[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 99 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It is the courts upholding it though.

It took like two months now that Palestine Action are allowed to get an appeals hearing in November iirc.
Courts could have decided for the proscription to not be applicable until a proper hearing takes place. Instead it was upheld.

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

We should call them extracts and their communities "extractor communities"

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 5 months ago

How am i supposed to trust amazon with global shipping and running datacenters all over the world, when they can't handle Jeff from accounting working from home and being available for a video call any time?

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 months ago

UK is running spy flights for Israel, or now contracting them out to US mercenaries, to help Israel turn Gaza into rubble and mass slaughter Civilians. The UK claimed it would be solely for hostage rescue, but there was hardly any hostages recovered by military means and certainly no daily attempts at rescuing hostages, but Britain provided intel daily for the past almost two years.

The UK government said they stopped their flights amid mounting pressure, but that was just a lie as they contracted it out instead to distance themselves, which also indicates that they know exactly which crimes they have been and are supporting.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/gaza-spying-us-news-lp90mz062
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250808-us-based-contractor-hired-by-uk-to-continue-spy-flights-over-gaza/

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The UK used to run the flights themselves with their own military spy planes. They argued that this would strictly be for hostage rescue. Given that they spent hours circling Gaza daily and live-streaming any and all information to the Israelis for almost two years, a time in which not even a hand full of hostages were recovered by military means, that seems a big lie.

Now as the UK feels pressured to stop their direct involvement, they are instead paying American private contractors with UK taxpayer money, to do the dirty work for them. We now have the evidence as those were too stupid to turn their transponders off. Before that Matt Kennard could only verify multiple spy planes taking off and landing from and towards Gaza at the UK army base in Cyprus daily. But they turned off their transponders once they came close to the coast of Palestine.

EDIT: See for instance

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/gaza-spying-us-news-lp90mz062
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250808-us-based-contractor-hired-by-uk-to-continue-spy-flights-over-gaza/

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 229 points 5 months ago

I'd be willing to linearly downscale.

I am sure that for me 3 Million is more than i could ever reasonably spend for the rest of my life.

So with 8760 hours in a year, that would be like 53 Minutes. You know what, make it a full hour.

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 48 points 5 months ago

The world if half of the accusations of reactionaries, neoliberals and other fascists against moderate and actual progressives were true:

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/autism@lemmy.world

Sorry for the unspecific headline. Basically i am confused about myself and want to ask some questions/would be happy for some recommendations on what to read upon in regards to mild Autism/ADHD.

The whole thing got sparked when i saw yesterdays meme-post about people with ADHD and Autism spectrum flying below the radar as both mask each other.

As a child i was a "troublemaker" and i was tested for ADHD multiple times, all negative. I remember getting in trouble with other kids often and my father trying to explain to me that i need to develop "antennas" for how other people feel when i talk to them. According to my parents adults often were confused when i was talking to them, because i was holding normal conversations with them at a young age and didn't "recognize" their "default authority" as adults.

As a teenager classmates both used ADHD or Autism as insults towards me, which i furiously rejected.

I never really had many friends growing up but it got better in late teenage years and particularly when i went to university. However as much as i enjoyed spending time socializing, i never had more than two or three really close friends. People found me nerdy or quirky, but a good dose of quick jokes generally made people get along with me, although i often ended up just loosing people in a conversation when i explained things i found interesting.

When i talked about it with my wife yesterday she told me i am probably somewhere on the spectrum and to her it seems obvious. I thought i would be good in picking up social cues by now, except for being incredibly dense to flirtation attempts, both to the happiness and dismay of my wife. But apparently i am better at relating to people and understanding their motives and feelings rather than picking up on cues well.

I often can relate to the memes here, but i don't relate to many of the strong negatives often associated with ADHD and/or Autism.

  • In the context of work i function quite well. I have resigned myself to some things being stupid and just having to be done, and i can work best if i am just given a task and a "figure it out". Also i am usually good at anticipating the next steps needed. I am not really struggling with authority directly, even though i often take issue with who the authority is given to.
  • My places is a mess but i rarely misplace things, or it is in episodes
  • I hate dirty dishes and my sink usually is clean
  • According to my wife i am inflexible and need order in places like the kitchen, but this directly contradicts my messy room
  • When i am doing new stuff at work, i can do things well for a few months but then routine kicks in and i get bored and easily distracted (being here instead of listening closely to a meeting right now)
  • I have many unfinished projects rather than deep diving into hobbies and i rather have broad interests than overindulging in niche topics.
  • I feel happier with reasonable routines, and apparently get irritated if they are broken, even though i don't realize that for myself as much
  • Compared to many people around me i seem more empathetic and more relating to peoples emotions even if i don't always pick them up well
  • Small talk remains incredibly dragging
  • I hate texting or calling. Yet i feel comfortable writing a lot on the internet.
  • I had 5 years of therapy for depression/anxiety. Neither ADHD nor Autism were ever brought up by my therapist. I got better at dealing with both but it seems to be along the lines of having got bored of myself being held back by it and having developed the discipline to push through.

I guess i am mostly asking because i still feel like there is some "glass pane" or so between me and most other people. Even if have mostly positive interactions and people usually feel genuinely happy to see me, i feel like forming deeper connections remains difficult. I also feel less inclined to bother trying, even though at times i wonder if it is sufficient to have my wife and two close friends.

So after all this off my chest, i would be happy if you could help me with something to read up on regarding Autism and ADHD and milder or "well adjusted" cases of either. Would it make sense to pursue a diagnosis/treatment? Is there any point in treatment, if life generally is good?

Thank you in advance.

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 39 points 5 months ago

The most absurd about this imo. is that Arabic is considered promoting terrorism, but Vikings are not.

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 months ago

In Germany someone trolled a mayor candidate of one of the Nazi parties with that. He fell for it

https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-german-candidate-promises-to-get-rid-of-arabic-numerals

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 5 months ago

So Israel is now announcing its intent to torture EU citizens?

What comes next, invading Cyprus?

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 5 months ago

The definition of genocide by the UN convention:

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;

(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

If the target is to destroy a group as a group and any of these acts are committed, it is genocide. Mass murder is the "prevalent" act, but it is not a requirement for genocide.

[-] Boo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 5 months ago

"escalation" of unarmed people bringing food to people being starved on purpose, knowing they will probably be assaulted and abducted by armed military gangs on the way.

The escalation is coming from the armed thugs assaulting the ships, not the other way round.

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