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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I understand and I appreciate your effort to start a discourse on topics that preoccupy so many people, me included.

Still, I am quite confused by your take, because on one hand it is too vague. On the other hand it lacks any historicity or actual context (I understand this through your use of terms like: collective, democracy, capitalism, communism etc).

So I would invite you to take a look at some resources you can find in this community's About section. Perhaps, anarchism and social ecology, would be great starting points, but there are plenty of links, so you can just choose where you would like to start from.

Some more links you might find interesting come from the instance itself and are on the main page:

And I totally hope you enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I also remember this segment in which he said that he found the book was better than the previous published articles (which were to be turned into a book), even tho his criticism was based on them, not the book itself.

  • The book can be downloaded here in several formats.
  • This is the audiobook, unfortunately it is read by an automated voice. If you find it read by a person (free, no subscription), please share.
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The problem is

The problem is capitalism with its embedded goal of growing profit. It took capitalists some time and a lot of propaganda to convince people to shift to single-use plastics instead of reusable containers (i.e. glass bottles for milk). It is not profitable for this ~~economic~~ wasteful system of production to change back, and it doesn't need to, because this system is backed by governments all over the world. So, the solution can only come from a systemic change.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I think you are right. I just edited the title. Thanks for the input!

 

European countries have long copied each other's migration policies. The recent spate of agreements to outsource border management illustrates a transfer of perverse “best practices”.

 

Scientists suggest social spiders are more about going with the flow than sticking to a role, after new research challenges the idea of fixed personalities.

 

Brussels is chockablock with people trying to influence new rules on everything from Big Tech to pesticide use. Here’s where they’ve put most of their efforts.

 

The European Commission’s new plan to overhaul the EU’s main chemical regulation, REACH, risks undoing two decades of progress in protecting people and nature from toxic substances.

 

Maritime sector's new climate plans are historic - but also highly flawed.

 

Israel is perpetrating a “live-streamed genocide” in Gaza, committing illegal acts with the “specific intent” of wiping out Palestinians, Amnesty International has said.

Israeli forces in Gaza have violated the United Nations Genocide Convention with acts that include “causing serious bodily or mental harm to civilians” and “deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction”, the human rights organisation said in its annual report released on Monday.

More than 51,300 people, including at least 17,400 children, have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7, 2023, according to Palestinian health authorities.

The Amnesty International report: The State of the World’s Human Rights: April 2025

 

Power has been restored to more than 99% of mainland Spain, but a state of emergency remains in place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

She is banned but there is an appeal in place. The court's decision on this appeal will be issued in 2026, so before the next french elections.

 

Trump ordered more US strikes in Yemen in March, aiming to deter Houthi rebels, but rights groups and some Democrats have raised concerns over civilian deaths.

 

Front-runner Marine Le Pen may be banned from running in 2027 after being found guilty of embezzlement.

He emerged as the most likely candidate of France’s largest far-right party for the 2027 ballot after Le Pen was found guilty of embezzlement and sentenced to an immediate five-year ban from running for public office. Le Pen and 23 other defendants were accused of misusing more than €4 million of European Parliament funds to pay people who were nominally MEP assistants but in fact worked mostly on party affairs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

To my understanding, yes. They are talking specifically about rattlesnakes and their venom, and a possible paradigm shift in general.

As it says in the article:

Rather than developing more complex toxins for a wide variety of potential prey, as the researchers assumed, the rattlesnakes were instead producing simpler venoms containing fewer and more focused venoms.

We expected that snakes in areas with more biodiversity would have more complex venoms because they’re eating more of that available diversity.

We initially hypothesized that the larger islands would be associated with more complex venoms, however we found the opposite pattern.

Edit: Several stuff to make things clearer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yes, you are right. In Oct 2023 they said they won't do military business with Israel. But in 2025:

However, on April 17 as Spaniards geared up for the Easter holiday weekend, the government filed paperwork confirming the deal on the government tenders website. The purchase, worth 6.6 million euros ($7.53 million), includes the acquisition of more than 15 million 9-mm rounds from Israel's IMI Systems, owned by Elbit Systems (ESLT.TA), opens new tab and represented in Spain by Guardian LTD Israel.

It's only only after ~~pressure~~ threats that the government decided to do as they had pledged in 2023:

The decision drew a sharp rebuke on Wednesday from coalition partner Sumar, with one of the groups within Sumar, Izquierda Unida, threatening to withdraw from the minority coalition government.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

This is not exactly what you asked for, but it's the closest thing I can think of. The Forensic Architecture site has some accurate info for Gaza, Palestine but they date back to 2024. Still, I think it's worth keeping an eye out for any new investigation they might do.

A Cartography of a Genocide

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Not too sure how effective this is tho, as a solution.

It seems to me like a diplomatic escalation in the sense that banning the Russian ambassador from attending this commemoration event gives Putin something to instrumentalise anyways, at least for internal consumption. In the same time this move does not apply any kind of actual pressure on Russia. So I honestly don't know what good can come out of this move.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Well, the extreme weather events are already taking place. The point for me is that we should stop them before they do more damage. And they should pay to mitigate the damage they already caused.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

I believe your comment was clearly about the outlet. I just took the opportunity to say where I stand on this topic, as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think I just understood our main point of difference. Maybe.

For me, the problems in the middle-east / West Asia for example, have been created due to colonialism. More specifically, because eurpean colonisers carved up the area when the Ottoman Empire started to crumble. In a way, I look further back in time to find the root cause, which is not that long ago, if you think about it. Btw, I also consider the US power-house as a problem that derived from european colonialism. Similarly, Australia and Canada even if they don't seem to have the US power ambitions on global geopolitics.

This is why I also see migration as such a difficult issue, but as you might have noticed I didn't talk about solutions. The prosperity of western societies was created and is maintained due to the exhaustive exploitation of other parts of the world. I believe before the west addresses that, there can be no solutions, and and-aid legislation (best case scenario that is) cannot help the healing of such deep wounds.

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