"I literally couldn't have done anything!" Have those people actually thought about NOT GETTING IN THAT SITUATION IN THE FIRST PLACE

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offered a heated response to the news that the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia had officially recognized the state of Palestine.

“I have a clear message to those leaders who recognize a Palestinian state after the terrible massacre on October 7: you are giving a huge reward to terrorism,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “And I have another message for you: it will not happen. A Palestinian state will not be established west of the Jordan River.”

Germany has cut its budget for international development by 8% and emergency aid has been halved. Aid agencies warn of drastic consequences.

We make buildings install fire extinguishers for safety. Should AI plants be forced to install something that can shut it down in an instant?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37820441

Online piracy is in the midst of an identity crisis. Sites born with one name tend to discard them quite quickly, before adopting a series of others, hoping to stay one step ahead of the law. Site operators, meanwhile, no longer court the gaze of the media, certainly not under their real names while revealing their future piracy plans. In 2010, things were somewhat different; once considered a public good, sharing books today can trigger an FBI investigation.

A gap in production in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle allowed Chinese canned peaches to get a perch in the market - now they're undercutting the local offering and are here to stay.

The cost of living crisis has landed a hit on another industry, and this time Hawke's Bay peach growers are bearing the brunt of it.

Wattie's have told about 20 growers their contracts are being canned.

New Zealand peaches will still be produced at the company's Hastings cannery, but the premium offering is far more expensive than foreign fruit, and consumers are voting with their stretched wallets.

In a statement to The Detail Wattie's said it was working with affected growers, "many of whom we've partnered with for years".

"We recognise this is a difficult time for them and their businesses and are committed to helping them through this transition phase.

"The reduction has been a necessary response to an ongoing decline in demand for New Zealand grown product, as more Kiwis opt for cheaper imported alternatives.

"Since Cyclone Gabrielle hit in early 2023, the disruption to local orchards not only affected our ability to supply fruit but also opened the door for more imported products. Since then, we haven't recovered to the volume we saw before the cyclone."

Wattie's says there are no plans at this stage to discontinue Wattie's canned peaches, or for the company to import peaches. It says it remains "committed to offering a range of canned fruit that is New Zealand grown, including peaches".

Hawke's Bay Today journalist Gary Hamilton-Irvine says it is a sad situation, as Wattie's has a long legacy in the region, where it was founded more than 100 years ago. (Wattie's is now foreign-owned, and trades under Heinz Wattie's.)

Growers he has spoken to used their summer peach crops as a cashflow bridge until the money from autumn apples came in, and the apple crop was a good one this year. Some orchardists will be pulling up their peach trees and expanding their apple production capacity.

Hamilton-Irvine says they are generally realists about the hit they are taking, but the move is causing concern.

So are there fears for pears?

"I tried to ring around as many fruit growers as I could to see if it was wider than peaches ... at the moment certainly Wattie's, what they've told me, is it's just peaches - not to diminish the role of peaches here, it's big - but in terms of calling it a massive blow for Hawke's Bay that might be a little harsh.

"A lot of people are watching this space... just to see if there's flow-on effects from it, if other fruits are going to be impacted, if jobs that rely on the horticulture industry are impacted. There's a lot of people employed at Wattie's."

He says it is a reality check for people browsing the supermarket shelves to look for 'NZ made' on the labels.

"It might be $2 more or whatever it is, but it might be helping employ someone here in Hawke's Bay. It certainly would taste better."

Newsroom business reporter Andrew Bevin says Wattie's is very protectionist of New Zealand's peach industry - and we are seeing more and more foreign imports.

In July, Heinz Wattie's got the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment to begin a dumping investigation against China over their canned peaches.

The accusation with dumping is that an exporter is trying to take a slice of another market by selling goods for less than the price of producing them. International trade rules let you level the playing field by imposing tariffs if an investigation proves it's happening.

"It's a rare thing in New Zealand," Bevin says. "New Zealand only has live anti-dumping duties against a few products. Basically wire from Malaysia and China, some steel coming out of Korea, and preserved or canned peaches from Spain, Greece and South Africa. And there's also a live investigation into dumping coming from China.

"Each one of those peach actions was brought by Heinz Wattie's."

China has had dumping duties placed on its peaches before, for a period between 2006 and 2019.

A previous investigation that ended in 2023 found that China had dumped preserved peaches on the country but that was not harming the domestic industry, so no duties were imposed.

