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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 10 points 22 hours ago

It's crazy that it's up to individuals whether they can afford to have their relatives buried. It should be one of the first basic things a civilized country takes care of.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago

However, the United States might also benefit from looking inward and possibly even learning from China. China’s ascent was driven by strict mandates and targets—strategies currently unfeasible in the United States due to a politically charged environment where lobby groups can easily overturn sound industrial policy following a change in administration.

That is unfortunate, as such mandates have proved effective; for example, the EU’s target for 25 percent of its critical minerals demand to be met through recycling by 2030 has significantly bolstered the industry.

All that oil lobbying and the regressive politics it promotes is now visibly harming the USA while other countries advance. It's a failure across the (very narrow) US political spectrum, engendered by a corrupt system that serves entrenched business interests.

It looks like the USA is about to embark on another 4 years of reality denial and protectionism, after which it will be even further behind. Republicans have made it clear that they will make it as difficult as possible to run sustainable energy businesses while pushing hard for more fossil fuels. This will do not only environmental damage but also economic and political damage to the country.

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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

Gonna try this on my weeds now. The neighbors don't have to look.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

They just need "unless we can make more money in the short term by not doing it" appended to them. So, yes, they mean nothing.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 days ago

In a statement to The New York Times, Alito did not dispute the image. He said he had no involvement in its flying, saying the flag was placed by his wife Martha-Ann Alito, who had been offended by a neighbor's yard signs.

"I had no involvement whatsoever in the flying of the flag," Justice Alito said in an emailed statement to the New York Times. "It was briefly placed by Mrs. Alito in response to a neighbor's use of objectionable and personally insulting language on yard signs."

The Times reported that the yard signs were anti-Donald Trump.

Well that certainly dispels any sense that he might be biased. It's just that his family feels personally insulted when someone criticizes Donald Trump.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

That's where I stopped.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago

I think they have worse things than prosecution in mind for trans people. We are talking about fascists here.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

Small government, not interfering with people's freedoms, just as they always preach.

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far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told a rally of thousands that the only way to defeat Hamas is to “return home” to Gaza and encourage “voluntary emigration” of its Palestinian population—a euphemism for ethnic cleansing.

And "ethnic cleansing" is in turn a euphemism for genocide. Netanyahu and his government's plan for Palestine is simply genocide.

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cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/6656708

Spain has refused permission for a ship carrying arms to Israel to dock at a Spanish port, its foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, said on Thursday.

“This is the first time we have done this because it is the first time we have detected a ship carrying a shipment of arms to Israel that wants to call at a Spanish port,” he told reporters in Brussels.

“This will be a consistent policy with any ship carrying arms to Israel that wants to call at Spanish ports. The foreign ministry will systematically reject such stopovers for one obvious reason: the Middle East does not need more weapons, it needs more peace.”

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In 1991, Look of the Year was hosted by real-estate mogul Donald Trump at the Plaza Hotel in New York, which he owned. Former US President Trump and Copperfied were among the 10 judges.

Trump sat alongside him in the front row, with his then nine-year-old daughter Ivanka, who would later work for Elite as a model, perched on his knee. Naomi Campbell, then an Elite supermodel, co-hosted the black-tie gala with Casablancas.

Aimee Bendio, a 15-year-old American contestant, says she believes Copperfield also showed an interest in her during the 1991 competition. Footage from the contest shows Aimee being interviewed by the panel of judges in her swimsuit. Immediately after, the camera cuts to Trump and Copperfield leaning back in their chairs to talk to one another.

Yuck.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 days ago

He went missing in the middle of a civil war when lots of people were being kidnapped and/or killed. Maybe because of this they didn't look as hard as they otherwise would.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 days ago

Making solar power less affordable is exactly what the USA and the world needs right now.

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The Landlord and Tenant Board found the landlord's conduct 'deplorable,' saying they clearly took advantage of a vulnerable tenant.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/20917977

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15236948

Last week one was sentenced to 11 years, another had to flee the country, a third could be arrested at any moment. And what were Manahel, Maryam and Fawzia al-Otaibi’s ‘crimes’? A few social media posts that outraged Saudi Arabia’s conservatives


In September 2022, Fawzia al-Otaibi was a week into a trip to her home country of Saudi Arabia, staying with a friend near the Bahrain border, when her phone rang. As soon as she heard the male voice on the other end of the line, she realised that returning had been a terrible mistake.

It was a police officer who, in 2019, had tracked her down and fined her for public indecency after she had posted a video on her Snapchat account, showing her dancing in jeans and a baseball cap at a concert in Riyadh. She and her two sisters, Maryam and Manahel, had become targets in a campaign of arrests, threats and intimidation by the Saudi authorities after they had used their popular social media channels to post about women’s rights. For her, the dancing clip wasn’t a political statement; it was just about sharing a happy moment with her followers.

After the fine, Fawzia left Saudi Arabia for Dubai and hadn’t been back to her home country in three years. She thought the authorities had forgotten about her. She was wrong.

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