tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
@amydiehl
Holy shit! I guess they imagined a pregnancy due date is like a term paper due date and she should just "push out" the baby a bit earlier?
tobychev
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The ‘big loser of the elections has been climate’.
That’s not quite right.
Climate is feeling increasingly energized.
The big loser is us, the people of Earth.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/23/election-climate-change-far-right
tobychev
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Ukraine can’t afford to lose tens of thousands of lives to reclaim Crimea, but the peninsula could be returned through diplomacy, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a new interview.
https://buff.ly/3ASHPb2
tobychev
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"Musk’s corporate empire has received $15bn in public contracts, while facing 20 federal investigations. But it would be no more than coincidence should that first number skyrocket and the second number plummet over the next four years."
Say what you will about Ayn Rand (I certainly do), but in any Rand novel, Musk would be a cartoonishly evil villain. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/elon-musk-donald-trump
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@jonny
Wat. You don't have to tell the University you are on strike?!
@dahukanna
@jonny
I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say "idk what's going on", surely you've heard of Trump and the ascendancy of hard right censorship norms?
"The proposed $250 billion in the latest COP29 text us a 30% REDUCTION in real terms from the $100 billion promised in 2009.
Inflation not only makes life ever more expensive for people across the world, but it also allows rich countries to hide the real value of their distant promises.
The reality of the 250 billion commitment for 2035 is that not only is it a fifth of the 1.3 trillion that developing countries need, it’s a 30% REDUCTION from the $100bn that was promised in 2009 in real terms (when inflation of 5% is taken into account).
So rich countries promised a wholly insufficient amount in 2009, failed to fulfil that promise for 15 years, and now are kicking the can down the road by delaying real targets for another 10 years, all while DECREASING the real value of their initial commitment by 30% by the time we get there.
This truly is the great escape from responsibility for the rich. $100 billion in 2009 couldn’t even buy the global south the coffins we would need for the climate trajectory the rich countries had locked us into. $250 billion in 2035 will buy us even less."
"💯 ...sign of our times that a US President repeats the absurd notion that criminal law compares perpetrators to each other.
Gallant & Netanyahu were compared to the demands of law and found wanting...the resulting similarity with Hamas is of their own choosing."
tobychev
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when you regret open sourcing Java because eventually your daughter has to learn it
@ayoub
Looks like they learnt some tricks when preparing the ICJ case.
@dromografos
No? I could see the account on my masto.social alt just fine and I wasn't following.
I can imagine that there indeed was a mod that muted in response to some report, and then the mute was reviewed and overturned before any more formal process with notification had time to start. Note that I am not familiar with the actual workings of the moderation on mastodon.social.
@ayoub
tobychev
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We live in the internet age, so how on earth did "ability to google search" end up in the same chronic generational decline as "ability to use a sewing machine" did for our parents???
@ExoHugh
The internet has evolved tremendously over time, as has the experience of those who use it.
If you had the misfortune of growing up with Facebook as your formative internet experience it's perfectly natural to not know how to search: search for specific content on FB is just impossible, if you vaguely remember some post on there you better ask all your friends and hope someone saved the deep link because otherwise you'll never see it again. Similarly on Instagram, don't know about TikTok or any other big social media.
@Pamela1960
However, it is important to note that they (for now) aren't openly challenging the court's warrant.
When reports sound like this:
"There are “proper processes” to be followed if International Criminal Court (ICC) investigations ever become a matter for the UK, the Home Secretary has said."
the usual meaning is "we really wish he doesn't come because it would be a huge headache" and implies there's a good chance at least some part of the formal arrest process would start.
I agree that it is disappointingly weak support for the court, but openly accepting the courts authority is already that a pretty big win
@Lylamehta
Re. that whole "Kamala is a cop" thing
@Mabande
Not *all* law:
"Vice President Kamala Harris, in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, reaffirmed U.S. opposition to an International Criminal Court probe of possible war crimes"
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-opposed-to-icc-probe-of-israel-harris-tells-netanyahu-idUSKCN2AX01H/
@snarfed.org
Are you happy with the why's of electricity? That particles simply have positive or negative charge?
Then just think of particles as having "mass" change too, radiating gravitons as those mass charges are accelerated just like accelerated electrical charges emit photons.
@hagringar
Skön grej för Liberalerna att göra till sin såhär en dag efter att Bibi är efterlyst för att använda hunger sin ett vapen i krig, får se om de tycker det är lika viktigt med jämlikhet inför lagen i det sammanhanget.
@Mabande
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
