I'm depressed and I wanna listen to music... 🥲

Its just fearmongering right?

I don't max the volume, just turn it high enough to hear it, if I used speakers, I'd also turn it so that my ears detect the "same volume" so I don't get why headphones is worse? Literally the same volume.

Also privacy, I don't want others to know what I'm listening, the fuck lol.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53082816

Protesters in Pokemon costumes stomped around the United Nations climate conference on Friday to send a message to Japan: end financing of coal and natural gas projects across Southeast Asia and other regions of the Global South.

“Japan is actually delaying the fossil fuel phase-out across Asia” by funding energy projects, mainly liquefied natural gas developments, in countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, said Hiroki Osada with Friends of the Earth Japan, one of the protest organizers

The government-owned Japan Bank for International Cooperation financed $6.4 billion in loans for coal projects and $874 million in loans for gas projects from 2016 to 2024, according to a 2025 study by the Philippines-based research and advocacy organization Center for Energy, Ecology and Development based on public government and banking data.

https://archive.ph/20251109191103/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-09/how-much-of-silicon-valley-is-built-on-chinese-ai

The balls

{Kochi mite!|pose for the fans}

Link to post.

South Africa’s intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from war-ravaged Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held onboard on the tarmac for around 12 hours as a result, the country’s president said Friday.

The plane landed Thursday morning at O.R. Tambo International Airport, but passengers were not allowed to disembark until late that night after immigration interviews with the Palestinians found they could not say where or how long they were staying in South Africa, South Africa’s border agency said.

It said the Palestinians also did not have exit stamps or slips that would normally be issued by Israeli authorities to people leaving Gaza.

The actions of South African authorities in initially refusing to allow the passengers off the plane provoked fierce criticism from non-governmental organizations, who said the 153 Palestinians — who included families with children and one woman who is nine months pregnant — were kept in dire conditions on the plane, which was extremely hot and had no food or water.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said there was an investigation to uncover how the Palestinians came to South Africa via a stopover in Nairobi, Kenya.

“These are people from Gaza who somehow mysteriously were put on a plane that passed by Nairobi and came here,” Ramaphosa said.

Palestinians being ‘exploited’

The Palestinian Embassy in South Africa said in a statement the flight was arranged by “an unregistered and misleading organization that exploited the tragic humanitarian conditions of our people in Gaza, deceived families, collected money from them, and facilitated their travel in an irregular and irresponsible manner. This entity later attempted to disown any responsibility once complications arose.”

It didn’t name who chartered the flight, but an Israeli military official, speaking anonymously to discuss confidential information, said an organization called Al-Majd arranged the transport of about 150 Palestinians from Gaza to South Africa.

The official said that Israel escorted buses organized by Al-Majd that brought Palestinians from a meeting point in the Gaza Strip to the Kerem Shalom crossing. Then buses from Al-Majd picked the Palestinians up and brought them to Ramon airport in Israel, where they were flown out of the country.

South African authorities said 23 of the Palestinians had traveled onwards to other countries, without naming those countries, but 130 remained and were allowed in after intervention from South Africa’s Ministry of Home Affairs and an offer by an NGO called Gift of the Givers to accommodate them.

“Even though they do not have the necessary documents and papers, these are people from a strife-torn, a war-torn country, and out of compassion, out of empathy, we must receive them and be able to deal with the situation that they are facing,” Ramaphosa said.

Reuters article is free: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/white-house-says-alibaba-is-helping-chinese-military-target-us-ft-reports-2025-11-14/

The rain has arrived in Gaza, but instead of bringing comfort, it has brought fear to a mother struggling to protect her four children.

From the very first rainfall, our tent was flooded. Water filled the ground beneath us, cold winds cut through the thin fabric, and my children cried from the freezing night. I am a mother trying to keep them safe, but our shelter is collapsing around us.

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Your donation, no matter how small, can give my four children a chance to survive this winter.

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i think we all had a point in our lives as communists where we didn't really understand DiaMat, but understood the basics enough to be confidently wrong about all sorts of shit because we thought we had figured it all out already

at least i definitely did. shoutout to all my comrades who are still learning, you got this and try not to let being right most of the time go to your head

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday pushed back against criticism from some U.S. allies over the legality of the U.S. strikes in the Caribbean, saying Europeans don't get to dictate how Washington defends its national security.

