It is a daily onslaught. Every morning, teenage Israeli settlers drive a herd of goats from their outpost in the hills down into the valley towards the Palestinian village of Ras Ein al-Auja.

The local men, women and children retreat inside their huts and tents. Any hint of resistance from a Palestinian is likely to bring in the Israeli army or the border police, confiscation of property and disappearance into the maw of “administrative” detention without trial, for months or years.

Instead, a small group of volunteers step forward each morning to face the descending settlers whose stated aim is to overrun and trample the village with their livestock, and drive Palestinians out.

On this particular Saturday, the defenders of Ras Ein al-Auja are four Israeli Jews, a Hungarian and an American, who make a screen around Palestinian homes to shoo away the encroaching animals.

Yes, this article is a little old but I really believe it's something we should never forget. Every single person who donated to Trump must be held accountable unless they sincerely change. Every single one of these people should be constantly reminded of all the damage they've done to this country and all their companies should face a complete and total boycott.

Remember: these are the people who helped inflict terror on innocent Americans and people all throughout the world. These are the people who helped cause 600,000+ people to die due to cuts to USAID. These are the people who hurt our economy and made it even more difficult to afford basic goods like groceries. These are the people who helped elect a man who made us all worry each day about what global catastrophe Trump would cause. We must never forget and we must never forgive these people and we must reform our system so large donations like this can never happen again.

PS: This article has more names: https://www.businessinsider.com/which-billionaires-support-donald-trump-campaign

Apologies if this is not the correct community for this question, happy to post elsewhere if that is the case.

In English, it feels common place for fantasy novels to use Latin inspired words for their spells or magic languages - unfortunately Harry Potter is the only one I can think of off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are more! Sci-fi can also fall into this 'trope' using Latin themed titles or names - such as "Augustus", "Primus", military titles, names etc.

Is this common for other languages in Europe to pull from Latin for their fantasy/sci-fi books? Do novels in the eastern hemisphere pull from dead/uncommonly spoken/ritualistic languages for this purpose? Does one languages pull straight from other living languages?

Is Sanskrit used in South-Eastern Asia? Are there extinct Chinese dialects that live on in the fantasy/sci-fi genres? Do novels written in an Arabic language use a dead sister language from the Arabic continuum? Do books in South American pull from the wealth of languages spoken before European colonization? Do languages with multiple alphabets (looking at you Japanese, but would love to learn about other languages with multiple alphabets) use only a specific alphabet for magic spells? Is Swahili used for magic words in Somalian media?

I'm not looking for answers on these questions explicitly (not that they wouldn't be appreciated), just giving examples of the theme.

A notable (English) exception I recently read - A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine - which uses names from the native language(s?) of the Americas, primarily Aztec if I'm remembering correctly.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/55347416

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Pakistan is targeting January to issue its first panda bond tranche, part of a planned programme of up to $1 billion, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday, as Islamabad seeks to diversify funding sources and tap China’s onshore debt market.

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Recently, there was a leak of the footage of the non-public trial of General Xu Qinxian, who was charged and convicted of insubordination and sentanced to a stripping of his military ranks and 5 years in prison.

It has gone semi viral, with the full 6 hour trial reaching 1 million views on youtube.

I have begun watching it myself [currently at 1 hour] and taking notes as I see important, and read a couple articles on the matter.

A few things I've noticed off the bat

1. The issue Xu has seems to both be a use of force issue, but also an issue of whom the orders originate from.

Xu in fact states that he was fine with deploying the army to the outskirts of Beijing to encourage a "political solution" to the matter.

Xu has also stated multiple times that he wished for the NPC to meet and deliberate on the action and use of the army. He, at least to me, implies that if the NPC ordered him to, then he would have complied. He seems to have a major problem with the army taking orders from the party.

2.Xu also seems concerned less with the morality of the situation, but with the potential for him to lose face should the operation have gone badly. I don't think this is entirely unfounded, and at a certain point I think it's fair that the orders be given in writing [although obviously I don't know standard procedure in the PLA]. At one points he states "If this could be pulled off, one could be seen as a hero. If it goes poorly, then one could be seen as historical sinners." Or something to that effect.

Xu does have conscious objections, but those seem to be less of a concern. For instance, he states that he believed that the the police and garrison forces could deal with the situation on their own. He also questioned the equipment being brought into the city [LMGs, HMGs, AA guns, etc.]

I'll hold off on a full judgement on issues until I've watched it fully, however. If anyone else has any input feel free to add anything to what I've said here.

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Recently, by accident, I set the subtitles of some anime to Spanish, and to my surprise, for the first time in who knows how long, I could focus fully on an episode. Tested over the days, and indeed it was helping.

After that, it got me wondering why.

Being able to understand some Japanese, the impression I get is that it's in a weird position where it's too straight to the point and too verbose at the same time. Meanwhile, in languages like Portuguese and English, it seems to me as if the speaker needs to walk around ideas a lot to explain them. And almost like they'd be in the other side of the spectrum, languages like Spanish (oddly enough despite being Portuguese's sister language) and the Scandinavian ones feel very straight to the point.

Perhaps then, less information added in helps at not straining one's focus, specially when the person's focus is already on the weaker side?

And going by that, it makes me think, if the person is struggling at focusing at something, despite the medium, maybe changing to a less verbose language (when possible and the person knows the language) could help?

Hey,

I'm looking for the Fediverse alternative of Strava. Something which could :

• track running/walking, etc, with maps
• track workout without map (like bodybuilding, etc.)
• sharing with friends, with ActivityPub
• have history, and totals of activities, like total of kms, total of hours per activities, etc.

I've found those, but: wanderer.to -> not really to record workouts, running etc. This looks like to have a catalog of trail maps intervals.icu -> not with ActivityPub Fittrackee.org -> not with ActivityPub, and looks only for travelling sports, not for sports without maps.

Have you any clue ?

I'm unsure how long they've been floating around in Chinese*, but Political Logic, National Sovereignty, and Wang Huning's Collected Works were all published this year and are currently available on Amazon [just Amazon for some reason].

I'm unsure if these are official, given that they're simply listed as "independently published" rather than being from the Foreign Languages Press [also, they seem to be in a similar format to America Against America, which was published in 2022 but was in a bit of a shoddy condition, being in a weird font and not having page numbers]. But in any case they seem interesting enough [although I would expect the translation to not be as good as if it were done professionally, also hopefully they aren't just fabrications]

[Also unfortunately Amazon is the only place I can find them currently. I'll see if i can buy them and maybe upload them to the internet archive]

*I did do a search of Political Logic/ 政治逻辑 and did find something in Chinese describing Wang as just a professor, it's possible these have been around for a very long while in China. But that's going off of rough shod Google translate for now.

i do feel very moist though 🫠

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Context: PugJesus often spams low quality posts across the dozen or so communities they mod, apparently downvoting low effort spam on my frontpage is trolling. The only other action in the modlog is a different ban for 74 years for "Mass downvoting innocuous content," so it definitely seems they are just banning people that dislike their spam. Glad we're not missing out on the reddit mod experience here.