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Despite warm relations with Beijing, and the Nepalese government’s assurances that it follows the “One China” principle and permits no support for Tibetans, China’s tight control over Tibet creates complications.

The region is administered as a militarised frontier. Access runs on permits and clearances, the area is closely watched by armed police and the military and outsiders – foreign journalists, independent researchers, at times even diplomats – are routinely kept out. Tibet is an information black hole.

Beijing’s anxiety extends across the border as Nepal is home to more than 10,000 Tibetan refugees and has long been the main escape route out of Tibet. China pressurises Nepal to police Tibetan activism, seal crossings and fold border management into a security partnership meant to insulate the plateau from the outside world.

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The glacial and hydrological data from the Tibetan plateau, the information often needed to anticipate flooding, is also treated as strategically sensitive by China and is closely held. Nepal has no mechanism to receive real-time glacial lake and river data from the Chinese side and its officials have sometimes gone further, accusing Beijing of withholding it.

When a disaster in the Nepal-Tibet border region demands that rescuers cross quickly or that a warning travel downstream from an upstream lake, it runs into a system built for control rather than speed.

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Growing evidence suggests the recent glacier collapse happened on the Nepalese side of the border, near the Langtang Lirung peak. But wherever the flood began, no warning reached the people in its path.

Officials in Nepal’s Rasuwa district said they had “no clue” it was coming. Some of this will have been down to the speed of the ice-avalanche flood, which may have left little to warn of. Nepal’s own monitoring stations upstream were swept away before they could send an alert.

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But [...] there is a deeper, more structural point to make here. There is no standing, obligatory system to move warnings through this border region in real time. Much of the data that could carry such a warning sits inside a region that China governs first for state security.

When a lake in Tibet burst in 2016 and flooded the Bhote Koshi river in Nepal, for example, no warning came either. Nepali hydrology officials said afterwards that China had for years failed to share “essential” data on the glacial lakes on its side of the border.

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Climate change is turning the Tibetan plateau into a source of cascading danger for everyone downstream, from Nepal to India and Bangladesh. Addressing it means treating the Himalayas as a shared ecological space that is a zone of contact rather than a zone of conflict.

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Hey all,

so we have 2 beautiful british shorthairs from the shelter. They love each other and get along really well.

One is extremely vocal. It took us a while and some vet visits to make sure he isn't in pain. He isn't - he's just a screamer.

Now, his meows are cute most of the time, but he has now started meowing around 6am, both loudly and constantly, when we'd still like to sleep. He is very much into food, so he probably starts yelling the moment he gets a little hungry.

Have you had similar experiences and any advice?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51337802

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It's called toilet plume.

A toilet plume is the invisible to the naked eye, cloud-like dispersal of raw, infectious sewage particles as a result of flushing a toilet. Flush particles rapidly rise out of the bowl and several feet into the air after flushing. Aerosolized droplets can remain suspended in the air for tens of minutes between users, posing an inhalation risk. These invisible particles go on to coat and spread onto surfaces like floors and counters or objects like hand towels, bathmats, or even toothbrushes.

Also having to have “the talk” so they don’t get freaked out when they first see those instances.

I love that you can just interact with people who’ve been brainwashed by different propaganda from yourself on here. It can give you perspective on your own inherent biases, even if they’re not as severe as giving the ML Pass to dictators who are not even vaguely communist.

Blocking hexbear has nothing to do with a difference in ideas. Hexbear gets blocked because it hosts communities of some of the most obnoxious, unrepentant trolls known to the internet. Lemmygrad and .ml get blocked because said trolls made alts when instances got fed up and defederated from hexbear.

It’s like the Khmer Rouge’s version of 2004s era /b/. There is nothing to be gained from interacting with those people.

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When security camera footage emerged on Wednesday of a wave of ice, mud and water smashing into the Tibet region, people across the world were horrified.

The distressing vision showed the China-controlled Tibet border crossing into Nepal being completely wiped out, along with dozens of people running for their lives.

It was harrowing to watch and gave undeniable proof of the severity of the Himalayan border disaster.

Nepal flash floods updates: Follow this story as it unfolds with our live blog.

