Damn. Disappointed in Ubuntu and I’m not motivated to distro hop. But maybe it’s time to bite the bullet. It’s tricky because I also avoid software hosted on Microsoft services such as GitHub. Ubuntu being hosted on Launchpad helped there.

For example, Boycat: https://boycat.io/

Scan product barcodes and find out if you are inadvertently supporting atrocities.

People, the profound depravity and savagery we see carried out against Palestinians would not be possible without global support. Our politicians won’t do enough but we can’t hide behind them either. Download the Boycat app and start boycotting.

And Apple, if they comply.

I would have understood this text quicker if the picture wasn’t of a bird.

Edit: wow, this is really amazing! You can jump to 17:40 to see the comparison, but it’s worth watching more of it.

There’s a reason flights are so cheap compared to to rail, and it’s not good news for anybody except the CEOs of airline companies. TLDR: they’re subsidised and the fuel is subsidised to artificially price them below public transport. We could have cheap or even free public transport if we wanted using the same method.

https://www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issues/climate-energy/47717/low-cost-flights-up-to-26-times-cheaper-than-trains/

That’s really decent of you. I wish more people had a selfless attitude like that.

Also, while we’re at it, apologies for some of our (Ireland) awful politicians in the EU too.

That all makes sense to me. Our history teacher taught us in school that power corrupts (people) and absolute power corrupts absolutely. I thought he was cynical at the time, but certainly far too many people are corrupted by power.

But isn’t Trump the product of Euro-American society (or roughly half)?

You’re right to be precise. But I also think of people who followed, like from my country (Ireland). Some were destitute, but many have done some pretty vile stuff either against minorities or in support of the empire. So while the Irish state wasn’t technically involved, the people don’t exactly go there to lift up Native or African Americans. There’s a book called How the Irish Became White that explores this. And I know the Scottish are famous for their part in Empire too.

Yes. The worst thing to happen to America isn’t Trump, it’s Europeans.

But not Palestine I bet. Thanks for showing us who you are, Germany.

It’s hard to call that one misinformation outright, since the translation turned out to be correct. But the video of the woman saying those words was clipped short until they released the full version, which is obviously not good enough at all on the part of the BBC.

I also noticed an unusual statement by them in an article shared here on Lemmy https://lemmy.world/comment/18624554

I can’t find a record of the (pretty serious) mistranslation you mentioned.

It’s great to see people speaking out from inside about serious bias. Reuters and BBC are two publications that (I thought) had better reputations prior to this.

That’s not the point. This is about legitimising the Russian regime in the eyes of millions, and normalising war crimes in a time of sanctions.

I forgot about the paywall and assumed this was due to their international reputational damage, over things like their pro-Israel “reporting” of the occupations in Palestine.

That sounds clever. With a stewardship, a company without the obscene wealth that Google has could actually adopt a project normally out of their reach and influence it for good.

I wish the article went into more detail though.

Sky News is trash. Surely a better publication has covered this story.

Microwaves are very energy heavy. This isn’t very reassuring at all.