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🇳🇱🇫🇮🇩🇰 🇪🇺 Geodesist. 'Elämäntapafinlandssvensk'. Born 315 ppmv. Star sign: Ursa.

Helsinki/Bromarv, Finland

#geodesy #geoid #SeaLevel #GPS #climate #linux #ubuntu #latex

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wdlindsy , to random
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"Germany is an easy country to be in. The people are friendly. The bars and bakeries are lovely. The cities are a potent mix of cultures: Cologne baklava, the kebabs of Essen, the mind-bending schnitzel-overload of the Munich cafe scene, schnitzels the size of stingrays, schnitzels that will haunt you.

~ Barney Ronay


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https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/22/on-a-journey-through-germany-the-horror-of-the-past-lurks-close-to-the-surface

martinvermeer ,
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@wdlindsy "Nice" people are the worst

martinvermeer ,
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@wdlindsy The classic on this

"Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. they got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics”. They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters." Naomi Shulman
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    • martinvermeer ,
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    @wdlindsy A little bit different, but yes. I am also shaking my head at folks I thought I knew to be level-headed and sane who have gone MAGA. Dr Phil comes to mind.

    ChrisMayLA6 , to random
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    As the right (well the Conservatives actually) stare disaster in the face, commentators on the Right have started to wonder about the appeal of proportional representation (PR) as opposed to First Past the Post (FPTP).

    Odd that, isn't it? people are always satisfied with FPTP right up to the time it doesn't get them into government.

    I've always thought PR was a good idea, so the Right's 'conversion' should be seen as a good thing... but after a landslide Labour's support may wane!

    martinvermeer ,
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    @ChrisMayLA6 PR is simply more democratic... it gives you more than just a single bit (binary digit) of choice. Also, it allows replacement of parties that have gone off the rails.

    An advantage of FPTP is that everyone has their personal MP that they can write or call to. A compromise is ranked-choice voting which may be an easier sell. It also gives small parties a chance.

    martinvermeer ,
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    @Andii @ChrisMayLA6 Ah yes, it's called Single Transferable Vote in British English.

    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


    /1

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

    martinvermeer ,
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    @wdlindsy @MisuseCase Wikipedia doesn't even go there. Their interest is building a trustworthy product built on factuality, a bit like the scientific community at its best - though, a different product. It has taken them decades to become as good as they are and build a model that resists the bad-faith actors, propagandists, agents of mendacity.

    If folks like this call you unreliable, perhaps you're doing something wrong.

    CelloMomOnCars , to random
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    "Two activists were arrested Thursday after cutting through a fence at a London airport and spray-painting private jets orange."

    https://apnews.com/article/london-airport-vandalism-taylor-swift-climate-paint-4dd2fdeb59f90d3257ddc3587956ef33

    Seems they had to scurry to fit a round \peg\ law into the square hole of this hack:
    "Essex police said two women were arrested in a private area of London Stansted Airport on suspicion of criminal damage and interference with the use or operation of national infrastructure."

    martinvermeer ,
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    @CelloMomOnCars Not a good choice of colour for that jet... BTW expecting to hear that it is the same water-washable stuff they used at Stonehenge. So much for 'damage'.

    CelloMomOnCars , to random
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    “Competitors vomited and fainted at finish lines, wheelchairs were deployed to carry athletes away from sun-scorched arenas and the fear of dying on court was even raised mid-match by the Games’ No 2 seeded tennis player Daniil Medvedev,” the report says.

    “While global temperatures continue to rise, should increasingly be viewed as an existential threat to sport.”

    https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/jun/18/paris-olympics-2024-weather-summer-temperatures-extreme-heat

    martinvermeer ,
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    @CelloMomOnCars But the athletes are all "amateurs" 😬

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "By shielding Donald Trump from standing trial before a jury in two of his felony cases, Trump’s three appointments to the Supreme Court, along with the even more MAGA Justices Alito and Thomas and Judge Aileen Cannon, have already irreparably interfered in the 2024 election."

    ~ Michael Podhorzer


    /1

    https://www.weekendreading.net/p/tipping-the-scales-the-maga-justices

    martinvermeer ,
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    @wdlindsy Second to last graph: "Clearance Thomas" 🤣

    martinvermeer ,
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    @wdlindsy 'Freudian' crossed my mind. I remember seeing it elsewhere used as a nickname, but don't remember where.
    Edit: ah, just search here for it.

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "The Trumpian revolution … seems to be the product of decadent boredom commingled with casual nihilism.

