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mecfs ,

gotten a bit more dodgy these days.

Bro’s gone from funny too: “but cancel culture” and “hahah rape joke”

Hamas Wants Guarantees Ceasefire Will Actually Happen, While US Says Hamas Is Rejecting the Proposal ( truthout.org )

Following the UN Security Council vote to approve a three-phase ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. officials and other international allies of Israel are cynically placing blame on Hamas for a stall in current ceasefire negotiations — even as Israel has insisted on indefinitely continuing its massacre in Gaza and Hamas has said its main...

mecfs ,

I’m pro-palestine as fuck. But can’t we have a higher standard for sourcing please.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/68f1c839-c0f6-42bb-a0cc-795fa439aa94.jpeg

https://adfontesmedia.com/truthout-bias-and-reliability/

mecfs ,

first month — yes haha.

sourcing is still better here than reddit though

mecfs , (edited )

Sorry what?

They rate CBS News and weather channel as “middle” and “reliable”.

Ad fontes media are by no means perfect, but they are generally the best in the field. Unlike some of their competitors they don’t rate Reuters and AP as left wing lol.

Obviously reliability and bias are subjective — as is everything in the social sciences. But that doesn’t mean attempting to quanify it is not useful. It’s subjective to quantify democracy for example but the economists democracy index is useful — or the Human development index etc.

mecfs ,

Most of them have no clue what antifa actually says or means — nor what facism actually means

mecfs ,

The far right party in Switzerland. Is called Union Democratique du Centre in French (Democratic Union of the Center).

mecfs OP , (edited )

looks a lot worse if you compare it to 2019, and account for the fact “other” has a lot of far right parties such as the “SS aren’t war criminals” AFD.

mecfs OP ,

On that subject…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ef90a14b-0760-4860-bd9a-4354392f4e02.jpeg

Just in case anyone needed proof that Elmo (Elon) is a Nazi.

mecfs OP ,

Anti-Islam,
Anti-EU,
Remove Welfare,
Mass deportations (even for people with german passports it they haven’t “integrated” — code word for being white, straight, and able-bodied)
Russian apologists,
“Völkish Nationalism”, — you get the picture

mecfs OP ,

Ever wonder why mainstream social media feeds were filled with right wing content, and far right comments?
Or why left-wing communities get hijacked by people saying you should not vote, or only vote for super far left pro-russia parties.

Behold the “Russian Web Brigades”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_web_brigades

To avert suspicions, the users sandwich political remarks between neutral articles on travelling, cooking and pets.[25] They overwhelm comment sections of media to render meaningful dialogue impossible.[39][40]

This is why I left reddit. I would say 1 in 10 accounts is one of these. It is crazy.

mecfs OP ,

yeah. Renew is pretty neo-liberal but they have lately moved a bit more socially conservative, especially on immigration.

mecfs OP ,

Is there any state backed keyboard army free social media? :(

mecfs OP ,

I hate being disabled and unable to leave my bed.

I wish I could interact with people in real life…

mecfs OP ,

Yes, but the CCP themselves are russian apologists so doesn’t change much.

mecfs OP ,

The internet isn’t bad itself.

It’s the fact that bad actors (rich companies, power hungry people, and especially authoritarian states) can hire millions of people and create millions of bots to intentionally spread their narratives on social media. This is immoral, so good actors don’t do it.

No one talks about the problem or acknowledges it. Social Media needs regulation to prevent this, or it will be our undoing.

mecfs ,

Maybe he thinks if the RN share power for the next couple of years, people won’t see them as the outsiders that are against the system, which seems to be driving their voterbase. Basically betting on the fact that all incumbents are unpopular in France, so if he gives the RN some power now, they won’t be able to win the 2027 presidential elections.

mecfs ,

because in america, “far left” is literal moderates and “right-wing” is pretty much facism.

mecfs ,

Until the party of freedom bans it. Hasn’t florida already?

mecfs ,

I’m always disappointed hearing news about Biden. So boring and normal. Where did my emotional rollercoaster of reading the news when Trump was president go?

Dark brandon better beat that facist dumbass come november though.

Gay man says Qatar authorities lured him via dating app, planted drugs and subjected him to unfair trial ( www.cbsnews.com )

A British-Mexican man who says he was targeted for being gay and arrested on false drug charges in Qatar has been given a suspended six-month jail sentence, a fine amounting to about $2,700, and a deportation order by a court in the Arab nation, which is a vital U.S. ally in the Middle East, according to his family and Mexican...

mecfs ,

Meanwhile Kevin De Bruyne (a footballer looking to get a lucrative contract in Saudi Arabia) today, on human rights in Saudi Arabia:

"Every country has its good and bad things. Some people will give examples of why you shouldn't go there, but you can also give them about Belgium or England.