But Bevin says Wattie's ending agreements with Hawke's Bay peach farmers gives them more ammunition on that count for the investigation this time around.

Europe’s richest man, the luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault, has said that a wealth tax that could cost him more than €1bn (£817m) would be deadly for France’s economy.

The French founder of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton said in a statement to the Sunday Times that calls for a 2% wealth tax on all assets “aims to destroy the liberal economy, the only one that works for the good of all”.

The idea of a wealth tax has steadily gained ground in France because of a political crisis, with the government trying to push through unpopular budget cuts. The idea of a 2% wealth tax on fortunes worth more than €100m has been proposed by Gabriel Zucman, an economics professor who has become a household name in France.

Camp Counselor is an opensource tool (AGPLv3) for managing your bandcamp.com wishlist.

If you are anything like me, your wishlist has grown into the 1000s of items. Camp Counselor allows you to rate, comment, sort, and listen to your wishlist (and purchased items).

This is a port of my desktop linux app

Wouldn't that be funny?

Hi,

I created this project that allows bloggers to integrate comments from the Fediverse to their articles, currently from Mastodon and Lemmy, using a plug & play client-only iframe, that saves readers from copy/pasting post URLs to their home instance.

Check it out !

Your comments from here will appear there ;)

the statistics dont lie. five trans shooters, thousands of cis ones. radical cisgender violence is out of control. nobody who identifies with their assigned gender at birth can be trusted with a firearm.

In the 12–0 vote, the committee of advisors selected by anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. adopted a recommendation for adults 65 and older and people aged 6 months to 64 years to get a COVID-19 vaccine based on shared clinical decision-making. After this story was published, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted the recommendation, which will broadly maintain requirements that federal and private health insurance plans cover COVID-19 vaccines at no cost.

But the panel today also heard from outside sources who presented unvetted evidence and associations, suggesting COVID-19 vaccines cause cancer and nefariously linger in the body. The members themselves brought their own conspiracy theories and bunkum to the table.

I used to pirate a lot back in the YIFY and original Pirate Bay era. Did IRC downloads, torrent and Pirate Bay and similar sites.

Used a good ISP that did not care. Fast forward to now. Our ISP is not pirate friendly.

Have used TorGuard VPN for 10-15yrs now and it seems to work fine for our minimal needs.

Would like to know what would be best for getting books for our son with autism and epilepsy. He devours books.

Our local library has cut a ton of books to his chagrin. An example the Series of Unfortunate Events books.

What are the best pirate book sites to hit and what to use?

The shooter was stationed inside the house and immediately began firing with an AR-15-style rifle, Barker said. 

Investigators also discovered a black lab shot dead in the basement of the house that belonged to the ex-girlfriend of the shooter.

[The ex girlfriend] also told investigators that she believed Ruth had set her pick-up truck on fire while it was sitting in the home's driveway in August, according to an affidavit.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/36484465

from +972’s Sunday Recap
972 Magazine [published in #Israel]
Sept 21, 2025

Israel’s center-left camp is now plotting a return to power, with the latest polls suggesting that Netanyahu and his far-right coalition will struggle to form a majority in the next elections, currently scheduled for October 2026. Yet as Joshua Leifer argued, the Israeli opposition remains its own worst enemy, still in denial about its only trump card: joining forces with Palestinian-led parties.

And for Orly Noy (first published on Local Call), Israel is unleashing a holocaust in Gaza, and it cannot be dismissed as the will of the country’s current fascist leaders alone. The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich — and if Israel is ever to return to the fold of humanity, it must undergo a deep process of denazification.

Technically they did not get convicted of "murder" but this is just blatant murder, so I'll call it for what it really is, nonwithstanding the judicial system's decision.

Vincent Jen Chin (Chinese: 陳果仁; May 18, 1955 – June 23, 1982) was an American draftsman [A drafter is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or CAD designs for machinery, buildings, electronics, infrastructure, sections, etc.] of Chinese descent who was killed in a racially motivated assault by two white men, Chrysler plant supervisor Ronald Ebens and his stepson, laid-off autoworker Michael Nitz.

Ebens and Nitz assailed Chin following a brawl that took place at a strip club in Highland Park, Michigan, where Chin had been celebrating his bachelor party with friends in advance of his upcoming wedding. Against the backdrop of high anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States at the time – known as "Japan bashing" – Ebens and Nitz assumed Chin was Japanese, and a witness described them using anti-Asian racial slurs as they attacked him, ultimately beating Chin to death.

