Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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2 January 1940 | Polish Jewish boy Aleksander Kleinman, was born in Będzin.
He was deported from the Będzin ghetto to Auschwitz in the summer of 1942 or 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber in Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
🔹🎧 Our „On Auschwitz” podcast explains why in March 1942 the Auschwitz concentration camp became - at the same time - an extermination center for Jews: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-4-Transformation-of-Auschwitz-concentration-camp-into-an-extermination-center-e13bat2
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #otd #facts #podcast
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We are currently experiencing record heat across Europe, but take a look at the newspapers. I mean, seriously. Where is the coverage? Where is the focus? Where is the drive to investigate the future?
We are failing as a news industry. Just completely failing. As a media analyst, it's astonishing to look at.
Given climate goals is to stop temperatures rising 1.5 degrees above normal, the fact temperatures are a good 10 + degrees above normal should set alarm bells off.
@newt Ah ok, so it is more of a aesthetics thing, if that is the right term.
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Starting to add my #YouTube stuff to #PeerTube.
Really embracing this whole #OpenSource #fediverse thing.
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@fossasia is back! It will be from April 13-15 2023 in person at the Lifelong Learning Institute. Sign up now: https://blog.fossasia.org/tag/fossasia-summit-2023/
That would be good, would monochrome screens also be cheaper. ?
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I want portable devices to have monochrome screens again. Is this too much to ask?
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Indeed, that would be ideal, it seems people take the car as they see public transit is not reliable, however cars on the road, clog up the road, adding to the issue of public transport not being reliable.
One solution here is to have lanes / routes dedicated for transit, so you can just get from A -> B quickly.
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This NHS crisis is historic – a war footing is the only way to deal with it | Simon Jenkins - The situation is now as bad as it was in the pandemic. What’s needed is a parliamentary coalition to confront the chaosThe gap between order and chaos is narrow. A Swindon patient waits 99 hours for a hospital bed. A Gwynedd woman lies screaming for 25 hours for an ambulance to arrive. It is... #theguardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/02/britain-nhs-crisis-war-footing-pandemic
@LiorSteinberg What I like about this is the fact that ideas and solutions are being presented, not only that some of the ideas are actually tried and tested.
Make stress less car friendly, but perhaps car share friendly, so taxis or cars with more than a single person in get some sort of priority, more bus / cycle lanes, let taxis use bus stops (needs to be managed properly).
@MauriceLeopold @mpjgregoire@mamot.fr
Not sure but that seems to be a one way thing, you can be extradited TO the US but US citizens are protected from extradition,
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@zleap @mpjgregoire That assumes of course that the government allows itself to be taken to trial. My go to example would be China with the South China Sea.
US warcrimes would be a more American example of the refusal of allowing foreign powers to rule on US government actions and their employees actions.
Perhaps you could find the answer in how the US justifies the constitutionality of extradition treaties?
US warcrimes would be a more American example of the refusal of allowing foreign powers to rule on US government actions and their employees actions.
Perhaps you could find the answer in how the US justifies the constitutionality of extradition treaties?
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@zleap @mpjgregoire The US government likely would not face much charges due to the treaties that it has signed and how international law is enforced in the country.
There are some moves to allow people to sue governments but it likely would run into the problem that the individual themselves are not entitled to anything.
That is without us thinking that the US government has made it very hard to sue itself.
Learning and education sounds more like the standard benefits of historical education. If a group in society was harmed by the slavery (as it could be assumed that a group has benefited from slavery in the case of the celebrity), then if you wish to lift that group back up then more then historical education may be needed.
Comes down to if you want the government or society to try and lift groups of people who fall down up or groups who fell down due to reasons that were bad (slavery etc). The answer to that will determine what sort of actions if any should be done.
I do think suing on behalf of ancestors would be a stupid way to achieve anything.
There are some moves to allow people to sue governments but it likely would run into the problem that the individual themselves are not entitled to anything.
That is without us thinking that the US government has made it very hard to sue itself.
Learning and education sounds more like the standard benefits of historical education. If a group in society was harmed by the slavery (as it could be assumed that a group has benefited from slavery in the case of the celebrity), then if you wish to lift that group back up then more then historical education may be needed.
Comes down to if you want the government or society to try and lift groups of people who fall down up or groups who fell down due to reasons that were bad (slavery etc). The answer to that will determine what sort of actions if any should be done.
I do think suing on behalf of ancestors would be a stupid way to achieve anything.
@MauriceLeopold @mpjgregoire@mamot.fr
The Uk government have been taken to the ECHR over their Rwanda policy so it is possible to hold governments to accounts with an external entity, if there is no resolution in the supreme court.
This seems be happening without anyone noticing as everyone is too focussed on the war in Ukraine,
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‘We had a seance to channel John Lennon’: how Wah! made The Story of the Blues - ‘We got hold of a drum machine but there was no manual. That’s why the song has a weird conga pattern – we didn’t know how to delete it’The early singles by Wah! Heat were indie hits because John Peel championed them. I went to meet him at a Fall gig in Manchester. The Fall were fantastic, but it... #theguardian
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/02/seance-channel-john-lennon-wah-story-of-the-blues
@MauriceLeopold @mpjgregoire@mamot.fr
Indeed, would it just apply to Slavery Could the govrnment also face huge lawsuits from the indigenous population.
What about what happened in South America, with the Incas, Aztecs et al wiped out by Europeans, either through violence or simply spreading disease.
I know in the US the Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves, if I understand my history then this was signed by Abraham Lincoln
They money would be far better spent ensuring future generations are able to be taught about what happened, learn, debate and discuss openly and form conclusions.
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I agree, where does this end, ?perhaps we should sue Italy for the Romans invading the UK.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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