Good for you.

My point still stands though: from the point of view of somebody living in the EU, having the UK back isn’t all that much of a gain, especially anybody who looks at how the UK voted back when they were members and even more so if the UK and its people upon returning had more rights than other EU countries and citizens (i.e. if they go their exceptions back).

IMHO, it would be literally impossible to get governments in all 27 member countries to accept that Britons should get into the EU with more rights than the citizens of those countries and you need all 27 to approve a new member since it requires an unanimous vote.

(Frankly, you as an EU citizen not knowing this shit is surprising: for me as an EU citizen living in Britain during the Leave Referendum and subsequent shit show of the Leave negotiations was highly educational about the details of how the EU operates. Were you one of those people who “would be alright either way” because of having both citizenships and voted Leave?!).

But even more simple than that: bringing Britain into the EU without it changing enough Politically and as a Society that the chances of another Brexit were very low, would be the EU setting itself for yet another such event when, say, Reform UK got enough power that a section of the Tory Party felt that anti-Europeanism would get them into power.

The Political reality of present day Britain is the rise of the complete total nutter Far-Right in the form of Reform UK and Far-right ideas so normalized that even the Labour Party is spewing anti-immigrant and transphobic rhetoric.

Even with the EU sliding rightwards, very few countries in it have an Overtoon Window so far to the right.

Aside from the joke element of your post, Fascist is not the same as ethno-Fascist, so somebody who is a Fascist isn’t necessarily a Nazi-style one: they can simply be a traditional Fascist like the kind that for a while ruled Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece.

You can easily tell the difference between the two because ethno-Fascists are all about how they represent an ethnicity which is somehow a superior ethnicity and use claims that they’re protecting themselves from another ethnicity who are describe as “violent” and even “vermin” to justify extreme violence against that other ethnicity. Traditional Fascist are all about The Nation and the superiority of it and it’s people, which probably explains why for example unlike the ethno-Fascists they seldom engage casually in the most horrendous of violent acts, such as murdering children just for being of the wrong ethnicity.

The only present day ethno-Fascists I know are Zionists (who claim to represent the Jewish People, who are “God’s chosen people” and have been stealing from, raping and murdering Palestinians and any other Muslims they can read whilst claiming they’re only “defending themselves”.

Mind you, conflating accusations of Fascism with accusations of Nazism and other similar purposeful absurdist misportrayals of the critique of others is in my experience (of living in Britain) a pretty common technique from the British Far-Right.

Who needs catnip when there’s thick sliced almost raw beef?!

The entire thing is absolutely logical if you think of them as having a pure “what’s in it for me” and “I’m alright Jack, screw everybody else” mindset.

I was living in Britain at the time of the Leave Referendum and a great majority of Britons were convinced that Britain is a superior country with superior people (the Press there pushes relentlessly a spin of “Look how much great and wiser Great Britain is” on international news as well as lot of soft-nationalism, hence the putting the flag in everything and, more generally, the high levels of “flag shagging”).

Whilst many of these Britons still concluded that even then, Britain was better off in the EU (one of the main pitches from the Remain campaign was literally “Britain should remain in the EU and reform it from the inside” - in other words, that Britons knew better than the other 470 million people and hence the EU should change to be what Britons thought it should be), more than enough still believed the whole bollocks anchored on the view of Britain and Britons as superior that “Free from the ‘chains’ of the EU” Britain would prosper more than as an EU member.

So it made absolute sense back then for a Briton with a pure “what’s in it for me” mindset who totally believed in the superiority of Britain and Britons to think that Britain would be far more successful outside the EU doing their own Trade deals with others and not having to make compromises with other EU nations than inside the EU having to obey common rules which were the result of compromises between all EU countries - after all, it should be easy for such a great nation with its superior people to achieve more than it did when having to compromise with other European countries.

After Brexit and a couple of years to see the effects of it, all of that turned out to not actually be the case.

So it makes absolute sense that NOW, the very same pure “what’s in it for me” person would think that Britain should be in the EU.

I wouldn’t even be surprised if their vision for Britain in the EU is some kind of “we’ll get back what we had before” (i.e. the exceptions) and "after we’re in we’ll change the EU from the inside"or that the the kind of “logic” put forward by Brexiters during the Leave Referendum for why Britain would leave and still have “the same level of Single Market access as an EU member, without the same obligations” is now used to claim that “we’ll get EU membership with the same conditions as we had when we left” (i.e. have the same exceptions as before).