Although accounts vary, the men were expelled from the club following a physical altercation. Ebens and Nitz eventually found Chin in front of a nearby McDonald's, where Nitz held Chin down while Ebens repeatedly bashed him with a baseball bat until Chin's head cracked open. Chin was taken to Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, where he died of his injuries four days later. In their first trial, Ebens and Nitz accepted a plea bargain to reduce the charges from second-degree murder to manslaughter.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Charles Kaufman sentenced Ebens and Nitz to three years' probation and a $3,000 fine, but no jail time.

On June 19, 1982, Chin was having a bachelor party at the Fancy Pants Club in Highland Park to celebrate his upcoming wedding with three of his friends: Jimmy Choi, Gary Koivu, and Robert Siroskey. Seated across the stage from them were two white men, Chrysler plant supervisor Ronald Ebens and his stepson, laid-off autoworker Michael Nitz. According to an interview by American documentary filmmaker Michael Moore for the Detroit Free Press, after Chin gave a white stripper a generous gratuity, Ebens shouted, "Hey, you little motherfuckers!" and told an African-American dancer, "Don't pay any attention to those little fuckers, they wouldn't know a good dancer if they'd seen one." Racine Colwell, a dancer at the bar, later testified that Ebens said, "It's because of you little motherfuckers that we're out of work." This statement later provided the evidence for civil rights litigation against Ebens. He later claimed the argument was not about Chin's race but the Black dancer's gratuity. Another witness said he heard the anti-Chinese racial slur "Chink" being used towards Chin, while another man said Ebens told him "I'll give you $20 if you help us catch the Chinaman."

Ebens claimed that Chin walked over to him and Nitz and threw a punch at his jaw. The fight escalated as Nitz shoved Chin in defense of his stepfather, and Chin countered. One of the dancers reported that Ebens and Chin picked up chairs and started swinging them at each other. Nitz suffered a cut on his head from a chair that Ebens had intended to use to strike Chin. Chin and his friends left the room, while a bouncer led Ebens and Nitz to the restroom to clean up the wound. According to Ebens and Nitz, one of Chin's friends, Robert Siroskey, came back inside to use the restroom and apologized to the group, stating that Chin had a few drinks due to his bachelor's party. Ebens and Nitz had also been drinking that night, although not at the club, which did not serve alcohol.

When Ebens and Nitz left the club, they encountered Chin and his friends who were waiting outside for Siroskey. Chin called Ebens a "chicken shit", at which point Nitz retrieved a baseball bat from his car and Chin and his friends ran down the street. Ebens and Nitz searched the neighborhood for 20 to 30 minutes and paid another man 20 dollars to help look for Chin, before finding him at a nearby McDonald's restaurant. Chin attempted to escape, but was held by Nitz while Ebens repeatedly bludgeoned Chin with a baseball bat until Chin's head cracked open. Ebens was arrested and taken into custody at the scene of the crime by two off-duty police officers who had witnessed the beating. One of the officers said that Ebens wielded the bat like he was swinging "for a home run". Michael Gardenhire, one of the police officers, called for an ambulance. Chin was rushed to Henry Ford Hospital and was comatose on arrival. He never regained consciousness and died four days later on June 23, 1982; Chin was only 27 years old.

Ebens and Nitz were charged with second-degree murder, but accepted a plea bargain to reduce the charges to manslaughter. They were sentenced by Wayne County Circuit Judge Charles Kaufman to three years' probation and were each ordered to pay a $3,000 fine plus $780 in court costs, but received no jail time.

The lenient sentencing of Ebens and Nitz enraged the Asian-American communities in the Detroit area and across the United States, who saw it as a sign of public indifference toward racism directed at Asian-Americans. The president of the Detroit Chinese Welfare Council said the verdict amounted to a "$3,000 license to kill" Chinese Americans.

Whenever people say "good ol' days", this is the shit they're talking about. So fucked up.

Vincent Jen Chin was born on May 18, 1955, in Guangdong province, Mainland China.

Holy shit that's where I was born, this hits so close to home, as I'm am also Chinese American, I felt this as if I were in his shoes. I have faced similar (albeit its less intense nowadays) racism throughout my childhood/teenhood in the US. With the political atmosphere we have in 2025, I fear this is gonna become commonplace again.