Everyone has less good points. Who knows, maybe they will tell you the flaws of the Western world."

mecfs ,

They just found some commonalities in DNA, doesn’t mean they found how to fix.

‘I could bench-press 100kg. Now, I can’t walk’: Lucy’s life with long Covid ( www.theguardian.com )

I was incredibly strong and fit,” says Lucy Keighley. And she looks it, in the photo she is showing me, taken a few years ago. She is with her best friend, Lorna; they have just completed a 15-mile race on the North York Moors. “It was a brutal race,” she says. “But it was great. I was happy.” Today, although it’s...

‘I could bench-press 100kg. Now, I can’t walk’: Lucy’s life with long Covid ( www.theguardian.com )

I was incredibly strong and fit,” says Lucy Keighley. And she looks it, in the photo she is showing me, taken a few years ago. She is with her best friend, Lorna; they have just completed a 15-mile race on the North York Moors. “It was a brutal race,” she says. “But it was great. I was happy.” Today, although it’s...

mecfs ,

usually right wing trolls are more subtle on lemmy, but this guy’s username is literally thedeepstate, so you can be pretty sure they want to try convince leftists not to vote for biden so trump wins.

mecfs ,

more like kidsareadorable

mecfs ,

wouldn’t trust state news that is largely pro-russia

Transition from litter box to doing business outdoors

We've got one cat 6months and the other 3months old, currently both using the litterbox. However we're going to move to a new house soon, and eventually try to transition them to getting used to doing their business outdoors instead of the litterbox. Does anyone have any tips or best practices for this transition?...

mecfs ,

Maybe you do, but I don’t personally go on bird, rodent, and reptile murder sprees when I leave my house so I should be okay.

mecfs ,

bingo!

mecfs OP ,

it has political consequences too… easier to critique someone when the ICC deems them a war criminal, even though you’d think it’d be more consequential than it is.

mecfs ,

This is the way

mecfs ,

It’s not just the UK, it’s actually quite common wordwide.

mecfs ,

This is why I hate it so much when authors overstate their findings in abstract, which unfortunately is extremely common in medicine.

mecfs ,

Oh my god exactly.

I work on a pretty neglected Neuroimmune illness ME/CFS (hence my username) with really low recovery rates whether treated or untreated (~5%).

And the number of “clinical trials” of things like “Graded Exercise Therapy” or “CBT” or “Acupuncture” or [insert random supplement] that claims to “cure” the condition is so large. Except these trials all rely on subjective outcome measures and none are placebo controlled, oh and ofcourse the results never last in long term followup.

mecfs ,

Russia is invading a sovereign nation based on invented misinformation and lies. They are committing countless documented war crimes.

If the war is escalated because some countries are non-directly sending personell to help the ukrainian army defend itself, it’s 100% on Russia.

It always had been 100% on Putler.

mecfs ,

Looking at this guys post history, he just spams the same thing on every post related to Israel’s invasion of Palestine. Touch grass mate…

mecfs ,

you’ll sound a lot less conspiratorial when you replace “master” with SuperPAC

mecfs OP ,

Mad Magazine not mad max, my bad, typo in title

mecfs OP ,

wow thank. Just migrated from reddit and I’ve got to say I’m impressed.

mecfs OP ,

oh god some of those caricatures didn’t age the best

mecfs OP ,

I’m very impressed. I’m going to fully migrate here for anything to do with News and Politics. Reddit feels like it’s been taken over by far right bot and troll farms in that regard.

Also privacy-wise, I started to feel really unsafe on reddit. Additionally the community there is really toxic on most subs and can easily get racist, homophobic, ableist etc.

I’m obsessed with things being open source and free and so lemmy just tickles me in the right way in that regard :).

Obviously I see two main cons with Lemmy, but time may solve them:

  • For specialised communities, some aren’t really active here. Ie. the community about the illness I suffer from has about 100 members here and is dead, while on reddit it has 50k members
  • It was a little complicated choosing a node and signing up. This may be due to my cognitive difficulties due to the illness I’m suffering from though.
mecfs OP ,

Only the ones who share their political opinion. They love Musk and Trump, while demonising Gates and Soros.

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