Check out Errol Musk's relationship with his own stepdaughter. He has fathered two children with her.
His father is being quite explicit that he thinks Nazism is Elon Musk's true heritage.
Isn't it a bit anachronistic to talk about Nazism in the 1900s? There were precursor German nationalist movements then, but the name "Nazism" is from later. That said, it sounds like Musk's family were ready to embrace it good and early.
Edit: Maybe that date is a misprint? Musk's mother was born in 1948. If her parents decided to move to South Africa in the 1900s for political reasons they'd have to have been adults then, which would make them implausibly old parents. Or maybe "early 1900s" is being used to mean "first half of the 20th century"?
Yes, I agree that journalism can't be unbiased and that honesty and integrity would go a long way. it would also be nice if journalists actually tried to help people understand complex issues rather than just reporting in the shallowest possible way to get a knee-jerk reaction from the audience.
What would neutrality be? An equal representation of views from all positions, including those people consider "extreme"? A representation that focuses on centrism, to which many are opposed? Or a conservative's idea of neutrality where there's "normal" and there's "political" and normal just happens to be conservative? Even picking an interpretation of "neutral" is a political choice which will be opposed by someone somewhere, so they could claim you're not being neutral towards them. I don't know that we even have a very clear idea of what "unbiased" would be. This is not to deny that there are some ways of presenting information that are obviously biased and others that are less so. But this expectation that we can find a position or a presentation that is simply unbiased may not even make much sense.
Claudia Sheinbaum’s response to Trump’s threat of tariffs revealed truths that the president-elect doesn’t want Americans to know.
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17300245
> Archived version > > Donald Trump’s angry threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on all U.S. imports from Mexico—delivered Monday via the cautious diplomatic language of a Truth Social rant—is widely being depicted as a bluff. Trump declared that once in the White House, he will impose the tariffs unless Mexico stops migrants and fentanyl from “pouring” into the United States. Seen as a feint, the tactic could theoretically get Mexico to halt the migrant flow, allowing Trump to pull back on tariffs later while boasting that on the border, he has already bent Mexico to his will. > > But amid all this parsing of Trump’s intentions, a crucial fact about his new move is getting lost: At the center of it is a lie. This lie is hiding in plain sight: It’s the underlying suggestion that Mexico is not doing anything to stop migrants from coming and that Trump’s threat of tariffs is needed to change that. Here we’re getting an early glimpse of how he will deceive voters about some of his most potentially destructive designs, on tariffs and immigration alike. > > All this is laid bare by the sharp response to Trump’s threat that new Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum issued Tuesday. Her statement is getting attention for its barbed claim that American guns trafficked to Mexico are fueling crime and violence there among gangs supplying U.S. markets with drugs. “Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours,” Sheinbaum noted acidly, suggesting that the two countries’ interrelated national challenges underscore the need for cross-border cooperation rather than Trumpian confrontation. > > That’s a harsh indictment of Trump’s whole worldview.
“How much should we invade Mexico?” said one Trump adviser. “That is the question.”
Maybe next time they'll really stick it to the man by moving to Facebook.
Appoint her to the cabinet, you say?
I didn't know about that.
https://www.roalddahlfans.com/dahls-work/essays-and-articles/measles-a-dangerous-illness/
Also all the rest of us. People all around the world will suffer the consequences of Trump voters' ignorance. An unvaccinated USA will be a huge pool in which any pandemic virus can linger and mutate.
Bird flu can spread to humans through the air. From the CDC:
What Causes Bird Flu Virus Infections in Humans
I don't know about mosquitoes. I haven't heard that they're a major concern for this virus.
Russia already has their man in place ready to undermine NATO fatally from within, starting on January 20th.
Next you'll be telling me that war isn't peace and freedom isn't slavery.
Fascists need to have someone to hate and blame, and they're cowards so they pick on the most vulnerable groups. It's not like they have any ability to govern, or any positive proposals. It's just stoking hatred, resentment and violence, while quietly taking all the money.
The CDC has been involved in genetically sequencing strains of the virus and working on vaccine development, in exactly the kind of preparedness we need for a very deadly virus that could go pandemic at any time. RFK has promised to end vaccination programs and force vaccines off the market, and he's about to be put in charge of the CDC. The whole world will be worse prepared for a bird flu pandemic thanks to his wacky antivax views, and many, many people will die in the USA and elsewhere as a result. This is a virus that by some measures has a fatality rate of 51%, whereas COVID was probably somewhere between 1% and 2%.
And measles and mpox and, finally for many of us, bird flu.
That'll be because they're all spies and crooks.
The NDP needs a leader who doesn't come over as comfortably middle class. It needs to appeal to working class Canadians who are turning to the Conservatives because Trudeau is implausible as a champion of the workers.
Can we wait until all the assholes are gathered together around Trump, then quietly lock the door from the outside, turn off their internet and get on with life?
Git is a distributed version control system. There doesn't have to be a single copy of the repo on which everything depends. It's a choice, and an understandable one, to treat one copy as authoritative, but there's no reason to despair if it becomes unavailable. Any copy of it will do.
What GitHub provides that's hard to do without it is not the repository but the stuff that goes around it: issue tracking, communication tools, discoverability, etc.
So if people take the distributed nature of Git seriously and make sure they all have a local copy of the repo, we won't lose the repo itself to Nintendo's actions. But we may lose the tools that make it easy to coordinate work on the repo.
