bidniss @kevinrns I mean it may not be tenable for the federal government to administer it, either because Congresscritters plain don’t want it done that way or that setting up the citizen service capacity to do it is more expensive and time-consuming than giving the states money

MisuseCase ,
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@Npars01 @Nonya_Bidniss @kevinrns Even in my own state, which has Democratic supermajorities in the legislature but had a a Republican Governor at the time, the administration and distribution of COVID recovery money was not great. Lots of people had trouble getting housing assistance and our unemployment insurance application system was really burdened so people couldn’t get what they were entitled to (the Governor did nothing to fix this).

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ayoub , to random
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I just can’t comprehend how one can look at footage of what just did in overnight and not conclude that there js something fundamentally broken about Israelis. And yes, there are obviously exceptions here, very noble ones. I’ve platformed a number of them on my podcast, but even they say that they are a rare voice, that most Jewish Israelis around them are either enthusiastic about the genocide or indifferent about its victims.

MisuseCase ,
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@futurebird @ayoub A bunch of people on here think they are So Smart about politics, propaganda, etc. and don’t make the connection that being under right-wing rule for almost a generation, as Israel has been, creates a nasty, reactionary society. We have seen in America how our own right-wing pols promote reactionary sentiment and do damage that lasts for years, but we don’t acknowledge that it’s the same elsewhere.

futurebird , to random
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I have a soft spot for Libertarians even though I shouldn't and they don't deserve it. When I was a kid I had a weird neighbor who was always giving me Libertarian books... I wish I still had some of them they were WILD. He was a thorn in the side of the local, school board as well insisting that if they had an event at the school that involved politics Libertarians had to be included.

And in defense of the guy, he was about as likable and earnest as a Libertarian could be.

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MisuseCase ,
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@futurebird @jonquass @ehproque @moira I think Americans may have had too much of reality shows where you vote for your favorite.

There’s a lot of political science research that says people tend more to vote against things and candidates anyway, rather than for them. Or at least they frame it to themselves that way.

toussaint , to random
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"The U.S. backed off sanctioning an IDF battalion w documented human rights violations including actions that led to the death of an American. The leader of the battalion’s U.S. nonprofit arm (yes) has given almost $100k to AIPAC’s super PAC"

thats right, in addition to the billions we give for the IDF, each battalion has a dedicated non-profit they use as a slush fund to do illegal settlements. Biden knows this while he 'sanctions' them
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/23/aipac-donor-stephen-rosedale-idf-netzah-yehuda/

MisuseCase ,
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@toussaint @bmacDonald94 A lot of these funds for settlements are supported by Evangelical Christians and many of AIPAC’s donors are right-wing billionaires. When Biden paused arms shipments to Israel a lot of folks in AIPAC’s sphere who were on the fence lined up behind Trump right away.

This explains a lot about the U.S. stance towards Israel, more than just “racism” or “being in favor of genocide.”

GottaLaff , to random
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US will announce $275 million more in artillery and ammunition for #Ukraine, officials say https://apnews.com/article/cdbbdbd05c38741b934cc5e63a1bc39c

MisuseCase ,
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@GottaLaff @JonChevreau We should be giving all that military aid for Israel to Ukraine instead, but even “pausing” a couple shipments got pro-Israel people behind Trump so I’m not sure what that would do.

GottaLaff , to random
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Today I read one report that RFKJr has 17% of the vote nationally.

Then I saw this from Cook. So you'll forgive me if, despite knowing how meaningless polls are, I get nervous:

https://www.cookpolitical.com/survey-research/2024-swing-state-project/unique-election-driven-traditional-issue

MisuseCase ,
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@SailorDisco @TCatInReality @GottaLaff At a certain point this is deferring responsibility for the thing you are going to do (not vote, vote 3rd party) and its potential consequences. It’s basically a thought-terminating cliche to use against the notion that you might be obligated to do even the tiniest bit of harm reduction for your neighbors.

MisuseCase ,
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@TCatInReality @SailorDisco @GottaLaff I will say that a lot of voters are miseducated, on purpose, by their schools or the news or political ads. That’s not their fault.