It seems like anytime anywhere online, like Reddit and Lemmy, they make unpopularopinion sub-communities. They encourage people to post actual unpopular opinions that people may believe in or may have a different angle of a situation to express.

But everytime, they all fall apart because as soon as someone posts a real ones, the community and the moderators sound the alarms and get that person banned and post removed.

So why do they even bother? Because they're too used to soft-ball like kind of expressions like "BEYONCE IS OVERRATED" or something. That's not unpopular, when people think the same by a lot.

From José Manzaneda, coordinator of Cubainformación

The US regime sells itself as the “land of the free” (1). And quite a few people buy into it. Let's review.

The YouTube channel, owned by the American company Google, has just removed 700 videos containing evidence of atrocities committed by the Israeli army against Palestinian civilians (2). Censorship? No! It's compliance with US "trade and export laws." In other words, the sanctions that the White House imposes on human rights NGOs that provide material evidence to the International Criminal Court, in order to prevent Israel from being condemned for war crimes.

By order of the White House, the Chinese internet platform TikTok must be sold to a US company if it does not want to be permanently banned in that country (3). Violation of free markets? Control of the “free internet”? No! It is just “the technological fight” between powers, the Western press tells us (4).

Academic freedom. In the last year, at least 4,000 books have been banned in schools in 23 US states (5). The argument: to put an “end to radical indoctrination” and “gender ideology” and “LGBT,” as well as to prevent “explicit sexual content” from reaching minors (6). The ranking of censorship is led by the state of Florida! Yes, Florida, whose governor and politicians viciously attack Cuba for “violating freedoms” (7).

Artistic freedom, for example. And in Florida, it's fully respected, isn't it (8) (9) (10)? Let's look at the last one. Reggaeton musicians Dany Ome and Kevincito El 13, both residents of Miami, toured their native Cuba (11). Upon their return, punishment awaited them : an investigation by the Treasury Department, which could impose fines for "violating the embargo" on the island (12). In fact, the artists canceled their entire European tour, fearing they wouldn't be allowed to re-enter the US.

Political freedoms. Mark Bray, a professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey and author of the book “Antifa”, has decided to flee the US to Spain with his family after his home address was published on social media and he received serious death threats from supporters of Donald Trump, who days earlier had declared the Antifa (anti-fascist) movement as a “terrorist organization” (13).

This is American democracy, in which the country's president has just pardoned those who tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election that Trump lost (14). Something he had already done months earlier with 1,600 people convicted of storming the Capitol with the same coup-plotting objective (15).

Let's travel now to Ecuador. In October, the military crackdown on protests against the fuel price hike and other government measures left three dead, 300 injured, and 120 detained (16). Just a few days ago, 27 prisoners were hanged in a jail in that country (17). Since 2021, 600 people have been murdered in Ecuadorian prisons , which are controlled by drug cartels. In the first half of this year, the country saw a 47% increase in homicides (18). But why aren't the media talking about the "failure of the model" in Ecuador? Because it's neither Cuba nor Venezuela. And because to do so would be to acknowledge the social disaster brought about by neoliberalism, following the decade of economic successes under the leftist president Rafael Correa, who is now persecuted and in exile (19).

We read a headline: “Nurse kills 10 patients to ‘reduce his workload during night shifts’.” We have to get to the fourth paragraph of the article to find out in which country this chilling event occurred: Germany. Yes, rich and very “civilized” Germany (20). But can you imagine if this event had happened in Cuba? We wouldn’t just have the country’s name in the headline. We’d also have an extensive analysis of the situation in a “failed system,” in a “failed state.”

The US banned regular remittances to Cuba because the Cuban state-owned company that managed them received a small percentage, which went to the national budget (21). Many media outlets repeated the lie that this money went into the pockets of the “Cuban military” (22). Now, Donald Trump has announced a federal tax on all remittances leaving the US (23). A “tax on the poor” that will impact the economies of many nations in the Global South, dependent on Cuban emigration (24). Will there be any media condemnation of this latest act of perversity by a selfish, despotic, and criminal regime?

Incidentally, for almost a month and a half, the US has been in a “government shutdown” due to a lack of budget agreement in the Senate (25). The consequences: more than 750,000 federal jobs were suspended without pay (26). Millions of families stopped receiving aid and public services, and tens of thousands of flights were delayed or canceled due to a shortage of air traffic controllers (27).

