cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49661828

JLR has three factories that together produce about 1,000 cars per day, and sustain many jobs in the area around Birmingham, Britain's second biggest city. Some small suppliers have told a parliamentary committee that they had one week left at most before they ran out of cash.

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On this week’s ‘We’re Not Kidding’ Mehdi Hasan sits down with award-winning Hollywood actor and activist Mark Ruffalo. For over two decades, Mark has been one of the most politically courageous actors in Hollywood, having spoken out against the fracking industry, US imperialism, Donald Trump, and the genocide in Gaza. Mark and Mehdi get into all of that, but first… Mehdi nerds out with some ‘Marvel’ movie questions.

The two talk about Mark’s political evolution, from being raised in a household with three different religions to getting involved in the anti-war movement during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When discussing Trump’s second term and rising fascism here in the US, Mark doesn’t mince words when it comes to the tepid opposition from Democratic party leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.

Finally, Mehdi asks Mark about his years-long advocacy for Palestine and the elaborate “propaganda machine” deployed by Israel and its allies, as Mark is no stranger to being attacked for his pro-Palestine views. Now almost two years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Mark gets deeply emotional when discussing the human cost of the conflict. “I'm a humanist, okay? What's happening there is inhumane,” Mark says. “It's f*cking heartbreaking, man.”

00:00 - Opening montage 1:04 - Intro 3:14 - ‘Task’ on HBO 8:12 - Mark’s history with ‘Marvel’ 14:20 - ‘Marvel rapid-fire questions 20:42 - Mark’s politics 24:09 - Democratic party failures 31:58 - Ritchie Torres 33:25 - Mark’s advocacy for Palestine 38:05 - Filmworkers for Palestine 44:41 - Hollywood censorship 48:43 - Kamala Harris’ election loss 50:16 - Trump 2.0

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Any time I go to a large city im exhausted by being charged for doing anything. How do people have fun if theyre poor(the neat part, you dont, probably). And to make it worse many of them probably have a 1 bedroom apartment so its not like you can sit in there all day long (at least i cant).

I realize im still spending money by being in my house out of town, but still, at least things I buy are owned by me, and im not paying someone else every time I want to do anything. If I want to stay at home all day I have tons of stuff to occupy my mind without going nuts.

I figure 98% of lemmy users live in big cities so id like to hear this perspective!

what is that you usually do or see in your country or area but is weird to do in other area you have traveled or vice versa?? like it is unusual to wear footwear indoors in asia.

“Never let your enemy tell you how many of you there are. Never let the man that you’re against form your opinions. This is the trick that’s played on everyone who’s oppressed: when you have a revolution in a country, the first thing you take over is the radio. Then, you start telling the people that the war is over, so all of them surrender. They believe that thing right there.

And once they take that over, they start telling you where you are and where they are, and you fall right in line — it’s plain thought control.

The majority of the American people aren’t segregationists. The majority of the American people aren’t imperialists. But the government is. The structure is. The power faction is. So, how, then, do all the majority go along with it?

Because those who sit in power over the television, over the radio, and over the press is constantly telling those who are the masses how free they are, how this they are, and how that they are.”

The Militant Labor Forum, New York, New York, May 29th, 1964

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There were more than two million robots working in Chinese factories last year, according to a report released Thursday by the International Federation of Robotics, a nonprofit trade group for makers of industrial robots. Factories in China installed nearly 300,000 new robots last year, more than the rest of the world combined, the report found.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1304551

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German chancellor Friedrich Merz has called on the EU to use frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine’s war effort, arguing the move could unlock a €140bn loan for Kyiv and show “staying power” against Russian aggression.

In a stark reversal of Berlin’s previous scepticism about tapping seized Russian assets, Merz said the loan should be used to fund military equipment, with EU governments deciding on procurement alongside Kyiv.

The appeal from the leader of Europe’s largest economy and Ukraine’s biggest backer comes as the European Commission examines options to leverage the €194bn worth of Russian assets held at Euroclear, Belgium’s central security depository.

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Chobani is my favorite brand too

Say it was the size of Corsica and traveling at the speed of a reversing truck and bumped into a land mass. Would it still be an extinction level event?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49662403

Hey, what do you guys use to share videos and screen share to your friends or colleagues? I'm looking to self host a video/call server that runs on webrtc (maybe?) with a fairly easy client experience. Something like mumble but for videos. Any suggestions?