But if you are someone actually paying attention - and most people on here are - then saying you won’t participate and making excuses for actions that you KNOW will have a bad outcome is on you, not someone else miseducating you.

molly0xfff , to random
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We must protect privacy, even in the face of cryptocurrency crime. As governments crack down on one of the most notorious tools for criminal money laundering in the cryptocurrency world, I’m worried about the ramifications.

https://www.citationneeded.news/tornado-cash/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #privacy #TornadoCash #newsletter #CitationNeeded

MisuseCase ,
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@molly0xfff If they were serious they would outlaw cryptocurrency altogether. Most of the people using it use it in centralized exchanges so outlawing it would make it too much of a hassle for most people to use.

But no, they just want to expand surveillance.

MisuseCase ,
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@molly0xfff You mean for actually useful, non-scammy cryptography and such? I know blockchains are used for non-repudiation.

But I don’t think you need to outlaw blockchains to outlaw cryptocurrency. It’s the use case, not the underlying technology, that’s an issue.

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Almost 6k Dead in 6 Yrs: How #Baltimore Became the #US #Overdose Capital

People in Baltimore have been dying of overdoses at a rate never before seen in a major American city.

The city was once hailed for its response to #addiction. But as #fentanyl flooded streets & ofcls shifted priorities, deaths hit unprecedented heights.

#PublicHealth #MentalHealth #Health #Neuropsychology #Neurology #Neuroscience
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/us/baltimore-opioid-epidemic-od-deaths.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

MisuseCase ,
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@Nonilex This is very on-brand for Baltimore, and of course they have one of the worst police departments in the country, which is saying something. I’m sure that contributed to the crisis.

ElleGray , to random
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Saw this and immediately wondered if the sound a parent made stepping on it in the dark in ancient times is the same noise we'd make today

MisuseCase ,
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@ElleGray Many years ago I was part of a team excavating a village in the Aleutian Islands and we found a miniature set of whaling and fishing tools - very likely some child’s toys! The set included a miniature carved harpoon head and I wonder how many people stepped on that like you’d step on a Lego in the carpet.

MisuseCase , to random
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I played a lot of (too much of?) #Fallout 3 and NEW VEGAS from the late aughts through the early 2010s but it’s only on seeing the TV series and replaying FNV that I realized: hey, the worst bastards in the setting are all revanchists, accelerationists, or revanchist accelerationists.

I think it’s because the TV series really hammers the point home in a way that the games maybe don’t, even though it’s a strong through line in the series.

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MisuseCase OP ,
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But even leaving that out, the Enclave, a lot of the Brotherhood of Steel, Robert House (in FNV), Caesar (oh boy, Caesar), and the Master are all engaged in their own accelerationist/revanchist projects.

Oh, and the main antagonist from the DEAD MONEY DLC, who was so bad his own revanchist-slash-accelerationist curious faction kicked him out.

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MisuseCase OP ,
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While, e.g., the Enclave and Robert House are just working on long-term accelerationist projects in which the Great War was the Big Event, Caesar and the DEAD MONEY antagonist want to BE the Big Event, in different ways.

Like, even living in a world that’s evidence of how Accelerationism Doesn’t Work, these assholes think they can make it work.

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MisuseCase OP ,
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Also actual working communities and societies that have arisen in the 200 years after the Great War are things to be at best ignored, or at worst destroyed, by the #fallout antagonists.

E.g., there’s a thriving collectivist community in Westside Vegas: Robert House doesn’t care about it, just the part he controls (and established by exiling many of the people who already lived there).

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MisuseCase OP ,
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Caesar is a little more complicated but when you boil it down he’s just a textbook fascist.

Actually he and the Legion are, IMO, inspired by Nathan Holn and the Holnist survivalists (neo-feudalist fascists) in THE POSTMAN, which seems to be one of #fallout’s major influences, but that’s a whole other discussion.

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MisuseCase OP ,
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But to sum up, to the extent that I can: #fallout isn’t about the dangers of nuclear war or the fundamentally terrible nature of humanity, really.

It’s about how you shouldn’t trust any motherfucker talking about “wiping the slate clean” or “rebuilding society” or with utopian visions that require killing a bunch of people.

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mondoweiss , to israel group
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Joe Biden's claim that Hamas’s October 7 attacks were “driven by ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people" is ahistorical and dangerous. In fact, Jewish history shows that antisemitism is a Western problem.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-ancient-desire-to-kill-jews-is-not-hamass-its-the-wests/


@palestine @israel

MisuseCase ,
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@syllusg @mondoweiss @palestine @israel No, Hamas has been fighting with Israel for a long time, it’s not like “they didn’t think Israel would be this bad.”

