In other news
In the current news climate we see that some figures and events tend to dominate the front-pages heavily. Still, there are important, interesting or just plain weird things happening out there and a group of people can find these better than one.
I thought I would test with a thread for linking general news articles about "other news" and discussion. Perhaps it goes into the abyss that is page 2 and beyond, but it is worth a try.
Some guidelines:
- Try to find the "clean link", so that links to the news site directly and not a social media site. Avoid "amp-links" (google).
- Write some cliff notes on what it is about, especially if it is a video.
- It's not an excuse to make outlandish claims via proxy or link extremist content.
- If it's an editorial or opinion piece, it is polite to mark it as such.
- Note the language if it is not in English.
- There is no demand that such things be posted here, if you think a piece merits its own thread, then make one.
I use fri/sat as more of a shorthand. They just seem to be the busiest nights for getting pizza. And when I assume they probably aren't testing out brand new guys. But you could pick some other days too.
it might be the case that starlink got funds frozen because it refused to ban Twitter for the people using it for internet access but it's unclear as the only source claiming that that I found is the guardian.
it's also unclear if all VPNs are blocked (with app stores being forced to remove them under threat of repercussions as reported by many sources) or only using a VPN to access Twitter is now forbidden behavior in brazil
Almost like you should never trust anything musk says because he’s a liar
I wasn't relying on what musk said at all I'm any exclusive way, what I reported about was all over the news (including the guardian itself).
and for the 100th time while I understand most people care about the twitter ban, I focused on the much more insane starlink & VPN topics.
requiring a local legal representative to operate in a foreign country isn't absurd and locking your activities until you do isn't either.
American pizza is superior to Italian pizza
Deep dish in inferior to all
Indian food pizza is superior to all
Chicken tikka masala pizza is the nuts
Started out good but things went way off track in the second half 😀
Oh btw wet work this is also what you get with communism
lol My platform is going to be Xmas every month. Keep that economy cranking.
Gatorade in the water fountains.
In other news, it is pretty common in the Western world, for "critics of Israel" to deface or remove posters of 10/7 victims. Whether you think this is problematic or not (I feel I can guess pretty well who would find it problematic and who wouldn't) I will say it is interesting how it seems to 100% be females who do the defacing of posters. There has to be some sex-based psychobio reason for this. Maybe something to do with stronger levels of in group compassion and out group disgust and dehumanization. I dont really know for sure, but I do find it interesting.
The Italian minister of cultural affairs just resigned.
He had a (far younger) lover, an archaeologist, to whom he promised to give a public job/contract and stuff.
She registered everything and when he failed to deliver she made it public.
I agree that if you are a minister in Italy and you can't give your younger lover a position with your job you have to resign in disgrace. Your entire job as a minister is supposed to be to pocket money for yourself, and give public money to friends and family. That's literally the only reason to take the job.
Failing at that easy task is ground for resignation.
Kim Jong Un’s ‘pleasure squad’
Twenty-five virgin girls are carefully chosen each year to fulfil the dictator’s desires.
authorities meticulously screen candidates through medical examinations to ensure their virginity
the sole purpose of these girls is to satisfy the dictator
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He should put out a calendar
If true KJU still has a long way to go to emulate Mao.
Pager explosions injure thousands in Lebanon
pager explosions kill nine in Lebanon
Hezbollah blames Israel
Pager explosions injure thousands in Lebanon
pager explosions kill nine in Lebanon
Hezbollah blames Israel
If only we had a Israel/Palestine thread
which is more shameful - that Kennedy has the nerve to
behave this way or that he wasn't called out by any other members
This senator's racist attack on a witness was appalling, even by Trump-era standards
Berry went before the Senate to discuss the important issue of hate crimes
Republican Senator ATTACKS MUSLIM WOMAN in Committee Hearing
Dick Diddy will never see the light of day again in his life. That's my prediction.
The media (because they're controlled by "piddy's ppl" so to speak) is just playing it off as "sex trafficking" like he's some sort of a pimp or something but according to my own peeps this is just a small part of something much bigger than even the Epstein case.
The following is all fact, which can be verified by researching it; this isn't a "conspiracy theory":
About 10 years ago it was made public that dick diddy spent 48hrs with then only 15yr old Justin Beiber. Then a year or so later they were both seen in another video when diddy came up to him while he was being interviewed and said "justin, why you block me, man? I though u wuz my boy?" by interupting justin while he was being intervied on video (which is why there's video of it).
Justin later cancled a world tour for what he said was for "religious reasons, trying to find God" or something similar to that and later it was leaked by people in his private bible study class that he broke down crying one day and said he attended a hollywierd "initiation party" with all of the top music industry elites (such as dick diddy) and they tried to initiate him and make him part of their inner circle, promising he'll be so big and will have enough money to control the world, etc., but he had to rape a minor in front of them, of which he witnessed the kid being abused (sure they could all be lying, but the story does make sence. People don't cancel concert tours to "find God").
Broken YouTube LinkThe EU parliament voted 309-201 to recognize Gonzalez as the legitimate president of Venezuela.
This for me means 40% of the EU parliament is illegitimate and should be incarcerated and their parties dissolved and criminalized
Iraq war proponent thinks American citizens should be jailed for "misinformation" and "propaganda."
Preemptive strike: I don't follow this twitter account I just searched for a good video of what she said.
Edit. Lmao.
Iraq war proponent thinks American citizens should be jailed for "misinformation" and "propaganda."
I just watched the full interview. They were talking about the recent indictments concerning influencers being paid to spread Russian propaganda. In context, it's clear she was talking about people who conspire with foreign governments to spread propaganda. She also drew the distinction between those who do so wittingly and those who don't.
The relevant part starts at 4:53
Full interviews like that are boring, suddenly you have context, caveats and clarifications. It is hard to use that to make outrage bait, and then you run the risk of people not engaging with your content.
Which is a shame, because it is actually an interesting discussion and both the interventionist approach and the laissez-faire approach carries risk. The former because government as the decider of what constitutes foreign meddling when there is no official war status is problematic, the latter because modern technology allows such meddling on a problematic scale and it is naive to think the problem will go away on its own or not get worse.
A Chinese zoo has admitted that the pandas in their exhibits were, in fact, “painted dogs.”
According to the New York Post, visitors at the Shanwei Zoo realized they were being bamboozled when the so-called pandas began panting and barking. Pandas are native to China and an international symbol of the country.