    Circumstances for our revolutionaries have never been better. They are so flush that they parade on their boats. And fly upside-down flags outside of their million-dollar suburban homes."

    ~ Jonathan V. Last


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    https://www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-why-youre-exhausted-by-politics

    martinvermeer ,
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    @wdlindsy Yeah. I for one was a bit surprised at seeing Dr Phil go down he drain.

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "The Business Roundtable is an association of more than 200 CEOs of America’s biggest corporations, their most powerful voice in Washington.

    Last Wednesday, its chair, Joshua Bolten, told reporters that his group planned to drop 'eight figures' while 'putting its full weight behind protecting and strengthening tax reform.'"


    /1

    https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-and-the-business-greedtable

    martinvermeer ,
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    @wdlindsy Tax billionaires away. No mercy for traitors.

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "Democrats need to realize that if Donald Trump’s felony conviction won’t weaken his support among most white voters, then nothing will. …

    White rage has always been the rocket fuel powering Trump’s ascendance and continued political relevance."

    ~ Steve Phillips


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    https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-white-voters-trump/

    martinvermeer ,
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    @wdlindsy He is correct.

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "Something has changed for me in the Trump era. I struggle more than I once did to wall off a person’s character from their politics when their politics is binding them to an unusually—and I would say undeniably—destructive person. The lies that MAGA world parrots are so manifestly untrue, and the Trump ethic is so manifestly cruel, that they are difficult to set aside."

    ~ Peter Wehner


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    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/06/when-are-trump-supporters-complicit/678704/

    martinvermeer ,
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    @wdlindsy One day, with work, he may even understand his own complicity.

    futurebird , (edited ) to random
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    All I wanted was a normal book on Arthropleura. All I found was... this.

    Listen everyone loves a giant millipede... but I think some of these book mills have misunderstood what that means...

    At least they used one of the reconstructions with a correctly sized head. And no silly jaws or anything. Arthropleura was a herbivore.

    (A whole book on Arthropleura was too much to hope for. I'll need to go back to collecting papers.)

    martinvermeer ,
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    @futurebird Free association. Yes, that thing is a vehicle. No bikinis.

    oatmeal , to palestine group
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    / Figures on arms deals with Israel

    The data shows that the UK government continued authorizing the export of military and non-military goods to Israel during this period, despite the ongoing conflict and human rights violations against Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied territories.

    While the document does not provide specifics on the types of military equipment licensed, it notes examples like components for military aircraft, vehicles, naval vessels, helicopters, ammunition, and body armor.

    Campaign groups argue this makes the UK complicit in enabling Israeli actions that may constitute war crimes and violations of international law. However, the UK insists its export decisions are consistent with legal advice.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/11/more-than-100-arms-export-licences-to-israel-issued-by-uk-since-7-october

    @israel
    @palestine

    martinvermeer ,
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    @oatmeal @israel @palestine The art of getting legal advice 😬

    Nonilex , to random
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    A fed judge blocked most of a Gov that strictly limited for adults & banned it for children.
    In his decision, US Dist Judge Hinkle rejected a common mantra of the DeSantis admin, saying “ is real,” & the state cannot deny transgender individuals treatment.
    “Florida has adopted a statute & rules that ban gender-affirming care for minors even when medically appropriate. The ban is .”
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/11/florida-lgbtq-trans-health/

    martinvermeer ,
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    @Nonilex I liked the judge's 105 pages more. Almost as if he respects evidence and has done his homework.

    urlyman , to random
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    I gave up chemistry at school as early as possible, so I’m very much the wrong person to attempt to ponder these questions but…

    If we think we’d like some of the products of the crude oil distillation column – e.g. naphtha for medical plastics or bitumen for roads –

    and we need as much arable land as possible for, you know, food,

    but we don’t want to extract crude oil anymore,

    then how tf (scientific term) do we resolve this?

    And to what extent are we even trying?

    martinvermeer ,
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    @urlyman @uva It is, but we should also be careful not to (unintentionally) feeding feelings of hopelessness. If we'd just got mostly rid of fossil fuel for burning (transport, heating), that would already be a big thing, and buy us time for doing all those other, also necessary things. Just like it is not necessary to solve the grid storage problem at the same time as building out renewables... staging is a thing.

    martinvermeer ,
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    @CelloMomOnCars @urlyman @uva This is true, but several of your examples won in the market due to being more convenient. Like, asphalt can be laid by machine, is easier to stripe, and quieter to drive on.
    There is no going back. We need new products that are not only environment/climate safe, but at least as convenient as what we have. Anything less just won't fly, politically or market wise. EVs (and yes, electric bikes), heat pumps, LED lights... they are examples of this.