They knew Israel would react like this: they expected and provoked this response because it supports other goals they have, which do not include saving Palestinian lives.

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What capitalist industry and commerce has done just in the last three decades, pumping nearly a trillion tons of CO₂ into the air, has no precedent.

Never before in Earth’s history has so much carbon dioxide been added to the atmosphere over such a short period of time.

HEADLINE: Chemical analysis of natural CO₂ rise over the last 50,000 years shows that today's rate is 10 times faster

"The rate of CO₂ change today really is unprecedented," said Kathleen Wendt, assistant professor in Oregon State University's College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences. "Our research identified the fastest rates of past natural CO₂ rise ever observed, and the rate occurring today, largely driven by human emissions, is 10 times higher."

During the largest of the natural rises, carbon dioxide increased by about 14 parts per million in 55 years. The jumps occurred about once every 7,000 years or so. At today's rates, that magnitude of increase takes only 5 to 6 years.

Never in the whole history of Earth has so much CO₂ been poured into the atmosphere in such a short time.

Our rulers are literally conducting an insanely dangerous experiment, making it impossible for anyone to say with any certainty what will happen next. No one knows, because nothing like this has ever been done before.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chemical-analysis-natural-years-today.html

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

MisuseCase ,
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@antics @YusufToropov @Jennifer @breadandcircuses The OP decided to agree on the general point with the person you are scolding about 17 hours before you scolded them, but here you are, scolding them anyway.

luckytran , to random
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Republicans complained about government overreach at the start of the pandemic. Yet they are now justifying the use of legislative power in order to ban wearing a mask for health reasons. What an absolute farce.

MisuseCase ,
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@luckytran Look at some of the knee-jerk responses to “thing Republicans did,” it’s “blame the Democrats.” You’d think these people were opinion columnists at the New York Times.

randahl , (edited ) to random
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Police in Brussels have started using bait bikes, which are GPS tracked bikes that when stolen lead the police to the criminals.

I look forward to the evaluation of this project, as so many cities are plagued by bike theft. Could this be the remedy?

(News story from January this year)

https://www.brusselstimes.com/871521/police-can-make-unlimited-use-of-bait-bikes-to-track-down-thieves

MisuseCase ,
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@randahl @FantasticalEconomics I don’t know how it will work out elsewhere but in America, even if you put trackers on your own bike and know where it is when it’s stolen, the cops usually don’t care and won’t help you get it back.

futurebird , to random
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Someone said it's important say this publicly in the US: so I will. (And I think each of us should, online and to friends)

This November I will vote for Biden.

I would regard not voting for Biden, particularly in: PA, OH, MI, WI, IN, IL,VA, GA, FL, AZ, ME, NC, NH, etc. as a huge error. I'd be disappointed to find out anyone I knew didn't vote. It's one of a long list of things we need to do. We can't skip it.

And still? We deserve better choices, and in the future we shall have them.

MisuseCase ,
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@futurebird @suzannealdrich @PandaChronicle @mfennvt For people on the right it’s “government doesn’t work, vote for the GOP so we can destroy it,” and on the left it’s “government doesn’t work, don’t vote.”

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With a greenlight from Biden to continue the its invasion into , despite evidence of war crimes https://kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/112421478297802310, is now calling residents of eastern to evacuate to the “humanitarian zone” in the coastal al-Mawasi region in southern . Similarly IDF called residents of Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya, two neighborhoods in northern Gaza, to evacuate to western Gaza City.

H/t Jack Khoury

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MisuseCase ,
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@oatmeal @palestine @israel So the leaders/governments of these countries say they care so much about Palestinians but when the chips are down…

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    MisuseCase ,
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    @jsrailton I wonder if it’s from the same company the Dali came out of, you know, the cargo ship that crapped out and hit the bridge in Baltimore

    oatmeal , to israel group
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    / Annual Antisemitism Report (with TAU): "Antisemitism Worldwide Report for 2023
    Concern for the Future of Jewish Life in the West"

    I had to read it again: "Concern for the Future of Jewish Life in the West"... Also absent in the aftermath of October 7th discussion is any reference to the atrocities committed by Israel in Gaza, for which it is under active investigation both in the and and is an obvious contributor to the rise in anti-war protests around the world.

