they should have a template to make [citation needed] like 10 times the size so people don't miss it.

A new poll puts Germany’s far-right AfD neck and neck with Chancellor Merz’s Christian Democrats, signalling a broader shift as the party expands beyond its eastern strongholds and builds national momentum

No one was open to or even positive to the corporate tax, one EU diplomat said

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49272284

"Seriously though, has anyone ever been handed $50,000 cash in a paper bag for something legit?"

The Hind Rajab Foundation cases add to the growing number of attempts to bring Israeli perpetrators to justice

Prominent personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan is asking a federal court in Florida to decide if “Steamboat Willie” can be used for its advertisements.

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4680903

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The EU is moving to exclude Meta, Apple, Google and Amazon from a new system for sharing financial data that is designed to enable development of digital finance products for consumers.

Such a decision would hand a significant boost to banks in their efforts to fight off a competitive threat from Big Tech groups, which they fear will use their data to disintermediate them from their customers while extracting much of the value of knowing people’s spending and saving behaviour.

After more than two years, negotiations on the Financial Data Access (Fida) regulation are entering the final stages in coming weeks, with Big Tech groups facing almost certain defeat, according to diplomats.

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Archived version

The EU is moving to exclude Meta, Apple, Google and Amazon from a new system for sharing financial data that is designed to enable development of digital finance products for consumers.

Such a decision would hand a significant boost to banks in their efforts to fight off a competitive threat from Big Tech groups, which they fear will use their data to disintermediate them from their customers while extracting much of the value of knowing people’s spending and saving behaviour.

After more than two years, negotiations on the Financial Data Access (Fida) regulation are entering the final stages in coming weeks, with Big Tech groups facing almost certain defeat, according to diplomats.

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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/4680786

The European Union unveiled its “New Strategic EU-India Agenda” this week, setting out a range of areas for closer bilateral cooperation. The document hails India as the “world’s largest democracy” and a “like-minded and trusted partner,” but deliberately overlooks India’s deepening human rights crisis.

Strengthening EU-India trade, economic, and political ties has long been among EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s top priorities. In pursuit of that goal, she has imposed EU silence over India’s authoritarian drift – of which those providing EU services are well aware.

Violence and discrimination against religious minorities, often fueled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, have been normalized. Human Rights Watch has documented unlawful expulsions and illegal demolitions of private property on religious grounds, assaults, arbitrary arrests, the use of counterterrorism and other laws and measures against civil society and diaspora critics, threats to critical media, and abusive internet shutdowns to curb criticism and protests. Indian human rights defenders, independent journalists, and civil society activists face a climate of fear and intimidation. And India’s national human rights commission faces a likely international downgrade.

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The European Union unveiled its “New Strategic EU-India Agenda” this week, setting out a range of areas for closer bilateral cooperation. The document hails India as the “world’s largest democracy” and a “like-minded and trusted partner,” but deliberately overlooks India’s deepening human rights crisis.

Strengthening EU-India trade, economic, and political ties has long been among EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s top priorities. In pursuit of that goal, she has imposed EU silence over India’s authoritarian drift – of which those providing EU services are well aware.

Violence and discrimination against religious minorities, often fueled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, have been normalized. Human Rights Watch has documented unlawful expulsions and illegal demolitions of private property on religious grounds, assaults, arbitrary arrests, the use of counterterrorism and other laws and measures against civil society and diaspora critics, threats to critical media, and abusive internet shutdowns to curb criticism and protests. Indian human rights defenders, independent journalists, and civil society activists face a climate of fear and intimidation. And India’s national human rights commission faces a likely international downgrade.

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It's a fact that the rectum can absorb some amount of nutrients.

So, a person should probably be able to live for quite some time while only absorbing nutrients via enema, right?

Can it be done?

Basically it's a book that got both Yaroslav Hunka and Chrystia Freeland under fire from communist mags like The Maple, Canada Files, and Canadian Dimension. It was also recommended by communist party member Alex Boykowich who said it documents important lost history that kept hidden from public by the settler government. This is the book:

https://formaclorimerbooks.ca/product/family-ties-how-a-ukrainian-nazi-and-a-living-jewish-witness-link-canada-to-ukraine-today/

I'm familiar with DeDRM from Calibre and practically used I love cabbage de DRM python scripts on ADE reader for Overdrive. But I admit I'm not familar with the new game.

Note: Can you guys please stop downvoting stuff of his that is unrelated to the situation? Just because he's a shitty moderator in this particular moment and situation does not mean that his other posts deserve to be criticized or downvoted as well. Leave the dude alone. Only criticize him on his moderator behavior in this thread or when seen in the wild. Do not bully or go after this guy for no reason. Please. That's not what I made this post for, and it's not what I'm trying to direct.