    NotImpressed , to palestine group
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    @palestine

    Israel lists alive, overseas Palestinians as fighters killed in Gaza strike

    "Palestinian officials in Gaza have poked holes in Israel's claim of killing 17 fighters in a recent strike on a UN-run school, revealing that some victims named in the Israeli list were killed in earlier strikes, one passed away in 2017, and others are still alive, including one who lives overseas"

    https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/israel-lists-alive-overseas-palestinians-as-fighters-killed-in-gaza-strike-18171077

    martinvermeer ,
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    @NotImpressed @palestine They probably targeted people who had inherited the mobile phones of the intended targets - who may or may not have been real, active combatants. Or dead. Or abroad. Perhaps targeting SIM cards instead of real combatants has its limitations...

    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

    martinvermeer ,
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    @messaroundmarx @LALegault @ferryoons @appassionato @palestine Actually it falls under one of the sub-paragraphs of the Genocide Convention.

    martinvermeer ,
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    @ferryoons @appassionato @palestine Where can one get this?

    martinvermeer ,
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    @messaroundmarx @LALegault @ferryoons @appassionato @palestine You know how it is with enforcement of international law. But, one may dream. Milosevich enjoyed the hospitality of The Hague, and it might happen again. If international law didn't matter, Israel wouldn't be fighting it, dirty tricks and all. Something has changed: they are more vulnerable than they used to be.

    morpheo , to palestine group
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    The stories now surfacing, of the torture Palestinians are subjected to in the Israeli prison camps, are all very similar to the documented torture of Chilean political prisoners during the Pinochet junta. The Chilean military was trained by Israel. And yes, I believe them.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/C746BrjPNEl/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

    @palestine

    martinvermeer ,
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    @morpheo @palestine > The Chilean military was trained by Israel.

    I know. I read an eyewitness account about it (the torture training) at the time (yes, I am that old). Now I cannot find anything about it on the Internet... effectively sanitised. Do you, or anyone, have a working link?

    martinvermeer ,
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    @morpheo @palestine That is remarkable actually. By comparison, the Guatemalan genocide and Israel's complicity in it are well documented also on the Internet.

    Seems almost as if it is only documentation on crimes against white people that is seen as problematic.

    CelloMomOnCars , to random
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    ‘Godfathers of climate chaos’: UN chief urges global fossil-fuel advertising ban

    "António Guterres called on news and tech media to stop enabling “planetary destruction” by taking money while warning the world faces “ crunch time” in its faltering attempts to stem the crisis."

    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/05/antonio-guterres-un-chief-fossil-fuels-advertising

    WATCH which news outlets carry this story. That separates the adults from the ones who take candy from the fossil fuel industry.

    martinvermeer ,
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    @CelloMomOnCars Excellent Nazi detector.

    oatmeal , to israel group
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    / Former Meta engineer sues company saying he was fired over handling of Gaza content

    The lawsuit alleges that Meta's content moderation policies and practices are inadequate, leading to the spread of misinformation and hate speech on its platforms.

    […] Hamad said his firing appeared to stem from an incident in December involving an emergency procedure designed to troubleshoot severe problems with the company's platforms, known within Meta as a SEV or "site event".

    […] He had noted procedural irregularities in the handling of an SEV related to restrictions on content posted by Palestinian Instagram personalities that prevented the posts from appearing in searches and feeds, the complaint said.

    […] In one case, the complaint alleged, he found that a short video posted by Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza had been misclassified as pornographic even though it showed a destroyed building in Gaza.

    […] Hamad said Meta told him he was fired for violating a policy barring employees from working on issues with accounts of people they know personally, referring to Azaiza, the photojouralist. Hamad said he had no personal connection to Azaiza.

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-meta-engineer-sues-company-saying-he-was-fired-over-handling-gaza-content-2024-06-05/

    @israel
    @israel

    martinvermeer ,
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    @oatmeal @israel @palestine Ferras Hamad is a Palestinian-American... relevant

    'a pattern of bias against Palestinians'

    https://thesun.my/world/former-meta-engineer-sues-company-saying-he-was-fired-over-handling-of-gaza-content-NF12535796

    'Shocked' meme - Casablanca movie GIF

    wdlindsy , to random
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    "On Sunday morning, Trump told Fox and Friends, 'I didn't say 'lock her up,''

    Aaron Rupert was quick to dig up old campaign footage of Trump in Georgia doing exactly that."

