Have strong opinions, but I welcome any civil fact-based discussion.

Mastodon: @BrikoX@freeradical.zone

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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Enhanced protection status gives heritage sites “high-level immunity from military attacks”, according to UNESCO. “Criminal prosecutions and sanctions, conducted by the competent authorities, may apply in cases where individuals do not respect the enhanced protection granted to a cultural property,” it said.

    Any measure will just get vetoed by the US, the most “competent authority” when it comes to being Israel’s bitch.

    The only way to stop destruction of heritage sites is to stop the genocide and war crimes. Because as long as they are unpunished for crimes against humanity, preservation of culture is a mere after fought.



  • The article included several unsourced quotes from some kind of chat groups which are also potentially translated, no way to verify. And then they included a random unsourced screenshot which has “translation” added on top it, removing original content that would help verify authenticity. That’s not proof you claim it to be… Not only basic fact checking disproves it, but article itself quotes Uber spokesperson indicating there were no reports.

    A story on how the claim that was rejected by Uber. And Israeli PR machine trying to make something out of nothing.

    An Uber spokesperson tweeted saying they were “shocked to hear of this abhorrent violence” and were supporting Dutch authorities with their investigation.

    They claimed, “there were no reported incidents of violence or antisemitism on the Uber app,” and did not respond to allegations that drivers perpetrated physical violence.






  • On Monday, Robert Wood, US deputy ambassador to the UN, slammed the North’s advancing ballistic missile programme and said Russia and China were preventing the UN from holding Pyongyang to account. Beijing and Moscow “have repeatedly shielded the DPRK, contributing to the normalisation of these tests and emboldening the DPRK to further violate this Council’s sanctions and resolutions,” he said, referring to the North by its official name.

    You mean they are doing exactly the same as you always do, but when anyone else does it, it’s bad. Damn hypocrites…



  • I’m not against it, but that person would need to be a good fit and have a similar philosophy in relation to this community. And at current levels of activity, there isn’t a particular need for it. If that were to change, I would more actively search for an additional person.

    And in an unlikely case that I ever went MIA unannounced, the instance admins are pretty good at finding replacements during monthly server update posts. And they have a mod bot running at the instance level to generate reports on flagged content.