[Update]: He's deleting all of his communities and plans on pulling back from Fediverse posting until he's able to control all aspects of it, by owning his own instance. Update is here

Bro is used pretty colloquially and, admittedly, often as a dismissive turn of phrase. Exactly as it was in this comment of mine on the post "Lemmy users are in an uproar because MAGA fascists spun up their own server."

I made a pretty off hand dismissive comment because I thought the wording of the post was a bit sanctimonious. Didn't even downvote it. Then I took a nap and woke up to a comment from the mod. He has now deleted it after it hit -20+ comments but was

"Yes, that's what I'm saying. Also, we're not related. Refrain from the bro speak."

A comment that I thought was kind of idiotic and so I dismissed it as much with a response

What I didn't see was that the moderator had DMed me at the same time.

So because of a moderators personal interpretation of how the word "bro" is used, using the word at all is offensive to them and ergo is banned from usage on !fediversenews@piefed.social under the rule of "Be Civil."

Now this is utterly impossible for any user to ever follow unless it is made clear. This moderator refuses to make this information clear publicly so I edited my original comment, gave context and added a screenshot of that message.

At the same time I also responded to the moderator via DMs.

I got another notification from @shifty@leminal.space with this comment:

I went to respond but by the time that I had, the moderator had already banned me (effectively permanently) from the community.

So let's recap here. The moderator is taking the word "Bro" as personally insulting/offensive for whatever reason. They're using the rule of be civil as a cudgel to enforce their opinion but they refuse to make this opinion clear. Meaning that it is impossible to properly follow this rule. On top of that, if the moderator messages you then you must keep that entirely private or you will be banned.

@atomicpoet@piefed.social is out here complaining about fascism while using fascism. Neato.

The whole time I thought I was just dealing with the atomicpoet@piefed.social account but I didn't realize that user has made his own instance and account on it with @atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org. THAT account was what posted the original post and that account doesn't even have moderator abilities. What an utter joke. But this entire community is filled with extremely heavy handed moderation. 11m ago, 12m ago, 22m ago, 23m ago, 24m ago... My apologies to people like @TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com, apparently you've been permanently banned from the above community for "Downvote Brigading". This AtomicPoet dude should go back to reddit...

I'd suggest people start defederating from this dude though. Looks like he's a hairtrigger away from doing it to you if you piss him off.

Also... I couldn't help myself. I sent him the link to this post with the wording "Here you go, bro"

What can I say. I'm also an asshole.

Edit: I forgot to add these into the post and that is entirely on me. One of them doesn't make me look awesome but I should have put it in and it's unfair of me that I didn't.

After my initial response to his DM, he sent this back:

Immediately after he sent that message, he banned me. My guess is that he clicked on my username and refreshed or something, saw the screenshot that had been added to the comment and then banned me for the previously mentioned reason of posting a screenshot of a DM. Guess I'm really violating this now.

Before realizing I had been banned, I then sent this DM to him. This is the one that does make me look like an absolute wankstain.

That last line is really arrogant and narcissistic on my part. I was just waking up from a nap and he was aggravating me but that's not really an excuse. I did act like a bit of a fuckstick there. I can be a twat. This is known. Also one reason why I don't do much in the run of moderation anymore, I just don't trust myself to not turn into what I hate. But I could have worded that a LOT differently. What I was trying to get across was that my most recent post was the Jordan Lund one and getting annoyed by his behavior and that acting like a power tripping moderator to the dude who literally just did an expose on that might not be the greatest course of action. But I didn't word it as such. I worded it the way I did and came of like a cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunt. That is totally on me and I hate myself for it.

If you liked this manuscript of moderator misconduct, you may also marvel at Jordan Lund: Master of Malicious Mismanagement and The Admins of StarTrek.website: Value Subtracted & Corgana’s Calamitous Command. Collect the complete compendium of corruption today!

In the Northern Hemisphere, [days with equal day and night hours] happen a few days before the spring equinox (vernal equinox) and a few days after the autumn equinox. South of the equator, it's the other way around.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36498272

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36497627

Ryan Grim
Sep 21, 2025

Today we’re publishing an excerpt from Theodore Hamm's new book Run Zohran Run!

It’s now available for pre-order via OR Books — which also published Refaat Alareer’s collection “If I Must Die” — and it’s an inside account of Mamdani's stunning upset victory over Andrew Cuomo in the June Democratic primary for New York City mayor. (Hamm covered the primary for Drop Site.)

Six weeks before the June 24 primary in the New York City mayoral race, Andrew Cuomo led Mamdani by over 20 points in the polls.

The following excerpt is a look at how the genocide in Gaza became the turning point in the New York City race. Read it below.

—Ryan Grim

https://archive.ph/MMF6B

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/french-president-emmanuel-macron-face-the-nation-transcript-09-21-2025/