IMHO, Britain hasn’t really evolved Politically or as a Society since then, so the exact same mindset that caused Brexit is alive and well there, only now after Brexit has become a fact it’s informed by the consequences of it hence the smartest of them now have a different Make Britain Great Again plan which this time involved being inside the EU rather than outside.

EU citizen who lived in the UK and chose to leave the UK with Brexit, here.

I totally disagree.

In the EU Britain mainly blackmailed the rest with its veto - hence all the exceptions - mainly pushed for American levels of Capitalism and often even for American interests, and by the time of the Leave Vote it was basically a posh version of Orban’s Hungary. Worse, in meanwhile it has only managed to become more right-wing that back then: the Brexit Tories weren’t Far-Right enough for a significant proportion of Britons, so the extreme far-right ultra-nationalist Reform appeared and got more than 14% of the vote.

As for the rest, the main export of Britain was Financial Services, an almost purely rentierist business domain and were one of the most notable offers from Britain is International Tax Evasion services.

I can see why YOU as an EU citizen who chose to live there after Brexit would want to have Britain back in the EU: it would give you back in Britain a level of rights very close to those that native Britons have, making you way better than before.

What I don’t see is what most people living in the EU right now would gain from Britain being an EU member, especially an EU member with privileges other countries do not have (i.e. the exceptions).

Personally, I think the only acceptable thing is more integration of the UK in the Single Market, NEVER Britain having a vote on the affairs of the 470 million people in the EU, much less a veto (which is what you get with EU membership), and even the Single Market integration has to be limited since even back when it was an EU member Britain was known for willingly (in that it’s authorities couldn’t care less as long as those products did not end up in the British market) being a massive backdoor for illegally bringing non-compliant products into the Single Market.

Fortunately, when Britain swerved towards Fascism, it actually left the EU so the harm it could do to the other 470 million EU citizens was limited, but as Hungary showed, if such a country slipping towards Fascism does not chose to leave the EU, it’s almost impossible to deal with, so it would be an incredibly bad idea to make an EU member of a country which is now even more far-right than at the time of Brexit, even if with the most basic, zero exceptions, membership.

A decade ago a young an gifted software developer acquaintance of mine was going to work for Palantir and already back then I warned him of the kind of company he was joining.

After the Snowden Revelations it was already pretty obvious that Palantir specialized in data analytics of and overview interfaces for mass surveillance data - they made their money from helping authoritarian activities, including those in supposed Democracies.

It’s pretty obvious that a company doing that is built on the principled of having no Ethics or Morals.

Go to bed with the dogs, wake up with fleas.

I’m certain they will be called anti-semites.

Bet they’re going to be accused of being terrorist supporters.

I think it’s way simpler than that: this is the first generation since at least WWII whose prospect in life is to be poorer and with worse quality of life than their parents.

So of course they would rather the clock wound back to the time when people their age still lived with the expectation that things would just keep on getting better.

The Tech angle in this article is just a bit of cherry picking to avoid talking about the broader systemic issues of the collapse in social mobility, explosion in inequality and real economic growth (i.e. that calculate by real inflation numbers rather than the la-la-land official “inflation”) having pretty much ground to a halt in 2008 and whatever there is of it being entirely captured by the top 1%.

It’s never been this good to be a billionaire, but for the rest minus technological evolution things are the worse they’ve been since WWII.

Framework computers aren’t really targeted at the average consumer.

It makes sense that the kind of people who value hardware which they can easily and freely maintain and upgrade also value software which they can easily and freely maintain and upgrade.

For sure Linux being a free option vs Windows being a paid for one also helps.

This being Britain, it was always meant to be for appearances sake, not to actually do anything.

Those are the single biggest bombs around and the US is the single biggest supplier around.

Feel free to explain how Israel could get hold of an extra 3550x worth of the equivalent of those biggest conventional bombs they got from the US for the supposed 25 megatons used in Gaza and the 4970x worth of them for the supposed 35 megatons used in Tehran.

I mean, if the difference between my numbers and those megaton claims was only 10x or so, there is plenty of room in the assumptions used in my extrapolation from the 2000lb bomb numbers to an estimated order of size for the total explosive power dropped to possibly match, but it’s not, it’s in total more than 8,000x off.

By your theory Israel had the equivalent of over 119 million of the largest conventional bombs around stockpiled and managed to drop or fire on Tehran alone at least 69 million bombs (the “at least” number is if they had used only 2000lb bombs - it’s a lot more if they used more common 500lb and 200lb ones and missiles).

