A Boring Dystopia

German FM Annalena Baerbock: Israel can kill civilians in Gaza to ‘defend itself’

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30621905

The fucking AI is like the antithesis of King Midas; everything it touches turns to shit.

In 2001, Dale Winton accepted a gig as the presenter of a new Channel 5 reality show. And reality TV is simple enough: stick a bunch of people in a house, have them fight and mate like bored zoo animals.

The Channel 5 bigwigs went another way. They got a bunch of people to stand in a shopping mall for five days, touching a Toyota Land Cruiser. And while that can lead to bouts of extreme volatility after several days, the surrounding footage is largely just... people standing around in a shopping mall, touching a truck.

A surreal dive into one of British television’s most baffling game shows.

This video isn’t just about Touch the Truck — it’s about why people still try. Why they endure humiliation, boredom, and sleep deprivation for a prize that’s barely worth the effort. Why we reach for meaning even when there's none on offer.

Also: Dale Winton. Still performing. Still hopeful. Long after the applause stopped.

Also, also: money.

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Note that I'm not necessarily opposed to her facing consequences for killing him -- my issue is with how gleefully NYPost is framing it as if she just attacked him out of the blue and shoehorning her into the "evil transgenders" stereotype

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30522666

Germany is losing the plot. Ai summary in English:

The article, written by Ralf Balke, is a sharp critique of a commentary by German journalist Gabor Steingart. Steingart had praised German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for criticizing Israel’s actions in Gaza, framing it as a sign that Germany was finally freeing itself from the "long shadow of its history"—referring to the Holocaust and Nazi past.

Balke argues that Steingart’s language is highly problematic and dangerous. He says that equating Israel with aggressor states like Russia and using terms like "perpetrator elites" echoes Nazi-era rhetoric. The phrase "Gaza macht frei" in the title alludes grimly to the infamous Nazi slogan "Arbeit macht frei," suggesting that some in Germany now see criticizing Israel as a form of ideological liberation.

The author warns that this kind of discourse risks trivializing Germany’s historical responsibility for the Holocaust and can fuel antisemitic attitudes. He calls for more responsible and historically conscious commentary when discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, particularly in Germany.

It's like RoboCop, except the robots are villains helping human villains villain more comprehensively.

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/5083015

Why don't they just have a better pancreas?

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More than 100,000 New Delhi street vendors have had their livelihoods crushed (literally) in the name of "beautification".

Independent experts with the United Nations Human Rights Council say an Israeli law allowing children as young as 12 to be sentenced to life in prison could violate the Convention on the Rights of the Child, an international agreement Israel ratified in October 1991.

“UN experts express alarm at two new Israeli terrorism laws that permit life imprisonment for 12-year-olds and arbitrary suspension of child welfare payments, violating the human rights of Palestinian children,” they said in a social media post.

The group of legal experts said the Knesset passed an amendment to an existing law in November 2024 allowing courts to sentence children as young as 12 to life in prison “if convicted of murder or attempted murder classified as a ‘terror act'” or if “the act was performed as part of the operations of a terrorist organization and aimed at advancing its objectives”.

Israeli military law in the occupied West Bank already permits Israeli authorities to imprison Palestinian children as young as 12 years old, the experts noted.

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Just another day in the 4th largest economy in the world. We're so proud.