Isn't this the real "failed state"?

1. https://www.elconfidencial.com/mundo/2025-11-05/trump-presidencia-america-expansion-1hms_4241419/
2. https://questiondigital.com/youtube-elimina-cientos-de-videos-de-crimenes-de-guerra-de-israel/
3. https://www.eldestapeweb.com/atr/tiktok/vicepresidente-de-eeuu-dice-a-nbc-news-que-espera-acuerdo-de-alto-nivel-con-tiktok-para-el-5-de-abril-2025314175542
4. https://www.elmundo.es/economia/2025/10/31/6904532bfc6c8306088b457c.html
5. https://www.cronista.com/colombia/actualidad-co/prohiben-en-estados-unidos-dos-obras-de-garcia-marquez-cien-anos-de-soledad-y-el-amor-en-los-tiempos-del-colera/
6. https://elpais.com/us/2025-10-07/la-prohibicion-de-libros-en-las-escuelas-publicas-de-estados-unidos-se-normaliza-casi-7000-titulos-fueron-vetados-en-el-ultimo-ano.html
7. https://www.cibercuba.com/noticias/2025-05-20-u1-e199894-s27061-nid303258-desantis-emite-proclamacion-dia-independencia-cuba
8. https://www.cubainformacion.tv/especiales/20241118/112432/112432-farsa-crimen-y-negocio-de-yotuel-francais-portugues-deutsch-italiano
9. https://www.cubainformacion.tv/especiales/20241206/112746/112746-ana-de-armas-y-la-mafia-macartista-anticubana-deutsch-portugues-francais-italiano
10. https://www.cubainformacion.tv/especiales/20210302/90250/90250-patria-y-vida-la-libertad-de-la-pistola-en-la-sien-italiano-deutsch-francais-english
11. https://www.americateve.com/cuba/congresista-diaz-balart-pide-investigar-los-musicos-dany-ome-y-kevincito-el-13-hacer-gira-conciertos-cuba-n5429570
12. https://cubanosporelmundo.com/2025/11/02/otaola-responde-dany-ome-librar-investigaciones-ofac/
13. https://www.eldiario.es/internacional/mark-bray-autor-antifa-salir-eeuu-amenazas-trump-plan-fascista-pregunta-si-lograra_128_12680380.html
14. https://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20251110/11247950/trump-indulta-rudy-giuliani-otros-aliados-intentaron-anular-elecciones-2020.html
15. https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/cy8xe2kdkxxo
16. https://www.colombiainforma.info/tres-muertos-y-120-detenidos-deja-represion-militar-del-paro-nacional-en-ecuador/
17. https://www.clarin.com/mundo/graves-disturbios-carcel-ecuador-27-presos-muertos_0_jCcEnDHuBc.html
18. https://www.rtve.es/noticias/20251110/muerto-ahorcados-enfrentamientos-carcel-ecuador/16808244.shtml
19. https://rebelion.org/por-sus-frutos-lo-conocereis-el-legado-de-rafael-correa-a-ecuador-y-latinoamerica/
20. https://www.antena3.com/noticias/mundo/enfermero-mata-10-pacientes-reducir-carga-trabajo-turnos-nocturnos_20251109691054485d5dad37ab894209.html
21. https://www.vozdeamerica.com/a/impacto-comunidad-cubana-eeuu-suspension-remesas-isla/7980614.html
22. https://www.elnuevoherald.com/noticias/america-latina/cuba-es/article296315459.html
23. https://elpais.com/planeta-futuro/2025-11-05/el-impuesto-de-trump-a-las-remesas-de-los-pobres.html
24. https://cadenaser.com/nacional/2025/11/06/un-impuesto-para-los-pobres-cadena-ser/
25. https://www.abc.es/internacional/democratas-ceden-allanan-camino-reabrir-gobierno-tras-20251110080940-nt.html
26. https://www.almaplus.tv/noticias/30792/cierre-gubernamental-en-eeuu-deja-sin-salario-a-750-mil-empl
27. https://www.latimes.com/espanol/eeuu/articulo/2025-11-10/cancelaciones-de-vuelos-en-eeuu-seguirian-incluso-despues-del-cierre-trump-amenaza-a-controladores