Megaton literally means “with the explosive power of 1 million tons of TNT”.

Now, the American Mark 84 air-dropped bomb (the so-called 2000lb bomb, which is the biggest that the US has provided to Israel) has a warhead of 429 Kg, which if filled with Tritional - which is equivalent to an 1.18x amount of TNT in explosive power - has thus an explosive power of 506 Kg of TNT, or roughly 1/2 a ton. (source)

This is the largest common use US air-dropped bomb (and air-dropped bombs naturally have a larger payload than cruise missiles since they’re little more than explosive payload plus a shell).

Now, per this, the US had by the end of June 2024 sent over 14,000 2000lb bombs to Israel. That’s around 5000 tons equivalent of TNT (or 0.005 megatons).

It would take 2 million 2000lb bombs - or 142x times the 2000lb bombs the US had sent to Israel by end of June 2024 - to add up to a single megaton of explosive power, 50 million 2000lb bombs to add up to 25 megatons.

Even if all the smaller bombs and cruise missiles added up to 10x the explosive power of all the 2000lb bombs, Israel would still need to acquire 14x times that to add up to a single megaton of explosive power.

So by all indications your estimation of the explosive power dropped by Israel in Gaza is off by at least 10x, probably 100x, whilst the one for Tehran is probably of by 1000x.

There’s not really much I can prove, especially if I don’t want to reveal much about my identity.

Well, according to what was written in the e-mail it was from a Tel-Aviv based organisation. Also it was in my native language, which isn’t English.

That said, they only sent 2 or 3 e-mails and then stopped.

As far as I understand only Lemmy administrators of a user’s instance have access to user registration e-mail address, not moderators.

All of that also kinda dovetails with the pro-Zionist tone of all the main forums in that instance (especially back then, when it used to be incredibly common to have your posts moderated away as “anti-semitic” in those forums for criticizing Israel) and, as shown here, at least one of their Administrators being an overt Zionist.

Further, it makes a lot of sense for Lemmy.world to be a target for infiltration for state actors since it’s the biggest instance of a left-of-center social media system and hosts several of its biggest forums, so frankly none of that shit was all that surprising.

As I indirectly pointed out with my first paragraph, even if we don’t dispute the choice of this specific overgeneralistic segmentation of people to talk about violence, it’s still intellectually dishonest: men aren’t specifically more violent towards women than towards other men.

In fact the statistics show that men are the main victims of violence committed by men.

Further, to me this whole “advice”, especially coming from an important police official, has a stink of “don’t dress slutty to avoid getting raped”.

It should be about reducing criminality, not about telling potential victims to be less free with their own behaviors (how typical of the German authorities) so that they’re less likelly to be victims, and guess what’s important in reducing criminality: narrowing your scope to the most likely criminal element so as to focus more resources on them.

That’s what’s behind the main point of my post.

Personally I find all celebrity biopics disgusting.

I mean, it would be different if these things tended to actually be honest deeply researched analyses done by hard-nosed experts (which would probably mean they would be spectacularly boring as movies and better as articles or books) and if celebrity status was highly correlated to the greatness of one’s achievements for society rather than to being well known because of practicing a very public profession (so, featuring more of, for example, Great Scientists and fewer Star Musicians and Movie Stars), but in the current society, celebrity biopics are fantasy spectacles about people whose fame is due to nothing else than being a competent professional in showbiz.

That in itself doesn’t make the biopics “disgusting” but the recent abundance of them does add up to too much to of an overly sweet low-nutrition thing the point of being stomach turning, IMHO.

The XXI century brownshirts!

I did exactly that when lemmy.world leaked my user registration e-mail address to Israel (I! Kid! You! Not!) as I was loudly anti-Genocide and critical of Zionism and I started receiving invitations to an online “learn about Israel” event in it.

It was a very easy transition.

A shape like a right-angled triangle is pretty easy to produce from a square or rectangle, so if it was only that reason we would also see a lot of right-angled triangle shaped flags.

Could it be that the physics of the shape makes rectangles more resiliant as flags (as in, remaining at least partially intact) in the wind?

Or maybe it’s some Historical reason that boils down to some common origin of that shape as tradition?

Or maybe a bit of all including ease of manufacturing?

It’s called Oligarchy and it predates Tech “Overlords” in America.