floofloof

joined 2 years ago
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If there's one thing I know about Americans it's that when they say "bullshit" they mean "utter poppycock, twaddle and codswallop."

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

If it discourages Trump from coming to London, I'm sure most Londoners would be fine with him staying deluded.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The aging sea lion enables the Stephen Millers to go about their nasty business while everyone is looking elsewhere. That's one way he's dangerous. The other is that he's a threatened malignant narcissist with dementia and diminishing impulse control, and one of the world's most powerful armies.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

First you need to put the non-rich in charge and prevent them being bought off by the rich. That's the hard part, but not impossible.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It depends on their relationship with the social media companies. There's a good chance companies like Meta have already given the authorities a lot of data on their users. US law enforcement might already know about some of your accounts based on your identity, and then claiming you have none might not work well.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

They're probably counting on people eventually forgetting what they did. People can forget quickly.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Nothing inevitable about it. That kind of thing only happens when you're defeated in war, taken prisoner by your enemies, or when your entire country sees and regrets the course it has taken. Bush and Cheney faced no consequences, and Kissinger faced no consequences, because no one in a position to bring that about wanted to. Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Smotrich and the rest will face no consequences unless Israel's apartheid regime falls. And that looks unlikely in the near future.

 

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/127040

Ultranationalist Israeli politicians, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, wore golden noose-shaped lapel pins to a meeting on Monday in order to show their “commitment” to advancing a widely condemned bill to mandate the death penalty for “terrorists” who kill Israelis. The pins resemble the yellow ribbon pins that Israeli leaders have worn throughout their genocide to to…

Source


From Truthout via this RSS feed

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I don't think it's AI. It looks like bad human writing. An AI wouldn't use clunky non-idiomatic phrases like this:

He noted that the area of the pipe break is part of museum spaces that will undergo a major renovation...

Also, A LLM would be unlikely to say a flood led to a burst pipe when it has lots of examples of writing where the causation is the other way round. A human having a brain fart might make that mistake though.

I suspect this article was written in a hurry by someone whose English isn't great.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

It also means introducing censorship of all messages and movements that don't support fascism.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Maybe if we send Trump enough poutine we can get this thing over with quicker. Send him 12 servings per day!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/56424420

A recent report, co-authored by the Palestinian Youth Movement, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, Arms Embargo Now and World Beyond War, identified hundreds of shipments of Canadian-made F-35 fighter jet components, other aircraft parts, and explosives and flammable materials to U.S. facilities that supply the Israeli military. The report also highlighted 433 shipments of Polish-made TNT routed through the Port Saguenay, Quebec to U.S. army ammunition plants that make bombs used by Israel in Gaza.

The report stated that “by deliberately exempting U.S.-bound arms from export regulation and allowing Canadian infrastructure to transport weapons, Canada is circumventing its obligations under international law.”

Archive: https://archive.is/GldMU

 

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/42924622

After being pressed by reporters, Persad-Bissessar admitted on Friday that at least 100 marines were in the country, along with a military-grade radar, believed to be a long-range, high-performance AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR, which the US defence company Northrop Grumman said was used for air surveillance, defence and counter-fire.

The prime minister claimed the radar installation in the country, which is only seven miles away from Venezuela at its closest point, is part of a counter-drug trafficking strategy, and that she had withheld details in the interest of national security and to avoid alerting drug traffickers.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The only surprise is that the reported estimates of deaths remain so implausibly low. But I guess once you genocide enough people, the survivors can no longer count how much genociding you're doing.

view more: next ›