One of the stupidest things I've heard.

I also would like to attach the bluesky repost I found this from:

https://bsky.app/profile/leyawn.bsky.social/post/3lnldekgtik27

Myanmar authorities have arrested an astrologer for causing panic by predicting a new earthquake in a viral TikTok video.

John Moe The had warned that an earthquake would "hit every city in Myanmar" on 21 April. But experts say earthquakes are impossible to predict due to the complexity of the factors involved in such disasters.

https://archive.ph/40yba

Two days before her new album was launched, musical icon Vivir Quintana was behind barbed wire at a women’s prison in Mexico. The singer had spent the past 10 years visiting women incarcerated after defending themselves and, in doing so, killing their abusers.

Their stories became part of “Cosas que Sorprenden a la Audiencia” (Things that Surprise the Audience), Quintana’s latest album, released Thursday.

It tells the story of 10 such women but in a first, Quintana does it through “corridos,” a typically male-dominated and controversial Mexican music genre that’s soared into the spotlight in recent years.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29192523

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Quique Kierszenbaum in Tel Aviv
Fri 25 Apr 2025 09.43 EDT

"Veronika Cohen, 80, a #Holocaust survivor who was born in the ghetto in Budapest, said she had come to protest outside Yad Vashem on the day of remembrance because: “I don’t think we can remember our suffering without acknowledging the suffering of #Gaza, the deaths of tens of thousands of children, the starvation that’s going on this minute, for which we are partially responsible. It occupies the same place in my heart.”"

Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Quique Kierszenbaum in Tel Aviv
Fri 25 Apr 2025 09.43 EDT

"Veronika Cohen, 80, a #Holocaust survivor who was born in the ghetto in Budapest, said she had come to protest outside Yad Vashem on the day of remembrance because: “I don’t think we can remember our suffering without acknowledging the suffering of #Gaza, the deaths of tens of thousands of children, the starvation that’s going on this minute, for which we are partially responsible. It occupies the same place in my heart.”"

Does anyone know any companies that sell good gaming laptops and that arent american?

Title is a little sensational but this is a cool project for non-technical folks who may need a mini-internet or data archive for a wide variety of reasons:

"PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn't store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28662179

Israel has completely wiped out Rafah, turning a fifth of Gaza's territory into a giant buffer zone. This is part of Israel's plan to permanently remain in Gaza and facilitate the ethnic cleansing of its people.

Israeli militant #settlers kidnapped two young men during the attack on the town of Cooper, north of #Ramallah.

#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel

https://archive.ph/yhCkw

The plans, hatched by Sweden’s rightwing government with support of its far-right backers, made waves around the world. Politicians said they were working to strip citizenship from dual nationals who had been convicted of some crimes.

The concept also made a cameo in Germany’s February election after Friedrich Merz – whose centre-right CDU/CSU bloc emerged victorious in the ballot – told the newspaper Welt it should be possible to revoke German citizenship in the case of dual nationals who commit criminal offences.

The proposal was swiftly criticised, with one political commentator pointing out that it would result in some being “Germans on probation” for their entire lives. “They can never truly be German. One mistake, one crime – and their Germanness is gone,” the journalist and political commentator Gilda Sahebi wrote on social media. “It doesn’t matter if they were born here or if their family has lived in Germany for generations.”

Merz’s idea, she added, had laid bare the normalisation of “racist discrimination” in that, “in other words,” he was calling for remigration – the concept long-peddled by far-right, anti-immigrant parties and which, in Germany, calls for the mass deportation of migrants, including those with German citizenship.

From the first world war to the invasion of Iraq, left-wing soldiers have questioned our involvement in wars. Yet we rarely hear these dissenting veteran’s voices.

Yet another admission that western tabloids were spewing hot garbage being spun as some surprise 'awakening' to explain why reality made them look stupid again.

https://archive.ph/O4udp

I need a "calendar portal thingy" for my cleaning business. I would like to have clients log in to a portal and there's a calendar where they can input the days they want to have a cleaning. Then, I would like my cleaners to log into their portal and choose the cleanings they want to perform. Also, there should be automatic emails sent when jobs are claimed and cleanings are added.

I had AI write up a job posting for fiverr. If I show them this will they understand? I've never spoken to a developer in real life, I come here for the memes. I feel like this is an easy project for someone but I've been wrong about many, many things in life. Here's the prompt: Build Simple Client + Cleaner Calendar Portal for Vacation Rental Business

Description:

I run a vacation rental cleaning business and need a basic portal set up.

I want property owners to be able to log in and submit their cleaning dates easily. I want cleaners to be able to log in and claim available cleanings.

I already have a Google domain. I’m open to using Airtable + Softr, or another simple solution you recommend.

Key features I need:

Property owners submit cleaning dates + notes

Cleaners see available cleanings + claim them

Status updates (claimed / completed)

Very simple user experience

Mobile-friendly

Bonus if you can connect it to my Wave account later for invoicing, but not required for now.

I want someone who can get it done cleanly, communicate well, and not overcomplicate it.

Please show me an example of a portal you've built before.

Thank you!

Tags you should add when posting:

Portal, Airtable, Softr, Web App, Cleaning Business, Booking System, Small Business Automation

The facebook page Canada Proud often posts news updates, citing mainstream news sources. But the posts sometime add misleading details not found in the original reports, according to a review by The New York Times.

One of its posts this month said Prime Minister Mark Carney had suspended his campaign because of “connections with China” and cited a major Canadian news outlet, Global News, as its source. But the Global News article did not actually mention any connections to China.

Canada Proud describes itself as a “grass-roots group of Canadians” concerned about the country’s direction. The page is owned by Mobilize Media Group, a Toronto public affairs firm.

The company has bought more than $250,000 in ads targeting Canadian voters

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/technology/canada-election-facebook-instagram-meta.html

China has exempted some U.S. imports from its 125% tariffs and is asking firms to identify critical goods they need levy-free, according to businesses notified, in the clearest sign yet of Beijing's concerns about the trade war's economic fallout.

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But, he cautioned: "It’s clear that neither the U.S. nor China want to be the first in reaching out for a deal."

Satellite imagery captured Thursday shows extensive damage at one of Russia's largest ammunition depots after it caught fire and exploded earlier in the week.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/62295325

Someone toss his ass in prison already!