Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
This isn’t a zero-sum game you can help people and the animals at the same time.
Prove it.
Show me how you get the resources to do both. Animalists are high on saving whales, kitties, puppies, etc. while letting their neighbors die home alone, or worse… when not directly saying “I love animals, I hate people”.
Please leave this thread and post articles about human suffering
No, I think I’m right where I should be. I don’t doompost either.
You “love” the idea to “force” people to suffer, because they aren’t your chosen ones?
Are you sure?
Can we solve human suffering first? Not saying this isn’t important… just that it’s kind of hypocritical to shift the focus away from the “hard” stuff, to something “easier”.
A law, to be law, needs to be enforceable, otherwise it’s just a suggestion. International law is only enforceable through voluntary compliance, coercion, or war. Yes, during peace time many countries pick the voluntary way, others need coercion… and some ignore everything.
Curfews and martial law, are war-time measures. Check how they work in countries openly at war. If you get them in a country “at peace”… well, I have bad news, but it isn’t really at peace.
When you get a government fighting its own population, that isn’t simply oppression, that’s civil war.
Martial law, curfews, IDs, “papers”, etc. are intended to protect a nation’s citizens against enemy units… in times of war. The problem comes when someone is allowed to re-classify “some residents” as “enemies”… then you get a civil war.
International law is a bunch of agreements for peace time, for countries to enforce onto their own citizens. Trying to enforce any law against the will of a country, is an act of war. Most countries, don’t want to go to war, they’d rather look for loopholes like sanctions, that don’t require invading a country and spanking its leaders.
What you need, is to recognize the early signs of deranged leaders, and prevent them from gaining power. That moment has passed in the US, now it’s in the hands of people with power (money, guns, cult leaders) to decide whether to go into a civil war or not.
You may try talking to them, but whether they’re willing to listen is a separate question.
Article 1, Section 9 of the US Constitution states, “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”
On a national level, both the US President and the US Congress have the power
martial law has been imposed at least 68 times in limited, usually local areas of the United States
Right now, the US border is under “invasion by undocumented alien criminals”, and there is a mounting “rebellion in Los Angeles”.
Honestly, I’m kind of surprised they’ve been waiting so long, the “invasion” Executive Order 14159 has been in force since Jan 20, 2025… but I guess they first needed to make sure to dismantle any internal opposition, put key people in key places, and so on.
Let’s not forget this handy list:
The US is actively shrinking its “sphere of influence”. Just look at USAID: a worldwide sphere of influence, shutting down as we speak.
Canada shares a border with Greenland, which is an autonomous territory of Denmark, which is part of the EU.
I know it’s a stretch… but it’s there 😁
An EEA agreement could be a start, then see how things go on from there. With the USA’s isolationist politics, USA might no longer be a viable largest trade partner for Canada.
It’s an effect of coordinated lobbying by think tanks established worldwide by the same people who trump this.
Not a coincidence that the Spanish far-right party leader shared a photo of himself meeting the Polish far-right party leader at the CPAC in USA earlier this year.
That’s why calling this a “genocide” is somewhat of a misnomer that falls short of the point: Gaza isn’t about “race”, ethnicity, or even religion, it’s an extermination towards a land grab for control over territorial waters with oil/gas deposits.
Persecution of Palestinians in the rest of Israel… that one is “only” a genocide.
Fina-fucking-lly. Took them long enough.
They should be required to do an in-person inspection before rescinding coverage. Then, they could use AI to decide where the inspection isn’t needed, saving money… but of course they’re greedy and don’t want to do that.
The only way for tolerance to exist, is to not tolerate intolerance.
Necessary reminder:
From the article:
For US government use, these kind of services would most likely be run to a separate server to run in a government-certified facility, ideally one certified with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) or similar
[…]
FedRAMP servers do not necessarily have to be in the United States
…so, maybe? 🤷
Step 3: Forced treatment in El Salvador.
So… this means the “disappearing messages”, are the correct way of doing this, right?
There can be issues raised about Signal itself, the ownership and operation of TeleMessage, or how the archival process works… but otherwise, it looks like a correct workflow.
most of today’s manufacturing done by people cannot be automated. If it could, it would have already been done so, by China
China 4 years ago: Xiaomi’s “dark” factory.
If I got a cent for every time I’ve heard an animal advocate say “I love animals, I hate people”… I’d have a couple bucks already. This thread seems to count towards that.