    ~ Joyce Vance


    /1

    https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-e7c

    martinvermeer ,
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    @wdlindsy Demented verbal diarrhoea is tricky to edit

    CelloMomOnCars , to random
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    "#NegativePrices aren’t new, first occurring in Germany in 2008 as the nation ramped up wind and solar production.

    But they were rare, until now.

    Operators may be reluctant to make future investments because they’re not getting paid enough for the #CleanEnergy they’re churning out now.
    So what’s the solution for producers and investors? The obvious one is to build more #batteries."

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-02/bursts-of-free-power-raise-red-flags-for-green-tech-investors

    martinvermeer ,
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    @CelloMomOnCars Yep, and batteries are getting better and cheaper. It also has the political merit of making it easier to go completely off-grid, without needing anyone's permission.

    NotImpressed , to palestine group
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    #palestine
    #repression
    @palestine

    This is the interview to Alex Smith, the USAID senior advisor who was forced to resign over a presentation on maternal and child mortality in Gaza.

    https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/31/alex_smith_usaid_resignation_gaza_war

    martinvermeer ,
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    @NotImpressed @palestine Small inaccuracy: 'ICC request for an indictment' should be 'ICC request for an arrest warrant'. 42:25

    martinvermeer ,
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    @NotImpressed @palestine Another Biden admin official who got fed up with the lies: Stacey Gilbert

    https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/31/stacy_gilbert_state_dept_resignation_gaza?autostart=true

    NotImpressed , to palestine group
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    @palestine

    "Perhaps," said one progressive critic, the Israeli prime minister "can be arrested for his war crimes on the Senate floor."

    https://www.commondreams.org/news/arrest-netanyahu-for-war-crimes

    martinvermeer ,
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    @NotImpressed @palestine Not likely, as the US is not a state party to the Rome Statute. And the arrest warrant isn't yet final. But, somehow thinking of Eichmann...

    oatmeal , to palestine group
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    Unsurprisingly, #Ackman and other Jewish mega-donors seem to have no qualms with antisemites, as long as they are the good old-fashioned ones like #Trump and #DeSantis, who despise Muslims nearly as much as they detest Jews. With that, they can live.

    Trump's actions, such as accentuating Jon Stewart's Jewish last name "Leibowitz" (2013), making comments seemingly trafficking in Jewish stereotypes when addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition in 2015, his initial refusal to disavow support from former KKK leader David Duke during the 2016 campaign, his campaign's delayed condemnation of the extreme antisemitic harassment directed at Jewish journalists like Julia Ioffe after they wrote critical profiles of Trump/his wife, the use of his "America First" slogan echoing the antisemitic isolationist group from the WWII era, and listing a white supremacist leader as a delegate before removing him after media scrutiny – none of that seems to be a problem. Apparently, what makes one an antisemite in their eyes is wanting an end to 76 years of Israeli occupation and a brutal apartheid.

    Bill Ackman Is Likely to Endorse Trump After Backing Longshot Candidates https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-30/bill-ackman-is-likely-to-endorse-donald-trump-after-backing-longshot-candidates or https://archive.is/J7CiN

    Revealed: Who the Big Jewish Donors Are Backing in the 2024 GOP Presidential Primary Race https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2023-08-16/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/revealed-who-the-big-jewish-donors-are-backing-in-the-gop-presidentialprimary-race/00000189-f43f-d387-afaf-f4ff0d2f0000 or https://archive.is/oHrGv

    @israel
    @palestine

    martinvermeer ,
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    @oatmeal @israel @palestine Didn't have Jewish Nazis on my bingo card 😬

    mondoweiss , to palestine group
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    Arizona-based Internet domain company NameCheap ended all service to Russia over the invasion of Ukraine but has now registered an Israeli website targeting Palestinian children. Activists are calling out the company's complicity in war crimes.

    https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/israels-extortion-leaflets-and-namecheap-how-to-do-corporate-accountability-during-a-genocide/


    @palestine @israel

    martinvermeer ,
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    @mondoweiss @palestine @israel Namecheap could likely do the right thing and circumvent Arizona legislation by simply banning military and associated organizations from all countries from using its services.

    randahl , (edited ) to random
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    You too can buy a Tesla, and support the main share holder Elon Musk, who abuses his social media platform to convince his 185 million followers, that the US justice system is corrupt, because his favorite criminal is brought to justice.