But inside China the online video disappeared as quickly as it surfaced. Beijing's censors were at work.

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China's control of information is well-documented and common, including inside Tibet, which has been under Beijing's control since the 1950s.

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China's media only distributes state-approved messages, content and pictures, while communication channels inside the country, including peoples' social media, are heavily monitored.

Content that does not follow strict government regulations can be restricted or deleted by a team of censors, or by AI algorithms that flag "problematic" content.

Chinese authorities have provided scant detail of the people affected by in the Tibet region, only broadly confirming that 558 people were missing, including 260 foreign nationals. There was no breakdown of nationalities.

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They have also not provided any specific information about the settlements and villages in the areas that have been affected.

The top news story on Thursday's prime time bulletin of the state-operated CCTV news was a piece on the launch of a new book by President Xi Jinping.

That story also led the front page of the country's most popular newspaper, People's Daily, on Friday.

At the bottom of the front page was an article about 800 metres of roads in the landslide-stricken areas having been reopened, with pictures of rescue teams.

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In Nepal, where a flash flood from the same disaster has killed hundreds and left hundreds more missing, the flow of information could not be more different.

Nepali authorities quickly released a detailed breakdown of suspected missing tourists, including their tour companies and their citizenship.

They have also provided rolling updates on the situation.

The humans at the heart of this catastrophe have been put at the centre of the story, given the opportunity to share their harrowing accounts and experiences.

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But the ability to hear from real people in Tibet is made near impossible due to China's reporting restrictions that block foreign journalists from independently travelling to the region.

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Activists group the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) says that means many people are too scared to post on social media or share news about the disaster because they fear punishment from Chinese officials.

The result, according to Ryan Fioresi from ICT, is a situation where "only the Chinese government controls the information flow".

"In a disaster situation that means that local residents, afraid of punishment, are not posting about where people are trapped or where the damage is the worst," he said.

"If people are afraid to share that information, or if their posts are removed, potentially useful information may not reach families, relief workers or the wider public."

Several smaller Chinese media outlets, which are also state media, were able to get to the site and initially published interviews with some witnesses.

But within hours those articles were taken down.

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China's tight control of information is not surprising but it can carry different ramifications in a disaster.

Because in an effort to restrict what is getting out, Beijing runs the risk of scrubbing the very real, and desperate, calls for help from affected communities.

Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts might be the only high-profile Democrat in America eagerly campaigning as a supporter of transgender rights.

Even as many other top Democrats have grown cagey on the issue, Mr. Markey is offering a passionate defense of transgender athletes as he runs in a primary contest on Tuesday against Representative Seth Moulton, a more moderate challenger.

Mr. Markey has argued in particular that Mr. Moulton “threw trans kids under the bus” when, shortly after the 2024 election, the congressman attributed Democrats’ defeat in part to their position on transgender issues. Mr. Moulton long defended his remarks but expressed some contrition for them this month.

Rodríguez, who assumed power in January after Trump ordered the abduction of the president, Nicolás Maduro, took to the airwaves on Saturday to push back against criticism of what the US president has called “the biggest oil deal in world history”.

“The benefits are endless,” claimed Rodríguez, a former vice-president whom Trump backed after ordering Maduro’s capture during a special forces raid on the capital, Caracas.

On Sunday, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform: “One of the things I am going to do with the Venezuelan Oil is fill up the Strategic National Reserves which, because of Sleepy Joe Biden, has been virtually emptied.”

Trump added: “The ‘topping out’ process will begin very shortly, and is a Gift from Venezuela to the People of the United States.”

Hours after seizing Maduro on 3 January, Trump warned Rodríguez she would face an even worse fate if she failed to toe the US line. “If she doesn’t do what’s right, she is going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro,” Trump said.

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For posts list I use mark as read as my primary gesture and bookmark (save) as my second one.

Mark as read works as expected: when triggered on an already read post it marks it as unread. The same doesn't happen for bookmark action. If a post is saved, swiping again does nothing.

In a way bookmark gesture really do what it said. Yet making it to toggle save state the same as mark as read do would be nice.

I hearby decree as someone with no authority over badposting.