    Reminder: The is a controversial North American organization, claiming to be an authority on the subject of antisemitism. It has been criticized for its equation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism and for allegedly undermining left-wing and pro-Palestinian activism.

    The has been accused of inflating the number of antisemitic incidents to support its narrative of rising antisemitism. For example, in 2017, the ADL included 163 bomb threats to synagogues in its "harassment" statistics, even though these threats were attributed to a single disturbed individual. Critics argue that this "alarmism" serves the institutional imperative of the ADL and other similar organizations. https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/adls-campaign-to-silence-criticism-of-israel-by-calling-it-anti-semitism.html

    Critics also argue that the 's conflation of with -Zionism and criticism of Israel silences legitimate criticism of Israel's policies and actions toward Palestinians. They claim that this equation deflects attention from the actions of the Israeli government, soldiers, and settlers, and threatens the livelihoods of journalists and academics who deviate from the ADL's narrative. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/05/adl-pro-israel-advocacy-zionism-antisemitism

    In May 2022, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt sparked controversy by equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism and labeling groups advocating for Palestinian rights, such as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), as "extremist." This comparison was criticized by both ADL staff and external observers, who argued that it undermined the ADL's ability to build coalitions with other groups and fight antisemitism effectively. https://jewishcurrents.org/adl-staffers-dissented-after-ceo-compared-palestinian-rights-groups-to-right-wing-extremists-leaked-audio-reveals

    The Report:

    Interestingly, though, the authors do not perceive criticism of Israel as antisemitism. They state that "criticizing Israel, including in harsh terms, is NOT antisemitism." However, seeking its elimination as the national home of the Jewish people, including through the false argument that it is an unlawful colonial enterprise, is antisemitic. The problem is, of course, that Israel is a "colonial" byproduct, while calling for its elimination is not a conclusion of such an observation more than the elimination of the USA, Australia, New Zealand, or any other colonies.

    The authors identify several factors that have contributed to the rise of antisemitism, including:

    • The war in Gaza
    • The rise of populism in the West
    • The spread of antisemitism on social media
    • The failure of academia to address antisemitism on campus
    • The influence of foreign funding on academia
    • The failure of political leaders to condemn antisemitism

    [...] The Report notes that hate speech was articulated even before Israel launched its campaign in Gaza, including on leading university campuses, and thus urged against seeing the recent wave of antisemitism as an emotional response to the war. "Some antisemitic attackers emphasize their problem is with Israel, not with Jews, and then attack Jews and Jewish institutions."

    [...] Dr. Carl Yonker, Senior Researcher and Project Manager at the "Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry," TAU, who wrote a study for the Report on antisemitism in the United States, said: "Contrary to the conventional wisdom, post-October 7 incidents were also led from the far right in America. Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and others glorified Hamas and used the war to spread antisemitic propaganda along with conspiracy theories, according to which the crisis will advance the replacement of the white majority in the West by migrants from the Middle East. The fringes in the United States are encroaching on the political center from both right and left, making combating antisemitism much trickier."

    https://cst.tau.ac.il/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/AntisemitismWorldwide_2023_Final.pdf

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    MisuseCase ,
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    @oatmeal @CptSuperlative @israel @palestine ADL is one of the institutions abusing the term “antisemitism” into meaninglessness.

    MisuseCase ,
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    @oatmeal @martinvermeer @israel @palestine ADL now includes criticism of Israel or protest actions against Israel as “antisemitic incidents” and doesn’t differentiate between those and actual antisemitic incidents so yes they are inflating their numbers.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    An Israeli official has told News that will not agree to end the war with as part of any potential deal. Read more -ABC News

    MisuseCase ,
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    @GottaLaff They know this means there will be no deal and they can’t get the hostages back - the ones who are still alive - but they don’t care, they want to keep the killing and the ethnic cleansing going.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Osama Hamdan, a senior official, said in a statement that cease-fire negotiations with will cease if it moves forward with its operation into Rafah.

    https://trib.al/aXhJNXe

    MisuseCase ,
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    @GottaLaff @timo21 Ah, crap. That’ll just encourage Bibi to go for it.

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