Saleh @ Saleh @feddit.org

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Worst thing to happen realistically is that you get a "no thank you, i'm good".

Don't worry. It will come back worse soon enough. Climate change doesn't just mean everything gets hotter. It also means everything gets more extreme, including cold events or these storms that prevent the heat from forming.

Question is, if it is a 1:1000 year event locally, state level, country wide?

These terms are often thrown around rather broadly by media, which does not help their use and makes it easy for cliamte change deniers to attack it.

These terms also provide a false sense of security. For instance we had a "thousand year" flood in parts of Germany in 2021 that killed about 200 people. The statisticians then said that because of climate change, this is now a "four hundred year flood". But the kind of weather event that is producing these enormous rainfalls leading to the flooding actually occurs about twice a year now. It is just the question where the downpour comes and if it can dissipate in flat land, or if it comes down in the mountains, washing away everything in the valley. So that "four hundred year flood" is probably occurring more like once a decade but in different places in the future.

Don't worry, it is not just in the US.

There was devastating floods in Germany about 4 years ago, killing some 200 people. Just a few months before the ruling "conservative" party CDU lead coalition in one of the states affected badly had scrapped some flood protection laws. During the election campaign for the federal election the chancellor candidate of the "conservative" party was laughing his ass off in the background as the German president held a commemoration speech for the victims in one of the villages heavily destroyed.

The CDU came out strongest again in the next state level elections, including in the areas that were destroyed by the floods and had many people killed.

More like the DOJ needs to be turned upside down and all the criminals in it put behind bars for a long time.

The apparent abuse of the governments power and how he handled the whole show so far makes him a hero, regardless of whether he did anything or not.

What is sad about it though is that most people think that making memes and sharing them is enough to honor that. The US should have had mass protests demanding the oligarchs to hand over all the money they have robbed off the people unless they want the people to take it back.

You want to fall over. The more energy goes into moving you, the less energy goes into destroying you.

most pistol bullets are pebble sized for humans

Some people do and at least you can, which makes it much better than proprietary software, where it is impossible to find out, if they didn't include a direct pipeline to whatever three letter agency asked them to do it.

As someone pointed out, as the admin of .ml is also the main lemmy developer, he could have obscured something like this way better in the code directly.

One of the core societal demands of the prophet Mohamed, blessings and peace be upon him, was to end the practice of burying daughters alive. At the time a daughter was considered a disgrace, so some pre-islamic Arabs murdered their daughters this way.

The Quran is also very explicit about the rights of women and the correct behavior towards them, something that is often ignored in societies that claim to be muslim, but evidently did not read much.

"OG Islam" is fundamentally opposed to femicide. Femicides aren't a religious but a cultural issue and prevalent outside of religious groups too.

Good. The US doesn't understand anything else. The more countries call the bluff and just fight back, the more the US will screw over itself, while strengthening ties between everyone else.

Shame on some EU countries and companies that chose to let Trump dictate them instead. It will only lead to worse demands from the US.

Thank you for the article. It brought up something quite interesting that i wasn't aware off before:

But why does Spain rely so heavily on Russia despite the almost global disapproval? The answer lies in this country’s extensive regasification capacity, which stands at 67.1 bcm - the largest in all of Europe. This enables Spain to receive LNG shipments on behalf of other countries that lack the necessary infrastructure, making it a critical hub for European energy trade.

looking a bit into it i found this article:

https://rbac.com/spains-role-as-a-natural-gas-importer-and-re-exporter/

So it seems that Spain is also taking the flak here for other EU countries that want to profit from Russian gas but not be directly associated with it.

Is it more? I know Spain is still buying some LNG from Russia, but i would have thought the amount went down, not up.

The German state of Bavaria once did something in the direction of moving away from MS. When Microsoft put their German headquarters into Munich the idea was scraped.

Do you think you could teach Linux to your grandmother?

Yes. Set automatic package updates, Install firefox with ublock and put it on the taskbar, and bookmark Facebook and Youtube for her. It is the same thing as under Windows.

I would argue that for the most "tech illiterate" users the Linux experience can be made even easier than the windows experience, because you have to set up everything for them anyways.

To comment on the question as to why less people are protesting in Europe. The Picture is a screenshot of a policemen in Germany shoving a women bystander violently to the ground from the back during a demonstration in Berlin last year.

It is all relevant to the notion of "Dark Ages" as an explainer for the development of humanity at the time, when in fact this is just Western ignorance to the rest of the world, as has been discussed in the subsequent comment chain. It is the same ideology that ignores all the human achievements outside of Europe at that time, that then goes to rob cultural and historical heritage of the people that had been more advanced at that time and declare these non white people as barbarians.

These aspects are fundamentally linked together in a larger racist imperial ideology and it is important to understand and challenge that ideology to challenge its revision of history. Anyways, i'll be doing some al-jabr mathematics now.

I disagree. The people who want to make him a Martyr will make him a Martyr no matter what. The people who know what he has done will understand that him being killed doesn't make any of that better.

See the way all the other Fascists in the world before him were handled.

Intifada - انتفاضة simply is the Arabic word for rebellion or uprising.

The uprising of the Jews against the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto is the انتفاضة غيتو وارسو romanized (roughly): intifada ghytow warsaw