Before we had GitHub and issue trackers we had mailing lists and Usenet groups. Not as convenient, bit they allowed people to coordinate work on open source software without a central, corporately owned point of failure. Maybe we should be looking to the early days of FOSS for ideas about how to make these projects resilient against corporate persecution. Not for the exact tools but for decentralized ways of coordinating collaboration.
One disturbing thing about this election was how many people in the groups Trump promised to victimize went and voted for Trump.
'The most dangerous olive season ever': A village shaken after Israeli forces kill Palestinian grandmother for picking olives from her own land
The village of Faqqua is still in shock and grief after Israeli soldiers killed 59-year-old Hanan Abu Salameh while she was picking olives on her family’s land
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33800936
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22958703 > > > When Hussam Abu Salameh received permission from the Israeli military to access the olive grove that has been in his family for generations, he decided to wait. > > > > His land, located east of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, is next to the separation wall, where he had previously been shot at by Israeli soldiers. > > > > Not long after, a military truck reappeared and soldiers started shooting at Palestinians in their groves, despite the local council’s prior coordination with the Israeli army to allow farmers to pick olives near the wall that surrounds Faqqua from three sides. > > > > “I took off my hat and started waving it to ask them to stop, but they continued firing live ammunition at us,” says Hussam. He took the olives his family had gathered to his tractor and was preparing to leave when he heard his wife calling out that she had been injured. > > > > “We ran out to her and found that a bullet hit her in the chest. We carried her to my son’s car and called an ambulance,” says Hussam.
'The most dangerous olive season ever': A village shaken after Israeli forces kill Palestinian grandmother for picking olives from her own land
The village of Faqqua is still in shock and grief after Israeli soldiers killed 59-year-old Hanan Abu Salameh while she was picking olives on her family’s land
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33800936
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22958703 > > > When Hussam Abu Salameh received permission from the Israeli military to access the olive grove that has been in his family for generations, he decided to wait. > > > > His land, located east of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank, is next to the separation wall, where he had previously been shot at by Israeli soldiers. > > > > Not long after, a military truck reappeared and soldiers started shooting at Palestinians in their groves, despite the local council’s prior coordination with the Israeli army to allow farmers to pick olives near the wall that surrounds Faqqua from three sides. > > > > “I took off my hat and started waving it to ask them to stop, but they continued firing live ammunition at us,” says Hussam. He took the olives his family had gathered to his tractor and was preparing to leave when he heard his wife calling out that she had been injured. > > > > “We ran out to her and found that a bullet hit her in the chest. We carried her to my son’s car and called an ambulance,” says Hussam.
Police have said staff will not face action over abuse of autistic children shown in videos leaked to the BBC.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22497296
> Summary > > CCTV footage from Whitefield School in London shows autistic children being abused in padded “calming rooms” between 2014-2017, including being shoved, restrained, left in distress, or forced to sit in vomit. > > Police investigated but brought no charges, leaving families to cope with trauma. Over 40 children were affected, with some developing PTSD or epilepsy. > > Safeguarding investigations revealed six staff members abused students, but they weren’t referred for banning. Parents accuse authorities of a cover-up, while calls grow for stricter regulation of seclusion practices in special schools across the UK.
A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’
AMOC is like a massive ocean circulation conveyor belt that moves warm and cold water around the Atlantic. It's failing, and that's very bad.
AMOC is like a massive ocean circulation conveyor belt that moves warm and cold water around the Atlantic. It's failing, and that's very bad.
In an era where AI and data are driving the scientific revolution, quantum computing technology is emerging as another game-changer in the development of new drugs and new materials.
America's aging infrastructure seems to be the culprit.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26768429
> > America's aging infrastructure seems to be the culprit.
America's aging infrastructure seems to be the culprit.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/26768429
> > America's aging infrastructure seems to be the culprit.
GOP senator introduces bill to legally erase transgender people
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17202407
> Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill this week to legally erase transgender people, entitled the “Defining Male and Female Act of 2024.” He claimed that the bill will stop what he called the Biden administration’s attempt to “replace biological sex with dangerous radical gender ideology.” > > The bill is a long list of terms and definitions, where words like “father” and “girl” are defined with the words “male” and “female.” Those two words are then defined as “an individual who naturally has, had, will have, or would have, but for a congenital anomaly or intentional or unintentional disruption, the reproductive system that at some point produces, transports and utilizes [sperm or eggs for male or female, respectively] for fertilization.”
GOP senator introduces bill to legally erase transgender people
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17202407
> Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) introduced a bill this week to legally erase transgender people, entitled the “Defining Male and Female Act of 2024.” He claimed that the bill will stop what he called the Biden administration’s attempt to “replace biological sex with dangerous radical gender ideology.” > > The bill is a long list of terms and definitions, where words like “father” and “girl” are defined with the words “male” and “female.” Those two words are then defined as “an individual who naturally has, had, will have, or would have, but for a congenital anomaly or intentional or unintentional disruption, the reproductive system that at some point produces, transports and utilizes [sperm or eggs for male or female, respectively] for fertilization.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will 'abide' by an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will 'abide' by an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Landmark report urges overhaul of wasteful water practices around world on eve of crucial UN summit
Landmark report urges overhaul of wasteful water practices around world on eve of crucial UN summit
