The entire sky is a carpet of stars. There’s not an empty spot - there’s always a smaller, fainter star to see. It’s crazy.

Lol, no, “the movement” is frowned upon by some because they want to finish up their genocide in peace.

America will soon be the only country in the security council not to recognize Palestine. This is America’s genocide, not only Israel’s. So of course some folks in America will be a bit touchy about people criticizing it.

Some red paint on a building is pretty mild compared to, I don’t know, genocide? Whoever is more upset by this than by every single truck refused entry to or bomb dropped in Gaza needs to take a long hard look at themselves.

I grew up in a green-ish area of this map in Norway, and in Winger it gets pitch black. If theres even faint aurora in tje North we can see it behind the house.

For sure there is some light pollution - we don’t draw the curtains in the evening - but it’s pitch black by any standard observable by humans.

Emad Salem, an FBI informant and a key witness in the trial of Ramzi Yousef, Abdul Hakim Murad, and Wali Khan Amin Shah, stated that the bomb itself was built under supervision from the FBI. During his time as an FBI informant, Salem recorded hours of telephone conversations with his FBI handlers. In tapes made after the bombing, Salem alleged that an unnamed FBI supervisor declined to move forward on a plan that would have used a “phony powder” to fool the conspirators into believing that they were working with genuine explosives.

Ah, America.

I guess the water could be dirty from sediments without it being unnatural or bad in itself. I have no idea if that’s the case here though. In either case beavers are awesome.

There’s no real difference, content flows freely between the two platforms.

I’m writing this in piefed - does it make my comment “piefed content”, while your comment is “Lemmy content”?

The distinction makes no sense. And that’s the point - use whatever platform you prefer, enjoy the same content anywhere you go. There is no “piefed content” or “lemmy content”, only content. :)

You could check out another instance, for example https://feddit.online/ , which is visible without signing in.

Piefed.social used to be open for all, but I suspect it needed to be restricted due to AI scrapers. Not sure exactly what the reasoning is though.

You can find a list of instances here: https://fedidb.com/software/piefed

Mexico is not one place, it is many places. Yucatán has lower homicide rates than Wyoming.

I wonder where you think the cartels gets their weapons from. Mexico has strict gun laws. Or their money - it doesn’t just spawn out of nowhere. Parts of Mexico are dangerous because they are part of an illegal trade route to the US, fuelled by American weapons and American money, and that is that.

Must be easy to get confused when you can only have one thought in your head at a time, and barely even that.

Mexico’s murder rate per 100 000 is 24.9, meaning you’re on average safer in Mexico than in Newark, Memphis, Cleveland, Kansas City, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Detroit, Baltimore or St. Louis.

Never mind that murders in Mexico are generally committed using American firearms, and for American money over drugs that are to be sold in America. Mexico’s problem is America. So while we wait for America to selfdestruct, I guess they might as well get to work on public health issues.

Obviously not saying that cartels are not a huge fucking problem. It’s hard to get good politicians when they murder anyone who resists them. But the cartels are in large part a product of America’s failures. Europeans are not innocent either - fuck every coke snorting upper class brat who is having their pathetic highs at the expense of a whole fucking continent.

/rant

American government: Builds concentration camps

Mexican government: Develops brand new chocolate bars

I’m happy to see there are still some governments out there who rule in the interest of the people.

“misidentified as a suspect” my ass. Correctly identified as a person of colour. I wish they would talk honestly about these things.

European legal systems are largely built around the idea that courts are apolitical, and that judges make their decisions neutrally based on the word of the law and the facts of the case.

This is of course impossible, but some people—especially judges themselves—are afraid that the system would collapse if the public learned how political the work of courts really is. So when France started publishing all the judgments of their courts to the public, they also forbade the public from studying individual judges.

It’s pretty funky.

Of course, studying the performance of individual judges is criminalized in France, so we have very limited ability to know about their individual performance. :)

It’s a huge lie that judges are neutral, but some argue it’s a necessary lie.

Can only speak for myself but I’m some sort of neoluddite with a passionate hate for both the AI hype and Google.

Even if the people in charge of Mozilla are acting in good faith, I believe they are repeatedly shooting the whole organization in the foot with their stupid-ass decisions.

I used to feel lke Mozilla represented my interests online. Now they act as if they are just another tech company working to create technology I hate.

I still use FireFox on all my devices. I don’t trust some random fork, WebKit browsers are just not stable enough on Linux, and I refuse to use Chromium. But my god I’m tired of Mozilla’s shit.

Of course. The mere intention of anyone having them is reason enough to bomb the shit out of them and justify it as self defence. Apparently.

Political defined as:

Pictures containing a politician from any country

Which is a prettyanageable definition. It’s a cliche that everything is political, but it’s also somewhat true. Banning pictures from protests would be a weird move IMHO.

I kind of agree, but on the other hand it’s quite a good snapshot. It really does capture a moment in history and the failure of a country, in all its blurredness.

If this was a photography community, I would be more reluctant. But it’s an interesting pic.

Sure, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that under this model, small artists with little money seem to have a strong incentive not to put their music up for sale, which will cost both them and Bandcamp potential profits.

Maybe they could offer fans to sponsor a membership for artists if they want to unlock premium features.

Fair enough. But musicians are not really “any type of venture”.

Bandwagon is already taking on a risk by hosting music for free for listening. If they could find ways in which both them and the artists could profit from music published on the platform that lacks the commercial potential to justify a €10 subscription, this would be a win/win. Considering that it seems they are already hosting the music for free.