It’s like the world leveled up so now The Onion has to level up too.

Does it include bugs? I can’t imagine we kill more fish than bugs

Some phobias are irrational but that’s not part of the meaning of the word

Well Russians used to fight an uphill battle when it came to convincing the US of anything.

Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’

The UK government is developing a “murder prediction” programme which it hopes can use personal data of those known to the authorities to identify the people most likely to become killers.

Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.

The scheme was originally called the “homicide prediction project”, but its name has been changed to “sharing data to improve risk assessment”. The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it “chilling and dystopian”.

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Thanks, there is a lot of sanewashing going on in the media and lemmy. Me trying to explain why he might say something as stupid and hurtful like this is perhaps also sanewashing him. But I did want to post those quotes mainly because I feel Lemmy and the Internet is general is better off if we base our hate and dislike (which I certainly agree with in Trumps) on things that actually happend.

Yes Trump said something very crazy, even for him more crazy than usual but falling for headlines like this is not gonna make it easier to talk with people who support Trump or someone like him and polarization played, I think, a huge part in why he could get elected. If we choose to make lemmy a place that polarizes people it will give people like Trump power.

China is trying to make lemonade with Trump’s lemons:

“Global unity can triumph over trade tyranny,” declared an editorial in the state-run newspaper China Daily, noting Beijing’s collaborations with Japan, South Korea and other Asian economies. A separate piece called for the European Union to work with it to “uphold free trade and multilateralism”.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vnn6y6g82o

Beijing urges India to ‘stand together’ in response to US trade pressure, marking a notable shift in tone amid strained ties since the 2020 Galwan clash.

https://liveindia.tv/business/trumps-104-tariff-sparks-rare-olive-branch-from-china-to-india/

Good article, some very interesting facts.

"The word [tariff] can be traced back to Latin as well as the Arabic word “taʽrīf,” meaning “notification” or “inventory.”

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“Even words that were traced back to Old English eventually come from Proto-Indo-European,” he explains. “So all language is imported, in that sense.”

But no mention of whether there were any tariffs imposed on importing the word, so that’s curious. Fake news or wokism? I wonder.

I don’t want to defend Trump in anyway but this is a hystirical headline meant to generate clicks and attention.

“I said to them, was there any sign of love?” Trump said, recounting his conversation with released hostages.

“Did the, Hamas, show any signs of like, help? Or liking you? Did they wink? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? … Like, you know, what happened in Germany?” Trump said, absurdly comparing the hostages’ situation to the Holocaust, which murdered six million Jews.

“People would try and help people that were in unbelievable distress,” the president went on, suggesting that the Nazis were known for their generosity.

“No, they didn’t do that, they’d slap us,” Trump said the hostages told him about Hamas, while sitting next to the man who is currently leading Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “Their hatred is unbelievable.”

What I think he is trying to say in a very weird way is Nazi’s treated Jews better than Hamas does now.

Yes the orange monkey is very stupid and crazy for saying shit like this, again I don’t want to defend him in any way but the article does not say that Trump thinks Nazi’s loved Jews.

But they do though. I’m not saying it’s fair, just that we better use it since we pay for it.

If they cause shit than I’d say there is an actual reason to kick them out, as I said I don’t know anything about Belgian royals. What I think is that the financial argument is weak, especially compared to the moral argument on whether it’s fair or not. I think it’d be better this ‘tradation’ dies slowly.

Also, I think this guy wanting extra money is a douchebag move. Feel like I need to stress that with all these downvotes.

:(

Stupid question, what does it mean when a security detail is being stretched “to a near-breaking point” and is that what normally happens when one of your bodyguards is arrested?

98%

In Dutch we have a saying ‘horen, zien, zwijgen’ which unpoetically translates to ‘hearing, seeing, silence’. It is mainly used by people with bad intentions who do not want to be ratted out but I think this is a very wise strategy if you’re in a situation where you and your fellow citizens are oppressed and you want to stay safe.

Funny, I thought they were trying to sell it

Smart to let all the experienced people go, now the resistance can no longer turn them.