    Or you could buy from a different car brand.

    martinvermeer ,
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    @randahl Can vouch for Volvo EVs being an excellent buy (though I leased, making servicing cost predictable). And more generally, electric driving is coming of age. Still some early-adoption issues, like having to have half a dozen different apps / RFID tags on your key ring. But at least in Finland, the charging points are there, and I suspect also in Europe. The US is getting there too.

    martinvermeer ,
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    @randahl One thing many people miss is that the rhythm of driving an EV is different: you charge overnight at home, and on long trips, charge fast over lunch and coffee breaks. It takes a little planning and awareness. This way, all destinations are reachable in the same human time as with an ICE car. Already now, and it's only getting better fast!

    randahl , to random
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    Trump told his voters, "I have all the best people”.

    Here are those people…

    Trump: Guilty of 34 counts of felony fraud.

    Trump’s lawyer Christina Bob: Arrested.

    Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani: Indicted.

    Trump's lawyer John Eastman: Indicted.

    Trump's CFO Allen Weisselberg: Jailed… twice.

    Trump's adviser Peter Navarro: Jailed.

    Trump's adviser Steve Bannon: Going to jail.

    Trump's fixer Michael Cohen: Served 3 years in prison.

    martinvermeer ,
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    @randahl TIL

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/jail-vs-prison-difference

    NotImpressed , to palestine group
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    @palestine

    "A CNN report said American GBU-39 bombs were used in deadly attack on designated safe zone for Palestinians"
    "After geolocating the footage, explosive weapons experts confirmed that remnants of the American-manufactured GBU-39 diameter bomb (SDB) were present"

    "The US denies knowing the manufacturer of the munitions used against the displaced Palestinians in Rafah"
    of course..
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-made-munitions-used-rafah-massacre-cnn

    martinvermeer ,
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    @NotImpressed @palestine Boeing

    https://elk.zone/spore.social/@ayoub/112523047682683175

    patrick_h_lauke , to random
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    netanyahu doing solid work making sure israel (the state) is hated worldwide and that jews (the people) will face the actual consequences of antisemitism that result from it... fucking war criminal

    martinvermeer ,
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    @futurebird @patrick_h_lauke Was about to write along these same lines but you beat me to it. Also, note (not part of the argument, but good to know) how many brave young Jews are in, and often leading, the encampment movement, or otherwise don't want anything to do with Israel's or Zionism's crimes. Let's leave collective guilt/collective punishment to the war criminals.

    oatmeal , to palestine group
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    #ICC / Israeli Mossad chief ‘threatened’ ICC prosecutor over war crimes inquiry | Israel

    […] "You don't want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family."

    The allegations detailed in the Guardian paint a troubling picture of alleged intimidation tactics and excessive pressure applied by Israeli intelligence against an ICC prosecutor.

    Cohen's covert contacts with Bensouda took place over several years leading up to her 2021 decision to open a formal #ICC investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes.

    A close ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Cohen personally led the #Mossad's efforts as part of a decade-long campaign by Israel to undermine the ICC probe.

    The efforts escalated in 2019-2020 with Cohen allegedly showing Bensouda photos of her husband taken covertly and suggesting the ICC probe would hurt her career.

    […] Another Israeli source briefed on the operation against Bensouda said the Mossad’s objective was to compromise the prosecutor or enlist her as someone who would cooperate with Israel’s demands.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry

    @israel
    @palestine
    #Israel #IsraelWarCrimes #Netanyhu #DRC

    martinvermeer ,
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    @oatmeal @israel @palestine Remembering the Goldstone report and his sudden, mysterious reversal.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Fact_Finding_Mission_on_the_Gaza_Conflict

    martinvermeer ,
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    @oatmeal @israel @palestine So lucky that Israel's spooks optimized the exposure's timing 😇

    DemocracyMattersALot , to random

    Pres. Biden is laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier and this is Trump’s message. Not one mention of a fallen soldier who died for our country because Trump calls them losers. Just more grievance about him. Trump doesn’t care about you or the country. - Daily Beast columnist Barry Markson

