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@simon_brooke es

I have no problem with this, BUT, friends don't usually let friends break the law, sometimes even your closest friend has to be told NO, sometimes you HAVE to stop friends doing stuff that is illegal, even if that results in their arrest, it may get them the help they need, if nothing else, for their own good.

A friend is not much of a friend if they stick by you while you commit serious offenses such as rape, murder.

Lets see if Rachael Reeves has the ability to actually understand this and put pressure on Netenyau to either seek peace or step aside so someone else in his country can take israel forward as a civilised nation or cement them in this part of history as complicit in Gencide (UN has used that word).

@TomasHelleberg @amszmidt

Agreed, I have just deleted my LinkedIn account as compared to here on Fedi, there is zero engagement. I ,much prefer it here.

@aral @joynewacc

Done, well it is on a blog post

https://zleap.net/blog/gaza-verified-emergency-appeal

@Suiseiseki

The fall out from Richard Stallman being made president at the FSF a few years (I was at the virtual part of the conference) still seems to resonate with people, seems some can't move on, Linux (kernel) would not be as it is without GNU tools, RMS and the GPL. You can't seperate GNU and Linux, no matter how you feel about RMS.

Just been reading a LinkedIn thread, mostly women saying how they are treated and ignored on there, and that they are really frustrated with the platform (as are others) Is there a Federated, ActivityPub based alternative? I think there was a few years ago.

We need something so we can network for jobs, careers, training etc.

@DrALJONES @palestine

Tony Blair was also behind the ILLEGAL invasion of Iraq in 2003, if there was justice in the world he would currently be in a prison having been charged with war crimes.

@mattl

Cool, I will see if I can write a blog post about this.

Good tools with a sensible name are much needed, most are named in such a way that the name has nothing to do with the use, and word association is usually a factor in remembering things.

Great work.

There is an assumption everyone has or wants a phone, also an assumption that people can afford a phone, or data (even with data gifting) so as a result more services are using phones,

At the same time, as you said we can't use cash on buses (we can where I am) however all these require smartphones, which we want to ban for under 16s, so they are going to find them selves in that precise situation.

We also assume people have phones running Apple or Google so what about people using other things like postmarketOS, graphine, which as far as I understand are open sourcee, mobile systems, unless they are compatible with google android.

I agree people need to wake up or we are going to just be excluded.

@aral

So maybe those protesting (and risking prison) for doing and the rest of us need to change tactic and find a way to resolve this in the courts.

No qualified judge can argue with the wording of international law, and the fact a number of international independent bodies have labelled this genocide. If anything else a judge in a lower court may not have the power to judge and needs to hand to a higher court.

@benroyce @selzero

As far as I can gather this 'epstien list' is a plane passenger maifest to His Island. Could be more than one, could be a list that is a combination of everyone on the various manifests.

Not sure, but we could do with some real FACTS on this, otherwise it is just speculation. Photos / videos do not lie.

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@X00001

This is creeping into the UK too. Just anohter step to get through when buying 1 item. I just want to pay for items not be subjected to 20 questions.

@selea

the vendors are under some dillusion everything needs to be connected to the internet and or needs AI. But yeah, also about getting you to buy in to their services.

@jeffowski

So what happened in 1924 to cause such a shift in policy on immigration?

@jnow

Why? oh yeah because if you eat bad chicken, you can drink bleach with your meal to counter act the effects and kill off bad bacteria.

Science be Damned, just follow the advice of MAGA.

@DamnInteresting

If we look towards the USA for intelligent life, we won't find any in a few years as those with a decent leval of IQ are all going to move to another country, leaving the billionaires, and MAGA behind.

@br00t4c

With all these US sackings, Canada perhaps needs to look at it's immigration system and the skills it needs, then find a way to fast track citizenship so that the skilled workers and families who are being stabbed in the back can move easily to Canada to keep working in these jobs.

After all, are neighbours there to help each other.

@br00t4c

IIRC, Guantanimo bay is out side the usual legal US juristiction, as a result they employed more extreme interrogation techniques such as waterboarding (a form of torture under international law) to obtain information from the inmates the camp was designed for.

If this is still the case, how are these people going to be treated, they are not terrorists, just perhaps in the US without the correct paperwork. This is not a reason to treat people in a inhumane way, which is not acceptable.

I would also suspect countries could be held accountable if people deported to the USA end up treated badly.

@cynblogger @iris

It is good to know that Gitmo is still up, running and able to be operational again, with any luck the US people will get rid of trump, and have him and his rich buddies incarcerated in Gitmo with their assets distributed to the worlds population.

so over $100 billion distributed to 7 billion people. and that is just a fraction of the wealth of Musk.