Lemdro.id

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1spvro9/the_coming_global_food_crisis/

A total of 3.4bn people in the global south live in countries that spend more on interest payments than health or education.

An absolutely appalling statistic, and made worse by the fact that many of these developing-country interest payments are on external debts denominated in hard currency. This crowds out imports of food, fuel, and medicine, and makes it impossible for these countries to invest in the machine tools and industrial inputs that would enable them to become prosperous and self-sufficient.

https://t.me/exilenova_plus/19108

https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1spvnkc/how_liberals_monetized_trauma_catherine_liu_on/

Catherine Liu is based. Virtue Hoarders was a great read.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46148690

Over the past few days, @MrKaplan@lemmy.world/@MrKaplan@piefed.world has banned multiple users, blocked entire comms, and now defederated from Anarchist.Nexus over their anti-Zionist stance.

This extreme overreaction and general power trippin' bastard behavior stems from Lemmy.world's history of pro-Zionist views. And now MrKaplan is seeking out the flimsiest pretext to to enact his own personal vendetta.

Free Palestine, Death to Israel, Death to Zionism.

Lemmy.world is a ZioNazi instance. Avoid it like the plague.

...deleting records could cause big problems. Referential integrity across database tables simply wouldn’t allow it... it would cause a resonance cascade.

So, to get around the problem, a lot of places simply "overwrite" records when they are deleting them. They replace certain fields with garbage so the structure of the data remains, but the human elements are no longer present. At the heart of those "certain fields" are email addresses, the most widely used identifiers on all the web. And that, dear reader, is how we got to this cursed discovery.

I saw a discussion on the internet where someone mentioned that they deleted users in their app by overwriting their email addresses with $somethingRandom@deleteduser.com. Mmm, I thought - I wonder how common of a thought process that is? I bet whoever owns deleteduser.com gets loads of emails!

I decided to check it out, but to my genuine surprise - no one owned deleteduser.com, so now I do.

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https://redlib.catsarch.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1spzvbk/classic_leftoid_idiocy/

Ever heard a "Marxist" talk about "Keynes" and "Keynesianism"? Do you think they've ever actually read Keynes? Ever quoted Marx and been corrected? Ever double down and say, no, actually, that's not right?

Some classic hysterical leftoid freak behavior right here — the stuff has paralyzed the left and given it a bad name. Call them on their BS and you get expelled by some silly midwit with an ounce of ingroup authority. It's funny, but it's also sad. "Leftism" has become what's just a virtual living room of some losers who can't even read a book and discuss it without melting down. Forget about real politics. All just self-soothing and psychic economy management in fake/controlled spaces? Or is it controlled opposition?

Edit in light of a comment below about Hobson: Note: Lenin basically "read Keynes" when he read Hobson (a "social liberal") and BASED HIS THEORY ON IT (in addition to Hilferding and Bukharin). Lenin's book on Imperialism would never have been written if he followed those idiotic rules. But they don't even know that much... because they don't know anything about Hobson... maybe haven't even actually read Lenin...

I'm not even sure how many "leftist" subreddits I've been banned from. I think I got called a liberal for arguing that Nordic democracies are not fascism and that capitalism and fascism aren't synonyms. I was banned after that disagreement and when I asked why I got a one words answer back. "Liberalism" I think it was. I remember the sub had just complained about how fast it was growing and how there were too many libs. Only the American left would complain about their fringy groups growing too fast and having too broad viewpoints getting expressed. I don't really see why Keynesianism and Marxism have to be in tension with each other. Richard Wolfe certainly thinks post Keynesian economics and MMT don't conflict and can function within a worker run state. It all starts with the disenfranchisement of corporate power.

https://t.me/supernova_plus/50771

The chargers will be open to every car manufacturer and will use the universal CCS2 charging infrastructure.

after the recent disgraceful behavior in YPTB where @deceptichum@quokk.au was banned by @MrKaplan@lemmy.world for being a "troll", I banned MrKaplan preemptively from !anarchymemes@anarchist.nexus, as I do anyone who displays zionist tendencies. the ban reason was for "zionism, genocide apologia". calling someone pointing out the FHF's long history of zionism and protecting zionist users a "troll" and saying they are acting in "bad faith" is absolutely zionism, and zionism is genocide apologia. at the same time, I also banned @recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca for also banning @deceptichum@quokk.au, with a suspiciously similar ban message.

this aggravated @MrKaplan@lemmy.world, who then started asking around about me to find out more information. they quickly found my profile, which as anyone who has been around AN or dbzer0 might know, has always been rather spicy when it comes to the US and Israel.

“scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds”

queer armed militant anarchist. death to the United States, and death to Israel! the only good zionist is a dead zionist.

my display name at the time was also Luminous5481 "Murder all zionists" [they/them]. this wasn't aimed at MrKaplan, but rather zionism as an ideology in general. it has long been my very vocal opinion that there is no appreciable difference between the state of Israel and Nazi Germany, nor between zionism and nazism. both nations are guilty of having engaged in genocide over the span of years, something determined by the ICC, if not the eyes and ears of anyone who has seen the shocking scenes of Israeli terrorism coming from Gaza these past years.

however, this rightfully calling for the death of a ideology that is incompatible with anarchism, and the rest of humanity in general, was enough for MrKaplan to not only instance ban me, but entirely defederate the instances under the control of the FHF cabal from Anarchist Nexus.

but that wasn't enough. they also contacted other admins of popular instances, and encouraged them to defederate from AN and dbzer0, claiming that the other admins of the flotilla had refused to do anything about it, despite MrKaplan immediately defederating as soon as he raised his concerns with our team. this obviously is a blatant lie, likely to cover for the fact that he most likely did not bother reaching a consensus with the other LW admins over his actions before he took them. but idk about that, it's only my speculation. I only know what he and other admins have said behind closed doors to our team.

the fact of the matter is that wishing death to zionists is a popular opinion among leftists. it's one that I've held for years, and it didn't suddenly go away when Israel accelerated their genocide in 2023. nor did it go away when the German government, and certain German instances and users threw their support behind a genocidal regime intent on wiping out a race and religion they see as subhuman. did I say it more often or more plainly than plenty of other leftists? sure! but do not assume that the opinion is not shared by many who oppose an ideology that, like the nazis, is the enemy of all mankind.

for now, I have graciously offered to step down as admin, in the hopes that the FHF will stop throwing their weight around to bully smaller instances and suppress the free speech of the people. it's one thing to ban a user for a viewpoint you don't like. it's another thing to defederate from an instance, and then threaten other instances to get them to defederate as well. it's another thing to go around telling everyone they should defederate simply because you are offended at an opinion that should be shared by all who love humanity. of course, some might say that this is entirely because I accused the "FHF team members of being zionists while simultaneously calling for zionists to be murdered". but if that were true, then why has MrKaplan not also defederated from lemmy.ml, despite many of their users being just as vocal as I am ? there's a big difference between AN and ML, and that difference is user count. MrKaplan feels he can get away with throwing his weight around and demanding other instances censor themselves according to his views when it's an instance that's smaller than LW. and I'm not asking to be unbanned. I really do not care about "missing out" on LW. but at the very least? MrKaplan should not be censoring other instances and maliciously attacking them behind their back by seeking defederation from other admins. and he certainly should not be doing it in the dark, where nobody can see or comment.

Gouache in my sketchbook

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Despite US efforts to suppress Iranian perspectives since 2021, Iran has challenged Washington’s information blockade by using innovative communication tactics to present its narrative worldwide during the ongoing conflict.

The ongoing war between the US and Israel on one side and Iran on the other, which has turned into a US naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, has catalyzed a communication innovation by Iranians. Some creative Iranians have ventured into creating highly engaging LEGO-style animated videos that communicate the country’s stance across social media. Some of these videos have gained millions of views and generated media engagements globally. Oppositely, the US president, Donald Trump, and his Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, have used social media to insult Iranians, threatening to wipe out Iranian civilization, and to return the country to the Stone Age, or making other claims that expose their limited understanding of history. This paper looks into how Iran’s innovative use of media has enabled the country to present its position to global audiences, while the US’s use of the same has exposed Washington’s arrogance that is driving its current belligerent policies.

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Viral image sparks outrage, including among US conservatives increasingly condemning Israeli actions in the region

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260419235601/https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-soldier-filmed-smashing-jesus-statue-lebanon

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Researchers at Oslo University Hospital have closely examined the man's blood, bone marrow, and intestines without finding any trace of active HIV virus.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.sciencenorway.no/aids-diseases-hiv/the-oslo-patient-is-the-seventh-man-in-the-world-likely-cured-of-hiv-offers-hope/2649112

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But at what cost?!

DS9 s5e13 "For the Uniform"

...deleting records could cause big problems. Referential integrity across database tables simply wouldn’t allow it... it would cause a resonance cascade.

So, to get around the problem, a lot of places simply "overwrite" records when they are deleting them. They replace certain fields with garbage so the structure of the data remains, but the human elements are no longer present. At the heart of those "certain fields" are email addresses, the most widely used identifiers on all the web. And that, dear reader, is how we got to this cursed discovery.

I saw a discussion on the internet where someone mentioned that they deleted users in their app by overwriting their email addresses with $somethingRandom@deleteduser.com. Mmm, I thought - I wonder how common of a thought process that is? I bet whoever owns deleteduser.com gets loads of emails!

I decided to check it out, but to my genuine surprise - no one owned deleteduser.com, so now I do.

Source [web-archive]