I don’t think being poor made me more empathetic. I was always empathetic.

I was just a priviledged fuck that didnt realise how bad it could get. Now that I do, my empathy extends further because I understand how much worse it is than I previously realised.

I don’t think it made me more inherently empathetic though.

Kabul gets about 50 cm of rain a year. That’s low, but well high enough to start to apply water harvesting to collect significant amounts of sustainable drinking water.

I guess the Soviet then US infrastructural inertia doesn’t help. And I’m dubious the Taliban are much use either. Really feel bad for the people of Afghanistan they got fucked over so much.

As much as I hate the New York Post, that is a funny front page.

Our operation Spider’s Web… even though they [the Russians – ed.] are furious, they understand everything – that if there are cases like the one involving 20,000 rockets [that the US had planned to send to Ukraine but redirected to the Middle East – ed.], then we’ll rely on our own strength… We don’t want the war to continue, but we’ll fight for ourselves if that is the only way out.

We’re very close. We need strong support from the United States. The US needs unity with Europe and still needs to put pressure on Putin. He doesn’t want to end the war, but he can end the war under pressure from partners. In my opinion, that gives us a chance. And this doesn’t sound pessimistic at all – I’m talking about reality."

I think it’s more the kind of person you have to be to get that much wealth in the first place selects for unethical people.

It’s not like they were good people before they had the money.

If you read the Epstein article in wikipedia you really just realise how they are all part of one social group.

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it” - George Carlin

No no. According to ML colonialism is a thing only done by America and Western Europe.

When Russia or China do it, it’s “helping others”.

Yes but ✨Sexism✨

The news site is reposting an Article written by Agence France Presse which the French government owns 20% of. (And majorly subsidised). The French government like most western governments is pro-Israel biased. So I’m not too suprised by the slanted reporting.

(Yes of course the AFP claims “editorial independence”, but is any news site “independent” when the funder has the power to cut the money if it says something the funder doesn’t like).

This is why unions are absolutely crucial

Flohmarkt exists.

They hate it because it was the place where the slaves rose up and overthrew the colonial government.

George Monbiot called it “The New Axis of Autocracy”

he also added Belarus, Hungary, and North Korea to the list as “minor partners”.

Oh look! They found a potential recruit!

How long has “PewDiePie”’s linux thing been going.

I had a friend switch to linux about two years ago for no reason. And that friend is obsessed with pewdiepie. I hadn’t made the connection.

!casualeurope@piefed.social

(The link on your post seems broken on voyager)

Switzerland. I’m using not a VPN per say but a proxy yeah. But it’s a really common one. The built in apple proxy using Apple servers.

What does o7 mean? I keep on seeing it in lemmy comments recently?