    DONALD TRUMP TRUTHSOCIAL POST: Happy Memorial Day to All, including the Human Scum that is working so hard to destroy our Once Great Country, & to the Radical Left, Trump Hating Federal Judge in New York that presided over, get this, TWO separate trials, that awarded a woman, who | never met before (a quick handshake at a celebrity event, 25 years ago, doesn't count!), 91 MILLION DOLLARS for “DEFAMATION.” She didn't know when the so-called event took place - sometime in the 1990's - never filed a police report, didn't have to produce the “dress” that she threatened me with (it showed negative!), & sung my praises in the first half of her CNN Interview with Alison Cooper, but changed her tune in the second half - Gee, I wonder why (UNDER APPEAL!)? The Rape charge was dropped by a jury! Or Arthur Engoron, the N.Y. State Wacko Judge who fined me almost 500 Million Dollars (UNDER APPEAL) for DOING NOTHING WRONG, used a Statute that has never been used before, gave me NO JURY, Mar-a-Lago at $18,000,000 - Now for Merchan! May 27, 2024, 10:00 AM [EDT]
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    martinvermeer ,
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    @DemocracyMattersALot I want to hear @markhamill read this.

    NotImpressed , to palestine group
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    @palestine

    "Hamas demands the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to issue arrest and detention orders against all war criminals, including occupation leaders, officers and soldiers who participated in crimes against the Palestinian people. It also demands the cancellation of all arrest warrants issued against Palestinian resistance leaders, as these warrants violate international conventions and resolutions [Article 51 of the UN Charter].

    https://www.workers.org/2024/05/78772/

    martinvermeer ,
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    @oatmeal @DropBear @palestine A rare peek into hasbara internals... 'westernity' 🤮

    futurebird , to random
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    “We see you haven’t voted yet. Your voting record is public,” a recent mailer to Texas Republicans says. “Your neighbors are watching and will know if you miss this critical runoff election. We will notify President Trump if you don’t vote. You can’t afford to have that on your record.”

    The thing about a "strong" "leader"? Eventually you'll be the one targeted when things get desperate enough. No matter how much you think you are the kind of person who wouldn't be.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-supporters-are-now-sending-threatening-letters-to-get-people-to-vote-for-him/ar-BB1mV1XP

    martinvermeer ,
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    @nazokiyoubinbou @futurebird Also, it would not work with people who are properly educated and know that free elections are by definition secret. But MAGA folks? They almost deserve this.

    oatmeal , to israel group
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    #US / Man arrested in attack on UCLA pro-Palestinian protesters

    […] The 18-year-old man was detained at a business in Beverly Hills and booked on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon, police said. He is being held in Los Angeles County jail on $30,000 bail. This appears to be the first arrest of a counterprotester.

    Proud Jewish mother 🙄

    […] In a deleted Facebook post, Edan On’s mother, Sharon On-Siboni, shared a photo of her son from a Fox 11 news segment at #UCLA that she captioned in Hebrew, “Edan went to bully the Palestinian students in the tents at UCLA and played the song that they played to the Nukhba terrorists in prison!” according to a law enforcement source.

    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-23/police-arrest-man-accused-of-attacking-ucla-protesters

    See also:

    Unmasking counterprotesters who attacked UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests-counterprotesters-invs/index.html

    @palestine
    @israel

    martinvermeer ,
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    @oatmeal @palestine @israel Hoping he will sing like a canary

    ayoub , (edited ) to random
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    So what do you call this level of hatred? This fanatical desire to annihilate an entire civilisation?

    Image description: Israeli occupation soldiers set fire to #Gaza’s Al Aqsa University library and took photos of themselves doing it #Israel #Palestine

    martinvermeer ,
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    @FantasticalEconomics @failedLyndonLaRouchite @galad @efialto A Jewish student/researcher fluent in Hebrew with a history of being right. I have no reason to doubt that the IDF has now acknowledged this. Some things just are what they seem 😏

    martinvermeer ,
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    @FantasticalEconomics @failedLyndonLaRouchite @galad @efialto Then, the question of what story to share. This is not a case of books being burned for their content, like the notorious Nazi burning of the library of the Institute of Sexology. It may be sheer vandalism, or (worse) books belonging to an enemy culture slated for destruction. Still some freedom of interpretation there.
    @oatmeal

    martinvermeer ,
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    @oatmeal @FantasticalEconomics @failedLyndonLaRouchite @galad @efialto "Yesterday 13:07 | A fighter posed for a photo with burning maces at a university in Gaza; IDF: "serious incident" An IDF fighter was photographed with books on fire behind him at Al-Aqsa University in Gaza City. The IDF spokesperson stated that "this is a serious incident that is not consistent with the values ​​of the IDF and its orders. An investigation has been launched into the incident by the investigating ...

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